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

A traditional-industry system, working hours based on responsibility, salary depends on luck, and the opportunity to learn different fields—for example, cleaner and newspaper delivery worker

Colleagues are crazy or sick, while supervisors just talk and draw pies for you to eat. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management

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

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

2. Related to the above, when organizing seminars, you have to pay for the refreshments upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students costs NT$4,000), and you only get reimbursed several weeks later

2. Related to the above, organizing seminars means playing cat and mouse with the campus security office, 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-channel sales

3. For the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examination, you may be hauled in as an unpaid temporary worker to hand out DMs

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

5. They keep shouting about declining birth rates and asking everyone to weather the difficulties together, but supposedly revenue has not fallen

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

7. The new-employee mentor system is neither good nor bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they keep tricks up their sleeve

8. There are tons of meaningless meetings. If you miss your targets, you have to go up and give a self-criticism report. I heard that in the past, this had to be done in writing (I would rather write than be publicly tried onstage)

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 none over 30). Only after joining did I understand that this was actually 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 belittled here. Although the scolding generally does not rise to the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to psychological manipulation. They may say, “For someone 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 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 ostracizing new employees they dislike. Group-work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work

After a while, you’ll realize that you’ve been marked for elimination, and if you’re not suited to staying, you’ll quietly leave on your own

But the upside is that if you don’t CARE about anything, the company is reluctant to spend severance pay to make you leave