It's 2024, thank you for a year of companionship, I hope you are still there in the new year, let's make progress together.
Here, I hope that all the friends who follow me will have their wishes come true and their wealth will be doubled.
This year is the first day of the New Year, but it is also the last day of the New Year's Day holiday, and tomorrow we will have to go to work and school again, so let's talk about some "light" topic today - layoffs.
I remember in the middle of last year, I once told you, don't invest in financial management, don't buy **, have a job, no matter how good or bad he is, don't quit yet.
The summary is to have cash in hand, and then find a stable job, or you are opening a store, don't think about scaling up, get the things at hand right first, and continue to ensure that there is cash coming in.
How did Warren Buffett succeed?
His biggest secret lies in two key words: patience and cash.
You have to wait patiently, you have to endure **, and then when the opportunity comes, the cash in your hand can help you seize the opportunity as soon as possible.
Yesterday, I swiped to a real estate live broadcast room, and the anchor said with a serious face: If you have dozens of ws in your hand, what do you say you do?We are all ordinary people, and it is impossible to touch the ** of private placement, and it is not our turn, you don't want to touch the general investment and financial management, and you don't understand, my mother went to buy a financial management, and lost 30 w last year.
If you can't invest, what can you do?Put money in the bank, isn't that waiting for depreciation?
So, for ordinary people, the only way to preserve and increase their wealth is to buy a house ......
This statement caters to a preconceived notion of the real estate bull market of the past 20 years.
But now the situation is different, you can check the inflation rate, your money in the bank has not depreciated.
Secondly, by buying a house to maintain value, the premise of appreciation is that the house you buy becomes a second-hand house after a few years, and someone has to take over.
In other words, if someone else buys your second-hand house and exchanges it for cash and returns it to you, your round of investment will be considered successful, if you can't sell it, your hundreds of millions of houses will be in vain.
Because the realization cycle is too long, in case you encounter an emergency, you can only cut the meat, and it is a big meat, not to mention that many people still take out loans to buy houses, don't end up with your 5 million house, yes, it has risen to 6 million, but your interest will cost hundreds of thousands, and you are still in a hurry to sell, so come and go, and in the end you still lose.
Of course, although the real estate market is sluggish now, the core assets in the core cities are still very resistant, and you can still choose to start.
But the premise is still the same sentence, you have to have cash in hand, a person with a house of 5 million in his hand and a person with 5 million cash in his hand, which one is easier to seize the opportunity?
In addition to holding cash in hand, don't invest easily, you must not quit your job, have a stable job in your hand first, even if you really don't want to work here, you can ride a donkey to find a horse, and then leave after you have determined your next home.
But I didn't expect that the world is developing so fast that it is no longer a question of whether you want to quit or not, but the kind of company that wants to force you to resign and let you go without giving a penny.
In the past, when the company laid off employees, it would give 3+1, and there was always a poor 1+1.
If you are not satisfied, you can also go to labor arbitration to sue them.
Our labor law is very biased in this regard, and even in the past few years, some people have begun to take advantage of loopholes, go to a company for a few days and leave, and then ask the boss for a month's salary, if you don't pay, I will go to labor arbitration to sue you.
Many bosses will choose to settle things and give some money.
But now these bosses are also learning to be smart.
They will spend some money to find a very good law firm, and then let them send a legal counsel over, this legal counsel does not have to be very good, but as long as his law firm is better.
Second, they have very strict rules and regulations for employees, and the employee handbook will be signed by you on the day you start.
Once you sign, you assume that you have read all of them and agree to all the terms and conditions.
If there is any dispute in the future, people are not afraid of you, if you want to fight a lawsuit, we have a lawsuit, anyway, we have a lawyer, there is an employee handbook, for example, the above stipulates that you can't play with your mobile phone at work, and you will be fined 50 for playing once, and then we monitor and photograph how many times you play with your mobile phone, does this count as a violation of the company's rules and regulations?
It is also written in the employee handbook that any violation of 3 or more times is a major violation and must be fired.
At that time, you also agreed and signed.
So what else do you have to say now?
What, you think the contents of the employee handbook are unreasonable?
I'm sorry, but this employee handbook was voted and approved by our internal staff meeting, which means that everyone agrees.
Why don't you approve of something that everyone agrees with?Why are you so special?
Why don't you have any sense of collective honor, so you have to be so maverick?
This is a case I really encountered when I went to the court to observe before, and the HR of that employer was so scolding.
The eyes were so wide that they were about to eat the other side, and the lawyer couldn't stop them.
It was a real eye-opener for me.
In that case, it seems that the employee went to report that the company did not pay three times the salary for overtime work on the National Day, and replaced it with compensatory leave, and was fired by the company as a result.
Then the company took out the monitoring ** and said that he played with his mobile phone at work, smoked or something, violated the provisions of the employee handbook, and the dismissal was reasonable.
I don't know how it will be judged in the end, maybe he will win compensation, but I feel that with such an arrogant HR, and the existence of a lawyer, and the existence of that well-crafted and approved employee handbook, even if he can get compensation, this road will be very difficult.
Although the company violated the rules first, they passed a series of rules and regulations to make you have "ordinary violations" at work, so as to catch your sore feet and fire you reasonably and legally.
I thought this was disgusting enough, but I didn't expect that what happened to an advertising company in Xi'an recently refreshed my three views again.
The original office of this advertising agency was located on Jinye Road, Xi'an High-tech Zone, which is also the CBD area of Xi'an.
But in order to lay off employees without compensation, they came up with a very clever way.
The company was relocated to a village at the foot of the Qinling Mountains in Chang'an District.
And this village, 3 kilometers away from Yukou, has entered the foothills of the Qinling Mountains and is walking halfway up the slope.
This is commonly known as "Yamazato".
This is a comparison chart of the before and after office locations, you can take a look.
This is where their new company is on the map.
Although the original news was mosaic, the names of the villages involved were hidden.
However, I found a similar location in the map and calculated it.
The distance from Jinye Road in the High-tech Zone to here is almost 30 kilometers, it takes 45 minutes to drive, and it costs 97 yuan to take a taxi to work.
Of course, you can also use public transport.
It's just that it takes several transfers, and it takes 2 hours to get the full name.
It's just going to work.,It's two hours to go back from work.,If you catch up with overtime.,It's late and there's no bus back.。。。
And that's just the distance from where I was working.
If you originally lived in the north of the city, it would have taken you an hour to go to work, good guy, don't sleep now, get up at three o'clock to pack up and get ready for work.
Therefore, many employees couldn't accept it, they questioned it and called the boss.
However, the company's administration said: Now the company's operation has encountered difficulties, and it needs to move, and it is impossible to accept the monthly salary to you.
As a result, on October 27, 2023, 14 of the companies with more than 20 people signed a separation agreement.
I thought this was the end of the matter, but I didn't expect it.
Only 4 days after leaving, they learned from their former colleagues that the company had moved back to the city and started recruiting online.
Now everyone is unhappy, aren't you cheating?
So I posted on the Internet about it.
Soon the reporter went to interview Boss Zhang, the person in charge of the company.
Boss Zhang said: "In the second half of the year, the company's operation was more difficult, but it has never been in arrears of wages, and the company's reputation has been good in the industry." I have been told that moving to the mountains is only a temporary measure, and at this time, I hope that everyone can share the weal and woe, but I didn't expect many people to resign and post this matter on the Internet. ”
To put it simply, those employees are not kind, only willing to enjoy happiness with me in the city, the company has encountered some difficulties temporarily, I take everyone to the mountains to suffer for a few days, don't you all accept this?Also on the Internet**I, it's just no conscience!
Then the reporter went to interview the other party, the employees who had left the company.
But they denied this: "At that time, we were told that the office cycle in the mountains may be very long, and it may not be possible until next year”
In addition, after leaving the job, everyone also found that their social security was bought after one year of employment, and some performance, overtime pay and paid annual leave were not calculated for themselves.
Several colleagues have now filed a claim for arbitration with the local labor arbitration department.
At this point, after interviewing both parties, it's time to ask the lawyer's opinion.
As a result, I think you must have guessed it.
It's hard, it's hard.
The lawyer said: "If the commuting distance and working environment are too different, it can be considered as a change of contract, but if you sign a voluntary resignation letter, it may be difficult to protect your rights." ”
If what the employee says is true, it would be a bit reckless to move the company to the mountains and force the employee to resign with the help of 'force of nature'. ”
The summary is: although the company did not do it right, because the employees signed a voluntary resignation letter, it was your own voluntarily, so no one can help.
In fact, I don't think I need to ask the lawyer's opinion, because this boss must have asked a lawyer before preparing to lay off employees.
Then we will "voluntarily leave" your old employees, and then we will recruit some younger, cheaper, and more motivated new people to come in.
Judging from the news at the moment, this is just an isolated case, but the impact is too bad.
If other companies learn to do the same in the future, and I want to fire a group of employees, and I can't find a reason, then what should I do?
If it is a company in Beijing, I will transfer you employees who are from Beijing and have already started a family to Shanghai, and those from Shanghai will be transferred to Beijing.
If you refuse to leave, then Xiao Li, take a trip** and set up a **branch...
That's why I say that the impact of this is very bad, and this demonstration effect is so bad that there will definitely be many people vying to imitate it.
So what to do?
On the surface, they have taken advantage of the loopholes in the law, and it seems that there is really nothing they can do.
But remember the case I mentioned earlier in the article?
reported that the company did not give three times the company on the National Day, and the employee who took the leave was fired by the company for looking at his mobile phone more than three times after work, and seriously violating discipline
Yes, although we have nothing to do about this matter, we can start from other aspects, such as checking taxes, seeing if the fire protection is up to standard, and they are an advertising company.
There are many ways, it depends on whether you use them or not.
Finally, I wish you all the best and all the best in 2024.