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Experience from several years ago:
Without a doubt, the worst company I’ve ever worked for.
It’s a traditional industry company full of relatives and longtime employees—there are hardly any normal people. There were also two-faced colleagues who would give you advice, then question why you followed it after you did so.
The company had absolutely no systems or structure. You went in every day completely confused, with all sorts of inexplicable things suddenly landing on your shoulders. The manager at the time was out of touch all day long, and the leave policy was completely different from what was described during the interview, with no sense of guilt whatsoever. It was simply absurd.
The best part is leaving work.
. Coworkers are all scheming against one another. Those who have been there a long time like to rely on their seniority and act arrogantly.
3. The warehouse team leader cannot manage and does not dare to manage those who have been there a long time, especially the people favored by the section manager. They never do anything about them!
4. When packing, no one helps one another. Those who have been there a long time hide or dodge every time it is time to pack, leaving the Vietnamese workers and the team leader to do the packing themselves.
5. Those who have been there a long time can play on computers and phones. As soon as someone else does it, they start yelling at them!
6. They also loudly berate others and humiliate them.
7. There is also one woman who seems friendly to you on the surface, but privately only keeps trying to undermine you. Today she says one thing, and tomorrow she changes her story. She is definitely two-faced. Her family is very wealthy; she might as well go home and be a rich man’s daughter-in-law. Why come here to pack?
8. The section manager also likes to curse at people indiscriminately. She believes whatever the long-time employees say without verifying it.
9. It is a factory where all the supervisors favor the old-timers, and the newcomers are the ones who get exhausted.
10. They are all two-faced backstabbers—coworkers who cannot be trusted.
11. It is not that the company benefits are bad; everything is because of the people!!!! They do not help one another, have no empathy, and are selfish.
No, absolutely none.
From my very first day joining Bei You Department Store, it was painfully clear how little respect and attention the company had for new employees. In the middle of my shift, headquarters called just to confirm my ID number again? (Isn’t that supposed to be handled beforehand?) They promised two employee uniforms, but even after ten days on the job, they still hadn’t been issued. Yet they first had me sign for a NT$3,000 deposit by falsifying documents.
There was no pre-employment training. The new-hire training was entirely decided by the experienced employees and the assistant manager at that location. After just two days, they expected me to memorize the full names, prices, and capacities of more than a hundred products in the store—and the names had to be recited without missing a single character. Of course, understanding the products is reasonable, but the time limit they set was not!
After memorizing the product names, I was also expected to memorize the product codes. That was even more ridiculous. They had barcode scanners but insisted on manually entering the codes—it was completely pointless. During my first week, they only told me to memorize product names, so when customers asked questions about the products, I couldn’t answer because no one had actually taught me anything!
In the end, after I spent four days memorizing everything, they said I was learning too slowly and dismissed me, haha. Even though I applied for a retail sales position and they knew my specialty was graphic design, they dumped all kinds of work on me: Father’s Day promotional materials, a full-size livestream backdrop, and, before dismissing me, they even tried to pressure me into going home after work and using Photoshop to make an 814 Valentine’s Day poster. They really are the textbook example of using someone up and then kicking them out.
There was no overtime pay either. Even when you worked overtime, they forced you to clock out because another location had been sued and headquarters had been investigated by the Labor Bureau. There was no employee discount at the counter; if you wanted to buy something at 20% off, you had to go to the Yawen factory in Zhongli. It was unbelievably awful. During the interview, they kept making grand promises, but in reality, the department-store anniversary sale—the period when the industry makes a big wave of money—was only counted as an individual performance bonus, and the additional group bonus was gone! Worse, they only told me after I started that there would be no bonus.
Worst of all, even giving away product samples involved deception. The livestream prize draws were also just for show. Employees were expected to recruit friends and relatives to inflate the numbers because it didn’t matter whether they received anything or not—the company just wanted to use the headcount to overshadow members who genuinely wanted to participate in the draw.
They said I was learning too slowly, so they told me to come to the company on my day off to study, haha—of course, it was unpaid. Is the Labor Bureau really never going to investigate?
For such a large chemical manufacturer and company, Yawen’s education and training of its internal staff is astonishingly negligent and lax. Truly, it is a case of fine jade on the outside and rotten stuffing within.
It’s a terrible company. There is no overtime pay; overtime hours must be offset within the same month and cannot be carried over to the next month. Any unused hours simply disappear (and there is also a limit on the number of hours that can be offset). If you fail to meet your performance targets, they deduct NT$2,000 from your pay. There are too many unequal and unfair treatments to list. In any case, do not apply to this company under any circumstances.