When I was coming back on the old Macmosa and docked in Taiwan, a repairman was fixing something, and, puzzled, he asked the immigration officer who all these foreigner tourists were coming in? The officer just laughed and said “Meiyu laoshi” as he stamped another tourist visa.
You should write a book with this stuff! “Slow Boat to Formosa”. Hell, I should!
Maybe they’re looking for a teacher that’s cool to hang out with? My second ESL boss just wanted a foreign drinking buddy, if I didn’t smoke that would have been boring for him. He used to take me to brothels and then pretend he didn’t speak Chinese so I could translate for him. Good times.
So, depending on what you’re looking for (if you like pills, for example), could be a fun place to work!
Repost! 
I suppose you can get away with it, since you’re the mod of this thread. 
Wasn’t that to test for worms?
Could be, or maybe TW is running a secret fecal transplant operation.
Kind of like China’s organ harvesting, but friendlier.
2006
Not really sure what it was for. Worms are a fairly easily treatable condition in most countries. Here it’s like a warm up to a torture test. I find the easiest way to avoid them is to just avoid eating meat. My GP answered some of the questions pretty bluntly in the end. Like “My patient has all of his fingers, toes, and the usual appendages for a male of his age.” and “The condition of leprosy has not been reported in this country for 90 years and is a treatable condition in the modern age of medicine.” There were some complaints from the TECO office but they were told to shut up by someone from the MOFA or Immigration Department. I’m still friends with the Immigration Department cop that rubber stamps my visa every 3 years or so.
This is somehow much more recent than I was expecting
Someone with a disease still needs to work. These are filtering questions. Though I think smoking is distasteful and dangerous, it falls within personal freedoms.
I’d even offer a quit smoking program and offer perks to attend. But that would be completely optional. Smoking took my mother.
Only judge on performance and maybe image. I’m really pro uniform and dress code.
But all can wear the clothes. Not everyone can quit the smoking.
- Do you smoke?
- Do you own a dog?
- Do you ride a scooter?
Affirmative responses to any of the above indicate a lack of reasoning skills that could be essential in many positions.
The health questions are, unquestionably, illegal by Taiwan law.
I’ve probably told it more times than that lol
I’m going to edit it to say “cigarettes”.
Probably “crack” as well.
Which law specifically?
Good grief.
I’m on my phone and not going to look it up for you but it’s under Employment Service Law - things like medical tests, lie detector tests criminal background checks, etc, at all laid out fairly clearly. The “accommodating” line probably will give some folks cover but a reputable company wouldn’t even try to straddle that line. (If this is a serious question, instead of the “show your sources” then never reply that is endemic to this place, I will look it up later and send you details.)
Can you well, just lie? Tell them what they want to know on an illegal question should not be lying since the question should not have been asked in the first place.
Boss seeing you in 7: you just bought two packs of cigarettes you said you did not smoke.
You: I don’t. The question you asked was illegal so it did not matter what I replied.
I wish I could think of a better comeback.
Could a person be in trouble for answering falsely on the question that shouldn’t have been asked?
I said the health questions. Medical history. Prescription medications.
I’m not so sure for the smoking questions.
Here’s a better comeback: They were delivered (smuggled) by some folks at China Airlines…
I don’t. I walk around Taipei Main Station and hand them out to homeless people instead of giving them money.
See the other thread linked to earlier in this thread.