The incident of programmer Chen Zhilong angrily scolding executives has caused a lot of discussion in the past two days. Behind the incident, two things have attracted attention.
The Group responded
According to the news in the early morning of April 5, 2023, it was suspected that CETC employees angrily scolded the leader for overtime, and then from 10 a.m. to the afternoon of the same day, this topic continued to travel in concern.
The last news shows that CETC responded: Chen Zhilong is not a member unit and employee of the group company. That is, Chen Zhilong is an employee from an outsourcing company.
This matter is doubtful, according to the graphic messages sent by the parties, the names of the WeChat work group exposed are CETC Chengdu Division and CETC-Software Development Course.
So if Chen Zhilong is not an employee of the group, then the staff belonging to the outsourcing team should not appear in this group.
Even if it does appear, as an outsourced technician, after scolding the leader, the remaining group staff will respond in the form of peacekeeping or inquiry, rather than echoing it.
After Chen Zhilong's vent, more than 20 staff members in the hardware department and equipment department in the group each asked to resign, and many colleagues said that they wanted to go together.
This shows that Chen Zhilong's dissatisfaction is not the so-called lack of labor efficiency, or the lack of enthusiasm for work performance in wearing small shoes, but the entire team is under high pressure.
After the investigation, the group's response said that Chen Zhilong was an outsourced employee, and although the group marked CETC Chengdu Division, from a business point of view, it should be a problem with the cooperative company of the Electric Technology Group in Chengdu, not the group itself.
However, if the requirements of the electric technology group are not too high, the outsourcing company may not have such a problem.
Where is the pot? In the end, there is a problem with the supply chain itself, that is, after betting on an outsourcing company, then no matter what the group has to do, this outsourcing company will be the only bearer.
Local response
Before CETC responded, the Sichuan labor department also said that the Chengdu Federation of Trade Unions would intervene in the incident, and if the incident is true, it also shows that whether it is the affairs of the Dianke Group or the outsourcing company, it has violated the provisions of the mainland labor law.
So this extends to the second question, what exactly is the relationship between business and individual?
There's no shame that where you work, you have to generate value for you, and that's basically true no matter where you are.
So did the parties do it? According to the feedback of the content of the message, as well as the concurrence and observation of other employees, it should be done and exceeded the standard.
In his scolding, people can see that he is not dissatisfied with the group, but with the leadership. He said that leaders do not understand technology, cannot manage or even coordinate.
It should be emphasized that their working hours are 8 am ~ 11 pm, and even until 1 or 2 am at the latest. And this is one of the reasons why the local government has to respond first than the group.
However, the emotional intensity of the chat content also means that in fact, this working state has continued for a long time, and the biggest problem is that enterprises do not give due care and benefits when facing the workforce.
In the follow-up chat, although the leader said that he needed to accept the suggestion, people familiar with the matter said that such an incident would not completely pass.
When issuing annual bonuses or salary increases, voices that have supported Chen Zhilong will also be dealt with separately, such as other people's year-end bonuses of 10,000 and their year-end bonuses of 8,000.
Pull off the fig leaf
Behind the incident was mainly the fig leaf of development. Although it is common for leading companies to give some orders to outsourcing companies, it is also a common situation in many industries.
But the crazy overtime of the labor force makes people wonder, is the subcontracting enterprise technology-intensive or labor-intensive.
Under the premise of shouting about Made in China and Intelligent Manufacturing in China, we still choose labor-intensive monetization forms, which also shows that technological upgrading is just an illusion.
Although economic upgrading exists, is the practice of replacing labor efficiency with labor a new problem arising from development?
Although the IT industry has developed rapidly in recent years, and large leading enterprises such as Huawei and SMIC have emerged, are their labor efficiency really high? Not necessarily.
The consumption of labor is more serious than we think, and the share of health care that is increasing year by year in the consumption data also shows that the industry is not really advanced, but nominally advanced.
After layers of outsourcing, profits appear more in bubbles, and between enterprises and capitalists, the business owner is more inclined to the latter is the greatest shame.
In addition, there is the fig leaf of the enterprise. The first is overtime, the mainland's labor law, clearly stipulates the working hours and overtime pay, then after complaining about such things, it means that the enterprise has not implemented in accordance with the labor law, and the enterprise has the mistake of ignoring the law.
Secondly, the dissatisfaction of the staff may have existed for a long time, but no one has broken it? Isn't it a common problem for businesses?
Behind the 996 and 007 of IT and Internet enterprises, in addition to the employees in the involvement, the more reason is that under the insufficient gap in the market, a large number of enterprises are generated, is this not a lack of management?
Behind the ineffectiveness of labor laws means that labor cannot be better protected.
After the incident, all kinds of videos and pictures and texts of the parties were also actively deleted, and I also said that I had resigned through the process, but if the core problem is not solved, Chen Zhilong will appear more.