I went to ASUS after graduation to do two months, and then left after I thought I went to ASUS to play two months of labor must have a purpose, money is the main aspect, experience experience is insignificant secondary aspect. Now when I am about to leave, I would like to write this insignificant aspect here, but hopefully for the future of me and you, whenever life is not as good as you want, look at these experiences described by those people, think about their lives compared to their own life, can also wipe off the frustration to reload.
Well, here goes.
Let's start with the basics of ASUS. ASUS was reorganized three years ago, and the foundry business was reorganized into WoLian Yongshuo, or ASUS for short. Although the name has been changed for more than three years, but you say in Suzhou and I'm afraid no one knows, but said ASUS everyone knows. Later, I got into ASUS under the intermediary's persuasive words, for which I also paid more than 300 intermediary fees. It is just out of the door less experience ah, and then I learned that want to enter the ASUS casually in front of the ASUS pull a person inside the introduction is not a penny to spend. After going in the first three days of training, by the lecturer to carry out some basic electronic knowledge introduction, and finally sign a contract, into the workshop, on-line work. In ASUS two months, I personally experience the world factory glory behind the pain, experience once on the cover of Time magazine front-line workers toil, but also experience than "sweatshop" Foxconn more sweaty naked exploitation of factories - ASUS.
Using student workers:
60% of the employees in ASUS are student interns, aged below 18 years old, and even 16 years old, mainly from Henan, Hubei, Shandong, etc. Basically, they come from some vocational and technical schools, and most of them are second or third year students of junior colleges and technical schools. Most of the student workers are interns for 3-6 months, and their basic salary is lower than that of regular workers, about 750 yuan. And all student workers have no social insurance. Although these students into ASUS in the name of internship, but the vast majority of them end up engaged in are computers randomly assigned in the assembly line with their own good irrelevant, today workers are full of let you fold the gift box, tomorrow workers are not full of will let you assemble the box cover to go. Workers who have been on the assembly line for more than half a year are almost all-rounders, and can do everything, so this kind of internship isn't really an internship at all.
Treatment:
In ASUS, the base salary of a regular worker is written on the contract as 960 yuan, which also includes a 40 yuan attendance bonus, and in fact, the base salary is 920 yuan, signed with social insurance. Student workers, in addition to their status, base salary is not the same as regular workers, in the signing of labor contracts and purchase of social insurance do not enjoy the treatment of regular workers, working hours, overtime hours, engaged in the type of work, the working environment and the official general workers are exactly the same. My first month in only one day off, overtime work more than 100 hours in the case of only got 2000 yuan of wages, and then remove all kinds of insurance, accommodation, factory cars, food, and finally to the hand of the remaining 1600 yuan. You can imagine the wages of student workers.
"I got more than 1500 last month, how about you?" Every 10th payday, every childish student worker would ask their classmates with a happy face. I asked them what they were happy about after working so many shifts to get these few dollars. They would always say, nothing, this is not just an internship, when the internship is over to go to Foxconn. I was shocked that the legendary "sweatshop" would still be so popular among them. They said, Foxconn how good ah, the base salary is high, the clothes factory also wash ...... many workers are like this, hard work a month to get a poor salary, but also food, clothing, housing and transportation, many people are frugal to 70% of the salary to the home. In suffering ASUS cruel exploitation they have no other way to go, many of them do not like to work here, are eager to soon be able to jump out of this fence, but there is no way to do so, the outside of the fence is still a fence, it may be just the name of the outside of the fence has changed a little.
Labor:
Standard foundry, standard assembly line, standard cheap labor. An assembly line fills each plant, and the line is drenched with workers all wrapped up tightly in overalls. Everyone is responsible for a station, repeating a simple and boring action. I am in the assembly line production of a brand of modems, divided into pre-testing, assembly, post-testing and packaging of four production segments. The entire assembly line has standing work, there are also sitting work. Some of the one-stop is a day, just into the workshop on the first day I stood all day, the legs hard to do. Later, I heard from my coworkers that they were all like this in the beginning, but they got used to it after a few days. Of course, sitting all the time is not necessarily good, sometimes a day sitting on the buttocks all wet. I am in the packaging section to the packaging gift boxes to put the power cord, the work flow is to take the power cord, put the power cord, and then take the power cord, and then put the power cord. Repeat the action more than 3,000 times a day, that's nearly 90,000 times a month. Tired is certainly tired, but this is not the main, the main is the mechanical repetition of simple and boring operation process. This kind of labor trains the workers' bodies, changes their temperament, confines their thinking, and makes them change by ASUS silently in the daily repetition. "Boredom" and "tiredness" constituted their daily mental outlook.
At that time, in August, Suzhou was in the middle of a three-volt day, and the heat was unbearable in the workshop where the machines were running, and the air conditioner was turned down, and they had to wear overalls. In this way, a day down, soaked to the skin, a dormitory many people splash a cool shower and fall asleep. High-intensity labor, mandatory overtime, low wages, absolutely serious exploitation of workers.
Overtime:
In order to keep the machine running 24 hours a day, ASUS practiced "black and white" shifts, with day-shift workers working from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and night-shift workers working the opposite way. Many of them have an average of about 3 days off a month, and the vast majority of them work more than 10 hours a day, with more than 100 hours of overtime in a month. Much of the overtime was mandatory, and the workers had no right to choose whether to work overtime or not, while the line leaders had the right to make you work overtime or not. During the two months I was there, I occasionally had to skip overtime in the name of "the head of the section told me to go to soccer practice," while the average student worker had to miss work and then receive a scolding from the team leader the next day.
Access control:
All ASUS technology parks are fully closed, with all public **** places monitored by cameras, all factory gates guarded by security guards, and workers needing identification cards to get in and out. In my five factories, every time I go in and out of the workshop, I have to take off the metal objects on my body, so much so that every time I go in and out of the door I carry my pants in one hand and my belt phone coins in the other.
Employee care:
ASUS advocates "happy work, happy life" for its employees, and a small card issued to each worker carefully describes the detailed explanation of this phrase: "We expect all employees to approach their work with a pragmatic attitude, and by means of different jobs, they will be able to realize their potential. Challenges to stimulate personal potential ...... ultimately to achieve a happy life for all **** the same goal". When each worker in the workshop after half a month of hard work and then read this paragraph, I believe that everyone will be hard to greet the mother of ASUS. In order to show its enthusiasm, ASUS also set up a "Big Sister Mailbox" organization to accept employees' complaints and grievances in the name of caring for their physical and mental health. In terms of complaints, its rules are even more absurd. Workers who want to complain about their line manager need to record their job number, and then the complaint will be relayed to the line, so such complaints don't solve the problem at all, but only generate more retaliation.
Corporate culture:
In ASUS, a Taiwan-funded company, his Taiwanese culture can be learned by taking a closer look. In the entire science and technology park, there is no "4" this number, there is no 4 factory, 9 gates no 4 door, dormitory building no 4 building, it seems that the Taiwanese are more taboo 4 this number. There is also the name, general workers call their own line leader to be called "boss", called the assembly line to be "home", general workers were "Operator", but only by the leadership of the shortened to "OP". The general workers were originally called "Operator", but were only shortened to "OP" by the leaders. The computers in the whole park are full of traditional Chinese characters, and the documents and examination papers issued are also full of traditional Chinese characters, and there are often workers who don't recognize the characters inside.
Management style:
The production of ASUS is mainly headed by a section chief, a team leader, and a sub-team leader. The group leader is also pretty much the line leader. These team leaders and sub-team leaders are also from the general workers a little bit to do up. Often due to the production is too high, the workers have to line leader group leader to monitor the operation, a little slack will incur their reprimand. Most of these line leaders are of low quality and often speak ill of the workers. The same grass-roots workers origin, with so little power will be everywhere to show, perhaps so year after year, the net LOTY again and again a net LOTY mechanized labor to their human feelings a little bit of extinction on the assembly line. ASUS's business philosophy is "to cultivate, cherish, and care for our employees, so that they can fully realize their highest potential". However, this is just like selling dog meat with a sheep's head, and the actual situation is very different from what is advertised. Whenever an employee violates a rule, he or she will be verbally abused. The section chiefs, team leaders, and sub-team leaders will all be abused, and the team leader on my assembly line has taken the phrase "if you don't want to do the job, then get out" to the extreme.
I once asked a female worker across the street from me, "Why don't you go to another factory? She said, "There is no way, ASUS is the pressure of half a month's salary, either you give it more than half a month, or you do not want this half a month's salary automatically leave. But in Suzhou, a city with a high level of consumption, from ASUS will only go out into another ASUS not called ASUS, after the New Year's Eve, it will not do it here, go to Kunshan Foxconn. Listen to my friend said Foxconn some good to ......" between the words, Foxconn for them or quite envious, at least Foxconn treatment benefits than Asus much better. A worker next to me, junior college students, because of a small thing offended by the sub-team leader, the sub-team leader will be everywhere to find his fault, light is abusive, heavy is remembered, and directly forced him to go. In that assembly line, basically every six months all the staff will change all over. The dormitory I lived in went from six people at the beginning to two by the time I left. Often, when the team leader would give a lecture after work, he would do so as a leader, and his words would be vulgar and he would scold the employees arbitrarily. The team leader's phrase "if you don't want to do it, get out" is a great irony of ASUS's business philosophy.
In line with ASUS's production interests, ASUS has developed a strict penalty system. SOPs (Standardized Operating Procedures) were posted above each work station, and workers had to follow every step on them. To this end, ASUS also cultivated its own "secret service" organization auditing special inspections of workers' work, and found that there is a slight discrepancy with the SOP, the light is a warning (penalty of 30 yuan), and the heavy is a demerit (penalty of 100-200 yuan). The auditing place is far more than these, including hair can not cover the ears, can not show the work cap, finger nails can not be too long, and so on and so forth. Whenever a customer visits, the requirements are even greater. One of my workers was responsible for covering the lid of a box, and because the electrostatic bracelet he was wearing was not careful enough to fall off, the auditor caught it, and finally the team leader was penalized for copying the SOP 500 times. When he handed it over to the team leader the next day, the team leader thought he hadn't written it carefully enough, and he punished him two hundred more times.
Leaving:
Leaving is the most frequently mentioned word in ASUS. Many people even ask how they can leave on their first day of work, and many more tell them in the same breath, "No way, unless you leave yourself. The team leader does not allow employees to leave unless you have performed well enough over a long enough period of time to get a severance package from the head of the class. The general laborers, on the other hand, were left with the option of automatic separation. Many times I think, these team leaders know that employees want to leave, stay also can not stay, why can not give people a separation sheet, so that people can successfully get the hard-earned wages. at the end of September I went to find the team leader asked to leave, but the team leader to the production line is not enough to prevent me from leaving, I took out the labor contract, the leader of the even more abominable actually took out the "ASUS has a professional legal team, you can not win the lawsuit! I even took out the labor contract, and the team leader was even more hateful, "Asus has a professional legal team, you can't win the lawsuit", so I could only keep my mouth shut about leaving the company. Not only general workers like this, even undergraduate engineers almost a year to go all over. I asked an engineer, he is Chongqing Engineering College, not as long as I came to ASUS, began to think about leaving. He said that the atmosphere of ASUS is too depressing, too tend to be all sorts of things.
Once I read a quote from a Taiwanese businessman: He said that I invested in the mainland, so low wages have a constant flow of cheap labor, why do I have to give them a wage increase ah, you do not do it, there are many people to do it. This is the status quo of China's tens of millions of people working outside the home, employment pressure, rising prices, when the country's GDP every year rubbing up, I do not know if the wages of these workers every month can not go up by 10 dollars more