高雄市私立李麥克文理短期補習班

If you consider yourself pretty, congratulations—you can thrive there no matter how poor your abilities are.

The company has no system and cannot handle even a single accounting issue. There are more and more spreadsheets. If the boss’s wife cannot understand the accounts or thinks they were done incorrectly, she will demand another one, but she still requires the account she considers wrong to be maintained. The day before I resigned, I had to prepare four accounts: the same amounts presented in four different ways. The boss’s wife would even say, “I can’t understand this?”

The workload is full of pointless formalities and inefficient processes. If you cannot retrieve some data, you can only key it in manually to create another spreadsheet.

Instructions change from one meeting to the next: the meeting decides on Plan A, the actual implementation follows Plan B, and when something goes wrong and responsibility is assigned, they say you should have done Plan C—and then deduct it from your pay.

You read that correctly: they deduct employees’ wages and are not afraid of violating the Labor Standards Act.

A friendly reminder: they have no legal department, so if you have solid evidence, you can win a lawsuit against them.

The National Taxation Bureau comes by every so often because they over-enroll students—24 extra students, with nearly 90 people crammed into a classroom. They criticize other cram schools for failing to protect students’ welfare and for having too many people to manage, but when it comes to themselves, they say they teach so well that there is never an available spot.

The truth is, there are simply no teachers available to open new classes, so they can only cram everyone into the same classroom.

In the past, teacher training was very comprehensive: it took nearly a year of training before teachers could stand at the lectern. I strongly approved of that. Later, however, in order to speed up the opening of classes, teachers who had trained for only two months were put in front of students. They could hire a flight attendant with a TOEIC score of 500 and let her open a class. (For reference: a TOEIC score of 500 is roughly equivalent to the level of a first-year high school student in the first semester.) When parents yelled at them, the employees were blamed for not knowing how to respond and were told they deserved it, even though the parents were clearly angry at the boss.

I still remember one time when the boss saw a parent yelling at him and quickly ran to hide in the restroom. I still remember who that parent was, and we are still in contact; occasionally, we bring it up and laugh about it.

All of the founding veterans from the beginning were forced out by the boss. Two of them went on to open cram schools of their own and are doing very well; one went to Dunhuang to work as a lecturer.

After a veteran employee left, in order to keep students from being taken away, employees were told to say that the person had taught very poorly and had always had problems. But if you knew there had been problems all along, why did you let that teacher continue teaching there—and for so many years?

That said, honestly, the more experienced teachers are excellent. I occasionally help them take on some private tutoring work, and the parents all think highly of them—their reputation is good.

The boss is not a good boss, but he is a good teacher. His educational philosophy and policies were things I agreed with, which is why I joined in the first place. Later, however, I found that he had started making decisions aimed at damaging the company’s reputation in order to find ways to make money, and people gradually became alienated from him.

As I mentioned earlier, the boss likes beautiful women. To put it simply, he is somewhat like “D-ge.” I will not say how his current wife came into the picture. Before you are married, what you do is your own business, but continuing to have such issues after marriage is not really appropriate.

That is all for now. There is still a lot I have not said; perhaps I will reveal the rest next time.

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1. After only a brief introduction to the course, they immediately conducted a verbal test. After the test, they only said they would contact me again. From start to finish, I was not provided with information about the salary, leave, or other benefits and policies that should come with the job.

2. The interviewer was a bit arrogant.