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

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

1. I never had it again afterward, so I couldn't have it with the pie the executives were eating.

2. At the beginning of the interview, a senior manager said that the pre-employment training would last two weeks, after which we could develop through our own sales strengths once we had a solid foundation. However, during those first two weeks, I found that it was all just sales scripts. We had to stay for a full eight hours a day, but the actual teaching took less than one hour; we spent the rest of the time wasting time on our own, which was extremely inefficient.

3. The initial training was fundamentally hollow. The results of rushing new hires into the job were fully reflected in the performance figures. The company would tell you to practice independently and discourage you from asking experienced senior colleagues for help. Then, if you failed to meet your targets, management would assess whether you were qualified to continue, making new employees feel that being allowed to stay was an opportunity granted by the company and that they needed to work even 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. If you are late or forget to report something, NT$5,000 is deducted from that week's marketing bonus. Supervisors also encourage you to work on weekday evenings and holidays to generate sales, without overtime pay. Even on ordinary days when no clients are scheduled, you still have to go to the office and role-play with yourself. This is quite a waste of time and completely restricts the sales staff's freedom. In practice, you only get two or three days off per month.

5. The company's senior managers like sycophants. Even if your sales figures 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 can become targets of management's displeasure if they raise concerns or suggestions about the company's rules.

Overall company atmosphere:

At first, they tell you that you will have complete freedom and that if you work hard at the beginning of the month, you can rest later. All of that is false, because upper management wants to take a share of your sales. As a result, you can only work harder. If you slack off even a little or want to rest, you instead become an outsider. Many senior colleagues therefore gradually settle into doing only the minimum, which is far less positive than what was described during the interview.

Thoughts: If you do this as a short-term job, I personally recommend not 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. For the long term, it is not worth considering at all: there is no year-end bonus or promotion system; it is purely physical labor. You can work overtime on holidays and evenings to earn sales, but there is no overtime pay. Each month, employees with good sales figures may be invited to a group meal, but listening to them share their experiences feels just like attending a direct-selling convention. The boss feeds you empty promises. I heard that one of the meals was at Costco, which is rather pathetic in its own way (fortunately, I did not push myself to hit the sales targets at the time). It is clearly an industry with room for development, yet the company has developed it into a complete mess ^_^