Recently, there is news that the US group has suddenly laid down its fierce hand and also joined the army of layoffs. This made many melon-eating masses sigh: sure enough, the US group finally showed its fangs.
Tears spilled on the spot, and meituan employees were caught off guard
According to the insider, in order not to let the employees "negotiate and hold the group", the METUAN did not leak a little news in advance, and suddenly interviewed on a "windy and sunny" day. Talk on the spot, employees have to sign on the spot, there is no time to react, there is no room for resistance. The computer is directly returned to the employees, the company's permissions are also closed, and the employees not only can't get over the face, but also have to bear great psychological torture. It is said that several girls cried when they learned that they had been abandoned by the company.
The Meituan-style layoffs once again prove that capital has never been warm.
Riders also have to be fired?
Employees fired, next turn of the rider? Such concerns are not empty. Under the circumstances, there are already some signs of the rider being cut. First of all, the layoffs of the US group have already shown that the US group should optimize the organizational structure, and the so-called optimization is nothing more than austerity. Prior to this, "Meituan Preferred" had already led to large-scale austerity due to huge losses, and also carried out large-scale layoffs.
Secondly, the rider has become the biggest blood loss point of the US group. Meituan's financial report shows that in 2021, Meituan's annual revenue was 189.1 billion yuan (yuan), an increase of 56% year-on-year; but the revenue increased sharply, and Meituan lost 235 billion yuan (yuan). In this regard, Wang Xing said at the company meeting: The fourth quarter of the distribution service revenue of 14.3 billion yuan (yuan), while the cost is as high as 18.3 billion (yuan), which means that each single loss is more than 1 yuan. It can be seen that Wang Xing is already somewhat dissatisfied.
Finally, the rider's position is already in jeopardy. As early as 2016, e-commerce giants such as Meituan, JD.com, and Ali set off an investment boom of "unmanned delivery". Today, the unmanned distribution industry is on the rise. On April 20 this year, Meituan launched a 10 billion fundraising, planning to invest this money mainly in the field of unmanned vehicles and drone delivery. During the epidemic period, Meituan also implemented unmanned delivery in Shunyi District of Beijing, and as of September 2021, Meituan unmanned vehicles have delivered nearly 100,000 orders in Beijing.
Compared with the high labor cost, unmanned delivery technology will help Meituan save a lot of costs. Wang Xing's complaint that "every single loss of one dollar" will also be improved. In the past, riders almost single-handedly pushed the US group forward, but when the Internet encountered a bitter winter and the unmanned delivery technology gradually matured, the rider became the biggest burden of the US group and was to be banned.
The review system is abolished and we are ready
In fact, does the US group plan to lay off the riders? Although I don't know, I feel that I am prepared. In March this year, Meituan released the "2021 Meituan Riders Rights protection social responsibility report". In the report, Meituan pointed out that in the future, the assessment, bad evaluation and fines for riders will be abolished, and the reward mechanism for riders will be determined by a stepped "service star" evaluation system. This also caused a round of applause on the Internet, but in the author's opinion, it is more like "sharpening the knife".
No standard is the biggest standard! The big factory gave up 996, and the employees worked harder. In the past, overtime work and overtime pay were now voluntary "voluntary overtime". Now the meituan move is actually similar to this, once this mechanism runs for a period of time, then the "low service evaluation" riders will be screened out. At that time, meituan can cut this part of the riders, and it can also be called: consumers are not satisfied.
Once cut, the rider will have nothing
If they are really cut, the rider will only be worse than the "employee"! You know, the rider's work is not "technical", it is more like a manual work, for the rider's skill training is almost "zero". Once the "old riders" are cut, they have to start from scratch again. At that time, they have no skills and no physical strength of young people, and they will be madly disliked by HR.
The outrageous thing is that the relationship between the rider and the US group is not "hired", but "outsourced". Therefore, the rider not only has no social security, but after being dismissed, he cannot get the "n+1 sermon payment". In total, what they face will be a huge "hollow" and "heavy pressure". On the one hand, they will lack the "ability to live again"; on the other hand, if they do not have good financial skills, their past is almost blank. As a result, what awaits them will most likely be "a future without hope."
Life will be a nightmare
According to the Meituan financial report, the current number of Meituan riders is about 5.27 million, of which 90% belong to men, that is, more than 4.7 million. According to the meituan rider analysis report, riders over the age of 30 account for half. In other words, there are about 2.35 million men over the age of 30 who are eating by "delivering takeaways".
As you can imagine, most of them shoulder the heavy responsibility of "supporting their families". Once the US group begins to lay off riders on a large scale, it is not difficult to think of what these 30-something "men" will face. Perhaps the moment they receive the news of their dismissal, their lives and beliefs will quickly collapse.
Will me be soft?
One day, the day when the riders are cut comes, will the US group show a humane side? This answer, in 2020, an article titled "Meituan Riders, Trapped in the System" has already told us. In the article, the author lists many of the riders' experiences: the delivery time they get from the system is constantly shrinking over the course of several years. The data shows that in 2019, the average delivery time of takeaway orders is ten minutes less than three years ago, and this, Meituan really thanks to "AI" technology.
Time is constantly disappearing inside the system, and it's one of the biggest puzzles riders have encountered over the past few days. But it's not just time that's being stolen, it's money. There is a saying on the Internet that the unit price of Meituan delivery has dropped again and again, from the initial 15 yuan to the current 3 yuan. This statement is a bit exaggerated, at present, the delivery unit price of the US group varies from place to place. According to statistics, the average price is about five yuan per order. According to the 2021 Meituan financial report, the number of meituan transactions in the whole year is 14.4 billion, that is to say, every time the average delivery unit price of the meituan is lowered by one yuan, it can save an additional 14.4 billion yuan in costs.
Compress the time while compressing the unit price. The squeeze at both ends reduced the rider's income sharply. A few years ago, people mentioned the takeaway industry, and often said that it was an industry that could earn more than 10,000 yuan a month. But now, everyone just shakes their heads. Indeed, if you want to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month today, there is almost no hope for the rider not to fight. In order to "hurry", riders have to become more and more "fast", which also makes takeaway a high-risk industry.
Log on to the China Judgment Documents Network and search for "takeaway riders" and you'll find 1,540 civil cases (and by the time you read this, that number will become even more), including 653 involving "traffic accidents" and 507 involving "personal injury compensation." The shocking case is enough to make you re-understand the cruelty of the Meituan industry.
What is even more unimaginable is that meituan, which has forced the rider to such a situation through algorithms and price reduction, does not have to bear any liability for the rider's accident, because the two sides are not "labor relations" at all! The delivery business is outsourced to contractors by Meituan, and once an accident occurs, the rider can only pin his hopes on the commercial insurance of 3 yuan / day. And this money, or the rider himself paid.
Taking "time" from the rider, taking "money" away, and only perfunctory with a very small return. Can you expect the US group to be "decent" at the time of the final separation?
If a company does not have a sense of social responsibility, it will never go long. At the same time, we also hope that if there is a day when the US group will "drop the knife" on five million riders, these riders can have another destination. (Bluegrass)
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