One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into an office worker.
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2026
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Hey don't do that to the little cutie! He's just trying to file those damn TPS Reports!
Nooo stop bullying that little guy
he is just a silly guy. dont hurt him 
He a super serious little business guy, don't hurt him
I would hang this on my wall, really love the art. Who's it by?
It's by Shaun Tan
Oh, nice! Shaun also wrote The Arrival, which is super good
I love that book omg
Oh hell yeah. One of my fav sci fi movies. Also China saves the world in the movie.
Oh, that's completely unrelated, but shares the same name!
The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a graphic novel about immigrating to a new country.
But The Arrival movie is really good too
Fantastic, thanks for the link. Glad to have more of the art and stories to read as well!
A whole actual cubicle to himself? guys living the dream!
And his cubicle even has a door (or is it a passage?) unlike some of the cubicles in the background.
Oh damn, I think it's just a passage but still he as 360° walls and privacy
(Also some of the cubicles in the background are completely enclosed squares with no way in, and his file cabinet placement makes no sense, I hope the artist just hasn't been in an office ~~and its not A~~ "Desk Job" from the book Cicada by Shaun Tan)
{打工+人|hit work + person} > 打工人> worker
{打+工人|hit + work person} > 打工人 > beat up the worker
打工人打工人
So true 😢
Is it pronounced differently? How do you distinguish?
Very slightly differently, depending on dialect the latter 打+{工人|gongren} could be gōngrén or gōngren (i.e. toneless for the rén).
Only for the dialects that pronounce it gōngren would the two meanings be also pronounced slightly differently.
Otherwise, both are pronounced the same, so the distinction would be a mental word break
In written Chinese would there be a spacing difference?
Nope, just written with all characters written without spaves until a ，or 。marks a clause or sentence break
I hear the The Smiths guy is a huge asshole but "i was looking for a job and then I found a job, heaven knows im miserable now" is a mood
He's such a fraud bro. "Millenials are too soft"
This motherfucker was making music in the 80s talking about how he's such a shy smoll bean who has so much anxiety he can't apply for a job.
He's a nazi, broken clock right and all that ''Meat is murder'
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What if it's part of his kink, huh, HUH?
We don't kink shame, unless that is your kink. Then be ashamed, be very ashamed.
