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

A traditional, system-driven industry; fixed working hours based on responsibility; salary depends on luck; you can learn about different fields, such as being a cleaner or newspaper deliverer

Some colleagues are crazy, others are mentally ill; supervisors do nothing but talk and draw you promises to eat. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management.

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

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

2. Related to the above: when organizing lectures, you have to order food and pay upfront yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000). You only get reimbursed several weeks later.

2. Related to the above: when organizing lectures, 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, 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. You will be forced to work for free handing out promotional materials during the General Scholastic Ability Test, Comprehensive Assessment Program, and any civil-service examinations.

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

5. They keep saying that, because of the declining birthrate, everyone needs 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 the gossip.

7. The newcomer mentor-apprentice system is neither good nor bad, because it completely depends on who your mentor is and whether they withhold useful knowledge.

8. There are an absurd number of meaningless meetings. If you do not meet your sales 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 it than be publicly judged on stage).

9. I have absolutely no idea how the supervisors make decisions. Today they say to go to the North Pole, so you go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say to go to the South Pole, so you 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). After joining, I realized that this was actually because the retention rate was so low.

11. You have to bring your own toilet paper. Your coworkers can hear the sounds when you poop, unless you never poop at the company.

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 psychological manipulation. They may say, “With your abilities, you are already doing pretty well here. You certainly would not earn as much at another job, and it would be more difficult.” Or your supervisor may 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 lead the group in isolating new employees they dislike. Group work schedules are not transparent, creating information gaps that make it impossible to coordinate work.

Eventually, you realize that you have been singled out for dismissal and are no longer suited to stay, so you quietly leave on your own.

But the benefit is that if you do not CARE about any of it, the company is also reluctant to spend severance pay to ask you to leave.