I spent three years there. In terms of salary, it was fairly decent (monthly pay for private university graduates was approximately NT$35,000–42,000). However, graduates of private universities were all counted only as having a junior college education (a base salary of NT$13,700), while only national university graduates were considered to have a university degree (NT$16,500).

Other than the salary being fairly decent (in exchange for a huge amount of overtime pay), I really cannot recommend this job. (You can receive half of your base salary for each of the Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays. The year-end bonus is usually three or 2.5 months of base salary, and the bonuses paid in July and August are also approximately NT$8,000–10,000.)

The scheduled working hours are 13 hours a day (they will only exceed that, never fall below it). Every day, you have to deal with all kinds of customer requests and promote various products that even you do not really understand or want to use (Unlimited+, AEDs, safes, travel itineraries from Fuhsing Travel, and Fuhsing airline tickets). Most absurdly, you are even asked to handle matters belonging to the Access Control Department (the system that opens doors and records entries when cards are swiped), as well as equipment from subsidiaries that you have never been trained on or even encountered. (When facing customers, at most you can say, “I’ll pass this on for you”; you cannot say that it is none of your business.) Then, when other departments slack off and refuse to make repairs, you will keep being sent to customers’ locations to kneel and beg.

If there is any collision or traffic ticket while driving or riding a motorcycle (provided by the company), you have to absorb all the costs yourself (for serious cases, you may also receive a demerit and be required to submit a report). The problem is that the urban area has many narrow alleys and a large number of illegally parked vehicles (including situations where you yourself are often forced to park illegally), so it is difficult to come out unscathed. The shift schedule is extremely rigid because the staffing is never complete. Some employees even have mixed morning and night shifts for several months (for example, an endless cycle of AABB, rest, AABB, rest, where A is the morning shift and B is the night shift). Supervisors have it even worse, as they also have to work shifts on weekdays and holidays. On typhoon days, you are basically going out to risk your life; the only company you will see is Taipower.