Workplace reviews and discussion: 傑笙科技有限公司

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This company is located next to Qiaotou MRT Station. Its office is on the second floor of a typical residential building converted into an open-plan office—the kind where the entire first floor is a row of storefronts. At first, I found the job posting on PTT, which stated that the salary started at NT$25,000. The position was also posted on 518, with a very brief description and a salary starting at NT$25,000. However, when I went for the interview, they saw that I was a fresh graduate and said that everyone at their company was paid NT$24,000.

I was short on money at the time, so I accepted the offer, thinking I would earn some living expenses and switch jobs after six months or a year. However, from the first day at work, I felt that something was strange. The basic onboarding process involved setting up fingerprint clock-in access and submitting documents, but what happened afterward made me uncomfortable.

I applied for an art planning position, which I understood to involve helping create online-shopping images and banners (the boss did not even know what a banner was during the interview), as well as managing backend listings and delistings. However, when I started, the company had shops on Shopee, Y! Auctions, Y!Mall, and Ruten, divided between me and another woman. I became the manager of the Shopee and Ruten stores and was responsible for uploading and removing all the images myself, packing orders, delivering packages to convenience stores, contacting repair services, arranging in-person transactions, planning projects, customer service, and so on. This was nothing like the division of labor in a typical online-shopping company, where people collaborate within one platform. In that case, I might as well have opened my own online shop and worked from home; I could just buy the products from you. What would be the point?

The most outrageous part was that, while my supervisor was training me, she asked whether I had a Shopee account. I said no, and she told me to create one. I thought it might be needed for managing reviews and responding to customers. But after I created it and gave her the account details, she immediately registered it as a seller account, linked the company’s bank account to my account, and told me to upload the listings from the other platforms to my new Shopee account. It was essentially using me as a front—opening an online store for the company with my account. They did not even ask for my consent beforehand, which made me very uncomfortable. I immediately asked to leave and politely declined the position. When I got home, I immediately reset the Shopee account and removed the company’s bank account information. The whole situation was extremely uncomfortable.