A Chinese woman developed life-threatening muscle breakdown after her company forced her to perform 200 squats as punishment for unfinished work.<\/p>\n
The young woman, surnamed Yang, recently moved to Hangzhou in eastern China\u2019s Zhejiang province and began her first job as a financial consultant at a loan assistance company in June.<\/p>\n
The role was essentially a telesales position. Her team manager, surnamed Zhang, required each team member to make 200 calls, invite one client, and secure one client expressing intention to collaborate every day.<\/p>\n
On July 28, after failing to complete her work quota, Yang was given the choice to either perform 100 squats or pay 50 yuan (US$7) for each unfinished task.<\/p>\n
Having completed neither task, she opted to perform 200 squats to keep her job, stating: \u201cI have no money.\u201d<\/p>\n
She recorded videos of herself doing the squats in batches at various locations throughout the office building as proof for her supervisor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Chinese woman developed life-threatening muscle breakdown after her company forced her to perform 200 squats as punishment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[192355,891,23502,121118,9034,28253,6647,20827,102,6906,1634,29536,11090,45119,12370,13659,247922,71582,70967,143230,56,54,55,9031,141665,171813,42387],"class_list":["post-750668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-breakdown","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-consequences","tag-employee","tag-extreme","tag-fitness","tag-hangzhou","tag-health","tag-july","tag-labour","tag-labour-law","tag-manager","tag-mean","tag-muscle","tag-office","tag-punish","tag-punishment","tag-rhabdomyolysis","tag-squat","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-worker","tag-yang","tag-zhang","tag-zhejiang-province"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}