1. Thorough background checks during interviews, with nothing hidden, so you can feel at ease.
2. There’s a McDonald’s right across the street, making overtime very convenient—you can get a McDonald’s dessert card.
3. During overtime, the architect occasionally does nothing and chats with you to vent their emotions, but you still have to keep working, okay?
4. We’re worried it would be dangerous for you to go home at midnight, so when you work until midnight, we don’t provide transportation subsidies. It’s best if you live next door—for your own good.
5. We build your willpower: there’s no overtime pay for the first three months.
6. You work overtime until nine or ten every day, but in principle never past midnight, so you don’t have to worry about running out of leisure activities to do during your regular hours.
7. You don’t need to worry about not knowing how to fill in your overtime hours, because our firm calculates them based on efficiency. If you enter too many hours, the boss will remind you to go back and think it over. We won’t let the hours you report exceed the Labor Standards Act limits—after all, we’re a legitimate business.
8. Of course your monthly salary consists of more than just wages—it’s transportation subsidies plus base salary. So overtime pay is base salary divided by 200 hours per month, multiplied by 1.15. Very reasonable, right? A month has 35 days—surely that’s common knowledge.
9. You’ll work at least one extra day on weekends; in emergencies, you’ll come in every day. We all have to weather difficult times together, which creates a strong sense of unity, because we’re partners, right?
10. If you’re late in the morning, just make up twice the time in the evening. If you’re too busy to go out for lunch, don’t worry—you did get that McDonald’s card, didn’t you?
11. The hours from 6 to 7 p.m. don’t count as overtime. Mealtimes don’t count as overtime either. If you don’t go eat between 6 and 7, maybe you’re already resting mentally—it’s not that the boss told you to finish the work.
12. We tailor an exclusive specification, exclusive position, and exclusive stationery for you. Every pen has your name on it to give you a sense of belonging. Don’t use your own stationery—that would be far too uncontrolled.
13. When the architect loses their temper with you, it’s to train your EQ. Don’t be ungrateful—isn’t it because your abilities are simply too poor?
14. There are too many advantages to list; experience them yourself. But our firm would never stoop to hiring people who come here after seeing just any random website and becoming enamored with us. We have principles.
It’s absolutely wonderful—I don’t know why I left.
1. At least 16 working hours every day, with 2.5 days off per month
(Meal breaks are not counted as overtime. However, if the boss forces you to stay and draw between 6:30 and 7:30, that time is also not counted as overtime.
Time spent going out to eat after 6:30 and before 7:30 is likewise not counted as overtime. Being late results in double pay deductions.
If you worked until 3 a.m. the previous day, you must still arrive at the company promptly at 8:30 the next morning.)
2. Matchmaker-style background investigation during the interview
(You have to disclose where your parents and siblings work, and they will also ask about your sexual orientation.)
3. Pets are not allowed (because spending time with pets means you cannot work overtime)
4. Dating is not allowed
(Because dating and going out together take time, meaning you cannot work overtime—unless you casually find someone and get married immediately.)
5. You may not live more than 20 minutes away from the company
(Because you finish work in the middle of the night every day, and the company will not cover taxi fares. Driving or riding a scooter when exhausted after work is dangerous.)
6. You must have a car driver’s license, and bring your own lunch when going out for site inspections or meetings
(The schedule is packed. The architect will bring his picnic box and eat in the car, but employees who have to drive must figure out their own lunch arrangements.)
7. The company purchases stationery in bulk
(If you do not use the company’s stationery, you will be scolded, because it undermines the consistency of a first-rate firm.)
8. In the afternoon, when the office is exposed to the western sun, you may not draw the curtains
(This would interrupt the architect’s moment of experiencing harmony between heaven and humanity, which is completely unacceptable.)
9. Your phone must be locked in a drawer
(The architect’s designs are extremely valuable in the industry, and casual phone use could allow people with malicious intent to steal the designs.)
10. The firm’s business cards are a very important project
(Three people have been assigned to it, and it still has not been completed after three years. The day it is finally finished will surely be a masterpiece for the ages.)
11. Part-time workers, interns, and half-time workers (a distinctive position at the firm; recommended for recent graduates with common sense)
They are not enrolled in labor insurance or national health insurance, and must work overtime with full-time employees until the early morning.
(Being able to work at this first-rate firm is a blessing bestowed over three lifetimes; asking for insurance coverage and normal working hours would simply be too unreasonable.)
12. Drawings may not be too detailed, as that would eliminate future opportunities to ask the government for additional budget
(But if the drawings differ too much from the actual construction, employees must help him go and endure the damage from the project officers and construction contractors.)
13. When the client gets angry during a meeting, employees must proactively calm the client down rather than trouble the architect
(The architect’s Facebook time is sacred and must not be disturbed.)
14. You must know how to care for elderly people
(The architect is busy managing countless matters. If the construction supervision director gets into a serious dispute, employees must handle it themselves.
If they cannot handle it well, of course it is the employee’s fault—how could they even fail to take care of one elderly person?)
You can learn an incredible amount at this firm.
You are also expected to come to work until you are so ill that you collapse into a coma and are hospitalized.
If you can survive here, you will definitely become one of the world’s top 100 architects.
1. The employee dinner’s only approved menu is hamburgers, fries, and fried chicken
(About once every one or two months, because they are worried employees are not getting enough nutrition.)
2. There is a McDonald’s right downstairs from the company, so you do not have to worry about going hungry even when working overtime until midnight.
3. You may order one drink every Friday
(If you lose too many design competitions, this may be reduced to one drink per month.)
4. Employee trips consist of visiting construction sites and design competition sites, making them highly practical
(After returning, you must present your reflections and design proposals.)
5. The architect teaches at a university, making the integration of education and practice excellent
(The students have class in the evening, and you must wait until their design class is over before reporting your work progress and leaving.
When necessary, you must attend class with the students and participate in design discussions.)
1. Colleagues can quickly build a strong bond here, and office politics won’t happen because we don’t have time for any of that nonsense.
2. As the saying goes, human friendship stems from having a common enemy. There happens to be one here, so our friendship is very solid.
3. Colleagues with a girlish heart are welcome to showcase their talents here. Let’s draw pictures in soft, pastel colors together and all be princesses.
4. As the saying goes, “Work at sunrise and rest at sunset,” but here, when the sun sets, you can’t rest—you have to keep working. Your time-management skills will reach their full potential.
5. As the saying goes, “Fighting is affection, and scolding is love.” Every day here is filled with love.
6. As the saying goes, people should live in the present. So here, you can’t see any future at all—including for the software and your knowledge.
7. As the saying goes, creativity comes when you’re most relaxed. But creativity isn’t needed here, so there’s no need to relax.
8. After working here, you’ll learn to be grateful and content. Having weekends off is the greatest happiness I’ve gained since I started working.
9. It’s a good time to save money—after all, you won’t have a chance to spend it anyway.
10. Submitting my resignation was one of the happiest moments of my life. After that, I no longer had to fear anything at work.
There are too many advantages here; I can’t think of any disadvantages.
You gain quite a lot of experience in a short period of time.
The working hours are excessively long: 08:30–23:00
I don't understand why we have to wait until the architect gets off work before we can leave.
Overtime is fixed every day, but the reported overtime hours are then completely cut down when calculating overtime pay.
Although you can learn quite a lot in a short period of time, this is all because the workload is stuffed in by exploiting employees.
Daily overtime is the norm, and working overtime on Saturdays and Sundays is also routinely required.
If you don't come in to work overtime on Saturday or Sunday, you will be harshly reprimanded on Monday.
In conclusion, this job is very suitable for people who have no friends and whose lives consist only of working, eating, and sleeping.