Can get close to people
1. I worked there for almost a year; after resigning, I unexpectedly received a notice—I was sued for fraud! This had already happened to many senior colleagues and juniors while I was working there; many of them had been sued by customers. So if you don't want to be sued, don't choose this career path!
2. The promised eight days off! If you have no performance, taking leave is simply impossible.
3. This company does not care about workers' rights.
4. Competing to snatch sales.
5. Whether you do a good job or a bad job, someone will stab you in the back.
6. You will constantly be sent to other locations. Management will say it depends on your personal willingness, but if you have no performance or your results are poor, they will tag you directly in the group chat and chew you out without holding back.
7. You still have to keep checking your phone after work because your team leader's working hours differ from yours. If you miss a message, they will immediately eliminate you from opportunities to work at other locations and lock your locker; if you have no performance, they will make you the target.
8. When sending you to other locations, management will keep telling you to work hard and make money first, saying your family will get used to it over time! It's fine; it's okay if you don't go home! Making money is what matters! Then you will keep being sent to other locations.
9. Does being sent to other locations guarantee sales performance? No! You bring people in for senior staff to pitch to, but the pitch may not succeed. Even if it does, you have to see how many people will split the sales credit. The person giving the pitch can take half, and the rest is divided among the others. How much do you think you can get?
10. The company says it subsidizes transportation costs for assignments to other locations. You work the late shift in Taichung one day, then they schedule you for an early shift in Kaohsiung the next day. Do you think you should take the high-speed rail, a regular train, or a bus? Bus fares are fully reimbursed, while high-speed rail is reimbursed only halfway. Most importantly, if you fail to meet the monthly target, you get nothing at all.
11. Bonuses: Many people notice this, so please read carefully! Management will make up sales performance, but it also depends on whether they like you! There have been cases where someone made 230,000 but received a lower bonus than someone who made 200,000.
12. Your team leader will tell you, “I'm very close to you,” but you should know how frighteningly different they may talk about you in private in front of management! The team leader only cares about themselves! So don't think too much of it.
None.
They lay people off.
The workload for in-house work is fairly consistent. Once you finish, you can do your own thing—often spending the whole day scrolling on your phone.
You get off work right on time, overtime is rarely required, and there isn't much pressure. It's a stark contrast to field work.
It's basically a place to go on vacation.
1. During the interview, they said there would be a salary increase after passing the probationary period. There wasn't—the pay is still stuck at the basic salary.
2. Being one minute late costs you 10 dollars. That's ridiculously expensive.
3. The boss is extremely stingy and uses all sorts of excuses to deduct your bonuses.
Overall, if you want to take a vacation and coast into retirement, and money isn't an issue, go for it.
If you want to train your stress tolerance and communication skills, you can give it a try.
A company that violates labor laws and still acts self-righteous about it.
You only get six days off per month, and if you don't meet your targets, you can only take four days off.
There are many restricted days off, and supervisors will pretend not to notice. Even when leave has clearly been scheduled, they may still tell you to come to work. If you don't proactively speak up, you lose the day off.
The working hours are very long: seven hours on weekdays, nine hours on holidays (Friday, Saturday, and Sunday), and ten hours during special events or holidays.
Meal breaks are 40 minutes on weekdays and 30 minutes on holidays.
Thirty minutes is already very short, yet you also have to help buy things for senior colleagues and take them back.
On the surface, they say overtime pay will be provided, but in practice it does not fully comply with the law.
Whether you work overtime on weekdays or holidays, it is all calculated as weekday overtime.
Moreover, if a supervisor or senior colleague asks you to stay and work, causing you to get off work late, you still cannot claim overtime.
Being one minute late results in a NT$10 deduction. In addition to clocking in with your fingerprint, you also have to take a selfie and upload it to the group chat.
There are probably five or six company group chats, and you have to report your sales results at scheduled times every day.
The seniority system is extremely serious. Newcomers are merely tools for senior colleagues to attract customers. Senior colleagues sit inside the counter spacing out and scrolling on their phones, while rookies are responsible for going outside to solicit customers (such as through lucky draws and handing out samples). Basically, you cannot sit down all day.
The counter location where you work will be rotated repeatedly.
The supervisor and senior colleagues will constantly paint a rosy picture, saying that if you work hard, you can earn NT$70,000–80,000 a month, but that is not the reality.
During the interview, they said the guaranteed monthly salary was NT$25,000, but after joining, you find out it is only NT$23,100.
The job is basically memorizing sales scripts and soliciting customers.
The customer solicitation involves deceiving customers by claiming that something is a free trial, then bringing them to the counter for hard selling. After getting customers to pay by card, they keep pushing more products until the customer buys quantities they could never finish using or reaches their credit limit. If customers want to return items, they insist that returns are not allowed; if customers are completely unwilling, they will even humiliate them.
As a result, customer complaints are very common. Supposedly, the record is three complaints in one week. Even though these sales methods are required by the company, you can still be fined three times the amount by the company.
The sales scripts involve serious exaggeration and false claims. They describe exfoliation as being able to fade age spots, insist that products without a sun protection factor are SPF 50, and even use application techniques to deceive customers into thinking there is a significant difference in absorption.
Prices are also marked arbitrarily. There is a system that teaches you how to bargain and give away gifts, deceiving customers by saying that “today is the last day of the promotion,” even though this is actually the standard sales tactic.
In short, this company constantly requires employees to deceive customers. Deception and hard selling are the culture of this company.
About half of the colleagues are from China, and dealing with them is exhausting.
However, there are many things to learn from their techniques for selling products by any means necessary.
The infighting is severe. Not to mention that spreading rumors, senior colleagues losing their temper for no reason, personal attacks, and so on are all very common.
When sales are poor, they constantly pressure newcomers. They also use various brainwashing scripts to convince employees that the company is great and that there is nothing wrong with deceiving people because consumers would be deceived anyway. Some employees are successfully brainwashed and stay.
They love making random deductions from paychecks. Uniforms are not provided until you have worked for a while, so you have to prepare your own at first. They also require you to purchase items such as calculators at your own expense. When you leave, you must have the uniform professionally cleaned, or they will deduct the cost from your pay as well.
Brief summary
Job duties: Deception
Labor law compliance: Not followed
Work atmosphere: Extremely high-pressure
Working hours: Long
Pay: Low
1. Clean and comfortable environment
2. The design supervisor has a very good attitude toward colleagues
1. The boss has a terrible attitude. He considers himself very capable just because he taught himself several software programs, tells us designers not to think we can deceive him, and does not trust designers' expertise.
2. When the boss is dissatisfied with something designed by a designer, he asks for the files, saying he will modify them himself. After a while, because he cannot modify them himself, he goes back to asking the designer to make the changes according to his instructions.
3. When designing product packaging, even though the product does not contain a certain plant ingredient, the boss asked the designer to put an image of that plant on the packaging as the main visual simply because it looked good. After the designer raised concerns, the boss angrily berated the designer and said, "Just have the development department add a little of some relevant ingredient." This indicates that the product's ingredients can be arbitrarily determined by simply saying what to add, which raises concerns about its safety.
4. The boss only takes excellent packaging designs from elsewhere in the industry and tells the designers to copy them. If they do not follow his instructions, he will yell at them to come into the office for questioning and a lecture.
5. The boss will suddenly call all three designers into the office and lecture them one by one.
6. The other designers are quite cold and aloof. It feels as though they think that saying one more word would mean you might plagiarize their work or techniques, so they do not talk to you or help you when you first join and do not even know where to put the files.
7. You must join the company's WeChat group, and before leaving work every day, you have to report to the boss what you did that day. It makes you feel very distrusted.
All of this meant that, despite having already worked at design companies for several years, I couldn't take it anymore and resigned after just two weeks!
* The design supervisor is very protective of their subordinates
* The work environment is fairly good
* The colleagues are also quite friendly
* Don’t think of yourself as a designer. When you come for the interview, approach it with the mindset that you’re applying to be a graphic production artist, so the sense of disappointment won’t be as great.
* Although the positions are all under the title of “designer,” the work is very miscellaneous—so miscellaneous that you won’t know whether you’re a product designer or a graphic designer. Anyway, you’ll have to do all sorts of ridiculous tasks.
* The company is quite absurd. Many of the vendors who come for meetings, or who are well known in the market, have truly outlandish ideas: they want to do whatever they feel like doing, without considering whether it’s feasible at all. When getting things approved and signed by the boss, everything depends entirely on their mood, and they often take their frustrations out on employees. They also have very little restraint when it comes to insulting people.
* During interviews, they usually say that they’ll adjust your salary after three months, but there are also many people who have stayed at the company for more than two or three years without ever receiving a raise. The company’s turnover rate is extremely high; usually, a large number of people leave after the year-end bonus.
* It’s a company that’s very suitable for padding your résumé, because you can learn a lot there. If you don’t care much about the pay and simply want to learn, then go for it.
* Although it’s a large company, it has a terrible reputation. The entire company system is extremely rigid and old-fashioned. The managers are basically older people who have secured their positions and will stay there until retirement.
* When there’s credit to take, the supervisors take it; when there are problems, they push the responsibility onto their subordinates. Every one of them is highly skilled at passing the buck—it’s almost admirable.
* The entire company is made up of women, with only a few men. Anyway, wherever there are many women, you inevitably get all kinds of opportunistic behavior and backstabbing.
* Very few people stay at the company for more than two years. Not to mention that although the salary and benefits appear to be quite good, in reality there’s nothing there.
After staying for a long time, you’ll discover that all the ingredients in the company’s skincare products are cheap materials, yet they’re sold at absurdly high prices at department-store counters. No explanation.
None
1. The design supervisor is not very good at managing people. When reviewing designs, they only say: “It feels a bit strange,” but cannot explain what is strange.
It is the same as not reviewing them at all—if something feels strange, that is precisely why a supervisor’s review is needed.
2. Colleagues are very indifferent toward one another. Although everyone in the design department works in the same area, if you are a designer for a different brand, your colleagues will be indifferent to you.
3. You have to install the design software yourself and even crack it yourself. The computer equipment is not very good.
4. The work environment is very noisy.
The main advantage is probably that the work environment is very clean.
The salary actually received is different from what was stated during the interview~
A company that appears to have established systems
actually has very outdated systems and ideas.
1. The design supervisor is a very nice person and will do their best to help handle matters within their capabilities.
2. When there is a shortage of staff, you can gain exposure to many areas of work.
3. Colleagues get along well. They occasionally joke around and make group purchases or order drinks together.
1. There is no fixed mechanism for performance reviews or salary adjustments.
2. Some supervisors (or senior employees) are very skilled at shifting responsibility around: they take credit for achievements themselves, while new employees take the blame for mistakes.
3. You should back up everything and keep records, and clarify things before taking action. Doing unpaid work is a minor issue; making a mistake is a major one.
Additional information:
Kang Ni, Kang Ni Biomedical, Ke Wei Herbal (Berita Jia), and Amil (Bozi) are all owned by the same person and operate in offices on the same floor.
Quality of the organization: Kang Ni = Amil > Ke Wei Herbal >>>>>>> Kang Ni Biomedical
1, Challenging, and you can learn about many different fields
1. Sometimes the work is very miscellaneous, and you may be asked to do things unrelated to your own expertise.
To save costs, you may need to take on tasks you have never done before.
(Those who do not necessarily need to build up their professional skills may want to consider this.)
2. There is no sound salary adjustment system, so it is extremely difficult to get a pay raise.
3. The boss treats employees as disposable chopsticks—there will always be someone else to hire.
(They cannot retain talent, leaving behind a group of long-serving employees whose abilities have deteriorated and who show no improvement.
4. The design supervisors have a lot of experience and will help resolve any problems.
However, many of them only talk; some are good at ingratiating themselves but cannot plan a direction.
They are also not very good at using the software—they only know how to talk.
I worked at the company for two years and never received a year-end bonus. The benefits look good on paper but are completely superficial, and they deduct as much as they can. They like hiring recent graduates because, being inexperienced, they don’t know how to fight back. Most people leave after at most two years, and the company doesn’t care about its turnover problem—it very clearly treats employees as disposable. The upside is that you’ll develop very strong stress tolerance and genuinely learn a lot. If you want to accumulate experience quickly, you can give it a try.