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On the evening of the 20th, an article from the WeChat account of "Lejia Home 1" Changan Ford AE engineer died: he graduated from Jilin University for 8 years and jumped to death at the age of 30 with depression. What exactly did he go through in the company? The article quickly attracted attention, and the emergence of the incident is regrettable news for engineers in auto companies, auto parts companies and other industries who are fighting on the front line.

On December 1, 2019, a 30-year-old engineer of Changan Ford jumped out of an apartment building where the company was assigned to work and died. The author claimed to be the engineer's wife. According to his description, her husband was recruited from the university by Changan Ford in 2012. He worked as a manufacturing process engineer and an early engineer successively. He suffered from depression due to his long-term work under high pressure. After leaving last words in moments in the early morning of that day, he chose to die. Leave a short message: "Sorry, I have depression, there are too many work problems, sorry for everyone and the world."

The author mentioned the phone call with her husband the day before the incident. "he needs to send out a high-standard summary report and report it, which has made him so stressed that he has been losing sleep for two nights and feels like he is depressed again." He also mentioned to me many times that he felt that there were many problems at work, and all the members of the team worked overtime every day, but the problems could not be solved. In order to debug, conduct quality investigations, and write reports, site safety is also very important. For fear of safety accidents, robot collisions, and so on, what we fear most is the suspension of production, and the daily work is completed under high pressure. " To make matters worse, the author said that her husband had informed the supervisor of his illness that night and offered to resign, but when the supervisor knew about it, he did not take any protective measures, such as psychological counseling and care by co-living colleagues, but let him persuade him to carry on.

In addition to expressing dissatisfaction with Changan Ford's high-pressure and high-intensity work and ignoring employee health problems, the author is also chilling about the company's attitude in dealing with its afterlife.

Since the article was published, the number of readers has long exceeded 100, 000 +. It is seen that more than 24000 people have followed the article, including Zhihu, Weibo and other major platforms have spread and discussed the incident as a public event. On Zhihu platform, "what do you think of the death of Changan Ford AE engineer?" He was on the hot list and got 5.75 million degrees as of 20:00 on the 21st.

For this incident, many netizens who are concerned about this matter have too many questions and do not understand.

For example, the family described that the company temporarily announced the cancellation of overtime pay in June 19, and the employees had accumulated tens of thousands of overtime pay and said it was gone; the family member described that after the first rush from Chongqing to Hangzhou, they put forward a request to transport the body back to Chongqing, which was finally realized after 10 hours of difficult negotiation with Hangzhou company. The family described the responses in which they were told that "depression is born", "it is normal for young people to work overtime and everyone can bear it", and "the fact that the supervisor knows the illness does not mean that the company knows about it".

In response to this matter, Changan Ford finally spoke up on the afternoon of the 21st, and the official Weibo account released a statement.

Changan Ford said that after learning about the incident, the family members of the staff were immediately arranged to rush from Chongqing to the site of the incident to jointly deal with the aftermath, and respect the wishes of the family members, and assist the family members to deal with the return of the remains to Chongqing.

Changan Ford admitted the problem of failing to understand employees' mental illness and counseling in time, and also admitted that there were "contradictions" in consultation with family members. The company said it was very sorry that it had been communicating with the employees' families over the past 20 days, but could not reach a full mutual understanding and agreement.

Changan Ford said that it is willing to provide employees' families with as much support and help as possible on the basis of law, and hopes to maintain a smooth and reasonable agreement negotiation with their families.

The unfortunate death of an engineer has made people in the industry and netizens who share their feelings speak out one after another.

"what is more terrible than depression is the apathy of the people." Netizens said.

"long-term intense overtime and high pressure have made young people who love life and look forward to the future become severely depressed and eventually come to a dead end after eight years of work, and Chang Anford's attitude towards this is chilling. Changan Ford is not the only enterprise with such an attitude. More deeds are often buried. Again, no matter what you do, good health is the most important, and work is for a better life. "

"at present, the current situation of major domestic car companies, in order to seize the market in the cold winter, forcibly shorten the project cycle to make up for unlimited overtime, and then there is no overtime work, it is said that overtime is paid for the exchange of rest, but there is no opportunity to adjust rest at all. It will not let you take time off, that is to say, it is about equal to free overtime. This is the current situation of the major domestic car companies, and everyone in the industry knows it."

Obviously, "high-pressure work", "long-term overtime" and "depression" have once again become hot topics.

Coming back to the current situation of the automobile industry, according to the statistics of the China Automobile Association, car sales in China have declined for 16 consecutive months, with production and sales of 23.038 million and 23.11 million vehicles respectively from January to November this year, down 9 per cent and 9.1 per cent respectively from a year earlier. Although the double-digit decline has fallen to single digits, the industry environment is still not optimistic. Car companies like Changan Ford, which lost power in the cold winter, are facing greater pressure of survival and market competition, so Changan Ford has an acceleration plan to launch at least 18 new models in the next three years. The pace of product launch is accelerated, perhaps for the pre-preparation of project research and development, engineering personnel, increased task and pressure is inevitable.

The young engineer finally chose to leave, a most regrettable news. As the author finally said, "I don't know what my article will change. I just hope that friends who read the article can attach importance to their physical and mental health." It is hoped that the enterprises that read the article can establish a coping mechanism for employees suffering from depression. "

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