Workplace reviews and discussion: 全鎂實業股份有限公司

Highly recommended for people who enjoy hotel culture and drinking.

The alcohol is free and unlimited here.

1. The drinking-and-entertaining culture is pervasive. You need to be available whenever called, and are often notified in the afternoon that you have to attend an evening engagement. These engagements can last until 11 p.m. or midnight. The next day, you are expected to come to work as usual despite being hungover. You are required to dress revealingly and engage in hugging and other physical contact with clients, and are forced to drink and accompany clients while they sing and dance. However, no overtime pay is provided for these evening engagements. Carefully consider whether you can accept this culture.

2. The company’s policies are unclear. Sales staff receive only a base salary and no sales performance bonuses. There are only mid-year and year-end bonuses, but there are no clearly defined criteria for awarding them; they are simply distributed based on how pleased the owner and the mood of the supervisor are. Some supervisors deliberately cut bonuses, mainly claiming that the company is operating at a loss and that everyone needs to share the difficulties. There are no perfect-attendance bonuses or employee trips. If you care about the bonus system, you should inquire carefully about it.

3. There is no training. As soon as you join the company, you are told to get out and visit clients as quickly as possible. You are not informed about the products and are expected to use your personal connections to arrange meetings right away. There is no system for managing product information; you are simply given product materials to read. Expired products have previously been relabeled and sold. Whenever a new agency or supplier is approached, employees are repeatedly asked to go on visits despite the lack of proper market research.

4. There are many two-faced people. Supervisors with ulterior motives take the lead in charging meals to the company account, then claim that subordinates submitted improper expense reports. Subordinates are asked to do miscellaneous tasks; although clients are ostensibly assigned for relationship maintenance, in reality they are expected to work for the supervisor, while the sales performance remains credited to the supervisor. You need to curry favor by helping, making tea, buying meals, and reading the supervisor’s mood. Supervisors often arrange to accompany sales staff on client visits, but then fail to show up, leaving the clients in an awkward position. Staff turnover is extremely high, and sales employees frequently resign. The company has no intention of improving and only focuses on recruiting new sales staff.

Anyone considering joining should think carefully about whether they can accept this.