Traditional industry to the extreme~ The salary is quite good~ They’re willing to give bonuses~

-Sales Assistant-

1. From June to October, air conditioning is restricted; it cannot be turned on until 11 a.m.~ The office is stuffy, and from time to time there is cigarette smoke as well as exhaust fumes discharged by the neighboring company.

2. A manager-level person in the office burps constantly throughout the day or repeatedly clears his throat during lunch break. Poor hygiene habits make it impossible to get adequate sleep.

3. Constantly going up and down between the site, the office, and customers on the third floor all day.

4. Standards for doing things are inconsistent; the approach to the same task differs each time.

5. Sometimes there are major information gaps, resulting in miscommunication with the site.

6. At the end of the month, you basically cannot sit in the office for more than a few hours a day. You are mostly on-site conducting inspections, expediting orders, and helping with packaging.

7. On-site efficiency is extremely poor and things simply cannot be expedited. This often cuts into the time available at the end of the month to enter shipments into the system and prepare documents. On Fridays at the end of the month, you may not get off work until after 7 p.m., and overtime is not always properly reported.

8. When customers ask about orders and production control is supposed to reply with the inventory arrival date, they are never able to respond within the deadline. You always have to ask again and again.

9. The efficiency of the entire company is truly terrible. Even when a shipment is urgent, packaging proceeds slowly. Even after packaging is finished, items may simply not be put into inventory. Packaging problems may also be caught by customers, resulting in complaints.

10. For imported bearings that are not purchased by our department, the sales assistant has to apply for the import declaration and subsequent expenses. How can their accuracy be verified?

11. Apart from routine duties, the job basically consists of doing whatever the supervisor says, one task at a time. You also handle anything unrelated to sales, and often serve as a gofer. Calling it a sales assistant position is really calling it the supervisor’s personal assistant and gofer.

12. The on-site team has low cooperation, communication is difficult, and they may even stab you in the back.

13. When there is a problem with an inspection item and it cannot be provided to the customer for inspection downstairs on schedule, the site does not proactively notify anyone. They only tell you they cannot inspect it when sales goes upstairs to ask. Customers may question our company’s credibility.

14. Even after notifying the group chat that an inspection is needed, quality assurance still may not show up when the scheduled time is approaching. They may not answer after several phone calls, so you have to go downstairs personally and notify them, only to be asked in return, “Have I inspected this item?” Who exactly is quality assurance now??? Reports that need to be prepared are not prepared in advance either; they only start looking for them when the customer arrives.

15. Some imported items are very urgent. The other party may require proof of the remittance slip before arranging delivery, but the Finance Department cannot adjust its schedule to provide it in advance. It is only available after at least 5 p.m. each day, and sometimes not until 5:20 p.m. You cannot push them, and they do not respond to reminders; when you do press them, they lose their temper at you.

16. You constantly have to do other departments’ work, e.g., packing goods, working on-site, and handling shipping marks.

17. Work may still be assigned during off-hours and lunch breaks. The supervisor will keep tagging you in the LINE group chat. Things that could clearly have been asked about before you got off work are instead brought up at 6, 7, or 8 p.m. after work. It is completely pointless.

18. If you ask during the interview who your direct supervisor is, and the answer starts with T and it is a woman, run. You do not want to be thrown under the bus when something goes wrong or serve as her gofer. You will walk endlessly every day. Run~~~~~~~

19. The general manager often loses his temper and hurls extremely offensive profanity or makes intensely sarcastic, cutting remarks at employees. Although he does not curse at entry-level employees, how could anyone have a good mood at work after listening to this all day?

20. The turnover rate among sales assistants is extremely high. Run, run, run—because it is important, I’m saying it three times!!!