Recently, Leader Lei has been quite troubled.
Li Mu's targeting of Joyo.com is equivalent to him being a landowner targeting the daughter of a tenant farmer. He cannot resist at all. At present, Joyo.com has already been severely affected in the field of audio and video products, and its platform traffic and order volume continue to decline. If If we continue to struggle like this, let alone Li Mu's $10 million offer, Lenovo and Kingsoft may end up losing all their investments in Excellence.
In this unsolvable situation, Leader Lei is actually inclined to sell Joyo.com. Although the price is low now, if the loss is stopped in time, at least 10 million US dollars of basic stock will be left.
What's more, Leader Lei himself owns about ten points of shares in Joyo.com, and he doesn't want to end up in vain.
However, Leader Lei encountered some resistance in promoting the sale of Joyo.com to Makino Technology. This resistance mainly came from the top management of Kingsoft and Lenovo. They always felt that Li Mu’s offer was too low and were resolutely unwilling to accept it. They even had whimsical hopes that They found capital to take over, then cashed out and retired. However, after searching for such a long time, no capital was interested in acquiring Joyo.com.
After so many days, Leader Lei has been unable to do anything about this matter. The two major shareholders obviously did not realize that Zhuojian had become a hot potato. They still held it in their hands and were unwilling to sell it, waiting for others to take over. If they kept waiting like this, My hand was about to be burned, so I had no choice but to throw the hot potato on the ground in order to save my hand. By then, not only would the potato that fell on the ground have no value at all, but whoever dropped it would have to clean up the aftermath.
Think about it, it depends on a team including front-end operations, back-end support and warehousing and distribution. A team of hundreds of people. If Joyo loses its hands, won’t these employees have to pay for the aftermath of the two companies? This is not about throwing garbage everywhere. If you don’t pick it up after throwing it on the ground, just say to yourself that I have no quality, and this matter will be over. One of the two companies is a large company that manufactures complete machines, and the other is a large company that develops software. If they are Anyone who dares to do such an unqualified thing will definitely be criticized.
Leader Lei has been persuading the top management of both parties to understand the current situation of Joyo.com, but there has been no progress. Until he heard that the people from Xishanju had been poached, the top management of the two companies had not given a clear answer. reply.
When Leader Lei, who was in Yanjing, heard that twelve members of the core team of Xishanju Studio in Zhu City had resigned collectively, his whole mind exploded, and he immediately felt that there was an 80% possibility that this matter was caused by Makino Technology They did it, because only they have the courage to do such a one-stop thing. They can make twelve core teams apply for resignation at the same time, which is enough to prove that the conditions provided by Makino Technology are extremely attractive.
This is really embarrassing. Leader Lei also knows very well that games are the top priority for making money on the Internet right now. If Kingsoft wants to rely on China to sell software, it may not be able to be on the market in ten years, but if there is even an Internet If the game becomes popular, the pace of Kingsoft’s listing will be accelerated a lot.
However, the core team of Xishanju Studio, which he had great hopes for, all asked to resign. How could he accept this
As soon as he received the news on Monday, Master Lei immediately took a flight to Zhu City, hoping to keep the core team. But what he never dreamed of was that after the core team did not receive a response to their resignation application on Monday, on Tuesday They immediately took a long leave collectively and did not come back to work at the company.
Leader Lei arrived at Zhushi on Monday night. When he arrived at Xishanju early the next morning, he found that the core team did not come to work. He suddenly felt cold and knew that it would be useless for him to come this time. These people were determined. If you want to resign, you won't be able to keep him.
Twelve core team members resigned, and the entire team was in turmoil. In front of Leader Lei, General Manager Wei Chao of Xishanju was particularly embarrassed. He called Director Wu Di directly in front of Leader Lei and threatened him. Wu Di: "Wu Di, if you forcefully resign now, the company has the right to sue you in accordance with the labor law and contract provisions! Not only you, but also your team!"
Wu Di said in a calm voice: "Manager Wei, I know that unilateral termination of the contract means that we have violated the spirit of the contract, so you want to sue us. We also understand very well that if the court opens, our mutually appointed lawyer will appear in court on our behalf, regardless of the court. No matter how much compensation is awarded, we will obey the judgment.”
Lin Qingya had given them a clear guarantee a long time ago. All compensation arising from resignation would be borne by Makino Technology, so they did not have to wait a month before joining the company. If Xishanju did not issue a severance agreement this week, ten The two of them took a plane directly to Yanjing. Makino Technology had already booked their air tickets and hotel in Yanjing in advance.
Wei Chao is very shrewd. If the negotiation breaks down like this, Leader Lei next to him will feel that he has no control over the team at all, so he said to Wu Di in a heart-to-heart tone: "Old Wu, what I just said These are all angry words, you should come to the company first, Mr. Lei knows about your resignation and has come all the way from Yanjing and wants to meet you and have a chat."
Wu Di didn't give him or Leader Lei any face, and said calmly: "I have nothing to talk about with him. He also knows how he has treated the brothers in Xishanju in recent years, and you know even better, so There is no need to meet and chat. If we don’t go through the resignation procedures before this Friday, then let’s take it to court!”
After Wu Di said these words, he hung up the phone directly.
Wei Chao looked embarrassed, but he finally breathed a sigh of relief. Leader Lei was listening, and the team didn't even give you face. This proves that there is something wrong with your constant cost reduction.
In fact, it is not surprising that the core team of Xishanju is decisive. The employees and the company have an contractual relationship, and it is natural to abide by the agreement. However, if they do not abide by the terms of the agreement and abide by the breach of contract clause, it is also in line with the spirit of the contract, so the employees have no respect for the company. There is no such thing as "loyalty" at all. Even if there is loyalty, it is said with money, not with words.
Xishanju's employees have always had very low remuneration, very low benefits, and heavy workloads. This is no longer just a day or two.
Before that, most members of Xishanju could only accept the situation. The reason is very simple. Most people have settled in Zhu City, and there are no other Internet companies in Zhu City, especially game development companies, so everyone left Xishan Living in Zhu City is equivalent to losing a job opportunity in Zhu City. For this reason, the remuneration of employees in Xishan House has been deliberately kept very low. It is because they know that employees have no other way out, so they are particularly blatant.
Wu Di and his group had long complained about Xishanju. They thought there would be no breakout, but Makino Technology suddenly offered them an olive branch and gave them a good opportunity to develop quietly, and also gave them a treatment and treatment that they simply could not refuse. Prospect, in this case, they naturally want to leave.
After all, Leader Lei himself is also responsible for this matter. All capitalists like to squeeze costs, but not all capitalists like to squeeze labor costs. Li Mu is the latter. In his view, talents are the key to development, so he can Competitors are cruel and can kill all kinds of gods and Buddhas in the competition, but they will not take any advantage of their own people. This is the fundamental reason why the team cohesion of Makino Technology is beyond imagination.
However, the cruel reality is that after all, most companies are not recognized by their relatives. They are racking their brains every day to squeeze out labor costs. In the final analysis, they are squeezing their own employees. There is no clear general salary adjustment policy and no clear promotion. Ladders, no clear benefits, everything can be saved as much as possible. There are even many large companies that use foreign service companies to sign contracts with employees in order to avoid overburdening their employees. This is the biggest rogue.
The so-called signing a contract with a foreign service company probably means: Company A is obviously recruiting employees, but company A is unwilling to sign a labor contract directly with the employees. Instead, it asks the employees to sign a contract with a foreign service company B first, and legally becomes company B. employees, and then Company B dispatches them to Company A to work in the form of labor dispatch. What is very disgusting about this routine is that Company A, the real employer, does not need to be responsible for these employees at all, and they are treated like cattle and horses. Direct expulsion. The most damning thing is that from a legal perspective, it was Foreign Service Company B who was expelled. No matter how dirty the method was, it had nothing to do with A directly.
Among all the members of Xishanju, except for the leaders parachuted in from the headquarters, most of them have signed agreements with foreign service companies. In order to save costs, the company, no matter what the actual salary of each of them is, all social security and other benefits are guaranteed. Pay according to the local minimum wage standard. In short, deductions will be made where they can be deducted, and reductions will be made where they can be reduced. This has long made all employees dissatisfied.
As the CEO of Kingsoft, Mr. Lei is actually just a professional manager who holds a small number of shares. The most common mistake that professional managers make is always looking upward.
I hope that the senior management can recognize me, I hope the board of directors can recognize myself, and I hope that every report I submit has the best data. To do this, it is not enough to generate external income, but also to squeeze the talents below. The numbers are even better. The annual revenue is 50 million. Without squeezing labor costs, the net profit is 10 million. If you squeeze it a little, the net profit may reach 15 million. Why not
Once a professional manager makes this mistake, basically the people under him will complain about him. Although Master Lei has become a very good manager after founding Xiaomi, at least for now, he has not truly realized the people-oriented concept. The essence is that Xishanju's treatment is not good, and he himself has something to do with it.
Leader Lei had no time to reflect. He waited anxiously for a whole day and saw no one among the twelve people. So he completely gave up the idea of continuing to work hard and decided to stay in Zhu City for the next few days and work with Wei Chao to figure out a solution. Methods, such as: how to arrange development tasks after the core team leaves. The existing strength is not enough to start work at the same time, so we need to eliminate a priority. In addition, we must also determine the recruitment of personnel, and strive to bring the core team to work as soon as possible. Control the negative impact of leaving your job.
However, when Leader Lei was about to have a detailed discussion with Wei Chao on Wednesday, news suddenly came that shocked him.
Makino Technology has just sent out the news that Li Mu held a meeting in the morning to discuss Series C financing. Now the people in charge of capital operations at Makino Technology have begun to communicate with major venture capital institutions. Now the entire Chinese venture capital circle has gone crazy...
(End of chapter)