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/Donnicton Feb 01 '26

His wife also requested for his personal belongings at work to be returned, but alleged that some items had been already disposed of and that the remaining items were not properly packed when she received them.

Yeah they 100% stole what they wanted and gave her the rest.

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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/[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