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My feeling like I was out of prison
I am a slave.
This week I have 5 projects.
Tomorrow morning I will go to the boxing class and weekend I can be myself starting now.
My boss he is a direct manager of my department and he is thought maybe I am a work machine.
This is my seat and his office is beside me.
He opens the door all day and he can find me or I am not on my seat and sends a message on wechat where are you?
He usually sends the message like. I sent you the file, have you seen it?
He wants to control everything and everyone.
When he saw I talk with the colleagues he will call me and tell me to go to his office.
It is a special degree , a special part for the Chinese people.
If you can do the work well and you can finish you will do more and more.
So if you don’t do anything you will be more free and the same salary.
If you do that it is never ending.
it doesn’t feel fair.
if you want to make something be famous or be the popular you need to target young people. They watch tik tok movies and they create them and more people watch them.
Maybe after 1 or 2 months they move on to another activity
so many restaurants They are like internet celebrities
Everyone plays this.
Everyone wants to be the most fashionable so they want to play the newest trends and eat at the newest restaurants.
They waited the time can book the new iPhone.
In SH or SZ people really like fashionable things.
Some clothing brands the first I remember is supreme.
They change and change all the time.
Maybe they want to make this city become the international city.
It is like tier 1 cities. I feel Chinese young people they dress in very open and brave ways.
At the weekend if you walk on the street you will find so many young people and they wear like at a show.
You have to wait in line for more than 5h and finally the fashionable guys only take pictures with the coffee cup.
People think it is worth it.
they can share on weibo and wechat.
They can post their pictures and when you see that you will want to join them.
If you don’t you find you can’t join their topics -> you feel you can’t talk with them / you feel you are not part of their group.
I felt like I was out of prison / like I was released from prison
I am a slave / I feel like a slave
This week I had 5 projects.
Tomorrow morning I will go to the boxing class and this weekend I can be myself starting now.
My boss he is the direct manager of my department and he probably thinks I am a work machine. / I am a robot.
This is my seat and his office is beside me.
He opens the door all day to monitor what I do / to keep an eye on me and whenever I leave my seat he sends me a message on wechat where are you? or I sent you a file, have you seen it?
He wants to control everything and everyone. / he is a control freak
When he sees me talk with the colleagues he will call me and tell me to go to his office
It is a special perspective for the Chinese people.
If you can do the work well and you can finish you will do more and more.
So if you don’t do anything you will be more free and get the same salary.
/ people are demotivated because if you work efficiently you will just be given more work without any benefit
If you do that it is never ending.
it doesn’t feel fair.
if you want to make something become famous or popular you need to target young people. They watch tik tok movies and they create them and more people watch them.
A lot of young people are also content creators.
Maybe after 1 or 2 months they move on to another activity
so many restaurants. They are like internet celebrities
Everyone plays this. / it is very trendy right now
Everyone wants to be the most fashionable so they want to follow the newest trends and eat at the newest restaurants.
They waited for then ew iPhone orders to open to be the first to receive it.
In SH or SZ people really like fashionable things.
Some clothing brands the first I remember is supreme.
They change and change all the time.
Maybe they want to make this city become an international city.
It is like tier 1 cities. I feel Chinese young people they dress in very open and brave ways.
At the weekend if you walk on the street you will find so many young people and they wear like at a show. / it looks like they are going to a fashion show.
You have to wait in line for more than 5h and finally the fashionable guys only take pictures with the coffee cup.
People think it is worth it.
they can share on weibo and wechat.
They can post their pictures and when you see that you will want to join them.
> you feel you can’t talk with them / you feel you are not part of their group if you don’t follow the trends
Vocabulary
frees-bee
Many young people play the Frees-bee
content creator (n) someone who works making videos for youtube / tik tok / instagram …
Tom wants to be a content creator
internet celebrities (n) 网红
Internet celebrities get paid to promote some brands
skateboard (n/v) 滑板
Skateboarding became popular
phenomenon (1)现象
The quiet quitting movement is a new phenomenon
phenomena (2+)
Those 2 phenomena will make the job market even worse
quiet quitting (n) a new movement for people who stay at work but do as little as possible
Many young people who do remote jobs are quiet quitting
freak (n) 畸形人/怪人
You don’t ask for someone’s number if you don’t know them else they will think you are a freak
control freak (n) someone who loves to control others
My boss is a control freak
motivate (v) 调动…的积极性/ 促动
They gave us coffee to motivate us
demotivate (v) 使失去动力
Having a very controlling boss is demotivating
open space (n) big space with many small desks
I work in an open space
TGIF (Thanks God It’s Friday)
job market (n) how easy / hard it is to get a job
The job market is not doing very well, I may stay jobless for a while
Pronunciation
prison
fair
trend
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