The layoffs of a large factory have caused a lot of noise recently. As an office worker, no one is disheartened.
Talking to many colleagues, I didn't expect that "layoffs" became a key word, and "difficulty" became the background color of the workplace.
"Cut a few lines of business, there is no way."
"Merge the branch, the manpower has already started interviews last week"
"It is said that 5% will be cut, and the KPI will be adjusted simultaneously."
In fact, layoffs are not uncommon in the past six months. But when it really happened to me, it was still difficult to resist the psychological impact.
Among them, there must be environmental factors and company factors, but what I want to talk about today is probably the third factor that everyone is most unwilling to face:
Personal factors .
A friend from Bei Diao lamented that he heard the gossip about "organizational restructuring" two months ago.
Everyone is panicked, but helpless.
HR and the boss interviewed him for 2 hours that afternoon. From the poor economic environment to the meager benefits of the company, he gradually became relieved and went back satisfactorily after receiving the N+1 compensation.
But the real fatal blow: It didn't take long before he learned that a young employee had replaced his original position .
"It must be the company that sees that person's salary is cheaper than mine, and wants to save money!" He complained angrily.
In fact, this situation has always existed.
A veteran employee I know raised a salary of 2,000 yuan and was rejected, and then he deliberately expressed dissatisfaction with being late and leaving early. The boss didn't wait to see him, so he added fuel to the fire and took out KPI data to persuade him directly. In less than a week, a new person was recruited to replace him.
Sometimes being laid off and mixing up badly is not entirely because of the environment. The biggest problem may lie with myself.
Just these words, the boss may not tell you.
It's easy to understand.
A friend of mine in human resources said that some bosses would deliberately avoid talking about the abilities of their employees during layoff interviews, but instead emphasize how bad the company’s effectiveness is.
As a result, employees are relatively easy to accept. Secondly, it's cruel. The purpose of some companies' interviews is to let you leave as soon as possible. They don't care about your development and abilities at all, let alone make suggestions.
As a result, many people were fired with the answer "It turns out that the company's efficiency is not good" .
I’m from Fujian, and I’ve heard a saying since I was young: one-third of the sky is doomed, and seven-point depends on hard work.
And I got a new understanding of this sentence when I was talking to HRBP.
In the second year of work, the company experienced a major crisis, and each department and each team allocated the layoff quota. When I knew that I might be laid off, five thunderstorms broke out and my mentality collapsed to ask for a day off.
HRBP came to me the next day and asked me straightforwardly, "I heard that you were so depressed that you asked for leave yesterday? If you are laid off, what do you think is the reason?"
"The department has layoff targets, and my level is low." I thought for a long time before spitting out this sentence.
"Do you know who in the department just got a raise last week?" HRBP said unhurriedly, "Those things you do are not important things. I think you have to consider the value of your work more, otherwise. It’s almost the same everywhere."
This is ugly, but I calm down and have to admit that it makes sense.
Many people think that under the general trend, losing their jobs is the norm. As everyone knows, every layoff is essentially a survival of the fittest .
Unfortunately, most people instinctively avoid individual problems.
Over the years, I have gradually realized one thing. There are two types of people who are particularly vulnerable to being laid off. One is people with low value, and the other is people with low cost performance.
The value is low , indicating that you are dispensable, and the streets are full of people who can replace you.
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Low cost performance means that you are a loss-making business for your boss. Especially some old employees, with a lot of money in return, can keep their capacity and output value in place or even regress.
What is true return?
I have seen a very apt statement that the return you get is determined by the lowest price that can be found on the market to replace you.
For the company, talent is always the first productive force. As long as the company wants to survive and develop, it must seize the best talents.
The worse the environment, the less willing to let them go.
Of course, many people who have been laid off are not incapable of being able to do so.
But people will memorize for a while, never forever, right ?
**·** Today I found out that it was not me who raised my salary, and I felt that I was out of luck;
**·** Tomorrow will be scolded bloody by the boss, I think it is a constellation;
**·** Being laid off the day after tomorrow, I feel that it is unlucky to hit a once-in-a-century Mercury retrograde.
I can only say that people who cannot control the trajectory of their lives are used to pin their hopes on the outside world .
There are cases of bad luck, but they are temporary, and most of them have ways to change their lives by strength.
When my company's business was shrinking, I laid off more than a dozen people in the entire project team, but in a blink of an eye they were dug away by the big factory. A former colleague of mine, after graduation, almost worked as a family, closed bankruptcy, merged merger.
We were all joking at the time, which company wanted to grab the market, just squeeze him into the competition.
Strange to say, with such a bad hand, his career trajectory has steadily increased, and every job change is a gorgeous turn.
"Internet celebrity economics professor" Xue Zhaofeng said that the macroscopic quality is like the global average temperature. If you care about the fate of mankind, the average temperature is valuable. But you are going out to do something today, it's really useless.
Attempting to use macro-level disadvantages to cover up one's own micro-level shortcomings and rationalize everything is nothing but a self-hypnosis after all.
So, why do people who do not mix well actually have a warning?
It's not because of the employment situation, the economic situation, and nothing else, it's just the smallest things.
Luo Pang said in his New Year's Eve speech that the people who do nothing and those who do things are completely in two worlds.
Those who don't do things like to discuss big and abstract issues; those who do things are more pragmatic, and they're covered by water and tricks.
Just a few months after my classmate changed jobs, he was transferred from the branch to the headquarters. We thought it was just a koi possessing body. After asking carefully, we felt admiration from the bottom of our hearts.
Once the head of the headquarters temporarily hired someone to help. Others listened to the dispatch, the boss made the plan when he said the plan, and the boss made the change when he said the change.
As for him, he came up with three plans, A, B, and C, listed the advantages and disadvantages, and looked for opportunities to explain in person .
The boss missed a new task and asked casually if he had any suggestions.
He not only gave the conclusion, but also quickly gave out information such as reference data and competitive product analysis.
This...who can handle it? Any boss has to hold him in his palm wow!
A sentence he said later can be regarded as a golden rule.
He said, when is the most dangerous time to mix life? When the salary is high .
When you take 3,000 yuan, just mix it up, because your boss has very low expectations of you anyway;
When you take 5,000 yuan, the boss hopes that you can make his instructions clear;
When you take 10,000 yuan, your boss not only wants you to execute well, but also hopes that you can come up with multiple solutions so that he can make choices.
The boss has very different expectations for people with different salaries .
When encountering a crisis, the first to flush out the falsely high bubble is those who "expect the difference to be too large". The bubble is as easy to burst as it is.
At last
I have read an interesting theory called "mountain flood".
What do you mean?
Whenever a crisis comes, it is like flooding. The people at the foot of the mountain are the first to be flooded by the flood, and when the water reaches halfway down the mountain, the people there will be finished. Only when the water rises again and again until it reaches the top of the mountain, the people on the top of the mountain will be ruined.
In the same way, when the water recedes, the people on the top of the mountain get out of their predicament first, then the mountainside, and finally the foot of the mountain.
In other words, the higher you stand, the less likely it is to be impacted by the outside world .
Some people think that it’s tiring to climb up, and it’s certainly comfortable to lie down at the foot of the mountain. But, once the flood came, how comfortable it used to be, how painful it is now.
Like myself, I usually go out for an interview every year. The purpose of the interview is not necessarily to find a good job, but to know what my strengths and weaknesses are? Know what kind of people the market needs?
Regular interviews can help you understand which technologies are needed in the current market, and it is also easier to determine where your shortcomings are . At the same time, you can learn more in a more targeted manner , and you will encounter points that you do not know during the interview. You can also take the opportunity to ask questions to the interviewer, and take the opportunity to learn a wave of technical operations of big factories
If you are lucky and get a high-paying offer, wouldn't it be more profitable?
Similarly, because the interviewer is also a colleague, you can also collide with different ideas.
Just imagine? If you stay in a company and don't know what's going on outside, it's very scary, at least I think so.
In addition, it is necessary to sort out the problems encountered during the interview process and put forward the ones that will not be separately asked to find the answers. This is very efficient for the improvement of personal technical level.
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