How many new tricks does workplace PUA have?
Sixty percent of white-collar workers have encountered workplace PUA and
few
people use the law to defend their rights.
● In the workplace, PUA mostly appears in the subordinate relationship, such as leaders to subordinates, seniors to newcomers, etc. The specific performance is: or unwarranted suppression, through demeaning and denial, the subordinates gradually lose confidence to control employees; Pie, using scolding plus occasional praise and promises to make employees lose themselves. Only the leader
● 63.65% of interviewed white-collar workers have encountered workplace PUA; due to high work intensity and fierce competition, the business service industry and financial industry have become the worst-hit areas for workplace PUA.
The most common response method for white-collar workers who encounter PUA in the workplace is to quit and flee, complain to colleagues and endure silently.
Only a few have the courage to change the status quo, and few use the law to defend their rights
● In the workplace, there are job differences between superiors and superiors, and they are not completely equal. This gap in relationship leads to neglect of personality equality and becomes the root of PUA in the workplace
□ Our reporter Zhao Li
Recently, a "Voluntary Application for Strugglers" has attracted widespread attention on the Internet.
Some netizens said that Chengyu Vanadium Titanium Technology Co., Ltd. requires employees to sign this application voluntarily, promising to voluntarily work overtime and waive overtime pay, paid leave and resignation compensation, accept the company’s elimination when the ability is insufficient, and promise not to cause labor arbitration with the company, etc. Legal disputes.
If there is a violation, the employee will voluntarily give up the "equity share" awarded by the company.
This incident makes "workplace PUA" once again a hot topic of discussion.
Earlier, singer Yamy exposed the live recording of the meeting, exposing that the boss of his agency company publicly humiliated his appearance and business ability at the meeting, and accompanied by personal attacks.
This aroused strong resonance from netizens, and the discussion hotspots pointed to workplace PUA.
PUA, the original meaning of "touch-up artist", generally refers to the use of a certain dominant position, through mental control, to manipulate others to satisfy their own wishes.
In the workplace, PUA mostly appears in the relationship between superiors and subordinates, such as leaders to subordinates, seniors to newcomers, etc.
In terms of manifestation, workplace PUA can either be unwarranted suppression, by degrading and denying subordinates to gradually lose self-confidence in order to control employees; it can also be empty drawing, using scolding plus occasional praise and promises to make employees lose themselves. Only leaders follow.
The extended performance also includes assigning tasks beyond the scope of work or normal load, occupying employees' rest and vacation time, and even developing into sexual harassment.
Based on this, a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily conducted an in-depth investigation into the workplace PUA phenomenon.
Belittle and negate the empty picture pie
Overload of allocation work
"996 and 007 are for your own good."
"You are so poor, no other company will want you except our company."
"Help me to buy a counseling book for my son after get off work. Everyone can help me with this matter. Why I am looking for you is because I trust you."
"You must obey my leadership unconditionally."
"I'm teaching you to do things, not pushing things to you."
The above-mentioned words come from the interviewees, who are the most ordinary workers in society and the most direct victims of workplace PUA.
A reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that one of the most common cases of PUA in the workplace is when the boss derogates and suppresses the personality of the subordinates.
Recently, the behavior of a company in Kunshan when issuing employee certificates has also attracted the attention of netizens.
The staff held a microphone and said a name, and threw an employee ID on the ground. Many people had to bend over to pick up the ID on the ground.
Some netizens pointed out that after the so-called leader dropped the first employee ID, he smelled a familiar smell-workplace PUA.
Xiaoyun, who has encountered PUA in the workplace, told the reporter of Rule of Law Daily that his former leader "takes the style of controlling everything."
"As long as others don't listen to him, he will be very angry and uncomfortable. He sometimes gives specific instructions on work, but it is often mixed with personal attacks and very negative judgment content, which makes people very uncomfortable." Xiaoyun said.
"The leader always said why I did so badly, and I couldn't do anything. I was next to him at the station, so he would push me the chores he didn't want to handle, but whenever I got something wrong, it would come. Such an evaluation." Xiaoyun said, "Leaders will often create panic for us and close our contact with the outside world so that we can continue to stay here and work obediently."
Xiaoyun recalled: "Almost every new young colleague will be told by the leader that he will not know anything, and he will be expelled if he leaves here."
Many interviewees revealed that the bosses who are keen to say these words generally do not point out the problems of the employees, and do not tell the employees what to pay attention to. Instead, they use a steady stream of degrading words to diminish employees’ self-esteem and make employees feel good. Increasingly serious self-doubt-"Am I really bad?"
A reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily" found that there is a common routine in workplace PUA, which is to instill hope in employees through "wangmei quenching thirst".
Netizen Rabbit told the story of an internship in a well-known financial company during his senior year.
During the internship, the rabbit has been working hard and working overtime without complaint.
After several months of hard work, the rabbit finally got a promise to become a regular.
But when it was time for the regularization, the leader told him that the company's policy had changed and it would take two or three months to complete the regularization procedures.
So the rabbit worked hard for a few months.
But when he applied for the second time, the leader performed the same trick again and told the rabbit to wait until next year before he could get the right.
"At this time, I kept my eyes on it and started to submit resumes to other companies. After the leader knew about this, he began to draw me various pie. For example, the company was very optimistic about my development, got a salary increase, and the company had Many big projects will involve me in waiting." Rabbit said, just like that, he continued to work with a few hundred yuan salary for 6 months, but when he woke up, the leader changed his mind and told him to recognize the situation. Young people don’t think so much, it’s good to find a place to work.
In the end, he even threatened that he knew the company that Rabbit was going to interview, and he could make it impossible for Rabbit to go with a phone call.
Beijing white-collar Liu Dan (pseudonym) encountered a "workaholic" leader in the workplace, requiring his subordinates to devote all their time to work, and to work overtime if they could not finish it, and it was long-term continuous.
"The workload of Pai will always exceed the workload that a normal person can complete. If we can't finish it, he will reprimand us for being inefficient and irresponsible. Working hard overtime is inherently tiring, and often suffers from language violence, which is exhausting and exhausting. , I am not interested in anything." Liu Dan said.
Relationship gap ignores equality
Sixty percent of white-collar workers encounter PUA
During the investigation, a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily also found that some anti-PUA posts or books were circulating on the Internet.
Through Internet search, we found that Zhihu, Douban and other forums have a lot of information on "How to Oppose PUA in the Workplace" and "Workplace Anti-PUA Practice Manual".
Most of these posts remind new employees not to be led by leaders by describing the characteristics and performance of workplace PUA.
A reporter from the Rule of Law Daily searched the QQ group with keywords such as "employee training" and "leadership training" and found a large number of training groups from all walks of life.
A reporter from the "Rule of Law Daily" randomly joined a related QQ group. The group announcement contained words such as "grateful", "mind", and "passion".
It can be seen from the chat records of this group that the content and information in it are almost all related to slogans, such as "Do you want to succeed?" "Yes!" "Much!" "Everything you do will Getting closer to success" etc.
By instilling some pseudo-logic, pseudo-knowledge and other discourses, group administrators generalize special situations, simplify complex issues, make improper causal connections, and assumptions that violate facts.
At the same time, the group will also regularly hold training online courses, mainly telling stories of inspirational and successful people.
However, in order to spread the effect, these stories exaggerate, even deliberately conceal part of the facts, only tell the legendary story of success, and let the trainers ignore the various factors behind the success.
The "Research Report on the Living Conditions of White-collar Workers in 2020" (hereinafter referred to as the "Research Report") released by Zhaopin.com shows that 63.65% of the white-collar workers surveyed have encountered workplace PUA.
Due to high work intensity and fierce competition, the business service industry and the financial industry have become the hardest hit areas for workplace PUA.
According to the "Research Report", workplace PUA is more common, and more than 60% of respondents have experienced related experiences. Workplace PUA is mainly reflected in the use of cakes, beautification of squeezing behaviors requiring gratitude, and unreasonable work arrangements.
According to the analysis of the "Research Report", white-collar workers of different ages experience different workplace PUA routines.
The post-90s and post-95s young white-collar groups lack social experience and judgment, and are easy to become a stepping stone for the "use of picture cake" in the workplace, and they are often forced to drink "this is for your good" chicken soup.
In actual surveys, more than 60% of young white-collar workers acknowledged the existence of such phenomena.
For older white-collar workers, their rich experience and workplace experience have made them succumb to the "big pie with chicken soup", and "constant blows and denials" have become the main form of middle-aged white-collar workers encountering PUA in the workplace.
"In the workplace, there are job differences between the superior and the subordinate, and the relationship is not completely equal. This gap in the relationship leads to the neglect of personality equality and becomes the root of the workplace PUA. Although the term'workplace PUA' is a new online buzzword, but This situation exists for a long time in the employment relationship." Li Qiang, executive vice president of Zhaolian Recruitment Group, said in an interview with a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily.
According to Li Qiang, in recent years, my country's economy has developed rapidly, market competition has intensified, and the slow pace of corporate culture and system construction has created a high-pressure working environment.
The corporate culture that over-advocates the "wolf culture" and "struggle philosophy" is popular, and corporate managers brainwash the society with the posture of winners, so that the workplace PUA and other problems are exposed more frequently, which also contributes to the spread of this trend.
Generally choose to resign and escape
Few rights defenders
Suffering from workplace PUA, Xiaoyun finally chose to resign barely. At the same time, he carefully reviewed his job content, revised his resume, and found a new job 15 days after resigning.
However, not every victim of workplace PUA is so wise or lucky.
Many workplace PUA victims interviewed frankly said that they did not understand workplace PUA and had experienced the torture of workplace PUA. Most of them began to resist their work. They had serious self-doubt and self-denial, feeling that they had done nothing, even Cause depression.
"This is the job" and "Forbearance is good"-this is the thoughts of many victims after encountering workplace PUAs.
The "Research Report" also mentioned that in the face of workplace PUA, 66.42% of white-collar workers choose to leave their jobs to escape and “go as the best policy”; 52.98% will complain to colleagues; and 44.01% choose to swallow their breath.
Compared with the above "inaction", 26.88% of white-collar workers choose to confront their superiors head-on, and 6.49% will use social media to publicly break the news.
The survey shows that the younger the white-collar workers, the more likely they are to pour out their colleagues. The proportion of post-95s is as high as 57.67%; the proportion of post-70s and post-80s who are "straightforward" over 30%.
According to Li Qiang, data shows that the most common response method for white-collar workers who encounter PUA in the workplace is to quit and flee, complain to colleagues, and endure silently.
Only a few have the courage to change the status quo, and few use the law to defend their rights.
"Many workplace PUAs are concealed and difficult to identify. This situation itself reduces the chance of victims revealing workplace PUA. Workplace PUA is also usually reflected in mental control under power differences. It is often difficult to collect evidence and judgment results are also affected by individuals. Subjective factors are affected, and such victims often do not have the time and energy to follow the series of legal procedures, which brings certain difficulties to the rights protection of workers in the workplace." Li Qiang said.
The pressure from his parents and family made Liu Dan continue to endure this job, "I must be supported by the family, and my family members advised me not to resign, thinking that this is an ignorant behavior."
A reporter from the Rule of Law Daily found that this is also a problem faced by many people suffering from PUA in the workplace. Parents find it difficult to understand the pressure and unhappiness in the workplace, and they think this is the norm, so their children are not allowed to resign.
At the same time, economic pressures and a sluggish employment environment have also made company employees lack confidence in "naked speeches."
"Sometimes it's not that I don't want to fight back, but I don't have the capital to fight back."
"Many times it's not that I don't want to fight back, but I can't."
Such words express the most fundamental helplessness of those in the workplace who have been PUA.