Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Sign of cut back



This is a funny article from today's newspaper. The heading said a Wuhang company has told employees to share hotel room while out of town on business. An incident occurred the other day when a female employee had to share a room with a male employee.

The cartoon pretty much implied what could happen. Who's the wolf and who's the rabbit.

Other news from the same newspaper:

- female staffers are getting pregnant right now so that they will not be fired by US-based companies.

- From Jan 1, 2009, retirement subsidy will increase by 10%.

- 100 extra taxes and gov't fees will be wiped starting Jan 1, 2009.

- Over 775,000 people are applying for civil service jobs across the country. It's a record! The reasons are: 1) pressure looking for work, shortages, 2) rules have relaxed in hiring practice - computerized questions and answers, 3) equality of competition for positions and 4) attractiveness of benefits. Of course, some positions are more popular than others. But nonetheless, 775,000 people applied....

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