Li Xia still has 1,000 yuan left on her bank card, and next Monday she will have to pay 200 yuan to her son for living expenses and 2,316 yuan on her credit card, which is the minimum payment. In addition to her credit card, she has more than 300,000 yuan in debt.
Li Xia, 38, a cleaning service provider for eggshell apartments in Chengdu, has not made any payments from eggshell since June this year. The total pending settlement is 1.75 million yuan, including 1.2 million yuan for four months of labor and 550,000 yuan for supplies advances, among other things. In order to pay the workers, Li Xia sold a 60-square-meter resettlement house of her own, plus her former savings, leaving a shortfall of 350,000 yuan.
At 9:00 a.m. on December 2, Li Xia arrived in Beijing from Chengdu and hurriedly went to the headquarters office of Eggshell Apartments in Chaoyang Capital Building. It was an exceptionally cold winter in Beijing this year, only 2 degrees Celsius, and she hunched her neck and tightened the collar of her jacket. The busy people of the capital city rush from the subway to the ground, crossing the street with a rush, and disappearing into countless office buildings in the blink of an eye.
In front of the Chaoyang Capital Building, nearly a hundred people had gathered, and the cold serpentine railings divided the crowd into two arrays. The left side “owners”, the right side “tenants “.
The owners were huddled together in a circle. Most of them were older, wearing masks, hats covering their ears, scarves protecting their necks, revealing only one pair of eyes, staring dead at the curtain at the entrance of the building. “It’s so cold, can’t we get in line? ” someone complained. The people in the middle came together in a pile, “Hey! Do you still have people living in that house? As soon as he spoke, water vapor poured onto the lenses of his glasses, “I haven’t received the rent for two months! Further consumption, next year will not be collected, the loss of 20,000 to 30,000 yuan. “
On the tenant’s end, there was much silence. They rolled the contract in their pockets, someone’s school bag with a computer, head down on the phone typing, “I took two hours off. “I still have to rush back to work in the afternoon.
Li Xia walked through the queue of people, could not help but sigh, “these landlord tenants oh, also be victimized. “
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Late night squatting
On November 16, news broke that eggshell apartments were in a “liquidity crisis” and affected tenants were evicted by their landlords in successive microblogs. The Beijing Housing and Construction Commission has set up more than 100 reception points in Beijing since the 18th to deal with eggshell-related disputes, and set up an eggshell apartment task force on the 19th.
Now, nearly a month has passed, and the eggshell situation is still chaotic and stalemated.
Bypassing the queue, Li Xia slipped to the back of the Capital Building and took the freight elevator to the second floor. Fifty meters to the right is the office of the eggshell apartment headquarters. “This road is only known to us. On October 30, she came to Beijing from Chengdu to collect debts, and a group of debt collection suppliers from all over the world are together, keeping watch during the day and night, and have long been aware of the terrain.
These days, every day at the door to get nothing more than “go to legal proceedings”, “go home and so on” such as “Go home and so on” such as the answer. But she still comes every day. “At least do something”, “and the government people are also In, there will always give us a group of people an explanation”.
She couldn’t stop coming, and someone kept pushing her on her ass. The first time she went to the eggshell headquarters at the end of October to ask for money, there were people sitting everywhere, and she sat in the conference room waiting for the staff to receive her, her cell phone kept ringing, it was the cleaning aunties in Chengdu, “I’m afraid I ran away. “After two days of noise, the phone screen went off and on until it ran out of power.
“How will I run well? If you do not believe me, come to Beijing, I am in the eggshell headquarters! “She sent voice in the group. As a result, thirty aunties, really took the train north and found Li Xia, who was guarding the headquarters. At night, these thirty women couldn’t find a place to sleep, so Li Xia led them into the meeting room, sleeping on the sofa, or taking clothes to lay on the floor and using the backpack as a pillow for the night. The next day, the group sat in the office all day again, looking at each other.
The next night, a message popped up in the supplier group, “The vice president will come to the company at night! At 2:00 a.m., dozens of aunties “captured” At 2:00 a.m., dozens of aunties “captured” Vice President Cui Yan alive and surrounded his car, which was locked tight in fear. They beat on the car window, pulling the car door, “a couple of million, a company of hundreds of millions, find the boss, let him give me is it. This is just a small amount of money for him. “Li Xia said she was thinking very simple.
Soon, squatting to catch people’s aunts were taken to the police station to calm calm. Ten minutes later, the vice president was “released” away. Li Xia was so anxious that she jumped up and pulled the clothes of the police officer next to her, shouting hysterically, “Don’t let him go! I had a hard time finding him! She also knew that she could not rely on this method to make people return the money, but she could not help but fall in tears, she beat the table, pounding her chest, stomping, do not know how to express their helplessness, “This What can I do? What am I going to do? “Staring at the wall, sitting dry on the stool all night, out, they can no longer find any “boss After they came out, they couldn’t find any “boss” anymore.
Li Xia’s own boss dream also shattered. Since graduating from junior high school to work, cashier, waiter, she has done. A few years ago, began to do cleaning, glass, doors wipe clean, “I just do things very reassuring. The customers like to let her to clean, but also to recommend her business, and then she gave Chengdu’s long-lease apartments as cleaning staff, and her husband together, she is responsible for the bedroom, her husband is responsible for the common areas, the couple’s monthly income of nearly 15,000 yuan.
At the beginning of last year, she heard that Chengdu eggshell was recruiting a new cleaning supplier, and when she called, the person on the other side was a buyer for eggshell, saying that it didn’t cost anything to do this business, and that the company would provide cleaning supplies and work clothes. You can set your own salary. She has long been aware of the long term rental apartments, in addition to the self-image, on the eggshell to do the largest, distributed throughout the country.
The process went quickly, and in three weeks, the purchasing agent flew in from Beijing and said, “The money will be paid on time,” she said. “She spent 3,000 yuan to register the company, and recruited her previous colleagues to give 5 yuan more per order than other suppliers.
The contract with eggshell agreed that the health cleaning fee is settled in sets, the bedroom is not cleaned, the bathroom, bedroom and living room count as one set, 39 yuan per set. Dividing the work area by region, she was assigned to nearly 7,000 sets of housing in Qingyang and Chenghua districts. 7,000 suites, each suite is cleaned twice a month, which means at least 560,000 yuan of income every month. Roughly speaking, excluding the aunties’ salaries, rent and tools, the couple could make a profit of 70,000 yuan a month.
The day she signed the contract, she was very excited to be the boss and do business for the first time, went to the mall for an afternoon, bought herself a 500 yuan trench coat, and bought her husband and son a pair of jeans, “it felt so awesome at that time. “
She didn’t think much about why a big company like Eggshell would sign up with her own newly registered small company. In retrospect, she thinks eggshell may have deliberately sought a new and small company to extend the billing period.
The contractual period was 45 days, and the 10th of each month was the reconciliation date, when the supplier had to send the invoice to Eggshell, which was supposed to remit the money to the account within 45 days of the reconciliation date. However, each time, eggshell’s reimbursement would span over two months, and Li Xia went to find eggshell’s purchase, the other party replied, “Such a big company, it’s not too bad for you. “
According to common sense, if a party fails to pay on time, it should be considered as a breach of contract, and the compensation standard for breach of contract should be clearly agreed in the contract. But Li Xia and eggshell contract, but this is not mentioned in the word.
It was only when she came to Beijing to collect the debt and read out item 7 of the contract, “rights and obligations”, that she found that It’s all about my obligations and eggshell’s rights. “
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Such a termination of contract
At 9:30, the time to receive owners and tenants finally arrived.
The curtain of the office building’s front door lifted, and a person with a light blue “eggshell apartment” sign around his neck came out, head bowed, laying the cards neatly in his hand.
As if a handful of fish food had been thrown into the fish pond, the crowd quickly rushed to one corner. People’s heavy clothes rubbed against each other, their arms crossed the shoulders in front of them, spreading their palms and shifting outside the fence. “Do not squeeze, do not squeeze, today the site number 200 ah! ” the staff said stuffing a slip of paper into the palm of the hand waving in front of it. The small white slips of paper, hand-cut, no number, only “valid for entry before 15:30 pm”.
The common demand of the owners on the scene was to get their houses back. Of course, it would be better to get the rent owed by eggshells for breach of contract.
At the eggshell headquarters, this demand was vaguely reconstructed and interpreted into two words, “termination of contract”.
Tian He is here today to get the evidence of “termination” – a contract of termination; the “terminated” shown on the mobile app. The “cancelled contract” is shown on the mobile app; or a credible cancellation document. Anything with the word “terminated” in it will do.
Under eggshell’s long term lease model, eggshell signs a property management service contract with the landlord and then signs a housing agency lease contract with the tenant, which is the role of the “second landlord The role of “second landlord”. Purple Wutong Asset Management, the company to which Eggshell Apartments belongs, represents the landlord, signs the lease contract with the tenant, and collects the rent, deposit, and down payment.
Essentially, the leasing relationship still occurs between the tenant and the landlord, but the landlord’s “partner” – eggshell – provides leasing services and handles leasing matters for the landlord, so when eggshell “runs away”, the landlord still needs to continue to fulfill the lease contract with the tenant and provide related services.
Therefore, the “termination” is only the termination of the agency relationship between the landlord and eggshell.
After 15 days of the landlord not receiving the rent, the landlord can terminate the proxy relationship with eggshell for breach of contract, and they need to sign a notice of termination themselves and have evidence that it has been handed over to eggshell.
Two years ago, when he signed the contract with Eggshell, Tian He didn’t think there would be any problems. At that time, the eggshell housekeeper came over to see the house, “Sister, we will renovate the house, you can just wait for the rent every month. The price offered was 200 yuan higher than the market price, so she signed the contract thinking she could save her mind by looking for an agent.
In those years, the rental market was enjoying the policy dividend of “renting and selling”, and it was also a period when eggshells were enjoying a lot of success. In just one year, the number of houses under management soared from more than 52,000 to more than 230,000, with a Series B investment of USD 100 million and a Series B+ investment of USD 70 million. At the end of the year, Sina Finance unveiled the list of “China’s Economic Trendsetters”, and Gao Jing, CEO of Eggshell Apartments, ranked second on the list.
Before signing the contract, Tian He carefully went through every page of the contract, including Article 8, “Cancellation of Contract”, which states that: If Party B (eggshell apartment) is late in paying the rent for 15 working days, Party A (landlord) will not be able to pay the rent. If Party B (the owner) is late in paying the rent for 15 working days, Party A (the owner) has the right to unilaterally cancel the contract and Party B shall compensate Party A for two months’ rent. If they breach the contract, even if I unilaterally terminate the contract, I can still get two more months’ rent. “
Until a month or so ago, she found that the process of “termination” and the confirmation of the status were confusing.
On November 24, just after the 15-day default period, she called customer service and was advised to go to a reception point to cancel the contract. “The human customer service answered her.
She took a half-day off work and went to the reception point next to the Material Institute in Tongzhou District. The reception point is located next door to a hot pot restaurant, very simple, tin built up, the outside is also sprayed with license advertising. After standing at the door and waiting for an hour, she went in and just sat down, the staff gave her a termination notice, name, phone number, address, filled out one by one, and in the middle of a large blank space was written, “I did not receive the rent “, signed, less than five minutes, finished, “the written termination ceremony is done? “The speed is so fast that people can not believe it.
Once the termination of the contract, she “rightfully” found the tenant here, in front of the two tenants, pull out the phone, “na, has been terminated”, the results of a brush, and brush, APP background shows that the contract is “being fulfilled”.
She was confused as to whether the contract had been terminated or not.
Gu Xiaoming, a lawyer from Beijing Jing Shi Law Firm, opened a video on CCTV’s “Society and Law” microblogging platform, explaining clearly Even if the landlord unilaterally terminates the contract with eggshell, the termination is only the entrustment relationship between the two parties, and the authorization act between the landlord and eggshell before the termination still has legal effect. The authorization of the landlord and eggshell before the termination still has legal effect. In other words, the contract between eggshell and the tenant is still valid, the lease relationship is not broken, and as long as the tenant does not have any form of breach of contract, their right to live is protected by law, and the landlord has no right to evict them.
In such a contractual relationship, only the landlord and the tenant can reach an agreement to jointly terminate the contract. The landlord can only truly get his or her room back.
Like most landlords, Tian He, who thought he had terminated the contract, and the tenant have lit up the war between them.
Arguing in the house, call the 12345 citizen hotline, hotline let her and the tenant to negotiate or call the police, the police came, let everyone do not make trouble, negotiate a solution, really can not go together to go to the neighborhood committee, looking for the neighborhood committee, registered a long list of information, tossed a circle, and finally or that, ” We recommend that both sides calm down and negotiate properly. “
The tenant offered to continue the contract at a 50% discount, which Tian He could not accept. She works as a study abroad consultant, and her income has been reduced by nearly half during the epidemic, to less than 4,000 yuan a month, and rent is now an important source of income.
On the tenant’s side, they had already paid their annual rent for one year in advance, and they were also unable to accept the termination of the contract.
Tian He thought about suing Eggshell directly. When she consulted a lawyer, it took at least six months to file the lawsuit, but she couldn’t afford it, so she went back to the battlefield of collecting the house.
On November 28, a new module appeared on the front page of the eggshell app. “Landlord self-service termination” and “Tenant self-service termination The new modules appeared on the home page of the app on November 28, “Owner Self-Cancel” and “Tenant Self-Cancel. Once you confirm the termination of the contract, it will take effect immediately and cannot be restored. “Click to confirm, but received a text message containing the tenant’s phone number and name, next to the text thoughtful tips, “You can contact the tenant. “
Back to the personal center, check the status of the contract, still “in progress”.
Tian He asked the group, they said, “What’s the point, the tenants do not cancel the contract, just keep consuming. She sat in the office and freaked out, “This is not back again? “
In December, a whole month had passed since she received her rent. She called eggshell customer service once again, “When can I finish the termination? She felt ridiculous, knowing the answer but asking with the mindset of trying. “This side needs you to negotiate with the tenants so they can click on the termination as well. “Snap, she hung up the phone straight away.
“Thank you for calling Eggshell Apartments. Download ‘eggshell apartment’ official APP, pay attention to the daily update of housing dynamics, preferential activities are updated from time to time, your pocket rental housekeeper. “The text message from eggshell arrived.
She decided to take advantage of the last day of annual leave left to go to the headquarters.
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Homeowners, please line up
The line to enter the eggshell headquarters office stopped again in the lobby on the first floor.
The elevator leading to the second floor stopped. Two people with red armbands pinned on their black coats stood guard at the starting point, with a maintenance sign placed in the middle that people could not cross over, “They are from the Housing and Construction Commission. ” said the man with the eggshell work sign pointing to the man with the red armband.
“Do not squeeze, do not squeeze, stand firm. “Several people shouted.
Outside the door in the cold wind and so on for more than half an hour, the door continues to wait. “What are you waiting for? “Ten minutes later, a bald brother could not resist, shouted up in front. The people next to the coaxing, “outside and so on, the building and so on, you do not do things in the end? “Complaints and curses drifted over the hall.
The railings did not open until another eggshell staff member appeared. The people guarding the escalator entrance asked to check the number plate – they could not see the number plate either, glimpsed a white paper clutched in their hands, and let them go.
Tianhe pushed upward with the crowd, fearing that a hand would reach out and stop her at any moment. When she reached the second floor, she found that not far from the line is still in line? As if to wear out people’s patience, they were again taken to the left side of the passage and continued to line up.
At the front of the line, police officers in black uniforms, Housing and Construction Committee staff wearing red armbands and eggshell employees with blue work badges were organizing the order. A security guard standing next to the line was called in only three days ago.
He said that he did not have a fixed workplace, where the lack of people to go, the epidemic also went to some community gate guarding. A few days ago, the boss contacted the job, brought them together to stand guard, mainly to maintain order. As for who is helping to work, he does not care, anyway, here, tired of standing can find a place to sit and rest, a day can get a hundred yuan.
There are red armbands who come to the team and inform everyone to scan the code. Once again, the owners filled out a series of information: name, address, and the last time they received rent.
Most of the people in the queue were elderly, the words on their phones were as big as peas, and the WeChat interface could only accommodate two sentences of conversation. A man wearing a dark blue hat, filling out the registration form before reacting, the house is his son’s, he filled in his name, “he has to work, which has time to come here. “
These information, Tian He does not know how many times to fill out the reception point in Tongzhou, to fill in the 12345 phone call when asked, and now to the headquarters is still filling in. She really can’t understand why these basic and common problems have to be filled out over and over again.
The morning reception ended with a line here and there, and a line of 20 people stalled in place, waiting bashfully, with no one going downstairs to eat. The second floor of the office area was blocked by bars everywhere, the entrance, the elevator, the head of the line, the tail of the line.
The only thing that is open is the elevator to leave, but even if hungry, no one left, “just go down, and then come up is difficult”.
In the lobby, the security guard sat in the corner of the hall with his head hanging, two eggshell female employees checking the reservation number, with work cards hanging on their chests, and a table with registration forms and take-out handed in.
The take-out box lunch then “ignited” a war of words. A forty-year-old brother, miso jumped to the light of the hall, he first removed the mask to the chin, and later tore off, two eyes wide open, towards the take-out staff yelled, “We are standing here, there is no seat, so dead waiting, you do not work, but also get a big lunch box with this Eat, you are the master? You try eating again? “
The hall is quiet, the original ubiquitous noise instantly stopped, the aisle, the hall, the door, all look at him alone. For the next three minutes, he delivered 27 “fuck yous”.
“You don’t act, we folk do! The second half of the sentence went up a notch, “Come on, whoever is older, you’re welcome, you go in first. He waved his hand towards the aisle, encouraging those standing in the aisle to “act! ” and sit in the hall.
There was no response. The owners stood in silence, looking at each other, and no one came out.
Out came a police officer. People from the Housing and Construction Commission introduced this as “Captain Wang”.
Captain Wang’s mask is wrapped tightly, but his tone is surprisingly mild, “Come, everyone closer. “A few elderly people with gray hair in the crowd, sitting on a small stool next to Captain Wang, a little farther away, holding a camera, press the video button, people are ready to listen to what he has “say”.
“I started to contact this a month ago, here as an officer, I have seen everything, but this company’s situation, is the most complicated I have encountered in ten years. “Hearing the sincere tone of this captain Wang, many people put down the camera in their hands, “I want to tell the group that the people you see here today, all of them, are eggshell of the victims. “
After the two eggshell employees were scolded, they did not move their chopsticks. They didn’t walk away, but just sat rigidly, clamping up the take-out box and hiding it in an inconspicuous place, pulling on the blue mask tightly, covering half of their faces.
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The two sides of the conversation
At 2 p.m., the office began to sound again. The headquarters office area is divided into four blocks, the left side of the reception tenants and owners, both in batches, each time into a dozen people.
After continuing to wait for two hours, Tian He was led to a small five-square-meter conference room with another landlord. Tian He first said his situation, “you this is very simple, you go to them again, calmly nagging, you say I am accepting this is the maximum loss, and finally give three days, if three days do not move out, I can only cut off water and electricity. “
The staff said too fast, Tian He did not follow. She opened the recording, let say it again, the other party as smooth as reciting the text, “you say that the police have come anyway, also recorded, you love to move or not, three days later I went to the property on time to cut off water and electricity. “
“Did not the police say no? “Tian He never thought of really do so.
“You hear me out. You print off the contract, and then take the property certificate, the police came, you show him, tell him the contract has clear provisions, more than 15 days to collect the money, I can take possession of their own, I have said three days in advance, they do not go, deserved. ” – this is a set of words – “In fact, just 15 days, I should have kicked them out, out of the goodness of my heart, let them live until now, they do not appreciate. ” The staff member aggravated the tone, “In front of the police, that’s what you say. “
“If you have any questions, you tell them to find the eggshells. ” The staff member said it bluntly.
“Is it useful to find eggshells? ” Tianhe was also a little confused.
“Do you want to repossess the house? You just tell them the house is mine, the property license is also mine, I will cut off the water and electricity now, this is my legal right. “
“And what if they say the contract is being fulfilled? “
“You tell them to go to the eggshell to fulfill it, tell him, you go to the eggshell, fulfill it how you like, and I will fulfill my obligation to the house. “
After ten minutes in the office, she was escorted out and given a set of words. She couldn’t say where it was strange. Walking out of the building, the wind blew over and it took a moment to realize that the Frisbee was still back in her hands.
The tenants all came in after noon, and they were brought to the various work stations piecemeal.
Wang Shiyi and Gao Hao, the two are roommates, the former has a lease until next May, the latter a little earlier, until March. Last week, the landlord came three times, trying to get them to move out. It was hard to be evicted again and again. She and Gao Hao each took a leave of absence and decided to come to the eggshell headquarters to ask.
“There are still five months left, what should I do with this money? “
The staff member leaned down, the hangtag on his chest shaking between his legs, “You wait for the owner to cancel the contract, and then you can cancel the contract without liability. “
“What happens after the no-liability termination? “
“Eggshell will return the money to your account. “The money is returned to the tenant’s account in the eggshell app, and the tenant can initiate a withdrawal.
“But the money can’t be withdrawn. “
“Then you should not cancel the contract. “
Two hours in line, ten minutes of conversation, “There is no protection, at least the landlord can get the room back, what about us tenants? “They are not going to apply for a termination, the two young people are clear that if the tenants initiate the termination, they will no longer be able to exercise the right to use the house that the contract gives them. They must wait until the money can be raised, then initiate the termination and move out.
When they left, Wang Shiyi asked the staff, “What if the landlord comes to the door? What if the water and electricity are cut off? “The other party immediately replied, “You find the police, neighborhood committee, they can not do so. “
It can’t, but it happened.
Tenant Yan Manganese chose to leave. One afternoon, in the company, he heard from the phone the roommate spit out “landlord cut off electricity”, these four words like a black hole in the toilet pumping water, quickly sucked his life into the The black hole. When I got home, it was already dark, and when I opened the door, the two roommates were sitting in the dark living room without saying a word. They were usually in their own rooms, rarely seeing each other, and on this night they still couldn’t see each other’s expressions, uttering their worst intentions to the thick blackness in front of them – to quit and go home if they were forced to evict.
The landlord finally did not evict, but the next day, holding a thick stack of English bills, knocked on their door, page by page, to Yan Manganese counted his son’s difficulties in Canada, “he has a high cost of living there, and no income, and is counting on this bit of rent from me to get by”.
The day after Yan Manganese left, he suddenly felt that the afternoon when the English bills were spread out in front of him was a “comparison” between the tenant and the landlord, and he felt the pain of being trapped. The painful feeling of being trapped hit him in the back of the head. He has two suites in Beijing, and I am a person from rural Sichuan, so I should find two photos to throw to him and tell him that our whole family depends on me to eat. “
But thinking back, the work at hand during the day has been exhausted, go back at night and landlord entanglement, “too tired. “
3:30 p.m., the last batch of tenants and landlords one by one, the hall became quiet. Crowds were broken up in various tiny corners, cubicles, workstations, an employee to a visitor, can not see the situation outside.
The space that was not open, was enclosed out of a kind of maze pattern, trying to find people, it is not easy, someone in the room talking, follow the sound of people over, is the wall, around the wall, and then there are walls.
The edges of the maze, scattered everywhere with scattered exits, open, behind the door is a dark passage. One by one, people left the scene from these places.
Some people are still reluctant to leave. The four-letter logo wall of “eggshell apartment”, a “Notice of termination” from the hand of an old lady in yellow cotton, snapped on the “shell on the word “shell”. She announced word by word: “I unilaterally terminate my contract with the eggshell company! “
She was performing some kind of ritual, almost roughly driving away the passers-by, leaving a blank space for herself, pulling out her phone, turning on the camera, adjusting it until the words “eggshell apartment” could be seen in the video, and she could also clearly see every Chinese character on the “termination notice”.
She began to recite the written sentences she had written in advance, word by word: “I am the landlord and I am now in the eggshell apartment, which has defaulted on my rent for 20 days, and I have been contacted by the eggshell service phone several times, but my calls have gone unanswered. I have tried to negotiate with Eggshell for rent at its office address in Chaoyang Capital, but no one is available. Therefore, I hereby announce my termination of contract with Eggshell Apartments, effective immediately, and I reserve all rights to pursue legal proceedings against Eggshell Apartments for breach of contract! “
Tian He saw this scene and thought it was ridiculous. What is the use of such a unilateral termination of contract by the owner?
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Is there no more say?
At 4 pm, most of the tenants rushed back to work. The landlords are wandering back and forth in the office, looking back to see if there are “comrades” in the neighborhood, waiting to ask each other The “results”.
Some people received a text message, “Tenants can negotiate amicably with the landlord to establish a new lease relationship. The screenshot was sent to the “landlord comrades group”. In two hours, there was only one reply: “The system sent, all the same. “
At 5:00, it was dark outside and the tenants and landlords were talking, but the war inside the headquarters was not over – and it was not only the tenants and landlords who suffered.
There were noises from the right side of the office area, “If we ran out of money long ago, why do we have to work? ” A dozen maintenance workers surrounded the supplier. The worker with the loudest voice, his face was red and the veins on his neck bulged. The man standing next to him, turned around and fumbled for a fanny pack, pulled out a green pill box for diabetes, he waved it in the air a few times, his fist clenched, “I’m asking you, do you want me to live, or do you want me to die! “
“No one is going to die today. ” The police appeared again, pushing the door in, the original crowd of black people surrounded by water to make a way, the police walked straight to the center of the circle, “What do you have to find Eggshell, the supplier is also a victim. “
“This is not eggshells? ” “Is there no more to say? Is that all? ” The first person to ask a question had his voice getting smaller and smaller, and everyone stopped talking and listened to his sobbing.
Among the confronted suppliers, there was a furniture supplier who came by train from Guangdong, wanting to recover his 900,000 yuan, he had 12 workers under his hands and owed two months’ wages. The owner of a cleaning company from Shanghai is owed 3.1 million, involving 60 families. …… According to the data that have been counted so far, the amount of money owed to the company is 120 million, involving 4,027 families. “This is only a small part. “
Li Xia also stood in these people, silently wiping tears, these days cell phone WeChat group has been “shouting” her, “2020 is still a month away. “2020 is still a month away,” “the end of the year, what happened to wages? “The screen is full of accountability.
Li Xia found a seat, pulling the zipper of the backpack, “This is my son’s schoolbag. “She has not seen her son for a month. At the beginning of October, her husband and her divorce, she did not want to talk about this matter, only that “I owe a debt, it is not good to drag people. I just can’t be with my son, my heart is blocked.
She sold the only house she had left, and got the money to pay her salary immediately. Now, seeing that the staff is still pressing her, she is also angry, “together when eating meat, who has said my good? Now all come to fall on the well. “
Zhang, who was standing next to her, patted her shoulder and comforted her. He was a curtain supplier and was owed nearly two million. He took the curtain business in Chongqing. The first few times when he came to the headquarters, was the one who made the most trouble, hammered the corner of the table. Now, he is also afraid to go back to Chongqing, and the workers are blocking the entrance of his house.
They all live across the street from the eggshell headquarters, turning into an alley and going around to the back of the building, in a hotel in the basement of a residential building. Li Xia, Zhang, and a renovation foreman, Uncle Zhang, gathered together. 150 yuan a night, one day at a time.
At 7 p.m., the crowd finally dispersed.
A female eggshell employee, who had been maintaining order during the day, rubbed the handwriting on her cotton jacket, as if to wipe away the grievances stuck to her body. She is a quality inspector at Eggshell, who came to Beijing from Hebei in 2018 after graduating from college. Eggshell Apartments offered her a monthly salary of 8,000, so she doesn’t have to sit in the office and run around inspecting houses. During her three years at Eggshell, she was quite satisfied with the company’s relaxed atmosphere and the fact that the leaders did not have a stance, and she had dinners with them from time to time.
She hasn’t been paid since October this year. In the first month, the company sent a notice saying that the funds would be available soon. In those days, there was news that Chainmaker was going to buy Eggshell, and the company’s stock was rising, so they all felt that the company was not short of money. In the second month, people came to the company every day to cause trouble, and the office area was full of people, at first scattered landlords and tenants, but later they came across hundreds of workers standing next to them, staring at their office.
As an employee, she doesn’t know where she can go to work next, and as an eggshell tenant, she doesn’t know how long she can live in her “home”.
As darkness poured into the office building, she kept her head down and silently packed her bag. At this point, a look at the empty office, I do not know how, there are wires everywhere.
Black, white, from the broken ceiling, from the corner of the takeaway boxes, poking out, sticking out, some hanging, some spread out, so messy.
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