Massage Bear gets it
A Shanghai-based white-collar worker using the alias Massage Bear shot to fame on Weibo in 2020 by promoting the “touching fish” philosophy. One of her posts which went viral read: “How hard you work depends on how much money you receive and never be serious about your work.”
the bear aesthetic is universal
Bears. Bread. Trains.
Although I do wonder if Trains are an American thing and if foreign comrades appreciate what they have.
i remember reading a chinese train enthusiast forum and it had like 1million members on it just for posting about chinese trains and train rumors so tbh its a thing for sure in china
pog
Based zoomers
In general, Generation Z abhors the so-called 996 work rhythm – shifts that last from 9am to 9pm, six days a week – widely expected of employees by Chinese tech giants.
Sounds like a great system. wtf
Regarding the response from bosses, the blogger Massage Bear wrote: “Even if my boss scolds me [for ‘touching fish’], calls me rubbish or blames me for being not responsible, I will just smile and will never get angry. I will never take the initiative to resign. If he fires me, I will receive compensation of ‘N+1’.”
China’s Labour Law stipulates that if a company fires an employee without substantive reasons, it should pay them compensation, which is usually the employee’s monthly salary times the number (N) of years they have worked for the company plus one.
So, how substantive of a reason do they need?
China’s Labour Law stipulates that if a company fires an employee without substantive reasons, it should pay them compensation, which is usually the employee’s monthly salary times the number (N) of years they have worked for the company plus one.
Holy shit this is literally better than some of the best unemployment/pension systems in the US.
Which is why I asked the question of what constitutes a substantive reason, because at least in the west it seems corporations aren’t having issues coming up with stuff to get someone canned.
Like for example the often used tool of restructuring that just most unfortunately eliminated a few jobs.
Obviously I couldn’t say if this translates to China, but I can’t imagine their corporations being much different in that respect.
If their confidence is anything to go by, that blogger at least seemed to believe they’d receive it even if they were fired for slacking off.
Boomers are bad in China too. Who woulda thunk it…
Also, love too have 996 work culture with minimal protections in “socialist” China
