very low commissions - Retail Sales Associate Sunnystep Employee Review

I know I gave a one-star rating, but I think it’s a bit unfair that other reviews are dragging this company down so much without objectively covering the many benefits of working here. Let me mention a few: 1. Incredible commitment to diversity: roughly 80% foreign talent, since apparently no local is desperate enough to work here. 2. Free workplace entertainment: nothing bonds a team like watching laoban deal with lawsuits and wrongful termination claims during tough times. 3. Leadership is surprisingly easy to impress: a bit of enthusiastic agreement and strategic flattery can take you surprisingly far. 4. You’ll graduate with a free PhD in “How Not to Run a Company,” with front-row seats to a masterclass in questionable decision-making. 5. Excellent training in patience, emotional resilience, and lowering expectations. You’ll also develop a high tolerance for chaos, which is technically a transferable life skill. 6. Great for anyone looking for a brief 3-month gig to squeeze a few paychecks while looking for a real job (for some, the experience may be even shorter — a few days has happened before). 7. Great confidence booster: working here will quickly make you realize that impressive credentials don’t always translate into impressive leadership. 8. You don’t need to worry about the business ever going bankrupt, even with six-figure debt, thanks to hubby’s deep pockets. 9. Great office location in the outskirts of the CBD so you will *almost* feel like you’ve made it, at least while walking in from the MRT. I would have stopped at 9, but I thought I’d match the number of people who get fired every quarter. 10. Very AI-driven company: leadership is extremely enthusiastic about AI and often talks about replacing most roles with it someday. On the bright side, after all the exposure, I’m now fully equipped to write this entire Glassdoor review using ChatGPT.

1. Mouldy office. 2. Hair loss (potential sebum build up for some). 3. Ringing ears due to regular exposure to management speeches. 4. Office smell that occasionally resembles something you’d expect near a horse stable rather than a workplace. 5. Many more, but I'll leave it to my fellow Sunnyslaves to continue the list.

The only pro is the one day notice period if you enjoy instability.

I joined Sunnystep thinking I was being recruited as a Finance Manager. When the contract came, the role was downgraded to Finance Executive without explanation. A few weeks later they hired another Finance Manager who did almost nothing and kept pushing all responsibilities to me as the only Finance Executive, saying she was too busy with planning. From a finance and governance point of view this is a complete misallocation of resources and a blatant misrepresentation of roles. The company does not care about its people. The one day notice period, which is never disclosed during interviews, is proof that employees are seen as disposable. During my time here I saw multiple people fired without warning, including one who had already been with the company for a year. I was eventually treated the same way. There was no transition planning, no respect for the work done, just a culture of fear and instability. From a financial perspective this model is reckless. The constant rehiring, retraining and loss of knowledge is far more costly than providing stability, but management clearly does not understand or simply does not care. This place shows exactly how little value is placed on human capital. People are not treated as assets to be developed, only as expenses to be cut whenever convenient.