Meal allowance: NT$85

Newcomers are immediately treated as cleaners. The workplace is chronically understaffed, and even the routine cleaning that should normally be done is simply assigned to new employees. Tasks that should be divided between two people are handled by one person, while senior employees just sit at the counter chatting and watching you work. Because of the staff shortage, senior employees never proactively volunteer to clean; whenever a newcomer arrives, they are immediately told to handle the major cleaning tasks that were left undone during understaffed periods. If you didn’t know better, you would think you had applied for a cleaning position.

Newcomers generally put up with this for a few days before quitting, and the cycle continues indefinitely. On top of that, they are terrible at training new employees. There is no SOP— they tell you things only as they think of them. They briefly tell you where items are located in the warehouse, then send you off alone to restock. I don’t even know which items are out of stock or which ones should be restocked first, so how am I supposed to restock anything? Some items have been missing from the shelves for a long time, and if they are out of stock in the warehouse, no one tells you; they just let you search around cluelessly. Then, later on, they tell you that you can check inventory on the computer. It really makes you want to punch them. The worst part is that the computer inventory is not necessarily accurate either. There are many items listed as in stock on the computer that are actually unavailable in the warehouse. When you tell the senior employees, they don’t believe you and assume that you simply couldn’t find them.

I sincerely advise anyone considering working there to think twice. If you don’t have a strong enough mindset, you really shouldn’t go. During my time working there, I often felt like beating them up. Fortunately, I have fairly good emotional-management skills. Seriously, enter at your own risk.