Workplace reviews and discussion: 柏希菲克股份有限公司

If you like attending exhibitions and working overtime on weekends to check out exhibitions, you’re welcome to join.

People who have dogs or cats are also welcome—there may be expired products available to take home.

1. Colleagues from different brands compete with one another and will stop at nothing to achieve their sales targets. There is only so much business to go around in one store. There is also infighting within the company, so remember to choose the right side or you may be laid off.

2. Sales assistants are unable to effectively resolve or handle issues and may even increase the sales staff’s workload. You never have to worry about not having a great teammate; what you really have to worry about is ending up with a terrible one.

3. Sales bonuses are announced only after the sales targets have been achieved. It makes absolutely no sense and there is no way to challenge it.

4. The sales territories assigned to employees were changed three times after I joined the company. Having to rebuild relationships with clients is apparently considered normal, and there is no way to challenge it.

5. As a thoughtful reminder to anyone considering joining in the future: a certain supervisor greatly distrusts the sales staff. They will independently visit stores on weekends on behalf of sales staff and promise store owners discounts or gifts to build relationships, without informing the sales representative responsible for that area. This makes it impossible for the representative to establish effective, productive cooperation with the store.

6. After you leave, former colleagues will spread rumors, making it impossible for you to continue working in this industry. (You find out because store owners tell the departed sales representatives what happened.)

7. When I joined the company, I was told that it was rapidly expanding its workforce in preparation for going public, and was promised attractive benefits: everything that should be provided would be provided, and the company would even help secure what was not. Yet before I had even completed three months, a large number of employees were laid off without cause. It was truly a waste of other people’s time—a company with no job security.

8. They lure you into the company with reassuring promises, but then everything is handled extremely slowly: job offers take a long time, onboarding is slow, and there is no training after you join. They call accompanying sales staff on visits “training,” but every salesperson does things differently, and there are no formal procedures or regulations. If you make a mistake, the company will blame you and your supervisor will scold you. They provide no proper guidance yet feel perfectly justified in criticizing you. This kind of company is just asking for trouble.