It’s a decades-old company and a large enterprise with several hundred employees.

A traditional, system-driven industry; hours are based on responsibility, salary depends on luck, and you can learn about various fields—for example, working as a cleaner or newspaper delivery person.

Some colleagues are crazy and others are sick; supervisors just talk and draw pies for you to eat. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management.

Suitable for natural actors who are good at flattering supervisors—you’ll do very well here.

1. You have to sneak into various universities to hand out flyers, write on blackboards, and organize seminars.

2. As mentioned above, you have to provide refreshments for the seminars and pay upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000). They won’t reimburse you until several weeks later.

2. As mentioned above, organizing seminars means playing cat and mouse with the campus security office, because the school won’t lend you a classroom. (During my first week on the job, I was scolded by a school officer and kicked off campus.)

I urge people with an overflowing sense of justice not to work in school-channel sales.

3. During the Comprehensive Assessment Program, high school entrance exams, and any civil-service examinations, you’ll be sent to work for free handing out DMs.

4. I heard from senior colleagues that performance bonuses used to be better, with commissions reaching double-digit percentages; now they’re a pitiful single-digit percentage.

5. They keep saying that declining birth rates mean everyone needs to weather the difficulties together, but apparently revenue hasn’t fallen.

6. The company’s upper management is also similar to a family business, but it’s difficult to hear much gossip.

7. The new-employee mentor system can’t be called good or bad, because it completely depends on who your mentor is and whether they hold anything back.

8. There are way too many meaningless meetings. If you don’t meet your performance targets, you have to go up and give a self-criticism report. I heard that in the past, it had to be written instead. (I’d rather write one than be publicly tried onstage.)

9. I have absolutely no idea how the supervisors make decisions. If they say today that we’re going to the North Pole, we go to the North Pole; if they say tomorrow that we’re going to the South Pole, we go to the South Pole. You need excellent survival and adaptability skills.

10. During the interview, they said that most colleagues were around the same age (almost all under 30). Only after joining did I understand that this was because the retention rate was so low.

11. You have to bring your own toilet paper, and your coworkers will hear the sounds when you poop—unless you never poop at work.

12. Your self-esteem is often put down here. Although the insults generally don’t rise to the level of personal attacks, you’ll be subjected to PUA-style manipulation. They’ll say things like, “For someone with your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn this much at another job, and it would be even more difficult.” Or your supervisor will compare you with others and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so—they did ** ten-thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on weekends to serve students,” and so on.

13. Supervisors will take the lead in isolating new employees they dislike. Group-work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work.

After a while, you’ll realize that you’ve been marked for elimination and that you’re not suited to stay, so you’ll quietly leave on your own.

But the upside is that if you don’t CARE about anything, the company is also reluctant to spend severance money to make you leave.