The company orders lunch together, so there’s no need to go out at noon. If there’s overtime in the evening, dinner will also be ordered together.

1. The turnover rate is extremely high, yet the boss believes it’s because young people today are too spoiled. There are various exhibitions and events requiring staff support throughout the year, especially during long holidays, so you can forget about taking a proper vacation. You essentially have no personal life even during normal periods. You often have to support events in other counties or cities, with the farthest assignments requiring business trips to Kaohsiung.

2. Office staff often need to support the retail stores. They’ll say it’s for you to learn and become familiar with the products, and if you can’t provide support, they’ll show their displeasure.

3. One supervisor is two-faced and illogical. When asking questions, they never listen to what the other person has actually asked. They tell you A today and B tomorrow, then blame you for not listening carefully. They like to stab you in the back in front of the boss, and constantly change their directives.

4. The work is complicated and the workload is heavy. You also frequently need to attend meetings and training sessions. Even when you can’t finish everything, you’ll be blamed for being inefficient.

5. The company believes overtime is caused by low efficiency, so it is reluctant to pay overtime. However, leaving work too punctually makes them feel that you aren’t sufficiently proactive or hardworking in the job.

6. They like to use test scores and performance to judge a person’s abilities and value.

7. They appear open-minded and willing to listen to different opinions from employees, but are actually conservative and unable to accept new opinions and ideas. They favor employees who obey them. The supervisors have extremely volatile tempers and frequently shout at and berate employees in the office.

8. When the company accepts group-buying orders for shipment, employees are required to indicate whether they can cooperate with overtime. Those who cannot work overtime will still be criticized.

9. It is a family business, and the interviewer is the boss. They show no respect for interviewees, criticizing everything from their résumé to their clothing and abilities—especially their TOEIC score. Humiliating you is just part of the standard process; after criticizing you until you seem worthless, they then push down the salary offer.

10. The boss’s wife is a smiling tiger. When she is dissatisfied with retail-store employees, she won’t say it to their faces. Instead, she asks employees to play the bad cop while she plays the good cop.

11. The games at the year-end banquet are all tests of product knowledge, while the gifts drawn are old models or products that failed to sell. They treat the year-end banquet as a clearance sale.

12. The bonus system is very difficult to achieve. If you do well, it’s considered what you should do; if you don’t, congratulations—you can expect concern from all sides.

13. There is a very high probability that the job description during the interview will not match the actual duties. You may apply for an office position but be assigned to a retail store after being hired, or transferred to another department.

14. They take pleasure in criticizing other companies’ products.

15. Coworkers appear peaceful on the surface, but secretly observe one another and gossip behind each other’s backs.

16. Employees take turns serving as the person on duty, handling tasks such as taking out the garbage and ordering boxed lunches. There is one day of cleaning each week.