[explaingarlic]

He does have a point, though. The Chinese labor policy of "more" is strictly benefiting the Chinese economy.

Not that it's much of a downside for us; if you live in the west you are competing with people who don't do much outside of 9-5. We have the benefit of having the ability to apply the Chinese "work till you're dead" mindset and gaining a competitive advantage, on an individual scale.

It all comes at great human cost of course, but it's not like it's not an effective method.

[syndicatedjelly]

> Not that it's much of a downside for us; if you live in the west you are competing with people who don't do much outside of 9-5. We have the benefit of having the ability to apply the Chinese "work till you're dead" mindset and gaining a competitive advantage, on an individual scale.

The weird thing is that if you work at a company where this isn't the norm, then people will ask you to "slow down" or "take it easy". I believed them, until I realized that was their tactic to make sure you don't "steal" credit from them by working harder.

On the other hand, if you work at a company where "work always" is the mentality, then it's much harder to do that "one simple trick" where you get more work done by working more.

[explaingarlic]

> until I realized that was their tactic to make sure you don't "steal" credit from them by working harder.

Definitely true from a office politics standpoint. And incredibly painful. Not all problems are solvable in the office and this is for sure one of them - when I was in this position, the only thing I could do was switch jobs.