Wed, 13 Aug 2025 09:36:45 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP, post #18754781 /all China’s youth unemployment is so bad that Gen Z job-seekers are paying $7 a day to pretend to work in an office https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/1mnbevn/chinas_unemployed_young_adults_who_are_pretending/ No-one would want to work without getting a salary, or even worse – having to pay to be there. Yet paying companies so you can pretend to work for them has become popular among young, unemployed adults in China. It has led to a growing number of such providers. The development comes amid China's sluggish economy and jobs market. Chinese youth unemployment remains stubbornly high, at more than 14%. With real jobs increasingly hard to come by, some young adults would rather pay to go into an office than be just stuck at home. Shui Zhou, 30, had a food business venture that failed in 2024. In April of this year, he started to pay 30 yuan ($4.20; £3.10) per day to go into a mock-up office run by a business called Pretend To Work Company, in the city of Dongguan, 114 km (71 miles) north of Hong Kong. There he joins five "colleagues" who are doing the same thing. "I feel very happy," says Mr Zhou. "It's like we're working together as a group." Wed, 13 Aug 2025 10:18:25 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #19861944 is this just a slump, or for keeps? Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:49:03 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #13283646 That’s super sad, but imagine in the future if being a fake employee can get you a letter of reference. hahaha Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:24:07 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #10466431 wgic, this seems like a real (I mean...lame and unscrupulous but workable) business model. You go into the business of appearing to be in business. Hmm, in fact, this is essentially a university with fewer steps. Clients show up and pay money in order to secure the possibility of a possibly-useless credential (LoR/diploma) for later use. I don't see why it would even have to be a brick-and-mortar outfit. Just run a virtual imaginary business. I suppose it would beat standing around on a beach not-drowning and experiencing some kind of Eastern thalassophobia. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:29:59 -0700 zerosugar from private IP Reply #13565814 @phositaTest LMFAO. This is actually a great business model tbh. Of course in the USA, somebody would find a way to say it’s fraud or something. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 16:35:48 -0700 marlon from private IP Reply #14369340 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_States Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:20:53 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #16322573 You or I could act as the figurehead white devil with American-looking credentials in one of these entities. It would be, like, almost pure profit. Probably conducive to frequent voyages on the River too. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:42:00 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP Reply #13777962 This business model could go in many ways. For example it could be used to meet other single young professionals who are actually unemployed. You could pretend you met at work. You could pretend you have a job to impress parents or others I would myself pay 5 bucks to work in a pretend company once in a while. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:43:13 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP Reply #12543248 People could pretend to do PowerPoint presentations and others could pretend to attend meetings. In the end you put it on a resume as a job with a reference. The work scope is kind of like choose your own adventure. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:06:28 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP Reply #12409683 I would call this company "We Work?" Need a trademark attorney to argue that the question mark makes it distinguishable from wework Once that's settled We should be ready to start pretend staffing the venture and issuing pretend shares. Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:07:45 -0700 whiteguyinchina from private IP Reply #10190292 👍 Incidentally this isn't much different than how a lot of startups function We need some graphs showing exponential growth in pretend work once people are replaced by AI in many white collar functions Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:30:37 -0700 phosita from private IP Reply #10323945 "We work?" That's crafty. Also lol, lmao even, for worrying about IP in Red China. You could even get some, like, caterers and actual persons doing actual service to provision the space. Prolly get yourself some kickbacks from them too. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:45:36 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #10669848 There are still WeWork outlets open in Mexico. I worked out of the one in Monterrey back in April (nice!), Guadalajara a week later (also nice!). A couple of years ago, the one in Chelsea NYC was still running, stunning space. I can't imagine how much the property was worth, and no one seemed to Care about anything. I was ready to pay for a day's work, but my collaboratrix told me not to be silly, no one pays to work at WeWork, and carded me in. No One Cared. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:10:53 -0700 Wily from private IP Reply #19869296 It's a great environment for Job Creators like me. Can hire a clean, drug-free, good looking, bilingual college grad for $1000 a month and get 100 CVs just by poasting on the Chinese equivalent of Indeed. Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:11:15 -0700 shithead from private IP Reply #12324381 Drug-using but unaddicted people are most interesting people. Agree with you on Clean.Replies require login.
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