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Oh good grief, does 996 mean what I think it does?
by na85 5y ago
Oh good grief, does 996 mean what I think it does?
- SmellTheGlove 5y agoIt depends. How do you like to spend 72 hrs of your week?
- cercatrova 5y ago9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week. This is most prevalent in China though, with their somewhat lax labor laws, I have never seen this in the western world (codified into a number like 996 I mean, I assume investment banking and the like pull >100 hours a week).
- ano88888 5y agoAnd they call themselves "communists" with their somewhat capitalist lax labor laws. What an irony.
- moehm 5y agoSimpsons Already Did It™ https://youtu.be/zzt0xBXTNhI?t=200 https://youtu.be/zzt0xBXTNhI?t=200
- SoylentYellow 5y agoThey are still adhering to Marxism. Capitalism is one step on the path. Next is socialism, then communism.
- VelkaMorava 5y agoWell, the US and Europe call themselves capitalist, yet there are huge barriers to enter some of the fields (e.g. in the Czech Republic the number of mobile operators is defined by law, essentially a state-imposed oligopol). Useless regulations (primarily EU), trade embargos, huge subsidies to companies which don't need them, absurd patents (my favourite one being Apple patenting the shape of a rectangle with rounded corners)... So now what?
- madengr 5y agoThe Japanese actually have a word for death by over-work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi
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- Aperocky 5y agoHaving interned a long time ago in such a company: No check in time - just arrive anytime before 10. Lunch break is easily 2 hours, naps included. Dinner break is another 1.5 hours, people would walk laps and sometimes play basketball. Everyone hang around until 9PM because then there's free food and free rides home (also traffic is much better). only applies for weekdays, some people check in on Saturdays for a few hours. Of course this is not busy time in general - when people do the real 996 for a bit - but that can't last, and everyone knows it. I've heard the situation has started to change as well - hopefully it gets fully stamped out.
- unmole 5y ago> This is most prevalent in China though, with their somewhat lax labor laws Like a lot of things in China, the problem isn't with the laws but the selective enforcement of it. The labour law says: > 36 The State shall practise a working hour system wherein labourers shall work for no more than eight hours a day and no more than 44 hours a week on an average. There's also a widespread practice of making employees who have been with the company for more than 8 years or so quit and rejoin after a month to bypass some other labour law provision I don't fully understand.
- tfcata 5y agoSadly although everyone knows this is simply a giant show to marginally make the bosses feel more at ease about the productivity, nobody has the guts to stand out and say this is just nonsense, such a waste of time.