Han Wei has a quick number, the name is “yis joy”. The avatar is an old photo of him when he was young, wearing a straight white shirt, sitting on a windy motorcycle. But he sent the last video of the protagonist is a motorcycle, the tail hanging hungry blue box, both sides of the handle and the take-out bags.
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The winter solstice of 2020, only nine days before the New Year, more than eight o’clock in the evening, Zhuang Hong estimated that her husband Han Wei finished running single, gave him a video call, but the phone screen did not appear as usual husband’s face, but an unfamiliar traffic police.
Han Wei delivered in Beijing, as a delivery rider, he was stopped by the traffic police, is a conflict with people, or encountered a car accident? This was Zhuang Hong’s worst guess at the time.
The traffic police told Zhuang Hong to go to the police station, Lin Hua also went, he is Han Wei’s hometown, also in Beijing as a rider. When he received the call from Zhuang Hong, he thought that it might be that Han Wei’s single was about to overstay its welcome and was in a hurry to get into the neighborhood, the security guard wouldn’t let him, and the two got into a fight and alerted the police station. He and Zhuang Hong did not expect that the upcoming face is a bad news.
Three hours ago, Han Wei received his 34th delivery of the day, and after picking up his meal at the store, he rode along Xiangjiang North Road in Chaoyang District, leaving the store just a few minutes before he suddenly collapsed and died suddenly at an intersection, with four undelivered deliveries on the back of his motorcycle.
On this day, the weather in Beijing was -7℃ to 5℃, and it was cold. At noon, Zhuang Hong also urged Han Wei must eat well, riders eat irregularly, Han Wei replied to her on WeChat, saying that he ate with his friends, and also took a photo of her, a clean bowl to eat. Han Wei does not smoke, rarely drink, before his sudden death, Zhuang Hong also did not hear him talk about where the body is not well. Han Wei’s brother Han Fei heard the news and drove from Taiyuan to Beijing overnight to see his brother’s remains when he was still wearing the blue rider’s uniform.
If Han Wei did not have an accident this day, according to the original life trajectory, in a few moments, the family should gather in the family group, a lively video call, chatting about what to eat, the weather is cold, how many orders ran today, the child listened or not. This is the most relaxing moment of the day for Han Wei, the youngest son in Shanxi and grandparents crowded in a cell phone screen, he is white and chubby, and Han Wei looks like, personality is also like, like to laugh, like to talk.
In the summer of 2019, Han Wei received his two children to Beijing, and the family lived together for a short month. The eldest son insisted on finding himself a summer job, painting dishes, despite the opposition of Han Wei and Zhuang Hong, “to save himself for tuition. ” Han Fei sighed, “and can not afford to attend cram school. “
That month, Han Wei only had one day off, no delivery, he and Zhuang Hong took their young son with them and went to Tiananmen Square, the Bird’s Nest, which was the first time the couple played in Beijing. When they each went to work the next day, the youngest son was left alone in the rental house.
Later, the two children returned home to continue their studies, the older son in his second year of high school, the younger son in elementary school, Han Wei is very supportive of children learning, in his view, if the child wants to study, then he should create the conditions as much as possible, this is a little hope in his life. Han Fei has seen Han Wei repeatedly admonished the children: “No culture, in every city can not do anything, only like your father, do the bottom of the work. “
Two children to study this account, is not the end of the calculation, the older son will soon be college entrance exams, college, the younger son to read middle school, high school, college, need tuition. They also want to buy a suite for their eldest son in the county, the house should be large, open, more than 100 square feet, good to marry his wife, but it will cost a lot of money, at least 700,000 to 800,000, which means they have to fight in Beijing for a long time, to “a hard work, always work “.
The two people arrived in Beijing in 2019, where the rent is expensive and the cost of living is high, but the wages are also high, Han Wei can earn 7,000 to 8,000 a month, Zhuang Hong can have 5,000, to achieve those goals in life, in the end, there is more hope.
The same village, many of the same as Han Wei, people dragged people to Beijing, heard that delivery can earn money, and there is no threshold, the next App can run, almost everyone is doing this line. Lin Hua joined the rider team a little later than Han Wei, when he first started running, he felt very tired, every day on the road, the electric car to ride very fast, the risk is great, the heart is tense. Receiving orders, picking up food, on the road, delivery, while worrying about overtime, while worrying about a car accident, each link is very tense, only after work, the phone no longer pops up the list, people can relax. But after insisting on running for two days, Lin Hua still decided to stay in the take-out industry, because earning money is really more than he did before.
In Beijing, Han Wei and Lin Hua both live in a village in Shunyi, more than ten square feet of house, with glass panels to separate out the toilet and kitchen, the rent is about a thousand, room after room, a floor can have six or seven. Despite living together, but Han Wei and Lin Hua in the real sense of the party is very little, because delivery, we are not much rest, every day outside running single, go back to rest at night. Even when waiting for a single break, but also can not relax, to keep an eye on the platform page, to single, to quickly grab a single, this work more labor, the longer the work time, the more orders received, the better the income.
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Han Wei and Lin Hua, are not hungry full-time riders, they registered on the Hummingbird Crowdsourcing APP, signed a “Hummingbird Crowdsourcing User Agreement”, then become a crowdsourcing rider. This agreement contains a special note: “Hummingbird crowdsourcing only provides information aggregation services, you and Hummingbird crowdsourcing does not exist in any form of labor / employment relationship. “Sky-eye search shows that hungry CEO Wang Lei, is also the executive director and general manager of Hummingbird crowdsourcing.
Also because of this, hungry response to the sudden death of rider Han Wei is that the platform and Han Wei is not a labor relationship, for humanitarian reasons, to provide 2,000 yuan of assistance to the rider’s family, the rest is handled by the insurance company. The insurance paid by Han Wei on the Hummingbird crowdsourcing, the compensation for sudden death during work is 30,000.
Sun Ping, an assistant researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, observed that in the past few years, especially during the epidemic, jobs are hard to find and more and more people are choosing to go to crowdsourcing platforms for odd jobs. In addition to riders, this is also the case for online taxi drivers and anchors. These people have a relatively free work status and can start and end at any time, while Internet companies are able to transfer certain risks and costs by means of crowdsourcing platforms.
But Han Wei does not understand these, he and his wife Zhuang Hong said, crowdsourcing is more free, the threshold is also low, that is, of course, choose crowdsourcing, directly follow the old folks registered, basically do not look at the user agreement, “people write those rules and regulations, my husband he can not read, and do not know what is going on, we are Looking for work, anyway, can receive orders on the line, can earn money on the line, do not care so much. “
Lin Hua registered on the Hummingbird crowdsourcing is also the same, “a square, inside you have to hit the right number, can only agree, because do not agree can not run. “Lin Hua is not much educated, slow to read the word, those provisions are not good to understand, usually have any problems to complain with the platform, he found it laborious, because the complaint column to write no less than 60 words. “Forget it”.
But no matter what the identity, do not prevent Han Wei and Lin Hua to devote all their time to delivery, from eight in the morning to nine in the evening, to take an order, income of six or seven dollars, a day to run thirty to forty orders, income can be about 200 yuan.
Every day, Hummingbird crowdsourcing will deduct 3 yuan from the rider’s first single income, of which 1.06 yuan to the insurance company, used to buy insurance for the rider, the remaining 1.94 yuan, is the platform levy service fee.
You can do the math, hungry a day from an outsourced rider that charge 1.94 yuan of service fees, even if the rider only work 300 days a year, hungry will have 582 yuan of income. This cost compared to the rider died suddenly after the hungry hungry “humanitarian compensation of 2,000 yuan”, the public generated a great deal of anger. “A sentence outsourcing, the relationship is left clean. “
But even if it is not crowdsourcing riders, there is no direct labor-employment relationship between any of the special delivery riders and the take-out platform, and they are contracted by a variety of different third-party human resources companies. Beijing Ji Gong Internet technology small package Ji Gong’s COO Xu Tao believes that the nature of this third-party human resources companies, is to transfer and bear the risk, through layers of transfer, large companies looking for medium companies, medium companies looking for small companies, the risk has been transferred outward, until you can not find someone to be responsible.
Hungry and Meituan will hire a lot of these manpower companies, July 2020, the takeaway industry manpower middleman Funwood Technology Inc. even listed in the United States, hungry and Meituan is its big customers.
The other way is to set up a crowdsourcing platform, such as Hummingbird crowdsourcing, and crowdsourcing platform contract, meaning that “people and companies” model, into “people and platforms” model, with “information aggregation, service information matching, information aggregation services” package, the risk of transferring to individuals, but also make many processes more complex, so that some costs are not clear.
The outsourced rider does not have a labor agreement, and many special delivery riders do not sign a five-percent insurance policy, and even if they do, the take-out platform bears very little of the burden, and the rest is paid by themselves. Some riders don’t understand and are short-sighted, not willing to pay the five insurance and one gold, preferring to ask for more money, which is also used by the platform and outsourcing companies. Sun Ping understands this, “For people who can’t even make ends meet, the moment is the most important”. Some of the riders who had disputes with the platform would also tell her that after the incident they went to the company for theories and found that the address of the company they had signed an agreement with, “was a room in a small rundown building with two tables, a phone and no one “.
But in fact, now the platform, algorithm, third-party company control and very strong, riders when what should be done, dress, attitude, work hours, mandatory extra orders, control pervasive, beyond the ordinary labor relations in the past. Shen Weiwei, associate professor at the Law School of China University of Political Science and Law and director of the Center for Legal Research on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, is concerned that some courts have already captured these changes and will be more biased towards employers taking more responsibility in determining the threshold of employer responsibility in labor/labor relations, which is a trend.
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On Jan. 8, Hungry Hungry released a new statement acknowledging that the insurance structure for crowdsourced riders was unreasonable and inadequate, raising the coverage to $600,000. Han Wei’s 600,000 pension, will also be delivered to his family.
Seeing this statement, Zhuang Hong felt that he could finally catch his breath.
In November, Zhuang Hong’s father died of illness, Han Wei returned home to deal with the funeral, stayed at home for 10 days, and returned to Beijing to run take-away, only a month, died suddenly in the cold winter streets. This series of blows, so Zhuang Hong can not slow down: “every day is floating in the air like, can not find the ground. Dreams, in dreams, are afraid to accept this reality. “
Several years ago, the couple is still working in Taiyuan, a year of Women’s Day, Han Wei said to give Zhuang Hong a surprise, he secretly bought her a gold Buddha. That small gold Buddha, Zhuang Hong has not been wearing, she is doing domestic work in other people’s homes, wear also uncomfortable, gold Buddha has been placed in the old home, and then back home to wear twice, she felt Zheng heavy, wear off, take off the wear, trouble, simply finally do not wear, this gold Buddha, also became the last thought of Han Wei left her.
Zhuang Hong and Han Wei is a free love, a friend introduced, Han Wei left his first impression is quite good, warm, meticulous. The two have been married for 20 years, large and small things are his concern, to work where to rent a room, and landlord communication, pay the utility bills, online to stay in Shanxi to buy things for the children, are Han Wei to do.
In contrast, Zhuang Hong is dependent on him, he always said “not independent”, in Beijing, she still can not tell the southeast from the north, and can not use smart phones, can not pay by cell phone, but Han Wei will, every month after the payroll, Zhuang Hong will give the card to Han Wei, the money is given to him to manage.
For Han Fei, his brother is always the one at the top. 2017, he wanted to buy a house, and Han Wei mentioned a mouth, the next day, Han Wei sent 50,000 yuan. “This is all the money my brother and my sister-in-law earned from working at that time. “
Before the accident, Han Wei also discussed with Zhuang Hong, this year’s Spring Festival must return home, because the oldest son will soon take the college entrance exam, to go back to the child to make a gas. Now, Zhuang Hong feel regret, the two families in Beijing, and the time together with the family is too short, are busy, busy making money quickly, “to know this, we will not do this year, next year, can not lose their lives there. “
Han Wei has a fast hand number, the name is “yis joy”. The avatar is an old photo of him when he was young, wearing a straight white shirt, sitting on a windy motorcycle. But the last video he posted featured a motorcycle with a hungry blue box hanging from the tail, and takeaway bags on both handles.
This is the autumn of 2020 Beijing, the sun is good. Motorcycle is he changed in the winter of 2019, the original battery car, bought at a cost of six thousand, but in the winter is always out of power, delivery always overtime, Zhuang Hong said, her husband gritted his teeth and convinced himself that in order to run more orders and earn more money, the equipment should be better. Finally Han Wei bought a motorcycle, and spent another seven thousand, equivalent to his monthly salary, but the new car works a lot better.
There are sunshine, hungry blue delivery boxes, motorcycles in that video, Han Wei chose a song, the lyrics are sung: “I really am in Beijing, standing on the second ring street, the sky a piece of white clouds, blue that is Beijing ……”
(At the request of the interviewee, Han Wei, Zhuang Hong, Lin Hua and Han Fei are pseudonyms)
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