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1. Most colleagues are fairly easy to get along with
2. The office location is very convenient for transportation
3. There are quite a few food options nearby
4. Parking is convenient; there is a paid parking lot behind the company
1. The company frequently changes its decisions, and the boss's mood is unpredictable
2. On the surface, it is a fashion brand distributor, but in reality, it has a very traditional industry mindset (a family-business structure, closed-off, with unclear promotion prospects)
3. People are hired based on personal preferences; being capable is useless. You might as well learn how to flatter people and deceive uninformed senior management (an intern who stayed at a well-known advertising agency for less than a year can come here and hold a position at the managerial level)
4. The company is extremely unfamiliar with the industry and operates entirely according to the boss's personal preferences and arrogance (if you genuinely want to understand the fashion industry, joining this company will only hurt you rather than benefit you, because everything you learn here consists of incorrect ideas)
5. The salary is ridiculously low.
6. Overtime hours cannot be converted into pay in the same month; they can only be exchanged for compensatory leave (whether you can actually take the leave is a whole other mystery)
7. If your duties require contacting and coordinating with vendors, congratulations—you will develop an utterly shameless ability to haggle, cutting prices so aggressively that you become infamous in the industry, draining your partner vendors dry and bargaining them down to the bone until you are blacklisted.
8. Because of the nature of the work, if any products you handle are damaged or soiled, you have to pay compensation out of your own pocket (you can look up the average price of an item from the brands the company distributes)
9. The company's event sales attract a complicated mix of people. There was once a theft at a sale where goods worth several hundred thousand were stolen, and the company required all sales associates on duty to reimburse the full retail value (having to pay over a hundred thousand just for showing up to work sounds exciting, right?)
10. The entire company is an outsider in the fashion industry (its sales, marketing, public relations, and other areas all seem laughable to industry professionals). If you want to become one of the people others look down on, welcome aboard.