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With less than a week to go before the May Day holiday, I wonder how many people are experiencing the "fun" of working 9 days in a row?
Even netizens couldn't help but ridicule: "Blessed are those who like to get off work, they can work nine days this week." ”
However, behind this humorous complaint, is the anxious heart of the people who yearn for rest.
This kind of rest mode of stealing the concept makes many official media can't help but speak: the seemingly tempting long vacation is actually a patchwork.
I still remember when I was a child, what I was most looking forward to was the Spring Festival, May Day, and Eleventh Day Seven-day Music Program.
At that time, I didn't have a smartphone, so I stayed in front of the TV every day and waited for the show to start, and when I was bored, I asked my friends out for a walk.
But since 2008, the May Day holiday has changed its flavor, and it feels as if its holiday has been "stolen".
The original 7-day vacation became 5 days, and 2 of them had to be made up from the weekend of the two weeks before and after, which made people physically and mentally exhausted.
Behind this situation is the credit of Tsinghua professor Cai Jiming, who suggested that the seven-day holiday of May Day and National Day is too long.
In fact, it only takes one day to rest for the people, and in the end, Professor Cai Jiming was greeted by netizens. ”
And the main battlefield to greet Professor Cai Jiming was on Baidu Tieba, and in the end, he couldn't stand the cyberbullying and chose to take Baidu to court.
And claimed more than 2 million yuan in economic compensation, but in the end only received 100,000 yuan in compensation, why is this?
"Holiday Transitions"
At a time when smartphones were not yet widespread, watching TV was one of the pastimes for most people.
CCTV once had a program specially prepared for May Day called "May Day Seven Days of Music".
The working people who have worked hard for a long time can not only relax and relax during this holiday, but also get spiritual comfort when they open the program.
The real compensatory holiday began in 1999, when the May Day holiday was only three days, catching up with the weekend, plus the news of a total of seven days of double holidays before and after was announced.
With this 7-day holiday, working people can choose their own ways of relaxation in a variety of ways.
Lying at home for two days, waiting for the body to be "fully charged" and then going out to play for a few days, life is very comfortable.
During the May Day holiday, the well-known scenic spots in China are basically crowded with tourists from all over the world, and everyone has a happy smile on their faces.
Until this point in time in 2008, the time of the May Day holiday has undergone a very big adjustment.
From the previous 7-day long holiday, it was directly reduced to 1 day, and then the weekend of the week, and the weekend before and after the week, finally formed the so-called 5-day small long holiday.
And behind this change, there is a key figure, that is, Professor Cai Jiming, and then he also suffered the anger of netizens.
Because this proposal sparked a heated discussion among the people, Professor Cai Jiming was also ridiculed as a "holiday professor".
However, according to the data calculations of relevant experts, the effect of the May Day holiday did not meet the original expectations.
On the one hand, tourists will not have a good experience in scenic spots because there are too many people, and on the other hand, there is no obvious upward trend in the income of tourism.
"Tips for Adjusting Holidays"
So experts came up with a trick to shorten the holiday season to boost consumption, which was used to stimulate the economy.
Although the May Day holiday has shrunk, Professor Cai Jiming also proposed to increase the time of traditional festivals such as Qingming and Dragon Boat Festival.
Provide more rest to the public by dividing the holidays equally.
Cai Jiming suggested that such concentrated and large holidays should be dispersed, and advocated the full implementation of a paid leave system.
However, some experts oppose it, arguing that the cancellation of such a Golden Week will have a serious impact on people's lives.
The end result is that the paid leave system has not been fully rolled out, and the public's holidays have been curtailed.
Many netizens believe that behind the shrinkage of the holiday is Cai Jiming's credit.
So netizens launched a denunciation of Cai Jiming on the Internet, and also opened a post bar with Cai Jiming's name.
Many netizens poured into "Cai Jiming" to denounce him, which also affected Cai Jiming's family.
Under the influence of online public opinion every day, Cai Jiming chose to take Baidu to court and asked to delete the relevant content.
During that time, Cai Jiming's family was also guilty, and they even had to cover their faces tightly when they went out.
Cai Jiming believes that it was Baidu Tieba that provided netizens with a platform for cyberbullying themselves, and did not conduct reasonable supervision.
In the first instance, the court held that Baidu had made rectifications after being sued, so Cai Jiming lost the case.
In the second instance, the court changed the judgment, holding that Baidu did not deal with Cai Jiming's problem in a timely manner, and demanded compensation of 100,000 yuan for Cai Jiming's losses.
Then Cai Jiming's post bar was frozen, and Baidu compensated 100,000 yuan, and the matter came to an end.
Although this made Cai Jiming the center of gravity of the siege, he was not alone in supporting the cancellation of May Day at that time.
The decision to finally cancel the May Day Golden Week was not something he could decide alone, but was reached after deliberation.
"Tired Migrant Workers"
After the Spring Festival holiday in 2024, many working people have a hunch that most of this year's holiday will still be occupied by the holiday.
After the year's holiday arrangements were released, the topic of controversy about the holiday never stopped.
In recent days, because of the May Day supplemental holiday, the topic of a single holiday for the whole of April has rushed to the hot search.
There are also many people who can't even guarantee weekends, and are facing the situation of working for 9 days before May Day and 11 days after May Day.
Many official media have expressed their dissatisfaction with the issue of holiday adjustment and have spoken out for the people.
After calculation, the five-day holiday on May Day, excluding the two days of the week and the two days before and after, is only one day off.
And because of the reason for the compensatory leave, the working hours of the working people have been forcibly extended.
People's work intensity and work pressure have increased sharply, causing dissatisfaction among many netizens.
Through calculations, it can be calculated that almost all holidays have been affected by compensatory holidays, and the working days before and after have reached seven or eight days.
And this still excludes workers who take a single day off, and if you count them, some people can even reach more than ten days of work intensity.
What is really unacceptable to working people is not the shortening of holidays, but the frequent disruption of life and work.
What was supposed to be three Golden Weeks was spent to make people happy, but now it's a patchwork.
In the past, the economy was stimulated through the holidays, but now it is to stimulate the economy.
"Conclusion"
Nowadays, people just want to adjust their state through the holidays, so that they can better devote themselves to their future life and work.
This kind of patchwork vacation itself is contrary to what people think.
But this black cauldron can't be pushed on Cai Jiming alone.
I believe that in the near future, the situation will definitely change.
Resources:
Jimu News: Is this year's "May Day" crazy, looking back at how "Seven Days of Happiness" became a five-day holiday_People's No.2023-04-30
Red Star News: Interview with Cai Jiming, deputy to the National People's Congress: Deepen the reform of the land system and promote urban-rural integration and regional coordinated development2024-03-08
China Daily: Tsinghua University professor was abused and sued Baidu The final judgment of the case was changed to 100,000 yuan2011-08-17