Jun 01, 2021 Article blog
In this year's special market environment, "live" has become the primary goal of every employee and boss. Let's hear their story.
This article documents the experiences of 12 professionals, some of whom have been laid off twice in a row by the same company, some of whom have suffered from "wrong lists", "too thin to wear work clothes", "too many girls at the same level" and others who have been laid off, and some who are dissatisfied with being laid off and bravely choose to defend their rights.
I was laid off twice in a year and a half by the same company, paid four months in compensation, and two N1s added up to a small 100,000 bucks.
The first lay-off was due to a decision-making error at the top of the company, which led to a sharp decline in business, a 60% contraction in business volume in six months, and the entire marketing division was cut. The layoff went on very quickly, HR came to us in the morning to talk, in the afternoon let us go, the work has not been handed over, the money is also very simple.
Before me, the company had laid off several people, and when I joined the company there were more than 600 people, and by the time I left, there were basically 200 left. O ur department went from more than 30 people to just 10 people, and I was the last to be laid off. I was quite happy at that time, can take compensation to leave, do not have to fall with the company.
Half a month after I was laid off for the first time and frantically looking for a job, company HR found me again and put me back on the job. H R mentioned that the company is short of content operations and public relations positions, in a short period of time can not find a suitable, just feel that I know more about the company's business, asked me if I consider re-employment. I didn't know my new job at that time, so I went back.
Six months later, when the outbreak struck, the company suddenly announced a 20% pay cut, the CEO said, in order to do investors and shareholders to see, in fact, we know that the company's books are still rich, purely at the expense of employees to meet investors.
At the same time as the pay cut, they asked employees to sign a statement agreeing to the pay cut. I don't think it's fair. D uring the outbreak, I did not work less, why and those who did not do much work together with the pay cut, so I refused to sign the request. I didn't expect HR to kill the chicken macaques and cut me off.
During the outbreak work is not very good to find, but good in my good professionalism, after leaving, I took three offers in a month, wages increased by 30%, feel quite beautiful. At present, I have joined the new company, the next good refueling.
Just entered the society those two years, two strange things happened to me in a row, I think there will be no second person like me so unlucky.
The first time was when I worked as an e-commerce after-sales customer service for a company. O nce after work back to the dormitory, want to wash their feet, they did not prepare slippers, see a pair on the ground, but do not know whose, I asked everyone, no one claimed, I thought, then wear it. After I finished wearing it, a colleague said it was his, and I hurriedly said I was sorry.
Didn't expect the next day, the colleague to the manager to my complaint, said I scolded him, I said "I didn't scold", the result of the manager said "you still quibble", slapped me, fired me. F inally, he left a saying, "Salary will come on the 15th of next month." I went to the time to get paid, did not expect the manpower to tell me: "You were fired, no salary." ”
The second experience was designing at a gaming company, and the salary was a basic salary plus a project commission. T he first month, the company assessed performance, performance qualified to stay, unqualified on the departure, I received seven to eight single or so. W hen I published the list, I clicked on my name and said I wasn't qualified and fired directly. Three or four days after I left, the company contacted me to say there was a misunderstanding and the dismissal list was mispronected.
I suddenly realized that my name is Zhou Zitao, another colleague is called Liu Zitao, the two of us are classmates, together to apply for this company. W hen I was fired and packed up, I complained to him: "You're too cow, you don't answer, every day I go to work to play games and I'm not fired." " I also seriously asked him, "Are you related and didn't tell me?" H e said he didn't know what was going on. None of us thought we'd read the wrong name.
After experiencing this, in fact, I have not changed much, but will consciously speak less, work more.
I entered the position as a designer. When I first entered the company, the boss told me a word: you have to be the best in the design of the program written, write the best activities in the program, do the activities in the most financial.
To be clear, in fact, the company is small, to one person more than one job, otherwise the utilization rate of personnel is not high.
As a designer I live more on weekdays, but recently the company lost a few customers, design tasks have been reduced. T he boss came to me to talk, want me to develop in an all-round way, learn to do competitive analysis, follow up the project. W hen I finished writing the competition analysis, the boss said that someone else wrote the copy in 2 hours and wrote it, why did you write it for 1 day? T hen said you follow up the project to write a plan, but once the design of the living, there is no way to take into account the design. In short, I just don't think I can develop in an all-round way.
Then HR chatted with me and started knocking sideways to say that the company's design business is not a lot, delaying my future and development. I didn't understand what it meant at first, so I got a call from another company shortly after the conversation to ask me for an interview.
I was stunned, I didn't cast my resume and I wasn't ready to change jobs, why would anyone want me to go for an interview? T he boss only said this time the company lost money, can't afford you, you go. At the same time HR called me and said to help me think about the way back, "good intentions" helped me contact the interview.
My first feeling at that time was that their own real mispayment, has been for the company to consider, provoke the company to design all the work, before being dismissed also pulled two big single, because the recent design work is not much, the company on the unloading and killing donkey. And if the company wants to fire me, you can tell me directly why, without my knowledge, another company was scheduled to interview.
I've been with the company for more than a year and a half and I'm paying 2 months' salary in accordance with national regulations. A t first the company agreed, saying it could take the annual leave, but when I finished taking five days of annual leave, I found that the compensation was directly deducted from the $4,000. H R says annual leave is a company benefit, and we decided not to give you annual leave, which is deducted if you take annual leave. HR has always said, almost don't count with the company so clear, make an unpleasant after how to endorse you.
After this matter, I found that today's company layoffs are really deep, do not force you to go, ask you to take the initiative to leave, but also to the back of the work after the threat. Everyone doesn't want to get a bad back-to-back evaluation because of months of compensation, and a lot of times it's gone.
The lay-off is certainly a reason for employees. Most of the time, I cut more than a hundred people in a week.
Layoffs can take many forms, for a variety of reasons. S ome people have to cut it myself, some have to let HR cut it. I told us at the time that there were so many metrics allocated to you anyway, so many budgets for layoffs, it was impossible for everyone to compensate for N1, you could find a way, and if you couldn't, you cut yourself.
The most common method used at that time was rotation. T echnology to sales, sales to administration, in short, is to let the department responsibilities to the transfer, but the assessment is strictly enforced. Of course, this is for those departments that want to be laid off, some of the employees who do not accept will leave their jobs, those who stay will be dismissed because they can not complete the assessment.
There is also to let the head of the department to lay off, he cut the people in the department, and finally cut him off. B ecause the head of the department has the right to hire, some departments will have a small mountain phenomenon, especially the sales department, only listen to the head of the department. T here was a sales director, I asked him to cut his staff, he didn't listen to me, and finally he took the whole department out in a hurry. But this is my intention, no one came to resign compensation.
The big layoffs were due to problems with the company's cash flow, a new round of financing did not keep up, before running too fast, resulting in the consumption of funds too fast, and finally had to shrink the scale. A lot of the company's business was stalled, so many employees at the time also understood.
The only time there was a technical manager, I once suspected that he was a spy, he was very uncooperative. A t the time, his job was to keep and maintain company servers and some critical data, many of which were encrypted, but he never did. I was also given feedback that the person was not that simple.
At that time, the company panic, competitors are also a tiger, I increasingly feel that this person may want to steal company secrets. B ut his position is very special, can not transfer him, advised him to leave the job do not cooperate, he also do not want compensation. F inally no way, one day I took two co-creations directly, rushed into the office angry, on the spot patting the table announced that he left, everyone was shocked. It is estimated that he was also frightened, the same day left, there is no compensation, not to mention no prosecution.
In fact, layoffs are a very complex matter, the boss to consider many factors, not as simple as many people think, many times the company layoffs, but also for self-insurance.
When the double teacher tutor is a complete coincidence, when I applied for a small offline class speaker, the original interview has gone to the last two rounds, talk about almost, the company suddenly told me that there is no offline tutor's preparation, but the double division is still hiring, asked me if I would like to turn over.
Hesitating for a long time, or went, it is said that there is a chance to turn to the online presenter, the salary is much higher than the offline speaker. But I went to know that the main teacher and tutor is basically two occupations, as a tutor, to accept a variety of outside the provisions of the work arrangements, is the company's cheap labor.
I'm young and I'm not reluctant to do the extra service work, and I've done a good job in the first year, but it's hard the next year. I and responsible for the middle-level relationship between classes in general, other tutors are often around her flattery, I generally met on the polite greeting, will not be specifically close, the result of the summer vacation class just started, found that my schedule arrangement is very unreasonable.
First of all, the school district is very poor, I went to the two campuses are newly opened, no popularity, and parents are notoriously difficult to wait for, because the newly opened campus generally do activities, the price of classes less, mobility, parents more problems, more requirements, more dissatisfaction, I am also very afraid.
The key is to change the campus, the morning in the A campus first section, and then in an hour to change to campus B, noon to return to campus A, is also an hour, the first time is good, although trouble but time, the second time I basically do not even eat time, each time in the convenience store queue to buy something to eat in a hurry to pull two mouthfuls into the classroom.
After such a few times, my body really can't stand, considering that pre-class answer service is not a mandatory requirement, I said to the afternoon class students, after class to come back to me, the result is because of this reason, there are two parents put me complaints, said that the child afternoon after class to catch up with other tutoring classes, other teachers can answer questions before class, I can't, very dissatisfied.
I am also very aggrieved, but the supervisor said that the number of complaints I have been more than the company regulations, let me go after the summer vacation, did not have to discuss. I went to the principal later, and it didn't work, so I realized that the management of the company was in a lot of gray areas.
I'm waiting for compensation now, and if I don't even have compensation, I'm going to court and fight them to the end. Now think about it, no wonder the company only recruits new students who do not understand anything, because we have the best bullying, the best fool, the best use of our energy to abandon regardless, this is my first into society was beaten.
When I first graduated and worked in Shenzhen, my boss wanted a son, but I had three children. L ater, a colleague gave birth to a twin boy, the boss was very angry, said the colleague took his son's luck, he cut the colleague. I was just an HR specialist and thought the boss was ridiculous.
After seven or eight years of HR, the company wants to fire employees for a variety of reasons. I think the most fundamental reason for the strange layoff is that the boss's education is too low, do not understand the law or think I am the boss I said.
After doing HR, the boss once asked me to dismiss pregnant women, soldiers, etc. , there is no way to refuse, but the conscience is particularly difficult. So every time I do this illegal dismissal at the beheading, I tell the staff what to say.
When I formally interview, I try not to fire an employee on the grounds that he or she has evidence that he or she needs to take legal action. HR can be said to be a "good guy" or a "bad guy" and I hope every HR doesn't have to do anything with a conscience.
I'm now suing my former company, I didn't think I had protected the interests of so many pregnant women, and eventually I didn't protect myself when I was pregnant. I got pregnant at the end of 2018 and worked for a company when I told the company I was pregnant on the 10th of that month and was fired on the 14th. W e had two pregnant women who were fired together. I was lucky enough to have a baby later, and another pregnant woman was fired and her angry and sad baby stopped.
Then I won the arbitration, but the company has been unconvinced, still appealing, quite time-consuming, now in the first instance. E ncounter this phenomenon, must collect evidence, and then labor arbitration to defend their rights and interests. If the boss doesn't understand the law, there's no other way than to sue, because the elbows can't screw the thighs.
My advice to pregnant women is to bind your mailbox to your computer, leave your email evidence, and if HR waits to record a conversation, the job you shouldn't do is refuse, and your body matters. If the company has room for negotiation, negotiate and leave.
My former company originally in the Northeast main telemarketing business, belongs to the category of television shopping. L ater tried to transform, some people came to Shenzhen to test hydropower merchants. I was recruited to the front desk and personnel, but also for a period of time customer service.
The month before being laid off, because I usually black circle heavy, our finance director directly in front of colleagues, not like a joking tone spitting slot I said, how your eye bag is so big, I then put this sentence in mind. At that time because after work to do live broadcast to make some money, not a few days to cut the eye bag.
After cutting to have a recovery period, can only take sunglasses to work, in the company colleagues asked me what's wrong with my eyes, I said, "Whoever let you say me, do the eye bags ah," the finance director was at the scene.
Shortly afterwards, I was working normally in the office, wearing a skirt that showed off my waist that day. H e passed by and saw me in front of his colleagues, saying I was "inappropriate" and asking me not to wear it in the future. I wore that dress once, and at other times I wore formal workplace clothes. Didn't expect to later dismiss me, one of the important reasons to say that my clothes are not right.
That month, they often said I wasn't right about it, and I felt abnormal. I didn't think about resigning voluntarily before, I thought I had a chance to come back through a good performance.
When the leader asked me about my dismissal, I was psychologically prepared. T hey said I didn't work well, but my work was done on time; they said I was doing live delays, and I wasn't live for half a month, and that it was off-duty; and then I said that my clothes were not proper, and that the reason for my dismissal was indefensible. I am personnel, more understanding of labor law, in advance opened the recording software records, unreasonable reasons for withdrawal, I do not allow a step, so I got compensation.
At that time, the company's e-commerce business did not do, they began to find reasons to withdraw. B efore me, the staff who were advised to quit thought that there was something wrong with their ability to work, did not expect to have compensation this thing, because I got compensation, we only reacted that this is a layoff. Later, my colleagues who were laid off came to consult me, and they all had to pay compensation.
Look a little, there must be a reason to be fired, but it's not necessarily that you're bad.
My first job experience was absolutely amazing. The job at the time was as a receptionist, the kind of tea poured in the conference room.
On the third day of work, the supervisor suddenly came to me and said that I was working with two colleagues to help me concentrate on my work. We've just gone for two or three days how good the relationship can be, and it's just the receptionist, who has the ability to encourage who's pulling the gang?
Didn't expect to work to a month, because we want to change a batch of work clothes, the supervisor came to me again, said I was too thin, work clothes did not suit me, told me not to go to work again, is to directly dismiss me.
The reason is ridiculous, but I just graduated, also dare not ask, feel that people do not let do do not do, there is no deep study.
In fact, let me wear a large yard of work clothes, or let me change the clothes to small can be. A nd I don't think I'm doing worse than others, if I want to say the real reason, I think it's probably because I'm too thin, only 38 kilograms, not tall, inevitably give people a feeling of underage. Later, the two colleagues I went with also left soon after, one for three months and one for half a year.
I'm a kindergarten major myself, and I've been doing kindergarten teachers ever since. Looking back, I am grateful for the supervisor's decision, because the job is very simple, boring, can only work on schedule, off-duty rest, learn nothing.
Our company "forced to go" the strange means is really too much, whether to stay or not, we are all panicked.
As a result of the outbreak, we resumed work in early March this year, and some of the line-of-business workers arrived before office workers, one of whom was fired for smoking in the dressing room (bath).
At the time, HR wrote an e-mail in both Chinese and English informing critics across the Asia-Pacific region that workers were not fired for smoking indoors before the outbreak, but at the end of that month, many of the workers in operation were laid off. A similar situation has been seen in foreign offices, where relatives of laid-off workers have taken to Twitter to say that the company's U.S. plants are not responsible for their sisters.
Last June, the company went to Jiangsu University to preach, told the students blood, recruited a number of tube Pearson, some pushed out the work of the Institute to join the company. But the company cut nearly two-thirds of its shares in November, and by the middle of this year, almost all of the 2018 and 2019 tube Pearsons have gone, which is unusual for a public company.
Also last year, there were no differentiated layoffs for more than 20 new students in both research and development and manufacturing divisions, and new students in the operations department were not affected for the time being. A mazingly, because at that time came in said is rotation, every post to stay, which happens to be in the research and development, manufacturing positions of students is very unfair. T he company was also interviewed by the government because there were too many layoffs at once. Ironically, the company is also the best employer in the region every year.
I'm one of the employees who's been squeezed out this year. After my immediate boss was transferred back to the United States, the new director began to talk to me frequently, and every two months suddenly demoted me on the grounds that in our organizational structure, I and the other two levels were girls, too many girls, need to lower me down, look more balanced.
After I was assigned to a new position, he assigned my workload to other colleagues, trying to take it down, and I had to leave on my own.
The rest of the colleagues in fact have a hard time, one of the assistant president worked for several years, but has been only outsourcing contracts, I have always felt that she is by the superior PUA, she also want to do a few functions, for this company to her own expense to learn PPT, to learn to be a secretary, she has been hit to say that the ability is not good.
Recently, the company needed her to change the outsourcing contract to the dispatch contract, and said that not signing the words will affect her future work back tone, she dare not not sign. But if she signs a dispatch contract, not only does the company have more constraints and demands on her, but her previous two years of work experience will not count, and if she is laid off, she may not have 0.5 or even 0.5 under the rules of N1, which will bring her sense of security to a nadine.
- Choose to defend your rights -
I've been working for 10 years and the only time I've been cut off was three years ago. A t the time, I was head of e-commerce for an online business at a cosmetics company. By the time I left, I had been with that company for a total of 2 years and 4 months, the contract was two years, and the boss didn't renew it with me when it expired in October 2016, but there was still a real labor relationship.
At that time, the company needed to move to a new office, when at the end of the year, the boss forcibly disbanded the team, from New Year's Day has been in the name of the holiday to let everyone take a vacation. No pay during the holiday period, pay is only paid until December 2016.
When I learned that some of my co-workers were still working normally, but asked HR multiple times, only to be told to go on holiday, I realized that my boss might have to cut me.
Fortunately, the company did not inform to lay off workers, has been dragging, ask HR said waiting for the boss arrangement. A fter the end of my annual leave, I waited for a while, and there was no news. Helplessly, I applied for labor arbitration, but the company's contracts, workplaces and factories are independent subjects, pay is through the boss's account, although the boss is the same person, but the overall relationship is very confusing, labor arbitration can not be resolved.
Later, I tried to talk to my boss, but he was out of touch, and HR used the search for a new office as an excuse. In March 2017, I approached a lawyer to sue the company, the first court session, and the boss went, physically assaulted me outside the courtroom, fabricating evidence that I was self-inflicted and absent from work for no reason.
Although the process of defending rights is relatively smooth, but the proof is also very troublesome. Fortunately, to my previous understanding of the boss's temper, style, judge that the boss may intend to deliberately take a holiday to force us to leave, so I was collecting and sorting work information years ago, after the normal to the company to card to retain the evidence.
The process lasted nearly 20 months, and compensation for seven and a half months' wages was not paid until October 2018, and an additional $15,000 was spent by a lawyer.
I had intended to leave after the end of the year, but he forced myself to leave with this deliberate holiday without pay, so that I felt that as a department head and old staff, did not get the respect they deserved. Other colleagues who had gone with me at the same time gave up their rights because they were working too short and taking too long to feel cost-effective.
On September 24, 2019, I joined a media company in Tianhe, Guangzhou, for short video offline training, responsible for the new media, the main work is to operate the double micro and course activities for The A generation, when the trial period of 3 months, salary 7K, after the conversion salary 8K.
By December 19, with four days left before the end of the probationary period, the personnel notice said I did not meet the company's job requirements and asked me to leave the same day. I asked which requirements were not met, and they couldn't say a specific term, which was to ask me to go.
At that time, the November salary has not yet been paid, the contract states that the pay time is the next month 15th. Personnel say salaries for November and December will be paid on January payday.
By mid-January, when the salary didn't arrive, I sent WeChat to my boss, who said the company was having a hard time getting 2,000 yuan first. Asked again in February, gave 1500 yuan, and then asked no reply.
Originally I also understand the company's difficulties, willing to wait, not too much to think about. Since leaving that company, I have been busy looking for a job, did not contact my former colleagues, recently contacted them, only to learn of myself, the company has laid off a total of about 10 people, some people from December to February wages have not been paid.
On one side are those of us who have been laid off, not only without compensation but also without pay. O n the other side, there are unpaid colleagues back to the company to see, found that the company is normal business office, but also on a large scale recruitment. I saw the company's recruitment information in the future without worry, and actually used the photos I took while I was on the job to introduce the team atmosphere.
Some time ago, I contacted 2 colleagues who are still on the job and learned that their salaries have been paid normally, otherwise they will not last until now. Above, let me judge that the company is maliciously underpaid.
Now that most of the year has passed, the company still owes me about 8000 yuan. Last week, I went with a few colleagues to Guangzhou Labor Dispute Mediation Center to complain, as to the outcome, still need to wait.
I interned and turned positive in 2017 and worked at Ctrip and where I went for more than two years. I n November 2019, I was notified that it had been optimized. Some time before this, my leader left, our group left me and a person in charge of microblogging, and then airborne a boss.
The airborne boss hired a group of his former colleagues and then began laying off staff, cutting three jobs in our department and one of the nursing staff. The reason HR gave me at the time was that I was outsourcing my public number operations.
We started talking about compensation, I asked for the year-end award also gave me, according to the N2 compensation, my salary is not high, work for 2 years has not increased wages, only a few thousand dollars, but the compensation is not negotiated. I n order to pay less compensation of 0.5N, they unilaterally terminated the agreement with me the day before my birthday (the day of my birthday was the time of entry), and there were several days of annual leave left. HR asked the security guards to pack up for me, and they unilaterally lifted the agreement with me, and the day before my birthday, I threw four or five boxes of my stuff directly at the door of the company and blew me out.
Last November's salary, still owe me two or three thousand. T hen I sent an e-mail to the CEO about my two years of work and what I faced that day. T he CEO replied that the HR team was very professional and that he respected the right decisions on all sides. After reading the CEO's reply, I was completely chilling.
Then I went to labor arbitration and got a lawyer, but the lawyer kept advising me to settle. T he arbitrator kept telling me that he had dealt with many of the company's cases before and didn't know what he was trying to imply. They advised me not to appeal, or I would be affected by looking for a job in the future.
When I went to court, the company produced proof of working hours, which showed that I had a three-day absenteeism record, 20 days of late and early departure, and pointed out that I had worked less than nine hours during this time, not meeting the company's standards, and I lost the case.
But in fact, the so-called absenteeism is that I represent the company to participate in activities or department building, there are in-house software and WeChat work group chat proof, and the working hours are even more outrageous, our company's staff manual is written that we can between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. to the company, between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., except for a noon break of one hour, working hours to be full of 8 hours.
In fact, in our daily work, there is no strict clock-in time, some people may arrive at 11 o'clock, work overtime in the evening, a attendance cycle cumulative working hours on average 9 hours a day. G enerally, if we leave late or if the union receives an e-mail alert from the company, we will also withhold our wages. Like most people, I work an overall nine-hour working day and don't receive emails reminding me to leave early or to be paid.
But the company drilled the hole because the labor contract was written to be carried out according to the standards of the employee's manual, and they counted the 20 days I left early, as a reason to dismiss me from compensation. I have now appealed and have asked some of my former colleagues to help me prove the long working hours.
After this, at first I felt like I was doing justice, but now sometimes I feel like I'm still stupid, and when they out of the company, I feel like this is my first job and I'm paying a lot for the company, even if it's collapsed.
The cost of going through the legal process is so great that since arbitration began in mid-December last year, it has put a lot of psychological pressure on me, thinking almost every day about what to do and losing sleep. In all the ways in which I seek personal rights, I have always believed in the justice of the law, but the end result will have to wait for a follow-up court decision.
In this article, A cheng, Wang Fangfang, Wang Mei, Liu Peng, stars, Yangyang, Miao Hui, Jing Li, Gloria, Yang Wei, Zhou Zitao as pseudonyms.
The above are from the real events of life, I hope to provide you with some reference.