Heh

The work experience comes first; if you don’t want to read it, you can skip to the disadvantages.

Since most people here seem to be store colleagues, I’ll share my experience in the production department.

When I applied, it was for a full-time position, but when I started, I was made a part-time worker. I thought that after three months, I should be able to become full-time.

At first, things were fairly good because I had a decent supervisor. But later, I was transferred to another group, and that was when the nightmare began.

My eight-hour workday started being reduced to 7, then 6, then 5 hours.

And it happened only to certain part-timers, supposedly because production had decreased and working hours needed to be reduced (in plain terms, they just didn’t want to spend so much money hiring people).

I later found out that the supervisor was playing favorites and only looking after their own people.

As a low-level employee transferred from another group, I (along with some other new hires) was naturally among the first to be affected.

I had planned to hold on for three months and then become full-time, but I learned something shocking.

The previous supervisor told me that it was difficult (impossible) to become full-time now and suggested that I look for another job.

So I had stayed at this company for two and a half months like a fool....

At the time, I thought the high turnover was caused by the work environment (the workplace is rather cold), but it seems I had misunderstood.

1. You have to wait for the work schedule to be announced on LINE, and it is very unstable. Both the announcement time and the work hours are

2. If you are a part-timer, be prepared to take unpaid leave (or leave work early) during the off-season.

3. When I first saw on the website that the company had no cliques, but the reality is.... (The supervisor’s favoritism tells you enough.)

4. Full-time employees do not receive overtime pay. Any extra time will be returned to you later, while hours worked short must be made up.

(As an aside, the reason part-timers are given unpaid leave during the off-season is that full-time employees have plenty of time to make up.)

5. Unless a full-time employee leaves, don’t even think about becoming full-time.

(The only advantage of being full-time is that the salary is stable—assuming, of course, they calculate it correctly.)

6. There is no system to speak of.

7. Don’t believe what you hear during the interview.

To sum it up in one sentence: To the boss, new hires and part-timers like us are nothing more than disposable chopsticks—use us and throw us away; when needed, just buy more.

The company name on the application was written as [創盛], so I couldn’t find much information. It turns out this was the reason.