光慧國際事業有限公司

1. There is only one employee in the entire company, so those who do not want to socialize with colleagues may consider it (though you still have to socialize with the boss and his wife).

2. There is a Buddhist shrine upstairs, so it is convenient to seek the Dao.

3. The boss often shares snacks, pastries, and fruit, or prepares afternoon tea and fruit to reward employees.

4. The salary is somewhat higher than at other companies. (Just somewhat.)

1. The boss promotes his political views during working hours, asks about your political views, and seeks your agreement. (The boss supports Han Kuo-yu.)

2. The boss promotes his religious beliefs during working hours, tells you to go upstairs to seek the Dao, and considers learning the procedures for religious activities part of the job. He will ask you to bring your entire family to seek the Dao and require you to attend religious activities on holidays, of course without overtime pay (and you even have to pay your own offering).

3. Payday is the 10th of each month, but whether and when you get paid depends on whether the boss remembers.

4. During working hours, people will occasionally drop by to chat. They are not clients; they are fellow Dao practitioners.

5. The sales staff privately engage in various improper activities, such as taking workers to work at places nobody knows about. But the boss only gives them a couple of verbal reprimands, and the sole employee still has to clean up the mess.

6. The sole employee = the employee with the least status.

7. Once the boss starts talking, he will not let you go for less than 10 minutes.

8. The boss’s ultimate weapon is his mouth. He does everything by talking. He is too lazy to visit clients, so after letting matters become overdue, he tells you to urge the Ministry of Labor to process them. If he is dissatisfied with the outcome of a case, he simply tells you to find a way to settle it. He is the boss, but he expects you to pressure higher-level government agencies. He even uses the twisted logic that nobody knows who has connections and who does not, so you should pretend to have connections and apply pressure—although he himself would not dare do that.

9. When dealing with a difficult client, he first criticizes you, the frontline worker, for lacking experience and being easy to bully, then boasts about how mature and capable he is. Yet when he receives a call from a difficult client, he still gets berated into complete silence. Naturally, you still have to clean up the mess in the end.

10. If you ask the boss’s wife about a problem, the boss says her answer does not count and that you should ask him. So if you ask the boss about something, he says, “Why are you asking me? Go ask my wife first.” (It is not that the boss genuinely does not know; he just has to put on an act, since he is the boss.)

11. Basically, whenever something happens, you have to figure out how to ask around yourself. If he is dissatisfied with the answer you get, he will tell you to ask again, until you get an answer he likes. Throughout the process, he will constantly berate and belittle you, saying that you are incompetent. His wife will only tell you to ignore him, but if you do ignore him, he will use that against you and berate you for it.

12. No matter what you do, the boss will criticize you a couple of times and make fun of you—extremely rude and unfunny jokes. (For examples, see the Straight Man Research Society, but excluding the sexual harassment.)

13. The boss says women are supposed to do housework and cook, but you cannot use that as a reason to leave and arrive on time. He says that once you have come out to work, you have to accommodate the company. But if you say that you accommodated the company and therefore did not cook, he will say that you are neglecting your family.

14. Although you cannot handle cases after work, you are expected to remain on call and respond to the boss’s messages during your time off after work. If you reply late, he will berate you; if you do not reply, he will “educate” you. The boss says young people nowadays claim that reading and replying to messages after work counts as overtime, but if you think that way, you will have no chance of promotion in the future. It is unclear what promotion opportunities a one-employee company has anyway.

Simply put, the boss is a textbook male chauvinist who is inconsiderate toward women, including his own wife. He may not be a bad person, but his mouth is very annoying and somewhat nasty.

If you want to see a real-life version of Tang Sanzang, come apply. He really will nag you until you break down.