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. I never had it again afterward, so there was no way to have it with the pie offered by senior management.

2. At the beginning of the interview, the senior manager said that the pre-employment training would last two weeks, after which, once we had a solid foundation, we could develop through our own sales strengths. 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 had to spend the rest of the time by ourselves, which was a huge waste of time.

3. The training at the beginning was fundamentally very superficial. The results of rushing new employees into the job were fully reflected in the sales figures. The company would tell you to practice independently and discourage you from asking experienced colleagues for advice. Then, if you failed to meet your sales targets, management would assess whether you were qualified to continue, making newcomers feel that being allowed to stay was the company giving them an opportunity and that they needed to work harder.

4. Once you actually start working, you realize 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 a NT$5,000 deduction 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 customer appointments were scheduled, you still had to go to the office to role-play with yourself, which was quite a waste of time. The job completely restricts salespeople's freedom, and calculated overall, you only get two or three days off per month.

5. The company's senior executives like sycophants. Even if your sales results are zero, as long as you spend all day in the office putting on a show of role-playing with yourself for them, they will protect you, because the company needs people who are constantly improving. Even high-performing salespeople will become targets of senior management if they raise objections or express opinions about the company's rules.

Overall company atmosphere:

At first, they say they will give you complete freedom and that if you work hard at the beginning of the month, you can relax later on. All of that is false, because management wants to take a cut of your sales, so you can only work harder. If you slack off even slightly or want to rest, you instead become an outlier. As a result, many experienced colleagues gradually adopt a slower pace and do only the minimum, which is not nearly as positive as what was described during the interview.

Thoughts: If you are doing this short-term, personally I would not recommend staying for more than six months, because you do not learn much from the work itself, and most of your time is tied up in the office, exhausting yourself. Long term, it is not worth considering at all: there is no year-end bonus or promotion system, and it is simply physical labor. You work overtime on holidays and evenings to earn sales, but receive no overtime pay. Each month, high performers may get to go out for a meal, but based on what I heard them share, it is basically a direct-selling convention. The boss makes grand promises to you; I heard that one of these meals was at Costco, which sounds rather pitiful (fortunately, I did not push myself to hit the sales target at the time). It is clearly an industry with room for development, but the company has developed it into a complete mess ^_^