It’s 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, working as a cleaner or newspaper delivery person.

Some coworkers are crazy and some are sick; supervisors just talk and draw you a picture of a pie to eat. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management.

Suitable for natural actors who want to flatter the supervisors—you’ll do very well here.

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

2. Following from the above, when organizing lectures, you have to pay for the catering upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000). You only get reimbursed several weeks later.

2. Following from the above, organizing lectures means playing 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 out while being swept out the door).

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

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

4. According to senior employees, performance bonuses used to be better; the commission rate could reach the double digits, whereas now it is a miserable single-digit percentage.

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

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

7. The mentorship system for newcomers can’t really be called good or bad, because it depends entirely on who your mentor is and whether they withhold useful tips.

8. There are an incredible number of meaningless meetings. If you don’t hit your targets, you have to go up and give a review; apparently, in the past, it had to be written (I’d rather write it than be publicly judged 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 coworkers 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 coworkers can hear the sounds when you poop—unless you never poop at the company.

12. Your self-esteem is often put down here. Although the scolding does not reach the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to psychological manipulation—for example, being told, “With your abilities, you’re already doing pretty well here. You definitely wouldn’t earn as much at another job, and it would be harder.” Or your supervisor will compare and pressure you: “Look at so-and-so. They did **ten-thousand** in sales this month and even came in specially to work overtime and serve students on weekends,” and so on.

13. Supervisors will lead the isolation of newcomers 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 singled out for termination and are not suited to staying, so you’ll quietly leave on your own.

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