I dreamt that:

Time off is handled the same way as for civil servants.

Even overtime is only one or two hours.

A starting salary of 30K is considered pretty good in southern Taiwan.

The year-end bonus is also roughly 1–1.5 months’ salary.

If you don’t have much of a goal in life,

you could stay here for the rest of your life

and be considered a quasi-civil servant.

I dreamt that:

The company was taken over by the second generation.

Everyone knows what rich second-generation heirs are like:

they’ve never suffered hardship and have no experience dealing with people.

They’re too idealistic and stingy in how they work.

The company actually makes huge profits,

but the year-end bonus never changes much.

Young people never stay for very long,

especially the on-site supervisors—

they’re standard-issue defenders of management

who never think about the employees.

They have odd personalities and expect you to put up with them while learning how to behave.

Some difficult people make you genuinely want to kill yourself when you run into them.

They nag you all day without their mouths ever getting tired.

There’s absolutely no onboarding process for new hires; they just leave you to fend for yourself.

When something goes wrong, they angrily say they already taught you.

Otherwise, they spend all day telling you to work faster.

But once you work quickly and finish everything, leaving nothing to do,

they ask why you’re always wandering around and slacking off.

Or there’s a rookie killer who keeps staring at you all day,

waiting for you to make a mistake so they can scold you instead of helping you.

Yes, I’m talking about the “Voyeur Bro.”

Anyway, the culture here is very strange:

no one trains new hires, everyone likes to act tough, nitpick, and nag.

The older employees think that working in a traditional industry means you should be left to fend for yourself.

Whether you show respect to your elders is up to you,

because that’s how they came up in the past.

Then they wonder why all the young people want to go work in the tech industry.

In short, the salary and benefits

are around the average level in southern Taiwan.

The annual compensation is roughly 13–14 months’ salary.

There’s plenty of leave, so you can take time off to your heart’s content.

People with good tempers can come and give it a try

to find out that even a saint’s patience has its limits.

Or people who are hard of hearing can come;

that way, you won’t have to keep listening to all the man-made noise.