Linkedin is just a hive of people trying to one up each other for internet points. If you work a 996 job and you're not paid hourly, ie you're salaried, you are 1000% getting taken advantage of. Even if you are paid hourly, the paycheck might look good but you're just going to burn yourself out to a company that will replace you in a week
this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2025
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Depending on that hourly rate a lot of that extra money gets taken away from you anyway, trying to keep up with that lifestyle. If you're working 9-9 you don't have time to cook dinners or exercise or really do anything to keep yourself healthy, so you'll either be buying take out meals, or home delivery, etc. Probably gain weight, then need a gym membership.
Then you start questioning why you're living in a larger apartment/house when you barely use the space or nice location you're paying a premium for..
It all gets fun real fast once you start burning out and can't keep up the charade anymore.
People really need to stop fetishizing grind. Especially when you effectively get nothing for it, it just makes you look dumb and impressionable.
The 996 myth needs to be stopped. It's been debunked. It was never a thing. It was more an exaggeration, workers exaggerating that if work demands got any worse it would become 996.
If these companies need 72 hours a week, they need to hire two people.
You can't be productive 72 hours a week. It's idiotic.
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We've more than doubled productivity over the past 40 years, but it's still not enough? Let that sink in. We're long overdue for a proletariat uprising. I hope it happens soon before I get too old to participate.
Increasingly, young tech firms are embracing the so-called “996” work schedule — 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.
Who would agree to that?
Workers are posting about it on LinkedIn and X, using it as a badge of ambition and dedication
"I ignored my family and destroyed my health, but at least my boss got a 2nd vacation home out of it."