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Suicide of an engineerPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, February 26, 2008 6:30 PM
There is a post currently doing the rounds of the Chinese forum websites; it's a series of photos of a dead body lying on the pavement beneath a high rise building. It is accompanied by some text, translated below:
Sina has also picked up the story, and linked it to a 2007 story about another Huawei employee who committed suicide. The post about the affair linked above seems to be the original report, and at the time of posting (6:30pm) is still being updated by the author with information gleaned from the dead man's colleagues. Huawei, China's most prominent network and telecom technology company, is on the radar of most of the country's geeks, so it is not surprising that this suicide story has already been copied on to hundreds of forum websites, especially since Huawei has in the past been in the news for employee suicides. From Answers.com: Huawei has been criticized by some Chinese media and people for its highly competitive work environment. There have been several employee suicide incidents at Huawei since 2000. The most recent one was on July 18th 2007: 26 year old Zhang Rui, graduate of Wuhan University hung himself after worked at Huawei for 60 days. Before the suicide, Zhang Rui had complained to his father few times about the stressed life in Huawei. However, Huawei claimed that Zhang Rui's work pressure should not have been so detrimental to his health, because he was still under probation when he died and was not allowed to undertake a project independently. Huawei offered also his family 10,000 RMB, even though his death was not covered by the company's workers compensation policy. Another Huawei employee, Hu Xinyu, died in May 2005 from encephalitis. It is unclear whether the death was caused by the excessive overtime shifts at Huawei. |
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Comments on Suicide of an engineer
dude,my elder brother works in Huawei, hope everything goes well with him~
bless
certainly their policy is more money= more work.
god,one of my fris will work there two months later,hope he can be fine.^^
I have to say the 37th is not true at all. It came from a blogger's post. He mentioned an engineer died last year, saying he was the 36th dead in Huawei. Then cnbeta posted it as a news, which wasn't proved by any other resource. link
On the other hand, from the the guy's blog, we can tell Yu was not a huawei engineer. He was someone work with huawei tech. ltd co. from other company.
Oh no, according to the article, this kid is my alumnus from the University of Electrical Science & Technology, Chengdu. We even studied the same major...
During my four years there, at least one case of suicide in the university was blamed on stressful school environment.
The society is becoming more and more aggressive, with the lack of available psychiatric help, it's not surprising to see the rise of suicidal mentality.
RIP kid, hope you're more relaxed up there.
WHERE? In HEAVEN?
Anyway, people going to college committing suicides, nothing new. People committing suicide due to work, nothing new there.
Some people just can't take the pressure. Shrugs. Welcome to 21st century. Hell, maybe I should exit stage right too, eh? Please.
And I'm really sorry if I offend you. Hey, at least he's out of da game now...
Hi
I worked in Huawei for 5 years, it was long enough to make a decision to save my life and my morals and leave Huawei.
Huawei is a devils den.
Thanks,
Abhay