東鴻印刷設計有限公司

1. You can eat breakfast and buy breakfast at work

2. When there isn’t much to do, you can leave work on time

3. Extremely busy when there’s work; fairly idle when there isn’t

4. The colleagues are all very nice—really nice

5. There are additional bonuses, but usually only NT$1,000–2,000 (the calculation method is not transparent, so don’t expect too much)

6. Afternoon tea and snacks are provided

7. The boss occasionally treats everyone to 50 Lan drinks

8. The company’s equipment is very good and is frequently updated

9. There are bonuses for the three major traditional holidays

10. You can come here to gain experience, because you really have to know how to do everything

1. The boss is extremely lecherous—very, very lecherous. This is important (women really should not come for an interview)

2. They make it sound generous and say they’ll give bonuses and so on, but in reality they are extremely small, so don’t count on them

3. Salary is sometimes paid a day late, or bonuses are delayed until after the weekend

4. They give you assignments ten minutes before the end of the workday and expect them done that day

5. The base salary is unbelievably low, e.g. NT$23,000–28,000

6. You’re expected to be an all-rounder and know how to do everything

7. The company takes on a pile of difficult, arrogant, and self-important clients who don’t even bring in much money

8. The boss gets impatient easily and therefore shouts and yells (even when it’s the boss’s own fault)

9. There are many long-serving employees who are resistant to change

10. They say they’re giving you an opportunity to learn, but in practice they expect one person to handle two jobs while keeping the salary unchanged

11. Because there are many printed materials, you usually have to move cargo

12. Designers need to be patient because revisions are frequent, and the boss also loves giving all sorts of inexplicable opinions

13. There are rats in the company

14. There are many unreasonable demands; if you can’t do something, they’ll say you should have known how

15. Staff turnover is very high; they can go through five project planners in a year

16. There is no overtime pay. Even if a woman works late, the company will not pay for a taxi; you have to figure it out yourself

17. The company takes on many projects for government agencies. Civil servants are usually extremely difficult to deal with, so drafts often have to be revised

18. You must answer the phone on holidays, or you’ll be harshly criticized

19. Clients and the boss will all add you on LINE, and there are company group chats too. They’ll keep messaging back and forth outside working hours, which is quite annoying

20. The New Year’s opening red envelope contains US$1

21. Many clients are elderly and can’t type, so you have to type their information for them. The boss also can’t use a computer or type, and sometimes you have to type an entire page from a handwritten A4 manuscript