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Read the community guidelinesYou get paid just for showing up to work
There is absolutely no break time during the entire shift at the store.
If customers are still there at closing time, you cannot leave, and there is no overtime pay.
You have to work on holidays, and on Saturdays and Sundays you have to work an extra hour, still with no break time. By the end of the third month, the base salary becomes $21,000 plus bonuses.
However, this violates the Labor Standards Act. The total working hours are too long, the base salary is below the legal minimum, there are no breaks, and there is no overtime pay—it is a place that exploits its workers.
Also, do not expect too much from the performance bonuses, because you will not receive a bonus until the products have been delivered. Even if the customer has already paid, if the products are still being made, delivery may be delayed for one to two months. It is also possible that the customer's new home is not yet ready, meaning delivery may have to wait six months. Therefore, you would probably have to achieve (NT$800,000–1,000,000 × 2%) in sales every month for several consecutive months, in addition to the NT$21,000 base salary, before your pay becomes somewhat normal. But honestly, I think it would be faster to find a job paying NT$30,000–40,000 directly. Otherwise, you are just helping the owner build their empire, with no other benefits.
1. Clearly defined job responsibilities 2. National holidays are days off 3. Salary breakdown is explained directly
1. Required to work every Saturday 2. The interviewer was not familiar with other departments 3. Gave an ambiguous answer about whether overtime is required and whether work might run past the scheduled end time
The interviewer asked questions such as:
1. Why did you leave your previous job? 2. Didn’t your former company try to retain you? 3. What did you do during this period of free time? 4. Why didn’t you return to southern Taiwan to develop your career? (The interviewee is from southern Taiwan.) 5. Do you live alone in northern Taiwan?
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1. A perfunctory job opening; the interviewer did not even look me in the eye and turned around and left immediately after the interview.... Very little courtesy.
2. The leave system is very unusual: eight days off per month. In principle, weekends are off, but if there are nine Saturdays and Sundays in a given month, one of them must be covered by duty.
3. As mentioned in the comments above, you must work five days of duty each month and extend your workday by two hours, leaving work at 8:00 p.m.
4. The lunch break is one hour, but it must be taken in shifts: one group at 12:00 and another at 1:00.
The organizational structure and division of responsibilities are clear.
It is called being on duty, but in reality it is just unpaid forced overtime.
You have to take turns once a week for two hours, and I don't know what the point is.
You have to wear a very ugly uniform.