Actually, as a teacher, I would say my working hour pattern is 777. I always start my day of work at 7 am in the morning and go back home after finishing marking assignments at 7 pm. As a teacher nowadays, our work doesn't have an edge.  It not only includes teaching kids knowledge, but also helping anxious parents.  So, guess what, when will parents have got time to communicate with teachers?  Bingo! At weekends or in the evening.  Thus why I say 777 is out daily routine. 

When I entered the college, it was not a start of my dream, but  the begining of the nightmare. It's not a normal college, I have to weak up at 6 am. If you are lucky, you can finish work at ten o'clock and have a rest. We often stay up late for the leaders what they want. Most of it is ridiculous, but leaders think it. We need to work 6107, day after day. I heat this life, it's not what  I want. But at this stage I can't run away. So I just want to be a normal student.

As far as I am concerned, 996 is just  the  entrepreneur's excuse to exploit the workers.They disguise this exploit as a way of hard working. Admitted the work ways of 996 is actually hurting the workers proper right.

Does it mean that people could really hard to get off work on time?

It is really an abusive working schedule - knows as working from 9 am to 9 pm six days a week among the tech community. More important, it is usually without overtime pay.

So does my dear friend. He work as 797....

All of us hope that we can work 8 hours according to the Labour's Law. But the reality is that we have to work overtime.
Being an employee we have no right to choose. We only pray that our bodies and mentalities can support us more days to work.

So tired. It's mean we will spend more time in work, less time in ourselves.

I don't suppose 996 is a bad thing, since 996 also could be the extension for more knowledge for one's career. For instance, assuming I were a trainer, I had a 965 working schedule. For a better job promotion, I need to learn more outside work time. I need to get access to books on communication skills, psychology, marketing strategy, etc. that are closely related and beneficial to my work. 

Those activities are another forms of 996 pattern. but some employers have ridiculous ideas that they forced their employees to work overtime and PRETEND still having work incomplete, despite the fact that the employee s had got their workload done. That's a waste of time and a waste of time!

As a senior high student, 7107 is normal.

As an English teacher in middle school, I often begin my work at 7 o'clock in the morning, leading students to read the text loudly. We also have afternoon. After work, I go home at 8:00 in the evening.I will communicate with parents in my spare time. So tired!

U are so good for the teacher, I wish that I could become a English teacher but I don't attack my dream, so you are lucky.