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Stop indulging and you'll die!

22-year-old girl 'living beyond her means'

By antoinePublished 3 years ago 5 min read
by:Antoine

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After a quiet period of time, another accident happened to Dachang.

Miss Chen, an employee of Nextev, went to the emergency room.

This is the third time she's been in the emergency room in the last six months.

During this period, the business volume of the company has been increasing, and more and more projects need to be connected. These increased workload cannot be completed within the prescribed working hours.

However, the KPIs are here and the deadline is approaching, so the overtime situation is getting worse and worse.

The overtime records provided by Miss Chen show that in the last six months, she has worked nearly 500 hours of overtime.

It is not uncommon to work late into the night.

The project was on my shoulder and I couldn't turn it down.

Even though the body had obvious discomfort and fever for several times, he still stuck to his post. Only when he had severe vomiting and diarrhea did he go to the emergency room in a hurry.

In addition to acute gastroenteritis, there were 21 physical abnormalities.

Is it really worth putting your body through all this trouble for a job?

In this regard, the HR of Nio said that she "volunteered" to work overtime until midnight, and the company never forced employees to work overtime. Besides, if they wanted to respond to the needs of users, they would need some extra efforts.

But these pay and the price, are paid with the body and sweat of the employees.

Is this "extra effort" really justified?

After working hard for more than half a year, she only got a "she volunteered" from the company, which blurred the unreasonable working hours and workload.

Living in a river's lake, we can't help ourselves.

In order to solve this matter, the HR of the company said that if Miss Chen left the company, she would agree to pay 12W compensation, but after that, she could not speak any more.

You take the money, you shut up.

These are the rules that the people at the top of the pyramid make.

Cold-blooded and heartless.

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Almost all modern people are trading their lives for money.

Xiao Hui, a 22-year-old girl in Hangzhou, paid an especially high price.

Her family is not rich, graduated into an Internet company, stay up late and work overtime, is the norm.

She worked harder than anyone else to ease the financial pressure on her family.

At three o 'clock in the morning, she was still in the group discussing work with her colleagues.

Work day and night.

But this kind of overwork, overdraft is not only her health, but also her life.

After a cold, a long time, and also appeared chest tightness, breathing and other symptoms.

She sent a wechat message to her mother:

"I don't feel well."

He told his mother:

"My heart and mouth hurt. I woke up several times a night. I'll go to the hospital for a check later."

She also borrowed 2,000 yuan from relatives before going to the hospital.

That is to say, even though she worked so hard, she couldn't even come up with 2,000 yuan when she needed to see a doctor.

Tragedy is brewing step by step.

She collapsed at home before the hospital results came back.

By the time colleagues found her and took her to the hospital, she was not breathing or beating.

The rescue doctor said that her high probability of sudden death caused by myocarditis.

By the time it arrived, it was purple.

She spent two weeks in the ICU, unable to save her life even though she briefly experienced cardiac recovery.

Finally, her life stopped at the age of 22.

The flower has withered before it has bloomed.

Her circle of friends remained forever on the day she was admitted to the hospital.

"I hate summer," she said.

The hot weather aggravated her discomfort.

Just a few words, full of signs of struggle.

Long stay up late, irregular work and rest, low immunity......

He became an accomplice.

The life that most young people live, the common diseases that most people don't care about, are silently eating away at the body.

We have all heard such true stories too many times over the years.

Sub-health, sudden death, age-related diseases and rejuvenation...

Health problems, overtime problems, in this day and age, have become survival problems.

But with the cost of living and the pressures of work, how can you not struggle?

Public opinion in the past, always fabricate the myth of rise.

Some people say that 996 is a blessing, often working overtime proves that the company has work to do, business is busy, do more work, income will naturally increase.

Some people say, young people, you have to be a Wolf, to do your best, otherwise, with what to develop.

But is this way of development really benign?

In recent years, society and most businesses are indeed on the road to development.

But its kinetic energy, what it burns, is employees' time, energy, even physical health.

Its blind acceleration, continuous overtime drawbacks are becoming more and more prominent.

A 25-year-old DJI employee, a year out of school and working hard, became short of breath one morning, and by the time an ambulance arrived, he had gone into cardiac arrest and died.

An employee of Pinduoduo died at 1:30 am on his way home. He was 22 years old.

A construction designer in Shanghai died after working overtime in a rented house.

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Such tragedies, one by one, oozed with blood and tears, are laid out before the eyes of the world.

Long standby, tired work, irregular work and rest, poor physical fitness......

These, have become the young man's killer.

Over time, it inadvertently became the deadliest blow of all.

The money for those lives, in the end, can't save lives.

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Every time this happens, there are always people who say, young people, don't indulge, don't fight too hard, cherish life, to combine work and rest, to exercise more, to improve physical quality......

But, trapped in this rule of workers, really have the right to combine work and rest, have the opportunity to improve physical quality?

Is it really their choice to fight or not to fight?

Riding on the back of a tiger, you can't run fast by yourself.

When a person is in an atmosphere of overtime and addiction, this atmosphere and unwritten rules become a kind of bullying.

If you're not willing to go along with the crowd, you're an outlier, a loser.

Others say that if you can't get used to the rules, you should just quit.

But when this rule has become the social consensus, resignation, how can change?

Jumping from one pit to another, eventually, there is no escape.

In particular, Shi Shi agrees with the words of Jiang Shengnan, a deputy to the National People's Congress:

"Working eight hours a day is the longest time the whole society can reproduce... It is also the limit of man."

"Overtime is not terrible, the most terrible is that overtime has become a phenomenon. What kind of Wolf rides the bus to work at 9 a.m. and the subway at 9 p.m. every night? ... The Wolf should appear in the grassland, and the cubicle, can not keep the Wolf."

Life life, people alive to have a life.

Instead of trying to persuade young people not to indulge, it is better to persuade businesses and companies to be individuals.

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If you have any ideas, feel free to leave them in the comments section.

~This is Antoine, and I hope you find pleasure in each of my articles~

Humanity

About the Creator

antoine

Hey, my friend,If you feel bored, you can come and read my writing to kill some leisure time!!

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