Workplace reviews and discussion: 三貝德數位文創股份有限公司

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I just left Sanbeide not long ago.

Sanbeide is truly a company that takes advantage of its employees.

It also constantly exploits loopholes in the law.

When I joined, I signed a business commission contract, and they said the company did not follow the Labor Standards Act.

Yet they required us to come to the office at set times, and I never once left work on time.

They said we did not need to clock in, but in reality they simply did not want to leave evidence.

We also had to go to the office on holidays; not going was considered a sign that you were not working hard enough.

We only got four days off per month.

The base salary was only NT$10,000, and NT$1,000 was deducted for being late.

Let me ask: If you sign a commission contract saying the Labor Standards Act does not apply, but the company imposes the same requirements as it would on employees, isn't that illegal? They exploit every loophole in the law.

After that, the compensation was entirely commission-based.

Some months you earned less than NT$10,000—or did not receive a single cent—and the supervisor did not care at all.

They would only say that you were not working hard enough and that it was your own problem.

At first, I foolishly thought it was my own fault.

Later, when I quit, I realized that the problem was entirely with them.

That was because the company took practically all of the performance bonuses.

A NT$66,000 bonus was divided between two salespeople, with each salesperson receiving an average of NT$10,000.

The rest all went into the company's revenue! How is that fair?

Once, I needed to ask the company for an advance on my salary.

The supervisor completely ignored me and said, “No, I’m playing mahjong. That’s all for now.”

What?

The worst part is that I worked there for 10 months

and earned less than NT$100,000; the company took all the bonuses.

It was worse than working part-time at a convenience store.

Only after I resigned did I find out

that I had not been enrolled in labor or health insurance for any of those 10 months.

How has Apple Daily not exposed such a terrible company?

It is basically a bloodsucking company.

Oh, and there’s more.

They paint an extremely grand picture,

but in reality it is completely impossible to achieve.

They said you would not have to work as hard as people doing manual labor elsewhere.

In reality, it was even harder than working manual labor elsewhere, and you still could not make any money!

At exhibitions, we often stood all day without making a single sale.

We had to persuade people to come in and buy teaching materials costing over NT$100,000 a set.

To be honest, I found it extremely embarrassing.

That is why I stopped going after doing only one or two exhibitions.

There was another outrageous issue as well.

After a customer signed a contract, we still had to wait and see whether Chunghsin could approve the application.

If it was not approved, it was as if the contract had never been signed.

Even if it was approved, if the customer did not make the payment,

the entire performance bonus was clawed back by the company.

I personally experienced this once.

It was completely ridiculous.

All I can say is that this company is basically harming people.