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

A traditional-industry system, responsibility-based working hours, salary depends on luck, and opportunities to learn different fields—for example, working as a cleaner or newspaper delivery person

Coworkers are crazy in their own ways, and managers just talk and paint you empty promises to consume. It can train your personal self-cultivation and emotional management skills

Suitable for people who are natural actors and know how to flatter managers—you will get along very well

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

2. As mentioned above, when organizing lectures, you have to invite catering and pay upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students would be NT$4,000). You will only be reimbursed several weeks later

2. As mentioned above, organizing lectures 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 overflowing sense of justice not to work in school-based channels

3. During the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examinations, you may be forced to work for free handing out DMs

4. I heard from senior employees that performance bonuses used to be better, with commissions reaching double-digit percentages; now they are a miserably low single-digit percentage

5. They keep shouting about declining birth rates and asking everyone to weather hard times together, but apparently revenue has not fallen

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

7. The newcomer mentor-apprentice system cannot be called either good or bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they keep tricks up their sleeve

8. There are countless meaningless meetings. If you do not 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 would rather write it than be publicly tried onstage)

9. I completely do not understand how the managers make decisions. Today they say to go to the North Pole, and you go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say to go to the South Pole, and you go to the South Pole. You need excellent survival and adaptability skills

10. During the interview, they said most coworkers were around the same age (almost all under 30). Only after joining did I realize that this was because the retention rate was too 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 the company

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the scolding does not go as far as personal attacks, you will be subjected to PUA-style manipulation, such as being told, “With your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. An outside job definitely wouldn’t pay you as much and would be even harder.” Or your manager will compare and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so, they brought in **ten-thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on holidays to serve students,” and so on

13. Managers will lead the isolation of newcomers 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 dismissal and are no longer suited to stay, so you quietly leave on your own

But the upside is that if you do not CARE about anything, the company is reluctant to spend severance pay to make you leave