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Be extremely careful in everything you do
Sales performance comes first
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There are no problems at all
Only a fool would go to this company
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No one takes the initiative to train new employees. In that case, they shouldn’t have opened this position in the first place~
It’s laughable. During the interview, the store manager even said: “I’m really curious where young people go after graduating these days. Why are so few people coming for interviews? We’re great here~ There’s air conditioning, and when there are no customers, you’re pretty free.” Your job opening is so damn terrible that it’s a complete waste of job seekers’ time. When I reported to the store, they told me to look over the products and memorize their locations by myself, and that was it. So, yeah, I wandered around the store aimlessly for 11 hours, and no one was willing to train the new employee. The daily working time was as long as 11 hours. At first, they said there would be two breaks per day, 40 minutes each, so the working hours would be 11 - 1.5 = 9.5 hours per day. But it turned out to be a joke. There is an unwritten rule about break times: basically, everyone leaves the break room after finishing their food. Even worse, if you don’t eat, it means you give up that break period. Since working hours stretch toward noon, people basically eat before heading out. Damn, you only get to eat one meal a day. Basically, you work 11 hours a day, and they only calculate 1.5 hours of overtime pay for you. At large stores, you can haul goods until you become an idiot. If you want to experience that, go ahead.
And that’s not all. Damn, they treat new employees like TSMC stock—as if leaving them alone will make them rise. They expect new employees to become capable without any training. After working five days, you might barely get the chance to check out four times. The system is quite different from those outside, yet they ask, “You’ve been here for five days—why aren’t you familiar with checking out yet?” Damn, is the number of days you’ve been here the point? I’ve barely handled the checkout process a few times; how the hell am I supposed to be familiar with it?
You work 11 hours a day. When there are no customers, they would rather stare blankly or scroll on their phones than teach the new employee. Then, suddenly, as if possessed, they tell you to memorize all the TV brands and models in the store, along with each brand’s features and differences, and then test you on them. Fucking idiots. Either they don’t teach you at all, or they dump a whole pile of information on you at once. All they do is tell new employees to flip through the catalog. As if flipping through a catalog is enough to make sales. Why the hell did I even come to E-Life Mall?
Tell a joke—do you think there could possibly be any?
It’s unbelievably pathetic.
Replace all the arrogant managers who claim to have been in the industry for “over 20 years.”
Cut all performance bonuses and observe the principle of “weathering the difficult times together”—there might still be a chance.
First, regarding the previous post published on 6/11:
Every word is true! To everyone reading this, congratulations! I’ve already helped you avoid this landmine, so just skip it!
The standard is “use bananas to find monkeys”—if you can’t afford to pay, then please don’t waste other people’s time, okay???????
HR only knows how to schedule appointments, and even the first interview is just a department colleague without final decision-making authority coming to “chat” with you.
When salary comes up in the second interview, they start repeating themselves like a broken record. Double standards, triple standards—every kind of unreasonable challenge you can imagine appears.
1. HR is unbelievably inexperienced.
In the second interview, they ask you to spend time preparing a competitive analysis report.
They asked me why I only provided the report as a PDF file???????? Did they expect free source data?
Use your brain, please. Or when you send a contract, do you give other people an editable file?
2. The manager is arrogant and overbearing, constantly interrupting.
Do you know how to spell “respect”???????? Or is the second interview actually your presentation?????????
If you were reporting to the CEO or board of directors today, would you dare to keep interrupting and repeatedly challenging them in this manner? Do you think you’re a legislator?
Then they use an arrogant, supposedly “for your own good” attitude to criticize everything from start to finish. Ridiculous! Then what were all those earlier screening steps for????
I don’t think you even looked at it beforehand!
Or does that mean your subordinates don’t have the ability to screen candidates????
If you’re dissatisfied with someone’s résumé or think they’re unsuitable, why not simply reject them? Or do you also enjoy wasting people’s time?
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In all my time at T1 and T2 companies, I’ve never seen anyone like you.
Do you think I’ve never reported to a CEO or an even higher-ranking executive?????
Or should I tell you that I’m actually related to the board of directors?
Then you use some kind of twisted logic to say that I should have stayed for two years at a place where the product life cycle is one year.
“You think you can only learn things after staying for two years”—so moving to a better platform after one year means the turnover is too high????
In my third month, I helped the platform sign an authorized distribution agreement with the original manufacturer, okay! How many people in the industry have signed one?
Or did you fail to read my résumé again?
As for which manufacturer’s authorized distributor it was, go look it up yourself among the top five companies in the Forbes asset rankings.
3. The company is extremely remote, located in an industrial park; the frontage is ugly, and there’s a wastewater treatment plant right next to it.
If you originally worked in a commercial office building, having at least a presentable entrance is something to be proud of.
Here? I thought it was a warehouse by the riverbank.
The freight warehouse is crammed together with everything else, making entering and leaving dangerous.
There are also a bunch of oversized trucks and freight vehicles in the industrial park that don’t follow traffic rules.
Summary:
The people, location, frontage, and danger involved in entering and leaving—
Every aspect is unbelievably pathetic.
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1. The same interviewer said during the first phone call that there shouldn't be any problems. For the second video interview, I was asked to prepare a PowerPoint presentation.
2. When I asked about the interview results, HR gave the official response: after considering various factors, I was not selected.
What I want to say is that a supervisor from Tsann Kuen Enterprise called me proactively. We talked for half an hour, and they said there probably wouldn't be any problems. They scheduled a second interview, which involved a video presentation, so I spent several days preparing the materials. I had already told them that if the salary was acceptable, we could schedule the interview—there was no need to waste each other's time. In the end, I received the official response, which was truly baffling. They obviously couldn't offer the salary the job seeker requested, so why waste each other's time?
1. The colleagues are pretty nice and don’t engage in malicious competition over sales performance.
1. I don’t know whether the turnover is high or everyone is just too lazy to train newcomers, but there is no standardized process for treating new employees. Newcomers are basically used to buy lunch boxes, transfer goods, and run errands. There is also no fuel subsidy.
2. With a good store manager, it feels like heaven; with a bad one, you’re on your own.
3. The working hours are very long every day, from 11:00 to 22:00. There are two meal breaks each day, but there is an unwritten internal rule that you have to come back out as soon as you finish eating. Unlike the company’s stated 45 minutes per meal, you end up giving the company an extra one or two hours of unpaid volunteer work every day. This creates invisible pressure for people who eat slowly or want to take a short break.
4. There are many miscellaneous tasks, and you have to handle them carefully; otherwise, you’ll never finish them.
The interview was fairly standard, with a short test to assess basic knowledge of electrical appliances. There was also a sales role-play that was recorded for internal supervisors to review. Basically, you could find out that same day whether you had a chance, so you wouldn’t waste time waiting.
Applicants who were accepted also had to spend an hour at the store getting familiar with the environment and the general range of products. This time was unpaid.
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Who in sales isn’t at least somewhat confident in themselves? I’ve interviewed for quite a few sales positions, and this was the first place where the interviewer criticized me for being too confident...
Basically, if you’re just looking for a job that will keep you fed and housed, this place is quite suitable for people who want to coast toward retirement: enjoy the air conditioning to your heart’s content and stand by the door all day long.
If you’re driven, energetic, and want to work hard for bonuses and a high monthly income... look elsewhere!
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For the interview, I had to meet with the manager of the Information Department and also the manager of the Marketing Department—meaning I had to come twice.
Moreover, HR said on the phone that the managers had reviewed my portfolio, but in reality, they had not looked at it at all.
If I had known that the managers had not looked at my portfolio, I would not have come for the interview—let alone come twice. The location was also extremely remote.
Anyone considering interviewing here should decide for themselves.
We got a new general manager, and things are somewhat better than before. Unfortunately, there are major problems with the head office’s marketing department, which often organizes meaningless activities that only exhaust the store staff~~
The benefits that should be provided are offered. It appears that the company does not violate the Labor Standards Act, and it also provides training, making it a very comprehensive enterprise.