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Read the community guidelinesManager Jian (actually the owner of Qinyang) is very friendly.
In short: The head office is Dongzhen, a fortune-telling direct-selling company. In reality, he selects people he considers to have no prospects from job websites, criticizes them, and hopes they will join their direct-selling business selling fortune-telling-related products.
After I first received the interview notice, I searched for this company online but could not find any relevant information. When arranging the interview, Manager Jian did not mention that it was related to fortune-telling, although the business operation he described was indeed wholesale of general merchandise.
When I arrived at the company, I saw that it involved fortune-telling and the I Ching. I simply wondered, “Does fortune-telling need salespeople?”
The manager told me that this was his personal studio and that the head office was Dongzhen. He said they offered opportunities, not jobs.
He said that, as someone who had graduated in languages, I did not have many jobs available to me and could not earn much money. He also said that a high-achieving graduate from National Taiwan University’s Department of Forestry had come a few days earlier, and asked whether, after graduating, he was planning to work in Alishan. Although what he said did make some sense, what followed was a series of direct-selling tactics. He also said that many Vietnamese people had decided to join them after listening to him.
I am actually interested in fortune-telling and do not mind learning Bazi, but I have absolutely no interest in direct selling and do not consider myself suited to it. In addition, his wording carried an arrogant attitude of “If you don’t have a specialized skill, you’ll never have money; you have to join us to make money,” which I found rather hard to respect.
In the end, he simply asked whether I wanted to pay NT$500 to join them. When I chose not to take out NT$500, the impression he gave me was, “You can make a fortune just by paying NT$500 to join—why are you being so foolish? You’ve worked and traveled in Australia; I thought your way of thinking would be different.”
I do not know how many people he has attracted by disguising direct-selling activities as interviews for sales positions, nor how many people, because of this, took out NT$500 and chose to join or part ways with him on good terms.
This interview account is purely intended to help people who are not interested in direct selling screen out such opportunities.