1. I am particularly interested in labor standards laws and social issues of this kind, and I can also research them.

2. Watching other people's infighting or little jokes from an outsider's perspective can provide topics of conversation among friends or during casual chats.

3. Occasionally, you can exercise your eyes.

4. Develop your ability to brush things off.

5. Develop your ability to deal with elderly people.

6. Analyze how this company brainwashes people.

7. Provide an excellent, comfortable bubble for people with low competitiveness in society who trade on their seniority (although they are not the majority, there are actually quite a few).

8. I discovered websites such as Jobseeker's Insight because of this.

1. Please do not leave any personal information during the interview. If you can avoid writing it, do so; if you can use fake information, use fake information. The only thing that matters is finding a way not to sign in the end. For example: “Your terms are unclear, so I cannot sign and take responsibility for them.” (Say this gently and tactfully, with a gentle smile or an expression of mild embarrassment.) Then they cannot force you to sign. They may repeatedly ask two or three times, saying things like, “You really won't sign? I might be held accountable by the company,” and so on. Please do not pity them; insist on refusing to sign in response, because forcing someone else to sign is illegal! You are only an interviewee, and you can still be hired after refusing to sign.

2. The turnover rate is quite high, and they are always short-staffed. You hear about someone leaving approximately once a week, and I get a new colleague about every month.

3. During the interview, ask clearly how the salary is structured: how much the base salary is and how the other salary items are calculated. If you do not ask, they will not take the initiative to tell you. They will only tell you the total amount. They will not show you the salary terms until your first day of work, when you are asked to sign them, and then they will quickly take them away.

4. The salary is structured like an onion: base salary plus salary items that may be exploited (for example, transportation expenses, non-compete allowances, and so on).

5. Many people's base salaries are quite low (I did not see the senior managers' salaries). Some are under NT$22,000, and there are quite a few other salary items that can be exploited, but most of them are under NT$1,000 each. The most unusual is transportation expenses: you are given an amount based on how much fuel you purchase. If you ride a scooter, you will not actually receive much transportation compensation, so NT$1,700 will be deducted from your salary. However, the company can take your receipts and use them for tax reduction purposes.

6. The company suddenly changed the way salaries were calculated (unilaterally) and required workers to verbally agree to this method.

7. Supervisors do not take responsibility. Work is seriously delayed on their end, and when the deadline approaches, you have to clean up the mess. You have no choice but to work overtime, without overtime pay, while the supervisor talks loudly about unrelated things like a bystander and interferes with your work. (Except for sales positions, claiming that other positions are “supervisory” or “responsibility-based” and therefore withholding overtime pay is illegal. Keep evidence for future use.)

8. The workplace is cramped, the old equipment often breaks down, and public areas are packed with piles of miscellaneous items. If a fire breaks out, you may not be able to get out. The toilets are dirty; although they are cleaned every day, the toilets themselves are never cleaned.

9. Supervisors often say ridiculous things, such as: “With a slightly lower base salary, you won't be taxed as heavily. Some people can even continue to qualify as low-income households because of it, hahaha.” Watching my supervisor laugh, as dazzling as the midday sun, I realized that either he had been completely brainwashed, or his total salary was relatively high while his base salary was absurdly low—living an unaware low-income life in old age while receiving very little labor-insurance benefit. But suppose both your total salary and base salary are low: what good is paying slightly less tax? Your life is not any better. After hearing my supervisor, I often wondered whether my IQ was simply too high.

10. There is a female senior manager in northern Taiwan (the one with the very rough voice) whose comments are often highly inappropriate. When you encounter her, just smile, brush her off, and respond vaguely, because what she says is not important. There is also a female manager in central Taiwan with dark circles under her eyes who behaves differently in public and in private. If she makes highly inappropriate remarks in private, respond seriously; she will not be able to stand her ground. If possible, recording the conversation for evidence is best. They are widely recognized as being quite… [difficult], and basically they cannot interfere with your privacy or control your salary or whether you remain employed.

11. The company has a brainwashing culture. After spending too long comforting yourself within the company's comfort zone, you may start brainwashing other people as well. During training, they say things like: “Many people say they want to leave the company, but they have stayed in the same position for years. That means our company is still better than other companies,” or “You see many vacancies on our recruitment website, but they are actually vacancies for which we are recruiting on behalf of other companies.” Hidden in these statements are helplessness and hesitation stemming from low confidence in one's abilities and fear of not finding another job, as well as issues such as the company's high turnover rate. But the scariest thing is not daring to leave while constantly brainwashing yourself: “This place is actually pretty good, and my colleagues are nice. Maybe I am just not capable enough.” Self-brainwashing is one thing, but please do not brainwash others.

12. Whenever you encounter overtime or something important, please take photos, check in online, or record conversations as evidence. Even if you do not plan to use this evidence later, keep it as a precaution. Supervisors often conceal things (at these times, they may speak slightly more quietly than usual because they are afraid others will hear, or speak more slowly; no matter what you ask, you may not get an answer that can really be called an answer). When you feel that something is wrong, ask for clarification or refuse directly. If someone tries to use “emotional blackmail,” tell them to wait and that you will handle it yourself, saying that you are busy with an urgent task from the boss. Then look up information about the matter online. Do not blindly do whatever the company asks you to register for. They may use your identity to apply for something, so please be extremely careful, because you may end up bearing the responsibility.

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Overall, I think this is a company that anyone can try working for, and I hope more and more people will join so that the company's problems can be improved. Although there are some issues with their books and they do things in a rather old-fashioned way, if we open our hearts, there is endless fun and small surprises every day. People at this company often ask, “What if I don't make it to a year, or even three consecutive months?” Actually, it is okay if you do not; having some work experience makes it very easy to find a new job. But please remember deeply how this company treats other people, use it as a lesson, and I hope that in the future you can also optimize and improve labor-management relations.