Chinese Slang: "Company Moths" – Learning Chinese

www.fluentflix.com — Are you a workaholic?

Or do you spend most of your life next to your office?

A new Chinese slang word has appeared for this: 公司驻虫 (gōng sī zhù chóng).

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