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The number one invention hated by white-collar workers is the time clock.
It is said that the time clock was invented by IBM. Since the advent of this thing, white-collar workers who have to go to work every day have never had a good day. There were two performance artists who once conducted a famous experiment where a white-collar worker was asked to do nothing for a year except clock in every hour. The result was that the white-collar worker was tortured and sent to a mental hospital.
The second invention hated by white-collar workers is instant noodles. Instant noodles are one of Japan's four great inventions (the other three are: karaoke, walkman, and video game). Food is the first necessity of the people, but since the advent of instant noodles, the quality of life of white-collar workers has plummeted. Nine out of ten white-collar workers look gaunt. The highest level of a brand is to have both popularity and good reputation. But it is rare for instant noodle brands to have a good reputation. Whenever seeing an advertisement where three generations of a family hold a bowl of instant noodles to celebrate the New Year together during the family reunion Spring Festival, I always feel that the boss's head must have gone wrong. On New Year's Eve, a three-generation family eating instant noodles in elegant clothes and fine robes is better off each taking care of themselves. For white-collar workers, when ordered by the boss to work overtime and eat instant noodles alone, they would even have the heart to kill the boss. At this moment, the advertising effect of instant noodles is approximately zero.
The third invention hated by white-collar workers is the mattress. Mainly referring to the foldable single mattress. It is said that in the 1970s, foldable single mattresses were very popular in high-tech companies in Silicon Valley, the United States. The bed is the companion that has been with human beings for the longest time: people are born in it, love in it, and die in it. But since the invention of the Simmons mattress, the mattress has had an independent legal status. You can sleep without getting into bed. This gives the boss an excuse to require employees to work overtime all night. When white-collar workers see colleagues pulling out mattresses from under their seats, especially when hearing that some colleagues have "returned in a mattress due to overwork", the indignation in their hearts can be imagined.
The fourth invention hated by white-collar workers is the mobile phone. Nowadays, the mobile phone has replaced the mattress as the closest companion of Chinese people. Surveys show that the most common reason for Chinese people to go back home after leaving the house is "forgetting to bring the mobile phone"; while the most common reason for Americans to go back home after leaving the house is "not being at ease with the children". From this, two conclusions are drawn: one is that Chinese people are much busier than Americans and are more worried about others not being able to find themselves; the other is that American parents care more about their children than Chinese parents. As for Feng Xiaogang drawing the third conclusion: Chinese men are afraid that the mobile phone will fall into their wives' hands, that is being too suspicious, no wonder it made the upright Comrade Xiao Cui very angry.
The main reason why white-collar workers hate the mobile phone is losing private time, having no distinction between work and off-duty time, especially when the boss requires the mobile phone to be on 24/7. It is said that a certain Chinese mobile communication company is promoting a mobile phone with a GPS global positioning system for managing sales staff and field staff to units, so that the boss can know the whereabouts of subordinates at a glance from the office. Although white-collar workers hate the mobile phone but can't live without it, it is a love-hate relationship. The only solution is to try not to use the mobile phone provided by the company. One sign that a white-collar worker becomes a golden-collar worker is having two mobile phones. It is not like the song says "When I get rich, I'll buy two big brothers; left Nokia, right Motorola", but one for official use and one for personal use. Of course, the highest level is not using a mobile phone. If anyone has a photo of Li Ka-shing making a phone call, please send it to me, and I will offer a high price.
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