"Rectifying" the workplace has never been a matter of any generation
I am a post-70s generation. When I was young, the expression "post-70s" was not popular yet, so I rarely heard the comments of "post-70s".
However, in the eyes of the elders, our generation "cannot endure hardship".
My mother made "Yikusitian" rice specially for me - a little salty, a little bitter, and the grainy "cob noodles" wowatou. After I took a small bite and gave up, my mother looked at me with a half-smiling smile. , the expression is called "see what I said is right".
When I entered the workplace, what my parents often said to me was that I should go to the office ahead of time to sweep the floor and wipe the table to get hot water.
I naturally did the same, without any thought of "why" or "why", as if maintaining a sense of order in the workplace is a natural duty.
What the parents have not experienced, there is a lack of experience to teach.
In the 1990s, it has been gradually marketized, and it is very different from the parents who entered a unit for a lifetime, and entered the unit to ensure the income after drought and flood.
At that time, the employment of the units was very irregular, comparable to today's "Wenmei". Some of the establishments were "permanent", and those who signed contracts were considered "semi-permanent".
Departments have certain employment rights, so contracts are divided into two types: unit-signing and department-signing.
These differences are not only related to treatment, but even determine how others look at you.
The team went to the customer to talk about cooperation and introduced them one by one. I stood at the end of the line, like a small transparent, with an illusion of "I am here, but not completely".
The holiday benefits issued by the unit are also distributed according to the level.
Sometimes people like me can get half of it, sometimes not at all, but when it comes to moving things, it is not divided according to this.
At the year-end dinner, whether I am assigned to be on duty or get a seat at the banquet is like a lottery.
I finally decided to apply for another job.
Before the interview, the person in charge of applying for the job scattered our resumes all over the place. He didn't even give a sideways glance, and his fingers proudly pointed to the applicant in the air like jumping on a piano key: "Go and pick it up. ." I got up immediately, turned my head and left.
I have a friend of the same age who laughs with enthusiasm.
For a while, her private life was spread by colleagues in the unit, but the leader asked her to talk to her and let her pay attention to the impact.
She replied word by word: "This is my personal matter. If I hear someone talking next time, no matter who he is, slap him, and the leader will do the same!"
The first complaint report I made was a female worker in her 40s who complained to the factory for working overtime.
I also helped a good friend fight a labor lawsuit against her company. After winning the arbitration, I went to court. With no legal experience, I argued with the opposing lawyer in a convincing way.
Of course, I won the lawsuit not because of my debating skills, but because of the support of labor law and the justice of the judge.
At that time, we didn't know what "arbiter" was, what was "arbiter man", and there was no social media to complain about, no mobile phone, no Internet, and naturally we couldn't talk about shooting and recording.
The only thing left is the memory.
Later, I gradually changed from a newcomer in the workplace to "a sister" and "a teacher", and I also began to bring new people.
Over the years, there have been various discussions about whether the post-80s are a "beat generation" and whether the post-90s are "bear children".
I can honestly say that it is part of my job as a media person to create conversations and participate in discussions.
However, when looking at the personalities around you when you take a big and generalized topic as a magnifying glass, there will definitely be out-of-focus problems.
For example, I know someone born in the 1980s. The company asked them to uniformly change their WeChat avatars with the company logo, and transfer the company's publicity activities in the circle of friends. people.
Dividing people by age group is a very lazy way of thinking.
Are people born in 1980 more similar to people born in 1979, or more similar to people born in 1989, environmentally speaking?
What is the difference between the post-00s and those born in 1999?
From the perspective of individual choice, here is the post-00s to rectify the workplace, but there is another survey that finds that 90% of the post-00s are willing to work overtime. Do you want to ask a post-00, which team are you in?
The answer is not that simple.
In the nearly 30 years I have worked, the workplace environment has been changing.
The unit that divides people into three, six, and nine grades later standardized the way of employing people. Regardless of their status, they are paid equal pay for equal work, and social security is supplemented according to the law.
At that time, a leader of the post-60s generation said, who has no children?
Who doesn't want their children to be treated fairly?
This kind of renewal is the result of the efforts of generations. In each generation, some people fish, some struggle, and some fight for their own rights and interests.
How can the revision of labor laws, the improvement of arbitration rules, and the fairness of the workplace environment be achieved overnight?
Of course, the biggest difference between this generation of young people and the previous generation is that they are more willing to express themselves and are easier to be "seen", and thus receive more applause and support.
Who hasn't been young?
But no one is ever young.
Whether it is the post-80s generation who publicly appealed to the media for "why can't play and work be both?" or the post-90s post-90s who wrote the "best resignation letter", they have gradually disappeared from the field of public opinion.
At the end of "Journey to the West", after knowing the truth, the supreme treasure resolutely put on the diamond ring and calmly embarked on the road of learning scriptures.
No matter how many years later, this is probably an inescapable mission.
Ma Qing Source: China Youth Daily