I had a boss tell me once, "Your job is to pay for the type of lifestyle you want to live. It should never consume your life. Your family, friends, and well-being are what's important in life." I still live by those words.
@curlyfrys52793 жыл бұрын
thats beautiful
@kokolatte8253 жыл бұрын
It's true. It's just that the concept of work-life balance becomes more of a fairy-tale because affording a decent lifestyle by the materialistic standards that are constantly marketed to us become harder and harder to obtain. America's minimum wage is $7.25. I don't know anyone who can make an honest living making $7.25 for 40 hours a week without some form of assistance.
@ChurlzVA3 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@thelazy0ne3 жыл бұрын
You just wait until you figure out that you can make others pay for that 😏 All hail Capitalism 😏 perfectly balanced like all things should be. 😁👌
@chrome2yourdome3 жыл бұрын
Smart
@Auroron3 жыл бұрын
"The dark side of 996", Bro all the sides of this are dark
@kihbjcjdjd70223 жыл бұрын
Funniest yet sad comment
@カリナちゃん3 жыл бұрын
Right what other sides are there 💀
@zefanyalt59443 жыл бұрын
@@カリナちゃん abyss 💀
@AmanSingh-yz3bi3 жыл бұрын
Dark
@davidjstreader3 жыл бұрын
Unless you're making mad coin. Like you could do it for a while if the money was rolling in
@hantor77413 жыл бұрын
This level of work ethic makes sense for an entrepreneur serving to grow a business. Not for employees getting paid hourly.
@thechosenone15333 жыл бұрын
They don't even get paid hourly,they get fixed wages and are forced to work more hours than they're paid for.
@MisstressMourtisha3 жыл бұрын
That's not "work ethic", that's corporate propaganda that benefits from desensitized slavery.
@MyNameHousefly3 жыл бұрын
Capitalists are fucking delusional
@tiagodagostini3 жыл бұрын
Yup that is true, but usually the entrepeneours understand that. The ones that usually do not understand are middle management.
@tratbagd45003 жыл бұрын
@@thechosenone1533 Exactly
@feliciacote-floyd232 Жыл бұрын
I've worked in China for almost 5 years and the working hours (mainly for Chinese citizens) is completely insane. People are not efficient nor productive due to exhaustion and mental fatigue. Meetings always last multiple hours and rarely anything gets resolved. The lack of productivity is actually astonishing. For example, people were shocked when I finished a simple task within 1 hour, rather than taking 2-4 hours to complete it. These are results of 996 working mentality, people are just stretching out their tasks as much as possible. I've seen some companies in China slowly adopting 4 days work week or 4.5 days work week, really hoping it continues in that direction, because the younger generation at the moment will never accept 996.
@juanok2775 Жыл бұрын
just like in Japan
@doppelminds1040 Жыл бұрын
I was so productive during lockdown, finished my work in a fraction of the 8 hour day. Then when we got back to the office, i was done with my tasks in like 4 hours, then i had to sit another 4 hours pretending i was busy, it's stupid... we need to rethink the way work eats our lifetime away
@feliciacote-floyd232 Жыл бұрын
@@doppelminds1040lol this is sooo accurate 😂 Same!
@qinyima569311 ай бұрын
@@juanok2775Japan gets better working style nowadays, they don't promote doing extra works anymore
@elmaddin_guliyev11 ай бұрын
even Chinese companies in the US hold a Chinese work culture. When you complain, their reply is, yeah work culture. Ok, that means tomorrow some Arabic company is going to force employees to wear niqab and follow Sharia law. I am sad companies from abroad bring their cultures instead of following local rules
@vishnuvs14493 жыл бұрын
The worst thing is that there are many who glorify this practice. Somehow we've gotten to a point where not having sleep, food or any semblance of a social life equates to hard work.
@charlesbanian94953 жыл бұрын
This is what the rich want, more labor for less, your to tired to see what's happening...
@Pippa873 жыл бұрын
*cough* hussle culture *cough, cough*
@deborahbyom9293 жыл бұрын
Modern slavery,work till you drop dead means no sick leave,no holiday,and no pension,companies dream workforce.
@vladimirseven7773 жыл бұрын
Fortunately or not body and brain can't work like that. Exhausted people are the source of errors, then you need even more work to fix it.
@eraserhead85483 жыл бұрын
I’m sure it has nothing to do with all that crap entrepreneurs and motivational speakers put out about how you’re not successful because you like sleep more than you like success
@jenniferlopez67073 жыл бұрын
“I’m losing my soul and becoming very numb.” If that doesn’t sound alarming then I don’t know what does
@itshafix12723 жыл бұрын
That's like a linking park song
@Popularmango102453 жыл бұрын
This is not for lazy Western cucks. This is Asia, people don't believe in handouts
@武田信玄-n8s3 жыл бұрын
imagine having a soul smh
@Killzoneinbound3 жыл бұрын
@@Popularmango10245 you’re using a western woman as your pfp you weirdo..
@Popularmango102453 жыл бұрын
@@Killzoneinbound Brazilians are not western
@jonathanking4563 жыл бұрын
Working like this does not increase productivity. It actually decreases it. Better to have happy workers with good work/life balance. It increases loyalty and productivity. It never ceases to amaze me when companies don’t realize, that if you treat your employees well and with respect you will go much further.
@camelopardalis843 жыл бұрын
I *once* worked 70 hours in a week, and this was in a group home where much of the time the children and teens weren't present. My brain was pretty mushy by the end of it. Concentrating for 12 hours a day, even if you have breaks, six days a week as a norm? If you make your employees work like that, you get mush brain results.
@zbigniewvolkov79523 жыл бұрын
For sure, because you know better than all of these companies and their data. :-D
@jragon92153 жыл бұрын
In my opinion I think they are ok with working non stop and nothing else based on the culture
@uthoshantm3 жыл бұрын
Totally agree
@gilberttan72443 жыл бұрын
agree, if you got a task on wednesday, but you work 6 days a week then you may want to delay it so you will have some work until saturday. but if work at shorter time period then the task will be done few days earlier thus making you more productive.
@KSizbored4life7 ай бұрын
I'm a nurse who only has to work 3-4 days a week of 12 hour shifts, and it absolutely burns me out. I can't imagine doing 996, I would literally off myself
@AHundred-ec5yqАй бұрын
Your lazy then
@JohnDoe-zn6fdАй бұрын
@@AHundred-ec5yq 3/10 rage bait
@GamingAndChillАй бұрын
@@AHundred-ec5yq Go back to school and learn how to write first you 30 IQ clown.
@abrahamlincoln7912Ай бұрын
@@AHundred-ec5yq”you should be constantly working with no life or else you’re lazy” - you apparently
@lacosta0892Ай бұрын
@@AHundred-ec5yqobvious troll is obvious🤡
@famousamos3 жыл бұрын
South Korea used to be like this but they recently implemented many rules to prevent overworking. As a result, they're seeing happier employees, better fertility rates, etc.
@zakaryloreto65263 жыл бұрын
Good to hear but doesn't south Korea still have the lowest birth rates in the world?
@xcqematic13 жыл бұрын
Where did you pull that lie from? South Korea currently has the lowest fertility rate in history (0.83 in 2020 and 0.8 in 2021 vs 1.2 in 2010). Sure you get anonymity on the internet but dont make shit up dude.
@TylerSolvestri3 жыл бұрын
SK will be gone by 2070.
@rac46873 жыл бұрын
@@zakaryloreto6526 that could be why they are doing it....on flip side i don't think china has this problem
@shermanfirefly54103 жыл бұрын
@@rac4687 They have, if you look at the new data, their birth rate have dropped to a level almost near the birth rate of Japan It's just that they have a higher population so that the situation doesn't seem too bad in the short run.
@watchdealer113 жыл бұрын
996 isn't even effective. Productivity dramatically decreases once fatigue overtakes the body. A better balance would actually result in more work being done.
@icecoldchilipreppers3 жыл бұрын
On a factory floor perhaps where efficiency greatly effects productivity. Not so for a receptionist for instance, they can answer the phn and take a message just as well on hour 11. Maybe a mistake here and there. Same with managers, sale people, people in marketing and financials. The slight drop in productivity is far less than the cost of training and employing a second worker. However, on a factory floor or construction or something like that, then yes, once they are tired their productivity will dramatically decrese.
@fritsrits75913 жыл бұрын
You do not understand.. humans are replaceable. If productivity decreases, you just pick another human with high productivity. There are no human rights. That’s the problem.
@Sean-kg2gr3 жыл бұрын
@@icecoldchilipreppers you think people in office jobs don’t get fatigued? Gtfoh , that’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. You’re full of shit.
@neilfosteronly3 жыл бұрын
They take 2.5 hour to 3 hour lunches to nap. People are paid monthly also, once a month. Pay isn't by hour for most in China.
@ididntalwaysworkinspace95583 жыл бұрын
@@icecoldchilipreppers They are talking about knowledge workers. Mental fatigue is real. I have worked as a laborer and a tech worker. Tech is much more draining.
@MeatBallBoy233 жыл бұрын
My stomach turned at the end when she's describing how numb she feels. She sounded like someone willing to take their own life just to escape her life. I hope she can find happiness.
@KxngEst3 жыл бұрын
Yeah that Numb comment got to me also
@vovan2_1473 жыл бұрын
I did this 3 year ago. 12 hour for 6 month no rest days. Then i resigned from it. But look back all my co-worker in the company still working like that for more than 2 years. They have friends group. I cannot handle it so numb. Feel like in heel
@hakayma75603 жыл бұрын
that's why we have a lot of emo's in western culture
@rafaellima3813 жыл бұрын
This video is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO STUPID they take a few exceptions and make it as it was rule and idiots without critic power just agree and believe everything is true... PEOPLE WITH INTERNET HAVE NO BRAIN the video is sooooooooo stupid that at 7:31 THE WOMAN IS CLEARLY SPEAKING ENGLISH, but they remove her natural voice, then dubbed in chinese and then subtitle it in english... THE WHOLE VIDEO IS NARRATED IN ENGLISH SO WHY REMOVE THE INTERVIEWED THAT WAS SPEAKING ENGLISH? MISTAKE? no they want to manipulate the speech... dont be idiot STOP BEING BRAINLESS, START PAYING ATTENTION TO THE THINGS MEDIA SHOW YOU, MEDIA HASN'T THE POWER OF TRUTH ONLY THE POWER TO MANIPULATE IDIOTS. DONT BE AN IDIOT
@beatrizmirandamezzo3 жыл бұрын
@@rafaellima381 lol, can you even lip read? She’s clearly speaking in Mandarin. Also, if you want to present an alternative argument, then wrote down your sources. Where are the links again that discredit Vice’s work? Vice does their research very thoroughly. Stop being a troll online
@Naomi-yc4fp Жыл бұрын
This type of life style doesn’t just affect the worker, it affects their family too. As a daughter of a single family, I got sent to boarding school because my mom just doesn’t have the time to take care of me, but even when I’m back home during weekends, I only get to see her for a few hours from Saturday night till Sunday afternoon where she would send me to the school bus and I go back to school. Now that I’m an adult, I have realized I was completely neglected and traumatized as a child, but I don’t even really blame her cause could she have done. Because of the lack of family support in my childhood, I grew up being clinically depressed too. It’s honestly such an unsustainable way of working, because even now my mom is still constantly working, even when she is suppose to be resting or on a holiday, she is always answering work calls, replying to work messages
@aobowang25683 ай бұрын
I feel so sorry for you. I hope for you, that you find some peace and happiness from time to time. I have similiar trauma but less intensive i guess. I feel sorry for everyone in China suffering from this unsolvable situation of " giving up the life for living" and i don't now what to do either. Thats really sad
@LoveyouYellowcatАй бұрын
Your mother is great and hardworking. You shouldn't blame her. I hope you can get out of depression soon.
@CMF4L3 жыл бұрын
As an office worker, I realized that my peak productivity is 6 hours a day - 7 on a good day. We're able to achieve more in 30 to 35 hours a week than in 40+. When I worked 50+ hours, my work was poor quality and had to be redone. Upper management thinks you can have 9 women make a baby in 1 month. 996 is a reflection of poor upper management.
@trevorz861013 жыл бұрын
@Jean Discard able to and productivity is apples and oranges
@eizhowa3 жыл бұрын
@Jean Discard I work as a lawyer, and I get the same amount of billable work done working 30 hours a week and a full 40 hour week. I worked 40 hours before covid and now nearer to 30 hours from home. Same amount of billable hours in 2020 as in 2019. It has nothing to do with not being able to work, but I - and many others - are more productive if the work sessions are shorter and more focused.
@Jay-cq5qr3 жыл бұрын
I like that everyone is calling out @Jean Discard for being a smooth brain.
@brenthorn71093 жыл бұрын
Yes. Communists. Poor upper management.
@zyrohnmng3 жыл бұрын
@Jean Discard being able to work and being able to productively work in a cognitively demanding job are two different things.
@5pctLowBattery3 жыл бұрын
I’ve never heard a resume read at a funeral. It’s unlikely your boss will be at your bedside at the end of your life thanking you for working so hard and not taking vacations and not spending time with your family. At the risk of sounding dramatic; when we put the needs of a company before our personal lives, we put our personal lives at risk.
@isabelparra85493 жыл бұрын
Agree
@Doctor-Stoppage3 жыл бұрын
100% agree with you. 99/6 isn't about hard work. Its about greed, war and death. They could care less about their citizens. They make it clear they are only a "human resource." And their vile ways are taking hold in the west right now.
@Skoda1303 жыл бұрын
We're just working-cattle.
@JohnnyYK3 жыл бұрын
@@Doctor-Stoppage it’s already in the west this has been going on to Americans
@rohansingh21473 жыл бұрын
@Hear Hrrh bro success seems nice but it’s worthless in the end what you should do is try to pray and connect with god and try to focus on being happy rather then money god bless you
@vivaene3 жыл бұрын
the craziest part to me is that even though she is working for over 12 hours a day, she's still living in what appears to be a small one bedroom apartment eating microwave noodles. this is so depressing
@TheCameltotem3 жыл бұрын
Who needs an apartment and hobbies when you can work all day!?
@rodneyferringer17013 жыл бұрын
And with a college education..
@amazingsupergirl71253 жыл бұрын
Exactly. Big city rent is expensive and I bet she’s living month to month. She should get some crap job in the country, buy a little fixer upper house, and ride her bike to work. Maybe rent out a room. Either way, they’re both crap jobs but at least you get to have a personal life in the country. ❤️🤟🏻
@Alan-wj5zc3 жыл бұрын
@@amazingsupergirl7125 It's china. Living space is nearly impossible to find with reasonable commute unless you want to live out in the boonies and make your 996 into a worse ratio.
@Holly18th3 жыл бұрын
Right?? And her title is a tech executive??!?
@TonyK. Жыл бұрын
It’s sad that I’m watching this video while here in Germany people discussing about four days working week (32h/week) with the same payment. We are living in the same world but the treatment can be so differently, knowing this makes me feel sad.
@Brian-nu9rp Жыл бұрын
You’re kind❤
@sethael17419 ай бұрын
Why are you sad? Be happy you're not an chinese guy and live a life like a drone. Im glad i live in Europe.
@Riza204628 ай бұрын
Germany is racist tho
@faequeenapril69217 ай бұрын
thats the thing, theres so much data and studies that show that working more than 6 hours a day you become inefficient to the point of being a detriment to your work. But no company no country really wants to acknowledge it. Even 4 days working at 32h/week you still wont be efficient because you'll be working for more than 6 hours a day .
@jorunojesperino96157 ай бұрын
@@Riza20462 how's that related to the main topic of the message?
@shaqyahya65033 жыл бұрын
It really annoys me when the new gen being labeled as ungrateful lazy people. Little do they know that the new gen is embracing life more than wealth.I ask couple of youngsters about it and they told me “what’s the point accumalate so much wealth and relying too much on it to enjoy life.” While I do agree money have their significant role in bettering life but if you choose wealth over life then there’s a possibility you will discard life without you know it.
@nugrahaadipratama90673 жыл бұрын
True wealth is intangible, it's immeasurable, it cannot be diminished and can only multiply when being shared. It's only bc people misunderstood the "cause" and the "effect" of wealth. The true wealth of so called really successful people is not in their companies, money, etc. It's in their spirit.
@shaqyahya65033 жыл бұрын
@Brian Mcclung it’s easy to jump into conclusion based on biased perspective. Like I said before, I acknowledged the role of money for a better cause but it doesn’t mean that money itself become our main goal to attain happiness. I lived in the society that value money more than life. I’ve seen lots of my colleagues send their parents to old folks home because for them their own parents are dead weight since they have been groom and taught to only make decision with the interest of money. Try to understand my whole point and stop twisting my statement just because it doesn’t align with your stand. Again, I totally agree the importance of fortune but dismissing the value of life itself?
@universalsoldier8113 жыл бұрын
@Brian Mcclung "Child is the father of Man"
@TheApsodist3 жыл бұрын
What does it matter if a man gains the whole world but loses his soul?
@iqbalindaryono89843 жыл бұрын
How do people get the luxury of having a job that gives enough time for personal needs and enough pay to afford everything needed to accomodate it? It feels like people like you are getting paid more than what you deserved or your bosses are charging insane fees to their client in order to afford the wage they're giving away.
@ultraali4533 жыл бұрын
I had a friend in Japan who was sleeping 4 hours, had 2 hours free in a day, and basically the rest of his day was work-related activity which included a 4 hour daily commute. He was leaving depressed messages, it wasn't okay. Then I suggested to his that he work freelance like me. He was living in an expensive part of Japan, so he couldn't do that. However, he did find contract based work that paid for overtime and his mood got much better. He stopped posting depressed messages after that.
@emmysorbicularis11853 жыл бұрын
I mean, there are alternatives... looks like i live in paradise
@okkami6763 жыл бұрын
You may have saved his life with your suggestion. Good work!
@daveborden25723 жыл бұрын
@@okkami676 Maybe Baby!
@hawkeye1713 жыл бұрын
@@emmysorbicularis1185 where do u live and what do u do
@Chxzz13 жыл бұрын
bless
@Landril3 жыл бұрын
As an employer i can't see how this would be beneficial outside of "appearances". I've found by being more lax about time off and reducing hours i get much better quality work out of my employees. When we gear up at certain times of the year everyone comes in often staying late without being asked or expected to. Take genuine care of your employees and they'll take care of you
@silferbuu863 жыл бұрын
This would be the case if it was just one or a small hand-full of companies. China, SK with new limitations, and Japan, all suffer from many companies that do this. Stretch out your investment and not your money. Take it to America, when I worked in politics for a month, all 90 employees worked 7am -10pm, 7 days a week for either average pay or none at all, due to volunteers. If your work culture is accepted, than there is an underlying problem.
@fortuna193 жыл бұрын
Wish more employers were like you!
@elizabethkrivoshieva16103 жыл бұрын
i SHARE THE EXACT SAME SENTIMENT in my company. Pay the team well, give them time for personal growth; passion and excellence is a standard in the work ethos.
@mikef28113 жыл бұрын
Long hours are not productive, after a certain hours, a person becomes inefficient, and a waste of money...
@alivensyde54843 жыл бұрын
ur business is trash thats why, we are talking bout big biz
@QianSky8 ай бұрын
I am Chinese, I want to say that most companies are not even willing to implement 996, my latest day to leave work is 11 o'clock in the evening, I have a colleague who even works until 2 o'clock in the morning the next day, although Chinese law stipulates a maximum of 8 hours of work, but most companies will not abide by this rule, resulting in many people now think that getting a 996 job is already a good benefit, because most companies will not even give you 996, but there are too many Chinese, which means that labor is very cheap, if I am not willing to do such work, there will be more people who are very happy to replace me, the boss's ambition is too bigI became a tool for my boss to make money.
@alexww1805 ай бұрын
Stay strong.
@stilettosnthaghetto69974 ай бұрын
Can you confirm this? I heard you will see tons of business executives sleeping in the streets, not because they are homeless but exhausted and don't have time to go home.
@randyhampton62813 ай бұрын
@@stilettosnthaghetto6997lol no....that's not true
@hush928220 күн бұрын
I couldn't understand what you're describing. I really want to understand!
@NoSweatGardening3 жыл бұрын
this is heart-breaking, we only live once, all the money in the world means nothing if we're not happy, healthy, and have meaningful relationship with other people
@adhipramanaoentoro22523 жыл бұрын
But if they not work like that they cant afford for living. Thats not happy as well
@TheJwwinter3 жыл бұрын
Most people need that money to survive the present, for when they retire and secure themselves in case they get sick, not for leisure.
@recycled36543 жыл бұрын
I think the real problem is, basic necessities to live are so high in cost that you have to do the hours to afford them. I've seen this everywhere, especially in boom towns. This is the direction capitalist driven society has headed, investment has drawbacks and it seems to fall all right on the actual workers.
@dentatusdentatus15923 жыл бұрын
@@adhipramanaoentoro2252 I don't know. I see this homeless guy who is always whistling and skipping down the street like he doesn't have a care in the world.
@michaelra42203 жыл бұрын
We don't think about money and work during last days on earth, well atleast us who have hearts...
@andywilliam19903 жыл бұрын
Just left mine. 90k a year. They started “forced overtime”. I’m out. I’d rather make less but watch my daughter grow up and be present to love on my wife.
@kindaapoptart193 жыл бұрын
Can’t miss the little things. Good for you and yours.
@sxerosie3 жыл бұрын
Good for you, hope you enjoy your time with family!
@BeamCity3 жыл бұрын
Salute to you, God bless
@stachowi3 жыл бұрын
takes courage to make that choice (i did) and it's hard but worth it.
@923stanley3 жыл бұрын
good for you man because once those times pass, no money can buy it back.
@Lukky_Luke3 жыл бұрын
Studies say that after a 52 hours work week the productivity falls off a cliff, even people working 70 hour weeks still only produce as if they would have worked 52 hours a week. People just starts working slower when the work week is long.
@maywalker9973 жыл бұрын
When you are tired & unmotivated because you are overworked you also start making a lot of mistakes too.
@diamonddogs60373 жыл бұрын
I work 10 hour days from Monday to Thursday, friday and sat I work 12 hour days. Sunday is the only day off. But I'm only scheduled to work 4 days a week but I chose to work the extra days, sometimes 7 days a week😁
@ry97563 жыл бұрын
It’s just modern slavery, the lower our purchasing power gets, the more people will be forced to slave away all day for big corporations
@talithasuya89083 жыл бұрын
@@diamonddogs6037 Do you enjoy it? Or are you trying to save up money or get a promotion. Do you feel tired? I know some people don't need much sleep. My brother has like three jobs just because he likes working.
@diamonddogs60373 жыл бұрын
@@talithasuya8908 I dont need to work long hours. It's just optional for me. I have a strict schedule that I follow through out the week wether its working or personal life, I make sure I complete all those and it becomes just another day. I always lived by if you lived everyday instead of waiting for that weekend to enjoy life then everyday becomes just another day on my calendar. But your bro working 3 jobs, man that's nuts. But props to him.
@g4m3rguy86 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic journalism. Thank you!
@cutnayzura82993 жыл бұрын
“If you dont do it someone else will.” God i’d hate to be under this manager Edit: wow I didn’t expect there will be so many comments and likes. Guys trust me, i’ve been with these kind of managers and the only impact he had on me was anxiousness, feeling not good enough, burn-out and unmotivated. My current manager understood if i said something is out of my capacity. When my jobdesc suddenly enlarged and i couldnt handle it, she gave me two interns. I still have to do it anyway, i didn’t have to do it alone. Better managers exist, and please be one.
@daspedal27303 жыл бұрын
but thats the truth. its only based on a neverending stream of "others" that keep it running! in every job on any place! every boss thinks that way! every single one!!! the really hard ones just spell it out!
@JB-vt5sz3 жыл бұрын
It is true in alot of situations. Even in America.
@jose31link3 жыл бұрын
That's not the manager, that's literally late capitalism
@bl83883 жыл бұрын
Had managers like that.
@mskrazie3 жыл бұрын
damn that saying is so fkn played out they even use it for this?. i have hated it since they also use it for “what you wont do for your man, someone else will” bs 😭 lol
@onemoreguyonline78783 жыл бұрын
You notice how the woman at the end said "lazy, incapable staff" like those exact words had been said to her multiple times in the past as a derogatory way to motivate harder work?
@aminboumerdassi23343 жыл бұрын
The funny thing is, laziness has produced many time-saving methods and inventions that allow workers to be more productive.
@onemoreguyonline78783 жыл бұрын
@@aminboumerdassi2334 I heard this at a Microsoft conference with a gentleman who graduated from a Michigan university. Unfortunately it seems we have moved away from this model, and gone straight to optimizing and min-maxing. I really miss working.
@potaterjim3 жыл бұрын
Company bosses, who do little work of their own comparative to what they make, push this propaganda of the "sin of laziness": the idea that being dissatisfied with your job means you're a layabout, that taking mental health seriously is just being weak, that working harder is some noble, selfless goal, despite the fact that they rarely if ever _reward_ that self-determination, _and_ despite the clear, proven negative effects it has on people. Eventually, workers come to internalize this notion and start competing with each other, and using shame as a motivator on each other. Which, you know, benefits the bosses just fine. They convince their workers to work harder without having to compensate them, and they even do it to each other! Until the whole workforce is a neurotic mess that can't sit still, because they're constantly, subconsciously feeling unproductive, when we're _the most productive era in human history._ Just let that sink in for a second. People are genuinely feeling guilty about being unproductive at work, in the year that saw the beginning of *HOBBYIST SPACE TRAVEL.* We're not just talking "technically we make lots of food", we're talking about trillionaires, people who own individually own more wealth, technology, and power than _empires._ And none of that is because people like Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk are just more creative and intelligent than anyone has ever been; it's 100% because of worker productivity. It's times like this we all have to remember a certain quote from a certain movie: _You are not your job._
@fc73073 жыл бұрын
If you also take into consideration the other things she and the other interviewees said, you will see that she has no choice. If you don't work long hours you will be seen as such and if the layoffs come you will be the first to get cut. If there are no layoffs your peers might get a salary increase (albeit not much) or promotions while you don't. Or your employers might decide to fire you and there are a lot of people who are more than happy to take your place. Even if she leaves for another job the work culture will be the same so in order to survive what choices does she have? Unless she gets lucky like the 2nd lady or opens her own business (which might be harder).
@user-wr3vt8uq4s3 жыл бұрын
If they're incapable, how would adding more hours improve that? Of course, quality doesn't come into it. Yeah, our product is shitty, but you get so much of it!
@margaesperanza3 жыл бұрын
this is not just China, its a normalized thing in Asia in general. The burnout and slave-driving of young professionals is so damn depressing, it almost drove me to suicide. You have a population of driven and smart professionals who are pushed to their limit. Eventually I got hired to work for a European-owned tech company and was in shock when I saw my many benefits and all the leaves I could take. My boss and co-workers encouraged me to take many holidays (something I could never do in my old job), I could explore hobbies, and have time to sleep soundly. I can never bring myself to work for a locally-owned company ever again.
@tgatez35663 жыл бұрын
Its the same everywhere.
@amberstale26283 жыл бұрын
I'm in Asia. I only heard of 996 now, where exactly are you?
@derangeddroid49113 жыл бұрын
@@amberstale2628 me too bruh
@MHaffiezMNazri3 жыл бұрын
@@amberstale2628 maybe the term is new, but the culture has been in existence all across Asia and SE Asia for years. However, some in SE Asia do 996 without realising out of "not minding to work extra hours for the sake of the company" instead of this hard-line type of 996. But it's technically 996 cuz deep down, you know you're doing these extra hours to show you're worthy a keep for the company or else you're replaceable - which you always are no matter what, unless you own the company.
@dem0z1993 жыл бұрын
Yeah you often hear the black companies of japan who exploit workers to their maximum.
@misterlove6225 Жыл бұрын
In my country, the trucking industry was just like that. If you didn't accept the illegal wages and bad work practices, bosses would say "if I trow the keys in the air, there are 100 other drivers waiting to catch them". 15-20 years later, compnay owners look at how pretty their trucks are sitting in the garages because they have no drivers. But instead of creating decent working conditions, they blame the drivers for not wanting to work.
@ogueyratogeyrat7448 Жыл бұрын
u just slave for them , they wont pay u if they can
@mrdojob6 ай бұрын
Employers like that are garbage.
@martadabrowska6513Ай бұрын
Poland?
@ilovedogs26423 жыл бұрын
"I'm always tired after work, I just swipe through social media. I don't even know what I'm looking at" This hit me hard
@tence_69653 жыл бұрын
That's why i deleted all social media
@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother3 жыл бұрын
@@tence_6965 That doesnt solve the larger root issue, that you dont even have a chance to be alive because your existence is to work and sleep.
@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother3 жыл бұрын
@John Wick Absolutely, People back then would have worked presumably less hours but achieved more tangible and real "rewards" out of it. Such as building your house, or hunting for dinner etc. Actually meaningful stuff. Todays society you're expected to work yourself to sleep, wake up and proceed with working. Most likely in a job that means Nothing to you and actively harms the environment. Then people want to wonder why drug abuse and suicide is perpetually on the rise and todays generation don't have Anything to look forward to in their entire lives. Its fucking fucked.... To put it lightly.
@TheIsaacLee3 жыл бұрын
Same here. That was me at one point.
@ilovedogs26423 жыл бұрын
@@youtubedeletedmynamewhybother damn, I knew all of this but when you really think about it... How depressing
@narfd.88373 жыл бұрын
What I find so absurd is that people justify 996 with efficiency even though the exact opposite is what happens when you overwork the employees. There are dozens of studies that prove that people with a solid work-life-balance are way more productive than those who basically don't do anything but work. Especially in high-performing jobs this has to be considered.
@leozeng66963 жыл бұрын
Well said!
@laizhou73522 жыл бұрын
One women in the video was sort of proud of for work hard 996. This makes me feel disgusting.
@danielhandika87672 жыл бұрын
If it needs more time, then it's not efficient at all, simple as that
@bestarezeta20852 жыл бұрын
If this is the case, slavery is most efficient
@chrisdawson9552 жыл бұрын
But literally nothing in China makes any sense
@admiralackbar46523 жыл бұрын
Imagine being a slave for more than a decade to get a degree just to be a slave again for the rest of your existence. What a life!
@wendyedmondstone18613 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@ShmokeyMac7103 жыл бұрын
That's called Capitalism!
@ShmokeyMac7103 жыл бұрын
And College
@dorsebradford98443 жыл бұрын
Every single adult life includes working for 20+ years
@d.iv.in.e3 жыл бұрын
almost all humans to have ever existed worked their whole life; since the invention of agriculture.. nothing new
@DB42YT16 күн бұрын
The saddest part is that recent sociological studies are showing that this kind of exploitation doesn't even increase productivity, there are no tangible benefits. In fact your employees burn out and lose their tremendous value to you, and that's only from a business perspective, not even accounting for how inhumane it is from an ethical standpoint. This sort of corporate culture is more about displaying loyalty to your company at personal cost, which is seen as a good thing.
@SauhardaBista3 жыл бұрын
Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived. -Dalai Lama
@bjkarana3 жыл бұрын
deep.
@sterlingw36113 жыл бұрын
this must be one of many reasons the Chinese government was after the Dalai Lama
@ghost_77663 жыл бұрын
Well said!!!
@denydeni1443 жыл бұрын
My point in a nutshell. Then you will probably get blamed and deemed weak for saying it…because “you are selfish and you want more” or something else…BS 😂
@Q__tube3 жыл бұрын
You stole that from a quote by a Buddhist monk lol
@patrickwilliamson292 жыл бұрын
What surprises me is that they're happy to have people to work these hours or even encourage them to do so. I live in Asia and you see the people here working for long hours but they are extremely unproductive, which actually costs the business more in the long run. It's better to have motivated hard working people in for 4 days a week than tired people who hate their job for 6
@seething86142 жыл бұрын
I totally agree with you regarding the difference between motivations and productivities. But sadly in my eyes, the gestures are showing more about the hierarchy, domination, and the insecurities of the leaders and companies. That's essentially why I chose to live in the west.
@maalikserebryakov2 жыл бұрын
And from a more national perspective, giving people free time means they have more time to pump their money back into the economy through leisure, and this will open up new markets
@Criszgz222 жыл бұрын
@I am Fighterman I pity you
@patrickwilliamson292 жыл бұрын
@@iamfighterman9646 Japan also has the highest suicide rate and lowest work life balance. I like the place but workers get treated like shit there
@chinguunerdenebadrakh7022 Жыл бұрын
@@patrickwilliamson29 Japan doesn't have the highest suicide rate, this is some decades old stereotype. Japan is 49th in the world at 12.2 per 100000. Some notable countries above that rate: Russia 21.6, South Korea 21.2, Kazakhstan 18.1, Ukraine 17.7, USA 14.5, Slovenia 14, Belgium 13.9, Finland 13.4, India 12.9, Sweden 12.4
@handsomeblackman2559 ай бұрын
Documentaries like this make me appreciate living in America.
@keyairakinslow95985 ай бұрын
You and me both, brotha.
@周z-h8l4 ай бұрын
It's like a joke, bro🤣But sadly it's true
@iamnothale3 ай бұрын
Is this sarcasm? Because the job market here sucks too.
@stephaniemorrissey123Ай бұрын
@@iamnothaleLeave the U. S. then.
@damaracarpenter83163 жыл бұрын
I teach chinese children online and was surprised at how many of my students basically never see their parents. :(
@cleone4233 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised they even had the time or energy to have kids if they work that kind of schedule
@blujay16083 жыл бұрын
@@cleone423 A lot of rich kids are sent to boarding school five days a week (only home on the weekends) beginning when they are 6 years old.
@jerrymchummer85493 жыл бұрын
Welcome to the Matrix
@ridesharebeware57473 жыл бұрын
What difference does it make? Damara. Please take this into diplomatic consideration. My whole family is from the American South. Our parents didn't graduate. Our parents fought in battles they had no idea how to navigate. As a result, we never knew our parents. We're not a result of our parents. My parents are still alive and it took me a long time to understand the bullshit they needed years to understand. My mom was head of household and the primary earner. Women were always equal to me. Now I have to make excuses everywhere I go. Fuck you.
@UmeSama20803 жыл бұрын
@@ridesharebeware5747 What the hell are you on about
@energeticwhirlpool86663 жыл бұрын
There are numerous studies showing overtime makes you less productive after a couple of weeks. Better to do a sustainable 40 hour week and also have a life outside of work.
@unclerico11063 жыл бұрын
Hell studies show us just working a five day work week is hectic enough. Wont lie I work 4 10 hour shifts I love it.
@fn87723 жыл бұрын
that may be true but people should not oppose 996 on the basis of it being inneficient for companies but on the basis of it being inhumane and in violition of human dignity
@tydalm.96653 жыл бұрын
I am a IT manager, and when someone of my staff attempts to solve a problem with working serious overtime, I kick them out of the office (or try to get them away from the computer in case of hime office). It's way better to have a clear mind to solve a problem. Trying to brute force a solution often just creates more problems (often only visible much later). Nothing against working an hour longer once in a while if you are close to getting something done, but that should be the exception.
@unclerico11063 жыл бұрын
@@fn8772 I mean that's the whole point. Working 8 hours a day is kinda useless unless in a customer service position and even than McDonald'sstays open 24 hours a day. Just like walmart.
@adaml3173 жыл бұрын
Love that you are defending the 40 hour work week like it’s a good thing. It’s a relic of the past.
@cyzcyt3 жыл бұрын
"Sacrifice your childhood. Focus on school". They said "It'll be great for your career" They said "It will be fun" they said
@ejjsdhgxjdhhdhsh23393 жыл бұрын
Nobody said that mate
@cyzcyt3 жыл бұрын
@@ejjsdhgxjdhhdhsh2339 clearly you don't have asian parents
@someone-si4tr3 жыл бұрын
@@cyzcyt haha
@OSTemli3 жыл бұрын
In India. Study hard in school,have fun in college. Study hard in college,have fun in university. Study hard in university, have fun after graduation. Study hard for job,have fun after being employed. After being employed 24×7 Be ready for Boss call😭
@darkmaster65053 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's clearly what is happening to every children until now.
@charlii_the_angel Жыл бұрын
I had a job in the government that nearly killed me. Til this day, I feel like taking that job was the worst decision I have ever made, and trust me that's saying A LOT. I was working with my aunt and so I could NEVER escape work, she would follow me around the office bugging me about whatever bs, then she would call me once I got home continuing to pester me. I wanted to quit working after HUST ONE WEEK!!!! I would cry everyday day omw to work and home, I would go 5 and 6 days without sleeping, I would hallucinate, I blacked out while driving Because I hadn't slept and nearly caused a car accident and when I came to I had no fucking idea where I even was. I couldn't eat I couldn't think, I was the dumbest person in the office and I was certainly always made to feel that way. I had no one to talk to, not friends not family, no one. My family didn't take me serious because they didn't think a job could destroy you the way it did me. it was "JUST A JOB" after all.I had 3, THREE NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS!!!! I absolutely understand what she meant when she said it was invisible torture. I was eventually fired, that job took everything from me. This job ended in 2013 and I'm still suffering with PTSD. A job can absolutely kill you, if the stress doesn't kill you, you'll just end up killing yourself. My heart goes out to ANYONE and EVERYONE who has or is stuck in situations like this. Please know your pain and suffering is valid. You matter, your mental health matters, Please if you can, start trying to find a way to get out. It's not worth it, the money isn't worth it, I know it's easy to say "just quit" but You can't work a job if you're dead, you can't keep a job if you can't think. It's not worth it. My love and prayers go out to anyone who is or was stuck in this situation❤❤❤😢
@zooldoo Жыл бұрын
What an awful experience. I hope you find your health and self-esteem restored soon.
@clich12610 ай бұрын
Brutal
@BMWS1000RRR10 ай бұрын
are you ok now
@roadracerdave76456 ай бұрын
i thought gov't jobs were known to be cushy jobs that worked no more than 40 hr/weeks?
@standrean5 ай бұрын
I can imagine that some YT commentators will slander your post and call you a snowflake and entitled and all that. Thankfully, I know better, from my own bitter experience of the one and only well-paid 'white collar' job I ever held, nearly twenty years ago. Nearly two decades on, and I've still not recovered. I can never again persuade myself to move 400 miles away from my family and land myself in a toxic office full of passive-aggressive workaholics and spend most of the time being criticised and having to redraft the redraft of the draft and guess what my line managers were expecting. I lasted only eight months, then I packed my bags one evening and drove back home without leaving so much as a resignation post-it note.
@rhi42883 жыл бұрын
I'm glad the younger generation in Asia are starting to think and talk about their mental health and wellbeing over career, talking about that stuff has been a stigma in alot of cultures.
@ineffably_described3 жыл бұрын
Imagine what the older generations say about them. It's always a "kids these days" conversation with seniors talking about younger people.
@nanci_sousa3 жыл бұрын
There are better options overseas! Why stay there? That’s not life! That’s slavery!
@andriod80143 жыл бұрын
Not in China. Yes in other Asian countries they are thinking freely and protesting. But in China the government is currently cracking down on younger generation.
@rodgersb12483 жыл бұрын
@@ineffably_described yup it’s always older generations saying they had it bad so others should too instead of trying to better the system.
@americansniper16413 жыл бұрын
China is the worst country in the world to play video games you need a government Id because people under the age of 29 are only allowed to play 3 hours of video games cause they want the young generation to work as slaves
@shahzeb34453 жыл бұрын
My uncle passed away, he was SR software engineer at a company. He was young and unmarried, he took his work way seriously and his health very lightly. One day he died in cab due to heart attack while he was going to office.
@wshyangify3 жыл бұрын
After his passing, the world didn't stop spinning. His ex-company didn't just immediately go bust either. His user account passwords were reset and his work were parceled out to other employees. Nothing significant happened as a result of this incident.
@India001713 жыл бұрын
@@wshyangify true. Organisations don't love u. Western world for example is in India for very same reason, cheap labour and slaves
@delightk3 жыл бұрын
@@India00171 and the western companies are the only ones that are paying reasonably in India. Not all obviously but most do, if it wasn't for these companies most of the youth would be at home masturbating their life away. Indian companies will pay you half of that with no other benefits.
@BenQotsa2 жыл бұрын
How old was he?
@Varun-uv4li2 жыл бұрын
@@BenQotsa he himself looking like a uncle
@Holion56043 жыл бұрын
Meh, the lady defending the pratice is a joke. I used to be one of those guys took, working 80 hours a week. Then boss decided to take the business in a different direction and laid off my entire department at the drop of a hat. Lol working hard for the company. What a joke.
@eriol_h3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely right. What's the point working hard for someone who can throw you out anytime to cut costs
@TrendyWhistle3 жыл бұрын
she is so broken its ridiculous. Living in singapore we see some people who are influenced in that direction too and they stop at nothing to make more money even though they hate their own lives, it's ridiculous how much they love money, they don't even spend a dime of it. It looks totally ridiculous and stupid from out here but what do we know, how much does it cost to live in china? All I know is that a lot of folks around me also think its incredibly expensive to live here and save a ton of money when the cost of living honestly isn't ridiculous, its very easy to get trapped in a rat race even if you don't need to be in it.
@dannuman65103 жыл бұрын
I used to work like that too, but I was hourly so it was great
@elbt1013 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@stephenc24813 жыл бұрын
If these educated people are having problems with work and life, people with little education are out of luck.
@a2a2e1 Жыл бұрын
as a chinese we can never see this type video in mainstream social media and it will be banned.
@xenomorph22586 ай бұрын
Sad. You live in abuse country.
@asdfghjkl-gh8wz6 ай бұрын
?没有吧,我在抖音上常刷到吐槽996的视频啊。
@叶寒叶寒6 ай бұрын
No, I've seen 996 on Tiktok a lot
@885009905 ай бұрын
Bullshit, Jack Ma publicly praised 996.
@a2a2e15 ай бұрын
@@88500990 so what😅his company still get a 996.nothing was changed.
@VeteranVandal3 жыл бұрын
This isn't different from dying in a factory floor, it is just slower and more cruel. The manager says the efficiency is lower for people working less. In fact, it's the opposite. People working too many hours lose themselves into low efficiency habits and are generally too aloof and tired to be able to see and correct those. People can work efficiently for about 30 hours per week. The other 42 are worked shitly. I've done 16h work. It is like 8h, but takes longer.
@1vw4me3 жыл бұрын
The Germans discovered this LONG ago. They work 4, 8-hour days. 32 hours a week! That's it. The quality of their work is self-evident, as-is their lifestyle. Asia are merely working themselves into an early grave for the profit of their OverLord Managers. SICK!
@steppenfuchs56083 жыл бұрын
@@1vw4me what? No. As a German I can from experience (and statistics) say most work 40h weeks (full time).
@damienholland81033 жыл бұрын
16 hour work is NOT like 8 hours at all. I did that once or twice, when I was a security guard, and it was fucking brutal. Your brain only wants to concentrate on doing your job so much then concentration starts to fade, memory problems, willpower drains, potential for depression, start cutting corners on your diet, etc.
@VeteranVandal3 жыл бұрын
@@damienholland8103 I meant in the sense you aren't really working. You are just there. You are still functional in a broad sense, but you might not be for long.
@damienholland81033 жыл бұрын
@@VeteranVandal Ah, my bad. Good day to you.
@fahimzahir95873 жыл бұрын
When will people learn that productivity has Diminishing returns! Productivity is not a function of time spent at work that linearly grows. Good sleep, decent wages, availability of good food, perception, and more intangible things are a factor of high productivity. The biggest productive gains often times come when you are resting and thinking about the problem passively.
@Tyrell_Corp20193 жыл бұрын
Bingo
@jleeblackmon53403 жыл бұрын
China isn't worried abt quality they are just worried abt quantity, how many shitty products can we put out in the least amount of time possible.
@Uhdusv55273 жыл бұрын
I think they are just use their employees until their diminishing return is too low and then replace them
@muhammadfajartrianto98883 жыл бұрын
They use the rule on the ohter country, 996 is ridiculoso 👎🏼
@jasperanusiem17433 жыл бұрын
Facts.
@prav19763 жыл бұрын
No one ever said on their deathbed…’I wish I worked longer hours’
@d3r3kyasmar3 жыл бұрын
I dont glorify long work hours. But i dont glorify words on deathbed.
@dogchaser5203 жыл бұрын
If only... I had ... bought ... a nicer... car... [dies in Slave]
@nochance39143 жыл бұрын
@Prav1976 You have made your life confused.
@SpoilerAlert__3 жыл бұрын
I've heard people say they wished they did more in life. Maybe they meant work more
@waterdog95003 жыл бұрын
Suicide rates are at an all time high. Trapped in a system only 1% want to be in.
@DavidMs2001 Жыл бұрын
I worked 665 in a warehouse in Texas for two years. Hours were 6am-6pm Monday-Friday. These working conditions are also very common in US. Wall Street guys usually work 7am-7pm Monday-Saturday, sometimes even on Sunday.
@user-ep3ck5re4o11 ай бұрын
Big deal - they get well oaid
@leptir711015 күн бұрын
Žao mi je😢
@looksscotty3 жыл бұрын
My prayers go out to all the young people who were never allowed to enjoy their youth for a mentally sick society😭
@looksscotty3 жыл бұрын
@@joku6764 WOW you’re so correct! Glad to see I’m not the only one who thinks that. They always tried to put me on antidepressants. But that I never believed that shit would work In the back of my conscience. Now I’m better than ever and now I gotta save my siblings.
@suningchen3 жыл бұрын
The whole world is the same. But I agree. Yeah, China is definitely a mentally sick society.
@gmchessplay90433 жыл бұрын
@MudLee Our country has a high population count? Doesn't China have something like 1.4 billion people? People are trying to sympathize with China's labor culture and you just want to bash Americans. Get a grip, no American cares what you think.
@hipstajohnyy20333 жыл бұрын
no one is forcing them tho...they can choice to unemployed and broke!
@CHRF-554573 жыл бұрын
@@joku6764 lol.
@KhairaJihah3 жыл бұрын
Yet they ask why people don’t want to have kids. They barely have time for themselves 😕 this is sad to see
@TeRRm0s3 жыл бұрын
Yet there are more than a billion Chinese
@staalejonko3 жыл бұрын
@@TeRRm0s Yet you make a dumb comment. Currently China imposed a 4-child policy because a lot of young folks don't want to have children anymore. It used to be that everyone was having children but times has changed; China is heading into a downfall and they know it. See PolyMatter's videos about it: kzbin.info/aero/PLR5tswn4SFyUOm3QusvlFGbPCCAN_uXnK
@UnQuacker3 жыл бұрын
@@TeRRm0s for now...
@jagatdave3 жыл бұрын
@@TeRRm0s they would have been 2 billion...chinese are great ppl...they controlled their population without outside pressure ..they are honourable...they decided to control population because they went through huge humiliation at the hand of japanese and UK...god bless chinese culture
@xavi.cat.40953 жыл бұрын
@@jagatdave +1 social credit point
@zoblad35573 жыл бұрын
I've worked a 995 for an extended period of time. I found the schedule technically manageable; you don't have a life outside of work and you're exhausted both mentally and physically, so you tend to make more mistakes. It's really a terrible way to manage your workforce.
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
In China its not about productivity, its about the CCP's need to control their populace and prevent any political change in the country. Keep the peasants too busy and exhausted to protest or try to affect political change, keep the middle class happy with luxuries and rising wages so they wont want change, and bribe or bully the upper class into submission. That way no one can try to change the system and the CCP retains total control of the country.
@HelloKitty-kb7ji3 жыл бұрын
@@arthas640 dude, that's smart 😮
@elli64323 жыл бұрын
@@arthas640 agreed. And in the West corporations large or small are more and more outsourcing to China or India creating such extended competition to the remaining market that employees perpetuate this nasty cycle by selling their skills on sites like fivrr less than half off!!
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
@@s7r49 that's one thing alot of people dont pay attention too: they work more but lose more to taxes and start eating out more so they end up making less then they think. I knew a guy who worked a ton on a salaried job at higher pay but didnt have time for dinner or breakfast so he started getting breakfast and coffee each morning and grabbed dinner on the way home and sometimes lunch too so hed be spending an extra $20+ dollars a day just on food. Stress can lead to snacking and make you desire fancier foods as stress relief too
@arthas6403 жыл бұрын
@@elli6432 something like that happened where I live. Estimators in construction made Foreman wages (at the time 10-20% above journeyman wages or about $25-$30/hr) but then wages rose to closer to $40/hr so some people moved to cheaper areas and worked remotely so they could undercut other people. Before long guys out of state in areas with lower cost of living and lower taxes were working for $25/hr when it should have been $40/hr so your choices became work for nothing remotely or find a job in the city and drive 3+ hours a day.
@wisdom_and_cat_tricksАй бұрын
amazing journalism and presentation
@Ate.ria043 жыл бұрын
“As human beings our dignity and liberty is most important” 14:24 I really do agree with the fellow Chinese lady.
@caad52583 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I would have thought that China, having been ruled by communists for 60 odd years, would be more literate on worker exploitation than western countries. It's frustrating to see the same story of overwork replay beat for beat...
@davek896663 жыл бұрын
The Chinese people deserve so much better than the CPC
@davek896663 жыл бұрын
@OMEGALUL Clap it's Communist at its core. They've only in the last 20 years opened up to capitalism in the few special economic zones. It's an authoritarian, Communist hell hole
@KK-cn6jv3 жыл бұрын
@@davek89666 their problems seem to be caused by capitalism though
@queequeg003 жыл бұрын
@@caad5258 This just shows you how bad socialism/communism is. The "I would have thought" comment is exactly why this stuff doesn't work. Come to the right side, where people actually get paid for what they are worth. If you need a hint, its name is "Capitalism"
@lubystkaolamonola5293 жыл бұрын
I was working in the nursing home for almost four years. There were people who were doing 16 hour shifts on daily basis. I was working on all shifts, sometimes doing spontaneous double shifts. "Could you stay for the night."After few weeks I realized that I need to apply "airplane mode"." When masks fall out in the plain mommy puts the mask on herself first then on the baby. So, I started to prioritize myself. Once I agreed to stay overnight from 3 pm to 7 am, and have next day off. They kind of forgot about the deal because I saw my name on the schedule. I just called them announcing that I am not coming. It was already 800 am next day, and they wanted me to be back at 3:00 pm. No freaking way. And my manager, lets say he was not happy, and I left him in screaming mode. I am not paying for your mistakes. You need to be your own advocate because those people won't care about you. You are a worker not a slave.
@zhangcheng55353 жыл бұрын
Dear, you can easily be working from home and still be earning probably double of what your employer pays you
@moyrarasheed86412 жыл бұрын
Proud of u !
@KristinaSandnes3 жыл бұрын
Norway try to prevent overworking by having strict rules on how much you are allowed to work. You HAVE to have 4 weeks off every summer and you have to have 2 days off every week. I'm happy about that, because working too much can be bad for your health long term.
@lisaw1503 жыл бұрын
Also for your relationship and therefore for the people around you. You need time and actual leisure to be a good partner, parent, friend, child, sibling... Otherwise other people will suffer because of your selfish pursuit of money and career "success". The Nordic/European model is much better than this sort of madness.
@dreamoffreedom40623 жыл бұрын
In my country the highest income can barely reach 1000 dollar and the lowest income can be even fewer than 150 dollar , we don't have fixed working hours , the boss can ask to work 23 hours if they wanted and we can be easily replaced and kicked out , and the worst part is the way they ask us to do things that don't fall under our job, like for example as teachers we must only teach kids not to clean the classroom , it's so fucked where i live i want to die
@pepelepew12273 жыл бұрын
@@lisaw150 these are good jobs in good companies, it's the price of getting ahead in life. you can always settle for a smaller car, smaller house, longer commute, backpacking vacations and crappier education for your kids with an average career. nobody is forcing you to live the high life. or you can always live in north korea, the remaining true communist where everyone but the officials are paid the same (crap). you wouldnt feel that miserable when everyone you know are equally poor.
@RP-bx7qy3 жыл бұрын
@@dreamoffreedom4062 go away from there at all costs
@TrollextheTroll3 жыл бұрын
China is paradise for slaves....🤡
@JaccduLac10 ай бұрын
The day I have to work 12 hours in a day is the day I quit lmao
@rageagainstthewashingmachi28772 жыл бұрын
It's the same in India. My boss told me to work with covid and I collapsed midway. They had the gall to get angry at me for not informing them that I'm "logging off early". When I told I was sick and just couldn't do it they said there are 1000s waiting for this opportunity... I quit the next month and now work at a much better place.
@Billdean252 жыл бұрын
India is dirty
@-Blue-_ Жыл бұрын
Ek laga bhi deta usse is type ke log deserve karte hai
@share_accidental11 ай бұрын
wow, good thing you left...
@Akito_Kamamure11 ай бұрын
Which company ?
@ayusuf913 жыл бұрын
Really makes you appreciate trade unions and fight for flexible working arrangements.
@willrobinson31143 жыл бұрын
Ironically, trade unions are denounced as socialism yet China is perpetuating these human rights abuses under the pretense of communism
@adrianb3933 жыл бұрын
Preach
@backpackpepelon38673 жыл бұрын
@@willrobinson3114 they had long stop being a communist. Now they are a worse version of US where ultra capitalist have almost absolute power. At least in US, some socialist group still have influence in calling shots.
@angry-white-men3 жыл бұрын
Really makes me appreciate capitalism in the US that enables young families like me and my wife to choose to stay home with our kids and opt out of the entire rat race. At least until our kids are older then we can find some hobby jobs or something.
@OR.TINO-IGACCT3 жыл бұрын
@@backpackpepelon3867 no, not the ultra capitalists that have absolute power, still the government. CCP can make any chinese ultra capitalist disappear or vaporize.
@khoirulanam91413 жыл бұрын
This issue also occurs in Japan and Korea, their work culture is the same, working overtime without pay, they believe more in the culture of hard work than the study results that working too hard causes less productivity. did you know that germany works less hours than other developed countries but has a higher income? boss calling employees on holidays is illegal and shops must be closed on sundays.
@MrSpartanspud3 жыл бұрын
I think it being a requirement for shops to be shut on a Sunday is pretty arbitrary but the rest of it makes sense.
@minhdiennguyen53233 жыл бұрын
Same with Italy bro. My boss asked my once time that why u dont go back to your country for holiday? Even when i did not really want to go, she sent me the money to book a filght- which, in my country Vietnam, seems like a myth.
@khoirulanam91413 жыл бұрын
@@minhdiennguyen5323 That's because the Asian leadership style is like the feudal era, the boss wants to be treated like a king and employees try to get promoted in various ways including extra hard work like slaves.
@minhdiennguyen53233 жыл бұрын
@@khoirulanam9141 It’s like that the gap between living standards 20 years ago and now so huge and the competitiveness is so unbelievable. Same with China, in Vietnam, there is q quote said that The society is a big marathon and if you run slower than your rival then you lose the position 😂
@minhdiennguyen53233 жыл бұрын
@@khoirulanam9141 It’s like that the gap between living standards 20 years ago and now so huge and the competitiveness is so unbelievable. Same with China, in Vietnam, there is q quote said that The society is a big marathon and if you run slower than your rival then you lose the position
@MilagrosSuarez-d3k10 ай бұрын
I'm working in IT but I have a 9-18 Monday to Friday schedule and sometime I feel so Burnout from work and home events. I really feel for these people. The people of the world really need more PAUSES in their lives. It really got me how she was saying that she feels tired and doesn't have time for anything. There are days like this when I know that I should just sleep but I'm procrastinating and taking hours from the resting time just because I feel like I need to spend time with myself, or just because I don't want tomorrow to come yet. So many days already past, in which I haven't had a proper sleep schedule. For different reasons. I don't know if I'm going to ever had a stable sleeping schedule without waking up every morning feeling tired.
@shinlanten3 жыл бұрын
*_"You have to be on standby all the time, whenever and whenever you are"_* Why I said *_no thank you_* to promotions at my previous job, once I clock out, I don't want to be bothered until I clock back in the next day and I especially didn't want to be bothered while I was on vacation.
@happyfacefries3 жыл бұрын
I feel like that's becoming more of an expectation in America now.
@lampyrisnoctiluca99043 жыл бұрын
You are then one of the rare people who are both able and willing to do it. You value your life over the money. If you earn more than enough for a living, then you should be more concerned with the time than with money. It is sad that majority of people are more into materialism/conformity than the things that really matter in life.
@ulissesmendoza87523 жыл бұрын
@@lampyrisnoctiluca9904 exactly i work in warehouse and pretty much everything around me is warehouse and people take more time doing more work so they get more money then more time home with family it's like people are ignorant to put family over money
@aj-sz8mu3 жыл бұрын
@@ulissesmendoza8752 to many of them tho, it is precisely because they think working more will bring more money for family. whether that means paying off a mortgage, loan, or someone's college tuition or just having extra for a good birthday party. so i never really judge why they do it.
@ulissesmendoza87523 жыл бұрын
@@aj-sz8mu but even me being 20 i work only part time because im not willing to die for a company who can replace me super fast i still got my priorities in check i guess because isn't the same with money management as others plus overtime doesn't really make a difference either it's literally like 100$ more and then taxes cut it to 80$ so it isn't really worth killing yourself for
@vutorious3 жыл бұрын
The Catch-22 of the 996. The culture of "I'm working longer than is expected of me, so I must be more valuable than my colleagues" has made this their new normal. It's normal to sometimes work longer to meet a deadline, but it's not healthy to sustain this in the way its manifested. Longer hours does not equal more productive - it just means lower efficiency. It makes me think that all of these "emergencies" could be avoided if people could tend to their self-health and operate at their peak performance.
@lanceash3 жыл бұрын
This is the end result of a culture that believes in top-down authority with no questions asked. Interesting that the Communist government began re-incorporating Confucianism a few decades ago, a philosophy that says your place in the world is your place and you must conform to the dictates of the hierarchy.
@allansh8283 жыл бұрын
996 is quite a relief compared to school hours. Chinese kids do 696 or 697. I am truly terrified of the young generation. I can't imagine how workplace would look like when they grow up.
@IIIShizzyIII3 жыл бұрын
@@bored_and_has_no_clue Yeah. we definitely work more than 996. We work 24/7 cause capitalism is bad yo.
@MilanElan3 жыл бұрын
@@bored_and_has_no_clue you make the choice everyday as a consumer when you buy cheaper imported goods from China than buy something made in the US. We do it to ourselves in the US
@zRhid3 жыл бұрын
@@lanceash I wouldn't chalk it up entirely to that. This sort of 996 culture is inevitable for the American lower class as well as a means to get by. And we're taught these stories of billionaires working for 3 million hours a week or whatever leading to them being a billionaire. It's a different kind of overworking culture, but its still there. Granted, it's apparently less prevalent.
@hikareti95034 күн бұрын
The most ridiculous part is that working those sort of hours don't make you more productive, they do the exact opposite. I recently hired a mainland Chinese IT worker and we had to emphasise to him that there was ZERO expectation that he would routinely work more than the 40 hrs a week he is paid for.
@healthmarket62243 жыл бұрын
I know a Chinese girl who moved to Norway for a new job. She often stays in the office 3-4 hours after everyone has left. She is accustomed to it. Her boss always has to force her to go home 😂
@RockTouching2 жыл бұрын
does she get much done in the 3-4 hours though?
@Stierenkloot2 жыл бұрын
In Sweden they basically don’t even allow you to work overtime. And they force you to use your 30 days holiday per year
@yun16662 жыл бұрын
@@Stierenkloot which is good thing that not many countries seems to follow it.
@StephRivera3 жыл бұрын
I taught Chinese students when I worked at VIPKid and I had a 12-year-old tell me she goes to a tech school in Harbin and they make them go from 9 AM to 9 PM. I couldn't believe it. I thought that was insane to do to kids. But now I see that they are just preparing them for their inevitable future... so sad!
@horyer86843 жыл бұрын
True, I'm from southeast asia and when i watched east asia stories and saw their students staying at school for long hours and some even go to cram schools, i was mindblown and super glad that i live where i am. It's not the greatest country, but at least i could live my life properly as a kid/teen.
@Patrick-kickass3 жыл бұрын
Yep, we had that in high school Guangzhou, students study(or I should say work) from 8am to 10pm( lunch breaks and dinner breaks in between). I remember I could barely get out of the bed from the dorm early morning 6:30. Have had enough of that shit seriously.
@DeathByOstrich3 жыл бұрын
@@joku6764 America is not the problem. Chinese governmental system is. They choose to crush the invividual over the collective.
@DeathByOstrich3 жыл бұрын
Vip kid shutting off foreign teachers and cutting back hours tho
@lowyieldforeffort69963 жыл бұрын
I was homeschooled in the early '00s. 8th - 12th grade was essentially 996, 9 months out of the year. (Mostly core subjects too - I wasn't in band or sports.) Turns out now that I'm mentally slow. Not less intelligent than average, I just have a sluggish processing speed. I overthink everything. I double and triple check everything. I'm not sure if my education caused the slow processing speed, or if it was necessary for me to learn the way I did because I was already slow. At any rate, I hate it. Leads to so much anxiety about work. Why can't I just speed up and think like a normal person?
@holycow33553 жыл бұрын
“If you dont do it someone else will.” Pretty much sum up the fate of every worker in the world !!!!!!
@Dryenwc33 жыл бұрын
In western countries, there is a severe shortage of labour, especially in health care, construction but also IT and other sectors.
@emmabower96543 жыл бұрын
@@Dryenwc3 Speak for your own country. Everybody is dying to get in many major construction projects in Australia but its hard to get your foot in the door you have to know someone high up. In The IT so many Students are coming out of UNI in IT and healthcare and cant get a job its only since Covid hit they was able to get jobs putting there health at risk for a job!!!
@Candidly_Aloof3 жыл бұрын
“If you don't do it someone else will.” THIS is the real truth
@rokmare3 жыл бұрын
That’s why illegal immigration is being pushed because they know illegals are desperate enough to take these jobs with lower pay and the beginning of race to the bottom.
@Dryenwc33 жыл бұрын
@@emmabower9654 im talking about labor, nurses, caretakers, actual construction workres (electricians, plumbers etc).
@Theotak7 күн бұрын
Working in china for a while,i found that some 996 companies dont have anything efficient at all,Many people are slacking off at work,eight hours company make it better,although they dont allow slacking off at work
@tekuvalt3 жыл бұрын
My granpa once said "you work to live" not "live to work". There is no point in living your life like that. This is just modern time slavery.
@daisybootz36073 жыл бұрын
How? Since slaves didn't get paid at all.. can you even imagine working from sun up to sun down & not get paid for it for hundreds of years of free labor to build someone's else wealth for them while you don't get sh*t for your hard work? The women slaves even had to breastfeed the whyte babies... so please stop saying that it's like slavery cause you & these guys have no idea what it was like to be a slave. They have a choice... slaves didn't..
@everythingisfine99883 жыл бұрын
Wise words
@MrRocksW3 жыл бұрын
Only one answer to that: "OK boomer"
@lyhthegreat3 жыл бұрын
but if you live in a country like china or most asian countries like korea/japan , your only option is to fit in with the society standards or migrate.
@aureliusva3 жыл бұрын
Your grandpa didn't have to work every Monday of a five day week just to pay his taxes for earning that money. Your grandpa never had to pay 30%+ of his earnings to provide housing.
@mlu0073 жыл бұрын
I've been playing this game for some time now. It's basically a death match that pits workers against each other, and where the ultimate prize is the privilege to work even more hours and maybe a pat on the back from the boss.
@Ryan-nn1kl3 жыл бұрын
I wonder what this world would look like if people did want they WANTED as opposed to what they fall into. I personally would love to cut grass and plant flowers cleaning trash off the ground is like an orgasim for me...but who would pay someone to do that? It's odd that we all work in a society doing the things we think we should be dojng and not doing the things we want to do because it's structured in a way that can't allow it.
@AdrienneMint3 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-nn1kl just an idea but you could have been a professional landscaper. A gardener. A plant shop owner. If you’re really passionate about something, there is a way to turn it into making a living.
@ichbinich17753 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-nn1kl Why don't you work as a gardener then? There's a channel on KZbin with the name "The Boring Channel", and the guy basically just documents how he cuts grass and does garden makeovers. You should definitely check that channel out! ✌️
@timothy29353 жыл бұрын
Lame
@timothy29353 жыл бұрын
@@Ryan-nn1kl my dude do it! I started painting houses at 18 and got into maintenance , now I manage a retirement cooperative, doing all kinds of odd jobs
@Kidkromechan Жыл бұрын
I was working like a 996 in the UK as a programmer but it was with some overtime pay or an extra day off in lieu as a reward. I did that for 6 months I think and that made me terrified of mental stress. I didn't know what is burnout until it hit me and the anxiety of bugs before I went to sleep made it very hard to sleep. You dream of work. Even though I was getting extra pay or an extra day off in lieu, it didn't make me any happier. Especially if you work from home. You wake up, wash your face, have breakfast and sit down for work, and work until it's time to sleep, repeat. Then on your day off, since you are so used to working from home, you don't even get to relax at home because now that is your office. So, you force yourself to go out but then all your friends are busy so you go out alone and try to see the good in life. It's not a healthy way of living at all.
@6ix6in6er6 Жыл бұрын
:(
@cherylT321 Жыл бұрын
Are you working a different job, now?
@neutrspec Жыл бұрын
In my opinion, what you described is more like the nature of coding than that of your job. I just can’t stop working until the debugging is done, though I am merely a part-time programming learner.
@PeteNice29 Жыл бұрын
I told people this years ago. I think people assume working from home is a panacea, presumably because they feel they can slack or something. Truth is, you never leave your workplace, and that lack of a psychological break is not easy for many to handle. I work from home now because the family needs my flexibility (and I'm the boss), but I think if I were single I'd have to return to a place around other humans.
@swift_learn Жыл бұрын
If you were working 996 in the UK the company you were working for was breaking the law.
@annakougija Жыл бұрын
It is crazy, so many countries allow this. In my 20’s I also worked simultaneously 2 jobs + university and I ended up in a hospital for a month with diagnosis exhaustion and burnout. Quit my jobs, left bf and took a break from my studies. After getting treated I started all over with a different mentality. I only do my own taskes, no more others work, working only from 9-5. Nothing less, nothing more. No extra hrs, unless those are paid etc. I realised, I do all the hard part and at the end my boss/ management collects bonuses/ dividends. I decided to work differently and my mental health is so much better thanks to that decision. Money isn’t worth ruining your mental health and overall wellbeing.
@Leftcatholicsatanchurch09 Жыл бұрын
Oh Lord, this clip is literally showing folks working on a treadmill like a freakin’ hamster. This is extremely cruel and inhumane treatment of workers. It is so destructive to their mental and physical wellbeing. This supports the mindset that happiness involves struggle. Don’t buy the lie folks. 😊
@bunk95 Жыл бұрын
Diagnosis fictitious.
@hanemaru952 жыл бұрын
Growing up studying in Malaysia in my high school years, I saw this pattern from my friends, and they feel this is normal because everybody does it. When I left Malaysia to the UK for further studies, I have made up my mind to stay in the UK, work life balance is visible, aiding me in this decision was when I was in France to do my project in my second year of university, French people have labour laws that no one should contact each other for work purposes after work hours. I now work for a Fortune company top 100 in the EU, I am fortunate to have no debts to pay and be able to live the decision that happiness comes first before work. I feel so happy going to work Monday to Friday with the choice to work remotely available. Not everyone has the privilege to do this, but one has to take a stand in order for changes to happen.
@eZincDev2 жыл бұрын
My father worked very hard to make it to the US, scrounged what he could to go to college, and fought his way to become a manager at a big tech company in the 90s. Because of him, I'm able to have work life balance in the US if I want simply because I'm in a country with a leading economy that excels in scalable industries. When you have razer thin margins (manufacturing, QA) or questionable law processes that drain margins in countries such as China, work life balance could easily kill a company. They're an export company servicing wealthier buyers, so they're on the wrong end of controlling whether or not they can achieve work life balance. We (the US and UK) also have the benefit of extremely strong military/political backings that allow for more white collar jobs with higher margins, simply because the rest of the world uses our currency + services due to that kind of massive leverage. The ability to have work life balance is a direct result of scalable industries, a lot of which are non-repeatable and winner-takes-all (tech/finance), which requires a less fortunate country/consumer to tank the costs. So really, I'm a bit conflicted. Perhaps taking an aggressive stand for work life balance in countries such as the US/UK may level the playing field, potentially ruining the advantages that allow us the luxury of a large chunk of our population achieving work life balance.
@sally15222 жыл бұрын
hi what is your job, i am going to uni this year and i really want to hear your story u really gave me hope about working
@wk39602 жыл бұрын
Everyone should take a stance for change🤔🤔🤔 Not in Malaysia. Only govt servants get a better life.. ie... TheSonsOfTheEarth. The rest better work ur ass off... The menial workers do 997, maybe off one day a month.
@LordOfSweden2 жыл бұрын
How can you stay in UK? You're not a refugee.
@velk-667912 жыл бұрын
@@LordOfSweden Uh... People living in countries where they aren't from are quite common, actually. Refugiees or not.
@Silver8033 жыл бұрын
There are studies going on right now that are indicating that 954 is even more beneficial to mental health and productivity than 955. 996 is insane.
@potaterjim3 жыл бұрын
I know and I love it. Didn't productivity actually go up or something? I'm getting ready for the excuses. "We can't adopt that, it won't work here!" "What if we tried?" "What if it fails!" "Well then we'll know, won't we?" "I'm not willing to take that risk, are you?" "Y E S"
@sko1beer3 жыл бұрын
Did the study tell you another little secret no one gets to retire early working for someone else?
@elainerekopantswe29333 жыл бұрын
Actually when i visited my grandparents in the village here in Africa growing up we didn't work on Wednesday becuase it was a traditional religious spiritual day and on Sundays cause it was a Christian religious day, rest of the time we were up by sunrise and working whatever the work was for that day, its important to rest I think its still in practice now even
@1ProAssassin3 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember that most of the time they noticed no productivity change at all for the company but it lead to the employees having more productive lives to learn more skills, work other jobs, etc (Better for the economy) and have better mental health.
@claudi_tanzt8643 жыл бұрын
Yet as a (maybe spoiled) German I still think 8 hours at the office is a very long time… 6 is fine for concentration and productivity and a good work-life-balance.
@cashkitty34723 жыл бұрын
6??? Usual is 7.5 hours in UK
@NotVeryRandomDude3 жыл бұрын
@Lo Me Then don't sit at home, go outside.
@JackeyBoyyy3 жыл бұрын
@Lo Me 6 hours is a long time to sit in an office being watched constantly. Not to mention people also commute 2h+ to the office and back home.
@maggiec833 жыл бұрын
@Lo Me don't know about you, but if I worked six hours a day I wouldn't be sitting at home the rest of the time lmao. I'd walk my dog everyday, spend more time with the family, watch a movie, finish that book...
@NadeemAhmed-nv2br3 жыл бұрын
@Lo Me you do know they're the most productive economy per hour worked in the entire world right? Their standard of living is very close to the United States and they work much less than America and way less than China
@niconico486 Жыл бұрын
I worked like this for 6 months, for a politician. It was miserable. They wanted to renew my contract after for half of my previous pay-I didn't say no, but I did say "only if I can do it remotely" Now I only make stuff for them once or twice a week. It lets me maintain a salary while working independently. Best bussiness decision I've took
@cosmic_caveman94273 жыл бұрын
The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, he said: 'Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.
@sly_zamasu76903 жыл бұрын
That’s deep
@doddydelfin84963 жыл бұрын
Well said
@zr83933 жыл бұрын
This is NOT a Dalai lama quote. It's an islamic saying.
@kiaw.96863 жыл бұрын
Thxs for sharing. Really deep food for thought.
@cosmic_caveman94273 жыл бұрын
@@enea_7280 you missed the point , even low pay jobs you can cover the bills and have a few quid to spare . If not you should relocate to a cheaper area and live within your means. It’s about not overworking yourself and sacrificing too much time and health to acquire money. A job should simply be a means to gain enough to be comfortable, but devoting as little energy too it as possible without getting fired. Focus your energy into more enjoyable things. I’ve worked some pretty terrible jobs for minimum wage when I had too so I understand that aspect and not everyone is fortunate enough to change their situation right now but I believe most can. Anyway I enjoy the quote 🙏 have a good day.
@Marshmallow_Trees3 жыл бұрын
For about 3 years I pushed myself to work like this as a vet tech. 7am -10:30pm, 5 days a week, sometimes 6 or 7 days is I could pick up and extra shift at another clinic, in a very dysfunctional, over-worked, always double-booked corporate animal clinic. Constantly dealing with rightfully angry owners that were unhappy at wait times, miscommunication, unexplained costs on bills. It was utter horrible chaos, and in the end, the animals suffered. So, I worked extra hard, right through lunch, through breaks, fighting to keep it organized, keep my doctors on track, and make sure animals in my care and often in others’ care were properly treated. I’d be the last tech to leave, deep cleaning as needed, setting up for surgeries, finishing details in my part for SOAP notes, as well as for my doctors, who were always there to the end too. I don’t know how I did it, but I did it. I believed the clinic could be changed, that every promised attempt that corporate made at improving our serious issues could finally see fruition, but it always fell through. It slowly became clear that they didn’t care about how angry clients got, how under-treated animals were, how late doctors had to stay, they didn’t care. If one client swore off the clinic, there would be 3 more in line demanding an appt. We were all in a cycle of failure. I was genuinely worried for one of my doctors, our chief of staff, and her mental state. Suicide rates are high in veterinarians, and she seemed to always silently despair. She never complained, never broke, was always the strongest of all, always pushing us on, standing behind corporate 100%, but her eyes were sad and tired. And one day, I just snapped. I had a genuine nervous breakdown. Called out for 2 months with all the sick and vacation hours I had never used that rolled over. I was panicking constantly, couldn’t eat, couldn’t go out. I just sat home, terrified of nothing. I had loved the hard physical work, the animals, be they happy or trying to bite my face off, I loved it. But the hours of constant failure that I kept myself in threw me into the fetal position. I finally had to quit. I put in my two weeks once my 2 months were spent. And I CHOSE that. There was no push in my culture or from my family, my peers to do that. It was my own silliness. I cannot fathom how anybody works that way out of necessity, because of social pressures, for families who need them. God bless them and I hope these people can find peace from all this, but not by taking their own lives.
@ru.kiddingme3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, and your story. Mental health, sleep, relationships all matter. Running forever in a hamster cage for a corporation that doesn't understand normal human needs is hell. You did the right thing by standing up for yourself.
@jupyter_core94113 жыл бұрын
Damn, glad you had the ability to get out of that
@desolatequill3 жыл бұрын
I feel you. I’m a Shift Lead / Vet Assistant and I know the struggle 100%. I’m in your end phase. I just burnt out all my PTO and resources to avoid work as much as possible at my vet office because Covid really made dog shit hit the fan. My coworkers and I are barely getting by through comedy alone at work. I hate waking up to start an 11 hour shift and I’m starting to really think of moving on. I commend you for taking that leap! I’ve been in the vet industry for 9 years now and always imagined doing it life-long. Covid has me thinking twice.
@missnlahi3 жыл бұрын
Profound story. Stress can do that- immobilize someone to complete inactivity. It's actually quite terrifying
@xtaticsr20413 жыл бұрын
You kind of steal another person’s job when you do this in addition to destroying your life. The same thing is happening in the documentary, a lot more people could be paid a little less each and the companies could make a little less profit but raise average standards considerably thus expanding the consumer base and maybe keep the profits but they are stuck.
@MattyYouthGoon3 жыл бұрын
I work in the nuclear industry. We often work 72 to 84 hours a week, however, that is only for short periods of time. About 3-4 weeks per outage. When the outage is over, you find yourself having to take several days to allow your body to build back up (mentally and physically). This type of schedule is not sustainable, even for the younger generation.
@sewmeonekenobi6393 жыл бұрын
Hello Nuke Brother. I work at a NPP too. We are just about to start an outage. Have a nice day.
@ulissesmendoza87523 жыл бұрын
What do you gain out of it I mean other than finance your gonna just use on surgery on your body
@vivianjones97493 жыл бұрын
Hi Lori! My sister’s name is Lori. Former Nuke HP here. Outages used to last at least 3 months and for big projects might last a year. That was back in early 80s to early 90s. I got out of it in early 90s when I had our son. Ex husband stayed---he had a major stroke a month ago. Yeah he made some good $$$. But now it will be going to his long term care.
@treasuredmoments52073 жыл бұрын
Philippines: That's cute.
@flameshoter63 жыл бұрын
I was working 72 hours for just slightly above minimum wage, a couple years ago. Had to do that for 6 months. But It was like that for me for the past 5 years of college. Get up at 6am, have classes from 8am to 2-3pm, drive to work, work till 11pm, go home and study until 1-3am, then repeat. My family had financial issues so I didn't have a choice. And my state has very little job opportunities for young people to get into careers without knowing someone else. So, I took what I could until a friend helped me a get a real job. I had no time for anything else and I was always exhausted. Without my friend, I would have died of heart issues probably. I still feel like I am recovering after finally being able to just work 40 hour weeks for almost a year now. And in a couple weeks, it will be my first time ever going on a vacation (i'm in my late 20's). I have some things planned. But I don't know what it is like to have fun or to relax and forget about worries.
@olliepopAMV Жыл бұрын
what a well produced documentary
@roraio3 жыл бұрын
I could never work in Asia. I work in the UK where I get about 40 days off (including public holidays) every year. If I’m sick, I get paid for the days I’m sick. My employer prioritises the mental heath of employees, I am cared for, I go to wellbeing classes, I get Christmas bonuses and bonuses based on my performance. It’s amazing!!
@carl42433 жыл бұрын
There's a reason why china is leading the world economy while UK is a shadow of its former self. 😂
@hristiyanhristov24803 жыл бұрын
@@carl4243 But where would an average person go to work? USSR was also 2nd best economy and no one wanted to go there. Ask yourself that.
@paperluvxhearts85103 жыл бұрын
I work in Singapore and it’s crazy as hell as well. I even got fainting spells from working - no time to even drink water or pee. Won’t be surprised if I passed on from too much work!
@yoda1053 жыл бұрын
I worked in Japan and China as an English teacher and wow. The mentality and resignation those kids had to their 996 future. Also my own hours were a bit crazy. Around 7/8.30 to 6/7. Plus all the work I did preparing at home. Really nothing compared to thid
@newstateonline3 жыл бұрын
I worked in the UK civil service and it was terrible and toxic. They want more for less and don't care less about your health. Other employees play backstabbing competition with each other. They push you to the limit and see how far they can stress you out until they can get rid of you (sack or resign) keep only those who don't complain about stress and allow higher grade bullying and an increased workload. New employees are hired and they are then given unreasonable work loads. I really hope people wake up and request the same working standards like they have in Scandanavia or strike until the country is falling apart and that stupid UK government have to react with excellent working rights. Where do you work? 40 days off? Do you have any available posts?😊
@bizling3 жыл бұрын
The real irony is, that science has demonstrated that the brain works BETTER when it's not stressed, so it should be the focus of the leaders to promote balance of work life.
@manictiger3 жыл бұрын
They don't want smart people. They want machines.
@HelloKitty-kb7ji3 жыл бұрын
Which is why some European countries are experimenting with the 6 hours work day. Btw, I was surprised by how little people work in Denmark when I lived there. Yet they are one of the richest countries in EU. And they are proud of their work-life balanced culture.
@batorsagandszerelem44743 жыл бұрын
@@HelloKitty-kb7ji Damn, 6 hour work day? That would be heaven.
@yashagrawal883 жыл бұрын
The reason why CCP doesn't want that is to ensure that Chinese people don't protest against it.
@chase46713 жыл бұрын
China and science don't mix, otherwise they wouldn't be Nazi Germany 2.0
@LL-ki9em3 жыл бұрын
It's very common in Asia. I worked in Hong Kong for 2 years in a big bank. 830am to 10pm plus Saturday. Took me 2.5 hours a day to commute to work and go back home. No life. Lucky I made it back to Canada, much better. I feel like a human now.
@kattiepenn3 жыл бұрын
Japan and South Korea are the same way.
@kattiepenn3 жыл бұрын
@My Nameis but isn't US a freedom country and human right country? You have freedom to choose, no employers can violate your rights, correct? US should also have better labor law is what I heard, based on US media.
@dickjohnson95823 жыл бұрын
@@kattiepenn We do not treat our workers well here. It's better than China but nowhere near as good as advanced European countries. Our wages are so low and working conditions so poor that a huge number of people are refusing to work in what is now called a "labor crises" but is actually a wage and working condition crises.
@kattiepenn3 жыл бұрын
@@dickjohnson9582 true. I read that US pays have been stagnant since the 80s Whereas the rich has been increased to double digits since the 80s. And that's only pays, doesn't include any bonus or options or any other perks.
@zhangcheng55353 жыл бұрын
Dear, you can easily be working from home and still be earning probably double of what your employer pays you
@Padarius383 күн бұрын
A FRIED GRASSHOPPER! YOU ARE FIRED DEAR
@Verisquishy3 жыл бұрын
As someone who has worked with 9-9-6, it makes very little sense. Due to the exhaustion of working so much, the work is sub-par and more than half the hours in a day is spent fixing the mistakes from the last day, resulting in an over all only 4-5 hours of actual work done per day, most of which is poor quality.
@jenw94633 жыл бұрын
It's a false economy.. Mistakes are going to be made when a corporation drives its employees into the ground. What is the quality of work of an employee who is always physically and mentally exhausted? Then you have "touching fish" which is also taking away from productivity. It's simply short-sighted and really not sustainable.
@starscream14573 жыл бұрын
Thats why chinese products always have sub par quality.....
@TheTardisDreamer3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it does not work. They've even found 40 day weeks are inefficient. When workers get Wednesday off as well the weekend, the research shows they're much more efficient. So the workers often end up doing as much work or even more work then they would in a 5 day week in 4 days. Go figure.
@sweetloutstea16883 жыл бұрын
Hearing the first girl talk I was actually just thinking how much work actually gets done or are they just forced to stay at the office ?
@GenericAsianPerson3 жыл бұрын
It's deeply rooted in Chinese culture. On my first job out of college, my Chinese folks warned me not to take any PTO my first *year* to look like a good worker for my overlords.
@thecalmwayhome84833 жыл бұрын
Oh hell no.......
@xyz11zxc113 жыл бұрын
This is common in Asian countries.
@tydalm.96653 жыл бұрын
Here in Germany a boss could face serious problems even allowing someone not taking there PTO (which are minum 24 work days per year by law). A lot of people think Germans are "hard workers", but we only like to be effective. Free time is as important here as work, as it's needed to be effective when you actually do work.
@youtubeistrash9533 жыл бұрын
Is it really or is it communist influence? Because this is common in communist countries.
@mayl41523 жыл бұрын
@@youtubeistrash953 find it funny how people just automatically label it as a result of communism without using their logic to think this through. The amount of competition due to overpopulation in Asian countries is mainly what caused this, even if a strict law to prevent this kind of situation was implemented it may not even work, as I have seen workers fighting over a position by lowering their own asking wage or working for free for overtime. If you are an employer, I doubt you would be a saint by picking the worker who works less and demands a higher pay when there are other workers that offer better options Same as Japan, they aren’t a communist country right? But their people are so dedicated towards their work that it borders fanaticism, overworking and socialising after work to the point where they are known to work to their deaths. Also, this situation doesn’t hold for all sectors. This is a tech company, where people work under very stressful and competitive conditions. There are other jobs that requires less working hours and I personally know a lot of people who work less than 9 hours per day and get a day off each week in China🤷🏻♀️
@pifficus1 Жыл бұрын
For four years in my twenties I worked away from home, sleeping in one or two star motels working 5-6 days a week, +10 hour days. There was a period of time were I worked 20 days straight. I refuse to live my life like this. These years of my life are gone and I will never get them back.
@trueheartintent2 ай бұрын
My life is like this now. It's hell. Need to get out of it. I'm on my fourth year, and reading this felt like a sign.
@roampro3 ай бұрын
I mean, 12hr work day is kinda common here in NZ, too... but the 6th and 7th days are usually optional in my profession.
@grafito44383 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of working as a courier driver in New Zealand. start at 6am hopefully finish by 6pm at the latest. 6 days per week. I'd get home after work, shower, maybe eat something quick and go to sleep, and repeat. I was stuck in a contract where if I wanted a day off, I would have to pay for another driver to take my place for between $550 - $880 per day (my daily earnings - $150 per day) Needless to say I have now quit that job, and it had taken me at least a month to recover my sense of who I was before.
@lando80683 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing your story. If i may ask, what are you doing now? Do you already have plan in place before you quit truck job?
@0964harry3 жыл бұрын
Hey man, what courier company was this for? This would be a major news story if you gave it to the media. Any major company?
@TeaTimeSweetness3 жыл бұрын
Hard to imagine New Zealand company can exhaust workers like that. Truck drivers are good jobs in America.
@amazingsupergirl71253 жыл бұрын
Sounds stressful. I was thinking they didn’t even include travel time to and from work. In China, that’d be 1-2 hours on the bus, train, and subway. They also didn’t mention the outlandish rent in the cities. I just don’t believe it’s worth $75k, as claimed. It’s not much in a city. I’d rather have some crap job and buy a house in the country than work my butt off in the city paying rent but never owning. Also, I think those hours would feel incredibly lonely. Life = work
@HermannTheGreat3 жыл бұрын
@There Is No Sandwich Guy hasn't responded to any questions, fake story by a bot.
@draftsman673 жыл бұрын
Europeans should realise how courageous their grand-grandparents were. Imagine raising up and pressuring the governments and businesses to introduce 40h a week system in the 1920s! They managed to introduce what most of the nations are still unable to imagine, while living in the world with limited access to electricity and horse manure on the streets.
@delightk3 жыл бұрын
Yes as much as people like to shxt on the west, they don't realize how their system is in great condition although not perfect
@arielgoldfarb41182 жыл бұрын
That is why europeans have the best quality of life in the world.
@behindzerosp2 жыл бұрын
@@arielgoldfarb4118 Stll many people work over time and they the payment is not that good considering the stress and how expensive everything is here we also have pressure to work and get degrees we don`t wantin many situations to avoid paying taxes the bosses putyou in lover position on documents then you actually are and pay you under the table the rest of the salary you agreed on which may sound ok till you understand that this leads to your rank for retirement being shit and you need to wark even after retirement to get by and also in general retirement is late 65-70y.o depending on your sex. Europe is not only Norway and such where education and work life balance is reasonable
@arielgoldfarb41182 жыл бұрын
@@behindzerosp Life it's shitty and hard everywhere thanks to fucking goverments and the economic system but in europe and sonmeplaces it's the best life possible.
@arielgoldfarb41182 жыл бұрын
@@behindzerosp Agree Norway sweden and other places are like a bubble outside the Harsh reality of the rest of the world.
@kaoko1113 жыл бұрын
I worked similar hours in Mexico as a debt collector (i bet mexicans know already for what bank) My schedule was 8 to 8. No overtime, meetings after the regular working hours were normal (so any other day i was out at 9 or Even 10). No holidays, not even christmas, get sick? To Bad for You cause the work charge was designed to barely have time to fulfill your duties (a lot of people worked their free days to compensate a sick day), our pay was calculated not by our numbers of one week but an average of 8 weeks, so one Bad day can turn into 2 Bad months, i spend a year in there, 2 co workers died in bike accidents while working in just that period, 13 of My co workers were robbed in that period, My Office had always a shortage of workers, ergo some of us worked even more due to lack of muscle. It was fucking horrible, worst part? The motherfucker that owns the company doesn't give a shit, he mocks people who uses his services, mocks his own workers, Even the ones that die working for him. My advice? No ammount of money is worth your life, 1 year there caused me hypertension, i almost had a stroke AT 30 YEARS OLD.
@Moodboard393 жыл бұрын
Damn wtff .!
@potaterjim3 жыл бұрын
Jesus christ, a 12 hour day _and_ meetings?! The fucking nerve! Not only are they so incompetent that they can't manage to find time for a meeting in a TWELVE HOUR SHIFT, but if I guess right, they purposefully do it after the shifts end so they don't have to pay, even though mandatory work-related activities are, what most would call, _work._ And, at the surprise of exactly no one, there's some rich fucker sitting on his ass at the top, doing none of the work and getting all of the pay. This is why we need unions and strikes. He won't be laughing when his entire underpayed, overworked workforce forms a strike line.
@larrym24343 жыл бұрын
United states unions never understood that the best way to protect US workers is to help unionize workers in other countries. All workers in all countries need basic dignity!
@akshay-jr1qz3 жыл бұрын
Things like this makes me think why I shouldn't quit my job like what if ai got these one next
@kikib84343 жыл бұрын
I am so glad you got out of there and I hope you're doing much better and are much happier now. Thanks for sharing your story with us and big virtual hugs 🥰!!!
@Veronica8199512 күн бұрын
Why is the writing so small, and why can t you double the voices? It would be easier to listen
@Meatman20423 жыл бұрын
It’s actually kinda sad bc my mom also worked about 70 hours a week at her old job for 4 years (she is a single mother and she had to because of bills and everything) and now that I’m older she told me how alone and depressed she felt during those years of her life I personally don’t think anyone should have to work that much because you might as well not even have a life
@ko-Daegu2 жыл бұрын
not just work but fact she's a single mom family is composed of 2 parents or at least it should but we don't live in perfect world also, the whole feminist movement ruined a lot of people lives
@briannaa90422 жыл бұрын
@@ko-Daegu The feminist movement was designed to give women a choice and be financially able to get out of abusive home situations. The top 1% has perpetuated this girlboss mentality that causes the trouble you see today. Men are becoming disenfranchised by a society that seemingly undervalues them and women are taught that we're worthless if we don't bring in a paycheck.
@marianunez99652 жыл бұрын
@@ko-Daegu it's fault of irresponsable fathers
@chelseachelseafcsuperfan72202 жыл бұрын
She should have thought before letting your dead beat dad bust in her
@whatever.17652 жыл бұрын
@@ko-Daegu you completely missed the point. Also why are you bringing feminism into this? You have no idea why their mother is a single mother, and it is none of your business.
@lalakuma93 жыл бұрын
The fact that Nicole doesn't want her real face and voice revealed, probably because she doesn't want to be blacklisted from this industry for revealing how terrible it is 😥
@vsarge87623 жыл бұрын
and deal with reprisals.....
@zhourenou78603 жыл бұрын
What’s worse, if her boss found the video, he/she will bombard all of the company’s both private and open Wechat group to investigate who she is, and in the most of the case, the person would be find out and fired
@Hoffy4783 жыл бұрын
No, the whole industry is complaining about it. Everyone knows everyone else is complaining. Yet, no one could or is willing to escape such working conditions because the salary is really high. New graduates from good universities can get half-million RMB in their first year and salaries can double in few years. While the median income in metropolitans in China is 80K.
@williamkinkade25383 жыл бұрын
COMMUNIST CHINA WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
@edumalafaia113 жыл бұрын
There is a Netflix documentary about a chinese company that moved to US. They used both chinese and americans hand work. The chinese were far better in producing (because they were used to work in a non human work system) but the american started to get injured, rejected dangerous tasks that american wouldnt accept but chinese would. And the sindicate pushed the company to attend the America safety rules. They dont care about their people and see themself as hard workers while the rest of world is lazy.
@Gemmagems5773 жыл бұрын
I feel so sorry for Nicole, I just want to give her a hug.
@jijidejijijiji68463 жыл бұрын
give me instead, i need one
@munkeo3 жыл бұрын
you don't even know her, wtf
@McRocking3 жыл бұрын
So you can cop a feel?
@adriannugraha63083 жыл бұрын
@@munkeo You dont need to know person like Kobe Bryant or Mahatma Gandhi to feel sad about their dead. It called Empathy bro
@mingus444_gaming3 жыл бұрын
@@McRocking ayo pause, wtf?
@xfoolsgoldx11 ай бұрын
This happens all over the world and isn't just a Chinese problem.
@istvantoth74317 ай бұрын
Exactly! This kind of stuff slowly takes over in the West as well. But they give your fruits, and free coffee, to make you feel better about being a corporate slave.
@AdrianA-yo8jd3 жыл бұрын
When they said that if some companies didn’t implement 996 hours they’d go bust, it made me laugh. If your company is that close to being on the verge of bankruptcy then it should fail regardless. It clearly isn’t a good business model if the margins are that tight.
@athaya29923 жыл бұрын
speaking FACTS
@chemical_leek3 жыл бұрын
If not exactly this extreme, infinite growth models and obsession with maximizing profits and productivity have the majority of companies worldwide operating on such thin margins. Just look at how quickly giant international companies crumpled in the first DAYS of the pandemic. It's not an anomaly of China, it's the rule everywhere.
@meinteil84963 жыл бұрын
I know communism Fucking sucks right , I wish they would teach how bad communism really is in our schools.
@crowsinaboat3 жыл бұрын
@@meinteil8496 not defending the system, and I'm no expert, but China isn't really communist (maybe culturally/ideologically ?) it functions more like state capitalism (economically).
@rhandel133 жыл бұрын
@@meinteil8496 yea, it's pretty obvious you don't know much about it either.
@TammyJerkChicken3 жыл бұрын
There a concept called the Night shift. It’s when you hire more people who job is to take over after the regular workers go home to rest and not work 24/7. Everyone gets rest and the work gets done ✅
@tylerdurden6393 жыл бұрын
What baffles me is that Chinese companies don't all have workers there 24/7. You would think that they could have 3 shifts of 8 hours a day and just hire the best employees from their competition. _Poaching_ talent from other companies is a viable strategy if you have no morality.
@LilliansAwesomeVideos3 жыл бұрын
in china a lot of blue collar work is done in shifts but because of the lack of unions most companies also dont pay overtime. if you have full 24 hour days with 3 shifts you are only paying full wages without getting the free overtime you would normally get. so i think thats a big reason why they dont just hire more people.
@MikeKay19783 жыл бұрын
Toyota did an experiment in their workshops in Norway. Two shifts each 6 hours. 6-12 and 12-18. This will allow for costumers to leave car in workshop before work and pick it up after work. Workers are happy and costumers are happy. Improving costumer rating and in the end bottom line. An other example is the open space office. Which is proven to reduce productivity and generally is much worse that single or shared offices. So what does most companies do? 8 hour days and in open office. ALL of them, this is knowledge known for decades and yet they insist of picking the worst possible option, why? control! plain and simple, Control! management want control, and management are over represented in scoring high in psychopathy. There are many in management that gets a high making your life miserable.
@richcast663 жыл бұрын
At my job, there are 3 shifts. 12 hours day, 12 hours night, with the third shift covering weekends. The factory never stops operations, it's a constant flow
@MikeKay19783 жыл бұрын
@@richcast66 that seems to suck, it should be at least 5 shifts.
@Rycamcam3 жыл бұрын
My dad was an engineer for oil companies throughout his working life in the US. He had a similar experience as these Chinese 996 workers. He was salaried, and would work all evening when he came home, and worked weekends as well. My brothers and I hardly spent any time with him growing up due to his work. These excessive working hours have profound effects on the individuals and their families. I think it's a horrible practice that corporations have figured out how to take advantage of their workers like they do. I've heard unions used to be strong, but I haven't personally seen any in my working life as an adult. Maybe we can start changing that so that us workers stop getting taken advantage of.
@valorzinski74233 жыл бұрын
See Germany's union system and workplace democracy
@virtualatall3 жыл бұрын
Yeah... My dad was too engineer in oil company in India... He had 15 day shift at oil rig and 15 day desk job... He used to get only one day off in between...ans in initial years of his job there were no Saturday offs.... Still company had generous one month paid vacation policy which was saving grace for us as family
@nationalstudyacademykim50303 жыл бұрын
Welcome to capitalism at it's best. Do you think commie china would condone this egregious 996 policy? Of course not. It makes China look good on paper money! They will make it 697 soon if they could!
@johnl.77543 жыл бұрын
In competitive industries it is impossible since that company will be overtaken by some other company. That’s why unions mostly in government or protected industries (like sports).
@metal_brrr_20053 жыл бұрын
The workers in the video are all probably young, single worker that are expendable.
@TrybeMusic Жыл бұрын
Minimum a 3-day free for people, we're not cows. 3 days for recovering energies, invest on ourselves, etcetera.
@christinamack42043 жыл бұрын
I think the work culture in college and med school and especially in internship and residency is quite similar to this. The workload for many people is absolutely absurd to the point where they don’t have much free time.
@maywalker9973 жыл бұрын
For some there is no free time and barely enough time to eat and sleep, so people regularly try to operate off 5 hours sleep on a maxed out schedule.
@lunamonetmonroe3 жыл бұрын
But thankfully over time with this it passes & becomes more balanced (in most cases). With the 996 way of life it mostly goes the opposite direction, sadly. ☹️
@diggernash13 жыл бұрын
A person only deserves free time if they can afford to take it. Others should fund only their own free time.
@MonroeSim3 жыл бұрын
@free market that’s the mindset of a miserable person
@MonroeSim3 жыл бұрын
@free market do you know what the most common death bed regret is? Working too much
@lbee1713 жыл бұрын
I feel so sad for the lady. She is feeling so down. God bless you, I pray you find the courage to change your situation and make the choice to look after yourself. You deserve better. 🌻
@MrShanester1173 жыл бұрын
You feel bad for the lady who is suffering the same fate as 99% of the world? Okay I guess
@TheObeseDuathlete3 жыл бұрын
I think they have no god
@blehblehbleh70473 жыл бұрын
Courage to change the situation? It’s not courage, it’s to survive financially. You’re so naive