Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣紋意股份有限公司

1. Working hours and leave comply with the Labor Standards Act.

2. Most colleagues are easy to get along with.

1. Overtime cannot be exchanged for overtime pay; it can only be counted as hours to offset working time. (An overtime-pay option is provided, but they always tell you to choose time off in lieu.)

2. You have to buy the brand’s clothing yourself to wear as a uniform. The uniform allowance is only $1,000 per month, and buying two or more pieces already exceeds that amount. They will also ask you to buy more clothes and vary your outfits. If you need replacements, it is basically impossible to get by with just one set.

3. The pay is very low. The commission percentage is, from what I have heard, currently the lowest in the industry—a figure so laughable that people would mock it. Elsewhere, it is at least 2%.

4. The pay is very low, but the demands are numerous. Store operations are complicated and involve many tasks, and employees are always expected to do more. If you do not take on extra work, it is difficult to get promoted, and you may even be considered unmotivated. (If you are paid 20,000, they will expect you to deliver work worth 30,000.)

5. There is a salary confidentiality policy, but everyone’s pay is more or less equally bad.

6. There is a huge difference in pay between large and small stores; employees at small stores are practically destined to receive only the base salary.

7. Other than complying with the Labor Standards Act, there are almost no other benefits. The bonuses for the three major holidays come from a benefits fund deducted from your salary every month.

8. Supervisors like to make grand promises and also play favorites.

9. You cannot sit while working, and there are no chairs behind the counter. Besides receiving very little pay, you may also develop irreversible varicose veins as an occupational illness.

10. Turnover is high, so you often have to clean up the mess left by previous employees.

This is a work experience review of a certain brand under the company.

Basically, to be an employee of this company, you need to master all kinds of skills and be an all-rounder. Whatever you do, and however well you do it, is considered merely expected. They can only afford to pay you peanuts, but they do not want to hire only monkeys.

I will come back and add more if I think of anything else.