A former car salesman recently divulged how he had to pay to boost his company’s advertisements on social media using his own salary.
Posted on X, @onlyyouperson shared that the dealership management had allegedly made him and other employees deduct RM700 from their already low pay to boost these Facebook advertisements.
“My salary is RM1,500 but due to starting at this company mid-November, I am only left with RM600 for December after the EPF and Socso deduction,” the newly-married man said.
Due to these financial commitments, he could not manage to pay for these advertisements and when he tried to explain, the employer did not accept it and threatened to issue a warning letter, according to a screenshot of the conversation with his employer in his post.
“My boss did not accept that I hadn’t been able to boost the advertisements costing RM700 so for the following month, they asked me to boost twice the amount making it RM1,400.
“Nowhere in the offer letter did it state that I had to do so,” he added.
Furthermore, the former worker alleged that employees who do not submit their “daily report” by 7pm will be issued a “fine” of RM10.
In another screenshot displaying the conversation between him and his superior attached in his thread, the employer demanded that he pay the RM10 as the worker was caught in traffic and submitted the report an hour later.
The dealership seems to also micromanage the employees’ finances as they are unable to take out a personal loan, allegedly, with the company stating that they are in charge of “monitoring” the loans.
Another post also revealed another former employee’s testimony of the dealership, stating that all sales assistants are “forced” to take out RM700 out of their RM1,500 salary to boost these advertisements on social media and demand for proof of the boosting.
On top of that, an individual confronted the dealership’s manager and she claimed that the employees were informed of the practice during their interviews.
Following the former employee’s post going viral, the manager had purportedly deactivated her social media accounts, according to netizens’ findings.
