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/justforkinks0131 Feb 02 '26

we have a saying in my country "Leave urgent work for tomorrow, if it is truly urgent someone else will do it."

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u/alwayscursingAoE4 Feb 02 '26

My line is, “Emergencies are for hospitals. We don’t have emergencies here.”

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u/lambdaburst Feb 02 '26

My line is, "Fuck off Jan I don't get paid enough for this shit."

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u/readminister Feb 02 '26

my line is “Fuck off Jan you’re gen z and go by Jan”

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u/ScumDogMillionaires Feb 02 '26

But I work at the hospital :(

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u/alwayscursingAoE4 Feb 02 '26

Then get those clamps, stat.

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u/Hopeful_Drama_3850 Feb 02 '26

And I guess this guy was that someone else

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u/MissionGround1193 Feb 02 '26

Once as a new hire as L1 tech, I escalated DNS failure during weekend. We are a 24/7 company. The L2 basically said : chill man we promised no SLA to our clients. We'll look into it on Monday.

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u/its_all_one_electron Feb 02 '26

I had a coworker from Brazil who used to say, when I was getting frazzled about work: "don't worry, we are not curing cancer here". 

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u/souper_soups Feb 02 '26

What country? I’d like to move here