At least 27 dead with dozens more missing after boat capsizes in northwest Congo_我的网站
一 | 下班后就别回电邮了。(海峡时报)作者 刘智澎忙完了一天,下班后终于有时间与家人吃晚餐,老板却在这个时候打电话找你。 KINSHASA, Congo -- A boat capsized in Congo’s northwest killing at least 27 people, and more than 70 others were missing, a senior government official said Saturday as rescuers searched frantically for survivors.The locally made boat capsized late Friday in the city of Mbandaka in Equateur Province as it transported more than 100 passengers along the Congo River to the town of Bolomba, according to Taylor Nganzi, deputy provincial governor.“Already 27 bodies of victims have been removed from the waters (and) transported to the morgue of the general hospital in Mbandaka,” said Nganzi, adding that an investigation to find out the cause of the accident had begun.The New Civil Society of Congo, a local civil society group, said 49 people died in the accident, which it said occurred after an engine failure. “Everything started to sink,” Jean-Pierre Wangela, president of the group, told reporters.The contradictory death tolls, which is common in such incidents in Congo, could not immediately be reconciled.Volunteers joined rescuers in the search for survivors and for bodies, while families mourned loved ones who were among the victims.“We are supervising the search for bodies with the river services and accompanied by the victims’ families,” said Nganzi.Boat accidents are common on the Congo River and on the nation’s lakes because of the prevalent use of makeshift boats that are often overloaded. The majority of the population in the country's northwest use the rivers to travel because of a lack of good roads and because it is a less expensive.The Congolese government had banned night travel throughout the country to avoid accidents, although many defy the directive.。你会接听吗?接听的话,可能会引起家人不满;不接听的话,隔天回公司可能会被老板臭骂一顿。真是进退两难啊!一名新加坡员工日前在网络论坛Reddit上申诉,他的工作时间是早上9点至傍晚5点,但他的老板经常在下午4点才开始联系员工,直到晚上9点才停止。
二 | “如果每周只有一两次,我还可以忍受,但老板每天都这样,让我和同事们倍感压力。”“如果我们不回老板的短信或电邮,就会有超过10通未接来电。”这位老板的“夺命追魂call”也太夸张了吧……红蚂蚁建议这名员工不妨考虑移民到澳大利亚。亲爱的老板,不是我要“失联”,而是手机在地铁上没讯号。(海峡时报)下班后联系员工 必须有合理充分的理由从8月26日起,澳大利亚实施了新的“断联权”(Right to Disconnect)法律:员工下班后有权选择不接电话、不回电邮,也不会被雇主惩处。违法的雇主可面对最高罚款9万4000澳元(约8万3000新元)。澳洲总理阿尔巴尼斯(Anthony Albanese)说,批准这项新法,是希望人民不必一天24小时都在工作,可以有时间陪伴家人。根据澳洲研究所去年的一项调查,澳洲人去年的无偿加班时间平均为281小时,而这些劳动力的估计价值为1300亿澳元(约1153亿新元)。澳洲斯威本科技大学副教授霍普金斯(John Hopkins)接受英国广播公司BBC访问时也说,人们在下班后接到工作相关的电话、电邮和短信,已成为一种常态,即使在放假期间也是如此。“在数码技术出现之前,并没有这样的侵扰。人们下班后就收工回家,直到第二天上班之前,都不会接到公司的任何联系。