Chapter 51.1 Will Bai Duanduan come to feel sorry for him?

After spending the weekend with Ms Meng Xin, Bai Duanduan went back to her busy work schedule. Mondays were supposed to be Bai DuanDuan’s worst day because of the backlog of work over the weekend and the fact that Monday signaled the start of a boring week with no change.

Unexpectedly, however, Monday on this day was different.

As soon as Bai Duanduan entered the office, she saw several female colleagues in the large office area gathered together to discuss something.

Wang Fangfang’s expression was quite exciting, “This public article is written too well. Really, although I am not married and have no children, I can fully appreciate the helplessness and pain of married and childbearing women when they are marginalized in the workplace. Especially this author’s previous experience, if I were to replace her, really …… too heartbreaking. I’m not sure what I’d have done.”

Cai Xiao also looked like she agreed, “Then I know it better than you, childbirth is really hard on working women. I had my baby two years ago and my mother helped me with it. My husband was very considerate and hired a live-in aunt, but there were many things that could not be done by other people, such as breastfeeding, which could only be done by me as a mother. I’ve been breastfeeding for a year and a half, and during that year and a half I’ve been unable to take on cases that required me to travel. I’ve been breastfeeding, and my baby is very clingy to me, and I have to sleep with him at night, so you see, I’ve been unable to work overtime for two years, so my revenue generation has been completely down for the past two years. Luckily Partner Ji never said anything to me. I have a friend who was in the same situation as me and ended up being forced by her own boss to the point where she had to leave the job on her own …… hey ……”

“This article is really satisfying!”

……. ;

The female colleagues had the same face and were discussing fervently. Bai Duanduan came over curiously, “What’s happening?”

“Just in time for Duanduan to arrive! You know what? That case that you and Partner Ji represented earlier where Guifeng Communications dismissed a pregnant employee, there’s actually a second season!”

Bai Duanduan cringed, bewildered, “What?”

Wang Fangfang said enthusiastically, “Look, the famous mother and baby vlogger Qitian Dasheng posted an article this morning about this very thing, completely siding with your client Dai Qin! Now the public opinion on Weibo has completely reversed! Many of the netizens who cursed your client at first have come out to apologize, and many others are speaking up for Dai Qin!”

Bai Duanduan took out her phone to take a look and finally understood the ins and outs of the matter.

The blogger Qitian Dasheng, was a well-known mother and baby traffic vlogger with over 3 million followers on Weibo and 100,000 tweets on her WeChat public website. She herself was an ordinary working mother who has been doing everything for her child since she became a mother and loves to share her own recipes for complementary food, early childhood games she invented and her real-life experience of using some baby products, were all shared on the internet. Because her writing was unadulterated, objective, fair and real, and very practical, she soon gained a certain popularity in the circle of baby mothers, and with a certain influence, she didn’t stop there, but picked up where she left off. In addition to pushing the dry goods of baby care knowledge every day, she also started to systematically do reviews of some baby products on the market.

When Bai Duanduan clicked on the blogger’s popular tweets, she realized that they looked very familiar. In particular, there were several comparative reviews of all the imported and domestic purees on the market, a guide to choosing a crawling mat, as well as an introduction to the value for money and popular recommendations for nappies and several well-known baby toy brands, which have indeed been shared by many friends with children in her WeChat circle of friends.

In addition, this blogger diligently does various small checks every day, such as whether it was necessary to give up pacifiers, how to buy imported milk powder from overseas, and brand recommendations for children’s shoes and clothing…In short, the blogs are fragmented, but very practical and all-inclusive, with a lot of information, and they were written in a concise and clear manner. Bai Duanduan almost scanned the blogger’s Weibo account and knew why this blogger had become so popular.

It’s just that this blogger, who usually only shares mother and baby products and baby-raising experience, suddenly commented and took sides with Dai Qin? In her usual micro-blogs, she clearly never comments on current affairs and social hotspots.

With curiosity, Bai Duanduan clicked on the article that Wang Fangfang and the girls called a big piece of heart, which had an eye-catching title – “I killed my child with my own hands”, and a long subtitle – “The woman who hid her pregnancy and took sick leave immediately after her transfer was scolded all over the internet. What about the woman who became pregnant after working dedicatedly in the industry for many years?”

The title was a little unclear to Bai Duanduan, but the subtitle was well understood. Bai Duanduan thought that this blogger was trying to cut through the fact that the workplace was not easy for all women, whether they were new to the profession or have been there for years, as long as they are pregnant. However, when she actually clicked on the article, she realised otherwise.

This article turned out to be Qitian Dasheng’s personal experience.

And the opening of the article dropped a bomb like a thunderbolt –

“On the internet, I am a mother and baby vlogger with over three million followers, but in reality, I am just an ordinary woman struggling between workplace and family from 9 to 5 – an employee of Guifeng Communications, who has been working in the company for a cumulative six years, a colleague of that crusading woman, Dai Qin.”

“I joined Guifeng Communications right out of my undergraduate degree and after three years of working, I started a family. The second month after the wedding, I found out I was pregnant! The little one came unexpectedly and it’s been two months. In between I’ve been traveling, working overtime and having irregular work and rest, yet surprisingly the fetus was all growing strong, which would have been good news, yet I was not happy at all. Because of the high proportion of female employees at Guifeng Communications, and the company’s efforts to prevent a shortage of staff in the event of a bunch of female employees getting pregnant, it has developed a pregnancy scheduling system that arranges the order of their respective pregnancies according to their length of service in the company, age, length of marriage, etc.”

“And according to this table, I have to wait until the third quarter of next year before I can get pregnant.”

“There is no explicit rule in the company that this order of pregnancy must be compulsorily followed, but once you don’t, everyone knows that the rest of your female colleagues who are also waiting for their turn to get pregnant will ostracize and isolate you. The HR department will give you the blank stare and talk to you as if your future in the company is kind of over – for disobeying this collective will, the leaders will never consider giving you a promotion in the future.”

“So I got scared.”

“I chose, of my own accord, to kill my own child.”

“So to this day, I don’t even know the gender of this child, whether I should use ‘she’ or ‘he’. Because of the child’s cowardly and incompetent mother, the child’s bravery was worthless. Child’s growth was obliterated and the child simply didn’t get to see the world before it became a dead blood clot.”

………

“Then, finally, according to the schedule, it was my turn to get pregnant, and I managed to get pregnant and give birth to my daughter. I started sharing some mother and baby information to everyone every day, and eventually becoming what is now called a vlogger. I was happy with my life, and I was able to work well, and nothing seemed bad. It’s just that I’ve never reconciled with myself inside. I tried not to think about the child I killed in the past, until Dai Qin came along.”

It can be seen that this long-term operating public account has made Qitian Dasheng’s narrative very able to capture the hearts of readers. The narrative was straight to the point and the words were sharp and fierce, making people want to keep reading.

As an employee of Guifeng Communications and in the same department as Dai Qin, she describes in great detail the whole story of Dai Qin, including the plight of women who are unable to work once they become pregnant, the difficulties that the HR manager made for Dai Qin, the ostracism among her colleagues, and the reasons why Dai Qin was desperately trying to keep the baby, as well as Dai Qin’s own initial intentions, her initial efforts to work overtime to make up for it, and her subsequent unbearable health problems.

The operations of Guifeng Communication’s lawyers, the final outcome of the legal negotiations, and the various disgusting operations such as the transfer of Dai Qin out of Guifeng Communications even after the dismissal of Dai Qin was not possible according to the law …….everything in detail.

Qitian Dasheng’s writing style was not gorgeous, but it was concise and simple. In just a few strokes, the pressure and work atmosphere of pregnant women suffocating in the workplace was fully revealed.

Bai Duanduan, an unmarried and childless woman, feels nothing but sorrow and anger and helplessness when reading it.