03/17/24 - Do they not realise what kind of a calamity awaits us, or do they just really hate their own country that much?
For 15th of March [Consumer Rights Day, a day every year that CCTV devotes to exposing unsafe products], East Buy Holdings has been called out for selling Braised Pork Belly with Preserved Vegetables that are made from meat containing lymph nodes and thyroid tissue, which is unsafe for human consumption.
East Buy Holdings has come up with an official apology while making it clear that they’re just a shopping platform, and the meat in question comes from a producer called Xiao Cheng and that they plan to tighten their quality control standards for the products they allow to be listed on their website.
A blogger posts screenshots of a listing for a nanny, “[Some district in] Shanghai, hiring 7 live-in maids, 1674 square metres, there’s a butler, cook, and existing 6 maids at home.
Pay is 20-25K/month, room for negotiation if you’re particularly outstanding.
High school diploma or higher.
35-45 years old, 165cm, 60kg, can wear 5cm thick heels, uniform haircut (showing forehead), must wear light makeup to your job (client will supply make up from Dior, must take care to reapply lipstick), wear uniform (provided by client, changing room available), change stockings at noon (provided by customer, zero tolerance policy for smudges or tears on stockings), no jewellery, no long nails.
No one from Dongbei, Hunan, or Shandong, or who is divorced.
Strong resistance to stress, unconditional obedience to customer and family, including the butler.
There’s a morning meeting every day, and a big meeting every month. The madam is very strict, and will give out lectures for unsatisfactory behaviour. You will be fired after three lectures.
Client will buy insurance. Must give notice before leaving (so she has time to look for new help).
Theoretically no days off, but you can apply for leave three days ahead of time).
24 hour work day, must appear within 2 minutes of being summoned by madam, and help her put on clothes and shoes (and forgive some of her comments).
Your phones will be confiscated while you’re on the job. No iPhones. If it’s an iPhone, the client will buy you a new phone of a different brand.
You will not be eating with the client (you’ll eat beforehand, you’ll have 30 minutes each meal). You’ll take shifts performing dinner service while the client eats.
Do not chatter with the other service staff, work your own stations, strong sense of privacy, absolutely won’t leak clients’ private information.
After you are hired, there will be a 15 day training course led by the butler (with a pamphlet that you must memorise in 3-4 days).
Maids need to take turns doing night shifts by the madam’s door (professional uniform, high heels, 11:30PM to 8:00AM, 2 breaks in between for a total of two hours), with a night shift bonus of 370/night. You can rest the next day during the day.
Cannot have any inappropriate hobbies.
Strict management, looking for people with a strong sense of responsibility. Do not move anything on the counter in the first floor living room. Must say good night to the madam every night. Maids will have their own laundry machine. The butler will train you on the use of all the appliances in the house.
Interview time: Online interviews tomorrow around noon.”
This blogger remarks, “So TV shows really are true! My nanny showed me this job listing in group chat! I’m just so curious why they don’t want anyone using an iPhone or people from Dongbei, Hunan, or Shandong.”
Comments say, “You want to buy a slave for just 20K? Maybe this madam needs to go take another look at the market price.”
“Did she watch too many period dramas? Why does she need someone to watch her door while she’s sleeping?”
“Maybe because Shandong people really will slap the shit out of her if she oppresses them too much?”
“Just found a webnovel classified as “porn”, called “My SIL is now my wife.” For this type of porno, usually, the protag returns for his brother’s funeral in the first chapter, and maybe there’s a second chapter of the poor little widow getting bullied by her in-laws, and by the third chapter, they’re fucking.
But this story, I read 20 fucking chapters, and the brother still hasn’t died!! And there wasn’t any porn at all! Everyone is super proper and prim! I started to get an ominous feeling in my heart, so I searched the protagonists’ names, and found that it’s actually got another title, “Sleeping on the Rivers and Mountains”, and it’s just a normal period romance. I’m so goddamn mad!”
Comments say, “Who the hell categorised it? How is this any different than fraud?”
“Oh, that’s actually super famous among period romances. But honestly, I felt like the female lead was way too narcissistic, so I couldn’t keep reading it.”
“If there’s not sex in every chapter, how can you even call yourself porn?”
A blogger reposts someone else’s weibo post, “Just hired a great employee! Single child, married for 2 years at 28, baby just born, wife has no job, 1.5 million in mortgage, strong skills. Now I throw the shittiest, most tiring jobs at him. This type of employee with weak points all over him is the best!”
And the blogger says, “This is why you shouldn’t talk about your personal life at work.”
Comments say, “This is my classmate’s actual life story. But then his wife cheated, and the kid turned out to not be his, and he got divorced and sold his house and quit his job. Now he’s laid flat and plays games all day at home.”
“This is all stuff they ask you at the job interview. It’s not really a matter of gossiping at work.”
“You can’t tell them the truth, just make up lies. Make up a super rich persona, the kind of person confident enough to quit as soon as you make them upset.”
On the 10th of March, three middle schoolers (12-13 years old) murdered their classmate in Handan. A blogger writes about this, “I saw a parent comment on the Handan case: “If someone fucked with my child and the law can’t give me justice, then I’d get justice for my child on my own with my own methods.”
Comments say, “If that was my kid, I would slaughter all three of those bastards.”
“But aside from his kid, he still has to think about his parents, his wife, and his wife’s parents.”
“I suggest the victim’s dad with these three scumbags a good face wash with some acid, let them live a more horrible life than the Ring.”
“Is it normal for a girl to use 65 tons of water in a month by herself? I live by myself. I usually eat out and only very occasionally cook at home. Aside from washing up and laundry, all I ever do is boil some hot water to drink, but my water company said that I used up 65 tons of water this month.
I just want to ask, does doing a couple of loads of laundry a month, showering, and drinking a couple of pots of hot water really add up to 65 tons? I feel like that’s a bit ridiculous. I asked the water company, and they insisted I used it up, but I only go through a little over 2 tons normally. If it gets up to 3 tons, my aunt will ask me if my faucets are leaking. She knows I live by myself too, so I’m just like, am I sleepwalking? How did I use up 65 tons of water??
I’ve also been wondering if my meter is broken or something, but the water company insists that’s not the case. That’s just how much water I used in September and October. But from the 13th of September to the 10th of October, aside from two loads of laundry, two pots of hot water, and a couple of showers, I never even used the water. From the 10th of October to the end of October, I was interning, so all I did at home was sleep. At home I washed a T-shirt or two.
But the water company’s insisting I used up 65 tons of water, and that if the meter is broken, then I used this water. And I just don’t understand, how does 7-8 showers a month + 3-4 loads of laundry + two pots of boiled water add up to 65 tons. Do those numbers look right to you?
Newest Update: The investigation report from the water company came back. They didn’t overcount my water use, they undercounted. 65 tons of water became 68 tons. My water bill went from 195 RMB to over 200.
They’re trying to force me to just let myself be fucked her, and pay the bill. But I swear, I didn’t use that water. I’m absolutely certain that at most, I use 3 tons of water a month. And they’re over there, all like, “This isn’t your bill for one month. It’s for two.” For two months, I used more than a ton of water every day? Just like everyone was saying in the comments, I’d have to be murdering someone in my house every day to use up that much water.
I don’t like to cook. I save up my laundry to do full loads at a time. I only shower 2-3 times a week. I only put on 3 pots of hot water a month tops! I don’t understand why my water bill is so high. I thought 12345 could help me [phone line for citizens to complain to the city government about civil affairs], but they just agreed with the water company’s investigation.
Now I’m thinking that either they fucked up on the meter and they’ve added up water I’ve used that the meter failed to count over the past year or two onto this one bill, or something about my water heater back flowing? I don’t really get it either, but someone brought it up in the comments. But I use solar power to shower, and don’t use my water heater much, so I’m not sure.
I just wanted to expose this case, pinning 65 tons of water on someone and never explaining why and making people pay. It’s a small town in Jiangsu Province, Yangzhou City, Jiangdu District. I’m not in a standalone house. I don’t have a toilet in my house. So it’s definitely not my toilet that’s leaking.
They just think they can scam me, and I’m not gonna let myself get screwed. That’s all.”
Comments say, “Alright. Come clean. Who did you dismember?”
“I get it! You’re figuring out hydroelectricity at home!”
“My monthly water bill by my family of three is 25 RMB, and our laundry machine is literally running all day.”
Under the #wave of daycare shutdowns may affect universities eventually, a blogger writes “Every time this issue is brought up, a bunch of teachers get mad. I’ve said countless times before…
Everything can change, but population is an unsolvable problem. 9 million babies born last year is 9 million babies. That’s how many people are gonna start university in 18 years, maximum. If you’re really gonna insist that there’s repeat students, then just forget it.
In other words, if people are worried about universities now, is it possible that in just 3 years, primary school population is going to fall off a cliff too?
Either way, I used to have a house that was rented out to a daycare as a dorm for the teachers, and they stopped renting last year because they don’t have enough students.”
Comments say, “There’s always people blathering on about how involution is really bad right now because we have too many people, if there were less people, it would get more chill. But less people means less demand too. It’s like they can only account for one variable at a time. You add in one extra variable and they go blank.”
“It’s really magical. In every news story about population, there’s a ton of people celebrating the oncoming disaster, like they’re actually happy. Do they not realise what kind of a calamity awaits us, or do they just really hate their own country that much?”
“Teachers don’t have to worry about their jobs though. We can just decrease the student to teacher ratio. In the future, there might only be 20 students to a class.”
“So scary! I was just scrolling through Xian Yu [Chinese craigslist] today, when I saw this super uncomfortable rental listing.
Guys, check out this house. I just happened upon this while scrolling around, and it’s super scary! And they’re only accepting female renters! Are there anyone familiar with witchcraft here, who can see if there’s something haunting this place? Or shady people inside? It makes me so uncomfortable, like there’s a vast amount of negative energy over this place.”
The original listing reads, “Front and back yards, call me after you read the summary. Looking for a woman to be my house sitter, 100 RMB rent per month, natural lighting, 3 bedroom, 300 square metres, great for artistic types or people who like camping. 100 RMB rent per month!! [insert address here], convenient public transport, very few people in the village, great for girls on vacation. No messages from men pls.”
Comments say, “I’m not sensitive to the supernatural or anything, but a single girl, in a place with “few villagers”, that’s all overgrown with plantlife, in a distant mountain village? House sitting? That doesn’t make much sense, does it? Not to mention, look at how much work it would be to get this house up to shape both inside and outside. You’d need someone strong and healthy for that. Why only look for girls? (not that girls can’t do physical labour or anything…)”
“Remote village, few people around, no grate over the windows, and only seeking female renters? You really don’t get what they’re after here? You’re just a lamb showing up for the slaughter.”
“As soon as I saw pic 7, I felt like it was plenty safe.” [from contexts in the responses to this comment, I think this commenter is expressing envy about the size of that yard.]
Another blog on the Handan case, “In 1981, ex-con Klaus sexually-assaulted a 7-year-old girl, Anna, and strangled her to death with her own stockings. In the courtroom, Klaus and his laywer attempted to push all the blame on the dead little girl. Ann’s mother, Marianne Bachmeier fired 8 shots from her pistol, killed the murderer, and got revenge for her daughter.
Professor Luo Xiang [famous legal professor whose lectures went viral on line for their humour] says that “The Minor Protection Laws are supposed to be used to protect victims, not a talisman for underage criminals. Even if the Minor Protection Laws apply in cases of bullying and murder, they should still be sentenced heavily.””
Comments say, “Never protecting people who need to be protected, and yet becoming a shield for suspects to hide behind. We have so many People’s Representatives, but no one is doing anything about this. Minor Protection Laws shouldn’t become a shield for people who need to die.”
“This is a just, great, respectable mother.”
“Eight shots is the limits of the gun’s magazine, not the limits of her as a mother.”
“Just reread Dream of the Red Chamber, and laws in Dynastic China were actually pretty strict.
As a proper noble, Xue Pan beat a peasant to death, and the case was strictly tried. The judge, Jia Yucun, even knew Xue Pan and was on his side. But Xue Pan still got sentenced to death, and Jia Yucun secretly smuggled him out.
Although Xue Pan survived, he’s basically an illegal immigrant with no papers now. And the Xue family had to pay the victim’s family 500 taels of silver.
Grandma Liu said that a normal family of five could live on 20 taels of silver for a year! Convert that to Beijing standard of living, 100K a year, and that’s a solid 2.5 million RMB!
He had to pay for murder with his life, and pay the victims 25 years of expenses! Look how fair those laws are!
Even nowadays, forget nobles and their children, even if an ordinary person murdered someone, could they get sentenced to death? Chances are, the murderer goes to prison, and there’s a pitiful amount of civil damages. Forget 2.5 million!”
Comments say, “Feng Yuan isn’t a normal peasant. He’s from a smaller family, but he’s got some relatives with pull.”
“Dumbass Xue doesn’t count as a noble. He’s just got a relative who’s a noble.”
“Not giving criminals enough punishment + not giving victims enough recompense = encouraging hidden criminal elements.”
Headline News posts that, “According to CCTV News, lately, there’s been a lot of attention on the middle schooler Wang’s murder in Handan. Netizens have been raising various questions about the case, including many influencers posting pictures of the X-ray of the victim’s skull, and other influencers writing up various analyses based on these X-rays, such as, “The victim was buried alive,” or “There was an adult accomplice”, etc, etc. A CCTV Legal News reporter has confirmed with relevant departments, that these pictures on the internet are completely unrelated to the Handan case.”
Comments say, “The law cannot back down to the unlawful, not even if they’re underaged.”
“If these influencers are spreading fake news, I hope they can get punished for it, instead of letting all these rumours fly around.”
“These people need to be throne in jail, twisting the truth all day.”
“Dumbass Xue doesn’t count as a noble. He’s just got a relative who’s a noble.”
I'm so glad some commenter pointed this out lol