拼多多前员工抨击该公司工作制度
一位拼多多员工在匿名发布救护车照片后被解雇。他在一段视频中说,拼多多要求员工每月工作300小时以上,且缺乏员工关怀。

A social media post by a software engineer at Pinduoduo, who alleges he was fired after criticising its work practices, has added to a deepening public relations crisis at China’s fastest growing ecommerce company. 6park.com 一名拼多多(Pinduoduo)软件工程师称,他在批评公司劳动制度后被解雇。他在社交媒体上发布的一则帖子让这家中国增长最快的电子商务公司陷入了愈演愈烈的公关危机。 6park.comA former employee whose surname is Wang released a 15-minute video on Sunday night, in which he alleged Pinduoduo staff had to work from 300 to 380 hours a month. That would equate to a longer work week than the controversial “996” approach that is common across the Chinese technology sector, with workers expected to work from 9am to 9pm, six days a week. 6park.com一名王姓拼多多前雇员(网名“王太虚”——译者注)上周日夜晚发布了一条15分钟的视频,在视频中他声称,拼多多员工每月不得不工作300至380小时。这相当于每周工时比有争议的“996”工作制更长。“996”是指公司希望员工从早上9点工作到晚上9点,每周工作6天,这在中国科技企业中很普遍。

“In some teams . . . you’ll be talked to if you don’t work enough hours. (Pinduoduo’s) grocery team at headquarters is required to work at least 380 hours a month and if you work less than that you’ll be asked whether you have enough to do,” Mr Wang alleged in the video that quickly went viral on Chinese social media. 6park.com 王太虚在这条在中国社交媒体上迅速传播的视频中声称:“有些组……工时不够会被谈话。本部的买菜员工则会被要求每个月至少380个小时,如果缺少的话会被问是不是需求不饱和。” 6park.com“They lack the consideration for employees that other big tech companies have,” he added. 6park.com他补充说:“它缺少了几乎是所有互联网大厂都可能会存在的员工关怀。” 6park.comMr Wang alleged he was fired on Friday after anonymously posting a picture of an ambulance outside Pinduoduo’s headquarters the previous day and tagging it: “A second Pinduoduo martyr topples over.” 6park.com王太虚声称,他于上周五被解雇,此前他匿名发布了一张照片,照片上是前一天停在拼多多总部外的救护车,并配文:“第二位拼多多猛士倒下了。” 6park.comIn the video Mr Wang claimed he was called into a conference room by Pinduoduo managers and was asked to sign a voluntary resignation letter. 6park.com王太虚在视频中声称,他被几位主管叫进会议室,并被要求签一份自愿辞职信。 6park.com“I threw the paper back at them and said just fire me,” he said, adding a group of managers escorted him out of the building. 6park.com他说:“我把纸丢了回去,我说你们裁我吧。”他还表示,一群主管围着他,把他送出了大楼。 6park.comPinduoduo denied Mr Wang’s allegations. It said he had posted the ambulance picture and “improper speculation” but claimed he was fired because of other social media posts disparaging the company. Pinduoduo said the other allegations he made in the video were “not factual”. 6park.com拼多多否认了王太虚的说法。拼多多表示他发布了救护车照片和“不恰当猜测”,并声称他被解雇是因为他在社交媒体上发布了诋毁公司的其他帖子。拼多多表示,他在视频中的其他说法都是“不实”的。

Mr Wang’s firing was among the most talked about topics on Weibo, the Twitter-like social media platform, generating more than 2m likes. 6park.com 王太虚被解雇成为微博上最热门的话题之一,他发布的视频收到了逾200万个赞。 6park.comA Pinduoduo post defending its decision drew 240m views. “I’ve uninstalled you! I’ve gotten my mom to uninstall you!! I’ve gotten my sister to uninstall you!” said one popular reader comment. 6park.com拼多多一条为其所做决定辩护的微博获得了2.4亿的浏览量。一条热门评论说:“我卸载你!我让我妈卸载你!我让我姐卸载你!!!”

The Chinese tech sector’s exhausting work culture has come under fire in the past, with an “anti-996” campaign gaining support last year among workers and activists. 6park.com 中国科技企业高强度的工作文化过去就已经招致批评,去年一场“抵制996”的运动获得了工薪族和活动人士的支持。 6park.comThe death of a Pinduoduo employee who collapsed late at night on her way home from work reignited the debate last week. Xinhua, China’s official news agency, said the country needed to “energetically remove the distorted values behind” overwork in the tech sector, and local authorities in Shanghai said they were investigating conditions at Pinduoduo. 6park.com上周,一名拼多多员工在夜晚下班回家路上晕倒,不治身亡,这重新引发了议论。中国官方通讯社新华社表示,中国需要“坚决遏制(科技企业的)畸形加班现象”,上海当地政府部门表示,他们已在调查拼多多。

Separately, a Pinduoduo employee surnamed Tan committed suicide on Saturday by jumping from the 27th floor of an apartment building in his hometown of Changsha. Mr Tan had joined the company in July and Pinduoduo said he had requested leave the day before his suicide. 6park.com 在上周六的另一起事件中,一名谭姓拼多多员工从老家长沙的27楼公寓跳楼自杀。他于去年7月入职拼多多,拼多多表示他于自杀前一天请假。 6park.com“We feel profound sadness that we lost one of our employees to suicide,” the company said. 6park.com拼多多表示:“公司对其不幸离世表示深切哀悼。”
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