Workplace reviews and discussion: 麗鑫綜合百貨股份有限公司

All the standard benefits are provided (though not many). There is a hotel lunch at noon for which employees pay NT$10. Since it is part of the employee department store, some of the shops offer small discounts. Outside peak periods, things are relatively relaxed.

Days off are scheduled on a rotating basis. Overtime can only be exchanged for compensatory leave, with no expiration date (unless you resign, in which case you are paid for it).

The salary is relatively low. For the three major holidays, they just give gift vouchers for the company’s own stores or a few hundred dollars; even the maximum is no more than NT$2,000.

The office supervisors all have their own ideas and are unwilling to listen to others’ opinions. They always put themselves first and strongly dislike young people and those without work experience. Older employees may be more perceptive, but usually they cannot keep working after just a few days. They keep staffing to a minimum and then make people do as much as possible, seeing how long they can push them. The upper management is extremely self-important, but in reality is not very capable either. Looking around, all they can do is talk. The organization has been rotten from the roots, so it is easy to imagine that the results will not be very good either.

Because the foundation was never properly established, many things still need to be repaired and organized. There are the old miscellaneous tasks on top of the current ones, and basically there is not a day when everything gets finished. Everyone procrastinates whenever possible and just gets through one day at a time. A bunch of the facilities and items in the venue have been repaired and adjusted for years without ever being properly fixed. They break down or develop problems every few days, treating only the symptoms and never the root causes.