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Read the community guidelinesThe work environment is in an office building with interior furnishings, and the urban location is quite good.
Low pay and a heavy workload. The supervisor seems nice when talking to you at first, but after working for three months, you’ll realize they don’t act like a supervisor at all. They pick on the soft and fear the tough, so whoever is easy to talk to ends up suffering.
As an established clothing brand in the central Taiwan market, it has a certain level of name recognition and many physical stores located in long-established prime areas. It is suitable for recent graduates or job seekers who want to make their resumes look more respectable. The physical-store division is relatively conventional and follows a set of long-standing basic organizational rules, although it is still undergoing continuous improvement.
Joining the e-commerce unit is the beginning of a trial by fire. Whether you work in visual design, graphic design, or planning—the role that most tests your mental resilience—your challenges come from the e-commerce “princess.” “Noble” here means pampered, while “princess” refers to a personality that is soft toward the strong and tough toward the weak. Here, you can see the saying, “Kind people are bullied, and gentle horses are ridden.” The person riding you is a relative of the boss—someone you have no choice but to bow to in order to make a living.
For example, there is workplace PUA, verbal promises of raises that amount to nothing more than empty promises, assigning more work to employees with a strong sense of responsibility while turning a blind eye to employees who take a laissez-faire approach to work. Employee turnover is high. When the staff is short-handed, being too good-natured means you must be prepared to handle everything, such as colleagues using their off-hours to purchase PR items for company business and offerings for religious ceremonies. Of course, you can also learn about aspects of Taiwan’s religious beliefs in the process. However, according to a supervisor: “Buying offerings is a proposal.” If this idea takes deep root, it may cause your career path to stray from the normal track.
1. Benefits that comply with the Labor Standards Act (the e-commerce unit has difficulty applying for overtime)
2. Afternoon tea every month
3. Snacks provided from time to time, and a coffee machine that employees can use to make their own coffee
4. The office hardware and facilities are quite good
1. The e-commerce unit supervisor is skilled at emotional manipulation in the workplace, using rhetoric to deliberately guide newcomers toward controllable behavior. Afterwards, the supervisor pretends not to understand and even takes advantage of employees’ sense of responsibility toward their work to blame subordinates for all the problems.
2. The unit supervisor is unfamiliar with the work within the unit, effectively a figurehead who nevertheless wants to assert their presence. They insist on making a show of competence but end up making things worse, causing misunderstandings in cross-unit communication and leaving subordinates at a loss when carrying out tasks.
3. The e-commerce unit has a high turnover rate, and its compensation system is baffling (within the same unit, some people work in a laid-back manner while others are overwhelmed, yet the difference in compensation is less than NT$1,000
1. There are three bonus payments, although they are only supermarket or hypermarket gift vouchers.
2. You leave and finish work on time. As long as you complete your work within the deadline, you generally do not need to work overtime.
3. It can strengthen your mindset. Once you have experienced a strange workplace, other workplaces will no longer surprise you, and you will be able to remain calm.
1. Salaries are rarely adjusted. Even good performance does not necessarily lead to a raise.
2. There are hardly any benefits. For example, the birthday gift money is confiscated for the birthday party budget before you even see the edge of a banknote. As the name suggests, the birthday person is expected to pay for food for everyone in the department. The gift is not a blue 100-dollar note, but one brown sika deer banknote.
3. The bonus threshold is extremely high and very difficult to reach, and the system is also strange. Very few people can receive the bonus, and obtaining it is extremely difficult.
4. The year-end bonus is one month of the minimum wage stipulated by the government, not one month of your actual personal salary.
5. It is a family business! Almost all senior managers are family members or people with connections. It is currently run by the younger second generation, whose abilities and experience are clearly insufficient.
6. When emergencies arise, some managers keep dragging things out and handle them passively. Even when they issue instructions, they only make matters more complicated. If upper management demands accountability, they will find someone to take the fall and make an elaborate attempt to shift the blame.
7. You cannot feel an atmosphere of teamwork, and overall morale appears weak. It is best to find out which colleagues genuinely help one another. It is recommended that you keep evidence to protect yourself.
8. There are a great many miscellaneous, trivial tasks, and people are often busy for no real reason. Work processes are only made more complicated rather than simplified, making it difficult for capable people to fully utilize their abilities.
9. Information does not flow between departments, resulting in communication gaps across departments and making execution extremely difficult.
10. The turnover rate is extremely high! Almost every month, someone resigns. There have even been months when several departments simultaneously had people resign voluntarily. Even when there is a staff shortage, involuntary terminations still occur.
Pros
The monthly salary for planners is NT$30,000, with additional bonuses for meeting performance targets
Two days off per week and a year-end bonus
The work environment is bright and clean
The pantry is fully equipped
Overtime is paid
There are occasional snacks
Work-related
Communication and workflow efficiency are poor
Planners are often in meetings
Proposals that planners have carefully prepared often have to be revised
The higher-ups often send them back for a complete rework because they do not like them
Sometimes the entire package has to be discarded and changed
In terms of resources, you also have to accommodate the planners of other platforms
Unless it is an area the company emphasizes or performance is very good,
there is no room for you to develop your ideas freely
Your feedback and opinions may simply be ignored
Data and files are poorly categorized
Item names are not standardized
Within the company
Forgetting to clock in or out results in a deduction from the perfect-attendance bonus—you use your own phone or the computer system to clock in and out
If you do not proactively ask for your pay statement, the people above will not provide it. It is outrageous
Employees do not leave promptly when their workday ends
There is no pay for days off due to natural disasters
Neither a pro nor a con—it depends on the individual >> The company has two cats. They climb onto office desks and walk around the office
The above is provided as a reference for those considering applying. You need to have a strong mentality
If you do not mind how much is deducted for labor and health insurance, you can give it a try
You won’t be rushed around doing all sorts of things like in typical service jobs.
Salary: The base salary. Although they say there are bonuses, you don’t receive one if you fail to meet the target (and since the target has never been met, because the company sets it very high, there have never been any bonuses).
Mistakes: If you make a mistake at work, the company will deduct money from your pay and even pressure you to sign a consent form agreeing to the deduction. For example, giving a customer too large a discount or a price difference when exchanging an item is considered a mistake. The checkout system won’t calculate these for you, so if you’re not good at math, you should be mentally prepared to have money deducted.
Management: The company’s internal management is very disorganized. Asking a supervisor a question does not necessarily get you the correct answer, and if the answer is wrong, you may still be held responsible for the mistake. Supervisors or colleagues may also shift the blame. It’s best to find out in advance which colleagues can help you, to avoid being set up later. If you can accept all of this, you’re welcome to apply.