The middle aged factory people who were laid off enjoyed the world first

WeChat*** Zhiqu (ID: liuzhiqu7788), author: Liu Zhiqu, title picture from: Visual China Wang Xing said, "This is the worst year in the 10 years of the Internet, and it will also be the best year in the next 10 years." Four years have passed since this sentence.

Looking back on the past 2023, although the pace of recruitment and recruitment of giants such as BAT seems to have never stopped on the surface, the discussion on the statistics of the net loss of employees in large factories is somewhat secretive.

The condemnation of Internet practitioners after being "graduated" in batches has risen one after another on social **The fact that the industry has completely bid farewell to rapid development and entered the era of stock games may have already been revealed.

I still remember that in the years of the rapid development of the Internet, about 99% of the people in the industry who have been brainwashed by the theory of struggle are as high as 99%, and less than 1% of them can become high-level P.

At that time, everyone who entered the Internet giants, once they made more or less achievements, it was easy to mistakenly think that they would be the 1% on the spire. It wasn't until the industry turmoil in the past two years that I had to admit that I was just an ordinary person in the remaining 99%.

This process is a bit like what Wang Xiaobo said in "** Times":

I was twenty-one years old that day, in the ** era of my life. I have so many extravagant hopes, I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a cloud in the sky in an instant.

Later, I learned that life is a slow process of being hammered, people grow old day by day, and their extravagant hopes disappear day by day, and finally they become like cattle that have been hammered.

Once the tide of the industry recedes, the model of enterprises relying on financing to burn money is bound to be unsustainable, and disorderly expansion has to press the pause button"Survival" is a more important practical proposition than "seeking development".

Even large factories have to find ways to tighten their belts and strive to survive until the arrival of the next spring.

As a result, countless individuals will be unfortunately thrown out in this continuous and violent **, and after falling into the huge gap of reality, everyone's heart will be followed by anxiety and loss when they are unable to control their personal fate.

But perhaps, we were originally in a chaotic and disordered system, and everyone was just temporarily brought to a position that should not belong to us by the dividends of the times.

Throw yourself in at high tide and change at low tide. When we take off the halo on our heads and the vanity in our hearts, remove the layers of fog, and re-examine the gains and losses in the real Internet giants, we may gain a different outlook on life and career.

1. A job where you can't see the sunset.

Even if the Internet has lost its imagination at present, "entering the big factory" is still the yearning of the vast majority of young people.

On the one hand, they think that Dachang has better welfare protection, such as free three meals a day, fruit snacks, additional medical supplementary insurance, and administrative care during the New Year's holidays.

On the other hand, it is believed that it is easier for large factories to make money and improve themselves. In the most prosperous years of life, exchanging energy and even health for money is indeed one of the few choices for ordinary people.

And everyone who has just entered Dachang will have infinite longing at first, thinking that this place represents innovation and freedom, openness and tolerance, and everyone is fresh and full of personality. ‍‍

But in fact, all of this is nothing more than an illusion. Even in a very advanced organization, ordinary people still cannot escape the dogma of interpersonal relationships, apathy, philistine, and instrumentalization.

It is precisely because it is advanced enough that the business of large factories is increasingly polished into a mature industrial assembly line, and every employee is internalized as one of them. You only need to do a good job of reporting and reviewing this link upwards and downwards, and when it comes to specific implementation, they are all first-class businessmen or outsourcing and interns.

And for every subtle innovation and adjustment, the actual efficiency always takes into account the balance of risks, compliance, and conflicts of interest.

Interview to build an aircraft carrier, come in and screw the screws. The sense of disparity is the norm, and everyone plays a precise screw on their familiar gears. ‍‍

If you don't take the initiative to improve or strive for it, it will be difficult for you to figure out the overall situation of the entire project, and it is easy to fall asleep in the hotbed of a large factory. ‍‍

This is also why many people who leave this system are unable to adapt to the outside world, because there are only a few large factories jumping around, and most small and medium-sized enterprises need people who can handle the entire production line from planning to implementation.

Perhaps it is also because of the realization that they are highly replaceable, and whoever does this job is the same, and the same position in a large factory usually sets up multiple people horizontally to "race horses" together, so everyone will naturally have a sense of insecurity, and involution will occur quietly.

Overtime and "996" is the norm in large factories, even if they can complete the work to get off work, they will still choose to look at each other in the company and pothos, the main one is later than colleagues get off work, and the time to send weekly reports or plans must be deliberately delayed until two o'clock in the morning.

Second, the inherent thinking under the value orientation.

Of course, the days of the big factories are definitely not painful. On the contrary,A rational person who puts his work first is often more likely to reach success because he is not easily disturbed by external noise.

But for an emotional person, in addition to the sense of accomplishment and reward brought by work, he may also hope to be able to extend the breadth of life in real life experience and feel the richness of the color of this world.

But under the impact of the concept of big factories day after day, people will be extremely eager for stability, and there is almost no ability to accept risks; Under the way of thinking that everything in large factories must prioritize value returns, it is easy for people to lose their perception of life.

Because I am afraid that once I lose it, I will never be able to find such a job in a big factory, so I will have a serious shame of asking for leave and giving up the opportunity to travel with friends; Because I feel that reading ** poetry is a waste of time, I choose professional books that I can't read at all; Because I felt that learning to pour coffee by hand would not bring any value to self-improvement, I chose creative training ...... that I was not interested in but had a better return on investment

It doesn't seem to matter if you only want to get a result, and whether the experience is good or not. Advocating the supremacy of efficiency and the supremacy of results is a kind of habitual thinking that has been disciplined.

This is like contemporary young people who are keen on the short ** platform, brushing a movie in three minutes and reading a famous book in five minutes, everyone just wants to know the plot and ending. As for its artistic value, as well as what is worth thinking about and **, it is not worth mentioning.

I'm afraid that only one day, maybe I lost this job, maybe I experienced a change in my life, which caused the string in my heart to break, and a perpetual motion machine was scrapped, so that I could truly understand what Mr. Luo Xiang said:

Many things don't need to be meaningful, eating, drinking and having fun is not the same as wasting time, and enduring hardships and standing hard work is not the same as being meaningful. Life is just an accumulation of experiences.

3. Everything is a product of the times.

What is even more sad is that no matter whether he went to Dachang because of his self-consistency under the pressure of livelihood, or because he wanted to work hard with enthusiasm, what many people did not expect in the past two years was that he would finally leave Dachang so passively.

It may be difficult for people who have experienced the rise of the Internet to admit that all success is just the dividend of the times, but no one will deny it nowadays, and people will inevitably be "abandoned by the times".

In fact, layoffs in large factories are usually not initiated by the human resources department, but are driven by the operating data reports provided by the finance department, and every expenditure in each line of business will be clearly listed, making layoffs more likely to occur from the top down. ‍

Middle-aged factories think that if they have survived long enough, their positions and salaries are high enough, and their connections and resources are rich enough, the tide of layoffs will come to an abrupt end in front of them, but the reality is that they have lost their "cost performance" because they are too expensive, and they are more likely to become the first choice for optimization.

Of course, the process of layoffs is not always objective, and the intimacy of interpersonal relationships can often determine whether a person stays or stays, and we have almost no control over this.

Saying goodbye to big factories may be a relief, but also a disillusionment of ideals. Even if the "n+1" can be used to temporarily disguise the anxiety of unemployment, it is difficult to ignore the increasing competition in the job market.

Looking back at the positions that I didn't look down on at the beginning, the threshold has now become 985 211;At the beginning, HR's active invitation has now become unreadable. So on the one hand, I had to fight with more than 10 million fresh graduates and compete for jobs; On the one hand, they have to contend with the invisible age threshold.

But there is no way, the change of the times is to affect the whole body. For the middle-aged Internet giants, the successes or loneliness they have experienced are just products of the times.

The best mentality can be summed up, as Fan Zhongyan said: "Don't be happy with things, don't be sad with yourself." "Short-term labor pain is inevitable, but there are also desperate situations.

Fourth, the laid-off people enjoy the world first.

In fact, if you think about it quietly, many times, the root of the problem is whether you can let go of your obsession.

The industry is cyclical, and life also has multiple values. Whether to be anxious about the window period, or to take advantage of the "n+1" to give yourself a vacation, to explore the life that you have never had the courage to explore, such a choice has always been in your own hands.

The laid-off enjoy the world first, and this is by no means a rebellious declaration of independence. But in a long-term state of internal friction and squeezing, the middle-aged people in the laid off factories are really physically and mentally exhausted and need to rest.

In fact, there is no need to worry too much about the threshold of age at the time of employment. The number of fresh graduates is rising every year, and every year there are people who complain about the difficulty of finding a job, and at different stages of life, there are always people who advise you to keep your job steady, but every year there are still people who go to new jobs. ‍‍

At this age, in fact, what you need to think about is what kind of life you want to live and what field you want to work in, after all, people are always confused when they are young, and they are always trying and making mistakes, and now they have the opportunity to talk about the realization of their ideal life.

Sometimes leaving a super first-tier city with more pressure can often lead to a better life experience. The Internet industry has always had more flexible employment methods, such as operations, editors, designers, programmers, etc., which can be completely off-site.

When you see the sunset again and feel the passage of time, you will find that those who are not sitting in the office are actually living well.

WeChat***知趣學 (ID: liuzhiqu7788), author: Liu Zhiqu This content is the author's independent point of view and does not represent the position of Tiger Sniff. Do not do without permission**, please contact hezuo@huxiu for authorizationcom

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