Legacy reviews: 25
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Read the community guidelines1. A few people internally are very easy to get along with
2. It's fairly free
3. Sometimes you see characters from League of Legends, such as Heimerdinger and Ryze, talking to each other
4. I really wanted to say something positive about the big tree, but I honestly couldn't think of anything else
1. The staffing agencies that the company's logistics operations work with do not screen their personnel at all.
The labor and health insurance provided by the staffing agencies does not comply with the Labor Standards Act.
When I checked my labor pension contributions, I was shocked to find that only NT$90 had been allocated.
2. The company distributes expired products to employees as a benefit during meetings, and even says that expired medication can be taken?
3. Many full-time employees internally slack off, but their supervisors turn a blind eye. The performance reviews of full-time employees always say that they train new employees, but there aren't that many new employees to train.
4. The dining area is very small, and everyone is crammed in there. If someone with a larger body sits next to you, it's basically impossible to eat.
5. Supervisors never work overtime, but make employees do so, while the overtime pay is pitifully low. Even working part-time at 7-Eleven pays more than we get.
6. Even for full-time employees who have worked there for four years, their take-home pay will never exceed NT$30,000.
7. There are many more points, but my hand is sore. I'll post the rest when I think of them.
1. Everything was explained clearly during the interview.
2. Leave is provided in accordance with the Labor Standards Act.
3. Employee uniforms are provided.
4. If you are looking for a stable job, this could be worth considering.
1. Regardless of whether the interview was initiated by the applicant or arranged through an interview invitation sent by the company's HR department, the manager responsible for the interview should be informed in advance about who will be interviewing that day and which business location they are applying to.
They explained the policies very well, which was pleasant!
They tricked people into submitting applications even though there was no actual opening. When I went there, they said many things that sounded enticing, but it turned out not to be the store I was supposed to go to. What a waste of other people's time!
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In mid-December, I applied through 104 and immediately received a call the next day arranging an interview for 10 a.m. in mid-January of the following year. Then, the evening before the interview, they sent me a message through 104 saying that the interview time had to be changed to 11 a.m. I assumed there must have been some event or that another interviewee had an emergency, so I felt it was fine at the time.
The next day, I arrived early and told the front desk that I had an interview scheduled for 11 a.m. They immediately informed the person responsible for conducting interviews and told me that the interviewee scheduled for that time had not come down yet, asking me to wait inside. I did not enter the interview until around 11:20.
Because my résumé mentioned that I had worked at a certain hospital, about 30 of the 40 minutes of the interview revolved around what I had done at the hospital. In the remaining 10 minutes, they gave me questions about how I would sell products and arrange shifts, and asked about the salary and benefits. They also asked whether I could accept a commute of more than 30 minutes by scooter.
The interview question required me to find a way to start with a customer saying they wanted to buy mosquito repellent and then promote other products, such as sunscreen, gastrointestinal medicine, and so on. When I could not answer, they asked me a second question and then said, “This is very different from your previous job. You simply followed doctors’ instructions and did whatever was prescribed, but this job is different.” At the time, I felt that the interview experience was really poor. Later, after searching online, I found that many of the shift arrangements and other issues that the person responsible for the interview had not explained clearly were problematic.
I sincerely recommend that everyone search online before submitting a résumé and then decide whether to apply.
The colleagues are fairly easy to get along with
The company cafeteria meals are inexpensive
People who like leaving work on time are not recommended to work at headquarters
Because they will be considered insufficiently dedicated
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1. They say the monthly salary is 30k, but the actual base salary is 25k plus a 5k bonus. You only get a share of the profits when the commission exceeds 5k. Whoever works overtime is a slave.
2. The salary increase system is unclear. They say it’s the same job grade, but it’s further divided into levels; each level only adds 300, and you only advance if you perform well. But isn’t that just about who’s better at sucking up to the supervisor?
2. The interview lasted 50 minutes, and they kept asking how I got there for the interview—three times. Do they have goldfish brains? I said I took the train because I really hate riding on the roads in Zhongli. Then they asked where I could work. I said the towns around where I live, but not including Zhongli or Taoyuan. And then I didn’t get the job??? If there’s no opening, don’t advertise one. Fuck.
A small number of colleagues are friendly
A job that is very easy to get hired for
1. Going out to buy food and eating during the break are limited to only 30 minutes.
2. The place for breaks and meals is no different from a prison: the space is small and there are many miscellaneous items nearby.
3. Most colleagues are of questionable quality. Customers who ask questions without buying products have a certain probability of being given nicknames and having notes filled with trash talk written about them.
4. Some stockrooms have neither air conditioning nor elevators. You can get heatstroke while counting inventory and develop inflamed fascia from moving things.
5. You have to spend a lot of personal time attending classes. If you do not attend the special courses held each month, your superiors will take an interest in you.
6. Newcomers are often reprimanded by veteran employees, supposedly to give them a chance to practice, but in reality the veterans chat nearby while making the newcomers work themselves to death. That is why people do not stay.
7. If you want a promotion here, it is not based on ability. In fact, being capable makes you more likely to be stabbed in the back by colleagues.
1. The pay is very generous
2. The administrative systems are well established
3. Comprehensive training programs
1. Before joining, you have to pray that you can get into a good store
2. The quality of internal staff varies widely. While diversity is accepted, colleagues with personality problems are really difficult to deal with
3. You can report problems to supervisors, but if you are not good at flattering them, you will be brushed off
The lunch is delicious
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Stable work
There are quite a lot of company rules, and you have to keep taking photos. The events are relatively complicated,
The working hours are too long and uneven. Regular work is generally 8 hours,
but they have 6-, 8-, and 10-hour shifts, and even 12-hour shifts.
I don’t know if it’s only at our location that employees have to buy their own uniforms. This wasn’t mentioned during the interview; on my first day of work, I was told that I had to buy one myself....
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The interviewer did not disclose the working hours at all.
1. If you apply to Store A, they will tell you that, in principle, you will be assigned to a store in the same county or city.
2. Neither the working hours nor the break times were explained.
3. There are many courses to attend, all of which must be taken during your own time.
4. Both individual and team performance targets apply.
@When asked about employees competing with one another for sales, the interviewer quickly replied, <We have our own way of handling it.>
They later said that it was usually a matter of differing perceptions and that it would basically be handled through communication (= unable to resolve it).
5. The interviewer had a poor attitude.
Let me think about it.
1. The company is understaffed. Even after bringing it up for a long time, they still refuse to hire more people; all they ever say is that it has been reported.
2. The evaluation criteria are not disclosed and are opaque. No matter how much lousy, miscellaneous work you do, your raises and year-end bonus will never be as much as those of people who know how to flatter others.
3. Communication is done through LINE, so even after work it is just like being at work. Whether it is after work or before work, there are an overwhelming number of unread messages, not to mention all those chaotic group chats.
4. When supervisors and subordinates are related, there is no need to mention raises or benefits—the gravy never goes to outsiders.
5. Every department is an isolated island; both vertical and horizontal communication are extremely poor.
6. The company spends money generously, but not on improving itself—only on monitoring employees. Half-finished work is also the norm.
7. Some supervisors are highly scheming. They portray themselves as completely innocent while doing the most despicable things.
8. There is no end to the things you have to learn, and they are often matters belonging to other departments. Even if they are not part of your responsibilities, you will still be scolded when something goes wrong.
If you really want to work for this company, my advice is to get good at flattering people—whether flattering colleagues horizontally or superiors and subordinates, you have to do it well. Once you have mastered it, the evaluation score, raise, and year-end bonus will all be yours.
The overall structure was explained clearly.
The HR representative spoke without warmth, giving people the impression of having a very bad attitude.
1. Many young people
2. Lots of delicious food nearby
3. Complies with the Labor Standards Act
1. Promotions depend on luck. If you don't work overtime and join in the gossip, no matter how capable you are or how long you've worked there, you'll never get a turn ^^ Any new hire can become your supervisor.
2. Overtime is treated as a matter of course. If you leave work on time, your supervisor will look very unhappy and treat you badly.
3. Sometimes you haven't actually done anything wrong at work, but because your supervisor doesn't like you, they will find every possible fault, make you work overtime, and then say that your abilities are poor.
4. Overtime is really important!! Not working overtime will absolutely never be because you're capable and can finish your work within working hours. It will definitely be because you're unwilling to sacrifice for the company, which is why you leave work early.
5. Although there are many young people, supervisors in "certain departments" make the work atmosphere very unpleasant, to the point that coworkers don't even dare chat much at work.
6. I don't know why some department supervisors are unwilling to communicate properly. Sometimes it's simply a misunderstanding, but the supervisors refuse to communicate and keep telling their subordinates that the other department is just like that and can't be improved, so they can only keep cleaning up after the other department. This causes the departments to secretly resent each other. In the end, casual conversations reveal that the employees below all want to communicate with each other; it's just that the supervisors aren't willing to.
7. Unless you're a pharmacist, the pay here is what it is. It won't get much higher no matter how long you work there, and supervisors don't really adjust salaries according to work performance—they only consider whether they like you.
8. The annual evaluation process is not transparent. You only know the score your supervisor gives you at the end, but not the reason, so performance ratings are often inexplicably low.
9. You have to queue to use the restroom. The company keeps refusing to improve the situation, even saying that it means the company has more people, which is a good thing—and then doing nothing (???).
10. The headquarters is truly terrible. It's a corrugated-metal building, and when someone walks, the entire office shakes. It's terrifying, like an earthquake.
11. This is the first company I've encountered that doesn't offer well wishes when anyone resigns, regardless of the reason. The resignation must also be kept secret until the actual last day, when the entire department finally finds out. Once you submit your resignation, your supervisor's attitude changes very quickly—they even pretend not to see you when walking past. It's very childish.
12. The supervisor has made the atmosphere within the department extremely depressing. Everyone works overtime every day, and the department is always among the last to leave the company. Everyone in the department looks like they have depression; no one smiles.
13. Going to the stores to buy employee-purchase items is extremely humiliating. The store staff even give you attitude. It's the same even if you notify them in advance that you're going for an employee purchase. At [redacted chain], you only need to show your membership card to make an employee purchase, and you can simply queue like a regular customer. At Dàshù, you have to wait until all the customers have left and the store is not busy, then secretly say that you want to make an employee purchase. I don't know what the point is of making things difficult for their own employees.
14. Anyway, there are really a lot of problems—so many that I don't even know how to describe them all. In short, unless you have the gift of gab or you're a pharmacist, no matter how capable you are or how long you work at Dàshù, you won't receive corresponding recognition or compensation.
Most colleagues are easy to get along with.
1. There are too many meetings; you may have to give the same report three times in one week.
2. Supervisors never seem to understand their subordinates’ work, and workloads are distributed unevenly.
3. Even when you have already reported something to the supervisor and made revisions according to their requirements, the supervisor ultimately does not remember it.
4. For projects that require spending money, they want professional results but also want them to be cheap, without providing a budget. Instead, you have to ask vendors everywhere for quotes, making the work extremely difficult.
5. For copy and content that need to be reviewed by the supervisor, the supervisor rarely checks them personally and simply passes them to others. They never confirm them afterward either, only saying, “You’re amazing—you completed so much content.” Meanwhile, they keep assigning other projects to you, reducing the time available for execution.
6. During meeting presentations, they are often inattentive and chat with others. Later, they ask about the project’s progress, which feels very disrespectful.
7. When they see employees staying late to work overtime, they only tell them to hurry home and do not thoroughly understand the reasons for the overtime.
8. Overtime pay can only be claimed after one year of employment. Even when taking compensatory leave, you still have to respond to work messages.
9. When meetings affect the lunch break, there is no other space in the company where you can rest quietly. You can only sit at your desk or find a place outside to rest so that you will not be disturbed.
1. Young colleagues who are easy to get along with, so you quickly become friends.
2. There are quite a lot of food options near the company, with plenty of choices for lunch.
3. Complies with the Labor Standards Act.
1. A manager in one department occasionally gets handsy. Even after being warned, he stubbornly denies it and argues back, and continues doing it afterward. Reports to the company’s HR department have also received absolutely no follow-up action. I don’t know whether they are covering for one of their own.
2. Although the company’s senior managers have fairly novel ideas, they later contradict their own ideas after implementation begins. Progress becomes completely impossible to carry out, yet they keep imposing deadlines without discussing things together.
3. The department manager only cares about his own performance and completely ignores the process. He only shows concern when a senior manager asks about it. If the progress or execution is not to his liking, he launches into a scolding, completely disregarding what was discussed in previous meetings.
4. The manager often makes excuses to avoid attending meetings. After you report the meeting contents to him, he then says that this is not the result he wanted, refuses to deal with it, and simply leaves you to clean up the mess.
5. Besides the department manager getting handsy, the senior manager also tells off-color jokes during meetings, despite roughly 80% of the employees present being women. About half of the meeting is spent joking around, and there is hardly any conclusion in the end. It is a complete waste of time.
6. During the interview, they only said some lofty, empty words. After I started working, they merely said they hoped everyone would become familiar with one another’s work, completely ignoring employees’ wishes. The next day, they directly told me they were changing my job responsibilities.
7. It is supposedly a publicly listed company with decent stock performance, yet the headquarters is still built out of corrugated metal sheets. When someone walks down the passageway while you are working, it feels like an earthquake. Are they trying to scare people to death?
8. The company employs a cleaning lady, and she does work very diligently every day. However, employees are still required to take turns taking out the company’s trash, restocking toilet paper, and cleaning up around the printer and shredder. I really don’t know what the point of hiring her is.
9. Under the arrangements of the manager in the Operations Department, there are meetings almost every day, leaving no time to properly get work done. They say it is to understand the progress of execution, but later I realized that the manager simply has nothing to do and uses meetings to fill up his work log.
10. The company keeps saying that, for certain projects, money is no object as long as the work is done well. But when it is time to submit a proposal, they say it is too expensive and cannot be approved, without telling us what the budget actually is. They just say it has to be done well and be as cheap as possible—why don’t they go eat shit? During presentations, they also half-listen, occasionally scrolling on their phones or chatting with colleagues beside them, and only after the report do they say, “Could you say that again???”
1. Everyone is very young
1. The company managers are too subjective in their opinions, and their working style is difficult to accept. They accept all kinds of miscellaneous tasks and never refuse, but then assign them to subordinates to do.
2. The division of responsibilities is unclear. The work is very miscellaneous and broad, with no particular professional skills required. I often receive unexpected miscellaneous tasks, making it impossible to properly handle my own responsibilities.
3. Physical contact through body language between colleagues is uncomfortable and makes people feel uneasy.
4. Departments love to shift responsibility, and their tone is “super super super” unfriendly. They easily bully newcomers, new employees, and people who do not yet understand things well.
5. The company clearly needs more capable people to help expand and grow, and often talks about it, but in practice is unwilling to spend money hiring experienced people. Instead, it expects them to “quickly” learn to become like experienced employees, while the salary is completely disproportionate.
5. Although it is supposedly a publicly listed company, the facility is just a sheet-metal building. Whenever someone jumps or logistics personnel move things, the floor shakes intensely—enough to make items on desks fall. It is also extremely noisy when it rains, so noisy that meetings cannot be held.
6. Although there is a cleaning lady, employees still have to take out the trash themselves. The company says the indoor trash cans are only for small items and that large items must be taken out downstairs. Employees also have to help replenish toilet paper in the restrooms. It makes absolutely no sense.
7. You even have to queue to use the restroom! Queue! Queue!
8. You even have to queue to heat up your lunch box, and the water dispenser in the employee lounge is always empty.
9. The departments are severely understaffed, but they never hire anyone!
10. Overtime is routinely required, but the standards for approving overtime applications are extremely strict. If you work overtime, you are asked whether you are too slow because you could not finish on time; if you do not, people assume you have very little work and assign you more tasks?
11. There are far too many group chats, and you have to be disturbed on holidays, from 8:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m.
1. The colleagues are all quite young and generally easy to get along with.
2. There are lots of good places to eat near the company, so there are plenty of lunch options.
3. The atmosphere is fairly relaxed, and people generally aren’t micromanaged.
1. The company’s floors and walls have very poor soundproofing. There is noise from people walking around all the time, and the loud thudding footsteps make it impossible to concentrate on work.
2. All of the company’s management personnel are pharmacists, so there is a lack of leadership from people with professional experience. Internal management is extremely disorganized and lacks structure.
3. The turnover rate is extremely high—approximately one person leaves every two weeks. The company specifically takes advantage of inexperienced newcomers. Supervisors make empty promises, saying that employees will be promoted to department heads after staying for a certain period, but even department heads’ salaries are so low that they are laughable.
4. The labor is extremely cheap, especially in the X Marketing Department, where very few employees earn more than 30K.
5. A certain department supervisor is extremely irresponsible, assigning all of their own work to subordinates and making it seem as though they are busy all day, when in fact they are flirting and fooling around with subordinates.
6. Department supervisors also engage in verbal and physical sexual harassment of female employees. Human Resources has been informed, but there does not seem to have been any proactive handling or improvement. It is unclear whether this is because they are pharmacists and the company is unwilling to discipline them.
7. The proposal-report process is extremely cumbersome. If a department director or supervisor rejects it, all the effort is wasted. Everything is evaluated based on the budget, but the actual budget is never explained, often causing people to do work for nothing.
8. The company wants to expand to 250 stores in Taiwan, but provides employees with no corresponding support or care. Every month, money is deducted from employees’ pay as a welfare fund and to pay for meals with colleagues! Why are we forced to spend our days off with supervisors?
9. Everyone also has to take turns serving as the person on duty to take out the trash and restock toilet paper! Was the cleaning lady hired just for decoration?
10. There are many people at headquarters, but only two restrooms, so there is always a long line.
11. If you bring your own lunch, you can only microwave it at 12:00, so you have to queue and wait! By the time the food is microwaved, it is already time to get back to work!
In addition to basic labor and health insurance, there are also some company benefits.
1. The salary is very low.
2. The interviewer’s attitude was poor and unprofessional.
1. Colleagues are easy to get along with
2. The work is straightforward
3. Numerous benefits
Pharmacy assistant
1. The promotion system is unclear (it also depends on the supervisor; if they are unhappy, they will block your promotion)
2. Salary details are unclear, and money is deducted arbitrarily
3. The supervisor acts recklessly, and the entire internal operation is chaotic. Although the company says it provides the general manager’s email address for reporting the supervisor, no one ever takes action. The supervisor continues to act with impunity, and everything is done according to the supervisor’s mood
4. They deceive you into joining first, then find ways to get rid of you (as long as they hire newcomers, it does not matter—there are always people applying)
5. The company only cares about operations and does not care about its employees
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1. The logistics center is extremely stingy; even the restrooms are unisex. On rainy days, you can see a bunch of moths. It’s extremely disgusting.
2. We have to fill out a performance report every day, recording what we did each hour. Even break times have to be recorded, including lunch breaks, although sometimes it’s impossible to rest at all. You have to report to the team leader before taking a break. You have to record how many items you picked, how many you picked per minute, and even sign for incorrect items.
3. You actually have to take a photo before work? This is extremely baffling. It’s the first time I’ve encountered something like this. Is it because they’re afraid people won’t show up and will falsely report their attendance?
4. The pay is extremely low, yet they claim to be a listed company. The salary is also paid on two separate dates.
5. The turnover rate is extremely high.
6. Employees need to take turns serving as the duty person.
7. The entrance to the logistics center floods during heavy rain, so be careful when riding a scooter.
The head office feels very comfortable and clean. They require you to fill out some forms on-site, and pens are available for use.
1. Applications never show as having been read. They post a lot of openings, but there may not necessarily be actual vacancies. They only review résumés when they have a need, so after applying to many positions, I was only notified about an interview half a month later.
2. The interview process was very pleasant, but I feel I was rejected because of the commuting time... The person who notified me about the interview also did not mention that the position was located in that area. I only found out when I asked at the time, and the interviewer asked how long it would take me to get there by scooter. I answered half an hour, and they said the ideal commute was 10–15 minutes and that they would note it down. The next day, I was notified that I had not been selected QQ.
I honestly feel very disappointed because I really did not care about the commuting time. I even mentioned that my previous jobs had involved longer commutes, so it was not a problem. But it may also be that I simply was not the person they were looking for...
1. Because there are no clearly defined systems or regulations, there is a high degree of freedom at work.
2. The environment is made up of young people, so it is easy to make friends.
3. The area around headquarters is lively, with convenient dining and transportation.
4. Store employees receive generous bonuses (they can make extensive requests of the back-office units, and their needs will also be taken seriously).
1. A company full of young people (lacking the sharing of experienced insights from older employees).
2. The internal systems of the headquarters’ back-office units are lax and chaotic (there is virtually no organization).
3. All department managers are pharmacists, resulting in a lack of professional domain knowledge and management expertise (work procedures do not follow any consistent logic).
4. It is difficult for back-office employees to have any career development here (there is no performance evaluation or salary adjustment system).
5. The boss only cares about operations and not employees (when issues or improvements are raised, they are given the cold shoulder).
6. Recent graduates can easily be lured into joining.
7. Each department must take turns taking out all the company’s trash every week (even though a cleaning lady has already been hired, making the arrangement seem pointless).
8. The office has poor soundproofing. From time to time, you can hear people talking and laughing in the meeting rooms, and footsteps in the hallway make a loud thumping sound.
9. There is no employee parking lot, so every day employees must compete with nearby residents for parking spaces in the alleys. When it rains, the roads become heavily flooded.