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HY: During working hours, you are checking your Wechat updates, suddenly, you realize your boss is giving outHongBaos or red envelopes on Wechat, should you grab it or not? If you do, you are busted!
What’s going on here, guys?
Michael: Well, ok, so it’s probably important to put into some sort of context, so if you not familiar with the Wechat messaging app,there is a featureon therecalled lucky money which allows you to send a certain usually quiet small amount of money anonymously otherwise to certain groups people or to anybody you like in youraddressbook and what one particular boss decided he would do just to check if everyone was observing the no cellphone policy that he’dinitiated, he decided to send one of these red envelopes, I think the amount of each one contains was less than 20yuan sort about 3 dollars it’s nothing at all really.
HY: So greedy you!
Michael: Well well, the point is that when you’re opening the envelope, I don’t think you can see how much is actually in it until you open it, so it could be, you know,
HY:It adds to the thrill!
Michael: Exactly, it could be a fairly substantialamount of money, and so he thought he would send red envelope to all of his employees to see, you know, who would open it and who would therefore obviously be deemed to have been using their cellphone during work hours and therefore be violating company policy. So the first three employees who opens their Hongbao, he actually fined them 500yuan, so it certainly wasn’t worth the 20yuan that was in the envelope in the first place.
LY: Well, my viewpoint is quiet simple, what the boss had done is just disgusting.
HY: Strong language!
LY: This is not the first time this boss gave red envelope out in the Wechat group, but originally, he used to do this during work break or after work and to some extent, you know, this is customer experience or behavior this boss has alreadynurturedthe habit of grabbing the red envelope and all of sudden, you send out these red envelope people has natural instinct to grab instantly right? And also, how can he categorize people into different groups just for the three top performers of grabbing the envelope they are fined for 500kuai, but what about the remaining people, they also , you know ,grab the red envelope during the work time and you didn’t give them a penalty and this is just unfair .
HY: Haha, it’s unfair.
LY: It’s reasonable.
HY: Ok,all right,well , yeah. I guess the boss is basically setting up a trap (L: Yeah,it’s a trap) and see who falls into itand asking money of his employees for this reason. This is a cheapskate, I think.
Michael: I think it’s devious and entrapment and also I think it is also quite creative. I mean, it is important to consider here. Ok , he implemented this no cellphone rule, and we are talking about a petrol company here so there is obviously there is alegitimately safety aspect to not using your phone when you around , you know,petrol and flammable substance.
HY: Because an explosion might happen because they are looking at theirWechat.
LY: I don’t buy this excuse, because they are not standing on an oil tanks or pipes of petrol chemicals, they are sitting in their office with their pc in front of them.
Michael: Well, regardless of this, he’s obviously implemented this no cellphone rule andI dare say if other employees got wind of this particular punishment then I dare say a lot of people would think twice about using their cellphone in the work time in the future, so I think there are some merits to it.
HY: You think some merits to it and whileLuoyu call that boss disgusting, so no no for Luoyu.And guys,do you think checking your Wechat account and ,you know, social media updates, has that really become one of the major distractions that significantly impedes people’s productivity these days?
Michael: I would say yes,It has, actually.
HY: It’s really that bad?
Michael: I would say so. I mean, in the UK where I’m from, you see a lot of companies implementing no social media rules in their work contacts, some things like them, in fact, some companies block out them entirely so they block out all these social networks like facebook, twitter, you simply just can’t accessthem from your work computer, so yeah, it’s become a big thing in the last few years. Personally, I think as long as you using it sort of sparingly or using it during your lunch break, it’s really does not do any harm, but I can see why employers might be in attempt to ,you know, to trying to root that sort of thing out.
LY: Well, if you tend to use mobile’s app too often, it’s a major source of distraction and you couldn’t concentrate very well on your work. However, the reality here in china Is that, you know, Wechat is just prevalent and sometimes,it’s quiet convenient to establish a Wechat group where you can discuss and communicate with your co-workers.
HY: Yeah, and you guys seem to say that it’s a pretty good idea to use it at work at least for the group chat, at least the whole team, In theory, everybody will get the same message. But however, as aforceduser of group Wechat as I usually stay in my cave but in this situation, because I work here and I am ordered to get out of the cave and get into that group, and I don’t find it all that useful and especially when you’recommunicating slightly more complicated ideas.Let’s say when we are trying toinitiate new ideas for a new project and it is a mess on that group’s chat log. And I don’t find that useful at all. Nobody really communicates their idea thoroughly and there are just too many of people leavingthis and thatmessages and it becomes confusing and who has the time to check all of those things.
Michael: I do find it very annoying when my colleagues write in Chinese and I can’t understand it.I will say that.
HY: Maybe some people are doing that on purpose~
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