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, cleaning and newspaper delivery

Colleagues range from crazy to ill, while supervisors do nothing but make empty promises for you to buy into. It can train your self-cultivation and emotional management skills

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

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

2. Building on the above, you have to provide refreshments for lectures and pay up front yourself (NT$100 per student; 40 students means NT$4,000). You only get reimbursed several weeks later

2. Building on the above, organizing lectures means playing cat and mouse with the campus security center, because schools will not lend you classrooms (during my first week on the job, I was scolded by a school officer and kicked out)

I urge people with an overwhelming sense of justice not to work in school distribution channels

3. For the university entrance exam, comprehensive assessment exams, and any civil-service examinations, you will be forced to work for free handing out DMs

4. According to senior employees, performance bonuses used to be better, with the commission rate reaching double digits; now it is a very pitiful single-digit percentage

5. They keep shouting about the declining birth rate and telling everyone to weather hard times together, but supposedly revenue has not fallen

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

7. The mentoring system for new hires can neither be called 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 do not hit your targets, you have to go up and give a review presentation. I heard that in the past, you had to submit it in writing (I would rather write than be publicly judged on stage)

9. I completely do not understand how the supervisors make decisions. Today they say go to the North Pole, so you go to the North Pole; tomorrow they say 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, and your coworkers can hear the sounds when you defecate—unless you never defecate at work

12. Your self-esteem is often belittled here. Although the insults generally do not rise to the level of personal attacks, you will be subjected to PUA-style manipulation. They may say, “For someone with your abilities, you are already doing pretty well here. You definitely would not earn this much in an outside job, and it would be harder.” 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 hires 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 marked for removal and are not suited to staying, so you quietly leave on your own

But the advantage is that if you do not CARE about anything, the company is also reluctant to spend severance pay to make you leave