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There is not much performance pressure, management is lax, and it is easy to request leave.
Sales staff receive only the statutory minimum base salary, with no reimbursement for fuel, parking fees, or highway ETC; there are four meaningless, lengthy sales meetings every week. Except for Wednesday, sales meetings must be held every morning from Monday through Tuesday and Thursday through Friday. In plain terms, these sales meetings are just “reading work logs” and reporting performance results—lengthy, meaningless, and entirely lacking focus or conclusions. Sales performance is forcibly recorded by the company on an installment basis. For example, if a customer 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 over 12 months instead of being recorded in the month payment is received or the month the deal is completed. The company claims this is to prevent issues with calculating sales performance if a customer terminates the contract and takes down 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 current market conditions, is unable to lead the sales department, and cannot provide any constructive advice. Every month, sales staff must independently report the performance from that month’s advertising clients; if they do not submit the report, they do not get paid. Salary statements are also not provided proactively, and sales staff often have to request them from the company before receiving them.