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Going to an office and pretending to work: A business that’s booming in China
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This is just having an office job
this post was submitted on 03 Jun 2025
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Office jobs also make society worse, at least this is only making the "workers" worse
Except you pay to hide your unemployment from your family.
Maybe I'm being paranoid, but they cite a report from Beijing Youth Daily with no hyperlink, an office with no pictures, and a references to social media posts with no screenshot.
This could be 100% legit. It's just that Western press has me second guessing everything.
El País is basically the New York Times of Spain, it’s at best spinning a grain of truth into a mountain of propaganda, if not outright lying
Just read the whole article, they admit at the end that it's really just a shared office space and people mostly go there for collaboration. They obviously cherry picked that one lady that's there to escape her family.
is this real
its a western media outlet talking about china, its 100% made up
But also it's kind of describing the west
Every accusation a confession, etc etc
Just got my first office job.
On the one hand 
On the other: 
It’s essentially a WeWork from what I gather. Pay to rent out an office space. Whether you do work or not is up to you, and I’m sure people in the west use it to “pretend” to work. Love the spin on this from western media outlet…”Look at these crazy, strange, backwards people doing something bizarre and not actually working”
I do this at my job inside the empire, who the fuck doesn't?
I'll have you know I pretend to work from home.
I've thought about having something like this in the US as a way for communists to organize. Basically, a front used for comrades to cite in their work history that provides references, "salaries," etc. so people can pad out their resumes and negotiate better pay. The real goal, however, is for professional, full-time revolutionaries to have something that looks legit while they organize, do direct action, etc.
I told y'all we could sell hexbear themed hexmerch and use the store as a front to pay under employed comrades and pad out their work history, but did yall listen?? i mean some of you did i got some upvotes
I'm still waiting for my Hexbux. Goddamn mods ripped me off
Not wearing Hexbear merch. Chapo.chat merch on the other hand that's just Chapotraphouse merch with .chat scribbled on it. Maybe.
Lying about being my friend's supervisor, but in an organized way.
I'm game, how do I sign up?
Something like this crucial for any organized movement. Including safe houses, methods to go into hiding after a “mission”, ways for comrades to get their families into safety, methods to secure funding without being traced.
Direct action is just a tenth of the actual work.
It's literally just fucking wework. Even if they do have fake tasks who fucking cares not like you have to do them.
My guess would be the piggies created this weird fake tasks thing and most people ignore them for a nice place to work.
Wish I could have lunch for 4 dollars lmao
It's 100% real. In two years we are going to find out that all of it is being paid for by HBO for season 3 of The Rehearsal.
it's like a GTA5 RP server, but IRL/LARP so, I guess healthier?
as much as I want to believe this is fake, and it probably is at least partially, I know a number of people who simply do not know how to relax and chill out as part of their daily life.
people with hobbies that wildly stress them out and hurt their bodies, who can't spend 20 minutes or so just existing in a place with their thoughts without trying to minmax something, doomscrolling, or fabricating some kind of hustle goal to achieve and grind.
as I age, I've tried to accept the notion that it takes all kinds to make a world.
so now I'm more like, "I don't get it, it isn't for me, but godspeed to you in your quest... so long as you don't think you're gonna recruit me into your enterprise, because then I'll start snarkin'."
I feel that "many" may be a stretch.
Couldn't be me, here, in America, no sir, not me.
god I wish that were me
This doesn't actually seem too crazy? There's a bunch of social pressure to be employed and a lot of shame associated with unemployment, if you're financially capable of paying a small fee to avoid that kind of embarassment it makes sense some would do it. And for all the weaknesses of capitalism, finding a money making niche and exploiting it isn't one of them. In the west we had people doing the same shit with wework spaces. The fictitious tasks and staging a worker rebellion seems a little silly, and I suspect that's exaggerated or misunderstood (But what do I know?) but the idea that this is inherently silly doesn't really strike me as that reasonable.
This is what they’re gonna do instead of UBI and AI taking most jobs ….squeal little piggy.
Severance reference?
In America, nobody wants to work.
In China, people who don't need to work go to work for funsies.
Good for them
I prefer to do that at home, thank you