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Read the community guidelinesNone. The salary is 26,000 plus a 2,000 perfect-attendance bonus, which is fairly acceptable for an administrative assistant.
If you want a purely office-based position, you can consider it, but after working there for a while, you may also need to travel with the manager or boss.
A typical small company. I applied for an administrative and sales assistant position, but the boss wants you to do whatever he asks—even on my second day, he told me to prepare an annual income-and-expense report for a sales channel. (There is a separate accountant, who is the boss’s wife.) Before I understood anything, received any training, or knew anything about their financial situation with the channel, I had to force together a report, only to be told that the income was too low. We only used the other party’s channel invoice system to look things up; the company had no accounting system of its own, and no one taught me how to use it.
But couldn’t this information simply be obtained from accounting? Yet they kept making us redo the work.
The sales manager came from the insurance industry. The interview was very relaxed, but I felt that he was just very good at making grand promises. There are eight days off per month, scheduled by shifts, and public holidays do not mean extra days off. There is no overtime pay. The other employees could only stay for about a month. It seemed quite problematic, so think carefully before joining.
Also, the boss’s wife seemed to be looking for obedient, servant-like employees. If she doesn’t like you, she will say that you are not suitable and dismiss you.