Baek Dojin's Pay Arrived at 8:02 AM

Baek Dojin's pay arrived at 8:02 AM.

At 8:02:04 AM, all of it was withdrawn.

Deposit.

Three-month pay garnishment execution.

Balance: 0 won.

He didn't delete the bank notification. But he didn't post it to the team channel right away either.

First, he went to the cafeteria.

He tapped his employee ID on the meal ticket terminal.

Payment declined.

Pay-linked benefits suspended.

Second, he checked his transit pass. The next renewal was set to fail.

Third was the automatic transfer for his boarding house. If he didn't deposit by 6 PM, it would be registered as overdue.

Dojin put the three items on one screen.

Meals.

Transit.

Housing.

And in a fourth column, he wrote down the two agreement correction reviews scheduled for today.

Only then did he send the team meeting request.

`Pay garnishment actually executed. Requesting agenda item to disclose impact on living and work.`

Kang Eunha replied within a minute.

`Answer whether you've eaten first.`

Dojin didn't send a photo of an empty tray.

`Haven't eaten. Meal ticket declined.`

`Any dizziness, cold sweat, hand tremors?`

`None.`

`Confirmed. I'll ask about treatment and meeting attendance separately.`

Eunha didn't offer to buy him a meal. Dojin didn't post that he hadn't eaten to ask for one either.

The meeting opened 20 minutes later.

Dojin put the pay notification at the top. The amount was visible only to the team's internal verifier, and the public screen showed only the execution rate and balance.

Execution rate: 100 percent.

Balance: 0 won.

3 failed pay-linked items: meal ticket, transit, housing.

2 contract agreement correction reviews pending.

"There's something to confirm first," Hyeonju said. "Is this garnishment the three-month pay garnishment that was already notified?"

"Yes."

"It isn't new disciplinary action over the macro evidence secured yesterday."

"It isn't."

Mina looked at Dojin. "You're saying we shouldn't tie your lost pay to my investigation?"

"Right. The timing looks connected, but the cause is different."

Dojin didn't make his misjudgment and the pay garnishment into the same liability.

Sera asked. "Why didn't you post it the moment it happened?"

"I confirmed the actual impact first."

"By going all the way to the cafeteria?"

"Yes."

"Eighteen minutes hidden."

Dojin didn't delete that line either.

Eunha turned the meeting agenda.

"I'll submit a revision before any comfort."

First, separate meals, transit, and housing tied to pay from welfare and reclassify them as minimum operational safety costs.

Second, suspend Dojin's agreement correction reviews and night standby until the minimum costs are secured.

Third, request a 14-day advance from the agency's accident fund.

Fourth, if the advance is denied, reduce workload rather than covering it with personal care or a coworker's pay.

Fifth, ask separately about meals, contact, treatment, and meeting attendance each time.

Dojin said. "If the agreement correction review stops, both victims' schedules get pushed back."

"That's exactly why it's on the agenda. If you pull it forward by starving, that schedule is one that hides unpaid labor costs from the victims."

"I can handle it."

"That sentence isn't a qualification test."

Eunha laid out three options in front of Dojin.

Eat, then continue the meeting.

Continue the meeting without eating, suspend work review.

Suspend the meeting, then confirm medically.

"If I eat, who pays?"

"That question and whether you eat are separate."

"I won't consent without knowing where the cost comes from."

"Good. Kindness isn't consent."

Eunha added the source of the cost.

Team members' personal payment: 0 won.

Eunha's personal care hours: 0.

Request for advance from the agency's accident fund.

Before a decision is made, the union's emergency meal voucher can be used once. The repayer is not Dojin personally but the workplace behind the wage arrears.

Dojin read the last item.

"I'll use the union meal voucher. Continue the meeting after eating. Suspend work review until the vote."

Eunha recorded only that choice. She didn't add a thank you, or a word about paying it back later.

The cafeteria terminal didn't accept the union meal voucher right away.

A guarantee from assigned medical staff was required.

Kang Eunha came up first on the list of guarantor candidates. A note explained that pressing `Confirm care relationship` would settle the payment immediately, deducted from Eunha's next medical stipend.

Dojin didn't select the candidate. He opened a dispute number with the meal ticket issuer.

"I was told this is repaid by the workplace behind the wage arrears. Please remove the requirement for a personal medical staff guarantee."

The cafeteria worker looked uncomfortable. "You can just pick one coworker and eat right away."

"The meal is urgent. I don't consent to confirming a relationship. Please separate the two."

Seven minutes later, a manual approval code came through. Dojin didn't even drink water in the meantime. He had once had water logged as a meal. He left the empty tray and the approval wait time exactly as they were.

Payer: union emergency meal voucher.

Guarantor: none.

Deduction from Eunha's personal stipend: 0 won.

After eating, Dojin sent Eunha three lines instead of a photo. Eunha replied only `confirmed`.

While Dojin was heading back to the cafeteria, the team put together a cost plan.

Taeho raised a ban on personal advance payment first.

"Future pay, contract termination money, a coworker's card, none of that is today's institutional cost. And if we cover it with personal money, next month's garnishment becomes how the team operates."

Mina split the public screen into two.

Cause of the garnishment, execution rate, impact on work.

Personal accounts, home address, treatment records.

The first screen was visible up to the citizen review seats, and the second was visible only to Dojin and the verifier.

Sera brought the dispatch schedule.

"We don't start by asking who takes over Dojin's two reviews. Ask the parties involved about delay, alternate review, or hold, each separately."

Hyeonju made the garnishment dispute and the accident fund advance into separate case numbers. Receiving the advance didn't make the garnishment legitimate, and disputing the garnishment didn't produce today's meal money either.

Dojin came back after finishing his meal.

His blood sugar wasn't checked. Eunha hadn't started treatment. Instead, Dojin wrote down the meal completion time and the time he hoped to return to work himself.

Meal completed at 9:07 AM.

Hoped return to work at 10:07 AM.

Eunha asked. "Do you consent to an hour of rest?"

"Yes."

"Without a contact examination?"

"Yes."

"Speaking at the meeting?"

"I'll continue."

The three choices were recorded separately.

There were four items to vote on.

Dojin personally bears all costs after the garnishment.

Team members cover meals, transit, and housing through personal fundraising.

A 14-day advance from the agency's accident fund, separated from minimum work costs.

Keep Dojin working, but disclose the unpaid labor to the victims' schedules.

Dojin didn't raise his hand for the first item.

"I withdraw the statement that since it's my loss, I should bear it."

That statement went into the meeting record.

"Instead, I'll keep my pay garnishment dispute under my own name. I won't merge it with the team's accident fund request."

Taeho asked. "Personal fundraising?"

"I'm against it."

Eunha asked. "Separating minimum work costs?"

"I'm for it. Just not turning my entire life into a team expense, only preventing meal, transit, and same day housing arrears."

"After 14 days?"

"Revote."

Dojin didn't make the period indefinite just to lower his own costs.

The vote result was passage of the third item.

Four in favor.

One against.

One conditional approval.

Taeho voted for it. The cost order was fixed only through today's meals, transit, and housing.

Mina's approval was conditional. She attached a condition that if the agency used the advance request as publicity material, the citizen disclosure would stop immediately.

Sera voted against. She said a 14-day advance could turn temporary field recovery into the agency's discretion, and it should be cut to seven-day units.

Hyeonju voted for it, but put Sera's reason for opposing not in an appendix but in the main cost risk column.

Eunha voted for it. Dojin voted for it too. No one turned the dissent into team discord.

The passed motion added a midpoint review on day seven. The 14-day advance period would be kept, but if reliance on agency discretion grew, it could be suspended and revoted at the one-week mark.

Personal fundraising: 0 won.

Dojin's agreement correction review was suspended until 10:07 AM. Of the two victims, one chose alternate review, one chose to decide in the afternoon, and neither chose Dojin's unpaid review.

The agency's accident fund was billed only for costs preventing meal, transit, and same day housing arrears. The garnishment dispute remained a separate case.

Eunha also revised her own shift schedule.

Dojin meal confirmation: 0 hours.

Personal contact standby: 0 hours.

Medical suspension confirmation: 10 minutes.

Union advance request: 25 minutes.

"Why are you logging care time as zero?" Dojin asked.

"The meal voucher wasn't my gift, and I didn't watch you eat either."

"Still, you drafted the request."

"Union work, 25 minutes. Don't count it as free emotional labor."

Dojin nodded.

"Confirmed. I won't say I'll pay you back either."

"That's better."

The mediation bureau held the accident fund advance in abeyance.

Instead, it cut the first screen the team had disclosed and posted it to the official account.

`Pay balance: 0 won.`

`3 failures: meal ticket, transit, housing.`

`Team 7 work suspended.`

The sentence stating the garnishment was actual execution of a prior notice, the 0 won in personal fundraising, each victim's alternate choice, and the time work would resume, all of it was cut.

Comments quickly repeated the same lines.

Team 7 can't even feed its own staff.

Eunha is feeding and keeping Dojin alive.

Dojin pays his debts with a relationship.

When a third independent account posted the same lines, a new item appeared on Eunha's shift schedule.

`Baek Dojin dedicated care: 24 hours.`

Eunha immediately hit medical suspension. She didn't delete the dedicated care item. Deleting it could pass the remaining obligation on to an anonymous medical staffer.

Once the dedicated item appeared, six of Eunha's afternoon patients were automatically transferred to other medical staff. The system had ruled that caring for one person, Dojin, took priority over six patients. The rest breaks of the two staff who took over the shift were each pushed back by 30 minutes.

Eunha didn't restore the patient list to its original state. Pressing auto restore would only pass Dojin's dedicated obligation to an anonymous medical staffer.

Instead, she asked the six patients each separately about the current assignment error, sticking with Eunha's existing care, choosing other medical staff, or holding for today. Four chose Eunha, one chose another staffer, one chose tomorrow.

Eunha fixed the Dojin dedicated column on her own afternoon shift schedule to 0 hours and took back the four patients. She restored the 60 minutes of delayed coworker rest by canceling two hours of her own night standby.

In exchange, one round of night medical stipend was cut.

"Don't put that stipend into my garnishment costs either," Dojin said.

"I won't. This is the cost of my labor for stopping a role error."

Instead, she attached her own revision next to the shift schedule.

`Dedicated care: 0 hours. Medical suspension confirmation: 10 minutes. Union work: 25 minutes.`

Dojin didn't write a relationship clarification statement either. He posted the pay loss and Eunha's labor hours separated again.

The agency's caption talked about the team's incompetence.

The team's record talked about who lost how much, and who worked how much.