Recently, I saw a report that as of December 2023, the number of unemployed people in the real estate industry has exceeded 400,000. Nearly half of them are post-80s. I, a post-80s generation who left from real estate people, unconsciously felt a chill on my back when I saw this data. In the 90s of the last century, the "wave of layoffs" experienced by our fathers actually happened to us again. All this, like reincarnation, cannot be avoided but is inescapable.
Before I left my job, I was a real estate planner, focusing on investment and land acquisition, which was actually to help the company hoard land. If the boss is in the middle of a piece of land, my team and I will inspect the land and surrounding facilities as soon as possible, understand the area planning, estimate the land value, and then quickly issue a project investment plan. In the years when the real estate industry was developing rapidly, everyone would promote several projects at the same time, and overtime, business trips, and staying up all night were almost commonplace.
Since the beginning of 2021, the real estate industry has gradually moved towards a trough, with well-known developers exploding one after another, and the financing of small real estate companies I work for has become more and more difficult, and several projects I am responsible for have been forced to stagnate due to financial problems. As a result, there are fewer and fewer main jobs, more and more non-job responsibilities, and fewer and fewer bonuses, but the basic salary is still guaranteed. For a while, real estate gods, economists, and well-known entrepreneurs were all talking about the decline of the industry, and I began to worry about my future - worried about suddenly losing my job and losing my income**. So, I began to pay attention to other job opportunities, interviewed several companies before and after, but the salary was too low, so I had to choose to continue to wait and see in the original position. In the second half of the year, all employees cut their salaries by 10%, and at the end of the year, even a dime of year-end bonuses were not paid.
After the beginning of the spring of 2022, the company began to lay off employees, and people left every three or five days, and some colleagues in my department were "optimized". People who haven't lost their jobs for the time being seem to be waiting for the second boot that their upstairs neighbor is about to throw, and the level of anxiety can be imagined. Throughout 2022, the company has been carrying out salary reforms, reducing the basic salary for a while to increase the performance ratio, and for a while to "temporarily keep" the performance salary for everyone, in short, a salary reduction in a different way. I knew that this industry was not suitable for long, and I tried hard to change jobs, but I couldn't find a suitable place until the end of the year. Fortunately, I was lucky, and I carried it through 2022 in my original position. After the river of time flows into 2023, many industries have ushered in spring, but the real estate industry has not waited for even a trace of turnaround and improvement. I, in the spring of this year, was unemployed!
Come to think of it, the tipping point of my job loss was ridiculous - for a while, the head of the department seemed to be in an extremely bad state of mind, and every once in a while he would call his colleagues to the conference room and scold them, everyone felt inexplicable, some people contradicted them, some people were calm and asked why, and the response was often even more unbearable. In March, after working overtime for several weeks, I had unbearable back pain and wanted to take time off work to see a doctor, but my boss not only refused to grant me leave, but also dragged me to a small conference room and scolded me. After listening to her yelling for a few minutes, I came up with the reason for the scolding - she thought that when I asked her for leave, I spoke in an impolite tone and was "disrespectful" to her. I defended myself a few words, and she became more and more insane and scolded even harder. To this day, I have long forgotten the words she scolded me that day, but her hideous face and hysterical roar are still fresh in my memory.
On my way home from work that day, I was devastated – the real estate industry had no future, and the job was in jeopardy, so what should I do? Thinking of the dignity I was traddled on when I was scolded, my mental state of being depressed, and the unbearable pain in my neck and back, I comforted myself: Otherwise, quit my job and rest for a while, anyway, there is still a little food leftover, and I will not die of hunger.
After going to work the next day, it took me less than two minutes to write a resignation report and went home in the afternoon. The process of leaving the company went smoothly and efficiently beyond imagination.
We Who Can't Be Beasts" stills.
After I left my job, every once in a while, I heard that a colleague had lost his job. Later, I heard that the former owner had changed the office location, changed the name of the company, increased the salary cut, and the old employees were left with few ......And I, unemployed at home, have nothing to do, made fun of the former employer, wrote an article about the former owner's Buddhist hall in the office area, published in Zhenguan, received unanimous praise from unemployed former colleagues, and even someone sent me a red envelope, asking me to write a few more articles to expose the ugly behavior of the former employer.
I stayed at home for almost half a year, and finally in the second half of the year, I landed a fast-moving consumer goods company. Unexpectedly, on the first day of employment, I actually met an old colleague from a real estate company, two! One was a investment promotion post and the other was a construction post, and now they are all sales of this FMCG company. In addition to being amazed at the size of the world, I had to be surprised at the speed at which the real estate building collapsed.
Image source network. After we bumped into each other, we had a meal together, and talked about the process of leaving our former employers, which was really outrageous and absurd.
A colleague who applied for the construction post said that a project she was responsible for had to be shelved because of financing difficulties, but the company wanted to quickly get back the tens of millions of land deposits paid during the bidding, so she set a KPI - within a month, let ** return the deposit, otherwise, resign and leave. Not surprisingly, her KPIs were not completed, and the job was not kept. When the company dismissed her, she didn't pay a penny in compensation, and the person in charge of the personnel department who talked to her looked like a dead pig was not afraid of boiling water, and said: "If you are not satisfied, you can also apply for labor arbitration, anyway, the company is now in a lawsuit." ”
A colleague of the Merchants Post received a notice of dissolution of the department during a business trip in the field, and when he returned from the business trip, he was forced to leave after reimbursing the travel expenses. After losing his job, he went to work in a pension real estate company for a period of time, and after the expiration of the probationary period, he was not given a regular job, and he left his job, and he was unemployed for a while, so he changed his career to FMCG sales.
Talking about the future, the three of us who are over 30 years old are more and more at a loss. Now that the economy is in a downturn, FMCG is not easy to do. At present, the enterprise has a great turnover of personnel, and no one knows whether the job in their hands can be stable. In a trance, I remembered the 90s - at that time, our parents, like us today, were abandoned by the industry and the unit one after another.