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Facebook employee, Qin Chen, died after jumping off the fourth floor of a Facebook building in Menlo Park, CA, in an apparent suicide. While Facebook has kept completely silent in the past several days, multiple social media posts and videos from insiders revealed workplace toxicity Qin experienced prior to his death.
We are all devastated by the loss of a dedicated, hard worker and we believe the entire community deserves the truth. What happened to Qin? Why did he jump off an office building in a work day, leaving his family and friends behind? Why is Facebook not responding to this tragedy??
We have raised sufficient fund for the memorial and protest event on Thursday Sep 26. Thank you everyone for your support!
We are a team of volunteers in the Bay Area who have no direct relationship with Qin. But we were so devastated and thought we needed to do something. Most of the fund was spent on the memorial and protest for Qin (100+ sympathy flower wreaths and bouquets and 4 dozens of protest boards). We had 400 people attending the event, and we appreciate all your generous support. We had sent out a survey asking for votes on how to spend the rest 2000 dollars. The most voted one was the formation of a non-profit organization to help the Chinese American community. We are currently exploring this option and will provide updates shortly. Thank you all.
Selected media reports after the vigil and protest:
https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/09/27/protesters-at-facebook-mourn-loss-of-man-who-died-by-suicide-and-demand-answers
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/facebook-employee-death-was-suicide.html
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/law-firm-to-probe-death-of-facebook-employee-qin-chen-who-jumped-off-headquarters-2109994
The detailed expense list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13e5L3x5vxgi4ghrEDXsL9GFYeG-HOb2MtHjuGGRIy2U/edit?usp=sharing
I will personally withdraw the campaign donation and use it to cover all expenses that incurred before and after the event. The volunteer team leaders (Mango, Cici and myself) are actively working on forming the non-profit org for Chinese American urged by the results of the survey.
Thank you
JJ
We are all devastated by the loss of a dedicated, hard worker and we believe the entire community deserves the truth. What happened to Qin? Why did he jump off an office building in a work day, leaving his family and friends behind? Why is Facebook not responding to this tragedy??
We have raised sufficient fund for the memorial and protest event on Thursday Sep 26. Thank you everyone for your support!
We are a team of volunteers in the Bay Area who have no direct relationship with Qin. But we were so devastated and thought we needed to do something. Most of the fund was spent on the memorial and protest for Qin (100+ sympathy flower wreaths and bouquets and 4 dozens of protest boards). We had 400 people attending the event, and we appreciate all your generous support. We had sent out a survey asking for votes on how to spend the rest 2000 dollars. The most voted one was the formation of a non-profit organization to help the Chinese American community. We are currently exploring this option and will provide updates shortly. Thank you all.
Selected media reports after the vigil and protest:
https://www.almanacnews.com/news/2019/09/27/protesters-at-facebook-mourn-loss-of-man-who-died-by-suicide-and-demand-answers
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/27/facebook-employee-death-was-suicide.html
https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/law-firm-to-probe-death-of-facebook-employee-qin-chen-who-jumped-off-headquarters-2109994
The detailed expense list:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13e5L3x5vxgi4ghrEDXsL9GFYeG-HOb2MtHjuGGRIy2U/edit?usp=sharing
I will personally withdraw the campaign donation and use it to cover all expenses that incurred before and after the event. The volunteer team leaders (Mango, Cici and myself) are actively working on forming the non-profit org for Chinese American urged by the results of the survey.
Thank you
JJ
Fundraising team (2)
JJ Chen
Organiser
Santa Clara, CA
Mango Gogo
Team member