Workplace reviews and discussion: 艾佳清潔有限公司

1. During the interview, HR provided a glass of negative-ion mineral water.

1. After that, I never had any more. That made it impossible to have it with the cake from management.

2. At the beginning of the interview, the senior manager said there would be two weeks of pre-employment training, after which we could develop through our own business strengths once we had built a solid foundation. However, during those first two weeks, I found that it was all just sales scripts. We had to stay for the full eight hours a day, but the actual teaching time was less than one hour; we were left to kill time for the rest of the day, which was a huge waste of time.

3. What was taught at the beginning was fundamentally hollow. The consequences of rushing new hires into the field were fully reflected in the performance results. The company would tell you to practice independently and discourage you from asking experienced colleagues for advice. Then, if you failed to meet your targets, management would assess whether you were qualified to continue, making new hires feel that being allowed to stay was the company giving them an opportunity and that they had to work even harder.

4. Once you actually start working, you will find that the pay is very meager. Basically, this is a highly profitable industry, but the sales commission is small. In addition, being late or forgetting to report something would result in NT$5,000 being deducted from that week's marketing bonus. Supervisors would also encourage you to work on weekday evenings and holidays to generate sales, without overtime pay. Even when no clients were scheduled, you still had to go to the office and practice with yourself. This was quite a waste of time and completely restricted the sales staff's freedom. Calculated out, you only get two or three days off per month.

5. The company's senior managers like sycophants. Even if your sales are zero, as long as you spend all day in the office performing the act of practicing with yourself for them to see, they will protect you, because the company needs people who are constantly improving. Even high-performing salespeople will become targets of upper management if they express opinions about the company's rules.

Overall company atmosphere:

At first, they say they will give you plenty of freedom and that if you work hard at the beginning of the month, you can rest later on. All of this is false, because upper management will want a share of your sales, so you can only work harder. If you slack off even a little or want to rest, you will instead become an outlier. As a result, many senior colleagues gradually slow down and do only the minimum, and the job is nowhere near as positive as it was described during the interview.

Thoughts: If you do this as a short-term job, I personally don't think you should stay for more than six months, because you don't learn much from the work itself. Most of your time is tied up in the office, wearing yourself down. For the long term, don't even consider it: there is no year-end bonus, no promotion system, and it is purely physical labor. You work overtime on holidays and evenings to earn sales, but there is no overtime pay. Every month, people with good sales results may have a group meal, but based on what they share, it is basically a direct-sales convention. The boss draws up grand promises for you to buy into. I heard that one of the meals was at Costco, which sounds rather pitiful as well (fortunately, I didn't push myself to generate sales at the time). It is clearly an industry with room for development, but the company has developed it into a complete mess ^_^