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Former Huawei employee speaks out on Shenzhen's '996' culture as Chinese city enforces paid leave

For five years, former Huawei employee Zeng Meng embraced China's infamous "996" culture of working from 9:00am to 9:00pm, six days a week.

Key points:

Shenzhen becomes the first Chinese city to mandate that workers in "special industries" take paid leave

Those industries will now also be required to pay overtime or give extra annual leave days

But experts fear the new policy may not change the overwork culture in the tech hub

Mr Zeng, a power engineer, was employed by the Chinese telecoms giant as a product manager in Shenzhen in 2012, after working for several other major technology companies in the south-eastern city widely regarded as China's Silicon Valley.

The job quickly "took over" his personal life — he had no time for his family, leisure or even sleep.

He said he lost interest in everything except work.

Mr Zeng's situation was not uncommon. The 996 culture is prevalent in Shenzhen, where China's technology and innovation hub is separated by just a river from Hong Kong.

"I had no time for recreation. Basically all I did was keep working mindlessly," Mr Zeng, who left the company more than three years ago, told the ABC.

"Often, we were still in meetings until 11:00pm."

However, Shenzhen yesterday became the first Chinese city to mandate that workers in "special industries" take paid leave, so that those "with a heavy mental and physical workload can avoid excessive burnout," according to regulations approved in October.

Chinese employees who have worked up to 10 years with the same company are usually entitled to five days of annual leave, although they also have 11 days of paid public holiday leave.

Under the new mandate, workers in the unspecified industries will be eligible for extra annual leave if they regularly work longer hours or need to be paid overtime for the occasional long days.

The regulation was drafted in the same month Chinese President Xi Jinping called for the city to create another "miracle" in a speech marking the 40th anniversary of the city's transformation — from a fishing village to China's first special economic zone.

The topic has prompted heated debate on social media, with many employees of China's top tech companies expressing mixed views on how the new regulations could impact their long and stressful working hours.

'996 working, ICU waiting'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-01-02/china-shenzhen-996-working-culture-paid-annual-leave/13023218

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You Can’t Make This Up – Hours After Blocking Section 230 Big Tech Reform Effort, Senate Republicans Complain About Big Tech Censorship

You Can’t Make This Up – Hours After Blocking Section 230 Big Tech Reform Effort, Senate Republicans Complain About Big Tech Censorship

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/01/01/you-cant-make-this-up-hours-after-blocking-section-230-big-tech-reform-effort-senate-republicans-complain-about-big-tech-censorship/

Austin Fitts - It's Not a Vaccine; It's an Operating System

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INSANITY: Democrat Rules Package for the 117th Congress Proposes Removing ‘Gendered’ Terms Like ‘Father,’ ‘Mother,’ ‘Son,’ and ‘Daughter’

The proposed rules package for the 117th Congress includes removing “gendered” terms like “mother,” “father,” “son,” and “daughter.”

The new rules would also change “seamen” to “seafarers,” “chairman” to “chair” and “submit his or her resignation” to “resigns.”

The proposal was announced by Democratic Massachusetts Rep. James McGovern, chairman of the Rules Committee, and Nancy Pelosi.

“Thanks to the leadership of Chairman McGovern and our Members, Democrats have crafted a package of unprecedented, bold reforms, which will make the House more accountable, transparent and effective in our work to meet the needs of the American people,” Pelosi said in a statement.

According to the Democrat rules for “gender inclusive language,” their plan “modernizes the use of pronouns, family relationship terminology, and other references to gender in order to be inclusive of all Members, Delegates, Resident Commissioners, employees of the House, and their families — including those who are nonbinary.”

The Daily Caller notes that references to fathers, mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives and in-laws would be changed to “parent, child, sibling, spouse, or parent-in-law,” according to the resolution. Extended family members would be referred to as “child’s parent” instead of aunt or uncle, stepparents, and siblings-in-law.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/insanity-democrat-rules-package-117th-congress-proposes-removing-gendered-terms-like-father-mother-son-daughter/

VIDEO RELEASED of Vans Removing Ballots from GA Warehouse to Sheriff Jackson’s Office — THEY GOT A MAP!

HERE’S YOUR EVIDENCE MITCH McCONNELL AND LIBERAL MEDIA!

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne dropped a teaser on Twitter on New Year’s Day.

According to Patrick he learned this morning, on New Year’s Day, that he learned something very important from a certified forensic document examiner about certain ballots in certain counties in a certain state. Byrne says they are going to lynch every politician involved in this scheme. Starting with a certain governor and Secretary of State.

Patrick followed up that the information must go through the lawyers before it is released.

Later today Patrick released photos from the Fulton County Warehouse where the ballots were stored.

However, those ballots were reportedly tampered with as we reported earlier.

NOW WE HAVE THE EVIDENCE OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY!

The counterfeit Fulton County Georgia ballots recorded in the 2020 election were identified before the corrupt gang of Georgia officials picked them up and shredded them.

Samples were also taken.

The Georgia election gang has some major explaining to do.

Patrick Byrne, Founder of Overstock.com and now member of the Trump team who is attempting to prove the massive fraud across the country released some shocking news moments ago in a series of tweets.

In his first tweet Byrnes tweets:

BIG NEWS: COUNTERFEIT FULTON COUNTY GEORGIA BALLOTS. On a tip, our operative entered the Fulton County (Atlanta) Warehouse and took this series of photos: THESE ARE FAKE BALLOTS (note the quantity):

Rented Enterprise moving vans were filmed pulling up to the warehouse and began loading up.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/huge-breaking-news-video-released-vans-removing-fake-ballots-ga-warehouse-sheriff-jacksons-office-got-map/

Here Are All The Banks That Paid Janet Yellen $7.3 Million In Speaking Fees In The Past 2 Years

When openly bribing a politician, financier or any other power figure is too - how should we put it - illegal, there is a well-known loophole that has been used for decades to circumvent the straight to jail hazard: the old "pay for speeches" shortcut, where otherwise boring, insipid and uninspirational figures who have nothing original or creative to say, getting paid $100,000, $200,000 or much more for an hour of their time to "speak." Of course, even five-year-olds realize that this arrangement, despite what it is called, is just a way to either buy future favors from said "speaker", or repay them for previous preferential treatment (such as taxpayer-funded bailouts), while making them filthy rich in the process.

It certainly worked with the Clinton Foundation, where the tens of millions spent by foreign US adversaries, especially those in the Middle East, to fund such a "generous" and noble pursuit as a (fully tax-exempt) foundation generated amazing "returns" when Hillary Clinton ran the State Department. Of course, it wasn't just rich petrostates that sought payback for their bribes donations: for all those who couldn't afford a $5 million check to this Clinton Foundation initiative or that (where miraculously, the foundation kept around 94% of the "donations" to cover "overhead"), there was always the 2nd tier of influence peddling better known as "paying for speeches", and as the following list of Hillary Clinton speeches delivered in the 2013-2015 period clearly shows, many were convinced that Hillary would replace Barack Obama in 2016 and be the next US "president for hire" to special interests and generous lobby groups.

Of course, when it comes to Hillary Clinton, it is hardly a secret that the former first lady would do anything to wave in some influence cash. It's also hardly a secret that one Clinton's chances of becoming next president, donations to the Clinton Foundation "unexpectedly" collapsed.

What, however, may come as a surprise is that none other than arguably the most boring speaker of the 21st century, former Fed chair Janet Yellen - and future Secretary of the Treasury, a post which also doubles as the top bank supervisor in the US - who would send Red Bull stock limit up every time she spoke (or she would, if Red Bull wasn't a private company) has been raking in millions from - you guessed it - speeches.

We, however, doubt this will be an issue: with Wall Street now delighted that the person it had bribed paid so generously for hours of intelligible and muffled stammering will now be Treasury Secretary, and quite happy to bail all Wall Street firms yet again after the next crash, we are confident that Wall Street - which just happens to be the puppet-master controlling both the president and Congress - will steamroll all opposition and in a few weeks, Yellen will be signing all newly printed dollar bills until early 2022 of course when all fiat currency will be "printed" digitally by the Fed and distributed directly by the central bank to any and all Americans it deems worthy

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/here-are-all-banks-paid-janet-yellen-73-million-speaking-fees-past-2-years