007 (líng líng qī) — Working 24/7 with zero days off — the extr...
Working 24/7 with zero days off — the extreme beyond 996. 007 means working from 0am to 0am, 7 days a week: never stopping. Used ironically to describe the most grueling work environments.
Example Usage
我们组是007，上周连周末都没休。
Our team is on 007 — didn't even get the weekend off last week.
Cultural Context
If 996 is brutal, 007 is the joke taken to its logical extreme. The James Bond reference is intentional — like a spy, you're always on mission. It emerged from tech and finance circles where extreme overtime is normalized, and is often used self-deprecatingly by workers who feel they have no choice.
Category: daily-life