Workplace reviews and discussion: 喜泰旅行社股份有限公司

It's easy to get by. Even if your boss keeps pressuring you, as long as you continue slacking off, you basically won't be fired. You may simply be transferred between departments repeatedly to help others.

After working there for more than two years, the salary is low for the tourism industry (NT$23,000–25,000 for entry-level employees). I have never encountered a pay raise; one senior colleague received a single NT$1,000 raise after three years. The timing of performance reviews, raises, and promotions depends entirely on the supervisor's mood.

I absolutely do not recommend this company to young people. You will only be exploited continuously. Even the year-end bonus depends on whether your department manager likes you. Someone who had worked there for one year received a smaller year-end bonus than they had received after working there for just two months the previous year.

When the company's travel products do not sell well, sales quotas are divided among the departments. You have to figure out how to sell them yourself, or you will be fined. If no one can be found, employees have to pay to participate themselves. Every Lunar New Year, everyone pools money to see who still has annual leave and can be asked to join the group tour; everyone contributes to subsidize the travel expenses.

If you have a car, the gossipy people in every department will constantly pester you to run errands: deliver documents, pay bills, go to the bank, buy offerings for religious worship, buy stationery, and so on.

During Lunar New Year and other holidays, you also have to help buy products, holiday dishes, and so on from other affiliated companies just to save the boss's face. You are the one spending the money, while the boss gets the credit and goodwill.