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"I have been in the company for almost six years, and I go to the company half an hour in advance every day to prepare. I can't touch anything later, let alone 996, and sometimes 770 survives. I am also excellent at my work. I have a team of several hundred people who always keep up with my boss. But just a few days ago, I was suddenly informed by my boss that I was on the layoff list. On the day of the notice, I signed a letter of termination, negotiated compensation and asked to leave three days later. I'm too fast to react. I dare not tell my wife that I sneak out to look for a job every day. I feel a lot of pressure when I think of my child's monthly tuition fee of more than 6 thousand, the car loan is still unclear by the end of the year, and the loan that I just bought a house. "
My friend Lao Li cried to me on the phone. A few days ago, he just received a notice of layoffs from the company.
Lao Li is a good friend of Lao Jie. Because he is several years older than me, I always call him teacher. He gave me a lot of help in my work. Because everyone is busy with work and life, I occasionally habitually look through his circle of friends to see his recent situation. However, just last weekend, he suddenly called me. I thought he was going to teach me practical work experience again, but unfortunately he was laid off.
Since last year, news of layoffs of Internet companies such as Meituan, Lagou, JD.COM, Zhihu, Sina and 58 Home has been reported in newspapers one after another. Many car companies are also leaders in layoffs, and even Foxconn is reported to have laid off 340,000 people.
Most of these laid-off workers are young and middle-aged people under 40. They may have been the hope of a village, but now they are the backbone of a family and have always been the backbone of this society. I have worked in the company for a long time and struggled for half my life. The promise of layoffs means a lot to them.
Large enterprises lay off employees in order to be more balanced, and small enterprises are more for survival.
When the phenomenon of layoffs is mapped to a person or an enterprise, which is enough to affect the life and death of enterprises and personal survival, the influence and destructive power of layoffs are magnified countless times.
Layoff has inexplicably become a thorny but global problem in this society.
Some time ago, the hottest news about layoffs may be that Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the world's largest enterprise software company, stood at the forefront because of layoffs.
"We have to work!"
"Children have to go to school!"
"Why are you so embarrassed!"
It's embarrassing to hear these words.
They stood in the street, shouting slogans.
Once blessed by heaven, now he is reduced to street protests.
These social elites all graduated from prestigious schools with an annual salary of hundreds of thousands or even millions. But what is embarrassing is that most of them are engineers around the age of 37 and have no age advantage. They are old and young, and they also have mortgages and car loans. Everything is cool.
However, many people say that these people are totally unworthy of sympathy.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions, known as "the largest nursing home in Beijing", has always been known for its easy work. No punching in at work, free working hours. In terms of employment, you can apply for working at home with 16 days annual leave. Even if these 900 people are laid off, they will still get N+6 compensation, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions.
A few days ago, when many companies learned the news, they all threw olive branches to this group of people, including well-known giants such as Ali, Baidu, Tencent and Huawei. What's more, a well-known Internet recruitment platform specially held a grand recruitment special event for them. However, the results are surprising. Most people failed to pass the first round of interviews, and some even passed the interview, but they were brushed off during the technical inspection. Their ability is sighing.
From the moment of graduation, this group of masters who graduated from famous schools lived a stress-free life. Even if they used to be a frog with strong fighting capacity, they will die slowly if they are boiled in warm water for a long time.
"Augmented Sages" said: "Learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. " When enterprises face transformation, the inevitable result is the last elimination system.
So The Times eliminated you without even saying hello.
We often see that if an enterprise eliminates employees, the conditions are usually divided into three categories:
First: people who can't struggle;
Second: people who can't do it;
Third: people with low cost performance.
Regardless of the size, there are listed companies with a market value of 10 billion, and there are also entrepreneurial stars who have been established for less than one year; The laid-off employees, regardless of their qualifications, include ignorant newcomers who have not completed the probation period and old guns who have been fighting for many years; After layoffs, there are different reactions. Some people cry, some people laugh, some people understand, and some people make trouble. ...
However, are the laid-off people really people who can't create new value because they don't work hard enough?
The vast majority of layoffs in the world have nothing to do with whether employees are diligent or slack, whether they are big cows or shrimp. In fact, Oracle Bone Inscriptions in front can only be said to be a special case, and it is still common around them. This is related to the "general trend", the KPI output of the whole team, the irreplaceable direction, and the unity of strategic rectification, while the personal efforts and skills of employees are negligible in the face of this overwhelming environment.
35 years old, is it really "old" in the workplace?
Franklin, one of the three founding fathers of America, once said:
I have never seen an early riser, diligent, cautious and honest person complaining about bad fate. Good character, good habits and strong will will will not be defeated by assumed fate.
Those employees who are capable, self-motivated and have a sense of crisis, even at the age of 35 or even 40, are still the targets of enterprises.
I have a friend, Xiao K, who came to Beijing to work alone before he was 20 years old. Because there is no money at home to keep him in school, he can only choose to apply for junior college. However, the academic background of college graduation once made him rejected by many enterprises. Because I don't have any background, I can only enter an ordinary enterprise to do copywriting after graduating from college. At that time, he was an ordinary employee at the bottom.
However, he didn't stop himself. He enriched himself step by step. Even if others push the work to him, he takes it seriously and strives for perfection. Most of his daily life is reserved for work. Even if he worked overtime day and night, he took the time to get a college diploma.
In this way, after 3-4 years, the news of layoffs spread in the company, and the department leaders talked with him with the aim of letting him be laid off and hoping that he could resign on his own initiative. As an ordinary company, there is no compensation.
However, his previous efforts have brought him a new turn. After leaving this company, he joined a large marketing company, which benefited from his accumulation in recent years. In less than a year, his salary increased, and many companies rushed to take him. On weekdays, he comes into contact with various personal bills.
Now we often talk about him at that time when we eat together, and we often exchange experiences and problems at work. Now I am nearly 30 years old, have a house and a car, and have some savings.
In addition, there are also many entrepreneurs who start their business when they are old:
President Ma founded Alibaba at the age of 35;
Liu Chuanzhi founded Lenovo at 40;
Zong founded Wow Haha at the age of 44. ...
So, again, for those who have the ability, age is not a problem at all. The problem lies in the stagnant self living in the greenhouse.
Therefore, it is not the 35-year-old young man who will die, but you who are 35 years old!
From now on, my sister will want to suggest you:
Exercise yourself and look at difficulties with a normal heart.
Imagine yourself. If you were fired by the company at the age of 35, would you feel that you have lost the whole world? Imagine yourself more, whether it is a hard screw or a hammer; Imagine yourself more. If you are depressed or suddenly seriously ill when you have nothing, can you bear all this ... The more you imagine, the more real you are, and experience those tastes, because only in this way can you abandon all unrealistic fantasies and prepare for the future in a down-to-earth way.
Restrain desires and learn to manage money and invest.
Many seemingly stable jobs have the highest annual salary of 10. After working for 40 years, they will earn 4 million in their lifetime. With an income of 4 million, it is not enough to buy a better house in the front line, let alone to eat and use it widely, educate children, take care of family and provide for the elderly. Excuse me, after 35 years old, you are alone. What will you pay for "car loan+mortgage+children +2 adults +4 elderly people"?
I have some money on me, so don't spend it in a hurry and see if there are suitable investment opportunities around me. If there is anything good, then give some money to professional investment institutions. Maybe I will come to Qian Shengqian again.
35-year-old people in the workplace will face the impact from all aspects of work and life to a certain extent. If you are laid off at the moment, or on the verge of being laid off, instead of being sad and anxious, it is better to leave some time for yourself, think clearly about your next direction and make a suitable plan for yourself.
Never blindly ride a donkey to find a horse, and keep an optimistic and positive attitude. Although the competition is fierce, there will still be many opportunities.
There is no dark moment in life, but the light ahead is a little weak.