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There is not much performance pressure, management is lax, and taking time off is easy.
Sales staff are paid the legally mandated minimum base salary, with no subsidies whatsoever 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 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday morning. In plain terms, these sales meetings are just “reading work logs” and reporting performance—long-winded, meaningless, and entirely lacking in focus or conclusions; the company forcibly defers the recording of sales performance. For example, if a client pays NT$250,000 in full today and the advertising campaign runs for one year, the company will force the NT$250,000 performance amount to be divided across 12 months instead of recording it in the month payment is received or the month the deal is closed. The company claims this is to avoid problems with sales-performance calculations if a client breaches the contract and cancels the campaign midway, but in reality it is a disguised form of exploitation of the sales staff; Deputy General Manager Chen of the sales department has long been disconnected from the current market environment, is unable to lead the sales department, and cannot offer any constructive advice; every month, sales staff must report their advertising clients’ performance for that month themselves. If they do not submit the report, they will not be paid, and salary statements are not sent proactively either—sales staff often have to request them from the company before they are provided.