The company owed employees wages and commissions, and the business department resigned with the team!

Where interests gather, disputes are particularly numerous!

A seller once said: After working on Amazon, he finally saw what darkness is! These few numbers sum up how fierce the overt and covert struggles in the cross-border e-commerce industry are.

Among the disputes between companies and employees, this incident this year has been circulating in major cross-border groups: a company owed employees wages and commissions, so the business department and the team resigned from the company;

Another incident among the disputes between friends was hotly discussed: a big boss brought his friend into the cross-border circle and taught him how to do Amazon. As a result, the friend turned around and copied the big boss's store;

There are countless examples of people working together to build Amazon: as Amazon was being built, the friendship between friends disappeared ...

As a place where interests converge, Amazon always has a lot of disputes.

A company owed employees wages and commissions, and the business department dismissed the company

The relationship between employees and companies is mutually beneficial. Once a certain balance point in the middle is broken, conflicts will erupt.

Recently, another conflict between an employee and a company was exposed. From the several-page complaint, the editor extracted the following key points.

It is understood that a company's sales profit target for 2020 was 12 million, and the company's entire business department created a profit of 25 million. After exceeding the target, the next step is to fulfill the promise.

According to the original agreement, the manager could get an annual salary of 1 million yuan, and the supervisor could get 80% of the excess bonus. The ideal is full, but the reality is very skinny. The company's employees said that their colleagues worked together to achieve record performance, but the company's initial promise was not fulfilled at all. The company also transferred the supervisors and managers, and found reasons to dismiss the company's sales.

Amid the chaos, all middle and senior management in the company’s business department were mailed forced resignation notices and the boss was fired.

Afterwards, an employee wrote down his or her experience and exposed it, which allowed the editor to learn about the experiences of these people in the cross-border group.

Every time something like this is exposed, it will stir up a lot of controversy. The reason is still the issue of profit distribution. Although it is difficult to understand the whole story by just listening to the employee's one-sided words, the fact that this matter has been hotly discussed also shows that the commission issue is a contradiction in many companies.

Cross-border e-commerce bosses generally set up a commission system to motivate employees' work enthusiasm. However, how bosses calculate commissions for employees and mobilize their enthusiasm is also a big deal.

How should the commission be calculated more appropriately? An industry insider said that the commission systems of various companies vary. He personally thinks it is more reasonable to calculate the commission based on the payment received. It is really difficult for employees to calculate the gross profit or net profit (unless it is a large company system that is clear and understandable). Otherwise, if the employees cannot figure it out, they will feel that they have suffered a great loss and will try to make up for it from other places.

In fact, even if the commission system is determined at the beginning, some cross-border e-commerce companies will frequently modify the commission system. Therefore, many employees have concluded that when it comes to the issue of commission, large companies look at the system, while small companies look at the boss. If some bosses have a small vision, it will be easier for conflicts to arise between them and employees. Bosses with a big vision will know how to win over employees and reduce staff turnover.

The editor found that there are still many bosses in the cross-border circle who are smart in dealing with employee wages and commission issues:

A: I think the boss of our company is a very nice person. As long as the employees do valuable work, he will pay them more, not less.

B: The happiest thing is that my boss took the initiative to ask me for a raise. It turns out that performance is everything. If the boss is willing to share the money, I am happy to help you make the pie bigger.

C: I met a good boss. As long as you work hard, you will be noticed.

A big boss taught his friend how to sell on Amazon, but his friend copied him

The cross-border circle is the most challenging place. Not only are the love-hate relationships between employees and bosses often brought up, but the relationships between friends often break down because of working for Amazon.

In the first half of this year, another incident of falling out between friends occurred: a big boss taught his friend how to do Amazon business, but his friend copied his sales in return .

It is understood that when the cross-border seller's friend first started doing cross-border business, the seller taught his friend how to get started and helped his friend successfully avoid many pitfalls. Perhaps driven by profit, the so-called friend began to copy the seller's products, and eventually the matter was exposed ...

While some people were exclaiming that such a thing was unbelievable, more people calmly said that working for Amazon was too hurtful and it was not normal to be betrayed by someone you trusted!

A: Our boss once introduced resources to some friends, and later found out that one of the friends copied the exclusive hot-selling products in the store...

B: A friend of mine encountered a similar thing and was deeply hurt.

C: There are too many such things. Friends help friends make money, but after making money, friends stab you in the back! Therefore, don’t reveal all your family assets to so-called friends, otherwise, not only will your friends lose their jobs, but your own interests will also be damaged.

My friend and I started Amazon together, but we broke up

Not only will some so-called friends copy-sell their friends' stores, but some friends, when working together on Amazon, will not be able to withstand the test of reality and eventually go their separate ways.

Many friends start a business together but eventually break up. What is the reason? We may find the answer from the personal experiences of the following sellers:

A person who has experienced it once said that it is not easy to be in partnership. He was responsible for paying the majority of the money, finding resources, and packing and shipping, while his friend was responsible for operations. In the end, he lost a lot of money and finally bought the account with his own money . Only then did he find out that the product had never been optimized, and the listing only had a title but no description. Later he found out that his partner had already started another company.

Another seller failed in two partnerships. Afterwards, he said helplessly that partnership business is the most difficult, especially when everyone's resources are not strong enough. Partnerships must have complementary resources. When looking for partners, you must open your eyes, trust each other, have a clear division of labor, and handle financial issues well.

Although there are many examples of failure in partnership to start Amazon, there are also many successful examples. From their experiences of success or failure, someone who has experienced it concluded that the partnership system is to transform team members from a community of interests to a community of destiny, with shared interests and risks . On the day of entering into a partnership, one must think about how to disband .

A seller who has fallen into too many traps summed up his own experience and found that from the initial anger of betrayal by his partners to the current indifference towards employees opening their own accounts, he has actually grown in the past few years. In the Amazon industry, it is difficult to stop others from maximizing their own interests. What he can do is to establish his own advantages as soon as possible so that it is not so easy for others to copy his things. Things that are too easy to be copied probably don’t have much value, which also shows that he is too weak .

The editor would like to say that cross-border e-commerce is indeed a good industry. It is precisely because cross-border e-commerce is still in its bonus period and can make money that more interest disputes will occur. The above examples also serve as a reminder to all cross-border e-commerce practitioners that in areas where interests are concentrated, they must proceed step by step and not fall into the trap accidentally!

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