Workplace reviews and discussion: 國立台灣師範大學心理與教育測驗研究發展中心

Normally, work starts at 9:00, but there is a one-hour flexible working period from 8:00 to 9:00. For example, if you clock in at 8:34, you can clock out at 17:34.

1. You must show your supervisors the utmost respect because they are “professors.”

2. As soon as a supervisor thinks you are not doing well, they will immediately display a disdainful or incredulous attitude and expression.

3. Following from point 2, if they feel even more strongly that you are not doing well, they will immediately say hurtful things and may even start berating you outright.

4. The supervisors themselves do not have many ideas. They keep telling you to come up with ideas, but when you do, they are dissatisfied. If you ask them what they think is wrong, they will only say that coming up with solutions is your responsibility, creating an endless loop.

5. The first four points describe situations that are almost impossible to encounter in ordinary companies. They make the work environment here seriously detrimental to one’s mental and physical health; they often make you question whether you are truly incompetent.

6. If you unfortunately become disliked by a supervisor, be careful—you may be constantly targeted and given a hard time.

7. Try your best not to pay for business expenses out of pocket. The bureaucratic approval process here is astonishing and may leave you waiting six months for your money to return to your wallet—with no interest for the six-month wait.

8. I have not experienced this myself, but a colleague has had their leave request blocked.