Workplace reviews and discussion: 豐日隆實業有限公司

The work can feel rewarding during the busy season.

The guaranteed monthly salary of NT$50,000 advertised on the recruitment website is not actually the case. You work at least 24 days a month; if you want to earn more, you have to work more. You usually have to get up around 3 or 4 a.m. After packing up your stall, you return to the warehouse to hand over the money, and you may not get home until after 5 p.m.

At the beginning, the company will force you to purchase some of the equipment needed for setting up your stall, leaving you in debt to the company. For the necessary equipment and delivery truck that the company does not provide, you must spend your own money to buy them before you can start working. You have to spend money before you have even earned any. The rent for the stalls your boss assigns you to each day also comes out of your own pocket. On top of that, there are daily fuel and parking costs, truck loan payments, truck maintenance, equipment wear and tear, labor and health insurance, and various other expenses. In the end, 40% of your daily sales, after deducting the expenses listed above, is your daily income, while the other 60% goes to the boss.

Since you have already chosen this kind of high-hour, labor-intensive work at traditional markets, I suggest choosing a larger company with a more complete system—one that at least provides the income-generating equipment and vehicles. At least then you will not have to spend money or go into debt to the company before you have even started working. As for the slogans about this job being a way to become your own boss or pursue similar dreams, just take them with a grain of salt. It sounds just like lower-quality multilevel marketing companies that require you to spend your own money buying inventory to stockpile: they are all gimmicks that weave dreams. In reality, you are still simply spending your time helping the boss make money, just like in any other job. When you go to work, you should pursue good earning efficiency—after deducting all these expenses from your pay, divide it by the total number of hours spent working and commuting each day. Do the math yourself, assess whether it is worthwhile, and then decide.

If you really want to be your own boss or earn more, it may be better to find a regular eight-hour day or night-shift job. Then, after work, you can decide whether to continue earning overtime pay or buy goods and set up your own stall at a night market or morning market. That would be the proper path.