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

A traditional, system-driven industry; responsibility-based working hours; salary depends 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 you a rosy picture. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management skills

Suitable for natural performers who flatter their managers—you’ll do very well here

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

2. Following from the above, when organizing lectures, you have to pay for refreshments up front yourself (NT$100 per student, so 40 students means NT$4,000). They won’t reimburse you until several weeks later

2. Following from the above, when organizing lectures, you have to play cat and mouse with the campus 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 swept out of the school)

I urge people with an overflowing sense of justice not to work in school-channel sales

3. For the university entrance exam, comprehensive assessment exam, and any civil service exam, you’ll be forced to work as an unpaid temporary worker handing out DMs

4. I heard from senior colleagues that performance bonuses used to be better, with commissions reaching double-digit percentages; now they’re a pitiful single-digit percentage

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

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

7. The new-hire mentor system is neither good nor bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they hold back information

8. There are tons of meaningless meetings. If you don’t meet your targets, you have to go up and give a review; I heard that in the past, it had to be written (I’d rather write it than be publicly humiliated onstage)

9. I completely don’t understand how the managers make decisions. Today they say we’re going to the North Pole, so we go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say we’re going to the South Pole, so 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 all under 30). After joining, I realized that actually meant the retention rate was too low

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

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the scolding usually doesn’t rise to the level of personal attacks, you’ll be subjected to PUA-style manipulation, such as being told, “With your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn as much elsewhere, and the work would be harder.” Or your manager will compare you with others and provoke you: “Look at so-and-so—they did ** ten-thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on weekends to serve students,” and so on

13. Managers will lead the isolation of new hires they dislike. Group work 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 not suitable for staying, so you’ll quietly leave on your own

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