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Chinese White Collar Workers Are Burning Out At Five Times The U.S. Rate
The Business Insider ^
| 9-26-2010
| Vincent Fernando, CFA
Posted on 09/26/2010 5:08:02 PM PDT by blam
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:08:07 PM PDT
by
blam
To: blam; neverdem; narses
Friggin’ commie wimps.
Ya think its any different over here? 8<)
(No wonder we won the Korean War - even though outnumbered 5-1!
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:11:34 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: blam
The transition from Communism to Capitalism is tough. The PACE of capitalism does take time for white collar professionals to adjust to. Europe doesn't have the “burn out” problem because they are socialists. The upheaval in China is moving away from a regimented pace to a brisk market pace. They'll manage it. In out culture, the white collar professional is used to it.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:13:42 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Did we win the Korean War? I would say it was more of a draw, when you look at how the Korean peninsula control is distributed.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:17:01 PM PDT
by
teg_76
To: blam
Under Communism you worked an 8 hour day, didn't have much to do and couldn't be fired. You were miserable, but so was everyone else.
Under capitalism you work as long as it takes to get the job done, if you screw up you can get fired, and the people who get the most accomplished do better than you. Noticeably.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:18:44 PM PDT
by
wideawake
To: teg_76
The evidence is (1) the status of North Korea (2) the status of South Korea. We won. NK only won a food-less miserable jail cell for an entire nation.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:20:27 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: blam
It shows why 1706 should be repealed ASAP.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:21:22 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: blam
Don’t they have an unlimited supply?
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:25:01 PM PDT
by
Navy Patriot
(Sarah and the Conservatives will rock your world.)
To: blam
"The calls come from low-and mid-level management, the people usually sandwiched between senior officers who give orders and their subordinates, whom they have to coax into productivity."
They haven't discovered the secret of American middle management: substitute activity for productivity, take credit for the accomplishments of subordinates, 'kiss up and kick down', continuously be on the lookout for the next move and hope your incompetence doesn't catch up with you.
To: bvw
If we won there would be no North Korea.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:28:30 PM PDT
by
teg_76
To: blam
Impossible! Grolious Chinese white corrar workels are sons and daughters of dragon!
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:31:40 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: blam
>They have to deal with long working hours, low job satisfaction, little control over their role at work and even less support from senior management.
**
Yeah, that’s slavery. (sarc/) Damn whiners. Almost everyone here has worked cubicle jobs ala Office Space and hated it.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:31:57 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Hoax and Chains, Dopeychangey)
To: wideawake
Under Communism you worked an 8 hour day, didn't have much to do and couldn't be fired. You were miserable, but so was everyone else.Old Russian proverb in the Communist years: Они симулируют платить нам, и мы симулируем работать, translated: They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:33:23 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
To: Tench_Coxe
substitute activity for productivity, take credit for the accomplishments of subordinates, ‘kiss up and kick down’, continuously be on the lookout for the next move and hope your incompetence doesn’t catch up with you.
Act presidential in other words.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:35:09 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: teg_76
Ri-i-ght! And that’s what it is, North Korea is a vapor-ware nation.
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posted on
09/26/2010 5:39:07 PM PDT
by
bvw
To: blam
Sounds just like working at State Street Bank.
To: Tench_Coxe
Sounds like we’ve both worked for the same company. Mid-level managers with absolutely no common sense nor any practical experience in the field they are supposed to be managing.
To: blam
Life in China, while no materialy sufficient, is DIFFICULT.
In big cities, housing, education and food costs are rapidly increasing. There is no nature, only busy streets and air pollution. Work hours are long, and the majority of financial benefits go to owners (who are usually connected to the Gov’t in some way)
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posted on
09/26/2010 6:22:30 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: blam
Did not read the whole article, but after working a high pressure job I can tell everyone what the real problem is. They need supportive wives to come home to after work.
The Chinese view daughters as liabilities, but sons are able to earn, so are not. Combine that with a one-child-only policy, and female infanticide was the result... and now, with the introduction of Western technology, bringing hightech healthcare to the world to "save the human race", ultrasound technology is now used to evaluate sex-selective abortions.
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posted on
09/26/2010 6:34:48 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: teg_76; bvw
The classic night time global photo of Korea:
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posted on
09/26/2010 6:39:57 PM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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