Liu Jin in the hospital waiting for debridement surgery
At about 10 a.m. on Jan. 11, 47-year-old hungry delivery man Liu Jin stood in front of a delivery station in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, where he works, and doused himself with gasoline to set himself on fire. Behind him on the delivery station sign, written in white letters on a blue background “instant delivery, good life”.
The surrounding merchants rushed to save him with a fire extinguisher and sent him to the hospital. On January 15, Liu Jin underwent a debridement surgery – a key step in determining whether he would be pulled back from the life-and-death line. That night, Liu Jin’s sister, Liu Ping, told a reporter that the operation went well and a second operation will be performed next week.
In the eyes of colleagues, Liu Jin is an honest middle-aged man, 18 days before the incident, Liu Jin found his salary was deducted about 5,000 yuan, he repeatedly approached the director of the distribution station, but also tried to communicate with the company boss. No one knows the specifics of the exchange between the two sides, but it is clear that Liu Jin did not ask for his wages back. Finally, the non-verbal delivery man chose to end his life in an extreme way. After being taken to the hospital, Liu Jin told Liu Ping, “I don’t want to live, I’ve lived enough, I’m too tired.”
After the self-immolation was extinguished, Liu Jin stood up
“The man on fire
It was not until his body was “on fire” that Liu Jin drew everyone’s attention.
“Fire extinguisher! Fire extinguisher!” In a video of the scene taken by a witness, someone noticed a man lying on the ground, wrapped in orange-red flames, and began to rush to greet the surrounding merchants to put out the fire. The two men rushed forward with fire extinguishers and sprayed dry powder on Liu Jin. 10 seconds later, the fire on Liu Jin was extinguished.
As the pale yellow dry powder diffused in the air gradually dissipated, Liu Jin’s appearance clear – he was lying on the ground moaning, all the upper body clothes burned off, a large area of bare skin became charred black, hands also sticky burnt gloves.
In another video, after the burns, Liu Jin actually stood up, behind his work in Taizhou City, “hungry” Hummingbird delivery Wanda site, delivery station blue background white letters on the sign, “instant delivery, good life” the words are clearly in sight. Ambulance came, the people around him advised him, “hurry first to the hospital”, “life is more important than money ah”, Liu Jin shook his hand left and right, repeated: “not go, not go”. “I don’t want my life, it doesn’t matter, I want my hard-earned money.”
A side of the police arrived to Liu into the promise: “You go to the hospital first, we take the initiative to go to the hospital to find you (to investigate the situation).” Under the guidance of ambulance personnel, Liu Jin was finally taken to the Taizhou City People’s Hospital, 6 kilometers away.
Liu Jin’s sister Liu Ping received a call from her sister-in-law at 11:00 am. When she rushed to the hospital to see Liu Jin, she saw her brother, who was burnt to a “crisp”. Liu Ping asked him: “Why do you want to make yourself like this?” Liu Jin told her, “I don’t want to live anymore, I’ve lived enough, I’m too tired.”
The hospital’s diagnostic certificate showed that Liu Jin had 80% burns on his whole body, and was suffering from deep second to third degree burns. on the afternoon of January 11, in order to prevent the throat edema from blocking the airway and causing asphyxiation, the doctor gave Liu Jin an open throat surgery.
On January 15, Liu Jin underwent a major debridement surgery, and the doctor told Liu Ping that this was an operation to determine whether he would survive. That night, a reporter was informed that Liu Jin’s surgery went well, after which he had to stay in the intensive care unit for two months, followed by more than 20 major and minor clearing surgeries, and the overall treatment cost was about 1 million yuan.
Liu Ping said that the doctor has given the family a good “precaution”: Liu Jin’s one hand burned and nerve, has lost consciousness. Even if people can pull back from the ghost gate, will be basically incapacitated, and even daily life, eating need help.
Looking back afterwards, Liu Ping felt that this was definitely not a temporary suicide. The gasoline was definitely prepared in advance – Liu Jin drove an electric car, and in his daily life, he simply did not use gasoline. A takeaway worker Sun Yue, who knew Liu Jin, told a reporter that before the accident, Liu Jin had told his colleagues at the site that if he could not get about 5,000 yuan of salary owed to him by the unit, he “did not want to live”. But no one took this statement seriously, “who can think of 5,000 yuan for suicide?”
Diagnosis certificate issued by the hospital
The “moonlight” delivery man
The 45-year-old Liu Jin is about 1.6 meters tall and looks exceptionally thin in the takeaway. A number of peers who know Liu Jin described him to a reporter once in a while, in addition to “honest”, can not find any other character traits.
A takeaway employee often sees Liu Jin in the supermarkets around the site where his peers gather. Liu Jin will often come to the supermarket to charge the battery car, but rarely chat with others, usually alone, smoking and waiting. Sun Yue also said that in the takeaway weibo group, we often chat and joke, but basically never saw Liu Jin chatting inside. “He does not talk nonsense, not annoying, but everyone and his relationship will not be particularly close.”
Liu Jin has been working in Taizhou from his hometown of Yunnan for more than ten years. According to Liu Ping, Liu Jin began to follow the engineering team to pull the cable, three years ago the engineering team was disbanded, he took up the business of delivery. “My brother is more than 40 years old, no culture, but also little skills, can not get into a better factory, can only run the take-away, at least more than the gate to earn.”
Sun recalls, more than a year ago, he worked with Liu into a piece, then Liu into a month of single delivery in 1200 single up and down, in the site rider ranking basic monthly in the top 20%. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services to its customers. Rider internal software can see the site’s staff working hours ranking, in his impression, Liu Jin is always very late to get off the line, basically every day will exceed the “hungry” regulations of 9 hours of work, to about 12 hours.
“The whole family depends on him to support.” Even with Liu into the exchange is not much, colleagues mostly know some of his family situation. Last year, Liu Jin had a half-month break due to a car accident, and when he returned to work, Sun Yue heard that Liu Jin was borrowing money from his colleagues, “he basically belongs to the ‘moonlight family’, can not save money. He also can not have a little thing, an accident will not have money.”
5,000 yuan to Liu into said is not a small amount. “If a month’s salary does not arrive on time, his family will have no rice to cook.” Liu Ping lamented. Liu Jin’s wife suffers from liver disease, can only do some odd jobs, monthly income of more than 1,000 yuan. The oldest daughter is 21 years old, just entering society, still working as an apprentice, the youngest daughter just entered college last September, it is the time to need money, the entire family’s expenses are almost all on Liu Jin’s shoulders.
Liu Ping calculates that Liu Jin monthly to give the youngest daughter 1500 yuan per month, plus the couple’s monthly rent of more than 1,000 yuan and about 1,500 yuan of living expenses, the monthly fixed expenses of 4,000 yuan. “Plus Liu Jin’s wife’s medicine and miscellaneous expenses, basically can not save money.”
This year, Liu into the youngest daughter’s school fees or relatives to help put together, more than a month before the accident, his mother back home and sick in hospital, Liu into also borrowed 2,000 yuan with colleagues to play to his mother. Two days before the self-immolation occurred, Liu Jin and Liu Ping borrowed 2,000 yuan to pay off the debts borrowed from colleagues. Liu in and out of the incident, his wife rushed to the hospital, to pay the bill, the card only 400 yuan.
Liu Ping remembers that the last time she saw Liu Jin before the accident was last year’s National Day, when relatives gathered for a meal. At that time, Liu Jin’s youngest daughter had just enrolled in school, and during the meal, he was laughing and in a good mood. “Brother also said at the time, after the child went to college, they have to work harder to earn money, we also all state, let him relax, the whole family will work together for the child to go to school.”
Liu into the previous work photo taken at the site
Or five thousand deducted for jumping ship
From Liu Jin found that the salary is less 5,000 yuan, to his decision to self-immolation, the middle of the past 18 days. A number of delivery staff said that in order to collect wages, Liu Jin found several times the station manager of the delivery station, but also to the delivery point of the contractor Jingjiang City Winning Run Electronic Commerce Co. But no one can accurately restore what Liu Jin experienced in these 18 days, even to his wife, he only complained in general about a few “the money is too difficult to ask for, asked for several times do not give.”
In Sun Yue’s opinion, this may be related to the salary adjustment of the take-away workers of the Winning Run Company. From November last year, the company to improve the motivation of employees to work, the take-away pay from 6 yuan a single to a step system, the total number of orders delivered per month in the 600-800 single income of 4.5 yuan, 800-900 single for 5.2 yuan a single, 900-1100 single 5.5 yuan a single, 1100-1200 single income between 5.8 yuan a single, 1200-1400 single for 6 yuan, 1400 single. 1400 single for 6 yuan, more than 1400 single for 6.2 yuan a single. Another takeaway, Wang Jiangtao, confirmed this salary adjustment to reporters.
The company just won the contract in September last year, Taizhou “hungry” 3 sites take-away operations. Sky-eye search shows that the company’s headquarters is located in Taizhou, Zhejiang and Jiangsu 6 cities with branches. Although Liu Jin daily work under the management of the company to win the run, but did not sign a contract with the company. The person in charge of the publicity department of Taizhou Hailing District told Deep One that Liu Jin is an individual businessman, and good living (Xuzhou) Network Technology Co., Ltd. signed a “project subcontracting agreement” to win the company’s “hungry” delivery business.
After the implementation of the ladder system salary, the company is responsible for the 3 sites in the win run triggered the discontent of the take-away workers. In one of the sites, five riders resigned in November. In Sun Yue’s view, the company’s approach is nothing more than trying to improve employee motivation and make the site’s data look a little better. But the volume of orders in a region does not increase with the efforts of the riders, and for most of the takeaway workers whose monthly orders are less than 1,200, this adjustment means a disguised pay cut.
Liu Jin developed the idea of changing home platform work, he took a month off on December 5 on the grounds that he had something to do back home, in fact, he transferred to work at the Mission People’s Park site.
As the Chinese New Year is about to enter, the local Meituan delivery service contractor has started issuing incentives for new employees in order to improve capacity. A Meituan rider told a reporter that in the new People’s Park site where Liu Jin went, the current incentive is that new employees can get a reward of 10,000 yuan if they have worked for 3 months and their performance meets certain standards. Wang Jiangtao explained to a reporter once deep, “hungry” to contractors will also have a performance assessment, if the number of delivery staff is not enough, resulting in poor delivery service data, not up to standard, will be “hungry” fine, so will be in the peak season of take-out through subsidies for newcomers The way to attract delivery staff.
December 25, is the day Liu Jin received the November salary. He only received more than 1,000 yuan in wages on this day, and the expected 6,000 yuan difference of about 5,000 yuan. Sun Yue believes that the 5,000 yuan was deducted because the company identified Liu Jin’s behavior as an “emergency resignation” – the labor dispatch contract they signed had a clause stipulating that he had to leave the company one month in advance and apply for a report. The monthly salary is calculated at the rate of 1.5 yuan per single delivery.
Liu into the new work site and the original work site distance of less than 2 kilometers, the delivery staff will bump into the food, “Liu into the American group work news to the station manager’s ears, the station manager know that such a situation in the heart must not be happy.” Sun Yue said. But he thinks, even if Liu into the count as “emergency resignation”, the company’s approach is also problematic. “To deduct money, according to the rules can only deduct December’s salary, how can deduct November’s salary?”
No one knows why Liu Jin did not go a month in advance to apply for the separation process, Sun Yue think, this may be Liu Jin temporary intention to jump ship after the method to minimize losses. Wang Jiangtao told reporters that in the local area, Meituan delivery of more orders, delivery time is more tight. He guessed that Liu Jin probably wanted to experience it first to see if he could adapt to the work intensity of the new environment.
In order to take newcomer subsidies in the peak season, or the pursuit of higher income, takeaway workers jump back and forth between different platforms is a common occurrence. Wang Jiangtao said, before there are riders take a month off to go elsewhere first trial, but no one like Liu Jin and the site so deadlocked. In his opinion, the site of the rider’s attitude is to “see people under the plate”, see people good bullying on more deductions. The site does not want to lose staff, to Liu Jin deducted money is “to kill the chicken to appal the monkey”. “Liu Jin is too honest, if the smooth point, things are not so.” Wang Jiangtao said.
At present, Liu into clear consciousness, waiting in the hospital to clear surgery, Liu Ping said, “hungry” currently to the family commitment, will be responsible for bearing the cost of treatment of Liu into the preliminary surgery. Winning run the company’s legal representative Jui Xiao Qin told a reporter, before the self-immolation incident, he was not aware of Liu into the payroll, the dispute has been handed over to hungry headquarters to deal with.
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