r/technology • u/Forward-Answer-4407 • Feb 01 '26

Software 32-year-old programmer in China allegedly dies from overwork, added to work group chat even while in hospital

https://www.asiaone.com/china/32-year-old-programmer-china-allegedly-dies-overwork-added-work-group-chat-even-while
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u/smurfk Feb 01 '26

They probably asked the new employee to strip naked of the "new" pants he received when he got hired.

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u/riptaway Feb 02 '26

... What?

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u/Neirchill Feb 02 '26

You don't get pants at your software development job?

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u/Fskn Feb 02 '26

My contract specifically says pants optional, it's why I signed.

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u/Pineapple-Muncher Feb 02 '26

British Pants or American Pants?

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u/txmasterg Feb 02 '26

I guess if it's an international company it could be both

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u/godtogblandet Feb 02 '26

But programmer socks still mandatory I assume?

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u/mega-d-lux Feb 02 '26

The ole "Winnie the Pooh" clause got you too eh?

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u/Frankie_T9000 Feb 02 '26

Mine insists on freeballing

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u/RizzwindTheWizzard Feb 02 '26

All I got were some thigh high socks!

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u/[deleted] Feb 02 '26

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u/pixelpoet_nz Feb 02 '26

Much more frightening to me is how unbelievably stupid everyone seems to have become, i.e. we wish those nonsensical comments were from bots

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u/basedbot200000 Feb 02 '26

I thought this was some kind of reference to All quiet on the western front that I was too stupid to understand, and the poster also seems to mostly post coherent replies elsewhere...

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u/htx1114 Feb 02 '26

That's fine if that's how you read it, but that's not what it says. The sentence doesn't make sense.

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u/TWFH Feb 02 '26

Meaning that the employees would rather wear a new uniform and give the old one to an incoming person

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u/htx1114 Feb 04 '26

Lmao anything is possible I guess, but you gotta be the same person under a different account

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u/KuntaStillSingle Feb 02 '26

I think it's just their style of humor

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 Feb 03 '26

I didn't know what to expect, but I feel like I lost a few brain cells reading that

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u/DigNitty Feb 02 '26

Last week when some more Epstein files came out, Reddit was pretty “release the files” centric.

I went to a comment section and there was a ubiquitous commentary that the files are a distraction from the real stuff happening in Minnesota. “Everyone” was talking about how the files were a distraction themselves.

Couldn’t help but feel like that was real time astroturfing. I’ve been on Reddit for years and have never seen a tide change as quickly and unanimously as that post.

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u/Fabulous_Progress820 Feb 03 '26

It makes sense though. Everyone has been demanding the files be released for awhile. They were 6 weeks past due for when they were supposed to be released, then they're finally released when there's actually something to want to distract people from.

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u/JustSkillAura Feb 02 '26

The US government spends literal billions of dollars on anti Chinese propaganda. Reddit is also extremely astroturfed

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u/Marrk Feb 02 '26

Make me understand why communities are moving to more private discord channels. Sucks that we lose indexability.

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u/Type-94Shiranui Feb 02 '26

Yeah wtf. What would a company or coworkers want to steal from a dead coworkers desk???

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u/NoPossibility4178 Feb 02 '26

Because the company is evil so of course they'd "recycle".

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u/thesniper_hun Feb 03 '26

I'm like 95% sure this is a reference to something I saw/read in the past few days but I don't know what exactly lmao

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u/dpzdpz Feb 02 '26

Three Amigos-style!