Thursday, 21 April 2011

"Sweatshops for the educated"

http://offbeatchina.com/25-year-old-auditor-at-pwc-shanghai-worked-to-death-time-to-rethink-work-life-balance

25 year old auditor at PwC Shanghai worked to death.

What can be a more apt description of the industry than "sweatshop from the educated", quoting one of the comments on this article. Low pay, long hours, high demands, belittling...

Maybe I'm just not 'local' enough to put up with it. I feel significantly different from everyone around me. I feel significantly incompetent for the tasks that are dumped on me. And I feel my English is deteriorating as quick as my Cantonese swear-words vocab is increasing.

How much longer can I put up with this?

The fuse is getting dangerously short.

The switch is about to flip.

Someone jab me with a needle before the pressure gets too much to take...

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