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There is not much performance pressure, management is lax, and taking leave is easy.
Sales staff are paid the statutory minimum base salary, with no subsidies for fuel, parking fees, or National Freeway ETC; there are four meaningless, lengthy sales meetings every week. Except for Wednesday, sales meetings are held every morning from Monday through Tuesday and Thursday through Friday. In essence, these meetings are just “reading work logs” and reporting sales figures—lengthy, meaningless, and lacking any focus or conclusions. The company forces sales performance to be recorded in installments. For example, if a client pays NT$250,000 in full today and the advertising campaign runs for one year, the company requires the NT$250,000 performance to be divided by 12 months instead of being recorded in the month payment is received or the month the project is completed. The company claims this is to avoid problems calculating sales performance if a client cancels midway and takes down the campaign, but in reality it amounts to exploiting the sales staff. Deputy General Manager Chen of the sales department has long been out of touch with the current market environment, cannot lead the sales department, and is unable to offer any constructive advice. Sales staff must submit their advertising clients’ performance figures for the current month themselves every month; if they do not submit them, they will not be paid. Salary statements are also not issued proactively, and sales staff often have to request them from the company before they are provided.