The Cinderella who came across is not a shoe, but a finger | The eighth round of the war on gender-based violence [International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 08]

It is said that Cinderella met her magical godmother before the ball. The godmother cast magic on her, who knew that the magic went wrong, and she accidentally traveled to contemporary China.

Maybe we have seen too many Chinese writers' fantasy love stories of urban Cinderella meeting a domineering president, and we would think that Cinderella who came from across will meet an entrepreneur or the son of an entrepreneur, and then go through a series of abuse. After a misunderstanding and a gorgeous ball, she became an entrepreneur's wife dressed in gold and silver. But the reality is always cruel, Cinderella crossed into an industrial area. To make a living, she worked in a hardware factory and became a stamping worker.

The days of working in a factory are no easier than doing chores at a stepmother's house. When rushing to production, you have to stand 14 hours a day. The punch press is like a thousand-ton monster, making a terrifying roar every time it smashes down. Grocery shop owners who bought drinks outside said the presses could be heard outside the factory. Industrial noise-cancelling earplugs have nothing to stop the monster's roar from irritating the eardrums. Every night, even though Cinderella had fallen asleep, the sound of a punching machine kept ringing in her ears.

Sometimes Cinderella hears about production accidents: the die inside the big press sometimes gets stuck, and the workers who need to operate the machine reach in to see what is going on. At this time, the pedal malfunctioned, and the entire beading ring would smash down, squashing the worker's head.

Like many co-workers, Cinderella was shocked by these tragedies, but also believed that the co-worker was careless and did not produce safely. She often felt like she wouldn't be involved in such a thing.

But reality once again crushed Cinderella cruelly. After working 14 hours of overtime every day for a week at a time, Cinderella was exhausted when she was about to leave. Her hands were still on the mold, but at the same time, her belly was bulging, her brain was swollen, and her eyes were blurred, so that Cinderella felt uncoordinated for a while and stepped on the pedals.

"Bang!" The punch just smashed down. Cinderella shrank back instinctively, but it was too late. Her fingers were just smashed.

The sore eyes made Cinderella scream. The workers around him stopped to help, but were yelled back by the monitor. The squad leader took her to the factory's medical room, and the factory doctor helped her disinfect her and said that she could go back to rest today.

But the next day she found her fingers were bleeding badly. At first, it was so hot that it was painful, and then it was so painful that I couldn't feel it. On the third day, a co-worker told her that the monitor called her to go to work. In front of the punch she found herself unable to move her fingers. She called the squad leader, and the squad leader felt something was wrong and took her to the hospital. She had already started to have a fever at this time, and fell into a drowsy sleep.

When she woke up, she held up her hand, which was covered in thick layers of gauze, and found that her fingers were gone.

The doctor apologetically told her that due to the lack of timely treatment and the serious injury, the doctor could only decide to amputate her rotten finger.

Cinderella couldn't believe her ears and eyes. But the fingers are really short! In this world, she has no relatives and no reason, no one can cry and rely on, and now even her fingers are broken, how will she continue to work and support herself in the future?

The story is not as imagined in fairy tales, that fate will send a loving prince to Cinderella, who has experienced great ordeals. Fate sent Cinderella their supervisor. The supervisor brought a thousand yuan for nutrition and told her that the factory had settled her medical expenses, so she could rest assured.

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This is the first and last time Cinderella sees the supervisor. It was not until she was discharged from the hospital and returned to her dormitory in the factory that she found that her luggage had been packed and sent to the guard for storage, until she found out that she had not signed a labor contract, and her work card was also collected by the monitor on the day when her finger was smashed. .

She tried to file a complaint with the labor department, hoping to get an explanation through the procedure. However, the uncle from the labor department told her with a cold face that she had no evidence to prove that she had worked in this factory. Cinderella asked two more questions anxiously, and the uncle said impatiently, "Why is this little girl so troublesome? It's not good to go home and marry and have a child at this age? You want to cause trouble here and cause us trouble!"

Then the uncle turned around and pretended to be busy with a lot of things, and ignored Cinderella again.

Yes, the prince did not appear, the magic godmother did not appear again, there was no help from relatives, and no fellow. What Cinderella faces is not the life-and-death love disaster imagined by urban novelists. What she faces is an ordinary Chinese working girl who has no way to defend her rights after suffering a work-related injury in a factory.

And this missing finger is often called "developing labor pains" by current affairs critics on TV.

Further reading:

Injury at work: 8 brothers and sisters who lost 'brothers'

Jiaojiao Tucao Meeting: Workers complain a lot, work-related injuries can't be afforded!

In the event of a work-related injury, who should I call for help? (with work-related injury organization record)

Sister Zheng uses 16 stories to teach you the fight against gender-based violence | "International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women"

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Author: Ms. Zheng. Like any eldest sister, there is a vicious life wisdom between her eyebrows. She is a feminist, she is a female worker who sells her labor for a living, she is the incarnation of a witch, and she is a scumbag's nightmare.