A decades-old company and a large enterprise with several hundred employees

A traditional, system-driven industry, with responsibility-based working hours, salary depending on luck, and opportunities to learn various fields—for example, janitor and newspaper-delivery work

Colleagues are either crazy or sick, and managers do nothing but make empty promises for you to swallow. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management skills

Suitable for natural actors who know how to flatter managers—you’ll get along very well

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

2. As mentioned above, when organizing seminars, you have to pay for the catering out of your own pocket first (NT$100 per student; 40 students would be NT$4,000), and it will only be reimbursed several weeks later

2. As mentioned above, organizing seminars means playing cat and mouse with the campus security center, because the school will not 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 overwhelming sense of justice not to work in school-channel sales

3. For the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service exams, you will be dragged in 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 are a pitiful single-digit percentage

5. They keep shouting about the declining birth rate and asking everyone to share the burden, but supposedly revenue hasn’t fallen

6. The company’s senior management is also similar to that of a family business, but it is difficult to hear any gossip

7. The mentor-apprentice system for new hires can’t really be called good or bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they keep tricks to themselves

8. There are a huge number of meaningless meetings. If you don’t meet your targets, you have to go up and deliver a self-criticism report. I heard that in the past, it had to be written (I would rather write it than stand onstage for a public trial)

9. I have absolutely no idea how managers 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 most colleagues were around the same age (almost all under 30). After joining, I realized that this was actually 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 undermined here. Although the scolding usually does not reach the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to workplace manipulation, such as being told, “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 harder.” Or managers will compare and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so. They did ** ten thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on the weekend to serve students,” and so on

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

Eventually, you realize that you have been marked for elimination and are no longer suited to stay, so you quietly leave on your own

But the upside is that if you don’t CARE about anything, the company is reluctant to spend severance pay to ask you to leave