Brainoid

After wandering around the forest park until the afternoon, Qi Min took Qi Mi home.

She thought it was a bit strange that her daughter seemed unhappy even when she went out to play. However, the existing information cannot explain why this is. Qi Min thinks that the little girl is probably unfamiliar with other people in the group and feels cautious.

When he returned to the bedroom, he saw Anton sitting on the sofa connected to the brain-like body, so Qi Min also connected the interface. As usual, Qi Min entered the identity of a constructor first. Qi Min originally thought that Anton would be racing cars in Machinery Town as Jin Tian, ​​but the location he found showed that he was at the headquarters of the Brainoid Company as a constructor.

It's really strange that Anton actually takes care of the affairs of the Brainoid Company - and does it on weekends.

As a constructor, Qi Min could "jump" directly to a location near Anton's coordinates, but this time she still kept an eye out to see what was going on there first.

Turn on remote monitoring, and you can see Anton in the conference room of the brain-like body headquarters from the virtual screen that pops up out of thin air. Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan was also there, and there were a few people who Qi Min didn't know sitting with her, while Anton was sitting at the bottom, probably because he was dragged here temporarily. Perhaps because he retained the appearance of a man of twenty-five, he looked out of place compared to the others present, who were clearly discussing something serious.

Instead of calling Yelena, she called Anton, who represents Qi Min, indicating that this matter is probably related to the situation in China. However, there were so many people at the scene, but they just sat there in some kind of stalemate.

Qi Min thought she might still have to go there, so she jumped from the R\u0026D department of Brainoid Company to the headquarters conference room.

When Qi Min suddenly appeared in the conference room, everyone present was shocked by her. Especially those people who are not from the brain-like body company may almost think that this is a "hacker invasion".

Qi Min took off the sunglasses on her face without realizing it: "Sorry... I am Qi Min, the CTO of the Brainoid Company."

"Hello, hello..." Several people sitting on the left side of the conference table shook hands with her one by one, but they were absentmindedly.

Qi Min glanced at Anton, who just looked back with a somewhat complicated look. Then she looked at Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan shook her head, stood up from her seat and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window: "The administrators are on strike."

Qi Min walked over and looked outside, and saw a large group of people floating in the virtual space outside as constructors. There are no physical laws in the brain itself. Constructors can float in the air through various anti-physical methods. These constructors wear brain-like company administrator uniforms and hold various banners in their hands - most of which are related to the content. Related to "Reject 996" and "Resist AI Surveillance".

There is also a very irregular banner that also reads "The R\u0026D Department is a dog."

The R\u0026D department is a dog...What happened to the R\u0026D department? As the head of the R\u0026D department, Qi Min's first reaction was that he wanted to laugh a little.

"Uh... why are the administrators on strike?" Qi Min had to ask. She had never heard of the brain-like company administrators having 996 problems before - this was probably the brain-like company's version of "the people are not in touch with China, the South China Sea", it was a common problem with organizations that were too big. .

However, as a leftist thinking model, she has already made a guess. The main demand of the administrators' strike is obvious, which is to boycott 996 and AI surveillance. When Qi Min heard that "the R\u0026D department is a dog", he thought it might be related to the monitoring assistant that was launched by the R\u0026D department before.

The monitoring assistant is actually just a plug-in that uses AI to analyze brain activity and simply determine whether employees are working normally. Its initial design was not to monitor administrators, but to prevent researchers in the R\u0026D department from being in danger at work. But either way, capital exploits workers in every possible way. The management of Brainoid Company soon discovered that the monitoring assistant can not only monitor whether researchers are in a safe state at all times, but also monitor whether administrators are actively working.

Originally, grassroots administrators were in non-production positions, and the effects of their work were not so easy to quantify. Ordinary administrators just work normally, and the grinding of some individuals will not have much impact on the overall situation. But since the monitoring assistant is used to monitor the working status of administrators, it is impossible to work hard, and even normal work is considered to be lazy. Monitoring Assistant can clearly quantify an administrator's productivity by analyzing the levels and patterns of their brain activity. Since then, the workload of administrators can also be calculated on a piece-by-piece basis, which has led to grassroots administrators also beginning to be involved in 996...

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan told Qi Min that the trigger for the strike was the sudden death of an administrator in the Beijing area of ​​the Brainoid Company who died on the job.

As for all this preliminary process, not only Qi Min had never heard of it before, not even Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan had heard of it.

Now sitting across from senior representatives of the Brainoid Company are representatives from the National Development and Reform Commission, the Labor Bureau, the municipal government, and even representatives from the Beijing Federation of Trade Unions. They're all waiting for Brainoid to figure this out.

"Almost half of the entertainment projects in Beijing have been suspended now," said Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan, "including the Old City and Machinery Town."

Part of the reason for mentioning these two separately is to remind Qi Min. But at the same time, the Old City and Mechanical Town are also two of the most labor-intensive projects in Beijing. The Old City is to prevent players from hurting each other, and the Mechanical Town is to prevent players from cheating. Moreover, the administrator who died suddenly was also in charge of the Machinery Town.

However, Qi Min's focus is still on the administrator himself: "Where is the administrator who died suddenly? Is he still alive?"

This is a strange question. How could he still be alive after he died suddenly? However, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan knew that she was referring to whether the administrator had become a dead soul, or was really completely dead.

But the matter of the dead souls cannot be known to the government yet. Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan gave her a helpless look and said on the surface: "Sudden death, there should not be another situation."

However, the look in her eyes clearly indicated that this was clearly a different situation. And it can be inferred from this that the matter of dead souls has spread to a small extent in the Brainoid Company.

This is not good news, but Qi Min still believes that Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan can control the situation.

But even if the existence of dead souls can be suppressed now, the problem of administrator strike is not so easy to solve. Qi Min wanted to know who was the smart one who wanted to use the monitoring assistant to piece-rate the labor of the administrator, but he knew with his toes that as an agent of the employer, he wanted to control the purchased labor force more accurately. It is a rational approach.

The sudden death of the Machinery Town administrator on the job was only the trigger, and the strike was not triggered overnight. Now it depends on what those administrators want.