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Read the community guidelinesThe products are cute. You can work in an environment surrounded by fragrances. Nothing else.
I advise anyone considering this job to think twice.
The staff at this company are constantly changing.
The pay is also different from what was originally discussed, making it very easy to lose money or have money deducted.
The policies change from day to day.
1. The product packaging is cute, and you still smell nice when working and after going home.
2. Working at multiple department stores lets you learn how to operate different POS systems and understand different department-store operating models. More importantly, there are employee discounts.
1. The salary and scheduling system are different from what was explained during the interview.
The company enrolls you in labor and health insurance at the minimum salary and then gives you a bunch of miscellaneous allowances, so the amount you receive is only what you see listed on 104. During scheduling, they mentioned that some shifts would be all-day shifts, but after joining, half of them were immediately all-day shifts. If a full-time employee works fewer than 200 hours a month, I’ll buy you dinner.
2. The leave system is peculiar.
Choosing 3–5 days off per month is normal, but any leave of 3 days or more must be requested two months in advance. Basically, if you don’t say two months ahead of time that you want to travel to Hualien and Taitung or the outlying islands, you won’t be able to go.
3. Training
Once you join, you’re expected to memorize everything—more seriously than in high school. During new-hire training, you can clearly feel that headquarters essentially dumps all training responsibilities on the store manager. Also, because you have to rotate between different department-store counters, you’ll only work alongside someone the first time you go to a particular counter. After that, you’re left to fend for yourself, and if something goes wrong, the company comes back to berate you and the store manager. Anyway, this makes it clear that the store manager is basically the scapegoat, so I don’t recommend becoming one.
4. “Politeness”
It’s already 2024, but when talking or messaging with supervisors at the director level or above, you practically have to kneel. Once, I forgot to add “Thank you for your hard work” when reporting in the group chat, and the manager immediately contacted me to remind me to be polite.
5. Regarding zero sales
The supervisors will say you don’t have to spend your own money to buy products, but if the manager is in a bad mood, they’ll mock you in the group chat and ask what you’re doing. Why don’t you ask your marketing department what kind of event that was?
6. Regarding performance bonuses
Don’t even think about it—you won’t receive any.