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The boss kindly lets you leave work early
During the interview, the boss talks about all sorts of things. As for the salary, after you start working, you can check your bankbook (there are no pay stubs unless you ask the boss for one). The company pays the legally mandated minimum wage, or whatever the company (the boss) decides to give... Many of the company's policies are decided by the boss. You only find out about many matters and policies when they come up; the boss won't mention them during the interview (the company accountant or colleagues won't tell you either, because they are the boss's trusted associates), including the year-end bonus for employees who have worked a full year....
The boss kindly lets you leave work early, but deducts it from your annual leave. For someone with seven days of annual leave, this arrangement by the boss uses it up; newcomers without annual leave are unaffected.
Taking annual leave also results in a NT$1,000 deduction from the monthly perfect-attendance bonus, which means there is effectively no benefit to taking leave.
It is very difficult for a new salesperson to find three potential clients within three months...
You must have worked a full year (January 1 to December 31) to receive a year-end bonus. For example, if you joined in January, sorry, you get no year-end bonus—unless you joined last December..
The gifts for the three major holidays are limited to soy sauce (bought by the boss from clients and then passed on to sales staff during the holidays). Starbucks gifts are only available when there is a special promotion, and you have to chip in a little; the boss subsidizes some of the cost....
The sales staff fight intensely among themselves. For the sake of their sales figures, they often report minor things to the boss.... Also, never offend the sales staff; be careful what you say