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

A traditional manufacturing and services company with a system based on seniority, responsibility-based working hours, and salaries that depend on luck. You can learn about different fields, such as working as a cleaner or newspaper delivery person.

Some colleagues are crazy, others are sick; managers just talk and paint rosy pictures for you to swallow. It can help you develop your self-discipline 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 universities to hand out flyers, write on blackboards, and organize lectures.

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

2. As mentioned above, organizing lectures means playing cat and mouse with the campus security center, because schools won’t lend you classrooms. (I was yelled at by a school instructor and kicked out during my first week on the job.)

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

3. For the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service exams, you’ll be dragged in to work for free handing out DMs.

4. According to senior colleagues, performance bonuses used to be better—you could get a percentage in the double digits, but now it’s a miserable 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 that of a family business, but it’s hard to hear any gossip.

7. The new-hire 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 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 instead. (I’d rather write it than be publicly judged on stage.)

9. It’s completely impossible to understand how the managers make decisions. If they say today that you’re going to the North Pole, you go to the North Pole; if they say tomorrow that you’re going to the South Pole, you go to the South Pole. You need excellent survival and adaptability skills.

10. During the interview, they say most colleagues are around the same age as you (almost no one is over 30). After joining, you realize that this is actually because the retention rate is so low.

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

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the insults don’t usually amount to personal attacks, you’ll be subjected to PUA-style manipulation. They’ll say things like, “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 your manager will compare you with others and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so—they did NT$**0,000 in sales this month and even came in specially on holidays to serve students,” and so on.

13. Managers take the lead in isolating new hires they dislike. Group-work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work.

After a while, you realize that you’ve been singled out for elimination and that you’re no longer suited to staying, so you quietly leave on your own.

But the upside is that if you don’t CARE about anything, the company can’t bear to spend severance money to make you leave.