After being engineered to leave my job by my boss, I did something that no one expected.

I wonder if you have ever had this experience:

In a company, when you want to do your job smoothly and live a stable life, there will always be various problems. All kinds of people or things appear, making your life uncomfortable.

This is the workplace. On the surface, it looks united and harmonious, but in fact, you are fighting against me. Everyone is trying their best to express themselves and climb up.

The career path is long, and there will always be times when people accidentally capsize in the gutter. If it were you, what would you do?

01? After ten years of work, is it better to live in peace and quiet or to cook a baby in warm water?

I am a 35-year-old female laboratory technician who has worked in this biotechnology company for 10 years.

Since joining the company, I have behaved myself, worked conscientiously, and held the work attitude of "not seeking merit, but seeking no faults". From the age of 25 to 35, I have changed from a lively girl to a greasy middle-aged man. year women. This company carries so many memories for me, including work, love, marriage, and having children.

Life here is day after day, year after year. Over the past 10 years, I have witnessed batches of employees coming in, being promoted, being transferred, and leaving. I have always stayed here and become an old employee trusted by leaders and respected by newcomers.

From the construction of the laboratory to its completion, and now on track, every stage has my dedication and hard work. I love this land, my colleagues here, and every flower and grass here. There have been countless times when I thought about working here until I retire or die of old age.

I was willing to live this same life, but I didn’t expect that something unexpected would be waiting for me in the future.

02 New people, new atmosphere, this manager is not simple

After New Year's Day in 2021, our department has a new highly talented manager named Chen, who is mainly responsible for formula research and development and technical support. Her husband is the quality director stationed at another production base of the company.

Manager Chen is a doctoral candidate at South China Agricultural University. I heard that she was recruited by her boss with a high salary. As soon as she arrived, she formulated a formula improvement plan for the company. After implementation, it can save the company hundreds of thousands per year. funding costs.

Everyone was talking a lot and was fully prepared mentally to welcome her "three fires".

Manager Chen is short, bloated, and wears loose clothes, giving people the illusion of being pregnant. During the meeting, she spoke in a gentle tone, was humble and courteous, and had a smile on her face. She made people feel approachable and easy to get along with, without the majesty of a new official at all. This made us feel less defensive.

Manager Chen asked me to go to the office to talk. After some polite remarks, she said: "You are the most senior employee in the department, and your work ability is obvious. Work hard and you will be rewarded whenever you have the opportunity." I will mention you to the top."

Waves of joy welled up deep within me. Her gentle words stirred up my heart that had been burning and then extinguished! I have not been promoted for 10 years, so I am eager to enter the management!

Is there a chance next time?

? 03 My boss wants me to handle personal matters. Is this trust or testing?

Manager Chen’s work often requires traveling.

One day during lunch break she called me suddenly. My first reaction was that I thought something had gone wrong at work. It turned out that her two sons had run out of diapers and asked me to go out and buy diapers to send to her dormitory.

The boss asked me to help her with her personal affairs. I felt honored as if I was being used in a big way, so I went out to buy diapers without saying a word.

Three days later, Manager Chen came back and met me. He nodded and smiled, and I nodded and smiled too. With this smile, I feel like we are no longer as strange as before.

In the third week, Manager Chen traveled to Guangzhou to attend a high-tech research conference. At about ten o'clock that night, I was just about to go to bed when I received another call from her. Her eldest son had a fever and asked me to find a car to go to the hospital.

The boss came to me again to handle personal matters, which showed that I satisfied her last time and she had trust in me.

Thinking of this, I immediately lost all sleep and energetically looked for a car to go to the hospital.

Manager Chen came back from a business trip and we looked at each other and smiled. With this smile, there seems to be a little more tacit understanding between us!

In the days to come, after work, we would walk our kids and play badminton together, just like two close friends living in harmony!

? 04 What kind of omen is a salary cut?

Seemingly peaceful? Life suddenly took a U-turn!

On pay day, I found that my salary was 500 yuan less for no reason. I went to Xiaolan from the Human Resources Department with full of doubts. She said that this was an adjustment made by Manager Chen to save department funds when he took office.

I started to panic, and I couldn’t figure out the leader’s intentions at all. They have always said they would promote me, why did their salary suddenly drop? Is it going to fall first and then rise?

In the eighth week after taking office, on the day when Manager Chen went to the Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau to deliver information, she asked me on WeChat to go to the canteen to pick up three meals for her mother-in-law and two sons, and sent them to The 20 yuan WeChat red envelope told me to eat more meat.

The staff meal was 6.5 yuan per serving. I begged the canteen aunt to give me more meat. Unexpectedly, the aunt made fun of her and said, "Three meals are 19.5 yuan. How much meat can I give you for 20 yuan?" Unexpectedly, after get off work, Manager Chen called excitedly and asked why he had so little meat. After the explanation, I felt extremely depressed. Did she mistake 20 yuan for 100 yuan?

At night, I chewed over what she said, and it took me a long time to realize: I shouldn’t accept her red envelope. I should spend my own money to buy more meat and vegetables to send to her mother-in-law.

On the salary day of the next month, my salary was reduced by another 500 yuan. My heart hurts like being cut by a knife. The seniority wages accumulated over the years are about to be destroyed.

I inquired about the salaries of other colleagues in the laboratory, and found that they were quite generous, which made me tremble.

I began to examine myself carefully from beginning to end. Was it the last meal that made her unhappy, or was it something else that made her dissatisfied?

I fell into endless self-doubt and endless speculation, and could not sleep all night.

05 The truth emerged. It turned out that the leader had premeditated it

Soon, the news spread that I would be transferred to the breeding farm next quarter.

The farms are very remote, in mountainous areas with inconvenient transportation, and the meat life is very difficult. The work in the breeding farm is very hard, and in the past, it was done by male colleagues. The data of the test chickens should be monitored every 4 hours: body weight, feathers, combs, and food intake. 3,000 test chickens are enough to keep people busy day and night.

I am worried that the huge workload and harsh environment of the farm will defeat me sooner or later. I can't wait to leave, find another way out, and end the suffering these days as soon as possible.

Reality is often cruel.

When I started looking for a job online, many companies rejected me because I was not over 35 years old. I have experienced unprecedented workplace discrimination. I am clearly in my prime, will I be included in the ranks of being eliminated?

Carrying a mortgage and a family, reality does not allow me to say so freely and nakedly. The new job here has not yet been secured, and the date of transfer to the breeding farm is getting closer. I am tortured by hesitation and uneasiness all day long, and I become absent-minded at work.

I am not the kind of person who is tactful or knows how to calculate in the workplace. I only delve into technology. Is such a person destined to be exploited in the workplace?

When I told my husband about my troubles, he didn’t take it seriously. He felt that I couldn’t support my family with my small salary, and it would be better not to work, so that I could devote myself to taking care of my family.

It was like a slap in the face. As a woman, I have never thought about how I want to be successful in the workplace. I just want to have a job, be financially independent, and not have to be humble and tied down just to get money.

Every day in the future, I feel as heavy as visiting a grave when I go to work.

I met Xiaolan from the Human Resources Department on the bus and talked about my job transfer. Xiaolan accidentally said: "It turns out that Manager Chen and Zhang Li, the leader of your previous company, are university graduates. classmate".

I asked, what next?

Xiaolan continued: "Manager Chen asked Zhang Li about you and knew that you had a heavy workload and low salary in your previous company. I think your current salary is high..."

In an instant, I felt enlightened, and everything in the past was pieced together like fragments:

Measures to save departmental funds were immediately introduced after joining the company. This was the reason why Manager Chen took office.

Now, the interns in the laboratory can take charge of their own work, and the quality system certification has been successfully passed. As an old employee, I was neither a manager nor had a heavy workload, so I seemed dispensable, so she cut my salary and moved me to the dirtiest and most tiring position.

She played tricks in the workplace and deliberately aroused my desire by drawing a pie for me. She took advantage of my desire to be promoted and sent me to do things other than work to take advantage of her.

If an old employee is fired, the company will have to pay compensation, unless the employee resigns voluntarily.

So, everything is clear at a glance.

?06 The anxious rabbit will start to bite people

As soon as I submitted my resignation letter, I began to intensively look for opportunities to change jobs.

First, frequently contact friends and classmates in the same industry to find out whether there are any open positions in their companies.

The second is to aim at my target position, apply for resume overseas, and maximize my strengths and avoid weaknesses according to the recruitment requirements, maximizing my own professional advantages: rich laboratory experience, project experience, and training of new people. Experience and ISO internal audit certificate.

Third, during the company’s busiest production season, I started to take my long-accumulated annual leave. When they couldn’t find me, I took advantage of the vacation opportunity to go to various companies for interviews.

When I went to work a few days later, I saw that the TV camera crew was coming to the company to shoot a promotional video.

Manager Chen asked me to be responsible for receiving the photographers, serving tea and water, etc., and she volunteered to appear in the photo.

I felt a little angry, so I picked up the disposable cup and went to the toilet, opened the toilet water tank, scooped out a glass of water, placed it in front of Manager Chen in a serious manner, and then continued to serve it to the camera crew. drinking water.

I stood aside and laughed secretly when I saw Manager Chen drinking all the water in one gulp without knowing anything about it.

The shooting has begun. The idea of ??the photography team is to ask Manager Chen to put on a white bag and conduct an experiment in the laboratory to create a professional blockbuster of a scientific researcher.

As the saying goes, there is a specialty in the industry. Manager Chen studies formulas and has little knowledge of basic chemistry. Therefore, in order to reduce the number of NG shots, the photographer asked me to demonstrate the experimental process first:

Take a cup of colorless alkaline liquid and add phenolphthalein indicator. The liquid will immediately turn purple. Then I titrated it with dilute hydrochloric acid solution until it became acidic, and the liquid immediately became colorless again. Finally, I added methyl orange indicator, and the liquid immediately turned orange again. I continued titrating with dilute hydrochloric acid solution, and it turned yellow again.

After watching this series of color-changing operations, the photographers all felt that it was amazing and the resulting images were very strong.

When it was Manager Chen’s turn to shoot, I quietly replaced the alkaline liquid in the cup with an acidic liquid. As a result, during the shooting process of Manager Chen, the color of the liquid was always colorless and transparent. NG Several times, the photographers and colleagues present were stunned.

Manager Chen himself was too embarrassed to say a word.

I laughed to my heart's content.

Do you think this is the end? The fun is yet to come!

?07 Dig a big hole and achieve a perfect counterattack

In the month after submitting my resignation letter, I almost spent all my time handing over work to the few newbies in the laboratory: document handover , Experimental project handover.

When I handed over the two experiments of glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase, I held back and did not teach them the most critical step.

Originally thinking about my feelings for my old club, I wanted to make the final handover from beginning to end, but when I thought of Manager Chen’s despicableness, I still chose to follow my heart, no matter what professional ethics and what conscience, let To hell with it, I want to make myself happy first.

In a blink of an eye, it was time to leave, and I finally endured this day.

I strode to the manager’s office and said to her in a neither humble nor arrogant tone: “You petty-skinned woman, please immediately pay me back the 126 yuan I spent on diapers for your child and the 368 yuan I spent on medical treatment, which is a penny less. No way."

She was stunned for a moment. Maybe she never expected that I would ask her to get the money back, so she reluctantly opened WeChat and transferred the money.

I blurted out: "For a narrow-minded person like you, I will no longer serve you. See you later."

I turned around and left, walking on the road filled with sunshine. At that moment, I felt that I was liberated. I no longer had to do errands for her, nor did I have to torture myself because I couldn't figure out what she meant.

Maybe not learning to calculate and fight will make me miss the opportunity to become a strong person in the workplace in the eyes of others. But I am not the kind of person who abandons the beliefs I have held in the past and goes to extremes when I get hurt. I would rather choose to protect the sincere self in my heart.

I found a listed company with better remuneration, and relying on my years of excellent skills and theories, I beat many newcomers in the workplace, passed the re-examination, and successfully joined the company!

Not long after I started working, my colleagues from my former company always asked me a lot about my previous work, such as the login password for the system and the password for the laboratory safety cabinet.

A week later, a colleague from my former company suddenly called me and asked me to go back to my former company on Sunday to help with some tasks. One was to sign some previous documents, and the other was to instruct glutathione reductase and ultrasonic enzymes. Both experiments on oxidative dismutase were rejected by me because I was too busy with my new job.

I am not Lei Feng if I resign and go back to work as a free laborer.

In the next few days, colleagues from my former company received messages and phone calls every day, begging me to come back and help. They were playing emotional cards and acting out dramas of bitterness, but I remained unmoved.

Finally, Manager Chen received a message. She said that she would like me to go back and help for a long time, sign the documents and guide the experiment.

I replied that I resigned and had nothing to do with me.

Manager Chen said, I believe you have always been a sensible person. Since I have treated you well in the company for many years, you can come back and help me.

Seeing this, I felt funny and angry at the same time. This is definitely not the way to ask for help. When asking for help, you should lower your posture and be groveling.

I responded via WeChat, asking for 1,000 yuan in guidance for the experiment plus labor fees, and reimbursement of my car fare and meal expenses. WeChat transfer was required, not financial transfer.

For a long time, she did not reply to the message. Then I thought about it, I'm so insincere, I won't go back to help even if I give you money.

At noon, WeChat received her transfer. I clicked it immediately, after all, no one would compete with money.

I returned to my former company as scheduled, signed a lot of documents that I had handled before, and told them the key steps of the two experiments: glutathione reductase and superoxide dismutase. I left them and said goodbye to everything in the company. I really will not come back this time.

Passing by Manager Chen’s office, I pretended to go there, greeted her politely, and thanked her specifically. If it weren't for her, I might still stay here until I grow old.

Conclusion ?End

The workplace is the most demanding place. Some people are in danger, while others win every step of the way. Falling into a workplace crisis is definitely not the fault of age.

As long as you have core competitiveness, you don’t need to be at any age to find where you belong!

You have to believe in yourself and look forward to the future!