easyoga_賽斯柏運動科技股份有限公司

Don't worry, there are benefits and afternoon tea too—once a week. You can also clock in early at the time clock and leave work on time.

Due to the pandemic, indefinite salary reductions have become the norm. There is no answer as to when salaries can be adjusted back. Benefits such as gifts for the three traditional holidays, year-end bonuses, and the company year-end party are completely nonexistent. The company's operating situation is concerning.

The only advantage is leaving work on time; it’s easy to manage your time for further study after work.

Assistants in various departments are often called upon by the boss and the boss’s sisters-in-law to handle their personal errands.

For example: buying brunch, or helping the sisters-in-law look up how to use SIM cards when they travel abroad (lol).

Assistant positions usually involve miscellaneous tasks. If you want work that will benefit your future, you have to pursue those opportunities yourself.

This is because supervisors generally do not delegate much authority.

In the later period, performance continued to decline, operations had already passed their peak, and year-end bonuses became smaller year after year.

The boss keeps trying to teach employees how to do things based on how things were done in the past.

(He thinks suppliers raising prices is about trying to make more money from him, and completely fails to see that suppliers are reflecting increased costs caused by rising raw-material prices.)

As a result, unstable supplier delivery schedules affect business sales and shipments.

The core problem is that you know, I know—but that boss doesn’t.

Change isn’t difficult, but you can’t wake someone who is pretending to sleep.

A thoroughly family-run business, with limited salary growth.

The company has many relatives of the owners and loves to fish for information.

The boss and the owners’ wives often make unreasonable demands and treat employees like long-term laborers.

There is no overtime pay for weekend events, and the compensatory time off provided is also insufficient.

The only advantage: leaving work on time.

At first, the owner showed great respect for professional expertise in the design-related areas. However, when business performance was poor, he became very emotional and would unreasonably demand prices below market rates, making it difficult to work and offending quite a few vendors.

He was also difficult to communicate with when he was in a bad mood. Although overtime was not mandatory, if you left work on time, the owner would unhappily say, “You all leave work so punctually!”

Because of pressure from personal relationships (relatives’ or friends’ children), people without professional qualifications were often placed in the department. Salaries were low, and being promoted to department manager came with only a NT$1,500 raise. If you asked for a raise, he would say that your salary was already one of the highest in the company (meaning: don’t even think about it—it’s impossible!).

When assigned to work trips, you had to peel fruit and buy breakfast for the junior boss. Employee trips required you to use your own annual leave. The sister-in-law (HR) even said, “I asked friends at ‘large companies,’ and they all do it this way too!” (The benefits were not comparable to those at large companies, but the demands were.)

When I first joined, I actually felt quite free, and I was even given a proactive salary increase once. But later, perhaps because business performance declined and the originally excellent department manager resigned, the workplace atmosphere became increasingly unpleasant, and the owner became harder and harder to communicate with. Once he became prejudiced against you, it was very difficult to change his mind. He often favored the fashion design department, causing problems for other departments. The marketing budget was extremely low, making things very difficult to execute. To be fair, around 2013 I would have given the company a positive review; now I would give it a negative review. (Maybe it’s a case of “we parted ways because we came to understand each other” XD)

The person who holds the power at this company is the sister-in-law. Don’t upset her. Taking advantage of employees is also unacceptable. This is a family business, so the boss’s family matters are also work matters. Don’t be surprised if your work assignments include doing odd jobs and running errands at the boss’s home. There is no overtime pay for supporting weekend events, and those who don’t go to provide support are put on a blacklist… There is no allowance for business-trip commuting…

Other than that, 45,000 is considered the top salary, so don’t expect to negotiate a more reasonable wage…