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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 highly unpredictable.
2. On the surface, it is a fashion brand agency, but in reality it operates with very traditional industry thinking (a family-business structure, closed-minded, with unclear promotion policies).
3. People are hired based on personal preferences; ability is of little use. You might as well learn how to flatter people and deceive senior management who do not understand the business (an intern who worked for less than a year at a well-known advertising agency can come here and take on a management-level position).
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 help, because everything you learn here is based on incorrect concepts).
5. The salary is pitifully low.
6. Overtime hours cannot be converted into money within the same month; they can only be exchanged for compensatory leave (whether you can actually take the leave is another matter).
7. If your duties require you to contact and coordinate with vendors, congratulations—you will develop an impressive ability to haggle shamelessly. You can bargain until you become notorious in the industry, squeeze your vendors dry, and bargain them down to the bone, ending up on their blacklist.
8. Because of work-related contact with products, if any goods are damaged or soiled, you have to pay compensation out of your own pocket (you can look up the average price of a single authorized product).
9. The company’s special-sale events attract a complicated mix of people. There has been an incident in which thieves stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of goods at a sale, and the company required all sales staff on duty to compensate for the full retail value (coming in for a shift and having to pay over a hundred thousand dollars is quite a thrill, right?).
10. The entire company is an outsider in the fashion industry. Its sales, marketing, public relations, and other operations are all laughable in the eyes of industry professionals. If you want to become one of the people they look down on, welcome.