Punch Lines is officially on vacation. Chen Si guessed that it would be more than a year before he saw the wonderful words again. And then there was Linda, a woman who was as ruthless and resolute as the good words she once had. She has the beauty of no witty words, but she has an aura that surpasses her. She was afraid that others would not know her purpose for taking office, so she released rumors of layoffs as early as when Miao Yan had not left.

The directives given are very clear, at least 30 percent streamlined. This 40 percent does not refer to the number of people, but to the overall labor cost. Although she has a lot to play, her strategy is very clear, fair on the surface, and different on the inside. Forty percent for each department, and then twenty percent for middle management. In this way, the balance can still reach 30 percent, and it will not offend the high-level. She first disseminated the news of layoffs in the production department and engineering department, which had the largest number of people, and then let others guess about 50 or 60 percent. The specific embodiment is also dirty. Let the superior say it to the subordinate, and then deliberately ask the subordinate not to leak the news. Based on her experience, she certainly knew that her subordinates would definitely leak this rumor in different ways.

Sure enough, as soon as the wonderful words left, rumors immediately spread. Everyone had a frightened look on their faces, as if they would definitely be hit, and even if they didn't, they wouldn't be able to show their dew. By June, everyone was huddled in the office, smoking room, pantry, and whispering in the corner of the workshop, as if everyone had received first-hand conclusive information, and the list of layoffs seemed to have been drawn up. And those who heard that they were on the list went from panicking at first, to gradual numbness, to anger, and then to thinking about compensation and getting out. And the different versions of the list can cover almost everyone, so the vaccination has successfully hit everyone's heart.

The layoffs were simple and crude. Let you go today, and never let you pass the third watch. It should be completed within a week, and it is best to settle it in one day, so that the night is long and the dream is many, and the festival is extraordinary. Although friendly and loyal Chinese people are not like some countries, they will go home on the day of layoffs and take AK47 back to the company to take revenge, but it is not excluded that a very small number of people are driven by anger to roll up some information, do something tricks, and do some sabotage to vent their anger. Therefore, it is generally HR who notifies the immediate leader, the leader pronounces the sentence, and then accompanies the other party until he leaves the company. The whole process will not take more than half a day, and some people do not even have the opportunity to say goodbye to their colleagues face-to-face, and they will send a "there will be a date" email to their colleagues as a formal farewell. Others, who may not have had a chance to touch their work computer from the time they were told to leave the company, can only go back to their personal email to send a brief informal goodbye to their most familiar colleagues, and leave their contact information to keep their connections from disappearing instantly.

For the operators, it is even more cruel, they do not have a computer, may not have the habit of using a private mailbox, connections are obviously very important to them, but it is more difficult to maintain, many people can only plunge into the arms of labor agencies, labor agencies, they need to pay a lot of intermediary fees, and the jobs they find are not up to their own choice. Many people have to move out of the staff dormitory overnight, and for them who are reluctant to stay in a hotel, a familiar fellow and friend has become a safe haven to get through that difficult time. It is reassuring that foreign companies are afraid of the labor law and will give them a minimum amount of compensation, and if the service period is long enough, it is basically enough to support the difficult period of finding a job.

But there will still be very different emotional responses.

Young college graduates are sad for a short period of time, and then they don't care about it, and they don't have to worry about finding a job. The high-level always has huge connections and abundant wealth accumulation, although the loss is huge, but the family foundation has been established, and life is not worried. However, for middle-level cadres whose careers are on the rise, they will fall into the middle-class trap, accustomed to superior treatment and not thrifty lifestyles, and have children who carry mortgages and go to school. However, mainstream society seems to have forgotten about the workers at the bottom, and if the workers on the assembly line are laid off, they are instantly left with nothing.

Linda is one of the veterans, from actively spreading rumors to finally executing, there was a gap of nearly a month, hanging everyone's hearts in their throats, muddy, trembling for a month, exhausting everyone's desire to resist, calming down disappointment and anger. Everyone will bow their heads in front of the system, become large and understand the "company's financial situation", accept the reality of "people are swordsmen, I am fish and meat", straighten their necks, wait for the knife to fall, and even in the end, they can't wait for the knife hanging above their heads to fall down quickly, and the pain of waiting greatly exceeds the cut of the knife. Soon, more versions of the layoff plan were derived, some say in two batches, so that the despair pervades the whole company, and it seems that it is no longer 50 or 60 percent, but a nightmare that no one is immune to.

The real list is impossible to publish, and you will watch your colleagues leave lonely, reluctantly, sadly, or in despair, or you will suddenly find that they are no longer in their seats the next day, quietly disappearing into your lifeline. In the end, the execution cut through the mess, and Linda transferred a commissioner from the Hong Kong branch, a total of five people. These five people are like death executioners, they hold meetings with each floor in advance, determine the list, and then let the commissioner break them down one by one, and the full name will be accompanied by security guards to prevent any excesses.

No one left at Carter's level, Liang Kuo and Ah Dong both kept their jobs, but Ah Dong was transferred back to Hong Kong, and another senior manager left. There were a lot of people left below Sun Ning, Chu Li and Xiang Yang Hua both kept their jobs, but Guo Yiming, Chen Cheng, and Chen Xi were all on the list, and Peng Chunlai was there. Feng Zhao and Che Qiang both wanted to leave, but Sun Yawei's two generals were saved, thanks to Lu Chengwu's voluntary resignation. A rough calculation shows that it is indeed around 30 percent. The production department is even more miserable, and some workshops are the supervisor and the line leader. The operator shuffled, and many faces disappeared overnight. However, many of the workers who have been laid off are new to the country, and it is said that it is for the convenience of training. Fan Ming and Huang Jing, Wu Siying, and Sun Xiaomei are still there. But Huang Jing was transferred, and it is said that after a pot was served in a workshop, even the old employees who were familiar with the process were gone. Later, many people said that some employees cried when they left, the girls hugged their heads and cried, the engineers were silent, and some left with their things without looking back. When HR found Chunlai, he was stunned for a few minutes, and although he was very surprised, he accepted it calmly, and he received five months' salary compensation. He is going to rent a house in Dongguan first to find a job and not leave for the time being.

After a few days, the layoffs were completely over. The people who stayed behind breathed a sigh of relief, but their hearts also seemed to have been cut a few times, and they felt a faint pain. Sun Ning invited all the people who were laid off to dinner, which was regarded as seeing off everyone. Feng Zhao didn't come to participate, but Li Xiaohong did. She was a little embarrassed and said that Feng Zhao hadn't returned to his hometown for several years, and took this opportunity to go back to his hometown for a long vacation, in fact, everyone knew that he just didn't want to face Sun Ning, and no one broke it, on the contrary, everyone was very happy that she could come, especially Chen Xi and Chunlai, who have always regarded Li Xiaohong as a professional sister. In the end, Chen Xi, Guo Yiming and Chen Cheng were drunk, and everyone was crazy, saying that TMK was like a second university, and they studied something in it for a few years, but unfortunately it was like a banquet that would be dispersed. Since they all left in a hurry, everyone planned to go back to their hometown, then rest for a week, and then come back to look for work.

After eating, Sun Ning nodded to Chu Li, glanced at Chu Li, Chu Li understood, and said to Chun: "You drank very little today, why don't you go to my place?" ”

"It's inconvenient?" Chunlai smiled wryly, "Will Xiaoye be here?" Or Chen Si? ”

"Are you still poor?"

"Okay, I don't have much to go anyway."

"Is there a place to live?"

"I found a house and rented it for a month."

"Retreated."

"Huh?"

"Tell me about it."

Chu Li came to the residence with a blank look on his face. As soon as he entered the house, Chu Li went into the room and took out his mobile phone to make a call, and Chunlai heard him speak English. Taking advantage of Chu Li's phone call, Chunlai made himself a cup of tea and left a cup for Chu Li. Chu Li walked out and said to Chun: "Do you plan to stay in Dongguan?" ”

"Now I don't know, let's take it one step at a time."

"You're a mechanic, right?"

"Yes, but what I'm doing now has nothing to do with machinery."

"You go to Changzhou."

"To Changzhou?"

"Yes, Vincenzo is a man, I'll talk to him. If you go, you will get a salary and an allowance. Chu Li looked up at Chunlai, blew the tea leaves in the cup, and snorted the tea soup.

"Wen Qinzuo, how did they get to Changzhou?"

"He cooperated with a domestic company to produce manipulators, that company is from Changzhou, they are short of people, as long as it is introduced by Wen Qinzuo and can pass the interview, it will definitely be no problem."

Chunlai couldn't bear the joy, stood up and said to Chu Li: "I'm willing to go!" ”

"It's just ...... with Fan Ming," Chu Li said with a smile, "Is there a problem?" ”

"It's okay, I'll take her with me."

"Is she willing? You need her to support you. ”

"She'll have my back."

"What we've been doing has nothing to do with your major, and I haven't touched it in the past three years, so you have to hurry up and don't be stumped by the new boss's interview."

"Don't worry, I was going to take the graduate school entrance examination, but I didn't lose the book."

"That's good. You see, this train will leave tomorrow afternoon. You quickly clean up and return the room. Then talk to Fan Ming. If she supports you, you can move your things to me and leave tomorrow. If she doesn't support you, don't be tough, we'll see. “

Chunlai thought to himself, you have already helped me figure out the way back. I felt a pang of gratitude. Nodding, "I'll go talk to her." “

Wen Qinzuo wished that TMK would lay off all Liang Kuo's people, and it was best to lay off Chu Li, so that there would be a general person in charge over there. It's not that he can't believe Zhang Guoqiang, but he feels that he is too conservative, maybe it is related to his old and stable personality. What he needs is a more aggressive, stronger person in charge, who can be a little more rapid in terms of technology updates, deliveries. Secondly, he and Zhang Guoqiang have had some unpleasantness recently. The matter is still related to technological updates, the headquarters wants Zhang Guoqiang's people to go to Italy for a month of training, and all the technical details and quality problems in the past are well explained, in case the same problem is committed in Changzhou in the future, but I didn't expect Zhang Guoqiang to find a decent person, and finally said that there was no way, or he Zhang Guoqiang would go by himself? Vincenzo did not agree to go on his own, after all, someone had to be responsible for the production. This made him very embarrassed, and he began to suspect that Zhang Guoqiang was too power-hungry and unwilling to let go of the people below him. Later, he repeatedly visited the factory, only to find that a group of engineers were all older engineers, and even the workers on the production line were also old, and they were not as energetic as TMK. He told Zhang Guoqiang that he wanted to introduce a few TMK people over, Zhang Guoqiang obviously resisted, but did not have a conflict with him, and after a few days, he said that he thought about it and thought it was a good idea.

Once, Vincenzo noticed that one of his machines had been used for many years, reminded him to remember to do more maintenance, and suggested that it was best to replace it. Zhang Guoqiang was very angry, saying that he could make products with the tolerance required by you with equipment for more than 30 years, and he did not want his partners to control his production management. Even Wen Qinzuo said that he could afford half of the cost of replacing the equipment, but Zhang Guoqiang bluntly refused. Later, Wen Qinzuo simply became an ostrich, ignoring anything, as long as there was no problem with the delivery, he would be the shopkeeper. At the beginning of a few sets of equipment, there was really no problem, and Zhang processed and produced according to the drawings one by one. Later, the third and fourth sets, TMK made some changes to the requirements, the Italian company did not have time to produce all the drawings, Wen Qinzuo verbally explained to Zhang Guoqiang, I don't know whether Zhang Guoqiang forgot, or his equipment capacity is not good, the two sets of products produced have problems, and he resolutely disagrees with the rework, saying that there are no drawings and cannot prove that he did wrong. To put it mildly, Zhang Guoqiang agreed to rework for compensation, but he didn't mention anything about the misunderstanding of the size. In view of these small frictions, Wen Qinzuo felt that in order to control every detail, he had to arrange for his own people to enter Zhang Guoqiang's factory.

He learned from Ciro that TMK had laid off employees. This is not unexpected, because it is an inevitable trend. He immediately called Sun Ning and asked Chu Li bluntly if he was still in TMK, and after learning that he was still there, he was glad in his heart, but selfishly felt that it was a pity. But Sun Ning said the names of the engineers who really left, and he didn't have any impression, except for Chunlai. So he and Chu Li shared the same phone, saying that he intended to recruit Chunlai, but he needed to work in Changzhou, and he lost no time in saying to Chu Li, just don't do it, work with him, the salary is good. Chu Li smiled and said, "There is a chance." ”

One spring is not enough, he needs his own people to enter every department, as an investor and customer, he needs to know all the details, weaknesses, problems. He called back to Sun Ningna and asked the remaining engineers if they were interested in working in Changzhou. Chen Cheng and Guo Yiming agreed, but only Feng Zhao and Chen Xi refused. He dug two more people from under the other department, making a total of five. turned his head and called Zhang Guoqiang, but he didn't expect him to strongly oppose it, saying that his manpower was not yet lacking in that position, and there were only three people at most. Wen Qinzuo gritted his teeth with hatred, but because he was currently too dependent on Zhang Guoqiang, he had to agree.