In the living room, Zhu Xiuhua was teaching her 2-year-old daughter to recite Tang poetry.
Suddenly, a female voice sounded faintly, "Your family is going bankrupt."
Zhu Xiuhua was shocked.
Following the sound, I saw a strange little man in a suit suddenly appear on the coffee table.
"My parents have rural household registration and have never paid for pension and medical insurance. My wife is a stay-at-home housewife with no income. We have two children, one is 2 years old and is being taken care of by the parents, and the other is 5 years old and is in kindergarten... The family structure is too dangerous."
Zhu Xiuhua protected her daughter and threw the cushion at her, "Who are you?!"
The cushion passed through the man in the suit without any hindrance and fell to the ground.
The villain introduced himself seriously, "My name is Yun Luo, and I came all the way here to help the host."
"No need!" Zhu Xiuhua looked alert, "Get out of here!"
Yun Luo, "..."
Yun Luo: "I'm here to help."
Yun Luo: "You have to be polite to me."
Yun Luo: "Otherwise I will go on strike and quit."
"You're welcome? You wish!" Zhu Xiuhua sneered, "There's only one person working in my family, but my husband is very capable! He can make as much as several people."
"Who are you trying to scare by saying we're bankrupt in broad daylight? I'm telling you, I won't be fooled! Not only will we not go bankrupt, but our family will get better and better. You'll be so pissed off!"
Yun Luo: It’s obvious at first glance that there’s a lack of capitalist beatings.
She was too lazy to say anything more and just disappeared.
Anyway, life will teach its host how to behave soon.
Seeing the dirty things finally leave, Zhu Xiuhua secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She stood up and quickly walked away with her daughter in her arms.
**
I coaxed my daughter to sleep, picked up my son from kindergarten, bought groceries and cooked, and before I knew it, it was already evening.
Just after six o'clock, her husband Jiang Guoyun came home.
Zhu Xiuhua brought the food to the table and asked casually, "You come home early recently, don't you have to work overtime?"
Jiang Guoyun: "Yes, I'm not busy recently, so I don't need to work overtime."
"That's good." Zhu Xiuhua muttered as she set the table, "Everything about your company is good, except that when it's busy, you don't treat your employees as human beings. It's 996, and sometimes even 8107, and you don't consider whether the employees can handle it."
Jiang Guoyun lowered his head and said vaguely, "It must be hard to work and earn money."
"You can't work seven days a day from 8 am to 10 pm! The children only see you a few times a week and they almost forget what you look like!" Zhu Xiuhua was full of resentment.
Jiang Guoyun found a seat and sat down, "Okay, let's eat."
Zhu Xiuhua had encountered a supernatural incident this afternoon, and she was already feeling uneasy. Seeing that her husband didn't want to talk more, she looked over suspiciously, "What's wrong?"
Thinking of a certain possibility, my heart skipped a beat, "Lao Jiang, is your work going well? Could it be that..."
"Don't make blind guesses." Jiang Guoyun's face was full of fatigue. "I'm very tired after a busy day. I don't have the energy to talk nonsense."
"Then I'll serve you a bowl of soup. You are the pillar of the family, you must not fall down!" Zhu Xiuhua said as she handed out a large bowl of bone soup.
Jiang Guoyun took it and put it aside, "Drink it later."
After a moment of silence, Zhu Xiuhua continued, "My parents are going to the beach and will be back the day after tomorrow. I spoke to them on the phone at noon and they said they had a lot of fun. They plan to visit other places next month."
Jiang Guoyun did not agree as he did in the past, but just said, "We'll talk about it when the time comes."
"Dabao is 5 years old now. It would be best if he could receive enlightenment education in advance. I plan to enroll him in an interest class..."
Before he could finish his words, Jiang Guoyun interrupted him irritably, "Where are there so many places to spend money?"
Zhu Xiuhua was stunned at first, then she put down her bowl and chopsticks and said bluntly, "Your parents want to go on a trip, and your son needs preschool education. This money is not spent on me, why are you so angry at me?!"
Jiang Guoyun realized that he had lost his composure and tried his best to cover it up, "I just think that this money was wasted and unnecessary."
"How can it be unnecessary?" Zhu Xiuhua was angry. "My son's classmates either started learning English or math, but ours didn't learn anything."
"If we don't start from childhood, the children will always rank at the bottom in every exam. How inferior will they feel?"
"You're not going to ruin your child's life just to save a little money?"
Jiang Guoyun had nothing to say.
The two of them started eating again.
It was extremely quiet all around, and a tense atmosphere filled the air.
After a long time, Jiang Guoyun suddenly suggested, "Why don't we sell the house?"
"Jiang Guoyun, what on earth do you want to do?" Zhu Xiuhua was furious. "After you came back, you first complained about others spending your money, and now you plan to sell the house. Are you going to tell me later and get a divorce at the same time?"
"Look at you, what are you talking about?" Jiang Guoyun quickly tried to make amends, "I just felt that paying back the 7,000 yuan mortgage every month was too tiring, so I thought about selling the house."
"Besides, wasn't I discussing this with you?"
Zhu Xiuhua didn't understand, "You earn 13,000 a month, plus the year-end bonus, your annual income is 300,000, how come you can't pay the mortgage?"
Jiang Guoyun said nothing.
Zhu Xiuhua added, "We have two houses. One is 80 square meters, bought five years ago. The loan has been fully paid off and is now for your parents to live in."
"I bought a 150-square-meter apartment last year, and my family of four lives there. We bought it in a hurry, and unfortunately, we bought it at a high price. If we sell it now, including the deed tax, we will lose at least 400,000 yuan."
"Let me ask you, after we sell the house, where will we live? What will we do with the 400,000 yuan loss? When we bought the house, we bought a parking space so that we can park our car. If we move to a new place, where will we park our car?"
Jiang Guoyun was silent for a long time, "...How about selling the car as well?"
Zhu Xiuhua laughed angrily, "Without a car, how can I pick up my son from school? The kindergarten is so far away, will I have to take the bus every day?"
Jiang Guoyun sighed, "What you said makes sense. I'll think about it."
"You've been feeling strange since I came back today. What's wrong with you?" Zhu Xiuhua kept on asking, "I know you work hard, and I try to take care of you, but you can't always find fault with everything."
She is taking care of two children by herself. Not only is she overwhelmed, but she also has to be frightened by supernatural events. It's very hard for her, okay?
Jiang Guoyun didn't know what to say. He thought about it and mentioned it implicitly, "The economy is bad, and layoffs are everywhere. I've seen it so many times, and I'm a little panicked. I don't know when it will be my turn."
Zhu Xiuhua was speechless. "If other places lay off employees, what does it have to do with you? They won't lay you off."
Jiang Guoyun: "You can't say that. When the overall environment deteriorates, individuals are inevitably affected. I can't say when it will be my turn to be laid off."
"I think you're just worrying about nothing." Zhu Xiuhua waved her hand, "Drink the soup, take a hot bath, have a good sleep, and stop thinking about nonsense all day long."
Jiang Guoyun had no choice but to drink his soup in silence.
**
At 7 o'clock the next morning, Jiang Guoyun went out on time, "I'm going to work."
"See you tonight." Zhu Xiuhua said goodbye to her husband while feeding her son.
After leaving home and walking for more than ten minutes, Jiang Guoyun turned into a coffee shop, ordered a cup of coffee, and sat down at a random seat.
After he entered the store, within just five minutes, several middle-aged men in their thirties walked into the coffee shop one after another, ordered a cup of coffee like him, and then found a seat to sit down, with expressions of anxiety, confusion, or despair on their faces.
Being at the end of one's rope and still fighting is probably the most realistic portrayal of these people.
Jiang Guoyun looked at the middle-aged man who was suffering from the same illness, and a sentence flashed through his mind, "People in middle age are worse than dogs."
He once thought that "economic downturn", "business is difficult", "corporate performance is poor", "a wave of bankruptcies is emerging everywhere", "many companies are cutting salaries and demoting employees", and "layoffs to survive the winter" were all deliberate anxiety-mongering by some people.
However, when it was his turn, he realized that life in this world was really difficult.
A week ago, he was working well when he was suddenly called to the office.
"Sorry, you're fired."
It took less than ten minutes to sign the compensation agreement, cancel the human resources information, and complete all the procedures.
Jiang Guoyun was particularly confused and kept asking why.
However, the other party only said, "Profits have dropped significantly, and the company has decided to cut costs. In addition to you, many people will be laid off."
Jiang Guoyun didn't know how he left the office. His mind was in a mess, but there was only one thought that was particularly clear, that is - he was unemployed.
On the day he lost his job, Jiang Guoyun wanted to tell his family, but when he got home, his mother was complaining to his wife, "That old lady next door is a piece of shit!"
"I told her that my son is capable, can make money, can afford the down payment, and can get a loan to buy a big house, but she advised me to take it easy. She said that the economy will not improve in the next few years and we must reduce leverage. Otherwise, when layoffs come, capital turnover will be difficult and it will be easy to get into trouble."
"Bah! Does she think my son is as useless as her son? My son is a programmer, earning $300,000 a year! What about her son? He's a dentist, earning only $200,000 a year at best. How can they compare?"
"Mom, don't be angry. Those people are just jealous of us, so they keep talking nonsense." Zhu Xiuhua advised, "Guoyun is capable and works hard. Why did they fire him for no reason?"
"Besides, Guoyun told me privately that he is expected to be promoted by the end of this year, and his salary can be increased at that time."
"When they get laid off, they will be miserable every day. You can just go traveling happily and make them jealous!"
Mother Jiang was overjoyed when she heard this. "I knew my son would be the most promising one!"
After hearing the conversation between his mother and wife, Jiang Guoyun was unable to break their expectations and tell them the fact that he had been laid off.
Thinking that he was 35 years old and full of experience, it should not be difficult to find a new club, Jiang Guoyun did not mention anything.
He plans to wait until he finds a new job before telling his family about his resignation.
The day after he resigned, Jiang Guoyun received a call from a headhunter.
The other party requires 996, and you must be prepared to work overtime at any time. The monthly salary is 10,000 yuan, the year-end bonus is six salaries, and there are additional benefits during the holidays.
Jiang Guoyun refused without even thinking about it.
Are you kidding me? His last job had an annual salary of 300,000 yuan. This time, the headhunter is looking for him and the annual salary is no more than 200,000 yuan. The work intensity is the same as the last job. He must be crazy to agree to this!
Jiang Guoyun was just fired and thought that with his ability, the new job he found should not be worse than the previous one. If the job was easy and the annual income was 250,000, he would consider it.
He is not afraid of rejecting this headhunter, as he believes he is a talent after all and will definitely receive calls from other headhunters in the future.
However, a week passed and no one else came to see him.
After I sent out my resume, there was no response.
Jiang Guoyun was panicked.
Companies are either closed or busy laying off employees, so why would they continue to recruit people? Job opportunities have been greatly reduced, multiple technical talents are competing for one position, and the talent supply in the market far exceeds the demand of enterprises. This is the economic winter.
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Author's popular science:
Due to difficult family conditions and poor education, some children decided to go out to work, and at worst receive aid subsidies so they can always survive.
Little do they know that doing so will ruin their lives. Without a high degree or professional skills, they can only earn money by selling their physical labor, with extremely low hourly wages, and are destined to follow in their parents' footsteps in the future.
Some people start their own business and make a strong comeback, but the chances of success are too low.
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