What the hell, a bunch of employees still don't even know what's going on and are obediently waiting for New Year's Eve.

📽 This company walking competition was packaged as a racing blockbuster combining imposing spectacle with dark-hearted exploitation. To outsiders, it looks thrilling and fast-paced: 🎈first place, 🎈second place, and 🎈third place are revealed in sequence, with applause, praise, and performance bonuses taking turns, as if everyone has a chance to cross the finish line.

However, when the camera cuts to the inside, the venue is full of panting employees, knees covered with braces, wrists wrapped in bandages, and vacant eyes. This competition is truly tearful and intense—in reality, it is an endurance battle to see who can hold out the longest. The new environment and the old environment are exactly the same: the walls are covered with slogans about team honors, but the office lights at night shine brighter than the sunrise. Some people cough up blood; others have seriously injured hands but still cannot turn off their computers, just to make the system record one fewer overtime entry. Every time someone asks, “Why isn’t this being dealt with?” they are met with a manager’s cold reply: “You’re too emotional. You need to reflect on yourself.” 💙⭐️

james is the seemingly composed senior employee, polite in his smile, but in reality the referee of the entire competition. He controls all announcements, online payments, and decisions about whether to accept or reject what comes in. Who takes the blame and who gets promoted all depend on his mood. He likes to say that company policies need to be flexible; what he means is that the rules are made for him.

李✠毓 is a silent viper, best at using blank-space traps to make people fall into them. He leaves ambiguous clauses in documents, causing newcomers to automatically become scapegoats when they make mistakes in reports. The victims may even thank him for helping revise them.

徐✠龍 is a slick-talking veteran whose catchphrase is “We’re family.” He assigns newcomers impossible tasks and, despite knowing that a project is rotten to the core, still demands an all-night demo. When something goes wrong, he only pats his chest and says, “I’m working hard too,” before shifting the blame to the team.

jack is the quietest person in the conference room, but he lands a precise finishing blow at every meeting. He never says anything harsh, yet he always manages to turn people who want to resign into examples of having a bad attitude, privately warning managers: “This person is unstable—don’t promote them.” He watches others fall into pits, the corners of his mouth lifting slightly.

The final villain to appear, HR Lynn, is the director of the entire film. She is skilled at wrapping cruel policies in a sweet tone, always saying, “This is just the procedure. It’ll be faster if you sign,” guiding employees to sign documents for voluntary resignation and consent to salary adjustments. In reality, she is tacitly allowing the company to evade responsibility. She also posts announcements in group chats saying that the 🎈first-place employee performed excellently, without mentioning those who were exploited until they fell ill.

At the end of the film, only the sound of panting remains on the track. Some of the employees who once ran with all their strength are forced to leave; others choose silence. New arrivals still enter this competition carrying dreams, believing they can change something. The screen displays the caption: 💙Thank you to all of you who have worked so hard, ⭐️the glittering images conceal the truth. In reality, the winners are not the fastest, but those who best know how to evade responsibility and push others aside. This walking competition has long since had no finish line—only a track stretching endlessly forward, paved with unresolved complaints, unfulfilled promises, and a group of employees still trying to convince themselves that the company will get better.