1. The office is quite nice, and the cleaning staff come twice a week, so the cleanliness is good.

2. Both sales and planning staff have opportunities to travel abroad for inspections, although this is also a disadvantage, as explained below.

3. The company has complete photography equipment. Most of the photos are basically taken by employees during business trips.

Having the opportunity to travel abroad to understand the products the company sells is certainly great, but employees are forced to sign contracts. Depending on the amount paid by the company for the overseas inspection trip, employees are bound to the company for a specified period. If you do not work for x years, you must pay, for example, 1/2 or 3/4 of your salary in order to resign. Even if you agree to pay the money and settle the matter, you may still be subjected to sarcastic remarks.

The boss is very particular about employees using their own phones to take photos during overseas inspection trips—not even one photo is allowed. I can personally understand this concern, but the constant surveillance creates an excessively oppressive feeling of distrust. In addition, you may initially be told that a business trip will take place on x month x day, only to be told later that it has been postponed. Employees must pay visa fees themselves, and they must bear all resulting losses; the company will not care. The company often changes business-trip dates. If you cannot accommodate a last-minute change, you are labeled as someone who does not fit in. Supervisors are very skilled at emotional manipulation.

During business trips, because of something outrageous the boss says, you may have to get up early to photograph the sunrise even when you are exhausted and have barely slept. Of course, during business trips you do not stay in the upscale hotels sold to customers. You usually stay separately in an inexpensive dormitory-style room, with male and female employees living together in the same space (sometimes even in the same room). Anyone who values privacy should take special note. No one will tell you any of these details before the business trip. After all, turnover is very high, and senior employees are the boss’s trusted inner circle, with a deeply ingrained willingness to submit.

1. The boss is emotionally unstable and often loudly berates employees in the office, nearly amounting to personal attacks, which makes people uncomfortable.

2. The planning department’s work is disorganized. In the middle of working, employees may have to wash diving equipment rented by customers. If someone is going on a business trip, planning staff are responsible for organizing all the photography equipment.

3. As the end of the workday approaches, completely non-urgent tasks may suddenly be added.

4. Supervisors listen to the boss excessively. Frontline employees must accept all of the boss’s fanciful ideas, and unexplained overtime is the norm.

5. If you finish your work and leave on time, coworkers may resent you, even if you are genuinely unable to help them.

6. Whenever there is a customer complaint, sales staff are responsible for paying compensation. There have been cases where an entire month’s hard-earned pay was used to cover the costs.

7. If the boss dislikes you, you will be dismissed, regardless of right or wrong or of your abilities.

8. On holidays, you may sometimes be forced to host business partners from overseas.

9. The starting salary is very low. There are no clear evaluation criteria for raises; it depends entirely on whether the boss likes you.

10. Financial operations are not transparent. Each payday, no clear pay statement is provided, and even after raising the issue, you do not receive a clear response.

Overall, I personally think the work itself is not difficult. Anyone willing to learn can definitely quickly become familiar with the various equipment and systems. However, the psychological pressure of working here is extremely high! Even if you are highly capable and have not done anything wrong, you constantly have to worry about offending coworkers by leaving on time, offending your supervisor by clearly telling them where they made a mistake, or being disliked by the boss. You also have no way of knowing whether there is any opportunity for a raise. I understand that the chance to travel abroad for business inspections is very appealing, and some people may say that working while traveling is great. But the employees chosen for business trips are selected randomly by the boss, and you may not get along with them—unless you are a living Buddha reincarnated. The price you have to pay is far too high. It is truly better to find a better company, earn money, and then enjoy traveling abroad, without having to worry about being bound by a contract or being monitored and suspected simply because you took out your phone and casually took one photo.