When you start to work or share your life with the world, you may or may not want to, you’re 营业 in Chinese slang. The term originally means ‘doing business’ but now Chinese people are using it in a self-deprecating way.
More often than not, exhausting ‘company livestock’ workers say 被迫营业 as they’re forced to do something that they can’t really say no to at work.
Slang Dynasty is a series that unpacks the wide world of Chinese regional slang, internet colloquialisms, and assorted street-level jargon.
Videographer: Thanakrit Gu + Miranda Wang + Danzhe Chen
Editor: Thanakrit Gu
Translation & Subtitling: Thanakrit Gu
RADII shares stories from the center of Chinese youth culture.
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