A decades-old company and 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, cleaner or newspaper delivery worker

Colleagues are crazy or sick, and managers just talk and draw you pies to eat. It can train your self-discipline and emotional management.

Suitable for natural actors who want to flatter managers; you will fit in very well.

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

2. As mentioned above, when organizing seminars, you have to pay for the catering upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000), and they do not reimburse you until 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 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 exam, you will be dragged in to work for free handing out DMs.

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 any gossip.

7. The new-hire mentorship system can neither be called good nor bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they keep their tricks to themselves.

8. There are an absurd number of meaningless meetings. If you do not hit your targets, you have to go up and give a review; I heard that in the past, it had to be written (I would rather write than be publicly tried onstage).

9. I completely do not understand how the managers make decisions. If they say today that we are going to the North Pole, we go to the North Pole; if they say tomorrow that we are 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 nobody over 30). After joining, I realized that this actually means the retention rate is too 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 belittled here. Although the scolding does not usually reach the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to PUA manipulation, such as being told, “With your abilities, you are already doing pretty well here. You definitely would not earn this much elsewhere, and the work would be harder.” Or your manager will compare and provoke you: “Look at so-and-so, they did NT$** ten thousand in sales this month and even came in to work overtime on holidays to serve students,” and so on.

13. Managers will 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 will realize that you have been marked for elimination and are no longer suited to stay, so you will quietly leave on your own.

But the benefit is that if you do not CARE about anything, the company is also reluctant to spend severance money to ask you to leave.