2/26/23 - A good employee should be like chatGPT
A childcare blogger is recounting the tale of one of her fans who had returned to her hometown for Chinese New Year. Her mom and her ex-husband immediately try all they can to prevent her from returning to Shanghai and working again. First, her ex-husband took her to his newly-furnished house and said, “You can be the lady of the house here—are you happy?” Her fan, Ping, is like, “What do you think this is, the Palace of Versailles? You think it’s an honour to live here?” Her ex-husband showed her his stocks and how he has 500K in it and said, “So long as you come back to me, this is all yours.” Her fan thinks, “That’s the first time I knew how much money he had, despite being married for 20 years. I’ve never spent a cent of his money, why would anything be different now?”
Seeing that Ping isn’t moved at all, Ping’s mother tries to threaten her, “He’s willing to take care of you, let you quit your job and just sit around at home, what do you have to complain about? Hurry up and go back to him! What are you gonna do, work for the rest of your life? If he gives up on you, when you’re old, you’ll have no house and no kids and no one to take care of you. What are you gonna do then?”
Ping doesn’t even bother arguing, just concentrates on getting through the holidays and leaving. And her mother and ex-husband actually try to lock her up at home. Ping laughed, “I’m an adult with a real job—how long do you think you can keep me?” And indeed, she was able to return to work after the holidays are over.
But ever since that, her ex-husband has been frequently messaging her. First, he’s complaining about how she surely has a boyfriend in Shanghai. Then, he links her to blog posts about how women have to be gentle and obedient for a family to be peaceful. Then, he gets drunk and begs, “Let’s just forgive each other and move on.”
She texted back, “What have I done that needs forgiving?”
Her husband replied, “You’re too stubborn and never obey me.”
Ping blocked him.
Several days later, she had to unblock him because he claimed that he needs to talk to her about their daughter. He tries, “We used to be such a good family, and now everything’s fallen apart. I feel really bad. What I did was wrong—I promise I’ll take care of you and our daughter. Believe me.”
She replies, “I don’t believe anyone now.”
And he immediately flips his shit, “You’re a stupid, stubborn asshole.” “If you don’t believe me, who can you believe?” “You need to learn to reconcile with the world and yourself.” “If you don’t listen to me, you’ll pay for it.”
And Ping blocked him again.
She asks this blogger whether her husband will change. The blogger responds that, “Well, he has improved. At least he’ll admit that he did something wrong now. But it’s just words, he doesn’t actually think he did anything wrong. He just thought that as soon as he apologise, you’ll immediately forgive him. The reason he flipped out is because he still thinks he has the moral high ground, and you’re the one being unreasonable.”
Ping says, “I’ll never forgive how he cheated on me, or the tooth I lost when he beat me, but we do have a daughter together after all…”
“Even if you ignore what he did before, you should wait and see. If he’s really going to change, then how long can he keep up his good behaviour? If he can wire you 2000RMB every month for a year or two, you can think about giving him another chance.”
Ping suddenly laughs, “I forgot to tell you even that when I went home, he kept asking how much I made every month and how he should be in charge of my bank accounts. Give me 2000 a month? He wants me to give him 2000 a month!”
Ping later promised that she won’t go back to him—she’d look down on herself for falling for him twice.
A relationship advice blogger notes that a lot of people seem to think that they’re going to work in order to make friends and show off. They’ll get stressed about what their coworkers think about them, not want to do what their boss asks because he’s rude, tell everyone around them about their marital problems and relationship dramas. They think real life office work is like the TV show Office. When the whole world knows that no one likes a married but childless woman at work, people still wear wedding rings, post wedding photos to their social media, and then get fired over it.
You’re going to work to make money, not to vent your emotions. A good employee should be like chatGPT, just executing commands with no emotions. So what if your boss wants something stupid done? That’s none of your business. So long as he pays you at the end of the day, just do what he wants. Don’t spend so much time thinking about what he’s trying to accomplish—is your mortgage paid off? If your house in a good school district? Have you paid the bribes for going from primary to secondary school?
And you should be treating your boss and your coworkers as walking chatGPTs. They’re all NPCs in your life. What you should be figuring out is how to make use of their functions, how to make them drop coins, and not arguing with a chatGPT and actually getting your feelings hurt over what it says to you. What are you, crazy?
A blogger responds to the claim that only poor people like spicy food because spice is used to cover up less-than-fresh ingredients, by saying that high-end peppers are not cheap at all. Comments respond, “Yeah, that’s like saying Dongbei barely has any spicy dishes. Dongbei must be the wealthiest province in China.”
The actual news media is reporting about panda abuse in Memphis now and concerned people got together and hand wrote thank you letters to express thanks that they’re continuing to update on the situation and keeping the heat on.
Man asks for advice that their family had just gotten 6 houses from the government as repayment for eminent domain. His parents want to give one of the houses to his sister, and his wife said that if they do so, she’ll get a divorce. His sister is the one primarily taking care of his parents. He wants to know what to do. Comments respond he needs to work harder on persuading his parents to give three houses to his sister.
There was a video of a mother who cooked 3 crabs and gave her son 2, and his daughter 1, even though her son is only 5 and can’t even eat that much, and her daughter is 13. The mother didn’t think she was playing favourites because there’s an odd-number of crabs, so it’s natural to give the extra one to her son. This blogger notes that there is a type of favouritism that is subtle and less noticeable. She has a coworker who just had a son, who clearly favourites her son, constantly buying him gifts and new clothes. She always says, “My daughter is almost grown, she doesn’t even want attention from me anymore. I’m sure she understands if I spend most of my energy on the baby—why would she be jealous about something like that?” And yet, her daughter has become more and more aggravated, talks back, rebels.
A husky bit a sheep at a hotel, and was kicked off of the sheep by a janitor. The husky lost a tooth, and the owner sued for 12000RMB to get new teeth for her dog. The sheep had a slight bleed. I read through all the comments and could not figure out why there is a sheep at a hotel.
A mother asks that she has a child who is 11 years old, in 5th grade, and wants to go out to hotpot with his classmates, and wants $120 for it. She feels that at this age, she understands if he wants to go see a movie or get some bubble tea, but it’s kind of weird for them to go eat out together, so she said that she would only give him $50. But she saw how disappointed he was and is wondering if she did the right thing.
An author shares some drama in his life. He knows a guy, both in the 60s in rural China, who was too poor to go to school, so he went working for a construction company when he was still a teenager. He’s pretty smart and good-looking, so he made some decent money pretty quickly and married the girl cooking for the construction team. They had a daughter together and, according to the restricted birth policy at the time, had another child 7 years later, another daughter. He started to take over the construction company during this period, and eventually became the boss. Thanks to China opening up, he started making a lot of money.
But he’s always been insecure about his lack of education, so he went and bought himself an MBA degree and got a calligraphy teacher, and throughout all this, he met a college graduate girl and started cheating on his wife with her. After a while, his mistress had a son. He was happy, but he had no intention of divorcing to be with her.
This situation continued for a while, until his oldest daughter found out about his mistress and bastard. She freaked out and tried to throw herself off a building over it. His wife found out, and went to the mistress’s house and smashed everything. She even grabbed the baby out of the mistress’s hands and threatened to kill him. She also went to his company and smashed things there too.
The man felt guilty about the whole situation, so he promised to break it off with the mistress (though of course he continued paying for his son), and even had a third daughter with his wife. But ever since then, his oldest daughter has been emotionally unstable, cries a lot, anorexia, half falling out, cutting. She got diagnosed with depression, and as a result, dropped out of high school and never finished her education.
The man gets more and more frustrated over all the drama at home, and because he was too busy working during his other two daughter’s childhood, he has almost no bond with them. At this time, he finds out that his mistress had another son. Unless she was cheating on him, looking at the timing, it was probably his. So they got back together again.
As his sons grew up, he finds that he’s choosing between a family with three very average daughters, and a family with two excellent sons. All his daughters had bad grades, and he’d had to pay to get them a diploma. But his sons were raised by an educated woman, had good grades, walls covered in trophies, etc. But his sons won’t acknowledge him. When his oldest son gave a speech at his graduation, the first line was, “I have no father.” He was mad as hell sitting in the audience seats. He tried to build a relationship with them, but his son made it clear to him, “I’m introducing guys to my mom, please don’t come over anymore.”
What can the man do? He returned home and asked for a divorce from his wife. His wife tries to go over to the mistress’s house and threaten her again, but now her sons are grown. Her son jumped in and kicked the man’s wife across the room and said, “I’m not even fourteen yet. If you kill me, you’ll pay for it with your life. If I kill you, nothing will happen to me.” Terrified, his wife fled. There was more drama with his daughter threatening suicide, and he just ignored them, and eventually, they agreed to the divorce.
Now he lives with his mistress and his sons and often joke about how both of his sons are so accomplished, that he doesn’t know who to leave his company to, and people joke back that he should have a third. No one knows that he actually has three daughters too. Or at least, no one seems to care.