Workplace reviews and discussion: 成龍快遞_成龍商務有限公司

Can getting paid daily count as a benefit?

1. Before you’ve even earned any money after joining the company, they pressure you to buy a $25 debit book.

2. No labor or health insurance; see point 3 for details.

3. The company makes it sound nice by saying that your relationship with them is one of contracting, not employment, but in reality it’s just tax evasion!

4. There aren’t many orders. Couriers spend most of their time spacing out in convenience stores waiting for orders. And even though there are already too few orders, they keep recruiting on job banks. How do I know? Because I never closed my 104 employment profile, and I was genuinely shocked when they sent me a notification. You don’t have enough orders for the current couriers, yet you still want to recruit more people? So you think all of us current couriers are idiots, is that it?

5. The most important part is the pay structure: They make it sound great by saying it’s a 30/70 split, with the company taking 30% and the courier taking 70%. But what’s it actually like? This calculation only applies to members. For non-members, they first deduct taxes and NT$30 (I still don’t understand what this NT$30 is supposedly for), and only then apply the 30/70 split.

For example: Member rates are almost always terrible. The amount I most frequently received was NT$70. NT$70 × 70% = NT$49. Even if you could deliver three orders within an hour, that would only be NT$147, which doesn’t even reach the statutory hourly wage of NT$150! And that’s just an overly optimistic calculation. In reality, with so many traffic lights in Taipei City, for these NT$70 short-distance orders, you’d be lucky to deliver two in an hour.

Now let’s calculate for non-members: I once had an order from Beitou to Xinyi for NT$189. The company first deducted NT$9, then deducted another NT$30 from you! That leaves NT$150, and after the 30/70 split, you actually receive NT$105. Oh, you think that sounds pretty good, right? NT$105 for one order! To earn that NT$105, I had to travel all the way from near Taipei Main Station to Beitou, almost up into the mountains, and then race from Beitou to Xinyi District. It took about 80–90 minutes in total, all just to earn your NT$105. Great!

6. The company only subsidizes fuel. Oh, that sounds acceptable, right? Yes—roughly NT$100 in fuel costs gets you a NT$5 subsidy. Truly wonderful!

This whole damn company exploits people mercilessly. No wonder nearly all the couriers I’ve seen are old and dark-skinned; there are practically no young people like me. There are two, but they usually do deliveries on other platforms and only come to Chenglong in their spare time to make a little extra money. Of course—this place is such a rip-off that any young person with common sense would rather work for Uber Eats or Panda. Only someone with a hole in their head would come here to get exploited to the fullest!

Oh, and I’m not looking down on older people. If there were good jobs available, why would these coworkers stay here instead of going elsewhere? Heh, presumably some have poor personal circumstances, while others are facing financial difficulties. The former aren’t wanted by other companies; the latter have to live on daily pay, and this money is their lifeline!

Everyone out there is struggling, yet Chenglong exploits people mercilessly and bullies these honest workers. Really great, isn’t it!