Mother in China gives daughter US$1,400 to encourage her to quit 15 hour-a-day job, says health is more important
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The story of a young white-collar worker in China whose mother persuaded her to give up her gruelling job has struck a chord in mainland China where the employment market is fiercely competitive.
The woman, in her 20s, surnamed Zou, lives in the southwestern Chongqing municipality and her mother recently visited her from their hometown.
In a viral Weibo post on January 10, the mother said that after seeing Zou working so hard from 8am to 11pm every day, with no holidays, she felt compelled to intervene.
Zou said she had desperately wanted to resign for a long time but could not leave because the company owed her 10,000 yuan (US$1,400) in wages.
“I will carry on with this job until I get paid,” Zou wrote on Weibo.
She said she had confided in her mother one evening about how under pressure she felt and why she could not leave the job, and the next morning she found 10,000 yuan had been transferred into her bank account.