The hourly wage for temporary workers is okay.

A very strange Taiwanese family-run company. They expect newcomers to be psychic. Important and complicated things like the serving order, changing plates, and when to clear plates are not taught at all—you’re just expected to figure them out yourself. Then they make you wear a headset, but you can’t clearly hear or understand a whole bunch of banquet terminology. What is the point of making temporary workers wear headsets anyway?

When the veterans see that a temporary part-timer doesn’t know what to do, they don’t take the initiative to guide you. They just quietly do their own work. You can only stand there blankly watching them stay busy, walk over and pretend to be proactive, or keep asking what you’re supposed to do now and annoy them.

Some people with poor emotional control will randomly lose their temper at you. Most people just leave you to fend for yourself. It feels a bit like being bullied—you should come experience it sometime.

Over the entire five hours, nobody asked me whether I wanted any water, and nobody told me where the staff restroom was.

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The Tien Cheng Hotel I worked at before was much better. I was also a temporary part-timer there. Although the pay was lower and the work was exhausting, I was very happy. Everyone was very nice and didn’t abandon you just because you were a temporary part-timer. On your first day, they would give you very attentive and thorough training, with clear steps for what to do and when. The veteran temporary workers who came regularly would also cover for one another.

The guy in charge of the dish-collection area was also super nice. He would keep coming over to help you, and someone even wanted to apply for a full-time position after just their second day of work XD