It’s an old company that’s been around for several decades, and a large enterprise with several hundred employees.

A traditional, system-driven industry; working hours are based on responsibility rather than fixed schedules, 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.

Suitable for natural actors who want to flatter supervisors—you’ll do very well here.

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

2. Following the above, you have to provide food and drinks for seminars, and pay out of pocket first (NT$100 per student; 40 students comes to NT$4,000). You won’t be reimbursed until several weeks later.

2. Following the above, you have to play cat and mouse with the campus security center when holding seminars, 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 out while sweeping the floor).

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

3. For the Comprehensive Assessment Program, senior high school entrance exams, and any civil-service examinations, you’ll be dragged in to work as an unpaid temporary worker handing out DMs.

4. I heard from senior colleagues that performance bonuses used to be better; the commission percentage could reach double digits, but now it’s down to a pitiful single-digit percentage.

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

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

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

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

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 most colleagues were around the same age (almost all under 30). Only after joining did I realize that this was because the retention rate was so low.

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

12. Your self-esteem is often put down here. Although the insults usually don’t rise to the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to psychological manipulation, such as being told, “With your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn this much at another job, and it would be more difficult.” Or your supervisor 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 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.

Eventually, you’ll realize that you’ve been marked for elimination. If you’re not suited to staying, you’ll quietly leave on your own.

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