Workplace reviews and discussion: 微笑運動用品股份有限公司

1. All my colleagues were very young, under 30—I was the same age as them, so I made many good friends. We’re still very close now!

2. There were more male colleagues, so the female employees generally didn’t need to move things or do similar tasks.

3. There was air conditioning and music, and colleagues could chat when things were slow.

1. The pay was very low. When I started in 2012, the base salary was NT$19,000, which only reached about NT$23,000 with overtime pay. The sales commission was NT$0.005. Every month, we were tempted to buy the new products. You could choose not to buy them, but it was really hard to resist… I’ve forgotten the employee discount, but there was a monthly limit.

2. We often had to attend training! About once per quarter, we had classes to learn about the features of new products and how to introduce them. The classes lasted one or two hours before the store opened, and of course there was no overtime pay.

3. We had to conduct a full inventory count every month. If there was an inventory discrepancy, the excess amount deducted for items that had been stolen or gone missing was split among the colleagues, who had to pay it in cash.