Workplace reviews and discussion: 中友百貨股份有限公司

1. The supervisors and colleagues are all quite nice.

2. Occasional snacks or clearance deals on good products.

1. Less than two months after joining, I was inexplicably told that the department would be eliminated (while they claimed it was being expanded). It took more than three months to decide on the layoff process (or offer the option of becoming a shift-based floor manager). At one point, they even asked the employee to state the layoff date first and then "push back" the resignation date based on seniority.

2. The final layoff date was set just before the first wave of the shopping festival began, which gives the impression that employees were used until they were no longer needed.

3. "In their dreams," they initially refused to pay severance, simply because HR was afraid of being blamed by the boss. It was only paid after an actual report was filed.

3. Very strangely, the computer had still not been repaired and returned even after more than a month, by the time I left.

4. Many tasks were ultimately passed on to the sales staff (辛苦了).

5. HR (and its supervisors) were particularly evasive at this time. For example, a minute earlier on the phone, they would cheerfully say, "Feel free to ask anything," but immediately after hanging up, they would report it to the department supervisor.

6. The meal subsidy is calculated in points: 70 per meal. Unused points reset to zero each month, and they can only be used at the employee cafeteria (the minimum-priced meal is $75, and it is not available every day; the average meal costs at least $90–150 or more).