This year, the "post-00s" first entered the workplace. On social media, they were portrayed as "workplace rebels", as if they were plastered with the label of "labor arbitration without a word, refusing to roll up and resolutely not working overtime".
In fact, while "post-00s refuse to work overtime" and other hot searches, they also have the side of "supporting up" and "rushing", after hearing the following stories, you will find that the definition of "post-00s" for work includes both struggle and effort, as well as the struggle for their own rights and interests. Overtime or no extra is an essay question for them, not an either-or choice question.
Workplace scans
"My watchlist is 'White Night Break'"
Narrator: Xiao Xue
Age: after 95
Job: Public security officers in first-tier cities
Overtime frequency: not fixed
After graduating from the Public Security University in 2019, I first went to work at the grass-roots police station, and then transferred to the internet security. We don't call it overtime here, but "on duty."
All the police stations in the country are the same, they all have to be on duty, and the shift we perform is "white night rest". That is, on Mondays, there is a day shift (9 to 6), a 24-hour shift on Tuesdays, and a break on Wednesdays (but some police stations have a lot of work, and they have to work on Wednesdays).
Generally speaking, it is also possible to take a break on Thursdays, but few people can enjoy the vacation. A new cycle begins on Friday.
When there is a major security activity, we call it "iron" internally, and then arrange a big night shift for 2 days.
When working at the police station, the nerves are tense at all times, there is a police telephone, and it is necessary to arrive at the scene within 5 minutes, day and night, rain or shine.
A police station may produce forty or fifty police officers a day. I myself have had 10 police officers in a day.
This is our normal work, in addition to daily safety maintenance, such as going to school, hospital, etc., often to escort the child to and from the peak of school, and then return to the police station to handle the case.
Later, I left the police station and entered the network security work. Some people think that network security "is not just knocking on the computer", but eyesight, brain power, concentration are indispensable.
Dark web crime, cross-border gambling, hacking, tracing rumors, securing the network of major conferences, etc. are all cyber security tasks, but they are far more than that.
Our daily work is in the office, but we also need to "work on duty once a week" and eye drops have become a necessity.
Public security cadres and police officers work hard, and this is true throughout the country. Wearing this police uniform, we must have the courage to take responsibility, continuous combat and dedication, after all, the people and the country need us.
"My overtime rhythm is 'on call'"
Narrator: Lang Li
Age: after 95
Job: Head of the Department of the Internet Factory
Overtime frequency: @ on arrival
My workplace is a veritable factory. There's no concept of overtime or overtime for me, and it's as if I've never really left work. I call it "On The Go".
My working hours are theoretically 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., but our phones have to be turned on 24 hours a day, and the leader may call or @you at any time to get you to get a job done right away.
I was woken up at two o'clock in the morning and asked to make a plan immediately and turn it in at four o'clock in the morning.
But I can't figure out the plan at all, I need the following colleagues to provide data, then I have to call my colleagues one by one. The problem is that some colleagues simply can't wake up.
One might ask, don't leaders sleep?
In fact, each leader's schedule is different, and once there are more leaders, their work and rest time is seamless.
Since I came to Dachang, the number of times my friends asked me to eat and go shopping was pitifully small. Once, I had a date with another sister who worked in a big factory, and as a result, we both "crackled" against the boiling hot pot and held our respective computers.
"After I refused to work overtime, the teacher didn't say anything"
Narrator: Chen Hai
Age: after 00
Job: Employee of the Land Resources Corporation
Overtime frequency: almost every day
I just graduated from college last year and joined this land resources company because the company is very large and makes me feel very grounded. However, just a week after I went to work, my steadfastness was replaced by uneasiness.
This uneasiness first came from the teacher who took me during the probationary period, who was 10 years older than me, who worked every day on a "007" basis and basically did not go home. In the first week, he arranged for me to travel, traveled 4 cities in 6 days, and the latest time was to rest until 3 a.m.
Once, on the high-speed train on my way back, I received another call from him to return to my business trip to complete an urgent mission, and at that moment I felt that the future was rushing by like a view speeding by outside the window. On Friday of the second week, just before work, the teacher came up to me and said that he would call me on the weekend. I blurted out almost instinctively, "Don't call me on the weekend, I'll turn off my phone and have something to say on Monday." ”
At that moment, my colleagues around me all looked up at me, and the teacher was calmer, turned around and left, saying nothing.
Since then, I have not worked overtime on weekends, and the teacher's attitude towards me has not changed much, which is a bit of a surprise to me, but I am still very happy in my heart, indicating that my struggle is useful.
Later, I felt that I could not accept the company culture and the nature of the work of this company, and on the last day of the probationary period, I took the materials for regularization to the company's personnel department and directly went through the resignation procedures.
"The company says overtime is to work harder than other companies"
Narrator: Small segments
Age: Born in 98
Job: Security company
Overtime frequency: almost every day
At this stage, as long as their efforts and gains are directly proportional, overtime is fully acceptable.
I work in a small company, almost every day will work overtime, colleagues around me, everyone has long been accustomed to overtime, almost no complaints.
I have just graduated, I cherish the opportunity to work in this public company, and I am still in the probationary period, in order to smoothly turn positive, I would like to get recognition through hard work.
The company has a unified half-day shift on the Saturday of the first week of each month. The company's explanation for this is that the company is self-made, and it used to be a large and small week system (single and double holiday cycle), which is now changed to double rest, but we can't forget the days of struggling to make a fortune, and we always work a little harder than other companies.
In my opinion, this overtime culture is "reasonable to exist", if a person only works 8 hours a day, but his industry has been growing, and the people around him have been "rolling", it will be eliminated sooner or later.
The latest time I experienced overtime was to upgrade the equipment to the customer at 4 a.m., because the customer's environment was different from the experimental environment, and I could only call other colleagues on the spot to solve it. This incident has allowed me to accumulate experience and improve my ability to deal with things.
Since I joined the company for more than two months, I have only enjoyed two double breaks, and I have been working overtime recently, because the company is engaged in network attack and defense drill competitions, and I need to "work three shifts".
In fact, I love the feeling of growing fast, which means my job is challenging and there's room for growth. In my opinion, the matter of overtime is very easy to understand, that is, how much money to do, I do my best for the company, and the company gives me material and spiritual returns.
"The video can be changed, but I'm off work"
Narrator: Xiao Zheng
Age: Born in 99
Job: Company content operations
Overtime frequency: almost every day
"I can change it, but I'm already off work," I finally said after four or five consecutive commutes to revise the video until more than 10 p.m.
I have been working for less than five months, and I am currently working as a copywriter at a new technology startup in Shanghai, with a single weekly break, and the prescribed working hours are from 10 am to 7 pm, but it is normal for employees in the company to work until more than 10 pm.
My job content is that one person is responsible for the operation of the entire public account, in addition to copywriting, but also responsible for video editing, the workload far exceeds expectations, more than 50% more than the job content mentioned in the induction interview.
After the first few times I received the task of cutting the video, I accepted the arrangement with a learning mentality, but then I found that every time I cut the video, the leader would not explain the problem clearly at once, for example, after I matched the subtitles, he said that the material was not good, so I had to do everything again.
And this job is often assigned to me when I am about to leave work, telling me to "rush to", but when I finished cutting the video at 10 o'clock at night and sent it to DingTalk, the information was unread until noon the next day.
I believe that there must be a life in addition to work, and the work content should be arranged in an orderly manner to reduce unnecessary losses.
So, that time I couldn't help it, and explicitly refused. However, the rejection did not make me very happy, but on the contrary, I had a lot of anxiety and began to worry about my career path.
Will this rejection offend the leadership? Am I not as hard-working as my colleagues? Will this affect my career plans later in life? I think that in the so-called "post-00s to rectify the workplace", the post-00s dare to refuse to work overtime, which is more due to the advantages of age and the financial support provided to their parents and families. So I sometimes think that when the post-00s are older, maybe it will be easier to accept overtime.
Experts say
Labor laws have clear limits on overtime
Departments at all levels in areas such as law enforcement should be more active
Regarding the issue of overtime, Kou Yingjie, a senior labor law expert who has represented labor relationship dispute cases for many years and a lawyer at Bank of China Law Firm in Beijing, said that Article 41 of the Labor Law of the People's Republic of China stipulates that "due to the needs of production and operation, the employer may extend the working time after consultation with the trade union and the employee, and generally shall not exceed one hour per day; Where it is necessary to extend working hours for special reasons, the extended working hours shall not exceed three hours per day under the condition of protecting the health of workers, but not more than thirty-six hours per month", which is a basic legal guarantee for the physical and mental health of workers. Individual units in the enterprise system stipulates that if the enterprise requires employees to work overtime, employees must obey, disobedience constitutes a violation of discipline, etc., are illegal, for overtime, unless it involves the national economy and people's livelihood, rescue and disaster relief, etc., workers can completely refuse.
However, in reality, workers are naturally at a disadvantage in the relationship with the company, many workers will choose to work voluntarily overtime in order to keep their jobs, in this process the company has more initiative, and enterprises in many cases due to the lack of government supervision, many times the legitimate rights and interests of workers are often not protected. The rights and interests of practitioners depend on the protection of all aspects.
The law should further regulate unreasonable working hours and unreasonable employment patterns. In particular, some legal norms regulating the employment model of flexible employment groups have been introduced to make up for the shortcomings and loopholes in the current law.
In law enforcement, government regulatory departments should play a role in supervision, formulate different levels and intensity of supervision mechanisms for different industries, and should also strengthen early warning mechanisms, strengthen supervision before and after the event, and formulate normalized and irregular inspection mechanisms. In terms of new business formats, platform enterprises that infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of workers in new formats should be promptly investigated and punished, and serious illegal cases should be announced.
Relevant departments should also take active action, and the guiding opinions on safeguarding the labor security rights and interests of workers in new forms of employment also pointed out that trade unions at all levels should play a role, courts and labor dispute mediation and arbitration institutions at all levels should strengthen guidance on handling labor disputes, human resources and social security administrative departments at all levels should increase the intensity of labor security supervision, and functional departments and industry competent departments such as transportation, emergency response, and market supervision at all levels should standardize enterprise business behavior.
For individual workers, when they encounter violations of their legitimate rights and interests, they can actively speak out in trade unions and collective organizations, be a person with a heart, and leave relevant overtime evidence. Only when the whole society participates in the labor supervision mechanism can we form an ecological model conducive to the sustainable development of labor production.
This edition of the article / reporter Zhang Ziyuan Zhu Jianyong Chen Jing Intern Sun Zhe Zhang Xingyu Niu Xiumin Cai Xueqin Huang Zihang
Illustration / Yuan Guoming Coordinator / Lin Yan Zhang Bin
Questionnaires
Are you willing to accept overtime?
In the eyes of many business managers, the post-00s are a group with strong personalities and do not love overtime. A number of post-00s told the Beiqing Daily reporter that they are not unwilling to work overtime, but hope that "paying is meaningful", if they can get the fruits of their labor after paying, they will not particularly reject overtime.
In a "2022 College Student Questionnaire Report", in response to the question of whether to accept overtime, the answer given by 3594 undergraduate graduates of the class of 2022 showed that more than half of the fresh graduates were willing to accept overtime for salary, and nearly 30% of fresh graduates would endure for a while although they found it difficult to accept. These answers show that to distinguish people from the stereotype of the "post-00s", they seem to have a lot of complaints about overtime, but they show full resilience and tolerance.