Oh gods, that would unfortunately be a frying pan - fire situation. They didn't have a non-compete agreement, no. Volt was shitty, but Pegatron is a thousand times pettier and everyone who had been hired on directly that I spoke to, regretted the decision. Those poor souls are under incredible amounts of pressure to meet insane demands (by the time I left, they were demanding all lines process 400 phones in 4 hours, when we've been able to do 400 in an 8 hour day -TWICE - in the 9 months I was there), forced overtime and coming in on weekends (Sat and Sun), often only for 2 to 4 hours at most, and a metal detector policy, that my friend who used to work for the Dept of Homeland Security, said was insane. The gist of *that* gem was if you set off the detector and they found the source, immediate Final Warning. Set it off again, regardless, fired. Set it off and they can't find the source? Fired. And they had just recently brought on hundreds of workers and engineers from China to man the new lines and in the case of the engineers, hang out in the staff room just for them, eating American fast food all day while making the operator's lives harder.
Point is, the place turned from a pretty nice gig run by Apple, to a Taiwanese hellhole where workers are disposable and get screamed at in Chinese (which several lines witnessed, btw). So, even if it wasn't Volt and their shitty system, Pegatron would have been far worse to work under, even here in America. Google some of the labor violations that they were under scrutiny for in China. Makes me at least happy I'm not there. Some of my family has asked if I'm gonna report anyone or whistleblow, but honestly? I'm just beyond done with that place and I'd rather not get involved. That's a job for Karma!
I'm just grateful I got out when I did and I'll have the opportunity to move onto better things, in a company where my hard work is appreciated.
And I got my Bunnymen sticker cards too, so there.
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