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

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

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

It suits natural performers who are good at flattering supervisors—you’ll do very well here.

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

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

2. Related to the above, you have to play cat-and-mouse with campus security when organizing seminars, because schools won’t lend you classrooms (during my first week, I was yelled at by a school instructor and swept out of the school).

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

3. During the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examination, you’ll be dragged in to work for free distributing DMs.

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

5. They keep shouting about declining birth rates and telling everyone to weather the difficulties together, but supposedly revenue hasn’t fallen.

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

7. The new-employee mentor system 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 way too many meaningless meetings. If you don’t hit your targets, you have to go up and give a review; I heard that in the past it had to be written (I’d rather write it than be publicly tried onstage).

9. I completely don’t understand how supervisors make decisions. Today they say go to the North Pole, so you go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say go to the South Pole, so you 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 none over 30). After joining, I realized they meant the retention rate was simply too low.

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

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the scolding doesn’t usually reach the level of personal attacks, you’ll be subjected to PUA tactics, such as being told, “For someone with your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn this much elsewhere, and the work would be harder.” Or supervisors will compare and provoke employees: “Look at so-and-so—they made ** ten thousand this month and even came in to work overtime on holidays to serve students,” and so on.

13. Supervisors will lead the isolation of 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 singled out for elimination and that you’re no longer suited to staying, 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 pay to ask you to leave.