星潮國際貿易股份有限公司

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Goods and miscellaneous items are scattered everywhere in the office and warehouse; the environment is dirty, cluttered, and cramped, and the smell is unpleasant. The company was reported by other companies for creating a dirty public environment and storing goods in and occupying the basement sewage tank and other public areas.

The company’s systems are extremely disorganized. I recommend not trying it. The sources of stress all stem from negative emotions and the atmosphere. The company’s high turnover rate, culture, and systems have a lot to do with the executive assistant. The turnover rate is extremely high, and they are constantly interviewing new people. The pay is not high, and there are no performance bonuses because the targets set are simply unattainable. If there is an inventory shortage, the loss is deducted from all employees’ bonuses (senior management says: “We’ll discuss inventory surpluses later / the extra goods are company assets anyway.”)

Different departments do things differently and are very good at blaming one another.

When a subordinate makes a mistake, it is treated like a heinous crime; when a supervisor makes a mistake, they are the first to escape responsibility.

When something happens, the manager only knows how to talk and is exceptionally good at pushing work away; somehow, every mistake is the subordinate’s fault.

Employees here have to learn to play the sympathy card… acting as if their family is falling apart, their marriage is unhappy, or no one is available to look after their children.

You also have to be excellent at avoiding and dodging problems. Those who take their work seriously are destined only to work until they collapse from exhaustion.

The year-end evaluations are extremely unprofessional. There are no highly capable professionals here, but there are plenty of actors.

The most disgusting backstabbers I have ever encountered in my life have all gathered here… They even try every possible way to frame you and leave a stain on your life. This is an evil place; I was almost driven mentally ill…

In particular, do not join the Sales or Warehouse Departments.

The hard work is secondary; the workplace pressure is so intense that it makes you question your entire life.

To be precise, the problems are:

The thinking behind integrated planning and scheduling needs to be reconsidered.

Once the boss has an idea, they accept it without question, yet they cannot provide any substantive suggestions.

After a proposal is approved, if problems arise later, they immediately shirk responsibility and publicly criticize and humiliate the person involved.

The supervisor is extremely forgetful. For matters they have never handled, they will directly push them onto you and make you take the blame. Their way of speaking and personal character are also highly questionable. If you want to experience workplace harassment and emotional blackmail, come and try it.

I had never had a book thrown at me in my life, but I experienced it here.

A rule that was agreed upon is said this second to be strictly enforced to improve work efficiency; the next second, after the Sales Department says a few words, it becomes acceptable to do anything.

At this company, as long as the Sales Manager or executive assistant dislikes you, they will file a negative report about you. (They are close friends who cover for each other.)

Even on your last day of employment, they will arrange for you to help pack and ship goods in the warehouse, using you to the fullest extent~ When you go to the Warehouse Department to pack goods, your coworkers will know that you are leaving. All I can say is that if you come to this company, you will have no idea what you are doing. In less than a month, you will experience all kinds of people, things, and situations, so the extremely high turnover rate is nothing unusual here.

There is no overtime pay. To receive compensatory leave, you must apply for overtime before 4 p.m. each day, and the supervisor must approve it before it is granted. Otherwise, if you simply work too slowly and stay past your scheduled time, you still have to submit the compensatory-leave hours to your supervisor for advance approval; you can only take the leave after it is approved. Around long holidays, you have to schedule your days off—if you request annual leave, you must also explain the reason in advance and ask the boss for approval before taking leave. I wonder whether this violates the Labor Standards Act!

From every perspective, this company operates with the mindset of a small company—or a company from 50 years ago—in other words, employees are treated like dirt.

When you join, the company will generously claim that it offers excellent employee benefits. All I can say is: don’t listen to what the boss says; if you believe it, you lose.

(Birthday cash gifts can only be used to buy products that are about to expire within a year; the Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival gifts are also company-made vouchers for products that will expire within a year and a half or have defective/damaged packaging. The employee price is only a few dozen dollars lower than on momo Shopping.) The momo card even comes with cashback!

This company truly offers no career development whatsoever and has no完善 operating procedures, often doing things according to whatever the boss happens to think. All I can say is that if you have plenty of time, you can experience authentic exploitative-boss culture. Even if you cannot find a job, absolutely do not come here and waste your time==

During the interview, they make it sound very good, saying at the beginning that they do not force or encourage overtime and that they follow the Labor Standards Act.

Only after starting work do you discover that this is not the case.

In reality, they simply mean that overtime is unpaid and only compensatory leave is provided. Sometimes you are also forced to work overtime; if you do not work overtime, you must explain why, and then be publicly criticized because everyone else works overtime while you only work overtime on a few days and for a few hours. Otherwise, they threaten employees who do not work overtime by saying that the company agrees they can go get a resignation form.

The company uses the 104 app to clock in. If you forget to clock in, you will be fined. There is also something where they “give you a chance” by deducting two hours of compensatory leave—an extremely unreasonable practice.

If an employee whom the executive assistant dislikes talks at work, it is treated as chatting and not taking work seriously. When employees who are close to the executive assistant chat, however, the executive assistant thinks they are being humorous and goes over to join the conversation.

Once they start disliking you, they will begin looking for ways to target you.

The sycophantic culture at this company is extremely widespread. Anyone who knows how to curry favor with the executive assistant and slack off every day can receive two salary increases a year.

Sales has the most power in this company, followed by Finance, with Warehouse at the bottom.

If you make a mistake in a powerful department, you receive only a light reprimand; if you are in a powerless, disadvantaged department, you are severely disciplined.

Since I joined, the two Sales departments and the Warehouse have replaced their entire group of new employees once a year.

Basically, if the executive assistant dislikes someone, they will find a way to get rid of them no matter how well they perform.

The executive assistant will say, “Someone said you are not putting your heart into your work.”

When asked exactly where you are lacking commitment, they mumble and cannot explain.

They just keep repeating, “Someone said you are not putting your heart into your work.”

You have no idea why, and they have not verified it with the supervisor or other colleagues.

From beginning to end, it is always “someone said.” In reality, the executive assistant simply dislikes you and wants you to leave.

Shouldn’t the executive assistant say “I said it” rather than “someone said it”?

The executive assistant only watches the surveillance cameras and listens in, terrified that others will say bad things about them. (As if they do not also spend work hours waking their son up, ordering delivery for him, and watching shows at work—once they forgot to turn off the sound, and the whole office could hear it.) Remember to stay on the executive assistant’s good side if you want to get promoted and become wealthy.

I advise everyone to think twice even if you get an interview offer.

Do not let this become your most unforgettable memory.

The person with the most power in this company is the executive assistant. The boss simply does whatever the executive assistant says. You know who the real boss is now, right?!

By the end, the job duties are completely different from the position you originally applied for. Eventually, you do not even know what you are doing. You learn absolutely nothing, and no one cares about what you have contributed. The boss is emotional and likes to talk without taking action. You can also feel that the company does not value talent at all: if they like you, they flatter you endlessly; if they do not care about you, then no matter how well you perform, the company’s attitude is simply “if you want to leave, leave quickly.” It is deeply frustrating.

If you do not want to leave stains and nightmares in your life, do not consider this place under any circumstances. You would be better off working at a convenience store than coming here.

The company culture is truly terrible. Do not come… Run away while you can.

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1. Constantly meddles in miscellaneous matters across every department, controlling everything from trash bags and toilet paper to daily shipping supplies such as stickers and tape. Employees in sales and the warehouse are required to register when collecting logistics supplies and record the platform used and quantity in forms. The most ridiculous part is that inventory checks even require counting the number of tamper-evident bags (How are you supposed to count tens of thousands of bags?). Every trivial matter like this has to be managed. They love looking at spreadsheets, require everything to be communicated through forms, and frequently hold pointless meetings that waste everyone's time.

2. They think everyone has plenty of free time. Whenever they suddenly think of something, they expect it to be done immediately, ordering some unfortunate employee to carry it out—for example, price comparisons (you have to look it up right away). The company dislikes employees who have their own ideas or opinions. In meetings, they ask everyone for opinions; if you give one, it becomes complaining, and if you do not, they ask, “Does nobody have an opinion?” Then just do it! If it has already been decided, why the hell are you asking? They like people who are dull, foolish, and obedient.

3. They often interfere in professional matters, imagining and filling in the processes themselves. They order things to be carried out immediately, often solving only the problem at hand and leaving future problems for later. Even after being told something is impossible, they use their authority as the boss to force employees to obey, only changing course after hitting a brick wall.

4. The procurement process is seriously flawed. Despite insufficient space, they love buying in bulk just because something is cheap, then spend more money renting external storage. They sell the items cheaply through platforms—wasn't the reason they bought them in the first place that they were cheap? The logic is hard to understand... They often accomplish nothing while exhausting a whole group of people.

5. They exploit employees by increasing their workload. If you do not work overtime, they think your workload is too light; if you do work overtime, they question whether you are slacking off. During peak season, if you do not cooperate with overtime, they get angry and threaten to make you write a resignation letter.

6. They are extremely fond of watching surveillance footage. The cameras are not installed to protect the products but to monitor employees. Computer screens are monitored as well. They are highly suspicious of employees and suspect them of theft or embezzlement at the slightest sign of anything unusual.

7. Procurement is incompetent: they buy piles of inventory without holding anyone accountable, desperately send it to consignment warehouses to conceal the accounts, and never investigate what happens to slow-moving goods. They keep buying duplicate products and then complain that inventory pressure is too high.

8. They are supposedly very kind in allowing employees 10 minutes to eat breakfast, but you must work while eating—it is not a leisurely meal. Other departments may still be eating at 10:30, but targeted departments are not allowed to. It completely depends on whether the higher-ups personally like the employee. For those who are singled out, even going to the bathroom is considered wrong.

9. They lead by breaking the rules they themselves created. With one sentence—“This is an individual case; this is an exception”—they undermine their own rules. Then every day becomes an individual case, and every day has an exception.

10. Nobody deliberately makes mistakes, but once one occurs, it is immediately magnified and scrutinized. One issue often has to be explained three or more times: once to the contact person, once to the supervisor, once to the executive assistant, once to the boss... When a favored employee goes to complain, they do not verify the facts and immediately establish the employee's guilt. The people below often take the blame while the real culprit goes free. Mistakes result in fines. If they do not dare deduct it from your salary, they will tell you to take out cash and settle it directly, claiming it is to make you remember the lesson, when in reality it saves operating costs.

11. Remember to constantly ask for a raise—preferably together with crying, making a scene, and threatening to resign—or everyone else will quietly get raises and you will be the only fool left behind. But remember that after you get a raise, they will definitely add more work for you. There is no such thing as a free lunch.

12. They never want to solve problems; they solve the person who raises them.

Finally, if you are fortunate enough to see this post, congratulations: if you stay for about a year, you will probably experience everything. The average tenure here is around a year or slightly more. If you are someone with no opinions or initiative who obeys, you may survive comfortably. Otherwise, you will be miserable. The saying that employees are a company's greatest asset does not apply here!

1. I was notified very quickly that I had been accepted after the interview because they were urgently short-staffed.

2. You can accumulate many work skills because one person is expected to do the work of several people.

1. The company environment is old

The company is located in an old building, with both the office and warehouse in the same building. Sometimes, when there isn't enough space in the warehouse, goods are stacked in the office as well. It is often packed to the brim, making it difficult even to get around.

There are also cockroaches everywhere in the office, yet the company does not appear to have any intention of arranging pest control.

2. The work is never finished

You need to be mentally prepared to "wear many hats" here. It is very common for one person to manage 3–4 platforms, in addition to handling many miscellaneous tasks! The work is never-ending. On top of that, given the high employee turnover, increased workloads are commonplace! If the workload increases but performance targets are not met, bonuses are reduced, creating a completely vicious cycle.

3. No overtime pay

Because the work is performed independently, whether or not you work overtime is up to you. However, overtime is compensated with time off in lieu, not overtime pay.

4. Benefits are extremely stingy

The company cuts costs wherever it can when it comes to benefits. Working hours are inflexible; even being one minute late is unacceptable! Being late results in deductions from your leave or perfect-attendance bonus.

The gifts provided for the three major holidays were once the company's gift vouchers, and they could only be used to purchase certain company-approved items.

Even small items such as toilet paper and stationery are meticulously accounted for. You have to sign them out when taking them, and toilet paper is even rationed.

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There is not much room for development at this company. Turnover is so high that almost every department is understaffed. Unless you are a recent graduate looking to gain work experience, don't come here.

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“Different from what was discussed during the interview”

1. Job responsibilities

The interview stated that the role would be responsible for operating an e-commerce platform, but there were also unrelated tasks, such as registering cosmetics, going out to support special sales events, and assisting with warehouse inspections. None of these were mentioned during the interview, yet employees were required to perform them.

2. Bonus system

The nature of sales work is that it is tied to performance bonuses. Not long after joining the company, the bonus system was changed at will because the company was unwilling to let employees receive too many bonuses. This was different from what had been discussed initially.

3. Leave system

Overtime can be exchanged for compensatory leave. During the interview, it was stated that employees could freely decide when to take compensatory leave, but later there were all kinds of restrictions on its use—for example, leave requested less than 24 hours in advance required the boss’s approval. If there were rules regarding leave requests, they should have been communicated in advance instead of being changed at will.

4. Employee benefits

(1) One employee benefit was the ability to purchase company products at cost. This was changed to a seniority-based system with additional thresholds: employees with less than three years of service had to pay an additional 5%, etc. This was completely different from what was discussed during the interview.

(2) The interview mentioned monetary gifts for the three major holidays. In the past, these were gift boxes, but starting in 2023 they were changed to company vouchers that could only be used to purchase employee-benefit products and defective products.

“Too much work and too little pay—it doesn’t add up”

1. Each employee has to take on multiple roles, and the work is never finished. Many tasks were later forced on employees by supervisors. Supervisors do not assess your workload; they simply order you to complete tasks unilaterally, while the salary is not commensurate with the work.

2. There is no overtime pay; overtime can only be exchanged for compensatory leave. Sometimes, when the overtime hours are too long, employees are even questioned about whether they are actually working during overtime or just slacking off.

Employees are also forced to use their compensatory leave as soon as possible. When there is no overtime, employees are questioned about whether they have too little work.

“Extremely, extremely, extremely stingy with employee benefits”

1. Working hours are inflexible. Being one minute late results in a deduction from leave or the perfect-attendance bonus.

2. One pack of toilet paper was issued per week; now, two packs are issued per month. Once they are used up, employees cannot request more.

3. Stationery, shipping labels, and return-shipping convenience bags must all be registered before use. If the form for a convenience bag is not returned, the employee must pay the shipping cost out of pocket.

4. Employees are not allowed to put too many personal items in the refrigerator, but supervisors are.

5. When employees apply to replace a broken keyboard or mouse, General Affairs says that the purchase can only be made with the boss’s approval.

6. Inventory discrepancies must be absorbed by employees, with deductions taken from employee bonuses.

“Internal company positions are highly unprofessional”

1. Whatever the boss says goes. One moment they want to do one thing, and the next moment they want to do something else.

2. The executive assistant has no professional competence.

(1) Despite being responsible for interviewing candidates as an HR representative, they contact candidates at seven or eight o’clock at night and comment on candidates after the interview.

(2) They spend the entire day watching surveillance cameras to monitor whether employees are slacking off.

3. The supervisor does not act like a supervisor.

(1) They receive general matters from the boss or other departments but do not communicate them to team members.

(2) They only ask about team members’ situations right before meetings.

(3) They spend a great deal of time in meetings, bringing snacks and drinks and discussing matters while laughing and joking, yet do not communicate any information after the meetings.

(4) They cannot coordinate issues with other departments.

(5) They do not advocate for team members’ rights.

(6) When the supervisors take leave at the same time, no one handles the work.

4. The person responsible for procurement has no relevant experience.

(1) They lack the ability to assess products in the market and only purchase what they themselves want to buy.

(2) They cannot convert exchange rates and have extremely low numerical aptitude.

(3) They do not observe increases or decreases in product costs and often purchase expensive products.

(4) Products are purchased in the wrong season, resulting in excessive inventory pressure on the warehouse.

“Poor company environment”

When there is not enough room for goods in the warehouse, they are piled in the office, obstructing employees’ walking paths. Despite this being reported, no improvements have been made.

Cockroaches run rampant around the desks and in the pantry, yet no one deals with the problem.

A conscientious employer

Hourly pay for the first 3 months

You can only go in when they are short-staffed

Sometimes only 3 to 4 hours a day

Unwilling to invest in employees