He got through these days slowly by himself. Since he had no place to live, he could only live under an overpass, at a subway entrance or in a park. The man's name is Chen Jian. He came to Shanghai to work in February this year and worked in a local electronics factory for a period of time. After the construction period ended at the end of March, he was tested positive while doing nucleic acid tests in the dormitory and was later taken to a makeshift hospital for treatment. . Now Chen Jian has been discharged from the hospital, but because he had contracted the new coronavirus, no matter how he looked for a job in the job search group, no one was willing to hire him. Some companies will even check other people’s nucleic acid records in the past two months and refuse to recruit if a positive record is found.
On July 11, reporters reported an article titled: I am in the Hongqiao bathroom in Shanghai and don’t know where to go. The protagonist of the article is named A Fang. This girl was also infected with the virus. After COVID-19, I couldn’t find a job in Shanghai. Since I was stranded for too long and I didn’t have much savings, I ended up living in the bathroom of Shanghai Railway Station. After the news received attention, the head of Shanghai's epidemic prevention and control department soon stated that employers must not discriminate against people who are positive for COVID-19 when recruiting companies.
On July 12, Chen Jian went to look for a job again and found that the employer's attitude had obviously improved and no longer asked the interviewer whether he had been to a makeshift hospital. Since July, the highest temperature in Shanghai has reached 41°C. Faced with such a harsh environment, Chen Jian has never complained. At 9 pm on July 12, Chen Jian took a mat to a garden and prepared to sleep as usual. This was Chen Jian's 42nd day wandering since Shanghai lifted the epidemic prevention and control measures.
He also wanted to leave Shanghai. At that time, he had asked his fellow villagers to buy train tickets. However, when he arrived at Hongqiao Railway Station, Chen Jian regretted it. He was unwilling to go back like this, so he refunded the ticket that day. With the more than 200 yuan he had just refunded, he began to prepare to find a job in Shanghai again. He was originally full of passion, but he didn't know that some companies would discriminate against the new coronavirus. job seekers.