Labor exploitation alert. Be mindful in choosing your employer. Applicants be careful. - HR-Executive Hysses Employee Review

I left because I can't stand how the management treats their employees. I don't want to be a part of a selfish team to deceive and lure incoming applicants thinking that Hysses is a good workplace to be. Some good comments are very defensive. It only shows how guilty they are with the negative comments they are receiving. Read carefully how they address the criticism. It is up to you all to make an impression on how they are sugar coating the unethical management. They are calling people with a good set of values a negative person, because these so-called "negative people" just can't simply stand the unprofessionalism and unethical management. Hired candidates will be left with no choice to accept unreasonable and unfair offers (Foreign Talents) with hidden clauses on their contracts just to be able to be approved by the MOM. (No wonder employment passes application takes a long period of time to be approved due to tons of issues they have to get through) Staffs are overworked - advertised as a shifting schedule but will actually make you work for a 10hr+ shift with 1 day off/week. (Mainly applicable for retail staff - you can also see it for yourself once you passed by one of its branches. You will only see one face for the 1 whole shift. They are just lucky if they will have a buddy for that day - but both of them will also work full 6 days/week) By right it should be 44hrs/week as per MOM. OT's are not paid. PH or holidays cannot be claimed as it is declared as fix OT, when actually that's not how it's supposed to be. OT's are not legally compensated at all. Some employees that are alone in the store can't even enjoy the break times allotted for them, as they need to juggle the inadequacy of the company. Staff has to suffer. They have no choice but to sacrifice their privilege to be actually fully resting during break times. They will only have 30min max to buy meals or to eat away from the premises. For a 10hr+ shift, it should be more than that. Common scenario - meals are to be eaten and be munched while the store is open. Once a customer enters the store they have to drop whatever they are munching during that 1hr or 30min break time. Break times are commonly disrupted. What they so- called 'learning from them', comes with a great price and that are as follows: labor exploitation, non-entitlement, fatigue, exhaustion, mental breakdowns and many more. It is just not worth suffering all this fuss with an inconsiderable compensation with little to no appreciation from this company. To all foreigners that has grabbed this opportunity out of desperation, I really feel sorry for them. I am not able to warn them on what they have to go through. I've been a part of Hysses doing all this crap for quite a while. I hope this message reaches those who aspire to be in Singapore. (Not much issue on locals and PR's as this company doesn't have much on the operations side - well I dare you to see it for yourself. They don't dare to bully locals as they have legal rights to work here, or find better job offers elsewhere) You will notice there are VERY few locals even PR's storewide. Usually job takers are foreigners. To all FT's don't just grab jobs anyhow just for the sake of being here. Think of your well being as well. Some of you might be wondering how come they have quotas for foreigners in the store if there are not many local takers? Well, they have a way to do that -- to cover the headcount and to reach the ratio. I will no longer mention the manufacturing company (same business owner) involved. This is how they do the dirty magic. People who don't want to grow and accept challenges usually quit? Then what's with the high turn over rate? This is clearly the result of lack of employee purpose, poor compensation, being overworked, bad bosses and managers, poor work/life balance, bad hiring procedures and toxic environment. Those employees who decided to leave are simply not as desperate compared to those who stayed.(Mostly foreign workers). Do you still consider it as a challenge when your rights and entitlement are being violated? Do you consider it as growth when you need to stay for extra long hours, be forced to comply on the tasks that's not in the field of your expertise without being compensated with the extra hours being rendered? To be yelled at when you don't meet certain high expectations they set themselves? Is humiliating your employees a part of your procedures to address issues? and FYI, office people need to cover retail stores during peak season to cover the lack of manpower - there's no proper training provided to be standing in an environment we are not supposed to, yet they expect too much from the staff. Newly hired staff has to adapt quickly as possible, like they are being put in the battlefield without any weapons. As a result they are overwhelmed and will eventually quit. Former employees will not take a lot of time to write and share facts if none of it was true. To destroy their image? What for? The company itself is NOT well known enough for people to waste time and effort to write even a small bit of a feedback. The company is not even a step ahead among its competitors.It is not easy to make stories that are not based on experience and true events. Those criticism are from the real sentiments of the group of people they have oppressed. I still have a long list of many of the improper doings this company has to offer. Let me stop here because it is going to be a book of misdeeds if I continue to do so. Well to be fair, I am giving you the benefit of the doubt. Seeing it or experiencing it by yourself will be the best proof of my statements.