When a company's workplace environment begins to rot and stink, it often starts with employees like Baike "not dying well".
...... This is the biggest feeling of this migrant worker after watching the dark horse "Annual Meeting Can't Stop!".
The deputy head of the human resources department played by Bai Ke in it can definitely make every migrant worker who doesn't understand the unspoken rules of the workplace sweat -
It turns out that this year, if you want to be an honest person in the workplace who does not stand in line and only does things, is the real high-risk profession.
Be cautious and work with your head down.
I don't have the ability to engage in office politics, nor do I have the ambition to rise to the top, and my only hope is to keep my current unjust but ordinary little life.
As a result, the company's high-level bosses fought a lot, and others didn't have anything, but his life was turned upside down.
In this comedy full of exaggerated bridges, Bai Ke, a Shandong native who was ridiculed for "life with preparation", is probably the most realistic part of the show.
01
Honest people in the workplace,
The best "back-pot man"
Some people watch comedy because they watch jokes, and some people watch comedy because they look in the mirror.
Most of the audiences who will feel sweaty in the cinema have encountered social animals like white customers in the workplace...... Or simply this kind of social animal itself.
He has worked hard in a company for 6 or 7 years or more, and is a senior big brother in the department.
may have a title such as a team leader or senior expert, but he still runs the business on the front line like a grassroots employee.
Young people respect him very much, because he is familiar with the business, he is reliable, and he is clear about the red and black lines in the work.
His boss also thinks highly of him on the surface, but rarely gives him any new projects. The work in hand has not changed for many years, and it always seems to hover outside the company's core business.
The "honest man in the workplace" played by Bai Ke in "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" is the first template that many rookies want to catch up with after joining the company.
It is also what many old fritters who have worked for 7 or 8 years are becoming.
The deputy head of the human resources department, with the rank of K8, according to netizens, the annual salary should reach three or four hundred thousand.
has the right to use the foot soaking position in the company's "middle-level lounge", which also opens up the gap with the grassroots little white people in terms of treatment, and is a proper "mainstay".
However, what made many old fritters sweat was that as soon as the film came up, it peeled off his glamorous face, and hit the inside that was not embarrassed, embarrassed, or up.
What a mainstay, a person on the edge of the workplace.
The first is the marginalization of the content of the work. Although the HR department set in the film is a real power department in the company, the white customer group is in charge of employee relations and corporate culture, a vain business.
It seems to be so busy that I can't wait to work overtime every day, 365 days a year, but I am mainly responsible for miscellaneous work for other departments.
The only thing to do is to arrange the review of the company's annual meeting program, and can only be responsible for the preliminary review.
Because the review is a job that only the HR director is qualified to do, his level is not enough.
Even more marginalized is this person.
One of the characteristics of honest people is that although they are polite and respectful to him from top to bottom in the department, they are usually not found in the higher level of the big leaders.
The credit he made is basically equal to the credit of the department.
At the beginning of the movie, Bai Ke's team leader took other subordinates to change jobs collectively, leaving him alone, which should be the focus of the HR director's efforts to stabilize people's hearts.
As a result, the director didn't take him seriously at all, and he had to go to the director's office to show his loyalty.
The prestige of honest people in the group is also debatable when you think about it.
After all, when the whole group followed the group leader to a great future, no one even told him.
The fat difference is not in the turn, and when there is a pot to carry, it is ranked at the forefront.
When the company's senior management accepted bribes and needed to stuff Dapeng's related customers into the HR department, the director suddenly remembered that Bai Ke was coming.
From the director's point of view, honest people and white customers can indeed be regarded as the perfect "back-pot role".
The first is to be responsible for the business enough edge. After all, black-hearted factories produce inferior machines, and they all know that it is not easy to make big mistakes if they arrange defective parts in unimportant positions.
The second is that the ability to do things is good, and the work attitude is also good.
Even if Dapeng's related household is a complete straw bag, honest people can rely on their rich work experience and the psychological inertia of never picking on children, and desperately hold the straw bag basket.
Of course, the most important thing is that they are obedient enough and have no ambitions.
Generally speaking, if you want to do something that is not on the table in the workplace, the boss and subordinates often form a community of interests called "descendants" -
Subordinates are responsible for carrying out and taking the blame for accidents, superiors are responsible for promising additional benefits and benefits, and both parties who have common secrets check and balance each other.
But honest people are not outside this set of rules, similar to the perfect anti-push position in werewolf killing, which is quite "safe" for the bosses.
In the entire bureau of "transferring related accounts to the head office", it is the vice president of the company who is responsible for collecting money, and it is the HR director who is responsible for stuffing people into the post.
The person who grovels and slaps the sycophants while wiping his ass is a white guest, but he is also the one who has not gained any benefits.
If things are done well, the deputy general manager is the HR director, who knows that there is such a person as a white customer.
But if something goes wrong, even the honest white guest himself knows who will carry the pot.
02
Do you want to carry the pot,
It all depends on whether the leader chooses you or not
Generally speaking, if a person becomes an "honest person" in the workplace, he is basically dead on the road to ascent.
Some of them will turn into workplace bastards after enlightenment, choosing to rely on years of hard work and qualifications. "It's okay, anyway, most of the first batch of expulsions were not me."
But Bai Ke is playing exactly another, and it is also the most pitiful one for all the workers who dare to scold the boss-
The longer I work, the more I become an "excellent screw for emotional stability". When encountering things, I always reflect on myself and never consume others.
For example, he found out early on that the director had confused his resume, and Dapeng was not a related account that the vice president wanted to transfer at all.
But he never thought of using this matter to blackmail the director for benefits, and even still took care of all the work, and obeyed the fake relationship Dapeng.
Seeing that Dapeng, who didn't know anything, rose all the way, changed from his subordinate to his boss, and even sat in an independent office, becoming a straw bag leader full of nonsense literature.
Another colleague in the same group was upset for him, and Bai Ke contributed the classic quote of an honest person in the workplace -
"Whoever has the ability should be the leader. ”
"And what is he capable of?"
"He can be a leader, which shows that he is capable, and leaders are wise and foolish. ”
This ability to adjust mentality is excellent.
He will not agree to be pedantic, this is the honest man's own philosophy of workplace survival.
After all, after all these years in the company, he has long been a stunned young man who knows nothing about the workplace, and he can even teach some "high emotional intelligence guides" to stunned young people.
When the department goes to KTV team building, Baike will tell young employees not to leave early to participate in this kind of activity, "It is as important as not leaving early at work." ”
The leaders held a meeting to discuss who would come forward to lay off the hard-working old employees, and he also knew that this was a thankless "dirty job", so he bowed his head and pretended to be dead for fear of falling on his head.
But honest people's understanding of the sophistication and power struggle in the workplace ends here.
It doesn't matter if they are born wooden, or if they are cautious, in short, they will never be the descendants of any leader who can't bear to give up, and which bigwig has to win over them, they can only be inconsequential small roles.
After being aggrieved for most of the movie, Bai Ke stood on the rooftop and shouted, "Those leaders can bring down the company, and there is a way to mess with us." ”
He felt that he was learning life-saving techniques.
However, the arrival of the fake relationship Hu Dapeng pierced the illusion that his years were quiet.
It turned out that the white customers were able to continue to survive in the company, and it was not the so-called honest people's way of saving their lives that played a role.
It's just that this "drumming and passing the pot" to find someone to take the blame hasn't fallen on him before.
As he complained to Dapeng: "It is the vice president who sells the position, the director who engages in competition, the person who sends the money to be transferred is the chief of your supply and marketing section, and it is you Hu Jianlin (the role played by Dapeng) who is inflated, and I am not at fault at all in the whole matter." ”
But just like the magic chess in Harry Potter, the chess player can always get out of the way, and only the chess pieces will be knocked down.
In this workplace battle caused by the "wrong relationship", the chairman consolidated the company's right to speak, and the executives sold their positions to receive money, and also took the opportunity to suppress dissidents.
Even mid-level leaders, like HR directors, have the power to choose which team to stand on.
Only the honest Bai Ke can't see anything clearly, only understands that no matter what the twists and turns are inside, he can't afford to offend.
When the gods fight, what other choice can ordinary people have than to hide and pray not to smash themselves?
03
"Honest people in the workplace turn over",
Workers are exclusively for cool texts
Frankly speaking, I also feel very annoying to analyze how an honest person in the workplace like Bai Ke can't understand the leadership and why he can't become the "descendant" of the big guy.
The ideal workplace should not have these twists and turns at all, professional things should be solved by professional people, and everything should be based on ability.
The most empathetic thing about the role of Bai Ke is that although he can't engage in complex office politics, he has the upper level of work ability, top work attitude, and a little bit of emotional intelligence in the workplace -
That's all the workplace success that most ordinary workers can imagine and achieve.
In previous years, it might have been difficult for young people to empathize with such a character.
He is your supervisor who doesn't know how to fight for the interests of his subordinates, and he is an incompetent team leader who can never grab the next group when he reports and grabs credit.
When the company and industry are developing well, even if you can't rise to the top, you can rely on the leftover cake dregs of the leader's cronies to get rich.
The company's annual salary has generally risen, and it can rise to a good level in 7 or 8 years, and the scale of the department's business is gradually expanding, and it can also be mixed with small leaders—in short, it is much better than the situation of young people.
Honest people who have mixed in this kind of workplace probably also really believed that "hard work pays off" and "the company gives me a chance, and I give the company a miracle".
Just like the character of Bai Ke, even if he has decided to shake out all the ugly things of the high-level leaders at the annual meeting, he still can't help but sign his name at the sign-in table at the entrance of the venue.
However, today is different from the past, and he has encountered a workplace environment that is declining.
From the very beginning of the film, a plan for layoffs of several thousand people has been approved at the company's high-level meeting.
The layoff plan is also a discourse game war. The "bigwigs" of all parties want to keep their direct cronies and subordinates in business.
The result, of course, is that honest people who are bored and have no big trees have become the best cannon fodder.
Those geniuses who have the opportunity to turn stones into gold and save the company in the turmoil may be invincible without playing with connections and standing in line.
However, most of us are just ordinary "gears" who stay in an ordinary position and do a little bit of their part.
Not everyone is like a white customer who can brainwash himself into smoother, more wearable gears without complaint.
But everyone can see the powerlessness of being an ordinary social animal from his experience.
No worker likes these office politics and chaotic unspoken rules that are comparable to palace fights, and only a few can dance with long sleeves in interpersonal confrontations.
But this is the case in our workplace, the more cramped the environment, the less room is left for the people who do things.
I have been taught to work hard since I was a child, and I will be rewarded, but I found that the wind of transformation and layoffs has blown, and some people are on the right team and someone is on the right pulse.
Only the stuffy self has become cannon fodder, and it all depends on where the wind of fate will blow.
Now the Douban score of "Annual Meeting Can't Stop!" has risen to 8.2, not because it restores the workplace plight and job search embarrassment of contemporary people one-to-one.
It's just that the public's desire to breathe a sigh of relief has reached its peak.
Just like the collapse of the platform of an Internet company a while ago, it is rumored that the company has laid off a group of old programmers because of the company's cost reduction and efficiency increase, resulting in bugs that cannot be found.
At that time, there were a large number of workplace legends on social platforms that "optimized old employees and turned out to be a big problem", true and false.
"I was laid off after 10 years of work, and after the problem, the leader who squeezed me called me late at night to humbly ask for help";
"HR felt that the operation and maintenance team was useless, and all of them were cut, and as a result, the company's servers crashed and lost tens of millions"......
To tell you the truth, I read it for more than half an hour with relish, which can be called the coolest cool article I read last year.
Since the "hard work" of climbing the ladder is no longer available, it can also be comforted to see the episode of "ungrateful bad people reaping the consequences".
Just like the white guest in the movie, he finally decided to no longer be angry with the leader, although the worker in front of the screen knew that it was very fake, he couldn't help but scold him:
"him!