Chinese Devs Using GitHub to Protest 996 Workweek (9am – 9pm, 6 days/week)

Post by Tepix » Thu, Apr 04, 2019, 10:41 AM UTC

rqs wrote: post #52

ceohockey60 wrote: post #16

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 pos…

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.