Apart from getting along well with colleagues, it is basically hell.
The boss, Weng CO, fundamentally has no intention of running the department store. He opened it merely to give his political and business celebrity friends a place to shop and to enjoy the title of honorary chairman. Vendors already have a hard time setting up counters, yet they are still forced to have the floor managers demand that vendors lower their discount prices to sell to him. Even when vendors sell to him, they still have to issue him invoices so he can take a cut—double exploitation. I worked at this company for a little over a year. None of the employees could get raises or promotions; each department had only one person, and vacancies were never filled. The boss had an enormous number of personal affairs, all of which required the entire staff to help and work overtime, yet the overtime could not be reported and no overtime pay was provided. The company’s senior managers spent all day currying favor with the boss, wasting time and talking nonsense, and dodging responsibility whenever problems arose. Every so often, someone inexplicably parachuted in above you to become your supervisor, while you still did the actual work. These people were neither professionals nor did they know what they were supposed to do. In addition, employees were forced to perform on stage at the year-end banquet, leaving no time to eat. Boss Weng CO once said that the highest salary was NT$28,000 at the starting level and that the year-end bonus was at most 0.5 month’s salary, with no bonuses for the three major holidays. If you want to try a career life like a dog, feel free to come to this company for “training,” but you might not last even a few years.