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author | zheng haojun, wang lu, su qi, ai leyi, editor | su qi

which one is more unacceptable to workers: quitting or being fired for bizarre reasons? obviously the latter.

recently, a management trainee who claimed to have just joined the company for 43 days posted that he was fired for refusing to participate in the weekend running event organized by the company. according to the description in the post, the company required employees to gather at a park at 7 a.m. for a 10-kilometer outdoor run, but the management trainee failed to participate in the event due to 12 consecutive days of high-intensity overtime work. unexpectedly, this became the fuse for his dismissal.

relevant staff of the company responded to the media that the dismissal of the management trainee was related to the company's employment standards, and the relevant situation would be subject to the subsequent decision of the labor arbitration committee.

regardless of the real reason why the company dismissed the management trainee, every time the topic of the company's "weird regulations" is mentioned, it can trigger heated discussions and resonance among workers. it is not uncommon for workers to resign or be dismissed because of dissatisfaction with the company's weird regulations. recently, "focus one" talked to four workers about the "embarrassing things" they experienced.

some of them were asked to hike 50 kilometers in the summer according to their boss's preference. some could not stand the company's frequent criticism in the group for trivial matters such as not turning off the lights. some had to take care of two projects and had no time to go on business trips, so their workstations were emptied without any warning. others often encountered compulsory exercise and compulsory examinations, and would be fined if they did not meet the standards...

what kind of companies are more likely to have weird rules? the above workers concluded that companies with irregular management, bosses who have the final say, and sales-oriented are more likely to have a rough and distorted corporate culture. in the workplace, workers can only do their homework in advance and avoid such companies.

weekly, daily, hourly newspapers, the boss's sense of crisis is very torturous

anian | shenzhen 35+ years old manufacturing industry

i have been working for more than ten years, but i couldn't stand working in a weird company after just three months.

my previous company was a typical family business in the manufacturing industry, and the boss, who came from a grassroots background, always insisted on having the final say.

when the boss feels anxious, he will let all the company's administrative personnel such as personnel and finance work in the front-line production workshops, because in his mind, the people on the front line are the ones who work really hard, and "the people on the second line are parasites and should not be paid so much."

i am an hr in the company. my boss has very high daily demands on employees in my position. there are regular meetings at 7 am every day from monday to saturday, and he even "confiscated" all our statutory holidays, not even the mid-autumn festival and national day. this was the fuse for my resignation.this year during the mid-autumn festival, i planned to take two days off to go home to visit my parents. after applying on the oa system, my boss directly clicked "disagree".

i couldn't stand it anymore, so i directly resigned in the company group, ending my three-month work career. at the same time as i resigned, another senior executive also left the company.

after reviewing the conversations i had with former employees during my time as hr, as well as my personal experience, i think the label of "weird" for this company is absolutely well deserved.

for example,the company requires employees to write daily, weekly, and monthly reports, and even record what they do every hour.the company forces employees to do group exercise every month, and if they don't do enough, they will be fined. the boss will also organize some exams according to his own preferences, and those who fail will be fined. there are many other types of fines. after i joined the company, i heard that the company fined employees more than 100,000 yuan in one year.

this leads to a very high turnover of employees in the company. for a company with more than 1,000 people, more than 3,000 people left within three years. however, because the salary is high enough, there is a constant flow of new people coming in.

i think the reason behind the company's strange rules is that, on the one hand, the boss has never worked in a well-regulated company, and his "one-man show" management style is too rough and direct; on the other hand, it reflects the boss's strong sense of crisis. i heard that the boss had experienced failed startups and many other setbacks before, and the company's business conditions have gradually improved in recent years. so, maybe he really hopes to continue this momentum, or even take it to the next level.

many of my colleagues who left the company chose to leave because they could not accept this management style, but many of them chose to stay and continue to endure it because it was difficult to find a job. in fact, i had some understanding of the company's weird rules before i joined the company. i originally joined with the mentality of helping the company to make some positive changes, but later i found that this weird company culture was too deeply rooted, so i had to give up.

as a "worker" who has worked for many years, i think it is better for young people to have their first job in a large platform with more scientific and mature management methods. only after training in a mature management system will they be less likely to be pua'd by some weird companies later.

i couldn't travel because i had to take care of two projects. my workstation was vacated.

xiao xiao｜beijing, 40 years old, cultural media industry

when i was working at a variety show outsourcing company, i experienced a very outrageous resignation in my life.at that time, i was in charge of two projects at the same time and could not split them apart, so i refused the "business trip assignment" for one of the projects. as a result, i was "laid off" without my knowledge.

my position is to coordinate the post-production of variety shows, and i usually have several projects on hand at the same time. at that time, i was working on two projects, one was project a, which led to my resignation, and the other was project b, which was about to be completed. the two projects belonged to different people in charge.

originally, project a did not require me to travel, but due to lack of manpower, the project leader wanted to select some of the outsourced employees to go on business trips. it happened that this was a program that was very consistent with my job responsibilities, so the leader found me.

however, project b was in the final stages of its busy life and there were many things that needed to be finalized. project a required a long business trip and the destination was far away, so i declined.

"you really aren't going on a business trip? then i'll arrange for other people," this was the general response from the person in charge of project a at the time. i thought he agreed, so i didn't take it seriously.

as a result, when it was time for the new preparatory meeting for project a, i had just walked into the meeting room when the team leader suddenly asked, "why are you here for the meeting? the person in charge said you're leaving." i was confused and asked the person in charge what was going on. he saidi refused to obey the arrangement of the program team. since i couldn't do it, he could only find someone who could travel to do it.

i was very angry at the time and argued with him for a while, but project b had a problem suddenly, so i ignored it and rushed to the recording site of project b's program. two days later, i returned to the company after handling it, only to find thatmy workstation was gone, and the work that belonged to me in project a was assigned to the art producer who was "on a business trip for me", and my name was deleted from the credits in the later stage of the program.

i was an outsourced employee, and the person in charge of project a was not my direct supervisor. however, since he was the head of the project team and had the power to decide whether to hire an outsourced employee, i was fired by the company.

i had worked in this company for two or three years and had not made any major mistakes, but i was fired directly because i could not coordinate my schedule and could not go on business trips. this made me feel very unfair. however, the company's rules and regulations and management processes were very imperfect at the time, and employees could only obey the arrangements of management, and i could do nothing about it.

more importantly,at that time, i didn’t have a strong sense of rights protection., i only asked the company for half a month's compensation, and the company also promised to pay me the project bonus. if it were now, i would definitely not accept it and would continue to fight for more compensation.

if you don't turn off the lights or flush the toilet during overtime, you will be criticized in the company group.

didi｜hangzhou 30-year-old internet industry

i resigned three months ago, but i had actually had this idea a long time ago. one of the direct triggers is ridiculous, because the company criticized me in the group for not flushing the toilet after using it, which affected others, but i didn’t do that at all and was wronged. however, this kind of thing is still very "socially dead" no matter how i explain it.

i had been working at my last company for a year and a half, and i wanted to resign after half a year because my boss was obsessed with "making something big" and raised the performance kpi to twice that of last year. i thought at the time, how could it be accomplished?

after each weekly meeting, the department would fall into deathly silence because the project direction had changed again.everyone is confused. they are clearly at work, but why do they have a more "entrepreneurial mentality" than their boss? every day is unknown.

my direct female supervisor has a weak personality. every time the team discusses a plan, when she comes back after reporting, it is usually rejected and has to be done again. this cycle repeats over and over again. the female supervisor sighs at her workstation every day, and her anxiety is also passed on to me.

before i officially discussed my resignation, my direct female supervisor talked to me twice, mainly expressing her concern for my future development.

during the first conversation, the female leader said that if i continued like this, it would be very dangerous, not only in this job, but also that i had reached a bottleneck in my career development and hoped that i could think carefully about my career planning.but in order to keep my job, i insisted that there was no bottleneck, i could make changes, and i could work towards the direction the company expected for the project.

the second conversation was three months later. the boss said the company was dissatisfied with the department planning and hoped that the leaders of each department would reflect collectively. the female leader told me that she herself might not be suitable for this project. a week after that conversation, the female leader suddenly resigned, leaving me helpless. i was recruited by the female leader, and my situation became more difficult after she left.

without a direct supervisor, anyone in the company could control me. for example, i was criticized in the group for forgetting to turn off the lights when i left late after working overtime, maliciously wasting the company's electricity; i was also criticized in the group for not flushing the toilet after using it, but in fact it was not me at all, i was just the only one working overtime that day. after that, i never went to the toilet on the same floor again.

after that, my boss started looking for a new person to replace me, and at the same time asked my colleagues at the same level and newcomers who had just started working to teach me how to do business. he kept suppressing my abilities through high-frequency conversations 1-3 times a week, and in the end, i basically did everything wrong.

in the last conversation, the boss said that my contribution was too low and he was very disappointed in me. he hoped that i could take the initiative to resign and keep a decent face. but it was impossible for me to take the initiative to resign, because then i would not get any compensation and the company would not have to pay n+1. seeing that i refused firmly, the boss said that he could give some compensation, and we could part ways amicably.

at present, i can still support myself by relying on freelance work. i am not planning to go out for interviews for the time being. i will give myself some time and repair my mental state.

i was asked to walk 50 kilometers in the summer, but i quit before i had worked for three months.

yuanzhong｜shanghai 30+ investment industry

i used to work in an investment company. not long after i joined, the company held a team-building event. the company took us to a place far away from the center of shanghai and held a two-day meeting with some activities in between.

on the way back, because the boss likes hiking, my direct supervisor asked our employees to hike as well, especially the boys.

i didn't have any sun protection equipment at the time, and i walked 50 kilometers home in the middle of the hot summer. not to mention how tired i was, i found out that night that i was sunburned all over, and the skin on my neck was permanently tanned.

only one of us refused to do the 50km hike, and his supervisor later made things difficult for him. he was a risk control manager, but his supervisor asked him to do something that had legal risks, so he eventually resigned.

not long after the team building, i was inexplicably assigned a kpi of raising 50 million yuan in half a year, but my position was an investment position, and i was not responsible for fundraising at all. our probation period is 6 months, and if we fail to achieve the kpi by then, we will not be able to become a regular employee.

i thought about it and realized that this was not the company i wanted to work for at all, and i couldn't stay there at all, so i resigned.because i left the company within three months, 800 yuan was deducted from my salary for team-building expenses.many of my colleagues who were assigned the fundraising task when i first joined the company later left the company.

our main performance came from fundraising, and then we invested the money in some industrial parks, or helped some institutions to implement projects and earn commissions. but soon we found that this company was essentially a sales company, packaging itself as an investment company. at the same time, the entire company culture was the boss's family world and sales culture, and if there was no performance, they would leave, so the company leaders also focused their energy on social networking and resource gathering.

in this environment,the boss likes to hold mobilization meetings and incite employees to sign "military orders" similar to gambling agreements, and set performance kpis. if the performance is achieved, there will be a certain commission, and if it is not achieved, the salary will be reduced to zero.

from now on, i will be more cautious in choosing private equity fund companies, because many companies in the private equity industry are not only small in scale, but also have too many companies with irregular management.

for example, some companies have a six-month probation period and only pay 80% of the salary.after that, they often conduct pua to employees at the end of the probation period, saying that they are not as good as fresh graduates. this is convenient for lowering salaries, or directly dismissing new employees after using their resources.

my advice is that if you encounter such a boss and company, leave immediately. such a company will not train its employees seriously and only wants to make quick money.