ByteDance streamlined the HR team; Zheng Yuanjie's "Fairy Tale King" will be discontinued

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ByteDance streamlines the HR team

ByteDance's HR is now trembling.

Recently, ByteDance as a whole abolished the talent development center team, and the existing team members were given priority for internal transfer, and if there was no suitable position, compensation or resignation was given. In addition, Byte plans to continue to streamline the HR department and adjust the configuration of functions and departments.

Since the beginning of this year, ByteDance has carried out layoffs in many business lines such as commercialization, education, and games.

Affected by the "double reduction" policy, Byte laid off employees in its education business line in August, mainly involving children's business and K12 business. Its short-term class tutors were almost all laid off, and the scale of personnel reached thousands.

On October 11, Byte announced the withdrawal plan of Wenzhou's local direct operation center, requiring the completion of the evacuation by October 22. At that time, Byte also transferred a large number of HR from other places to support. According to people familiar with the matter, most people are ordered to complete the resignation procedures within 2 days. Unexpectedly, only two months later, the layoffs fell on HR's own head.

In addition, in the wave of layoffs, fresh graduates have also been greatly impacted. According to internal revelations, twenty or thirty fresh graduates of Ohayoo's game business team under Byte have all been cut. Some employees left a message on Zhihu: "I encountered this big pit in 3 months of joining the company, and I was very confused and didn't know what to do." ”

The reduction of fat and thinning of Internet factories and the reduction of open source and throttling are normal business adjustments. However, for workers who rely on large factories for a living, it is too difficult to suddenly lose their jobs.

Zheng Yuanjie's "Fairy Tale King" will be discontinued

3 trademarks, so that the 36-year-old "Fairy Tale King" forced to stop publishing.

On December 15, writer Zheng Yuanjie tweeted that the fairy tale king magazine, which was launched in 1985, would be discontinued in January 2022.

The reason is that his male number one Pipilu was forced to sell pork skin meat, the little mouse Shuk sold underwear, and the fairy tale king was selling children's clothing. The 66-year-old Zheng Yuanjie has been fighting with the no. 7197328 Pipilu trademark, the no. 8229932 fairy tale king trademark, and the no. 5423972 Shuk trademark for 32 years, and has not succeeded so far.

At present, there are 672 trademarks that infringe on Zheng Yuanjie's intellectual property rights, and he will not mention his pen creation until all rights are successfully defended.

Zheng Yuanjie has repeatedly said that the bad faith preemptive registration of trademarks has greatly affected his writing. Pippiru trademark was used in Western restaurants, it took him 14 years to defend his rights, Shuk beta trademark was used to sell rat food, and it took him 9 years to defend his rights. In an interview with the media in 2019, he talked about his 5 million words of new work accumulated on the computer, because it could not be disturbed by infringement.

Since its inception, "Fairy Tale King" has published 495 issues, with a total print run of more than 200 million copies, all written by Zheng Yuanjie. And his characters pipiru, Rusisi, Shuk and Beta have influenced tens of millions of readers.

Generations of childhood memories, ruined by trademarks, destroyed by copyright, perhaps the best way to support "The Fairy Tale King" is to respect intellectual property rights.

Huawei debunked rumors about 200,000 monthly salary slips

On December 15, a pay slip with the words "Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd." triggered a heated discussion on the Internet. The picture shows that the average monthly basic salary of employees with the title of "senior worker" is around 50,000 yuan, and the actual salary after accumulating performance exceeds 100,000 yuan, and the monthly salary of some personnel even exceeds 200,000 yuan.

In response, Huawei responded that there are many loopholes in this chart, first of all, Huawei will not send pay slips to employees; secondly, the company's name is also written incorrectly; in addition, there is no 'senior engineer' position in Huawei. Many netizens also found that if the salary in the picture is followed, the personal income tax that needs to be paid will be much higher than the current amount, and the salary in hand cannot be so high.

Youku and Tencent Video said they had not received any price increase notices

In the face of iQiyi's price increases, Youku and Tencent video member users are concerned about whether the two video platforms will follow suit. Youku and Tencent Video customer service said that they have not received any notice of member price adjustments at present. Tencent Video customer service said that if there is a price adjustment, it will inform users through official channels.

WM delivered more than 40,000 vehicles during the year

In November 2021, WM delivered 5,027 smart pure electric vehicles, an increase of 66.6% year-on-year, and from January to November 2021, WM Motor delivered a total of 39,095 smart pure electric vehicles, up 96.4% year-on-year. Since its delivery, WM Motors has delivered a total of 83,624 intelligent pure electric vehicles, ranking firmly in the top camp of the new car-making forces. On December 1, WM Motors announced that it has raised $152 million in rounds of D2 financing.

Hello launched self-driving car rental business

Hello Travel announced the launch of self-driving car rental business, providing shuttle car service to home, sesame credit score of more than 550 points can also be deposit-free. Users can rent a car by selecting the time and place of car rental on the Hello Travel APP, the preferred model and car rental company, filling in the driver information, providing the required documents, and renting a car. Santana costs 80 yuan a day to rent; Porsche 718 costs 1258 yuan a day; Ferrari 458 costs 4325 yuan a day.

Google will fire employees who don't comply with vaccination rules

According to CNBC news on December 15, an internal memo shows that Google has informed its employees that employees who refuse to implement the new crown vaccination requirements will be paid a reduction in salary and eventually fired.

Employees who have not complied with vaccination requirements by January 18, 2022, will be placed on 30 days of "paid leave," after which they will be given "unpaid personal leave," up to a maximum of 6 months, followed by dismissal, the document said.

At present, Google has not responded to this news. Previously, the U.S. government had ordered U.S. companies with 100 or more employees to ensure that employees were vaccinated or tested regularly by January 18, 2022.

Samsung Electronics officially established the robot business team

On December 15, Samsung Electronics has established a robot business team and plans to increase investment and actively promote the commercialization of home robots. Previously, Samsung Electronics had an unofficial robot commercialization working group within it. The working group has advanced two robotics projects, namely nursing services robot Samsung Bot Care and home service robot Samsung Bot Handy. In the next step, Samsung Electronics will actively invest in the field of robotics, promote mergers and acquisitions, and is expected to launch a home robot that can be connected to smartphones and home appliances.