10/13/24 - She seriously carries a ruler around with her so she can measure her kid’s step distance at random intervals.
10/13/24 - She seriously carries a ruler around with her so she can measure her kid’s step distance at random intervals.
“My coach told me not to worry about my driving exam. I can get through with just a couple pills.”
Comment section says, “Propranolol. It’s for reducing your heart rate. What a genius. Why didn’t I think to take some of this when I was taking exams as a medical student?”
“Same for our exams. The coach was passing out these pills, one per person. It really makes your heart beat calm down and you stop being so nervous, and you pass your exams.”
“We got three per person.”
“My coach gave me some when I went to my exam too. I took two, and ended up being the first to get called up. I failed before I even started feeling the effects of the medicine. It only came on after I failed, so I was pretty calm about failing out.”
“A couple years ago, I got prescribed this because my heart rate was too high, and when I went to pick it up from the pharmacy, the pharmacist asked if I was trying to get my driver’s license.”
“I took too much and my reflexes slowed down and I failed.”
“Help: Should I quit my job when I’m the only person in the office?
I interviewed at this company. This is what the work environment looks like. It’s in a 10-year-old office building, but I’m the only employee. There’s no clock-in time limits per day, I just need to finish all my work. I get normal two day weekends, but I occasionally need to come in when there’s something urgent to deal with (like stuff that needs to be refrigerated gets delivered, and I have to come bring it in). Right now, I’m in my trial period and get paid 7K a month. I’m in Shenyang. Once I’m officially employed, I’ll get 10K before taxes. But I basically have to do all the work around the office.”
Comments say, “I want to go so bad. If you’re having second thoughts, could you recommend me?”
“So long as you get paid on time, is this not the dream job?”
“Sounds fucking awesome. If you don’t like it, I’ll go. No coworker drama, no asshole boss, and you get paid well.”
“Let me tell you about the stifling parent I met today on the subway on my way back from work. From the moment I got on the subway until I got off, this is all I heard (they came on one station after me, and hadn’t gotten off yet by the time I left.)
She demands her step distance be precise to the centimetre.
She demands her kid eat 4 bites of bread for every 1 sip of milk eating her breakfast on the subway, and each bite of bread must be chewed 20 times. She counted next to her.
All of her schedule for her kid is precise down to the second (spend so many seconds finishing breakfast, start reading before a certain station).
I learned from her chewing the kid out that her daily schedule involves waking up at 5:30AM, doing morning reading, jog to the subway station, then once school lets out, she has to go to tutoring classes until 11PM.
The only thing the kid is allowed to say is, “Yes, mother.”
Doesn’t allow her kid to look at any electronic screens. (You’ll ruin your eyes.mp3)
Doesn’t allow any passengers sitting next to her kid to play with their phones. (I was playing [censored game] so I ignored her, and she switched seats with her kid).
Oh, by the way, this kid was in 2nd grade. Her mom was very proudly bragging about how she’s been doing this since she turned 3 years old, talking about how people like me who just play on their phones in the subway have no future. Just so you guys know.”
OP writes more about the situation in the comment section, “Because the whole situation was so shocking, I’ll just add more details as I remember them. 1. Some other parent was talking about their kid’s tooth cavity situation, and she said that her kid has never eaten any sugar since birth so she doesn’t have to worry about diabetes or dental problems. (Anyone know if this is even possible?) 2. She had strict requirements for how long her kid must use each pen for (she was demanding to know if her kid had been doodling in class again, and the kid said no, and she was like, “Did you forget the rules again? What about yes mother?”) <— This was so horrifying.”
“3. Doesn’t allow her kid to have any unnecessary communication with anyone else (including classmates. To quote her, “When I picked you up yesterday, you were chatting with so-and-so from your class. Was it study-related? Did you do something not study-related again?”) 4. I don’t know the context (I was eating fries), but the mom also said something like, “Your extracurriculars on Wednesday and Thursday are all useless. What’s the point? You’re just looking for an excuse to play. I’m telling you, only Chinese, English, Math, and Physics are useful. Everything else is just play. And your computer classes—that’s just an excuse to play games! Don’t think I don’t know! You think you can’t live without a computer?” The kid tried to explain that she’s never even been to computer class, she didn’t even know what the class taught, and the mom was like, “Oh, you’re old enough to talk back now, huh? What happened to yes mother?” I heard from someone on the same station that he’s ran into this family multiple times. The mom won’t even let her kid use the automatic ticket machine. They buy it from the manual window.”
Commenter asks, “If she’s only done with tutoring at 10PM, then she’s only sleeping 7.5 hours max every day. This is a fucking child! She doesn’t even get 8 hours??”
OP: “Forget it. She’s still got homework once she gets home, plus extra homework from her mom. I know because her mom said something like, “You’re lazy like a pig! You flop into bed at midnight every night and passes out! Why don’t you sleep until you die!?””
“This is all in Chinese, right? Why are these combinations of words so fucking foreign?”
OP: “I’ve ran into them before, but I didn’t sit too close so I didn’t know how fucked up they were. From tomorrow, I’m gonna try to observe them and keep updating long term.”
“What the fuck. She doesn’t think she’s doing the right thing, right?”
OP: “She seriously carries a ruler around with her so she can measure her kid’s step distance at random intervals.”
“What? That’s way too fucking extreme.”
OP: “I was blown away when she pulled out the ruler.”
“Just learned why my mom’s breakfast shop closed down.
When I was really young, my parents opened a little breakfast shop. Business was great, and the food was delicious too. I’ve never seen anyone make sticky rice better than my mom. Same with the beef buns. It was so fragrant and juicy. I had to eat two buns plus a sticky rice every morning before I went to school. I gained 5kg in a semester.
Anyway, that’s all unrelated. I asked my mom why she shut the store down when business was so good, and my mom said it was because she didn’t actually make any money. Because she used fresh meat every day, hand-ground all the soy milk, made all the buns herself, blah blah blah. Never used any technology or cheaped out on meat. She used even better stuff in the sticky rice. So, as you’d expect, the business went under. Because the food was too tasty, cheap, and generous in portion size.
This is why my mom always told me to never get meat buns when I’m eating out. I need to get marinaded pork buns. Because the meat buns probably don’t use fresh meat.”
Comments say, “Bad coins outcompete good coins. Sigh…”
“Then raise her prices?”
“This is why my family’s breakfast shop went under and lost so much money too.”
”Look at what I made working like a slave for Sisyphe. [A book store.]
It’s not easy for a company to piss off both their employees and their customers.
This is after about 22 days of work, 8 hours a day, usually less than 10 RMB per hour.
Although the pay was low, the work load sure wasn’t! I had to get to the store by 9PM at the latest, and I’ve left as late at 10PM before.
In these 8 hours of work, I have to be on my feet the whole time, and I have to do a lot of bullshit work. Never get a moment of rest. When it’s the weekends, I don’t even have time to eat or go to the bathroom. By the time I get off of work, I’m usually too tired to walk straight.
And Sisyphe’s wonderful “company culture” is that we have to recommend our clients the most expensive membership plan first. We’re not even allowed to mention the cheap plans. If we don’t sell memberships, we get fined. If we sell a lot of memberships, the bonus is shared equally (usually works out to about 20 RMB a person).
I brought up quitting on the 18th of September, and the store owner said I wasn’t allowed to leave until they got a new hire. I couldn’t take it anymore on the 24th and went to ask HR, and HR said I only had to give 3 days notice to quit. I told the store owner I was sick and had to be hospitalised, and the store owner said the doctors recommended he get hospitalised before too and he’s refused and he’s still fine. Said doctors only want to hospitalise you to get more money. I don’t even want to talk to him anymore. I don’t care whether they can get through the holidays with one man down anymore either. In the end, I worked until the 28th of September and they dragged things out until the 9th of October before they had me sign my resignation.
I feel so much better now that I’m away from Sisyphe.”
[OP’s pay was 1582.03 RMB.]
Comments say, “I went for an interview and the girl in the store asked me right off the bat whether I’ve read any reviews about Sisyphe hahahaha. She said they were super busy and kept emphasising that there’s a lot of overtime. She totally scared me off.”
“You don’t even get paid as well as charity work, and at least charity work is chill.”
“They charge so much for their coffee and books, and this is what they pay their employees!?”
#Lawyer claims Dongbei Sister Yu will probably not be criminally liable. “On the 13th of October, lawyer Zhou Zhaocheng made a post talking about Dongbei Sister Yu’s case. [Sold sweet potato noodles claiming that they were made from 100% sweet potato, but testing showed the product was at least 1/3rd tapioca instead, but tapioca was not listed as an ingredient on the packaging.] According to the law, illegally operating a business will be ordered to stop operations by supervisory departments and fined 200K to 1 million RMB. In severe cases, they may be fined 1-2 million RMB and get their business license revoked. Since this case of false marketing was considered very severe, it will face a higher fine, and the ultimate result was 1.65 million.
In addition, Dongbei Sister Yu’s false advertising did not cause significant harm to public safety, nor it is criminal fraud, so it’s unlikely that she will be held criminally liable.”
Comments say, “What a shame.”
“Anyone who names themselves something like “brother whatever” or “sister so-and-so” always seem to come from certain regions…”