Direct attack: Young people who are 'stuck' by 996, earn 30,000 a month, but can't afford to fall in love
[Introduction] The buzz of the "996.ICU" incident has continued unabated. Those young people trapped in the 996 work system have once again stepped into the spotlight and returned to people's field of vision. In fact, working from 9 to 6 every day, 6 days a week, has become a habit for many people, but after the ICU incident, many young people who were trapped by "996" began to re-examine their work and future.
"996.ICU" originated from the 996 work of an employee of a well-known Internet company, and finally got tired at work and finally entered the "ICU" intensive care unit. Then someone set up a project on GitHub (hosting platform) to resist the 996 work system. "996.ICU" is also interpreted as "work 996, sick ICU". For a time, many employees of the Internet industry joined the support team, and some people even squatted the domain name of "996.ICU" directly. After the incident, the author and many friends around me talked about this relatively "fuck" work system. Several friends insisted on their own opinions. Under this system, some people have become numb, some people still have illusions, and some people are still filled with righteous indignation.
My friend Lao Meng is now the marketing director of an Internet company, with a monthly minimum salary of 30,000 yuan. All the friends around him envied him, and he used his own strength to buy a house and a car in Shenzhen when he was born. You know, it is not easy for someone like him who graduated from a third-rate university in China to be where he is today.
Yes, many people of the same age are still wandering on the line of confusion and food and clothing. However, Lao Meng smiled bitterly at this. In his words, in addition to being a little luckier than others, he also works harder than his peers.
No one will know that he wakes up at six o'clock every morning and starts to make work arrangements for the day; no one knows that in order to talk to the next client, he is still drinking and getting drunk with clients after one o'clock in the morning; no one knows, When other people are sleeping at home on weekends, he still accompanies customers to drink coffee and chat K songs. In his words, in addition to work, life is sleeping. Compared with 996, he may be 716, working 16 hours a day and 7 days a week.
There were many people who persuaded him: work is so tiring, why don't you take a break and change to something easier, even if you earn less money, don't be exhausted. In this regard, Lao Meng shook his head and sighed: The work has been integrated into my blood. Even if I quit my job, my future work can only be more tiring than now, because the next employer has higher expectations for him and higher KPI indicators. Now that I have bought a house, picked up a car, and have a monthly salary of 30,000 yuan, but I can't afford to fall in love, it is not that there is no suitable mushroom, but because the time cost of falling in love is too high.
Lao Meng is just one of the thousands of young people who are "trapped" by the 996 system. What really shackles his hands and feet is not the company's system or the leadership's harsh criticism, but the more and more heavy KPIs imposed on her ( performance). Under such a system, Lao Meng has become a machine without a soul. Every day, he mechanically travels through Shenzhen, seeking a place to survive. Almost all the time is devoted to work, and all the passion and blood are poured into the indicators. If the burden is suddenly removed from the body, I will feel uncomfortable.
So the author can't help but wonder: Is it the 996 work system, KPI indicators, or brutal market competition that "holds" young people? Netizens are welcome to speak freely in the comment area!