Young man, welcome to the Road of Confrontation
The video quality is very rough; it's obvious that it was filmed on a whim by an amateur.
At the beginning of the video, the girl briefly introduced herself. She was very young, probably a recent graduate or someone who had only been working for a year or two.
However, his eyes lacked the clear-eyed naiveté common among college students.
They appear more mature.
"Hello everyone, it's evening here, but I don't know what time you'll be watching this video. In the day and night since I left my job, I've been thinking about one question."
"I won't introduce myself. There's nothing special to introduce. I'm just an ordinary working person."
"I have an ordinary undergraduate degree, and my major is barely enough to get a job, but it's not great. I've been thinking about making this video for a long time, but I still decided to tell the story of my unlucky job search."
"It was after watching that very popular observational variety show, 'The Survival Diary of Contemporary Working People,' combined with my own life experiences, that I was able to write this."
"Everyone has their own opinion. If I'm wrong, please correct me, but there's no need for personal attacks."
Not long after the blogger started, he created a way for himself to back down.
Which internet surfer doesn't stack armor?
"I'm a recent graduate."
"I've been looking for a job during this time and have seen a lot of outrageous things. I've summarized them and will share them with you in this video."
"Perhaps my birth chart is not a good match for the workplace. I really encountered the diversity of people during the interview process."
After a moment's consideration, the blogger changed his wording: "It shouldn't be about human diversity, it's simply that these garbage companies are stupid and evil in different ways."
The comments section was filled with agreement.
Which office worker doesn't complain about their company?
"First of all, I want to say that what I often see during interviews is that people are hinting to each other to lower their prices. I can hear the sound of them calculating on an abacus from a great distance."
"To this, all I can say is, some HR people are just employees, but can't you at least have some basic human decency?"
"The fox borrows the tiger's power and becomes the tiger's accomplice."
"Of course, I won't talk about the kind of situation where the boss forces the interviewee to suppress them; there's nothing you can do if the boss is inhuman."
"People come here to apply for jobs, not to volunteer. The salary offered is completely mismatched with the value they create based on their abilities..."
"So they're just taking advantage of any opportunity to fleece you?"
The blogger got a little angry at this point, which shows that the video only had subtitles and wasn't even edited very roughly.
It's a completely one-shot film, a true reflection of reality.
“That’s what happened to my classmate. He originally had a job that paid 7,000 yuan. Among the people who were interviewed at the same time, one of them was worried that he wouldn’t be able to compete with them. Plus, the HR’s persuasive words led him to lower his salary.”
"Who was ultimately given the position?"
Who is at fault?
All parties are at fault. For example, the job seeker who lowered his salary was engaging in unfair competition, and the HR person who used manipulative tactics to sow discord and suppress others.
However, the root cause is that the company has never considered a two-way selection process with job seekers.
This is something that often happens during job interviews. You can say it's illegal, but it's also legal. It can only be condemned morally.
Job seekers simply cannot avoid this.
You can't guarantee that you won't encounter a competitor who lowers their own price.
"Some companies use recruitment apps to lure job seekers with fake job postings, only to then offer low-level sales positions."
"This is most commonly seen in administrative positions."
"This also actually happened to a friend of mine."
"Many companies that lack sales staff can't recruit salespeople. Knowing that many recent graduates want to do administrative jobs, they recruit under the guise of administrative work, saying that after joining the company, they will first rotate through sales and business positions for three months, and if they are suitable, they will be transferred to human resources positions."
"To be honest, it's impossible to transfer it."
"They're all just empty promises."
"Similarly, there's the recently emerging new media operations. They call it operations, but during the interview, they tell you that the operations position was filled when the person before you was hired, and then they ask you if you want to be a live streamer, and you sign a labor contract."
Tang Yue almost laughed out of anger: "They don't even have the most basic integrity, no wonder they can only be a small company."
"Another common type is the one where they only interview you but don't actually hire you. They tell you to go for an interview, but they don't offer you a job, not because you're not good enough in that respect."
"Hmm... Sometimes you shouldn't blame yourself too much. You might have been used by HR to boost their performance."
"The last one is based on my own personal experience."
Tang Yue pointed to the top of her head.
From the viewer's perspective, the title on the screen reads: "After I was eliminated by the bottom-ranking system..."
Now we can officially get to the main topic.
"I got the job through an interview. The company I'm now employed by has a bottom-ranking elimination system, which is specifically for newly hired employees."
"He told me I was hired, and that I would be officially hired after a two-month probation period if I performed well. After working diligently and conscientiously for two months, he suddenly told me that my work attitude was bad and that I was being let go. The reason he gave was that I was really perfunctory, which I personally think was very perfunctory."
"They said I wasn't proactive enough in working overtime and had a bad work attitude?"
"What? A small to medium-sized company with only a few hundred employees is going to imitate the working model of the British Empire, where the sun never sets?"
Tang Yue maintained a stable emotional state throughout the video until this very last moment, at which point she finally showed signs of choking up, but she quickly continued her story.
“In our industry, working overtime is not a regular occurrence. I was able to accept working overtime at first, but in several months, there were probably only a handful of times when I didn’t have to work overtime.”
"Don't follow the main group."
"But I have finished all my work."
"Why can't we leave after we've finished our work? What are we supposed to do here? Do we really consider this company our home?"
"It is precisely because of this bottom-ranking elimination system that many of my peers are stuck in the office. They dare not show their work attitude at all."
"I think this reason is outrageous. I don't believe it. There has to be a plausible reason."
"Then I followed up and asked, maybe because I was tired of being asked. The HR department, to get to the bottom of it, said that my undergraduate degree wasn't up to par. If my degree wasn't up to par, why did they hire me in the first place?"
"Their explanation was that it was because I came from an ordinary undergraduate background, which was different from the starting point of those sitting in the same office who were from top-tier universities like 985 and 211."
He said things like, "Naturally, they'll be stricter with me during the assessment."
Tang Yue eased up slightly: "I really want to ask, why apply double standards to the same bottom-ranking elimination system?"
"Since you're applying double standards, couldn't you have been more honest from the start? Shouldn't the standards be open, fair, and just? Why do you say my work attitude is bad, and that's it?"
"But that's the ridiculous reason they gave for firing me." Tang Yue picked up her phone and showed the photos on it.
That was a screenshot of a chat log.
There's much more to come.
This wasn't her chat history with the HR department, but rather—Tang Yue's group chat with her classmates.
"Later, I learned through other channels that some companies recruit a large number of low-cost fresh graduates when they are particularly busy, and then dismiss them for various reasons once the probation period is over."
"To put it bluntly, it's just about exploiting labor, then using a bottom-ranking elimination system to enslave the employees' mentality, and then weeding out those who aren't so obedient."
"College students who haven't entered the workforce yet may not fully understand how vicious the concept of 'being fired' can be. You might think, 'If they don't want me here, there are plenty of other places that will.'"
"The real pain lies in this: you have to pay social security during the probationary period, and you have to sign an employment contract before the probationary period. These two rules alone have effectively deprived you of your status as a recent graduate."
"You really know how important this status as a recent graduate is, everyone knows that."
Tang Yue composed herself and continued, "And for employees like me who were essentially laid off by my former company, we lost our status as recent graduates, making it even harder to find a good job in the future."
"That's about all I wanted to say for today. I don't have anything else to add, just a little rant about the current workplace environment to help you avoid some pitfalls."
"It's not that there are no vacant jobs, it's just that there are very few normal jobs available under normal standards."
"I once saw a quote online that said some very basic moral requirements are the minimum standard for being a person, but the highest standard for being a boss."
Tang Yue sighed softly, finished the last part of her story, and ended the video with a sense of helplessness.
The comments section quickly became lively. Everyone was a working person, and the pitfalls they encountered during their job search were pretty much the same.
There have even been more egregious cases of people being scammed.
Before even starting work, I was already in debt for 20,000 yuan in training fees—truly a case of paying to start work.
"I feel sorry for the blogger. I really hate that old saying that young people have to struggle and learn from their mistakes when they enter society. If a young person, a young person full of ideals, enthusiasm and hope, has to struggle and learn from their mistakes when they enter society, then there must be something wrong with this society."
"Just hearing about these things makes me feel so bad. This young lady is so emotionally stable. I'm so envious. I'm prone to crying easily. When I feel wronged, I burst into tears as soon as I try to talk about it."
"Me too, upstairs. I always end up embarrassing myself."
"My suggestion is that these lousy companies' bosses should start drawing circles with their parents as the center, their relatives as the radius, and their ancestors as the goal. May your family tree ascend to heaven, okay?"
"I actually work in HR myself, and the situations the blogger mentioned do exist, but they've become so deeply entrenched that it's difficult to reverse the situation because it's a gray area where there's no oversight. Actually, I didn't really want to do this; my boss forced me. Morality really isn't worth much in this society. Personally, I feel that after entering this line of work, I'm caught between two sides. If I don't do well, the boss scolds me; if I do well, the employees scold me."
"In reality, many HR professionals are just pawns in the boss's hands (except for some stupid HR professionals). There's nothing you can do about it; you still have to criticize the boss."
"And another thing, a salary of 7k (I'm in a first or second-tier city), just an ordinary company, and I went through four rounds of interviews. People who didn't know better would think I was interviewing for the CEO position."
Public opinion is rapidly escalating.
This is the first time someone has used such a direct and honest method to tear down the veil of the interview process and reveal its ugly true nature.
The difficulties faced by recent graduates are also those encountered by job seekers in the broader job market.
Those who have suffered losses and fallen into many interview pitfalls before can relate.
Coupled with the accumulated popularity brought about by the first episode of "The Survival Diary of Contemporary Workers," titled "Interview Stories," this immediately ignited the keywords "interview" and "job hunting."
Jiang Chuan watched the video silently, and then lingered in the comments section for a long time.
...
That evening, Xiao Tianqi was enjoying a peaceful meal at a restaurant, a long-awaited reunion with old friends.
All of you here are successful entrepreneurs. Your companies may not be giants, but they're not bad either.
As I said before, those who can survive in the market these days must have their own unique strengths.
"To be honest, Mr. Xiao is the best at managing employees. I visited his company last time and learned a lot from it."
"Oh, you flatter me. This is something I've learned through practical experience."
Amidst the clinking of glasses and the exchange of toasts, the middle-aged men engaged in their classic mutual flattery, and soon they all became somewhat smug.
The message from the public relations department came at this time.
Xiao Tianqi was getting impatient. He picked up his phone and glanced at it: "You guys keep eating and drinking. I'm going out to make a call."
"Mr. Xing, you go ahead and get busy. We'll wait for you."
Xiao Tianqi hurriedly walked out of the private room, clicked on the link in the message, played the whole thing at double speed, and then specifically looked at the comments section below.
I was initially a little nervous, but I gradually relaxed.
He thought it was something big, but it was just a trivial matter.
Since the company's name wasn't revealed, what was there to be afraid of? He didn't believe this little fresh graduate would dare to do anything; wouldn't he just give in with a little coercion and bribery?
Young people are impulsive, and after that, they lose all their backbone.
"You guys find a way to get her to take the video down from the top of the trending list herself. The company can make some concessions on this matter."
"Okay, Mr. Xiao, I understand."
After resolving the company's public opinion crisis, Xiao Tianqi returned to the private room to enjoy the praise from her peers.
He genuinely didn't think this incident would have any significant negative impact. Firstly, in the current climate, videos complaining about employees at their companies tend to generate only fleeting buzz and aren't worth pursuing.
Secondly, he was quite confident, after all, his side was in a truly dominant position.
But is the company truly invincible?
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