With family reunions imminent, Yes123 Job Bank surveyed what questions participants are most afraid of being asked. Top answers included questions about salaries, amounts received as bonuses, and those about participants’ love lives.
The survey polled 1,277 office workers on what their biggest stressors over the Lunar New Year Holidays are. Including invasive questions from family, other top stressors were the subject of red envelopes (who and how much to donate), crowds in restaurants and tourism sites, dealing with family, traffic problems, and holiday expenses.
Yes123 Spokesperson Yang Tsung-pin (楊宗斌), pointed out that the holidays are often stressful times for many people– especially financially. While it’s true that there has been a slight increase in wages and bonuses, Yang reminded those filling red envelopes and buying gifts that there’s no shame in staying within your means. There’s no need to run over your budget just to impress people.
Yang also pointed out that if you meet friends and family over the holidays, talk of work is virtually inevitable. Since we have all experienced career ups and downs, encourage your parents and friends to not pressure younger generations too much. Rather than demands and blame, try suggestions and encouragement– especially concerning such sensitive topics as job growth and family planning. At the end of the day, the real value is the family and friends you sit down to dinner with, rather than whatever dollar amount was in the bonus or weekly check.