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After firing Twitter 80% of the employees, Musk was still unsatisfied and sent a " Struggler Agreement " to the surviving employees: Congratulations on keeping their jobs, but don't be too happy too early. The freshman's Twitter requires them to withstand "long-term high-intensity work". To put it bluntly, it means working overtime for free, voluntarily 996 or 007.
At the end of the email, the clever Musk sets an option of "YES" or "NO". Clicking "YES" means obeying unconditional overtime and avoiding legal risks; clicking "NO" to fire directly, which can be called the Twitter version of "Struggler Agreement".
Huawei is the world's first advocate of the "Struggler Agreement". In 2010, Ren Zhengfei sent an email similar to Musk's wording to middle and senior cadres in Huawei, saying, "Huawei advocates a struggler-oriented culture. In order to give employees the opportunity to become 'strugglers', please communicate with department employees, let them voluntarily become strugglers and fill out the struggler application." Once
becomes a struggler, employees will automatically give up paid annual leave, overtime pay and paternity leave, but will receive Huawei's year-end dividend .
How similar is Ren Zhengfei and Musk's approach? Both of them have to sacrifice their spare time unconditionally in exchange for higher salaries.
Public opinion has two completely different views on the "Struggler Agreement": supporters believe that the agreement was signed completely voluntarily, giving ordinary people the opportunity to get rich; opponents believe that Huawei is blatantly challenging the " Labor Law " to distinguish employees who are unwilling to work overtime.
Some resigned employees said that old employees who are unwilling to sign the agreement will be sent to Africa for a long time on business trips and forced them to resign.
Musk is even more rude to employees who are unwilling to work overtime and is fired after paying three months' minimum salary. both are constantly "purifying" the company team, forcing employees who are unwilling to work overtime through various means to build an iron army full of wolfishness.
We cannot be sure if Musk was inspired by Huawei when he conducted the "Struggle Agreement" on Twitter, but it is certain that Musk has carefully studied the Huawei model.
In a live broadcast, a netizen posted a barrage asking him, "How do you think of Huawei 'stealing' American secrets?"
Musk denied on the spot, "I don't think Huawei mobile phone will leak secrets, Americans can use it with confidence." If you don't have an in-depth understanding of Huawei, how could Musk defend Huawei?
In addition, Musk highly praised the struggle spirit of Chinese employees. He said: "Chinese people can work overtime until three or four in the morning, while Americans are trying to avoid going to work."
Ren Zhengfei and Musk, entrepreneurs from China and the United States learned from each other, and finally reached a tacit understanding on unconditional overtime work.
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Ren Zhengfei and Musk themselves are overtime madmen, and their level of dedication is impeccable. But the question is, are they qualified to force everyone on the team to be as dedicated as they do?
At Huawei, an executive once wrote a resignation letter to Ren Zhengfei. Ren Zhengfei refused to approve. The executive couldn't wait and resigned in front of Ren Zhengfei. Ren Zhengfei asked, "Why did you resign?" The executive replied, "I had a physical examination some time ago, and I had a bad habit and couldn't work overtime."
Ren Zhengfei disagreed and said, "I don't listen! Who of us has a bad habit? Are we still working overtime?" The executive of
was unable to persuade Ren Zhengfei moved out of the family and said, "My wife wants me to have time to spend more time with her."
Ren Zhengfei replied with a famous saying: "What's the use of such a wife? Why not divorce?" Ren Zhengfei regards the company as his home and stays all year round, so he can divorce in order to work overtime.
Musk is even more crazy. He said that he works 120 hours a week, and has no real estate or deposits in his name. All the money is in the company, and the company is everything to him. When the Tesla
Tesla factory was put into production, production capacity was delayed in meeting the standard. Musk slept in the factory for three years. He first slept on the sofa, but later slept on the floor, supervising production 24 hours a day, and solved the problem immediately.
He explained: Although it is uncomfortable to sleep on the floor, the shift team can see me as soon as they come, so that all the employees can know that I am playing hard with them.
After all, Huawei and Tesla are the personal industries of Ren Zhengfei and Musk. They are not willing to fight for life. How can they be qualified to ask other employees to follow suit?
There is no problem in striving for it, but can you be more tolerant of employees who are unwilling to work overtime? Don’t transfer people who don’t want to work overtime to Africa or get rid of them directly.
When the water is clear, there will be no fish. A team with only wolf spirit will do whatever it takes to achieve their goals and even break through the bottom line of the law.
What's more, Huawei and Tesla are the very few successful companies. As they work overtime, the strugglers can get corresponding returns.
is afraid that many startups nowadays use Huawei and Tesla’s examples to brainwash employees, draw pie for them, and stand on the street and shout slogans before going to work. The boss took the company's money to spend money, lost all the investors' money and left it, and continued to cheat on the next project.
Haven’t you seen that 300 executives of Byton Auto have eaten 50 million yuan in snacks a year? After the company collapsed, people left empty, leaving behind a mess.
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is a French company in sharp contrast with Musk and Ren Zhengfei's overtime culture.
French workers are famous for being lazy. A French worker's daily routine is that he arrives at work at 9:00 at 10:00, and he is slow to lunch, and after lunch break, he has afternoon tea, and after eating, he gets off work for an hour. Work seven hours nominally and four hours in actual work throughout the day.
If Musk or Ren Zhengfei dared to hold the "Struggle Agreement" in France, he would have been sued by his employees long ago. A Shanghai Tesla worker has a production capacity of five times that of the French car . These years mark the global downturn of cars is directly related to the laziness of French workers.
But why can France still maintain the living standards of developed countries? According to some self-media, it is because the ancestors of the French colonized the world and plundered other countries in a large manner, and the wealth they plundered was enough for future generations to eat, drink and have fun.
According to this theory, the richest country in the world should be Spain, the first batch of countries to engage in colonization, but now Spain is the poorest country in Western Europe .
France has lazy people, but there are also a group of people who are willing to fight. In France, you are unwilling to fight, and your monthly salary is only 2,000-3,000 euros. If you want to be a senior in the company and make more money, you need to work overtime.
It is normal for middle and senior management of French companies to work overtime until eight or nine o'clock in the evening every day. They do not have a compulsory "Struggler Agreement" and they rely entirely on self-consciousness.
I once received a French team and the two sides agreed to hold a meeting at 10 o'clock the next morning to communicate. I think: France and China have a 7-hour jet lag, and the lazy Frenchman will definitely not get up at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Unexpectedly, at 9:30 the next day, six French executives were sitting neatly in the conference room, waiting for Chinese people to have a meeting. I asked them in surprise: "Aren't you sleepy?" The Frenchman, who led the
, smiled and said, "We took sleeping pills as soon as we arrived at the hotel and slept well." In France, struggle is the right thing to do, and lying down is also the right thing to do. Society and companies respect individual choices.
A French friend told me that he missed the Cold War era, when the two camps competed with each other and rushed to give benefits to workers. "Now there is no such thing as a unipolar world, capitalists have no scruples." It can be foreseeable that in the future, more and more companies like Huawei and Tesla that emphasize "struggle spirit".
Author: Jiang Zuo Youan
