After the lockdown affected by the epidemic, some people were forced to stay at home to grab rice and face, some people took up heavy burdens to fight against the new crown, and some people relied on courage and risk to earn more than 10,000 yuan a day.
Recently, there is such a picture circulating on Weibo, and the speed of going out of the circle is very fast: the actual income of a knight in the same city after the lockdown is 10067.75 yuan. There was nothing surprising about this, and it was too common to earn tens of thousands of dollars a month for hard work within the city. But the reason this picture can actually fly out of the circle is that 10067.75 is just a day's income for this knight.
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For this matter, netizens have mixed reviews, some people say that at this juncture, they are still maliciously increasing prices, and only by raising the tip is willing to accept orders is an "alternative" behavior of getting rich. But most netizens still think that the rider brother makes hard money. In such a high-risk situation, it is reasonable to run around long distances and high intensity, risk being infected to send things to customers, and make more money. As long as it is not a strong buy and a strong sale, on the basis of customer voluntariness, the price is free no matter how high, and there is nothing wrong with making money.
In special periods, it doesn't hurt for high-risk occupations to make a little more money on the basis of the usual, after all, they are really risking their lives, and they deserve more money.
From the attitude of netizens, it is not difficult to see that everyone's understanding and respect are based on the "high risk + certain intensity" of this job. This can't help but remind me of my own work, if so, then our testers on the front line of the fight against the epidemic can also rely on high-risk + high-intensity work to get high returns?
The answer is clearly no.
In the more than two years since the beginning of COVID-19, the demand for nucleic acid testing has been increasing, and its price has become lower and lower. From the initial as high as 260 yuan per time, to now a single inspection to no higher than 28 yuan per person, multi-person mixed inspection uniformly reduced to no more than 8 yuan per person.
Behind the price drop is the continuous compression of material costs and other costs. It is required that the cost of material consumption be firmly controlled within 14 yuan, and other costs also need to be controlled within 14 yuan.
Of these 14 yuan, what proportion of labor costs can be accounted for? What is the remaining benefit after the cost is removed? How many can be distributed layer by layer, how many can be given to the hospital, how many can be given to the department, and finally how much can be given to the hands of nucleic acid testing personnel?
At present, the most obvious composition of the nucleic acid testing market is mainly in two aspects, one is public hospitals, and the other is third-party testing institutions. Public medical institutions have certain price limit requirements, and third-party testing agencies have slightly less "restrictions".
Most third-party testing agencies are relatively higher than the price of hospitals, but also to carry out some such as on-site service, rapid reporting, 24-hour sampling and other projects to increase profits, correspondingly, in the third-party testing agencies working inspectors, its welfare, treatment will be relatively better.
During the initial outbreak of the epidemic in Shanghai, due to the serious situation of the epidemic, the large amount of nucleic acid testing, the high intensity of work, and the serious shortage of manpower, it was necessary to seize the time to complete round after round of large-scale nucleic acid testing, and many medical institutions began to recruit and transfer PCR nucleic acid testing personnel and sampling personnel from all over the country to support Shanghai.
Under the premise of such high risk and high intensity and tight time, recruitment agencies and medical institutions have offered double the salary of ordinary inspectors, with a daily salary of 1200 and 1500 yuan, and they also bear round-trip air tickets.
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In contrast, looking at some public medical institutions, even if there is a surge in workload, insufficient department personnel, and uneven distribution of manpower, labor costs will not increase significantly. It is also quite difficult to give some subsidies or to tilt slightly in the internal performance distribution.
Affected by the epidemic, the labor of testing people has begun to show a phenomenon of "worthless technology". In terms of nucleic acid sampling and testing, more than half of the daily free tests are paid, and the price is repeatedly reduced, but it does not affect everyone to continue to work non-stop for twenty-four hours. If everything goes well, it is still lucky, if there is a sudden emergency department in the middle of the night, it will waste a set of protective clothing, a protective mask, a set of reagents, which undoubtedly increases the cost of the department to a certain extent, and correspondingly reduces the assignable performance. Not only that, but the situation of nucleic acid testing and daily work running on both sides also carries a great risk of "being complained".
Everyone says that the current hospital is not easy to do, and the operation of medical institutions is not as optimistic as in previous years. The performance that can be distributed within the laboratory department is gradually reduced, and part of the daily benefits are supplemented to the cost of nucleic acid testing, the workload of the inspectors has surged but the income can only be reduced, and more and more efforts do not seem to have been rewarded accordingly.
If the average amount of nucleic acid testing in a hospital is hundreds or thousands of tubes a day, at least 2 testers are required to enter the laboratory every day. The daily profit cannot even be balanced with the fixed cost of testing, and there is a risk of discounting operations.
Repeatedly reducing the cost of price control, nucleic acid testing has become a "loss-making" business, which will have a direct impact on the income of medical personnel involved in nucleic acid testing. Moreover, the laboratory department of each hospital is just like those people, and it will not expand at any time like third-party laboratories. A nucleic acid tester undertakes nucleic acid testing work, and his daily business is naturally less.
After the epidemic, the business volume and income of hospitals and departments have decreased, counting the nucleic acid sampling task, the overall amount of work of the tester has changed greatly, but overall, most people can get the performance is still lower than before the epidemic. In the case of large rivers without water and small rivers, limited performance or even reduction, it is difficult for nucleic acid testing personnel to get relatively more income.
Nucleic acid testing from sampling to transport to testing is almost all the hospital's own efforts, outpatient needs can not be collected in a centralized time period, some also have to provide 24-hour sampling and testing services, timeliness requirements are also high. When the epidemic appeared, it was necessary to transfer people from the department to support, and the workload that could be assigned to 20 people was now only a few people left to do it, not only the staff who were sent to support the department, but also the personnel who stayed in the department were constantly insisting on it.
Ordinary testing work has not been reduced, nucleic acid testing requires special work qualifications, and nucleic acid testing projects and other projects cannot be combined. The workload of the examiner continues to increase, but the subsidies and performance are uneventful. After the epidemic lasted for two years, the physiology and psychology of the inspectors were facing a huge test.
When the news of the rider's brother's daily income is on the hot search, although there is insults and confusion, most people are holding an understanding mentality. But if you change the object, "nucleic acid samplers/ nucleic acid testers earn more than 10,000 per day", under such a topic, will there be more voices of understanding, or more voices of criticism?
The price reduction of nucleic acid testing is a double-edged sword, reducing the economic burden of the people. However, the continuous compression of labor costs has also dampened the enthusiasm of medical staff. Labor costs are constantly being compressed, work risks are still high, work intensity is only increasing, and there is no corresponding return on income. Over time, whether it is physical or psychological, it is inevitable that it will be like a balloon, which will be pressed to a certain extent and can only explode.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
If all the glory and aura have nothing to do with the tester who pays silently behind our backs, can we understand the risks we take, our physical and mental health, and our family burdens?
Is there a lyric that says, "A vicious circle of expectations that bring disappointment," or is it the one that often says, will our lives be better, will they be better?
Source: Xinhua News Agency
Edited by: Yeah Reviewer: Xiao Ran