He doesn't know how to balance work and rest.
While Jiang Chuan was preparing to trace the origins and seek revenge, netizens had selectively forgotten Wu Zhengyang's original intention and began to enthusiastically discuss the Zhixing Game.
Who's still arguing online? They must be bored.
Before more people discover how amazing companies like Zhixing Games are, send out your resume!
Once someone gets in, it's like one person achieving enlightenment and their entire family benefiting! This is no joke. Just look at how popular every game Zhixing Games has released since its inception has become.
They'll be rolling in project bonuses.
"I wonder what President Jiang thinks? Our company has finally made a name for itself, he must be very happy..." Several interns in the break area were discussing this, expressing their feelings at the same time.
Such a good company should be widely publicized.
"I thought so too. I've been wanting to brag about this for ages, and now I finally have the chance, hehe~" The group chatted for a few minutes, then started to feel melancholy again, since their internships were almost over.
I really want to stay at Zhixing and become a full-time employee.
Unfortunately, there's actually no shortage of people here...
Why does President Jiang only develop one game every three months? Can't he be more daring and productive? If he produced a new game every month, wouldn't the job vacancies be filled?
It would be a loss for the entire nation if a company like Zhixing Games didn't expand into a nationwide chain!
"In my opinion, these netizens still don't have a deep understanding of our corporate culture. We work at Zhixing Games every day, and that's how our professional skills come in handy."
"It's time to properly turn the benefits and treatment that President Jiang gave us into output. I want the whole world to know how good Zhixing is, sob sob sob."
As they chatted, their competitive spirit ignited within the interns' small circle.
My internship will be over soon, and I should do something for President Jiang—a man will die for one who understands him!
Fortunately, Jiang Chuan doesn't usually manage things at the company... so I didn't know about these things.
In reality, the benefits offered by Zhixing Games are only at a normal to above-average level; it's just that the various systems are somewhat modern and humane.
If we really compare it to foreign countries, not to mention other industries, even a small but successful company in the gaming industry might be better than Zhixing Games.
But this is Zhongxia.
Because it is summer, the intervertebral disc in the Zhixing Game section is particularly prominent.
As one netizen said, Zhixing Games, you really don't conform to the regional matchmaking mechanism at all, which is a kind of dimensional reduction attack on the Zhongxia workplace.
I wonder who the boss is and how he could have such boldness.
Just as everyone was discussing it, a long-planned "gray rhino" event broke out.
An employee died suddenly from overwork.
Internet companies, wolf culture, programmers working 996 or 007, and news of overwork-related deaths have become commonplace for netizens in recent years.
Previously, all that could be done was to express regret and vent emotions such as anger—the company would back down, offer compensation, and strategically scale back—the incident would gradually be forgotten—and then the company would revert to its old ways.
Things are different now.
Times are constantly changing, and netizens are also constantly evolving. Now, what they can do goes beyond simply venting their emotions.
This event, when looked back at some point in the future, may mark the beginning of a certain movement.
Overtime work is a common problem in the workplace in China, and this is just the tip of the iceberg, much like the drinking culture at banquets.
Even deeper lies hidden beneath the iceberg.
Attentive netizens may have noticed that from the beginning of this year until now, almost every company scandal has been accompanied by employee defections.
This is not to say that the employee's behavior was treacherous; it was clearly a defection from darkness to light.
Similarly, in the case of an employee's sudden death due to overwork, internal company chat logs were also leaked by other employees. Frankly speaking, there was nothing wrong with the company's chat logs.
After all, it's a listed company; who would want something to happen that affects the stock price?
If this gets blown up, none of them will benefit.
However, the chat logs, with their frequent mentions of handing over work and reviewing work content during the underworld, are enough to make anyone dizzy and disoriented.
It looks like the argument that "if a worker dies from overwork, can the company be blamed? It's because he didn't know how to balance work and rest."
Actually, this internet company is quite good. The company offers very generous benefits, and overtime pay is calculated based on the average hourly wage.
The sudden death of an employee at work certainly seems like an undeserved tragedy.
The workload and working hours are considered normal compared to other internet companies. It can only be said that the employee was unlucky and his body couldn't handle it.
As soon as this happened, the company responded quickly, immediately issuing a statement of apology and offering a high amount of compensation—the familiar path and the familiar solution.
They are very good at protecting themselves.
But there's no way for them to come back.
That programmer was very young, a graduate of a 211 university, and had a glamorous life for the more than 20 years before joining the company.
He could have had a very bright future.
But now it's all been ruined by that night's work.
This incident also suddenly alerted the public—who were not actually aware that Jiang Chuan had stirred up trouble.
On the one hand, it's to divert public attention from the somewhat mythologized nature of the Zhixing game; on the other hand...
Having spent both his past and present lives in the gaming industry, a field notorious for its long hours, Jiang Chuan's understanding of this issue runs far deeper than most. He simply shared the post and commented: "Why has this become the norm?"
The rest is left to the netizens to decide.
Yes, why have 996 and 007 become the norm in internet companies? Or rather, why are they not just the norm in internet companies?
The term "996" has become a popular internet term because most of the online discourse power is in the hands of internet workers.
Moreover, the recent hit TV series "The Way of the Corporate Slave" has brought many other previously unknown and arduous jobs to the public's attention.
In other industries, such as machinery manufacturing, overtime work has long surpassed the 996 standard.
The so-called "996" is actually a factory "886" system, which is an 11-hour workday minus a meal break, and that's considered relatively normal. There are even more outrageous sweatshops, shady labor outsourcing agencies, and so on.
In any case, they don't hire ordinary employees themselves, but only sign contracts with a small number of highly skilled personnel, thus squeezing the ordinary employees to the extreme.
Besides 007 and 996, there are many more overloaded jobs in this world.
"This is not about comparing our suffering; we are trying to understand each other, jointly calling for the standardized implementation of the 8-hour workday!"
Among them were some self-righteous capitalists who came out to retort.
"If the 8-hour workday were truly fixed, you'd find that if you went to the hospital in the middle of the night and no doctor would see you, or if your house caught fire in the middle of the night and no one came to put out the fire, you'd understand. There are some jobs that cannot be standardized into an 8-hour workday."
"Upstairs, what you said is quite interesting. So you think public servants like doctors deserve to be unable to get proper rest? We need to analyze each case individually. For this type of work, a shift system should be implemented."
"We don't expect everything to be absolute, but at the very least we should do our best to ensure that things are protected, instead of doing nothing and just sitting around enjoying the demographic dividend!"
There were also comments from netizens who knew the status quo was hard to change and simply wanted to make everyone laugh at the hellish situation.
"This is hilarious! A new streetlight hell joke. My productivity will turn into the boss's Ferrari."
"I find it strange that if there's so much work, why not hire more programmers? Why insist on overworking the best employees?"
"This environment is truly unhealthy. Working overtime means at least one more person loses their job, and not working overtime means you will lose your job. On the one hand, there is a shortage of jobs and employment is difficult, while on the other hand, there is serious overtime and intense competition. Cost reduction and efficiency improvement are the only options."
"It doesn't matter. Anyway, the employment rate for fresh graduates is 99%. Who can compete with fresh graduates?"
The online uproar was intense, with everyone displaying a lot of hostility. Soon, it wasn't just targeting any one person individually; instead, it escalated into a group attack.
Online, comments are everywhere that use the name "Zhixing Games" to start arguments.
The phrase "Look at other people's Zhixing games" is quite similar to "other people's children," and this new internet meme has emerged precisely because of the right timing, location, and people.
Jiang Chuan had nothing more to say about this.
Now that things have come to this, as the saying goes, "A gentleman will not rest until he has settled this score."
The fact that he died suddenly from overwork was more important than Jiang Chuan's revenge, so he temporarily put aside his personal grudges and turned his gun on an entire group.
@Freelance Artist:
Marx's Capital states that if there is a 300% profit, capitalists would rather risk being hanged.
There are two ways to maximize one's own profits: one is to expand market share, and the other is to exploit employees.
The capitalists in Zhongxia are no exception. They are clever and use both methods at the same time, which can only result in exploiting the time and health of their employees.
But that's only what it looks like.
From a management perspective, this abnormal corporate phenomenon, the 996 management model, represents a regression in the evolution of corporate management.
Today's Western companies place more emphasis on the balance between knowledge and capital, as well as flexible management methods. Their core principle is to recognize that human creativity is the source of corporate innovation, and that human creativity is the fertile ground for innovation.
That doesn't just happen naturally by being trapped in work day after day.
In contrast, businesses in the East today are essentially a more severe form of exploitation.
On the one hand, the company distributes its revenue in a way that satisfies the workers, thus silencing their complaints materially; on the other hand, it uses psychological brainwashing to justify overtime work, the 996 work schedule, and other practices.
Its emergence has a direct impact on the innovative and humanistic spirit of the whole society.
There was a saying that working 996 (9 am to 9 pm, 6 days a week) is a blessing.
To put it another way, we should ask: whose blessing is the 996 work schedule? It's true that hard work brings rewards, but only if the rules are fair.
For employees, the output of their knowledge resources must be reasonably rewarded.
The point is made briefly and then stopped.
In some ways, Jiang Chuan and Xiao Wei have quite similar personnel management and company operation philosophies, both placing a greater emphasis on people.
Today's business society is characterized by a structure that prioritizes commercial capital over knowledge resources and capitalists over laborers. This structure is a natural consequence of historical evolution.
As business organizations continue to develop and mature, and more and more large business organizations emerge, this organizational model of a capitalist society will inevitably evolve into a more balanced model between knowledge resources and capital.
However, this will take time, and it is impossible to achieve in the short term.
To reiterate, given the vastness of China, uneven development is inevitable, and it will take a whole society to change – this is simply the growing pains of this generation.
Jiang Chuan relaxed a little and continued packing his things.
The count ran over and rolled around in the suitcase: "You're going out again? Didn't you just go out?"
Jiang Chuan looked around, his hands still busy: "I don't think this place is safe anymore."
This is Zhongxia, a place ranked among the safest in the world. What's unsafe here? The Earl didn't think that some petty thief could defeat Jiang Chuan.
He still vividly remembered the fighting prowess Jiang Chuan displayed when he brutally beat up a certain tough villain not long ago.
"Where are we going?"
"Let's go north, we can see snow there, you'll love it." Jiang Chuan rubbed the cat's head; he had already bought the tickets, it would be ready in a couple of days.
Once he left this chaotic and troublesome place, who cared about the raging floods behind him? Jiang Chuan thought to himself, then reached out to glance at his phone, only to find that this glance had once again broken his guard...
No, which expert is this!
The boss is desperately trying to fix things after the fact, while the employees are frantically undermining the company behind the scenes.
The horizontal scroll reads: Having you all is my blessing. — Jiang Chuan
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