"Goodbye, my ten years ..."
Not long ago, former colleague Lily suddenly exposed a personal payment voucher for unemployment insurance in a circle of friends and distributed such a sad remark.
I paused, and I quickly left a message to ask before I learned what had happened.
It turns out that the new media company where Lily works has made strategic adjustments because of its poor efficiency. Lily's department needs to lay off employees first, and Lily and two other old employees are included in the first list of layoffs.
I feel indignant for Lily. In the past ten years, Lily has worked hard for this company. Except for the annual leave, she rarely takes a vacation. She has grown up with the website operated by the company and accumulated a high popularity in the forum.
New media companies have frequent personnel changes. In the past 10 years, Lily has witnessed waves of colleagues coming and going, and the director and general manager in charge of the website have changed several times. Lily is still the lily who has been in charge of website news update for ten years.
Lily's standard commute is an electric car with pedals within 20 yards per hour, which meets the urban management standards. It takes 40 minutes from home to work and 45 minutes from work to home, day after day, year after year, rain or shine.
In the morning shift, Lily must get up before six o'clock and punch in at the company before seven o'clock.
Lily, who is optimistic and cheerful, is the pistachio and intimate sister of the department, and also the most trusted assistant of the department head with the same qualifications.
However, the quiet and beautiful life was broken by layoffs.
The company's decision to lay off employees seemed ridiculous, so I called Lily's private enterprise heartless. However, a few days later, after I learned about various reasons through other channels, I suddenly became discouraged like a ball that had been pricked by a needle.
02
Be born at hardship, die at peace and happiness
Lily's new media company is located in a quiet small courtyard on May 4th Road, the most prosperous Gulou District in this city. The company has its own commercial property right of a duplex office with a total area of more than 2000 square meters, so it has existed silently for more than ten years since its establishment.
This is also a point that HR is proud of, and it is also a point that every new employee emphasizes.
Lily's department runs a local news website, which is composed of editors and sales staff. Except for a supervisor and three salesmen, the others are editors from all channels.
Editors have no pressure of performance appraisal, naturally there is no conflict of interest, and the office relationship is simple and harmonious.
Everyone has more than the above salary, and enjoys comprehensive welfare benefits such as medical insurance and social security, annual leave, holiday fee, birthday gift, seniority salary, year-end bonus, and twice-yearly travel.
Many people say that this is a very suitable job for girls. So Lily, who didn't want to put too much pressure on herself, stayed in that company.
In recent years, all kinds of new media have sprung up, especially Weibo, WeChat and other emerging media communities, which have seriously impacted the traditional BBS forum. Although the website operated by Lily's department has undergone several changes, it has not improved, and finally it will only be eliminated.
In fact, every crisis is an opportunity for development. It is reported that the outstanding employees of this department were booked and transferred by other departments long ago, some went to the medical advertising department with the best benefit to plan, some went to the design department because of their graphic design skills, and the rest were only waiting for the fate of being laid off.
It is said that there is less unemployment. As long as the competitiveness is still there, it is not difficult to find a job with the same treatment or even better in a few months. It's just that Lily's professional skills have basically not improved in recent years. Now she's 33? Aged in the workplace? It's natural to be suddenly fired.
03
Confidence comes from your strength.
Lily was not the only one who was laid off, but the same story was a different result.
My best friend's cousin Xiao Xiao studied accounting. She graduated from college six years ago and worked as a cashier in a small real estate development company through connections.
It's a family business, and all the people who can go in are hard-wired households with relatives and friends. Relatively speaking, Xiaoxiao is the employee with the worst background and the lowest status in the department.
The inevitable phenomenon of overstaffing in family businesses is even more serious in Xiaoxiao's finance department. There are four people in the department, and Xiaoxiao is basically the only one who does things.
Four years later, the company suddenly reported layoffs, and Xiaoxiao voluntarily resigned.
Many people say xiaoxiao is stupid. If he is fired, he can get a subsidy. Smile and say:? Compared with that subsidy, what I don't want to do is that I have done so well in these years, but I have to be admitted to the company in the end? Not up to the job? Lay off employees! ?
A week after leaving his job, Xiaoxiao happened to see the recruitment information of a large real estate group ranked among the top 60 real estate companies in China and submitted his resume.
Thanks to four years' training in the former company, Xiaoxiao knows all aspects of real estate finance like the back of his hand and is comfortable in the interview.
Initially, employees in this position will be assigned to subsidiaries of the Group. As a result, because Xiaoxiao performed so well, the personnel director specially asked the superior leaders for instructions and left Xiaoxiao in the group finance department to engage in accounting positions. The monthly salary is more than double that of the previous company, and the welfare benefits are even worse.
Now I have been in the new company for two years, and Xiaoxiao's salary has been rising all the way. Now I am a standard senior white-collar worker, living an inspirational life of owning a car and a house at a young age by my own ability.
The most dangerous person in the workplace is not a newcomer who has no relationship, no background or connections, but an old employee who has no sense of crisis or ambition and just wants to get qualifications.
They have been in the safe zone for too long, and they don't want to change or dare to change. They just want to play the safety card, and the result can only be a panacea in the workplace. As a result, one day they were suddenly laid off, leaving only consternation and panic.
And those who always maintain a sense of crisis in the workplace, constantly learn new skills, have goods in their bellies and have core competitiveness, why are they afraid of layoffs?
Many times, the choice is greater than the effort. The beauty brought by that choice, like the ears of wheat after autumn, always needs some wind and frost to get it.
Just like an eagle is never afraid of a big tree falling under its feet, because it can fly.