However, in the early days when the government moved to Taiwan, finances were scarce, and a "low-pay policy" was adopted for civil servants, with salary mainly just subsistence level. So for a long time civil servants could only grin and bear it.
可是，政府遷台初期，財政相當拮据，對公務員一直採取「低薪政策」，當時公務員待遇僅以維持基本生活需求為主，所以，長久以來，公務員一直脫離不了「苦哈哈」的形象。