Chapter 453: Is Tenda Crazy?

Speaking as she went, Yan Yumei looked at Wang Daoren before her with slight nervousness, simply because she felt her status was a bit awkward.

She was a cleaner at Tenda, forty years old this year.

Tenda did not have any labor dispatch or outsourcing situations; whether it was cleaners or security guards, everyone signed a Labor Contract with the Company.

Yan Yumei had come to Tenda last year; she was originally a salesperson at a supermarket, but ended up resigning because of some matters.

Her education was not high, and she could not find any suitable work, so when she saw Tenda hiring cleaners, she came; she had originally thought of it as a stopgap, and then she discovered... staying at Tenda was too comfortable.

The cleaners had all the benefits that others had, it was not tiring, they got off work right on time, the wages were decent, and the Company paid all insurance according to the law.

After working for half a year, Yan Yumei just laid flat; why bother job-hopping and getting worked to death in a 996?

Previously, the Company had established a Legal Aid Fund; Yan Yumei had originally felt that she was not very suitable, and although they all signed contracts, she always felt... no one would stand up for a cleaner.

But now, she had truly encountered trouble, and it was the kind of trouble that she could not resolve on her own, so she could only seek help from the Company.

Upon hearing this, Wang Daoren smiled and said, "Sister Yan, no need to be too nervous, relax a bit; we are all working people, there is no need to be nervous."

A sheepish smile appeared on Yan Yumei's face as she said, "No, Lawyer Wang, I, after all, I am just someone who cleans, it is different from those who work in offices..."

"How is it different? When they sign a contract with the Company, they are Laborers, and when you sign a contract with the Company, you are a Laborer; there is no difference."

"You, don't be anxious yet, tell me the matter in detail!"

Although we say all day long that labor is the most glorious, and say how much we respect the elderly sanitation workers, if we were to ask many people to truly make a living by sweeping the floor, let's see how many would be willing?

People standing in high places will pity the weak, but few people are willing to be this weak person...

Therefore, Yan Yumei herself carried a sense of inferiority, and what Wang Daoren had to do was help them rebuild their self-confidence.

This was what Zhou Yi required; he did not have the ability to manage other things, but he could let Tenda become a small oasis.

Under Wang Daoren's constant reassurance, Yan Yumei's nervousness finally relaxed a bit, and she began to recount her situation.

"That was about a month ago, my daughter suddenly said to me, 'Mom, I don't want to go to school anymore.'"

"I was actually very angry at the time, because her father and I suffered for not having an education, and now we can only do this manual labor, so I wanted her to study hard and have a good future."

Very familiar rhetoric, isn't it? Many parents are like this.

They open their mouths and say, "I didn't study hard back in my day," so they make you have to get grades.

If you don't have grades, it means you didn't study hard...

Wang Daoren did not speak out of turn; he was responsible for solving problems, not for stirring them up.

Yan Yumei continued, "I asked her why, but she wouldn't say, she just wouldn't go to school; it wasn't until I checked that I discovered there was a slap mark on her face..."

A very cliché situation; her daughter is fifteen years old this year, currently in middle school, and has a condition, a stutter—what we call, stammering.

Many people know that when we were in school, a portion of people were the easiest to be bullied: those who had certain defects and were relatively timid.

Her daughter's classmates originally just mimicked her speech to mock her, and later it slowly evolved into all kinds of bullying.

You must know, it is not only pure violence that counts as school bullying; it may involve multiple aspects.

Direct physical action, verbal abuse and mockery, as well as isolation, and so on.

People are all the same, giving an inch and taking a mile; if you don't dare to resist, they will bully you even worse step by step.

"Those classmates of my daughter, they slap her, curse at her, make my daughter bark like a dog; I really don't know what kind of hatred they have..."

When Yan Yumei reached the emotional part, she could not help but shed tears.

She did not understand why those children could be so heartless; her daughter usually didn't even dare to say a word, why would they bully her?

Whose child is not a treasure to their parents?

At the very beginning, one doesn't know; when school bullying first happens, many children will not tell their parents.

Perhaps it is the whole atmosphere, perhaps it is some other reason; maybe "calling an adult" makes them feel they will be even more isolated.

The consequence is that the bullying gets more and more serious, until the parents discover it.

But school bullying is so serious now, that is because parents discover that sometimes there is no way to solve the problem!

How to solve it? Find the teacher, find the school; some schools and teachers are responsible, and perhaps it can be solved.

But some just have no way to solve it, and can only try to smooth things over there.

It's only three years of middle school and three years of high school; just drag it out and it will be fine.

Or they advise you to transfer schools, because... there are so many people in this class, why do others only bully your child and not others?

Right, why indeed? The parents express that they would also very much like to know.

Hearing this, Wang Daoren asked, "Then Sister Yan, have you gone to the school to find the child's teacher?"

"I have, my daughter's head teacher called the parent of the student who slapped my daughter, and that person just said in the office that they couldn't control it."

"And they said, 'Who knows if it was my child who hit her? Maybe your child bumped into something herself,' and also said that children nowadays are very good at lying..."

"There is clearly Monitoring, Lawyer Wang, you can clearly see their child hit my daughter, but they just refuse to admit it."

"Then, the head teacher told me that he had no way either."

Understood; Wang Daoren exchanged a look with Zhang Wei beside him—a very typical case of school bullying; perhaps the main person doing the bullying was one student, or two students.

But under their leadership, many people adopted an attitude of isolation.

With both body and mind under attack, Yan Yumei's daughter naturally did not want to go to school.

"Later, I tried to persuade her in every way, and finally got my daughter to continue going to school, but today, I discovered bruises on my daughter's arm again."

"She said it was still caused by that student, so I really have no other way, Lawyer Wang; if I had even a shred of a way, I wouldn't have come to find you for help."

"So, do you have any good methods here?"

Yan Yumei looked at Wang Daoren before her with hope in her eyes.

After thinking for a moment, Wang Daoren said, "There are some methods, but I still need to understand the situation."

"How about this, Sister Yan, what school is your daughter at? Let's go together this afternoon to find out."

Of course there are many methods, but he is a Lawyer.

In school bullying incidents, whether it is the child or the parent, their description of the matter is mixed with personal emotions.

Therefore, he had to understand the situation; this was also a lesson learned from previous experience...

Damn it, if only those parties involved were a bit more sincere, why would he have to study three times over...

One can only say that life is unpredictable.

Having obtained Wang Daoren's promise, Yan Yumei thanked him repeatedly, because for matters like this, she truly did not know what to do.

She had sought out the school and the teachers, searching everywhere, but the problem remained unsolved; in fact, this is how things are now, because the school and the teachers dare not intervene.

It is not like when we were children; these days, let alone hitting someone, even if you speak a little too harshly, you might end up receiving a complaint...

We are just using this as an example; there are good teachers and bad teachers, so one should not paint everyone with the same brush...

Many parents' exact words are: "This is my child; if he does something wrong, you can educate him, but if you lay a hand on him, you are crossing my bottom line."

But what if they cannot be educated?

What if they are told time and time again but refuse to change?

Answer: "That is your problem as teachers. I sent my child to school for you to educate. If you cannot teach them well, that means you are incompetent..."

Yan Yumei left, and Wang Daoren said, "Next!"

After finishing all the consultations he was responsible for in the morning, Wang Daoren and Yan Yumei went directly to the school in the afternoon.

Lao Zhou did not need to ask for leave, as he was still working, but Yan Yumei needed to, though the Company had always been very supportive of such matters.

According to He Ling, everyone has children, and no one wants their own child to be bullied.

Wang Daoren drove Yan Yumei to the school gate; it was a very ordinary middle school named Heping Road Middle School.

At the gate, Wang Daoren also met Yan Yumei's husband, a man who looked honest and simple. Upon seeing Wang Daoren, he acted very enthusiastically; not only did he offer a cigarette, but he also pulled out a red envelope and tried to stuff it into Wang Daoren's arms...

This scared Lao Zhou into waving his hands repeatedly; if the Company found out that they, as legal staff, were accepting red envelopes from Employees during work, the situation would be very serious.

"Mr. Liu, there is no need for this, really no need. I am working for the Company, and the Company has already paid me for this part, so you don't need to do this, really, you don't."

It took a lot of persuasion to get the other party to stop.

Once everyone was gathered, they went into the school to find the homeroom teacher. The security guard at the gate clarified the situation and registered them, but would not let them in, saying they had to make a phone call to confirm.

Yan Yumei had no choice but to dial the phone number of her daughter's homeroom teacher.

"Hello, Teacher Ma, this is Xiaoyu's mother, Yan Yumei. We are at the school gate, but the security guard says he needs to confirm; could you please..."

Wang Daoren stood to the side without speaking; the issue of children's education nowadays is truly a headache.

And it is completely different from the situation when he was a child.

For example, with his own child, the teacher created a class group, and everything is notified in the group, including assigning homework and having parents grade the homework themselves, etc.

And there is the even more headache-inducing Parent Committee...

Sometimes, just thinking about it feels like a total mess; let alone others, even a Lawyer like him does not know what to do.

Inside Heping Road Middle School, the homeroom teacher Ma Ling, who was in the office, listened to the voice on the phone, her face already showing a bit of helplessness.

"Ms. Yan, regarding the issue of your child being bullied, I have already said it many times; truly, the school has no good solution for this right now."

"I can understand how you feel, and I have talked to you about this before; this is the honest truth, there really is no good solution."

"Even if you see me now, it won't be of any use, right?"

Ma Ling was just a very ordinary teacher; teaching is just a profession. Of course, out of a normal person's conscience, she did indeed put effort into her teaching.

But to say she could completely solve such a daily bullying situation, that was certainly something she could not do.

What can the school do? Criticize, punish—when people are not afraid of these things, you have no way to deal with them either; middle school is, after all, the stage of Compulsory Education.

Moreover, there was one thing Ma Ling did not say: Yan Yumei's family were not locals of Jingzhou; they came from a small county under Jingzhou.

She herself did not have any prejudice, but many Jingzhou locals naturally looked down on these outsiders.

There are really many places that look down on outsiders, not just the Imperial Capital and Modu; it is just that these two places are very representative.

Furthermore, Yan Yumei herself was just a cleaner, and her husband worked on construction sites.

Therefore, Ma Ling knew in her heart that such a family could not afford to make a fuss.

However, Yan Yumei's voice came through the phone: "Teacher Ma, I am not saying I want anything from you; I have already hired a Lawyer to help."

"I just wanted to see you, and if possible, see the other party's parents and child; there has to be an explanation for this matter, right?"

What? The water Ma Ling had just swallowed almost sprayed out. Hired a Lawyer? Just your family?

It was not that she looked down on people or anything; bullying situations on campus happened from time to time, and she had seen many in her years as a teacher.

But unless it was truly too serious, such as sending a child directly to the hospital, there would really be no such behavior as hiring a Lawyer.

Or rather, our society itself has not really accepted the act of "hiring a Lawyer," and the cost is the biggest reason.

Even less would anyone think about going to Court; for a small matter involving children, it is not worth it, really not worth it.

More importantly, which Lawyer have you ever seen come running to a school like this? How much money did this family give the other party?

However, Ma Ling quickly recovered from her shock, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Ms. Yan, look, we can consider ourselves acquaintances."

"So I want to tell you that the act of hiring a Lawyer is really unnecessary; it is a waste of money, and it is really not worth doing this..."

Don't look at how happily a certain handsome guy goes to Court, as if the Court were opened by his family, but in the eyes of many people, going to Court is still the last resort.

Or rather, it is a method of last resort; as long as there is any other way, no one would want to go to Court.

"No, I didn't spend any money. This is legal aid provided by our Company, and that Lawyer is our Company's legal staff," Yan Yumei said, her tone very calm, yet carrying a sense of inexplicable pride.

At this moment, the two characters for 'Tengda' could be said to be carved into her heart; this is what is called a sense of identification.

Huh? This time it was Ma Ling's turn to be completely dumbfounded.

Aren't you a cleaning lady?

Ma Ling naturally knew that the other party worked at Tengda; by now, she basically knew what the parents of every child in the class did.

But, has Tengda reached this point now?

Can their legal aid be provided even to these outsourced cleaners?

Filled with confusion and shock, Ma Ling subconsciously agreed, but after hanging up the phone, she still had an expression of disbelief.

Tenda, what kind of Company is this, anyway!

While heading downstairs to the entrance, Ma Ling dialed the phone number of another parent.

"Hello, is this Fang Zixuan's father? Uh, I'm Ma Ling. I just... I just need to tell you that Liu Yaoyao's parents have come again today, and then..."

Before she could finish her sentence, a shout came from the phone.

"They went to the school again? Does this family have a damn problem? They say it's bullying, so it's bullying? And they want me to keep my child in check? I can't control him!"

"It's just kids messing around a bit, and they're making such a big deal out of it, calling it school bullying. There are so many people in the class, why don't I see my kid bullying anyone else? It's clearly their kid who has the problem!"

The other party's voice was too loud, so Ma Ling had to wait for him to finish shouting before saying, "Mr. Fang, I am calling to inform you that the other party has already brought a Lawyer to the school."

"A Lawyer? Is this family crazy for money?"

Ma Ling tried to persuade him a bit more, and the person on the other end finally said, "Alright then, I'll be there in a moment. I want to see what else her family has to say!"

After all, one cannot disregard the teacher's face.

Shaking her head, Ma Ling first reported the situation, and the school leadership told her to handle it as she saw fit; whether the parents wanted to file a lawsuit or do anything else, the school would not intervene.

Walking all the way to the school entrance, she first brought the people into the school, and then Ma Ling informed Yan Yumei of the situation.

"So, why don't you sit in the office for a while? Waiting for the other parent to arrive shouldn't take long."

She paused, then looked at Wang Daoren and said, "Lawyer Wang, after all, this is a matter between children. Personally, I think we should focus on resolving the problem."

As a teacher who spends a lot of time online, Ma Ling knew a little bit about Tenda; their legal department had just sent someone to prison...

Wang Daoren nodded naturally and said, "Of course, we will certainly focus on resolving the problem."

Of course, there was one thing he didn't say: if they don't cooperate in resolving the problem, then I will certainly find a way to make them cooperate!

After waiting in the office for a while, the parent of the student who mainly bullied Yan Yumei's daughter arrived.

Just looking at his appearance, he didn't seem like an unreasonable person; he wore glasses and seemed quite refined, but as soon as he opened his mouth, everything was exposed.

"What's this, you even hired a Lawyer? Come, come, come, I want to hear what you intend to say!" Fang Haodong said, looking very displeased.

After all, parents are put on the job without any training, so the difference in quality between parents is truly vast.

Some parents, when they encounter such a situation, don't even need to be told; they have already disciplined their children well.

Children can be mischievous, but mischief and being "bad" are two different things.

Many things that children do make adults feel a palpitation of the heart.

Yan Yumei was immediately ready to start an argument; her husband was usually a silent person, the type who couldn't even let out a fart if you hit him with a stick.

So she had to rely on herself.

Of course, Yan Yumei didn't know that the moment they met, Wang Daoren had already realized that her husband was an Old Honest Man.

And he was the kind of very silent Old Honest Man; this type of person won't argue much logic with you, they will only bottle everything up inside.

And then, when they can't hold it in anymore one day, they will let it all out at once, shocking society and triggering all sorts of discussions...

Still the same saying: before things blow up, there is always someone who acts with impunity.

So at this moment, Wang Daoren stepped forward directly: "It's not about what we intend to say, but what you intend to do."

"I recall that we have video Monitoring from before; your son did indeed slap Ms. Yan's daughter, and now a similar situation has occurred again."

"I am telling you now that your son's behavior already constitutes a Tort, and my side has the right to request damages, and since you are his guardian..."

Wang Daoren's words were interrupted before he could finish.

"I just think you Lawyers are troublesome. Isn't it just money you want? Then go ahead and sue! See if I give you a single cent!"

"Making a mountain out of a molehill over kids messing around, you think everyone will indulge you, right? People from out of town are just people from out of town."

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