How cool is it to work in a declining factory?The salary does not change, the work is less than half

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-01-28

When LeEco was still in its heyday, employees often had to work late into the night to show their enthusiasm and team dedication. However, in reality, a large part of the overtime work is just to meet the needs of the sauce jar culture, and the actual effect is very small. The emergence of Accountant Jia changed all that, and after a period of chaos at LeEco, the autonomy of the employee organization after the departure of the boss achieved amazing results. They successfully sold the copyright of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" and received tens of millions of royalties every year. These payments were distributed directly to employees, making the annual salary of LeEco employees as high as 270,000 yuan. Compared with the employees of other large factories who work overtime to act, hold meetings, and roll PPT, the wages of LETV employees are not much worse, the reason is that there is no middleman to earn the difference. LeEco's story is a reminder that a company's quality is not necessarily proportional to the effort of its employees. Employees often work overtime just to help their bosses earn money.

At Suning, once China's second-largest private company, employees faced numerous meetings, often scheduled after hours, to prevent employees from leaving on time. An employee of Suning revealed that although an Ali executive introduced by the company was good at making PPT and telling high-level Internet terms, he actually did not do much in terms of actual business. He starts a new project every month, but after a year, it doesn't bring any revenue to the company, but it costs hundreds of millions. At the summary meeting that year, the boss asked him why he had invested so much money but it had no effect, and he replied: "You have to look at this matter from the Internet thinking." "These people who claim to be Ali elites have left one by one when the Suning crisis is coming. However, Suning employees who stayed said they preferred the current Suning. Many departments no longer have additional marketing expenses, and everyone can focus on their own work and leave work on time. As a result, the competitive mentality within the company has disappeared, and employees have become peaceful instead of seeking promotions and salary increases. Moreover, the salaries of ordinary employees have not decreased. Compared with the situation of staying up late at night in the past, the company's income is no longer rising year after year, and the actual income is almost the same. Suning's story is the same as LeTV's, the collapse of the company means that employees are relaxed, no longer need to act, work overtime, have more time to spend with their families, and their quality of life has improved significantly.

In the workplace, many people chase so-called big factory jobs, but the examples of LeEco and Suning show us that the quality of a company has little to do with ordinary employees. Instead of directly leading to higher wages, employees working overtime may become a tool for middlemen to earn the difference. To avoid being PUA, we should be clear about our positioning and not give up the quality of our personal life and work in pursuit of a high salary. After all, the way of thinking of a worker and a capitalist is different, and it is important to work hard to get what you deserve, rather than making more profit for your boss. Every company has its own value orientation and management model, and we should choose the company and career path that suits us according to our own situation. Whether it is the self-management of LeTV or the comfortable life in Suning, the happiness of the workers does not depend on the size of the company they work in, but on their positioning and choices in it.

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