Overtime pay starts from six o’clock, and it is calculated based on base salary plus allowances. Working on holidays is well compensated.

Contract employees receive a fixed salary increase after completing each year.

1. The company’s work atmosphere is very dull and quiet, with absolutely no vitality.

2. During the interview, they said that contract employees might eventually be promoted to permanent positions. In reality, permanent positions are limited to a fixed number of slots, so promotion is only possible when a permanent employee leaves. Moreover, promotion to a permanent position is based not on ability but on the length of time employed as a contract worker.

3. Contract employees basically receive no benefits at all and are treated like second-class citizens. Contract employees are excluded from the year-end party, company-paid employee dinners, employee trips, and health checkups.

4. Although the Accounting Department has already calculated the salaries, for some unknown reason, a very disorganized Japanese manager insists on causing salary payments to be delayed.

5. The company is almost entirely made up of women, with only the Japanese managers being men. As a result, the female employees tend to gossip and form cliques.

6. The Japanese managers’ management is also terrible. They have absolutely no leadership ability, and they even call you in for meetings at six o’clock, despite the meetings having no content at all. The manager believes that working overtime equals working hard, and that anyone who does not work overtime is slacking off.