Also I’m gonna make a thread of every lift the bucket meme I could find: “I won’t learn anything during the three month probationary period,” referring to the first three months of training at a factory job. Implication is you get hired, slack off for three months, then quit.
“Sooner or later, the workers on the assembly line at an evil factory will all become bucket lifters,” implying that eventually everyone will quit their jobs rather than continue working.
A proletarian poem: “The soul chasing and life stealing assembly line, The dark and ghostly shop floor, The difference between life and death lies between two shifts Run off with your bucket tomorrow.”
“I GIVE UP, I’m dying on the assembly line!”
a list of complaints: “Rocket speed assembly lines, have to wear space suits [ie protective gear for semiconductors], shitty management, pig slop for food, whole days standing upright — I’m taking my bucket and running back to Sanhe [labor market]!”
A glossary of migrant worker slang
“Another fucking evil factory! Run away!” 黑厂, an evil or dark factory, a job that is consistently not worth the trouble
A huge list of all the things wrong with the factory: 14 hour workday, bad food, bed bugs, no air conditioning, confiscate your cell phone, etc… Factory boss says to dying Sanhe temp worker: “Dashen, what’s wrong with you! We only have 10k units left to finish!”
Looking for work after the new year? Here are the top five WORST factories in guangdong! “Everyday they have more people picking up the bucket and running away.”
if you'd like to read a post on this topic from a few years ago https://chuangcn.org/2020/09/l...
Short video with a microblog attached: “I turned in my work ID, deleted all my colleagues from WeChat, and got my release slip. After a week in the factory I just couldn’t take it. I chose to take my bucket and run. Who knows where I’m going to now.”
@GMomurder Its like if the poor workers in England had internet memes during the Industrial Revolution
@BluppyThigh some activists tried to use this style for agitprop and explicitly compared it to victorian england but they got arrested for this, some of them did several years in prison https://chuangcn.org/2018/03/m...
@GMomurder Contemporary Big Character Posters
@xdarkxsteel Those are quite popular in high school bathrooms from what I gather. “Down with homework, up with the students” etc
@GMomurder whats the meaning of the actual "lift/run off with the bucket" part of these
@herb_on_osu In China the bucket has a similar semiotic function to the hobo bindle. It implies that you’re going to pack everything up and try your luck somewhere else.
@GMomurder Your thread is creating a buzz! #TopUnroll https://threadreaderapp.com/th... 🙏🏼@SMasimar for 🥇unroll
@GMomurder All men are truly brothers
@GMomurder Hilarious and heartbreaking. Maybe I've got to raise a bucket too
@GMomurder This is the Chinese wojak
@GMomurder Haha this is so fun and silly I type on my iPhone ☹️
@GMomurder The bai lan movement once again making the most fire antiwork shitposts in existence
@GMomurder I find that hilarious