One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and just a 15-second short video completely pushed Xuan Jing from the halo of "workplace elite" off the altar.
On May 7, a hot search of "Baidu's vice president said that employees broke up and resigned in seconds" ignited the anger of netizens. It didn't take long for the video (which was featured in the article written yesterday) to disappear from the internet, but unfortunately, netizens have long since lost trust in Xuan Jing.
The content of the video is laughable and crying - she not only mocks the love life of her employees, but also openly declares that "she is only an employment relationship with employees".
This is definitely a disregard and indifference to the mental health of people in the workplace. Breaking up is a painful thing for everyone, and who can still devote themselves to work at such a time? What's more, Xuan Jing actually expressed her disdain for her subordinates so bluntly in front of the whole world.
Soon, Xuan Jing also realized the serious consequences of this gaffe. In the early morning of May 9, she posted an apology on her private social platform, bluntly saying that this video did not conform to the company's values and caused distress to everyone.
However, this belated introspection did not stop the fall of her career.
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In the evening of the same day, the media reported that Xuan Jing had resigned from Baidu, and she herself showed the status of "resignation" on the company's internal office system. Because of Xuan Jing's inappropriate remarks, Baidu evaporated more than 6 billion in one day, and it was rumored on the Internet that Ma Dongmei, the proprietress of Baidu, flew back from the United States to fire Xuan Jing.
All this once again confirms the old saying: "Public figures must be cautious in everything they say and do."
A small online short video turned out to make the once high-minded Xuan Jing recover, which is really embarrassing. It's just that many netizens don't fully sympathize with her.
Because a few months before she left Baidu, Xuan Jing revealed that she was "attacked" by 300 whistleblower letters from her subordinates' wives when she took office.
According to her colleague, the original incident of the video was
The original incident was that she took her female subordinate on a business trip for 50 days in a row and did not let people rest, and the girl's fiancé had an opinion, and the girl wanted to take a few days off and go home, but she directly forced others to resign, and she was embarrassed to say it and felt that she was right. And the so-called business trip is to the city where her own home is located, and she stays at home every day. The scary thing is that there are people who are so enslaved that they think that her statement is okay, and to tell the truth, the logic of bullshit does not make sense, and there is no company with humanistic care. And according to her philosophy, her language has already had a huge impact on the company, shouldn't she take the initiative to resign? Just like she did with those employees, she forced others to quit when they only traveled for 50 days and wanted to take two days off. Shouldn't she herself resign voluntarily now? What's even more terrifying is that there are many people who think that this kind of corporate culture is okay. Is there really nothing wrong with endless oppression, endless exploitation of other people's surplus labor?
Do you also feel funny and angry when you hear this? It is no wonder that a senior executive in charge of public communications would be so callously apprehensive about the personal lives of his employees, and that his former subordinates would be so strongly dissatisfied.
What's even more ridiculous is that Xuan Jing seems to be unaware of all this. In a later video, she not only did not admit her mistake, but dumped the pot on those who reported her.
Unexpectedly, this approach ended up putting her in a dilemma. It can be seen that as a veteran of the workplace with many years of experience (annual salary of 15 million), Xuan Jing still has serious shortcomings in emotional intelligence and handling public relations.
You know, the modern workplace is no longer a time when bosses have the final say. Every employee has his or her own dignity and privacy, and if it is not respected, it is easy to provoke strong resentment among employees.
The core problem of the Xuan Jing incident is the neglect of the rights and interests of subordinates by senior management. As a senior executive, she has the responsibility to foster a good workplace culture and atmosphere for the company, rather than wantonly hurting employees' feelings.
So the question is, does Xuan Jing's "arrogant and stupid" approach also reflect the current situation of serious bureaucratization and lack of humanistic care in the current tech giants? Should we reflect on how Internet companies focus too much on innovation and revenue and neglect the basic needs of their employees?
Regardless of the answer, the incident is a wake-up call to us: the management of the company must cherish and value every employee, listen to their voices, and work together to create a workplace environment of mutual respect and harmony.
Otherwise, it could lead to a "crisis of trust in employees" and ultimately lead to brain drain. Therefore, we earnestly hope that other executives can learn from this incident, reflect on their attitude towards employees, and treat every ordinary and extraordinary person in the workplace with a broad mind.