Workplace reviews and discussion: 美國 SKECHERS 台灣總代理_思克威爾股份有限公司

Having colleagues who also hate the boss, so we can complain together during lunch breaks.

First of all, I want to apologize to everyone who shared their experiences. After reading the reviews on Tianyancha, I still went to work at the company. Therefore, this apology notice is to urge those of you who are about to join Skechers: those who came before you have already paved the way. Don’t foolishly continue down the wrong path!!!

1. The interview process

During the interview, they use the annual salary to make the monthly salary look lower, offering an annual package that supposedly amounts to 18–20 months’ salary, including bonuses (and bonuses for the three major holidays).

(This may look like an incentive, but really, don’t be fooled.)

However, the monthly salary includes a perfect-attendance bonus of NT$1,500, which they only tell you about after you start working. In other words, if you are late or take leave, they deduct NT$1,500 right away.

There probably isn’t any overtime pay, and it should also be very difficult to get compensatory leave, so you might as well accept your fate.

Because the Dragon Boat Festival bonus mysteriously disappeared this year, you will probably directly lose one or two months’ worth of bonuses.

Moreover, neither the interview nor the employment letter clearly specifies the salary breakdown, let alone providing a formal, official appointment letter.

2. The work environment

It is located in an office building in Neihu Technology Park.

The company occupies the fifth and eighth floors of the building. The building’s toilets are extremely old.

Even with a cleaning lady, the toilets are still full of the smell of urine, and the toilet seats are yellowed and worn-out.

The following are not shortcomings, but simply a description of the office environment:

The office consists of two connected spaces: an office area and a footwear display area.

The office is relatively quiet and is not an open-plan space; separate shelving units serve as dividers.

3. Within the department

There is not much cooperation either within or between departments. You do your work and I do mine; if you do not proactively ask others, they will not provide you with information either.

The company’s internal processes are very strange. They ask you to do something without first checking it with the boss, and you start carrying it out. Once you finish, if the boss decides it is not acceptable, you have to start over. Of course, if the boss sees something better, they may directly ask you to change the direction of the work.

The marketing department has a very low status in the company. The boss cuts the budget from time to time and demands maximum exposure with minimal funding, squeezing partner vendors and endorsement agencies. The boss has a very unfriendly personality and is extremely penny-pinching whenever money is involved. Working under them is very difficult because employees have to haggle with vendors and negotiate contracts themselves. The funniest part is that employees are asked to compete by submitting proposals, with bonuses offered as rewards, but afterward there is complete silence, as if the bonuses never existed. The boss habitually makes empty promises, including the annual salary mentioned earlier.

4. The boss’s personality

Rules change from one day to the next. Whenever a new idea pops into their head, they have the secretary announce a new policy the following day. Different company rules appear every day; if you seriously counted them all, the company’s regulations could probably be turned into an entire dissertation.

Their mood is unpredictable, sometimes good and sometimes bad. The same project might be approved today and rejected tomorrow, with completely different results. Even things they have confirmed may be met with feigned ignorance, as though they never happened. After working there for a while, you will lose patience with them. In any case, what they say is not necessarily 100% correct or actually carried out.

During holidays or after work, notifications will pop up in the company group chat because the boss shares things outside working hours, and you are expected to reply. Otherwise, they will lecture everyone at a meeting. Sometimes, however, the things they share are from four or five years ago. I genuinely do not understand why people insist on living in the past.

Because of the pandemic, employees were split into groups for working from home, and everyone had to upload a daily work log (because the boss believed you were sleeping at home).

If the work log was too short, they would say you were slacking off; if it was too long, they would say you were exaggerating your workload. There was absolutely no consistent standard.

They decided on their own that the pandemic had eased, and, when the alert level was raised to Level 3, everyone had to return to the office and the split-work arrangement was canceled.

The office air conditioning is set very high to save energy, and everyone works in masks. It is a wonder no one suffocates.

5. Coworkers

Some of the senior managers who have been there for a long time are actually quite useless—the typical entrenched old-timers. Anyone who can really get things done cannot stay there.

All you need to learn there is how to flatter the boss; you do not need to take your work too seriously. Just listen to whatever the boss says, and preferably do not have any thoughts or suggestions, because the boss’s thinking is still stuck in the Cretaceous period.

Of course, there are still some easygoing and clear-headed colleagues who were lured in by the annual salary, but believe me, they probably will not stay for long either.

That is all. I sincerely want to apologize to all the people who came before me. I was wrong; I should have trusted your work experience and stayed far away.

But I did gain something from the experience: I met several short-term work partners. Without working alongside them, I probably would have wanted to commit ritual suicide on the spot.

If you happen to see my advice, please trust me completely: there are many more good companies waiting for you out there. Do not foolishly step into hell.