02/16/25 - If your boss is in a bad mood, there’s no emergency that can’t be pushed back.
#Kim Saeron to be buried on the 19th. “According to Korean media, Korean actress Kin Saeron was discovered dead at home on the afternoon of the 16th, at merely 25-years-old. The police haven’t found any signs of an intruder and are still looking into the cause of death. The time of the burial is set to be 6:20AM on the 19th. #No will discovered at scene of Kim Saeron’s death. As a child actress, Kim Saeron made her debut with the 2009 movie A Brand New Life, becoming the youngest Korean actress to step onto the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival. She has acted in many popular movies like The Man From Nowhere, The Neighbour, A Girl At My Door, Snowy Road, and The Queen’s Classroom. In May, 202, Kim Saeron drove into a tree and a transformer while drunk causing a blackout in the region, and was fined 20 million Korean won (roughly 100,000RMB) and had her acting career suspended. Last year, in April, Kim Saerom planned to make a comeback with the stage play Dongchimee but was forced to give up due to health reasons. The movie The Guitarist, which finished filming in November last year, became her last work.”
Comments say, “I loved when she was young. She looked exactly like Lee Young-ae, and she’s a great actress too!”
“A lot of people have died in the Korean entertainment industry that I feel nothing about, but it’s such a shame what happened to her. I used to watch her Hi! School Love-On when I was in school. What happened, little sister?”
“Oh my god, I didn’t realise who she was just looking at her name and photo until I saw her childhood photos and learned she was one of my favourite child actors. I’ve watched tons of shows by her. She’s an exceptionally talented and evocative child actor. I had no idea she’d grown so much, and I had no idea she was the one on the trending hashtags today. That’s so sudden and so awful. She was so young and brilliant.”
“All the men in the family were forced onto the battlefield and died. A woman suicide bombed the recruiting office in despair.
On the 14th of February, there was an explosion in the streets of Nikolayev, Ukraine. The Ukrainian military was recruiting there, when a woman suddenly ran up and triggered a suicide bomb, killing two recruiting officers and injuring another six.
Investigation found that the bomber’s husband had voluntarily enlisted and died on the front lines. Her two sons were conscripted and also died on the front lines. Now Ukraine has lowered the draft age to 17, so she hid her youngest son in a hotel and decided to take the Ukrainian recruitment office out.
A lot of people only focus on the incident itself, but I noticed this line while reading this piece of news, “This is not the first time this has happened in the Nikolayev region.”
Right now, the Ukrainian government is saying that this lady is a Russian spy, but I can confidently say that that’s impossible. If a spy from any country wanted to kill themselves to kill a couple of recruiting officers, his higher ups would slap him in the face to wake him up. The cost to train a spy, build a covert network, and discretely ferry materials and information is far larger than what can be gained out of blowing up a couple of recruitment officers. Not even a country as rich as American would do this.
To be honest, just the fact that they’re drafting all the men in a family is something that would never have happened even back in feudal days.”
Comments say, “God is watching what you’re doing. Is it so hard to occasionally say something that’s true?”
“OP, you got it backwards. That’s a Russian blowing up a Russian recruitment office.”
“The actual truth: Russian spy convinces (or pays) a woman to hand over a package to some Ukrainian soldiers, and remotely detonated the bomb.”
A discussion on Valentine’s Day aftermaths:
“Just thinking about how in a few days, I’m going to get to scavenge phones out of the Valentine’s Day trash, I just get so happy.”
“I’ll go dig through the trash here in a couple of days and mail it out to all of you guys.”
“You can bring back flowers, but forget about food. I found a cake, ate a slice, and now my entire body is so hot.”
“???”
“You gotta come scavenge in Chongqing! I filled up a whole truck.”
“I want the white one on the bottom, thanks.”
“I don’t know about other places, but Chongqing is a bad place to try.”
“It wouldn’t be so bad that I’m failing if it weren’t for other people’s success.”
“The problem is, someone posted about it last year, so there’s a lot more competition this year.”
“She has no idea what “make money on the down low” means.”
“Guys, make some orders for what you want me to look for. The pickings shouldn’t be bad at my IP [Shanghai].”
“It is time.” [Picture of the jackets that garbage men wear.]
“I found this last year.”
“That plate of lamb rolls sure looks tasty.” [the money here is rolled up exactly the same as thinly-sliced lamb in hotpot restaurants.]
“I want whatever the trash can is having. I’m gonna squat all the nearby trash cans tomorrow night. It’s not a dream to become rich overnight.”
“If nobody else wants it, I’m gonna take it home.”
“It’s embarrassing to scavenge by yourself, it’s brave to do it with a buddy.”
“A certain extremely active economist on the internet, the one who’s constantly bringing up DeepSeek.
His son was pressured so much by him that he got severe depression and jumped off of a building in primary school and died. He’s always blamed the school for assigning too much homework.
If so far his actions seem somewhat logical, what happens next is beyond comprehension.
Next, he registered an account using his son’s name as the ID, with his son’s photo as the avatar, and starts talking and posting in his son’s tone of voice.
On multiple social media platforms.
And his talks about dreaming about his son on his main account too.
And he posts all kinds of controversial opinions on his main account, like Chinese people have too many public holidays and it should get cut in half. Or whitewashing a certain murderer. Or throwing shade at DeepSeek these last couple of days.
He’s just looking to get hated on.
What’s even scarier is that a couple of days ago, he said that if people flame him for his viewpoints, they’ll remember his son.
What the hell kind of fatherly love is this? I don’t get it.”
Comments say, “Who is this? Anyone know?”
“He’s gone insane.”
“Oh my god, this guy is such a drama queen and control freak.”
Another discussion on what it means to be human:
“Drink colourless water, pee yellow pee. Maybe I’m actually a tea bag.”
“It’s so rude to say “shitting”. It’s so boring to say “poop”. Maybe we should call it, “Leaving behind a piece of myself in an empty whiteness of waiting.””
“Drink 0 degree water, pee 36.5 degree pee. Maybe I’m a water heater.”
“The subway network is a city’s intestine. I’m a piece of shit moving through the city.”
“It’s true. If you drink too much water, your pee gets lighter, because you’ve used the tea leaves inside you too many times.”
“Pee is the tears of your bladder. Farts are the cries of your intestines.”
“You guys are so artistic whenever toilet humour comes up.”
“Actually, the water we drink every day is just precooked pee.”
“When people are pooping, they’re actually a piping bag of shit.”
“Ju Junye and Barbie’s story has come to an end!
Netizens revealed that Ju Junye has deleted all of his Chinese social media accounts and completely said goodbye to Barbie! He packed up his bags and left and didn’t ask for any inheritance!
It’s just like returning home after working oddjobs for three years. He’s just a passerby to Barbie’s family, suddenly appearing and quickly leaving…
If you’re talking about love, how much emotion can there really be for someone who was only married for 3 years and only stayed in Taiwan for one year?
I bet Barbie’s mom is complaining right now about how Barbie let a wolf into her life.”
Comments say, “He came with a canvas bag and left with 32kg of luggage. I bet he made a lot more in these three years than he ever did in Korea.”
“Stop badmouthing people.”
“She not even buried yet and he’s already leaving??”
“American soldiers are doing everything they can to gain fans! They even sent pictures of the internal structure of aircraft catapults! Guys, sent me up there with your likes so people who need this can see it, please!”
Comments say, “The structure of this thing isn’t complicated, it’s the craftsmanship that is. Same with the large culvert ratio turbofan. We all know what it looks like. There’s tons of public data about it. What’s hard is the precision processing and materials science.”
“What’s so interesting about this?”
“Stop scamming for likes. These pictures are from over a decade ago.”
“A newbie joined the Emergency Management Bureau [Chinese FEMA], 31-years-old, got in through the civil servant exam in the Guangxi mountainous area. Very honest guy, a little bit naive.
His supervisor told him to get the boss to sign something. He usually goes right before the work day ends or after lunch, and got yelled at by his boss several times. He was shocked and scared. No idea what he did wrong.
As time went on, he secretly observed how other people got signatures and found that most people went to find the boss when he’s in a good mood. He doesn’t cuss people out then, and he signs things quickly. He’s seen several coworkers going to get the boss to sign something, see that he’s in a bad mood, and just turn around and leave. They’d rather not have the signature than to piss the boss off. That’s when he finally understood getting your boss to sign something is quite the complicated endeavour.
Working in the government means not just doing your job, but doing it at the right time. If your boss is in a good mood, everything will go smoothly. If your boss is in a bad mood, there’s no emergency that can’t be pushed back. This is how smart people do things. This is the unspoken rules of the workplace, what we call “worldly wisdom”. And understanding this is only the beginning.
I’m actually quite curious, what other advice do government workers have about getting signatures from their boss? When’s the easiest time to get a signature?”
Comments say, “That boss isn’t going anywhere fast. I’m just a workhorse and I understand you can’t get emotional at work.”
“This guy is me from ten years ago.”
“Just go ask him, and if he refuses, then take out your phone and film it.”
“I want the white one on the bottom, thanks.”
Hahahaha. Thanks for including some of the Chinese in the screenshots too! It helps me review.
After the DUI Kim Saeron went from the most celebrated actress of her generation to losing all her acting and modelling jobs and was even hounded out of part time jobs like working at a bar. She had lost all her money paying for the damages and the fine resulting from the DUI. She had been working since she was 1 years old.
Korean netizens are powerful and merciless.
People speculate that she ended herself which is not surprising.