Apart from normal holidays on public holidays, there’s nothing else.

First of all, the entire company has only about ten employees. Basically, it’s just like those other reviews. Although those were posted three or four years ago, I moved to Keelung and the company is still pretty much the same—no better. I couldn’t find a better job.

Job platforms say they’re hiring graphic designers, project staff, and so on, but that’s all bullshit. Everyone is just making development calls. The job descriptions are merely sales talk, just like the project introductions they send to other companies: exaggerated and full of bragging. An ordinary mid-level manager at a small company with a few dozen people is dressed up as the “CEO of Such-and-such Company” and “a former senior executive at Such-and-such Airlines.” The key point is, the person isn’t even a lecturer. If any company that has received their proposals sees this review, I genuinely suggest that you verify every detail carefully. The company will also keep quoting you high prices—otherwise they wouldn’t make any money. To put it bluntly, they’re just earning a referral fee. You’d be better off finding genuinely capable lecturers yourself.

Next, the pay is pitifully low—basically just the minimum wage under the Labor Standards Act. So the employees are all women without financial pressure; some are adults who are still supported by their families and are only working to earn pocket money. Others are married and simply looking for an easy job to kill time.

Then there are the bonuses for the three major holidays and so on. They depend on your performance and KPI, and even your clothing and appearance affect them. They also make you memorize more than twenty pages of company introductions and sales scripts. Otherwise, they deduct your bonus. Put plainly, it’s up to the supervisor’s mood.

Every morning, there’s also a pointless meeting. You have to report how many calls you made the day before so they can dock your pay or chew you out in front of everyone. Then every day you listen to people spout nonsense about their “learning takeaways” and “work reflections.” In a one-hour meeting, fifteen minutes is spent listening to everyone talk nonsense, and the remaining forty-five minutes are spent listening to management brainwash everyone. It’s all nonsense. The general message is that if you want to succeed, you have to work for their company, along with all sorts of hints that you should be contributing to the company after work and during your days off, otherwise you won’t succeed. It’s always the same few lines. Everyone has heard them so often they can recite them. You might as well let everyone sleep an extra hour every day.

Management is also extremely sexist. Men are required to wear a shirt, tie, and suit trousers, while women can wear basically anything as long as they don’t look too casual. Male employees make one fewer call than female employees and get harshly berated, while female employees don’t get criticized at all.

Also, if you don’t reach your call quota, they’ll tell you that you shouldn’t be playing with your phone or doing your own things during lunch; you should be practicing. You’re also expected to practice after going home from work. They may even make you write an “improvement plan” and a practice plan, then submit them to your supervisor for inspection the next day.

The job platform also mentions unlimited fruit, snacks, and drinks, but there’s absolutely nothing like that. It’s all just management’s lunch, or everyone eating boxed meals. There are no movie days or trips either, and no training or one-on-one sessions. Every day, they just tell you to hold the sales script and make calls while reading from it. Management makes up half the company, and I don’t even know whether this can really be called a transparent promotion path. It seems that when they moved from Taipei to Keelung, everyone who stayed and came to work in Keelung became a supervisor. On top of that, they force you to provide a doctor’s certificate for sick leave. Even if you’re feeling unwell and just want to go home to rest, the company still insists that you get one. A real example: On a certain day, a colleague felt unwell, took leave to see a doctor, and got a certificate. The next day, they came to work and submitted it. That afternoon, they still felt unwell and took leave to go home, but the company still required another doctor’s certificate. The doctor even said, “You haven’t finished taking your medicine yet. How are you going to register for another appointment? If you didn’t register, I can’t issue you a doctor’s certificate.” Yet the company kept pestering them to get one. It was truly speechless. There are hardly any parking spaces either; people just park wherever they can on the roadside. There is a place where everyone could park, but they won’t open it and make everyone park on the street instead. Then one day, I suddenly found a notice on my desk saying I had to pay labor and health insurance premiums. I don’t even know whether this company actually enrolls people in labor and health insurance.

And there’s more. Other companies give red envelopes or bonuses at New Year’s. Do you know what their company gives? A damn bar of soap. Then after the New Year, they took us out for a meal costing NT$7,000. The point is, it was food from a stir-fry restaurant—not some five-star meal. They might as well have given each of us a NT$1,000 red envelope for returning to work. Damn, they’re incredibly stingy.

They keep saying every day that the company is “very free,” but every day they restrict this and restrict that. What freedom is that? If you don’t meet the quota, they deduct your pay, and they still call that freedom? They even force people to wear certain things.

Then, according to management themselves, apparently lecturers have to provide a six-figure promissory note to join the company. Impressive 👍🏻

Employees are the same: if you attend the company lecturer’s training or whatever, you’re not allowed to resign within a year, along with various other bizarre clauses.

That’s enough—I’m too tired to keep talking about it. I’ve never worked for such an absurd company in my life, and I’ve never reviewed any other company, but this one is truly ridiculous. A small company that thinks it’s a Fortune 500 corporation. Is it only being propped up by funding from mainland China? Truly speechless.