06/04/24 - Would you work at a company that only has an hour-long lunch break?
“Turns out, you can reverse-workplace-PUA right back at them.
“I came to work at this company because I had faith in its development, but look at the state it’s in right now. I’m very disappointed too.”
“I work just fine at other companies. Why does nothing work out here? Is there something wrong with your management style?”
“The whole industry is in trouble. Even if you fire me, I can just get a new job, but your company will still be in deep waters.”
“Money isn’t what matters, it’s a problem of attitude. Your attitude makes me feel like this company has no future.”
“It’s not just my fault that our numbers look bad this year. It’s not like I’m the only person at this company. Everyone’s slacking off. Maybe your entire strategy was wrong to begin with?””
Comments say, “This is exactly what I told my boss when I quit. He got really upset and even cried.”
“This is exactly what I told my boss too. He completely flipped out and sent me two 500+ word long texts at 2AM cussing me out LOL”
“You don’t have to prove you’re right. You just have to prove they’re wrong.”
“A lady in Hunan forgot her suitcase in her uber ride. The driver first promised to return everything, but never showed up. When she called him back, he claimed that he didn’t have her stuff at all. But later, she found pictures on his social media of him posing with her passport and clothes.”
Comments say, “I can’t believe this shit.”
“What an awful driver.”
“Just call the cops. Every uber car has internal video. If your stuff is valuable enough, you can make him take criminal responsibility.”
From the Chang’e Six Moon Probe, “Guys, how are my photography skills? This is some pictures I took of the dark side of the moon! Feel free to share!”
Comments say, “Thanks. You’re the only friend I have on the moon.”
“I miss you here on Earth.”
“Has…Has my kitten been putting me to sleep every night?
Little Ya has a habit for bedtime. Once I get into bed and lay down, she’ll follow me and lay her head on the other pillow like a little kid. I’ll reach my hand over and lay it on her tummy, and she’ll start purring. I always made fun of her, “What kind of kitten needs to be petted to sleep?”
But today, I suddenly realised that every time I do this, I’m always the one to fall asleep. And just now, as I was drifting in and out of sleep, maybe the kitten felt me stop petting or something and thought I was asleep, she hopped up and went back to her pet bed.
I suddenly realised, is it possible…that I thought I was petting my kitten to sleep, and she thought she was purring me to sleep? She’s been working hard at helping me sleep every night? Like a mommy reading me a bedtime story?
Wow, how could a foolish human like myself deserve this? Kittens may not be able to talk, but they’re doing their best to take care of their humans. Thanks, Ms. Little Ya for you love and care.”
Comments say, “It’s true. Whenever I’m tossing and turning because of insomnia, my cat will come over and lay on top of me and start purring, and I’ll quickly fall asleep, and he’ll hop off of me afterwards.”
“I don’t let mine onto the bed, so my kitten will pretend to sleep in his own bed and hop up on mine once I’m asleep. I wake up every morning to find another fuzzy head on my pillows.”
A compilation of the worst thing to happen after you’re just done applying makeup:
“When you’ve put on make up, but you have a runny nose, and it keeps running.”
“Or when it looks absolutely perfect when you’re in your room, but the second you step outside, you look like a clown.”
“When I forget to put in my coloured contacts.”
“When you get sand out of your eyes after putting on makeup, and it’s covered in foundation…”
“The worst is when you want to draw on a mole and accidentally made it way too big, so you go to wipe it off and accidentally wiped your foundation off too, so you try to apply more foundation, but now it’s clumping together.”
“Lowering your fringes once you’re down with makeup.”
“Has anyone else just finished putting on foundation when their face suddenly starts itching? Honestly, I can’t even. All I can do is get a napkin and gently dab at it to try to stop the itching.”
“Who puts on makeup with glasses on? Anyone with severe short-sightedness just wears contacts.”
“The absolute worst is getting finished with your makeup, only to find that every shade of lipstick you own looks awful with it.”
“Would you work at a company that only has an hour-long lunch break?
You can’t just worry about how many days you get off a week when you choose a company. How long lunch breaks are is also an important standard.
I’ve interviewed at a lot of companies, and only a few rare unicorns offer 2 hour+ lunch breaks. Some companies only allow 1 hour or even half an hour for lunch breaks.
As a salaryman, it takes me 40 minutes just to eat some food and rest a bit at lunch. If I really want to nap, it’s impossible unless I skip eating. If I don’t nap at lunch, not only do I have no energy in the afternoon, but having 1 less hour off work means losing almost an entire day a week.
So if you find a company that’s decent all around but only offers a 1 hour lunch break, would you take that job?”
Comments say, “I only work at companies that clock out at 5 or 5:30, so I’m not worried about a nap as much. My company isn’t my home. The less time I spend there, the better. Any place that has a 2 hour lunch break won’t let you leave until 6PM at the earliest, so I never consider these places. And if you don’t have energy in the afternoon because you didn’t have a nap, then just take more time with your work. Work isn’t your life.”
“I really can’t stand hour-long lunch breaks. All you have time to do is eat and play with your phone a bit at your desk. I feel like 1.5 hours is the best.”
“Clock in at 8AM, clock off at 4:30PM, no lunch break. I can nod off on my way to and from work.”
“Just passed by a mall, and holy shit, how many years have they been out of business? They’re still advertising the iPhone Xs Max…”
Comments say, “Is this in Zhengzhou?”
“Just took this photo in Chengdu.”
“I guess nobody ever bothered to take it down.”
Turns out, Tiktok videos have their own sets. A video of a man giving a tour of a short video filming centre, showing various sets like a poor family home, a bar, a CEO’s office, a hospital, a pharmacy, a phone store, a grocery store, a restaurant…
Comments say, “Social media has its own Hengdian.” [A town filled with pre-built movie sets for various Chinese period dramas.]
“Once they go out of business, it’ll be perfect for converting into escape rooms.”
“I know several accounts pretending to be uni students making scripted videos in dorms, and I’ve blocked them all.”
“Oh, I know, it’s called the Shanghai International Short video Centre. I used to work there, but they’re mostly just charging rent for space.”
“I knew all along none of these short videos were real.”
“I had my doubts all along. There’s a lot of fake students livestreaming singing and dancing in their dorm in the middle of the night, and I’ve always wondered why their dormmates don’t get mad at them.”
“I always thought they’d at least be in separate locations, not all in the same building.”
A compilation of why you shouldn’t touch anything in public:
“Bathhouses will give you HPV. I managed to catch it despite being single for the last several years.”
“I grabbed onto the railings in the subway and then rubbed my eyes after, and got flat warts around my eyes. I thought they were just fat particles or something. Now I’m in the habit of constantly washing my hands.”
“When I went for a checkup, my gynaecology told me, “Girl, remember, girls’ butts are precious. Don’t sit down just anywhere.””
“The slippers in my bed and breakfast gave me warts on the bottom of my feet. Cost me 2600 RMB.”
“I just saw a comment saying he saw a guy with a ginormous pimple on his shoulder get popped by being squeezed against some exercise equipment. And he didn’t even wipe it down or anything before he left.”
“And if you go to a bathhouse, don’t use the towels they give you! I got warts all over my neck last summer because of this!”
“My coworker got diagnosed with severe HPV, and she still went swimming in the public pool. I’ve refused to go to a public pool ever since.”
“DO NOT EXERCISE BARE FOOT IN A GYM. DO NOT EXERCISE BAREFOOT IN A GYM. DO NOT EXERCISE BARE FOOT IN A GYM. You won’t believe how many people have corns.”
“You need to bring disposable pads for a hotel bathroom, or rinse the whole thing in boiling water. Don’t ask me. My butt hurt for an entire month.”
“A couple of years ago, during my nightshift, a gym coach came through with acute appendicitis, and he was HIV positive.”
“It’s true. I used to work as front desk at a gym, and it had a swimming pool that was absolutely disgusting. I found little frogs in it once and suggested changing out the water, and I got fired.”
“It’s the same idea as hotels. Never wipe your face or body with your hotel towel.”
“Girls really shouldn’t wear short shorts or skirts to movie theatres in the summer, because none of the chairs are clean. You can at least bring a jacket or something and sit on top of it. Every time I wear shorter shorts to go watch a movie, my legs are covered in red bumps when I get home, and they itch and hurt like crazy. I asked a dermatologist about them once, and she said they were bug bites ????”
“No wonder I got a random wart on my finger right when I started exercising at a gym…”
“As a doctor, I can tell you, that eating spicy food won’t give you pimples. It’s drinking milk that gives you pimples.”
“As a sports doctor, I can say that posture really isn’t something to get anxious over. It doesn’t really matter if you have perfect form or not. Don’t let your coach bullshit you.”
“If you’re a normal person going to the hospital. you should dress poor. Don’t ask me why. I’ve been a doctor for 15 years. You can tell me any symptoms you have.”
“The problem we need to explain to people, when it comes to the civil servant exam, is that there is “no way up.” To put it simply, when our government promotes policies, it’s easy to raise everyone’s expectations too high. For example, the 985 uni girl who refused to be a selected graduate lately? Everyone still believes in the propaganda that a girl like her can become a selected graduate and “most likely” get successful later in life.
Honestly, this is like becoming a bank teller a decade ago. Back then, bank jobs were great. Even entry-level tellers made good money. So a lot of great uni graduates took the exam to become a teller, and they were painted a great picture. You can start from the bottom and work your way up.
And what has happened after a decade has passed?
Most people have just grown old in their teller positions, and their wages have decreased relatively speaking.
Why?
Because both the bank and the government is a pyramid structure. They need large number of people doing grunt work. And in order for those entry-level employees to have more motivation, they need to be given empty promises. And as a government employee, they can’t give you too much money, so their promises are always that “It’s easier to get promotions this way.”
But if you want promotions, there has to be an open spot. Where do all of these empty spots come from for you to be promoted to? Who’s leaving all of these spots for those selected graduates? Once you leave, who’s going to keep doing all the grunt work?
If you’re going to discuss the question of, “Should you apply to be a government worker in remote regions for better chances of success?”, you have to tell people very clearly, that if you’re so desperate for work that you’re willing to consider being a government worker in remote regions, then you should be prepared to be an entry-level employee for the rest of your life. As our budget drinks, entry-level officials will find that all the contractors hired to do work are decreasing, and their work is becoming more complicated and difficult.
And at the same time, they’ll find that all the skills they’ve been honing in their job isn’t anything the labour market is interested in. That is to say, it’s hard to find work once you leave the system. Once you’ve forgotten all your knowledge from your degree, you really can’t leave anymore.
They need grunts. If you’re from a normal family and choose to become a selected graduate, you need to be prepared to be a grunt for the rest of your life.
And there’s another problem for women trying to become grunts, just like this selected graduate from Wuhan University. Her whole family thinks she should go to Jiayu Guan and be a selected graduate, because they think she can marry well over there. Only her uni professor was against it, and mostly because she thinks she won’t be able to marry well over there.
It’s a fact that there’s a big gap in different regions of China. All the young people in the less-developed regions are leaving. As a woman, if you go back to those places, it’ll be very hard to find a suitable partner. We’ve done a lot of statistics on this, and they’re all public. You can look it up for yourself.
If you don’t have the determination to commit to grunt work and really service the people for the rest of your life, then don’t waste anyone’s time by going.”
Comments say, “The biggest problem for young people working entry-level government jobs is that they’re not paying people on time. I’m a government worker working at the county-level for the last 5 years, and they owe me 60K in back pay. I’ve basically worked an entire year for free at this point. And after the wage reform, I’m probably never getting that money back. Someone in the city might also be an entry-level employee and we have the same rank, but I probably only make half of what he does. I still haven’t gotten my pay check for March right now.”
“If a city-level selected graduate is “entry-level”, then what do you call actual entry-level workers? Are they underground level?”
“But a stable society requires a lot of honest people to quietly sacrifice themselves. Whether you trick them into it, or they have a sense of responsibility or morality or whatever, either way, it’s all for a better, more stable society.”