see you in spring

Chapter 98 Adding insult to injury [-]

Jia Lie didn't expect that he would be at home looking forward to going to work every day, but the company was already preparing to lay off employees.

She joined Desheng Technology as soon as she graduated and has been working there for more than ten years.Because she is the breadwinner of the family, she has worked diligently over the years and does not dare to be lazy at all in a workplace that is not friendly to women.I thought I would be promoted as soon as I started working after the Chinese New Year. Unexpectedly, due to the epidemic, I was already on the list of people to be laid off.

No wonder every time she asked her boss when work would resume, the boss hesitated and asked her to wait for notification.At this moment, Jia Lie was trembling with anger.She recalled that her parents were both laid off from state-owned factories in the 90s. In order to be able to re-employ, her parents found a trustee and spent half a year's living expenses on the family to treat the boss to a meal.

Unexpectedly, the leader didn’t come at all that night.Looking at the table of food, the parents felt extremely distressed. In order not to waste it, they ate until they were drunk and cried all the way home. Then they vomited all the expensive food at home.

At that time, Jia Lie was in the sixth grade of elementary school and was in his early ten years.Amid the sour smell in the house and her mother's crying, she couldn't feel the true pain of unemployment at the moment.But in the days that followed, she began to slowly realize that unemployment represented her mother's frowning face that cried at every turn, and her father's sighing who smoked two packs of cigarettes a day.In addition, she no longer has pocket money to buy her favorite stationery, her favorite braised pork ribs no longer often appear on the dining table, and she doesn’t even have to go to the cram school she attends.

If anything, those were just her understanding as a child at that time.So now, she has deeply understood her parents' worry and despair about their future life.

If she is really laid off, not only will she lose her job, but the family will also lose their source of income. This will be a devastating blow to the family.

At this time, Jia Lie was already in disarray. She picked up the phone and was about to call the leader. She wanted to ask the leader why she was laid off and why the family was driven to a dead end.

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Dongqing hurriedly came over to stop her and said, "Don't be anxious yet."

Before he could finish his words, Jia Lie shouted at him emotionally: "If you don't support the family, don't be in a hurry. If I get laid off, our family will have to go to the northwest. Then I'll see if you are in a hurry." !”

Dongqing glanced at her daughter who was too frightened to continue eating, and said hurriedly: "Wanggua, please go back to the room and close the door to read, and daddy will tell mommy something."

Xiao Donggua glanced at Jia Lie blankly, quickly put down her half-eaten rice bowl, and returned to the room with a look of shock on her face.Before closing the door, she glanced at her mother timidly. She didn't know what happened just now, and why her mother, who was talking to her so kindly, suddenly became so irritable.

Jia Lie also knew that she had scared the child just now, but she really couldn't control her emotions. How could she be calm when she thought that they would not even have food and clothing in the future?

Seeing that her daughter had closed the door, Dongqing continued to enlighten Jia Lie: "I know how you are feeling now, and I am anxious too, but think carefully about what Sister Wang said just now. What she said was that she was fired by the company. She heard that The company is also going to lay off a large number of old employees, and it also asks you to fight for her rights and interests if you receive a dismissal call from the human resources manager. She never explicitly said that you were laid off from the beginning to the end. She received the call from the human resources manager herself and then Let me vent to you, but you were obviously brought in by her, and you called to question the leader before you understood the situation. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you hadn't been laid off? "

"Then what if I really get laid off?" Jia Lie was angry and anxious, and a puff of air hit her chest, making her feel sick to her stomach.

Dongqing knew that her mood was unstable now, so she could only analyze it in a good direction: "You know from reading the news every day that during the epidemic, many companies have not been able to resume work until now, and their business has more or less shrunk. The economy is not going well. Under stable conditions, unemployment will inevitably increase. It is reasonable for companies to reduce costs in order to protect themselves. Layoffs are also a way to save money, but for a production company as big as Desheng Technology, it is impossible to lay off people blindly. Sister Wang said that all layoffs They are old people. If a company wants to lay off old people, it is mostly because the old people have entered a bottleneck period, are still relying on their old age, and are arrogant. Such people are slippery in the company, indifferent to new technological changes, and only know how to muddle through their lives. You are a senior executive of the company, would you rather replace the old employees who are paid high salaries but do not work, and go to work every day to gossip and be naughty with new employees who are young and motivated but are paid low wages?"

Jia Lie frowned and said nothing.Dongqing continued: "Think about it all these years, how have you ever gotten home before seven o'clock? Even when you get home, you are still working overtime, and you don't even have time to accompany your children. Your hard work and leadership have seen it, so you have been able to do it all these years. Promotion step by step. For the company, old people with rich industry experience and willingness to work hard are the company's treasure. You have the ability, experience and motivation, I can't think of any reason why they should lay off you."

Jia Lie couldn't think of a reason herself, but she felt inexplicably panicked.After being silent for a few seconds, she suddenly thought of something: "Could it be because I told my boss that I had been in contact with a confirmed patient some time ago and am now in quarantine, so they no longer let me go to work? Since I told my boss about this, After the incident, he even arranged work for me and asked me to take more rest."

The more Jia Lie said, the more certain she became, and the more certain she became, the angrier she became. She was also a victim in this matter. If the company laid her off because of this matter, she would never let it go.

In the end, Dongqing couldn't stop her, so Jia Lie called the human resources manager and asked if she was on the layoff list.

Because she was emotional, her tone was not very good. The human resources manager had been called off by people who had been laid off all morning, and she was already in a bad mood. Now that Jia Lie was questioning her like this, of course she had nothing nice to say, and she said something strangely. : "Those who have received calls these days are those who have been laid off. Please pay attention in these two days."

The other party hung up the phone and Jia Lie slowly fell onto the sofa.

Tell her to pay attention. Are you planning to hit her?

Anger, anxiety, and grievance made Jia Lie unable to hold back and cried directly.She still remembers how her mother was crying at home back then. It was the first time she saw a strong mother crying so desperately. Now, after more than 20 years, the moment she cried, there was a kind of time and space transformation. illusion.

Dongqing on the side saw Jia Lie's reaction and guessed what Manli said to her.He didn't expect that such a hard-working Jia Lie would be laid off in the company.He was also panicking, but facing the emotional Jia Lie, he could only pretend to be calm.

He went over and hugged her gently: "Don't cry yet, you will always find a way. With your qualifications, you can find a job wherever you go."

Jia Lie was furious. Hearing his indifferent words, he could only throw all his anger on him.

She pushed Dongqing away with a cry: "I can find a job wherever I go? Dongqing, why don't you go but me? I am already 36 after the Spring Festival. Do you know how difficult it is for women after 35 to find a job?" Is it difficult? Three years ago, I asked you to find a job and wanted to add double insurance to the family, but you were unwilling. You kept saying that you can’t find a good job after you reach middle age. Why, come to my place now , is it easy to find? I am really disappointed in you, Dongqing, for so many years you have been eating soft food at home every day, and you can still eat it even if you watch me working so hard outside!"

This was the first time that Jia Lie told him that he was eating soft food in front of him. The muscles on Dongqing's face twitched a few times. Seeing her crying, he felt more guilty than angry.She was right, if he had a stable job now, she wouldn't be so desperate.It was him who had passed the test of not knowing, and he had dragged himself and the family into this state.

He knew that it would be futile to say anything to her at this time, and they both needed to calm down.Dongqing got up and went to the kitchen to continue washing dishes. When he turned around again, Jia Lie had already taken the car keys and coat, opened the door and ran out.

(End of this chapter)