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.

Some colleagues are crazy and others are sick; supervisors do nothing but talk and draw up empty promises for you to consume. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management.

Suitable for natural actors who are good at flattering supervisors—you will do very well here.

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

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

2. As mentioned above, when organizing seminars, you have to play 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 yelled at 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. During the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examinations, you will be sent to work for free distributing promotional materials.

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 declining birth rates and asking everyone to share the burden, but supposedly revenue has not fallen.

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

7. The newcomer mentorship system is neither good nor bad, because it completely depends on who your mentor is and whether they keep their tricks to themselves.

8. There are an absurd number of meaningless meetings. If performance targets are not met, you have to go up and give a review. I heard that in the past, you had to write it out instead. (I would rather write than be publicly put on trial onstage.)

9. I completely do not understand how the supervisors make decisions. Today they say you are going to the North Pole, so you go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say you are going 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 all under 30). After joining, I realized that this was actually because the retention rate was too low.

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

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the scolding does not usually reach the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to PUA tactics. They may say, “With abilities like yours, you are already doing pretty well here. You definitely would not earn as much in an outside job, and it would be even harder.” Or supervisors 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 take the lead in isolating newcomers they dislike. Group-work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work.

Over time, you will realize that you have been marked for elimination and that you are not suited to staying, so you will quietly leave on your own.

But the advantage is that if you do not CARE about anything, the company is also reluctant to spend severance pay to get rid of you.