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

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

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

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

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

2. As mentioned above, when organizing lectures, you have to pay for refreshments upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000), and it won’t be reimbursed until several weeks later.

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

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

3. For the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examinations, you’ll be dragged in as unpaid temporary labor to hand out DMs.

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

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

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

7. The new-hire mentor system is neither clearly good nor clearly bad, because it entirely depends on who your mentor is and whether they keep 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 you had to write it out. (I’d rather write it than go onstage for a public trial.)

9. I completely don’t understand 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 none over 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 colleagues can hear the sounds when you poop—unless you never poop at work.

12. Your self-esteem is often put down here. Although the scolding usually doesn’t reach the level of personal attacks, you’ll be subjected to psychological manipulation: “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 managers will compare and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so—they did NT$** ten-thousand in sales this month and even came in specially on holidays to serve students,” and so on.

13. Managers will lead the group in isolating new hires they don’t like. Teamwork 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 and that you’re no longer suited to staying, so you’ll quietly leave on your own.

But the advantage is that if you don’t CARE about anything, the company also won’t want to spend severance pay to make you leave.