Free Starbucks coffee and tea bags to drink as much as you want. Employee turnover is extremely low, and everyone is very happy working there!

There is no overtime pay for overtime work, and on top of that, there are no meals provided. As if not providing meals weren't enough, there are not even any small snacks. Employees work overtime for TJIC for free on empty stomachs. In theory, team leaders are authorized to approve overtime pay, but in reality, no one dares to submit overtime claims. Even team leaders and deputy-director-level employees do not receive overtime pay, and employees below them have never received it either. When 104 Job Bank explained the position face-to-face, it clearly said that TJIC paid overtime, but in fact, overtime pay is not provided. When dispatched workers first join, they are told to enter their actual clock-out time if they work overtime. People in the PO department will say, “Oh, you can’t do that! You have to enter 18:00 as your clock-out time. Look, everyone else enters 18:00.” Dispatched workers at TJIC have never received overtime pay. However, while working overtime, they can drink as much free Starbucks coffee as they want (there is a coffee machine in the company), allowing them to work overtime with renewed energy. In reality, it is not possible to drink that much coffee anyway, since too much can cause heart palpitations—at most, perhaps two or three cups a day. People then work overtime until the middle of the night. I have even heard of a female colleague working until after 4 a.m. and taking a taxi home, as well as some male colleagues working until the early morning before going home. Working overtime is very common at TJIC.

After the interview, the director’s secretary will say, “You can go on a business trip to Japan every month.” In fact, even the deputy director cannot go on a business trip to Japan every month, let alone dispatched workers; going once or twice a year is already considered a lot. The only people who can go to Japan every month are the director and the director’s own son-in-law. The two of them go to Japan together every time and always stay in the same room.

After three years, employees can go to a Japanese language school in Japan for training. However, applicants must have at least N1 to get in. If you already have N1, why would you still go to a language school in Japan? Moreover, each stay can last six months, with meals and accommodation covered; meals can be reimbursed at up to ¥750 per meal. Therefore, this benefit is actually for people with connections who do not know Japanese. Those without connections must have N1, and when they go to Japan for training, they can dream about receiving US$200 in daily business-trip expenses.

There are many well-connected people inside the company. TJIC hires a retired minister-level official, the incumbent municipal adviser to “Hua Ma City,” and a National Policy Adviser to the Office of the President as advisers to TJIC. It also hires a heavyweight elder from the Pan-Blue camp as an adviser. Therefore, there is no need to worry that the director will be replaced when political parties alternate in power; this is insurance. The son of that individual also works there and has astonishing English and Japanese abilities: a TOEIC score of 990, a perfect JLPT N1 score, and dual master’s degrees—a degree from a Japanese translation and interpretation graduate school and an MBA from the United States. When communicating with Japanese people, the son of this heavyweight always personally speaks fluent Japanese with them. When writing letters to Japanese companies, he writes them himself without needing colleagues to ghostwrite them. He is simply a genius.