The woman said she commutes four hours a day to work. (Schematic / Pexels)
In addition to the salary, commuting time is also a major consideration for the job. Recently, a woman from mainland China said that it takes her 4 hours to go to and from work every day to take 10 subways, and rush hours are very exhausting. She gets home every day following 9 o’clock in the evening, and she will leave her job when she gets her year-end bonus.
According to “Shanhai Video” report, Shanghai woman Yiyi (pseudonym) said that her original company commuted for 2 hours a day, but her new job here in Qingpu changed the time to 4 hours, and the working hours were from 10 am to 7 pm. She goes out at 8 o’clock every day and transfers 5 subways before arriving at the company. She has to run around once more when she gets home. It is following 9 o’clock when she gets home. She just lies on the bed following taking a shower and doesn’t want to move.
Yi Yitan, this situation made her want to resign, but the year-end bonus has not been received yet, and she has to wait for a month. After this article was exposed, netizens commented “Long commute + overtime + low wages, the common phenomenon of substitute workers”, “My God, it’s really not easy”, “Oh my god, going to work is like learning from the scriptures”, “Extreme commuting, I’m very tired on the way to and from get off work every day.”
Some netizens said, “I am in Tianjin, and I commute 4 hours a day, and I choose my job.” “Our department suddenly moved and went to a place 15 kilometers away. We had to change trains, and it took more than 3 hours to go back and forth. Some colleagues did it because of this reason. Job-hopping job-hopping, job-changing job transfers”, “Nowadays in first-tier cities, it is too common to commute for more than 1 hour each way”, “Being a worker is too tiring, and I am still looking for a job”, “This commuting time, unless I change The salary is too high or I would have left early.”
