You imagine that at the company dinner at your work a whole year of paid vacations will be raffled off instead of a leg of ham? It is not the plot of a bad Netflix movie, it really happened in China. Furthermore, the story does not end there but rather fulfills the saying that more tears are shed for answered prayers than for those that remain unanswered.
The story has gone viral on Weibo (a social network that would be the equivalent of Twitter in China) and its protagonist is Lu, a Chinese citizen from the province of Canton who has A big dilemma after winning the biggest prize in a raffle than at your company’s annual dinner.
As the chances of achieving it were of one in a thousand, the bosses came up and decided to raffle off a year of paid vacation, hoping that none of their employees would get it. However, Lu was lucky that night.
Perhaps for this reason, the company made a counter offer: collect a whole extra year of salary but without taking the twelve months off. This is to say, earn double for 12 months but working as before. A real dilemma although, whatever you choose, you will be winning.
In the Asian country, the work culture is deeply rooted, so many comments from users on the Chinese social network encourage them to accept money without vacations and In this way, make sure that you are not going to be fired. to stay with the person they hire to replace him.
On the contrary, and although he has not yet made a decision, Lu seems to be open to the sabbatical since, for the past few years, have you felt “tired” about your job and that the holidays would give him the opportunity to spend quality time with his family. In addition, he does not fear reprisals from his company and is confident that he would not be fired. And what would you do?
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