打工人

2024年热词：打工人对自己工资的自嘲称呼，指受尽窝囊气才挣到的钱。

EN2024 buzzword: workers' self-mocking name for their salary — money earned by swallowing humiliation.

2024年打工人自嘲梗：上班如上刑、人像「尸体」，所以身上出现「尸斑」。

EN2024 office-humor meme: workers joke their bodies grow "livor mortis" from being dead inside at work.

打工人自嘲：靠咖啡提神撑住一天，咖啡是「续命水」。

EN"Coffee keeps me alive" — worker slang for surviving the day on caffeine.

2023-2024年热梗：调侃自己精神状态「很美丽」= 已经疯得五彩斑斓。

EN2023-2024 meme: claiming your mental state is "beautiful" = gloriously unhinged.

「内卷」的简称：拼命竞争、不断加码，「太卷了」。

ENShort for 内卷 (involution) — relentless hyper-competition; "so juan."

「我麻了」：无奈、无语、麻木，被折磨到没感觉。

EN"I'm numb" — so fed up or worn down that you feel nothing.

疫情期间封控都拦不住、必须出门上班的「天选之子」打工人。

EN"Chosen laborer" — someone who had to go to work even during pandemic lockdowns.

上班或上课时偷懒、不干正事。

EN"Fishing" — slacking off during work or class.

早九点上班、晚九点下班、一周工作六天的上班制度，成为互联网加班文化的代称。

ENWorking 9am-9pm, six days a week — shorthand for China's grueling tech-industry overtime culture.

被公司压榨、任劳任怨的上班族，源自日语的职场自嘲语。

EN"Corporate slave" — from Japanese, self-deprecating term for workers exploited by their companies.

自嘲自己是「牛马」般的打工人：干活多、待遇差、任劳任怨。

EN"Ox and horse": self-mocking term for a laboring beast of burden — an overworked, underpaid worker.

「马喽」（猴子）的谐音，打工人自嘲自己是「吗喽的命也是命」的社畜文学。

EN"Mālóu": pun on monkey — workers self-deprecatingly call themselves monkeys: "a monkey's life is also a life."

2020年爆火的社畜自嘲：打工人对自己辛苦打工的自称，带着自嘲与互勉的色彩。

EN"Laborer": the 2020 viral self-deprecating term for anyone grinding a job — both bitter and encouraging.

出自动画《中国奇谭》之《小妖怪的夏天》；主角小猪妖在浪浪山底层打工，网友用它自比「浪浪山的小妖怪」，喻在职场底层辛苦打拼的普通人。

ENFrom the animated short The Summer of Little Demon: the little pig demon toiling at the bottom of Langlang Mountain; netizens use it for ordinary people grinding away in the workplace.

上班后沾染的疲惫、憔悴、社畜气质；「班味太重」。

EN"Office smell": the exhausted, drained aura you carry after work.