Newspapers

Catching late workers on film to dispel holiday laze

AXL090203Lookwhoislate.jpg

In today's The Beijing News (新京报), a curious picture of two men — one looking stern, whilst the other had a pained expression.

It turns out that they were part of a "watch team" from Yangzhou, Jiangsu province. Below is a translation of the Beijing News caption:

The day before yesterday, members of the Yangzhou citizen watch team (扬州市市民观察团) had video cameras in hand. They were there to expertly "catch" those late to work. The first day of work after Spring Festival was the seventh day of the Lunar calender (大年初七): will civil servants arrive to work on time?

In the morning, the Yangzhou citizen watch team, who are nicknamed "city woodpecker" because they like to "pick" at uncivil things happening, dispatched six groups - 91 people - wearing their work cards. They arrived at the city's different government centers to "focus" (their cameras) on the latecomers.

Xinhua also reported on this:

After the "examination", the head of the watch team, Wang Linlai said, "The overall outcome was good, the small numbers who were late were all quite frank. This activity is purely to use a "civilian" method to supervise and speed up the ridding of the Spring Festival spirit, and to enter into the normal conditions for working.

Links and Sources
There are currently 2 Comments for Catching late workers on film to dispel holiday laze .

Comments on Catching late workers on film to dispel holiday laze

what's the point?

you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

likewise, you can a force a civil servant to show up at the office on time, but you can't make him work.

Aren't they going to be late themselves?

Media Partners
Visit these sites for the latest China news
090609guardian2.png 090609CNN3.png
China Media Timeline
Major media events over the last three decades
Danwei Model Workers
The latest recommended blogs and new media
laomo2010x80.jpg
From 2008
Books on China
The Eurasian Face : Blacksmith Books, a publishing house in Hong Kong, is behind The Eurasian Face, a collection of photographs by Kirsteen Zimmern. Below is an excerpt from the series:
Big in China: An adapted excerpt from Big In China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising A Family, Playing The Blues and Becoming A Star in China, just published this month. Author Alan Paul tells the story of arriving in Beijing as a trailing spouse, starting a blues band, raising kids and trying to make sense of China.
Pallavi Aiyar's Chinese Whiskers: Pallavi Aiyar's first novel, Chinese Whiskers, a modern fable set in contemporary Beijing, will be published in January 2011. Aiyar currently lives in Brussels where she writes about Europe for the Business Standard. Below she gives permissions for an excerpt.
Front Page of the Day
A different newspaper every weekday
From the Vault
Classic Danwei posts
+ Korean history doesn't fly on Chinese TV screens (2007.09): SARFT puts the kibbosh on Korean historical dramas.
+ Religion and government in an uneasy mix (2008.03): Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) article from October, 2007, on government influence on religious practice in Tibet.
+ David Moser on Mao impersonators (2004.10): I first became aware of this phenomenon in 1992 when I turned on a Beijing TV variety show and was jolted by the sight of "Mao Zedong" and "Zhou Enlai" playing a game of ping pong. They both gave short, rousing speeches, and then were reverently interviewed by the emcee, who thanked them profusely for taking time off from their governmental duties to appear on the show.
Danwei Archives
Danwei Feeds
Via Feedsky rsschiclet2.png (on the mainland)
or Feedburner rsschiclet.gif (blocked in China)
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Main feed: Main posts (FB has top links)
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Top Links: Links from the top bar
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Danwei Jobs: Want ads
rsschiclet2.png rsschiclet.gif Danwei Digest: Updated daily, 19:30