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There isn’t much performance pressure, management is lax, and taking time off is easy.
Sales staff are paid the statutory minimum base salary, with no subsidies whatsoever for fuel, parking fees, or national highway ETC; there are four lengthy and meaningless sales meetings every week. Apart from Wednesday, sales meetings are held every morning on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. In plain terms, these sales meetings are just “reading work logs” and reporting performance—lengthy, meaningless, and lacking any focus or conclusions; sales performance is forcibly allocated by the company across multiple periods. 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 in performance to be divided across 12 months rather than recorded in the month payment is received or the month the deal is closed. The company claims this is to avoid complications in calculating sales performance if a client breaches the contract and cancels the campaign midway, 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, is unable to lead the sales department, and cannot offer any constructive suggestions; sales staff must report the performance from that month’s advertising clients themselves every month. If they do not submit the report, they will not be paid, and pay statements are not sent proactively either—sales staff often have to request them from the company before they are provided.