Workplace reviews and discussion: 福氣塘海華國際事業有限公司

Unlimited tea every day

Sweatshop

Workdays are often 12-hour “all-in” shifts

Yet they do not pay you a reasonable wage in accordance with the Labor Standards Act

All 12 hours are calculated at the minimum wage

Not to mention that they make us do work equivalent to that of a store manager

while paying us only the wages of part-time student workers

There are absolutely no bonuses of any kind

All you get is the boss giving you a long lecture full of useless motivational platitudes

The company clearly markets itself on the fact that all its tea is brewed from tea leaves

but the tea brewed by the boss still isn’t as good as the tea brewed by me, a junior employee

So I really don’t understand why the company insists on making things so complicated

There are an enormous number of subtleties involved in brewing good-tasting tea

Without at least a month and a half of training, you simply cannot do it

And because brewing good-tasting tea is not easy,

whether people can be retained is a crucial factor in maintaining quality

But with these wages and these working conditions,

with such a chaotic system and a company with no proper structure,

who exactly could this possibly retain?

As a result, the boss often has to recruit new employees

and rush them into the job, expecting them to learn everything in half a month and be able to run a store independently

This kind of futile approach

has led the company to its current situation, which is hardly surprising

The boss is very skilled at talking, but has no tangible abilities that can earn people’s trust

He often boasts that he used to be a manager in charge of many people

But the reality is that, now, hardly anyone in the company is willing to work under him

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Now, even the Shilin branch—the company’s founding store, which the boss constantly boasts has more than a decade of history—has closed

It remains to be seen how much longer the company can hold on