No advantages

During the interview, they said there was no need to clock in, that it was a responsibility-based system, and that the environment was flexible. Little did I know that the rules would start increasing one by one: being one minute late meant having to take an hour of leave; even at night and on holidays, you would receive meaningless LINE messages from the boss. The year-end bonus was only 0.5 months’ salary, because the boss would only say that everyone had to weather the difficult times together. There was only one salary increase of 2,000 after completing three months—yes, only once—because the boss would say that everyone had to weather the difficult times together. There were no employee trips, no employee welfare committee, and no benefits, only cheap cookies occasionally offered during religious ceremonies. Most importantly, the boss’s wife is very empty inside—the whole person, not just her brain.