1. Thorough background checks during interviews, with nothing hidden, so you can feel at ease.

2. There’s a McDonald’s right across the street, making overtime very convenient—you can get a McDonald’s dessert card.

3. During overtime, the architect occasionally does nothing and chats with you to vent their emotions, but you still have to keep working, okay?

4. We’re worried it would be dangerous for you to go home at midnight, so when you work until midnight, we don’t provide transportation subsidies. It’s best if you live next door—for your own good.

5. We build your willpower: there’s no overtime pay for the first three months.

6. You work overtime until nine or ten every day, but in principle never past midnight, so you don’t have to worry about running out of leisure activities to do during your regular hours.

7. You don’t need to worry about not knowing how to fill in your overtime hours, because our firm calculates them based on efficiency. If you enter too many hours, the boss will remind you to go back and think it over. We won’t let the hours you report exceed the Labor Standards Act limits—after all, we’re a legitimate business.

8. Of course your monthly salary consists of more than just wages—it’s transportation subsidies plus base salary. So overtime pay is base salary divided by 200 hours per month, multiplied by 1.15. Very reasonable, right? A month has 35 days—surely that’s common knowledge.

9. You’ll work at least one extra day on weekends; in emergencies, you’ll come in every day. We all have to weather difficult times together, which creates a strong sense of unity, because we’re partners, right?

10. If you’re late in the morning, just make up twice the time in the evening. If you’re too busy to go out for lunch, don’t worry—you did get that McDonald’s card, didn’t you?

11. The hours from 6 to 7 p.m. don’t count as overtime. Mealtimes don’t count as overtime either. If you don’t go eat between 6 and 7, maybe you’re already resting mentally—it’s not that the boss told you to finish the work.

12. We tailor an exclusive specification, exclusive position, and exclusive stationery for you. Every pen has your name on it to give you a sense of belonging. Don’t use your own stationery—that would be far too uncontrolled.

13. When the architect loses their temper with you, it’s to train your EQ. Don’t be ungrateful—isn’t it because your abilities are simply too poor?

14. There are too many advantages to list; experience them yourself. But our firm would never stoop to hiring people who come here after seeing just any random website and becoming enamored with us. We have principles.

It’s absolutely wonderful—I don’t know why I left.