Comment by ceohockey60
7 years ago
This self advocacy is encouraging and long overdue IMO.
The Chinese colloquial term for developer is "码农". Its literal English translation is "code peasants" -- not the most flattering or respectful way to call software engineers.
I've recently heard horror stories, where 9-9-6 is no longer enough inside one of the Chinese tech giants, and 10-10-7 is expected (10am-10pm, 7 days/week)
I hope this brings about some positive change and won't just get blocked by the authority.
Why not just 9-9-7? Was there any reasoning behind starting and finishing at 10? Its still a 12 hour day.
Maybe just a playful way of making a more clear distinction between the two
Not sure to be honest, were just anecdotes I heard.
Avoiding rush hour traffic.
Because you will be leaving at 10 or even 12 anyway, this way you can work for 3 hours more everyday
It could be funny to see the repo/GitHub gets blocked because of this. If it did, that will be a good wake up call for somebody who still sleeping.
The chinese Companies that implement 996 are blocking the site in their browsers: http://www.abacusnews.com/digital-life/chinese-browsers-bloc...
That was my initial thought as well seeing as you can freely and anonymously discuss. But perhaps it's in the government's interest to have the people openly criticize these capitalist practices that have a negative impact on public health?
the gov does not care the individual at all.
Well, 10-10-7 is outdated, code peasants are now joking about themselves as Double O Seven