cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/8599572
Yes I know it’s le ebil Shenzhen 996 Work schedule
comments from r/Trueanon
I feel like China’s invocation in this article is to make the argument to adopt these labor practices so we can “keep pace” with the CCP.
Of course, we have no plans to adopt China’s stance on public investment in infrastructure, research, or transportation. Those are all frivolous uses of taxpayer dollars. If we just commit to work more hours per week than they do, we will surely prevail.
{Stupid} asf, jack ma was inspired by tales of us dropouts living in the office during their startups
literally the progenitors of the practice goin “wut r we da asans???” fuck off
progenitors of two shots to the back of the head goin “dae russian window??”
americans love being hypocrites and love even more to drop a “uhm wataboutism” when you point this out
imagine working 72 hours a week for two months just to ship a frontend that only sends requests to chatgpt’s API. crazy how much these AI startups can overwork people and still ship nothing but glorified chatgpt API frontends.
It’s all to make it more appealing to investors - “we’re lean and hungry, look at all these nerds putting in long hours for our B2B SaaS” and the end product doesn’t really matter as long as it convinces a private equity guy to value the company at $10b because it’s the first step in dominating the data warehousing space and they don’t really care how it gets done.
“AI will make so many jobs obsolete! Not yours though, we need you to work two jobs for one pay!”
six day a week 12s?! You may as well just sleep at work! And only one day off??? Have you met nurses? Stand practice is either 10s or 12s, but still at a max of 40 hours per week. Let me tell you, the only thing keeping them going is the 3/4 day weekends. This is how you guarantee some postal shit happens at your workplace.
Those hours are the norm in Guatemala’s tourist industry. One of my friends worked his ass off for months so he could enjoy a two day vacation in Mexico.
startups have been doing this forever. i remember going to interviews 10, 15 years ago and they’d be bragging about their 80 hour work weeks
Law firms as well lol. My partner is looking at jobs right now and during interviews they’re like “if you work on the weekends, EVERYONE is working on the weekends, we play as a team.” Like come on bro it’s not that serious
it’s a hybrid gig, 5 days a week in office and you get to work from home on the weekends. very generous.
”you’re either in or you’re out”
Me walking out before they even uttered the first syllable of this
urgent proletarian revolution
Do not interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake
Is it a bad thing if all the weirdo techbros get burned out at 27?
Kind of because they all retire to become lobbyists, politicla operators or think tanks guys
72 hrs 6day week
Every accusation is a confession
A lot of the workers actually like doing this to waste the world with their AI shit to make more money, save your empathy
Everyone I’ve talked to in China says the techies who work 996 make extremely good money for their effort. Something tells me Silicon Valley startups with little to no runway aren’t going to be so generous.
