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

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In June, they laid off a group of very senior employees.

Then recently, they opened the following positions:

Assistant Brand Marketing Manager

Product Development Specialist

Counter Events Specialist (Marketing Department)

EC Planning Specialist

They laid off a group of employees and now need to expand the team? (What is going on? Wasn't the excuse for the layoffs that business performance was poor?)

One of the positions is even in a department that was affected by the layoffs.

Moreover, those senior employees had done nothing wrong and were very well-liked.

According to the conspiracy theory, the company did not want to pay retirement benefits.

Without resorting to conspiracy theories, the explanation would be that the company saw flaws that absolutely no one else saw—its powers of observation are beyond ordinary human ability.

It is already midyear, and it is time for performance reviews again.

The performance reviews HR talked about can supposedly lead to:

Promotion in job grade

Promotion in title

Regular salary increases

None of these will happen, because the entire review process is neither transparent nor public.

Moreover, the forms designed by HR are extremely difficult to fill out.

They clearly were not professionally designed.

But that is also consistent with this company's long-standing culture of "outsiders leading insiders."

The general manager is just amazing.

They are the head of HR.

They are the head of the Finance Department.

They are the head of IT.

They are the head of the Marketing Department—even though there is currently a marketing head, the general manager still manipulates things behind the scenes.

Oh my god, a jack-of-all-trades—so amazing.

Under the leadership of such an all-capable general manager,

how has this company still not surpassed Shiseido or Maybelline? Instead, it is getting farther and farther behind Shiseido and Maybelline.

Anyone with discerning eyes should be able to understand what this means.

If you are still interviewing and considering whether to join,

let me tell you:

Absolutely do not.

Look at the article from 2019/7/10.

It was not exaggerated at all.

The earlier post that said there was a travel subsidy was based on a misunderstanding.

Think about how much is deducted from your salary every month.

It is paid under the name of a travel subsidy,

and the amount of travel subsidy paid is different for each person.

The basis for the difference is this:

Under the original calculation method, the person who most liked going to see the general manager could not receive that much.

So she demanded that the calculation method be changed.

Only after the calculation method was changed could she receive more.

This was all manipulated behind the scenes through a black box.

The culture of this company = the general manager's way of doing things = the chairman's way of doing things = being extremely calculating with employees.

As mentioned earlier, it is true that you can take only 2.5 hours of leave for a health checkup.

The company even issued an announcement.

It said that on the day of the health checkup, employees could take only 2.5 hours of official leave; any additional time had to be taken from their own leave balance.

The company provides health checkups costing around NT$1,000 per employee,

yet it is extremely stingy about the time employees spend getting health checkups.

You can imagine what the situation is like in other areas.

It falls far short when compared with those above,

and is absolutely not even a little better than those below.

If you are considering whether to submit your résumé,

do not submit it under any circumstances.

If you are considering whether to join,

do not go under any circumstances.

If, after reading everyone's honest accounts,

you still decide to go,

then all I can say is: you brought it on yourself.