金石堂圖書股份有限公司

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1. The supervisor is often late to work, affecting shift handover times and causing employees to leave work late.

2. Salaries are not paid on time.

3. New employee training is inadequate; whether they teach you or not depends on them.

4. Low pay, lots of work.

Suitable for gaining experience

Most importantly, the pay is low. Apart from promotions and similar changes, there are almost no salary increases, and pay is often delayed. When payment is delayed, they do not proactively inform employees when it will be paid. Having to repeatedly ask the store manager to inquire with upper management about delayed wages is a discouraging experience. This is especially noticeable when the workload is always busy and employees are expected to meet requirements on time, yet their wages are paid late without any proactive notification.

Convenient transportation

A good place to stay long-term for those looking to settle down

Many places to eat and shop nearby

Colleagues with no conflicts of interest are easy to get along with

Overtime can be exchanged for money or time off

The upper management at headquarters is old-fashioned, subjective, and inflexible; some are also very ignorant, making communication emotionally damaging.

Everything is constrained by costs, making communication futile.

They also do not value expertise and may even question your professionalism. To them, expertise is judged by “the skill of speaking.”

All three holiday bonuses are bookstore gift vouchers that cannot be exchanged for cash, and there is no year-end bonus.

At least twice a year, you must go to the Taoyuan warehouse to help with inventory and packing. The environment speaks for itself; they even seem to want to cut costs on lunch.

There is no salary adjustment after the probationary period, let alone a raise.

Occasionally, salaries are paid many days late because it is the “off-season for the stores.”

Other than the above, everything else is fairly normal (I guess).

It depends on the environment and the store manager.

I got along quite happily with the store manager.

Low pay

Policies often change from one day to the next, and we often have to do unnecessary miscellaneous tasks (which cannot really be called work).

A bookstore that cannot keep up with the times—it still uses Windows XP and traditional paper invoices.

You can feel that all the effort is being put into the online bookstore.

If you take these shortcomings too seriously, you’ll get very angry. I’ve learned to let it go, though.