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Inevitable_Egg4529 t1_iuds2wm wrote

Reply to comment by Phytanic in Chinese cities brace for wave of Foxconn workers from COVID-hit Zhengzhou by KimCureAll

I know 2 people that work there. They literally do nothing all day at the racine area campus. One is a "programmer" He used to run the CNC routers at work. The other guy is in maintenance.

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Phytanic t1_iudvj9i wrote

> They literally do nothing all day

I've had a job like that before and it's truly miserable. i would, quite literally, show up to work for days and even weeks at a time and do nothing but sit on my phone because there was nothing to do.

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Lumpyyyyy t1_iue128d wrote

Seems like a great time to get paid to learn a new trade/skill

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Gtp4life t1_iuf1tik wrote

Agreed, bring a laptop and get in some classes. I’m sure plenty of college students would love to be paid to sit in a room and do the classes they were already in anyway.

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Ok_Yogurtcloset8915 t1_iugag6w wrote

this depends on exactly what kind of nothing you're paid to do. if they leave you alone and don't pay attention, it's grand. if they do pay attention so you have to look busy while doing nothing, it's misery.

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Mirenithil t1_iue5w4p wrote

Yeah, agreed. I had a job like that too in the years before the internet was a thing, and I read so. many. books. You know a job is going to be stupendously boring when the bosses provide a TV for you to watch.

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Modal_Window t1_iug3xs4 wrote

If the pay's decent, that actually sounds kind of awesome to me.

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Joshua__Michael t1_iug3k3k wrote

I live about 10 minutes away from the Foxconn campus. It’s like a ghost town. Two gigantic buildings, and like 20 cars in the parking lots

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