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Simply put, this is mass recruitment for telemarketing; it is definitely not online marketing.

The interview did not allow for a very long self-introduction, and they showed no interest whatsoever in my previous work experience.

The interviewer merely called out each interviewee’s name while holding their résumé,

and then started explaining what the company does, how bonuses are calculated, and so on.

In reality, they were recruiting telephone marketing business-development staff—in other words, telephone sales representatives.

The training course was said to last one week, but there was actually class only on the first day.

On the second day, they had you start making calls. Naturally, for inexperienced newcomers, even finding out how to obtain contact lists was a problem.

The company simply told you to look on Facebook.

Throughout the process, the company did not provide any information about vendors that had already signed cooperation agreements or were in contact with them.

That means that while a business you developed might still only be considering cooperation, another colleague could call the same business two days later,

and if the business agreed to cooperate at that point, the sales credit would belong only to that colleague, not you.

I originally just wanted to learn about the current state of e-commerce development, so I went to observe out of curiosity for a week.

As it turned out, they were still merely operating a second-generation e-commerce model.

When filling out the paperwork after joining the company, they repeatedly said that the company would pay salaries on the 15th of every month.

They said that because you had just reported for work and were still in the training period, they would not ask for your payroll-transfer account information yet.

After you completed training and became a regular employee, the company would proactively ask you for your account details (WTF).

Even if you are in training, you are still a formal company employee, right? Why not collect the information on the first day of employment?

Moreover, it was only on the first day that they told you the company uses XX Bank for salary transfers,

so you had to open an account at XX Bank. The job-offer notification was also just a single verbal statement: “Hello, sir. This is Meidi Technology. We’re calling to let you know that you’ve been hired, and we’ll start classes on X/X, so please arrive on time.” They spoke extremely quickly. At the time, I was only considering politely replying with an “Mm-hmm”; before I could say, “I’ll think about it,” the other person had already hung up.

After observing for a week, I personally felt that I could not really accept either the company environment or its systems, so I resigned. When I resigned, the supervisor only said, “Go get a resignation form from the front desk and fill it out.” They did not ask a single question about why I was leaving, and no one reminded me at the time that the account information had to be submitted before payday.

So when I later followed up with them because I had not received my salary, their response was: “Perhaps you did not pay close attention during class and listen carefully to the instructor’s explanations. In fact, on the first day of training, when the environment and personnel regulations were introduced, it was clearly explained that anyone resigning must complete the resignation procedures. Regarding salary, please proactively submit the Taiwan Business Bank payroll-transfer account information so that we can process your payment.”

In other words, it was my problem for not proactively providing it. Although it was not as if I desperately needed those few thousand dollars, the overall experience felt terrible.