My boss asked me to work overtime at 9 o'clock in the evening. I declined to be fired. After half a month, the boss called me and I was stunned.
My boss asked me to work overtime at 9 o'clock in the evening. I declined to be fired. After half a month, the boss called me and I was stunned.
Lao Zhang has been working in the company for several years. After such a long period of training, Lao Zhang is very willing to study, so now, he is very experienced in handling various businesses of the company. When undertaking different businesses, Lao Zhang Can have a very bright performance. Not only is his ability outstanding, but Lao Zhang is also very methodical in interpersonal communication. He has contacts with many people in the industry, and can often bring some relatively large business cooperation to the company.
But although Lao Zhang's ability is outstanding, he has only raised his salary once in the company, and has not changed since then. Contrary to Lao Zhang's unchanged salary, Lao Zhang's work tasks change from time to time. Compared with the work tasks when Lao Zhang's salary increased, the difficulty and workload of Lao Zhang's work have increased a lot. .
But Lao Zhang liked this job very much, so he reluctantly endured it and insisted on working here, only occasionally taking part-time jobs to increase his income. But recently, Lao Zhang has become a little bored again. The reason is that the task given to him by the boss has become more onerous. In order to complete this task, Lao Zhang has been working continuously for more than half a month, and he can only get off work two hours later every day.
As a result, Lao Zhang has no time to take part-time jobs at all, and this month's income will drop by a bit, and at the same time, the degree of fatigue will also increase. But fortunately, the overtime time is not very long. Using the time to go back in the evening, Lao Zhang can rest and relax. But what Lao Zhang didn't expect was that the boss actually intensified. On this day, after two hours of overtime, Lao Zhang returned home and just finished taking a bath, it was already more than nine o'clock. And Lao Zhang just wanted to go to bed, but received a call from his boss. It turned out that when the boss was checking, he found that there was a little mistake in Lao Zhang's task today, so he wanted to let Lao Zhang go back to the company to make corrections. Lao Zhang felt that it was so late, he had already taken a shower and was ready to go to bed, so he didn't really want to go to the company to work overtime. After asking what the mistake was, he euphemistically said that the mistake was not serious, and he could go back to the company tomorrow to change it. wasting time.
But the leader doesn't think so. He thinks that Lao Zhang should complete the task of the day on that day. After hearing Lao Zhang's explanation for a while, he knew that Lao Zhang was unwilling to go back to the company to make corrections, so he hung up the phone. When Lao Zhang went to the company the next day, the boss asked Lao Zhang to pack up and said that he would dismiss Lao Zhang. Lao Zhang had no choice but to leave.
However, after half a month, the boss called Lao Zhang again. As soon as Lao Zhang was connected, he was stunned after listening to the request from the boss. It turns out that there are not many talents like Lao Zhang in the company. After Lao Zhang left, the people who took over Lao Zhang's work tasks have always been unable to do their jobs well, and finally screwed up the project. Without Lao Zhang's contacts, the company also lost some tasks, resulting in a reduction in revenue.
So this time, the boss lowered his face and called Lao Zhang, just to ask Lao Zhang to return to the company to work. He was willing to double his salary to see if Lao Zhang was willing. But it is a pity that Lao Zhang has now found a good job again, and he is not as tired as before, and Lao Zhang has also seen through the true face of the boss and likes to squeeze the labor value of employees, so Lao Zhang does not want to go back. He declined the boss's request, which made the boss regret.
1. Have core competitiveness
From the above story, we can know the enlightenment is to know how to have core competitiveness. The old Zhang in this story has the core competitiveness, so the boss is willing to put down his face and ask him to go back to work on the condition of doubling his salary, and because he has the core competitiveness, he can quickly get the job done. Find a good job again.
Therefore, having core competitiveness is a very important thing that we need to know in our work. This core competitiveness can be a strong professional ability or a network of contacts brought about by relatively strong interpersonal skills. Only with this core competitiveness can we achieve stable growth and development.
2. Stick to your bottom line
Secondly, what we can know is to stick to our bottom line, not to be blindly squeezed by others, but to know how to refuse. For example, Lao Zhang in this story knows how to reject the boss's unreasonable overtime request. After seeing the boss's true face, he rejects the leader's request. This is to stick to his bottom line. Only by sticking to the bottom line can we protect our legitimate rights and interests from being infringed.
Summarize
Through the above story of my boss calling me to work overtime at 9 o'clock in the evening, I refused to be fired, and half a month later, the boss called me and I was stunned. Only by using it can we protect our legitimate rights and interests and achieve stable growth and development.