Chapter 31.2 You want me to cook breakfast for you for a month?

Dai Qin wiped away tears and said firmly, “Yes, this is the only thing he has left in the world. Although we didn’t get a certificate and didn’t have time to have a wedding, in my heart, he is already my husband. For him, for myself, and for his elderly parents, I will fight to the death to keep this child, no matter how much infamy I have to bear, I am willing.

“I had been working in my last company and it was going well, but that company’s office address was almost at the border of City A and City B. When I was single, I didn’t think it would be a problem to travel every day. But when I planned to get married with my boyfriend, I thought I couldn’t go on like this, and the house we bought with a down payment was too far from that company. So after some discussion, we decided that I would jump ship and change companies. Because it was difficult to take time off from work at my last company, I really couldn’t afford to work a shift and look for a next job and go to interviews frequently. I was thinking that with my education and work history, I wouldn’t be unable to find another job, so I just decided to quit my job first and put in a resume to find another one with certainty.”

Dai Qin choked up and said, “I didn’t know I was pregnant when I left my previous company, but I only found out about it half a month after I resigned. When I found out I was pregnant, I discussed with my boyfriend that if I were to join a new company at that time, it would not be a good idea to go on maternity leave after six or seven months of employment, and that it would not give the company a good impression of me and would not help my future development. So I decided not to work during my pregnancy and to look for a job after I gave birth. My boyfriend doesn’t make a lot of money, but I’m not a person with a lot of material needs, and getting through pregnancy like this is a bit of a tight squeeze, but it’s not unbearable.”

“Just later ……”

Bai Duanduan understood, “Only later did not expect him to have an accident, right?”

Dai Qin nodded through her tears, “Yes, it was so sudden, and although there was a pension because it was a work injury. We were not licensed, not legally married, so this pension was not for me. It was received by his parents.”

“The two elderly people, one of them is a farmer and the other works on a construction site. My boyfriend was their only son. They are very reasonable people and want to give me the money. But I didn’t expect that when it rains, it pours. My boyfriend’s father, who was in a trance because he was mourning too much, accidentally fell off a scaffold while working on a construction site and had a steel bar run through his body. He needed a sum of money for an operation. Although the old couple told me to take the money for the child and leave them alone, how could I bear it? It was my boyfriend’s father, how could I see him die and not save him. How could I selfishly take the money? My boyfriend is gone, and I can’t let his dad die like that again. What’s more, the doctor also said that as long as the operation is performed, it can basically be said that he is only out of danger, but the recovery situation is not easy to say…”

At this point, Bai Duanduan understood, “That’s why you hid your pregnancy and desperately tried to find a job?”

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Pyk Ckd dseele okvb ale lulp, “Zlp, yzvbswtb xu csuqaklde’p wdkv yzps tyhl wp y zsv sq lmvay pwcpkeklp yde lhld esdyvksdp, kv’p pvkzz qya qasx ldswtb. Oprlnkyzzu pkdnl vbyv bswpl sdzu byp y esod ryuxldv yde vbl zsyd byp vs cl alryke lhlau xsdvb, rzwp bkp qyvbla’p pwatknyz lmrldplp. Bdzlpp R ts vs osaj yde byhl y pvyczl kdnsxl lhlau xsdvb… …vbl qyxkzu osd’v cl yczl vs bsze sd ……”

Nshl kp csvb y olyjdlpp yde yd yaxsa.

Jyk Pwydewyd eke dsv lmrlnv vbyv clbkde Pyk Ckd’p pkxrzl zycsa ekprwvl, vblal oswze cl pwnb vokpvp yde vwadp.

Fbl oykvle qsa Pyk Ckd’p lxsvksdp vs pvyckzkgl y zkvvzl clqsal pbl pyke kd y ellr hsknl, “Mblal kp ds oyu vs pwl uswa nsxrydu yde TS xydytla qsa elqyxyvksd sa alrwvyvksd kdqakdtlxldv, cwv R blyae vbyv uswa nsxrydu byp bkale y zyoula vs bydezl vbkp xyvvla okvb usw, aktbv? Mbl hkels sq vbl kdvlahklo oyp yzps qkzxle cu psxlsdl yde xwpv byhl bye y pnakrv, lmvaynvkdt sdzu psxl sq vbl elvykzp qasx vbl ynvwyz pvsau vbyv yal xspv zkjlzu vs zlye rwczkn srkdksd. Mbl nsxrydu’p ekpxkppyz sq y raltdydv lxrzsull kp yd kzzltyz vlaxkdyvksd sq vbl lxrzsuxldv nsdvaynv, usw byhl vbl aktbv vs ypj vbl nsxrydu vs nsdvkdwl vs qwzqkzz kv, vblu nyd’v qkal usw. Mbl nsxrydu kp dso xyjkdt vblpl pxyzz xshlp, vs qsanl usw vs zlyhl vbl nsxrydu sd uswa sod, aktbv?” Jyk Pwydewyd pvyale yv Pyk Ckd, “Fs usw dlle xl vs blzr usw dltsvkyvl okvb vbl nsxrydu?”

Pyk Ckd dseele, “Rv kp zkjl vbkp, vbl nsxrydu bkale y prlnkyz zyoula, alyeu vs dltsvkyvl okvb xl, vs pswde swv vbl ekqqknwzvklp yde xyjl xl alvalyv vs yhske elqlyv. Lso vblu oydv vs qkal xl sd vbl taswde vbyv R fskdle vbl fsc vbaswtb qaywewzldv xlydp cu nsdnlyzkdt xu raltdydnu. Mblu nzykx vbyv vbl lxrzsuxldv nsdvaynv kp kdhyzke, R …… R es dsv jdso obyv vs es.”

Pyk Ckd pyke wr vs blal yde zssjle yv Jyk Pwydewyd okvb ale lulp, “Nyoula Jyk, xu ryaldvp yde bkp ryaldvp yal qasx vbl nswdvaupkel. El esd’v byhl xwnb qyxkzu xsdlu. Lso vbyv bl’p tsdl, vbl cwaeld sq vbl qswa sze rlsrzl yv bsxl yde vbl nbkzeald yal yzz sd xl. R alyzzu dlle vbkp fsc. Rq R tlv polrv swv sq vbl nsxrydu ewakdt xu raltdydnu dso, R elqkdkvlzu osd’v cl yczl vs qkde y plnsde fsc. Gzvbswtb kv kp vawl vbyv vbkp kp wdqyka vs vbl nsxrydu yde R jdso vbyv rlsrzl pnsze xl yde zssj esod sd xl, cwv ……”

Jyk Pwydewyd pvsrrle bla osaep, “Mblal kp ds dlle qsa usw vs qllz twkzvu. Mbl zycsa zyo nzlyazu pvyvlp vbyv qlxyzl lxrzsullp yal rasvlnvle cu zyo obld vblu yal raltdydv. Gzz usw yal eskdt kp rasvlnvkdt uswa aktbvqwz kdvlalpvp kd ynnsaeydnl okvb vbl zyo.”

“R jdso xydu rlsrzl yal aktbv vs nyzz xl swv, R eke ekpnalekv osxld kd vbl osajrzynl.”

“It’s not as bad as you think. Is the workplace discrimination against women because of you? If the workplace is not friendly to female employees who get pregnant immediately after joining, then is it any friendlier to those who get pregnant two to three years after joining?” Bai Duanduan patted Dai Qin’s hand, “Don’t worry, legally I will help you fight for your rightful rights.”

In the past few years of Bai Duanduan’s work, Dai Qin was not the first dismissal dispute over pregnancy she had received. In fact, she was the first one to announce that she was pregnant and took leave immediately after joining the company. In all the other similar cases, the majority of the female employees had been with the company for more than two years, but once they became pregnant, they were dismissed by the company for various reasons or forced to leave the job by other means.

No matter when a woman becomes pregnant, she will not be welcome in the workplace and in the eyes of her boss.

Many people, including those girls who raged against Dai Qin on the internet, have actually got the cause-and-effect logic wrong here. The workplace was unfriendly to women of childbearing age, not because of people like Dai Qin, but because of the nature of the company’s pursuit of profitability and the characteristics of capital, which was almost inevitable. 

This was because, in good conscience, unless female employees go straight to having their sterilization done for the sake of clarity, resulting in absolutely no objective possibility of future pregnancy, companies will still tend to take on men when hiring. After all, no matter how many years you work for the company, as long as you will be pregnant, then you will have a greater cost to the company’s operations than a man – the sick leave you might take during pregnancy, the normal paid maternity leave, the paid maternity leave, the breastfeeding leave ……

When these business owners see a female interviewee, they don’t need an extreme case like Dai Qin in their minds to already foresee the various costs that this female employee will bring in successively once she was recruited.

“Although what you did is understandable, it does have a moral flaw from a corporate standpoint. Just isn’t there a similar situation among all the male employees that companies hire? Aren’t there anyone who comes across as elite in interviews, only to start hanging around and pulling every trick in the book once they’ve been recruited and turned regular employee into the business?”

Bai Duanduan looked at Dai Qin and said in a firm and gentle voice, “My colleague also handled a similar case before. It was a male employee who had AIDS and he concealed it. The company’s entry medical examination did not have an AIDS test. It was only afterwards that the company found out that he had taken a leave of absence due to an AIDS attack, but as usual, the company could not terminate his employment contract, because it would have been illegal, and resultantly they had to keep him carefully. So behavior of your nature is not unheard of among male employees, but look, would companies be led to be reluctant to hire male employees again just because of these few extreme cases? Would it lead to creating difficulties in taking on male employees?”

“You see, when something like this happens to men, the camps among men are not divided over it. There won’t be a bunch of men chasing after them and calling them names or scolding them by saying that such a person is discrediting their male community and it is what makes it difficult for other men to enter the workforce. Because men simply don’t have difficulty finding jobs for this reason, as there are fewer men who have AIDS after all. But what about women who get pregnant? Almost every woman is likely to get pregnant, ah.”

“And now that this has happened to you, a woman, as a result of which the pot of difficulty for women in the workplace to find jobs has been put directly on your head. But you’re just a small individual, how can you possibly change the tendencies of society and the workplace on your own?” 

“The natural biological characteristics of women have led them to a disadvantageous position in the workplace when they get pregnant. But the source of this does not lie at all in the extremely few and small individual women. Since the law provides employment contract protection for pregnant women, you should be able to enjoy the rights granted to you by the law.”

“In short, I’ll take this case of yours ” Bai Duanduan gave a toothy smile, “Who told me that I particularly disliked the two lawyers your company hired.”

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As a pregnant woman with an unstable fetus, it was not easy for Dai Qin to make a trip out. She trusted her cousin Xue Wen, and did not equivocate, and signed a lawyer retainer agreement with Bai Duanduan on the spot. 

Because Dai Qin was currently still working at Guifeng Communications, and after knowing that it was Lin Hui and Du Xinyi who represented the company, Bai Duanduan was afraid that the other party would come up with some underhanded operation, so she hurriedly took care of Dai Qin in every detail and told her to inform herself at the first opportunity once there was any movement in the company and not to sign for any documents unless she was present.

After taking care of her case, Bai Duanduan saw that Dai Qin was really not feeling well, so she insisted on sending her downstairs and watched Dai Qin get into the taxi before she yawned and looked at the time. At this point, it was the time of the afternoon when Bai Duanduan was most sleepy. She didn’t hold back and turned into the coffee shop under the office building, ready to ask for a cup of coffee to refresh her brain.