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People Praised for Being Easy to Work With Are Often Quietly Paying for It

Being accommodating is not a morality question. It is a ledger: good temper that buys nothing back is money quietly leaving your account.

A Factory Fines You 3,000 Yuan for Quitting Because It Knows You Can't Leave

An electronics factory in Ningbo fines workers 3,000 yuan for leaving between July and October. Lawyers say it is likely illegal. The reason it can be written down at all is not that it holds up, but that whoever wrote it calculated you probably won't walk.