Liu Xiao Ping, a programmer with more than two years of Android development experience.
He worked in an IT outsourcing company, and his salary was around eight to nine thousand, which was above average in a second-tier city.
He usually liked to wear checkered shirts, carry a black backpack, and did not have a girlfriend … standard? But Liu Xiao Ping had a dream!
Liu Xiao Ping had a dream!
That was to become a billionaire before the age of thirty!
A villa of more than three hundred square meters with a front and back garden.
Buy a top-of-the-line Audi A8.
Marry a young and beautiful wife with a kind heart.
Give birth to two cute daughters … A son and a daughter were also barely acceptable.
All of these were imagined by him through his own hard work!
In a rented apartment with a monthly rent of six hundred, he looked at his receding hairline in the mirror and pulled at his hair that was falling faster and faster … His dream was so far away from him.
Hehe, coding, other than barely making a living and saving a little money, there was no future.
Not to mention that he was entering an outsourcing company, there was no hope.
The essence of outsourcing was exploitation, using women as men, and men as cattle. Working overtime every day was the norm, and dying from staying up late was not uncommon.
Liu Xiao Ping was able to stay in this kind of company for two years because he wanted to accumulate experience and skills here. When the number of projects increased, he could change jobs, and his salary would start at least fifteen thousand.
Recently, he felt that he had enough experience, so he hid it from the company and submitted his resume online, looking for suitable opportunities.
But maybe the absolute salary he set was a little high, and there were only a few companies that called him, or the salary they offered did not meet his minimum expectations.
More than half a month had passed without any results.
This was the only job he had at hand, and he continued to look for suitable opportunities.
Moreover, he had enough free time to look for them.
He even used the weekends and weekends to learn Star Cloud app programming, and master more skills.
He switched the Da Mi phone that he had used for two years to the Star Cloud system, and found that the system was really easy to use. The smoothness was off the charts, and it felt like he had changed his phone. There were many apps in it, including mainstream WeChat, Penguin, iQiyi, UC, and so on. Taobao, Alipay, and other heavyweight apps could also be added quickly, and it was very smooth to use.
"For people like me who don't play games often, and seven or eight apps are enough, the Star Cloud system is ten times better than the Android system."
Liu Xiaoping sighed.
Some of the colleagues in the company saw that the Star Cloud System was so useful. Several colleagues asked him to upgrade it to the Star Cloud System, and the feedback was very good.
Only one unlucky colleague was caught in the backdoor push by Google. His phone broke as soon as he tried to use it, so he had no choice but to switch back to Android.
Although Liu Xiaoping was an Android developer himself, he also felt that Google was digging its own grave! In the face of the strong competition from the Star Cloud System, using such a stupid move would only accelerate his own decline.
If it weren't for the fact that the Star Cloud system still had a small number of users, Liu Xiaoping would have given up on Android and switched to developing the Star Cloud app.
If he did that, it would mean that he would have to give up more than two years of work and enter a field that he was not familiar with, where the market prospects were not very bright … The risk was indeed a little high.
He could not make up his mind.
So far, hundreds of teams had received the million-dollar bonus from Xing Hai Technologies. He was also very tempted, but he just did not have the courage to do so.
After all, Android was still the mainstream, and it would take at least a few years for it to be replaced.
He thought to himself.
Eh ~
After saying so much nonsense, the boss's face darkened.
Overtime?
Why aren't you bunch of programmers working overtime for me?
Outsourcing companies actually have weekends? Are you dreaming?
Sorry.
Liu Xiaoping had not worked overtime for more than a month.
Every day, he would go to work at 9 am and leave at 6 pm. He would not stay in the company for a minute longer than necessary.
No matter how fiercely the boss scolded him on the phone during the weekends, he would never run to the company to work overtime.
Unless he abided by the Labor Law: 1.5 times overtime pay on working days, 2 times overtime pay on rest days, and 3 times overtime pay on holidays.
Otherwise, he would refuse to work overtime!
Even if you were an outsourcing company, no matter how urgent the task was, you would never work overtime for free … This was the consensus reached by all programmers, and they had a tacit understanding to abide by it.
Why?
Work Assistant!
Even if they only purchased one copy of the computing power, their work efficiency would at least double after they became proficient in using it.
Programmers who had spent money to purchase computing power and had their work efficiency greatly improved would naturally refuse to work overtime for the company … unless they were given a raise in salary or overtime pay.
Of course, Liu Xiaoping also used the Work Assistant. But one copy was not enough, so he purchased two copies … he had to pay $1,000 a month for the usage fee.
So, if the company did not reimburse him for the $1,000 and increase his salary appropriately, he would not even abandon his boss.
Of course, some bosses could not stand such a tough stance. They fired a few disobedient programmers on the spot, intending to recruit some obedient ones to work for them. In the end, they realized that they could not recruit anyone. Their company's reputation in the programmer community was tarnished. The existing employees also left one after another. In the end, no matter how hard they tried to apologize, they could not salvage the situation.
"Work Assistant has given us dignity for the first time. We are not code farmers who work endlessly, we are programmers!"
This awakening sentence attracted countless cheers.
For the first time, Liu Xiaoping felt proud of himself as a programmer.
20th of May.
It had been two months since the launch of the Work Assistant.
Xing Hai Technologies, which had been ridiculed by countless mid-level and high-level programmers, finally had a conscience.
Xing Hai Technologies announced, "As we are using a more powerful supercomputer, starting from today, the speed of each unit of computing power of the Work Assistant will double from the previous 100 million times per second to 200 million times per second, provided that the price remains unchanged.
In other words, the computing power purchased with the same amount of money would double the speed. "
Liu Xiaoping immediately logged into the Work Assistant to give it a try. He entered the requirements and found that the speed of code generation by the Work Assistant had indeed doubled. It felt so good to use.
"It's equivalent to doubling the performance for free."
"Conscience, very conscience!"
Liu Xiaoping gave a thumbs up.
However, the next day, the boss of the company held a technical staff meeting and announced a decision with a smile on his face.
Layoffs!
The company was going to carry out a major layoff!
Apart from a few project backbones, half of the programmers in the technical department would be laid off. The remaining half would have their salaries increased by 80%. Who would leave and who would stay would be decided by drawing lots.
This decision caused an uproar among the programmers present. Then, they felt a chill in their hearts as they understood the boss's real scheme.
The performance of the Work Assistant had doubled. Now, layoffs became cost-effective. Even if the remaining employees' salaries were doubled, the boss would not lose out. With fewer people in the company, there would be less additional expenses such as social security, insurance, and housing. Even water and electricity could be saved.
"Profiteers!"
"Ugly capitalists."
The employee who drew the "leave" lot waved his hand and said, "I don't care!"
Liu Xiaoping's luck was not good. He also drew the "leave" lot and became a target for layoffs.
Similar layoffs occurred in IT companies all over the country. In just a few days, there was a wave of layoffs.
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