Beating Workers to Change Their Lives: Starting with Tampering with the Rules

Delivery boy Fang Cheng stood in the heavy rain when a notification popped up on his phone: Platform rules: If the timeout exceeds 15 minutes, the rider will bear all meal expenses and all income for the day will be deducted. He glanced at the countdown: 30 seconds left. The road is blocked. At the moment when the countdown reached zero - he saw a translucent stone tablet standing on the side of the road. The golden words on the tablet were exactly that damn rule. And his fingers could actually touch those words. Fang Cheng didn't hesitate. Wipe. Write. The platform rules have been rewritten: any objective factors that cause riders to time out will be fully borne by the platform management. Every time a rider overtimes, ten times the rider's daily salary will be automatically deducted from the platform CEO's personal account as compensation, which will be credited immediately. In the heavy rain, Fang Cheng's cell phone dinged—— Arrival: 5,600 yuan. Three seconds later, the second, third, fourth... All the riders in the city who had overtime due to heavy rain, their cell phones rang at the same time. At the platform headquarters dozens of kilometers away, the CEO watched his account balance plummet at a rate of millions per second, and he slumped in his chair. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.