◎If you work at a counter with good sales, the commission bonuses are easy to earn, and department store anniversary sales events are the most profitable times.

(But conversely, during the off-season or if you are assigned to a location with poor sales, you will essentially receive only the base salary...)

◎If the store manager and veteran colleagues you encounter are easy to communicate with, scheduling days off is very flexible.

(If you encounter people who are less considerate, you can only read the room and pick from the remaining dates when scheduling days off.)

◎There is an annual dinner and employee travel; both are fairly well organized. Among companies in the department store industry, this one is considered quite generous.

◎You can play with clay for free, learn sculpting techniques, and make small items.

◎Short working hours on weekdays (6 hours); there are few customers and plenty of downtime when children are in class.

◎You inevitably encounter all kinds of difficult children or dinosaur parents (the typical unreasonable customers found in department stores), so you must be extremely patient!

◎You must work during all kinds of national-holiday long weekends, Saturdays, and Sundays, and it gets extremely busy. (You can still schedule annual leave, but only when staffing is sufficient.)

◎The company prohibits taking leave on certain specific days, such as the first four days of the anniversary sale and make-up workdays.

◎Part-time workers at large counters in Taipei City have it especially hard. Teaching is almost entirely left to the part-timers, who also get little rest: they teach one child after another. Some locations have particularly serious cliques.

◎There are breaks, but occasionally you get so busy that you cannot eat on time.

◎You have to cooperate with transfers to other locations (because another counter is genuinely short-staffed, or because someone dislikes you and deliberately transfers you away...).