Workplace reviews and discussion: 台灣奇士美化粧品股份有限公司

It's pretty easy to get by: you just need to know how to say good things about those above you and obediently do whatever the chairman and general manager say.

If you're responsible for something and the result doesn't meet the boss's expectations, you'll be blacklisted immediately, and things will get very bad.

So don't cause trouble on your own if you weren't asked to do something. You generally won't get into much trouble for pushing things away or avoiding them.

1. Previously, there was a company-wide meeting every Monday morning where everyone would gather and shout, “Outdo Shiseido! Outdo Maybelline!” It felt like a direct-selling convention.

2. The chairman really likes to pressure suppliers to lower their quotes—to the point of squeezing them to death. He would even say to them, “[The] chairman will teach you how to do business.”

3. The chairman and general manager are father and daughter, and their style is completely... a standard Taiwanese family business..... Anything you can imagine could happen.

4. Typhoon days off are treated as personal leave, and your salary is deducted. If you don't want your pay deducted, you have to use annual leave or compensatory leave yourself.

5. The benefits are really... nonexistent. There are no holiday bonuses for the three major festivals; at most, you get a discount on the company's products, but basically the company still makes money from you.

6. The marketing and sales teams for the counters are in two different worlds; each does its own thing.

7. The turnover rate is extremely high. Almost every year, at least one entire department disappears—for example, the entire finance team, sales team, or marketing team.