You can gain some work experience to add to your résumé by working on holidays.

First of all, this is a standard Taiwanese family business with a Japanese exterior. Basically, it does not offer the benefits you would expect from a Japanese company, while guaranteeing that you will experience all the undesirable habits of a family business.

1. It claims externally to be an affiliated company of a major Japanese hotel, but strictly speaking, it can only be considered another shell holding company owned by the same boss. It was established more than 30 years ago, but has not actually operated for very long (it was a holding company for the first 27 years).

2. It is a typical family business. The members are basically the boss’s son, the boss’s son’s wife, and the boss’s son’s wife’s younger sister. One manager is a princess with a highly subjective mindset and an inflated sense of self-importance. She often speaks badly of Taiwanese people and criticizes them for being uncultured, saying that Japanese people would never behave that way, and makes sarcastic remarks about Taiwanese employees.

3. The boss and a female manager who is a relative will compete with the sales staff for clients. When they hear that it is a major client, they push the salesperson aside and hand over their own business cards, telling the client to contact them directly. For minor clients, they simply say to contact the salesperson.

4. There are surveillance cameras near the workstations monitoring employees at all times. Employees’ Facebook accounts are monitored, and employees have been dismissed on the grounds that their Facebook posts were inappropriate.

5. Most of the real-estate properties provided can be found on public websites, yet they often tell Taiwanese people that the properties are exclusive listings. For genuinely good properties, they either keep them for themselves or have a partner investment company acquire and renovate them first, then resell them to Taiwanese people at a high price.

6. They guarantee an annual salary equivalent to 14 months’ pay (but bonuses are calculated using an extremely low base), and then reduce it further based on personal preferences and arbitrary reasons.

7. They have repeatedly said they would build a hotel in Taiwan, but it has never gone anywhere. They asked an architect to draw up the design for an entire hot-spring hotel, yet were only willing to pay a few tens of thousands of dollars—completely unaware of the value of professional work.