Workplace reviews and discussion: 第一金融控股股份有限公司

This is probably the most ingenious part of how this system operates: it doesn’t need to directly deny you; it only needs to make you slowly doubt yourself

—and that’s enough.

Recently, I once again saw the education and training figure Wang JiaX bring up the story of mentor Sol in a retrospective. The familiar playbook is still the same

: first re-editing the past into a glowing retrospective, then turning other people’s experiences into their own endorsement, and smoothly drawing out what once appeared to be a systematic circle at Taiwan Cooperative Bank. It is called inheritance, but it looks more like the precise allocation of resources

and interests; it is called inspiration, but it is really just using vague words in a way that makes everyone think they are talking about themselves.

At first, they give you a life jacket, making you feel that you are finally understood and seen; then they use incentive bonuses

to ignite expectations, making people believe that they can quickly turn their lives around as long as they follow the right rhythm. But once you truly commit, you gradually discover

that it is more like a beautifully packaged medicine bag, covered with claims about its effects while downplaying its side effects.

What you should really look at is not these stories, but the details that are deliberately ignored—for example, the records and totals of personal leave, official leave, and sick leave within a year. These cold numbers should be tallied as evidence of other people’s diligence

and are more honest than any touching narrative. Yet when you raise these questions, you are often led to believe that your

understanding is biased, and may even begin to wonder whether you simply are not working hard enough or investing enough.

The overall atmosphere is like riding a YouBike to watch a game between the Wei Chuan Dragons and the CTBC Brothers. The Wei Chuan Dragons are gradually adjusting their pace during their rebuilding process, while the CTBC Brothers and Shin Kong are finding new ways to play amid change; by contrast, this place feels like a team still trapped in its old tactics, with a sluggish pace and stagnant atmosphere, permeated throughout by an indescribable lifelessness.

Wang JiaX’s approach is consistent: announcing people’s names in group chats at night without notice, endlessly encroaching on vacation time; calling it cultivation, when it is really more like testing obedience. Promotions are slow, administrative procedures are lengthy without any sign of optimization, and work assignments are unbalanced, yet tasks are still expected to be completed within unreasonable time frames. From Sing-Ju-Dian, Little Dragon Food, Tainan-style yi mein, and Liu Mama Cold Noodles to Liu Family Cold Noodles, then all the way to Dongyin Quick Knife, Wuji Stone Hot Pot, and Wan Fang Ice Room, on the surface it looks like concern for people’s lives and an effort to build closeness, but in reality it feels more like binding people firmly to the same rhythm, until even all room to breathe has been completely depleted.

When you try to fight for a reasonable pace, you are instead labeled. Over time, many people are not persuaded but worn down. Eventually, even their most basic judgment begins to waver, and they may even attribute the problem to themselves.