Chapter 1554

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

The layoff wind at Xiao Du Technology kicked up fast.

To avoid affecting the company's operations, this layoff was different from the mass layoffs at other companies.

Other companies lay off the frontline workers first.

This layoff, however, started with the HR department, wiping out the entire HR department in one fell swoop.

Then the new HR department went on to lay off the top brass.

After the top brass were laid off, the middle management was next!

The frontline workers, on the contrary, were barely laid off at all.

This was the layoff plan Ji Xunrong came up with; Fang Dayong merely executed it.

Originally, Fang Dayong had wondered if doing it this way would cause the company to paralyze.

But unexpectedly, not only did it not paralyze, it actually boosted efficiency by quite a bit!

Because after the frontline workers' direct supervisors were laid off, they could only report directly to Fang Dayong; for what Fang Dayong didn't understand, he had to delegate authority and let them handle it as they saw fit, and this twist of fate boosted the company's efficiency by a huge margin!

Because of the efficiency boost, business performance followed suit and rose.

Business performance rising would feed back into the stock price.

So Xiao Du Technology's stock price, aside from some shock in the first few days, actually quickly climbed back up afterward, and without Zhonghai Group secretly hyping it up — it rose on its own!

Ji Xunrong hadn't expected this effect either; he had actually braced for the worst in his heart.

But by a twist of fate, this result came about.

One can only say, in reality some things aren't such that bad people doing them get their comeuppance; furthermore, so-called bad people aren't necessarily bad — it's just a difference in standpoint.

Ji Xunrong is a bad person from Du Xiaojuan's perspective, and from the perspective of the majority of Xiao Du Technology's middle and senior management who were laid off.

But for the Xiao Du Technology grassroots employees who do the real work, learning the company laid off most middle and senior management would only make them shout: "Young Master Ji is awesome!"

Because this meant their chance had come!

The vacated management positions definitely needed people to fill them!

Whoever performs well, whoever catches the higher-ups' attention, gets the chance to move up!

This is a rare opportunity for many bottom-rung drudges!

Sure enough, after the company purged most middle and senior management, Ji Xunrong personally issued an announcement declaring a temporary halt on hiring middle and senior management, the company would transform to flat management, benchmarking against ByteDance Group's management model.

Judging from Ji Xunrong's handling of the Xiao Du Technology layoffs, he not only has background, but also ability and boldness; a person like this is destined for a bright future.

For Du Xiaojuan to catch up to him is virtually impossible.

Fortunately, Du Xiaojuan never thought about catching up to him either.

From birth the two were not on the same starting line; in terms of money alone, even if Ji Xunrong did nothing, he stands at a height Du Xiaojuan would struggle to reach in a lifetime of struggle.

This major reshuffle at Xiao Du Technology didn't lay off many grassroots employees, but it wasn't zero either.

Some promising stocks Du Xiaojuan had her eye on, or those who were closer to Du Xiaojuan, were still laid off.

This included Zhang Ruoshui.

When Zhang Ruoshui received the layoff notice from HR, she was surprised at first, but after a good while, she accepted the fact:

"Alright, alright, as long as they give me enough compensation, being laid off is fine; anyway, after Sister Juan left, I didn't want to stay here anymore."

The HR person told her a cold fact:

"Ruoshui, you've been at the company less than a year; even with severance, it won't amount to much money."

"Oh... okay..." Zhang Ruoshui laughed awkwardly.

"Wish you good luck."

The HR person said that one sentence to her, then turned and left.

Zhang Ruoshui finished her last day of work, packed her things, and left.

No one saw her off or said goodbye; no one even asked.

She wasn't carrying a cardboard box either.

Her clumsy brain still couldn't figure out why in movies and TV shows, people leaving a job always walk out carrying a cardboard box — there was no cardboard box for her to carry, okay.

And there wasn't that much stuff to take anyway; the company wouldn't let you take too much.

When she left, aside from the water cup she bought herself, she didn't take anything else.

"Xiao Hua, I got fired..."

Zhang Ruoshui sat on the subway, her mood inevitably a bit down; after all, getting fired isn't something glorious.

The first person she told wasn't her parents, nor any relatives or friends, but Wang Xiaohua.

As for why she told Wang Xiaohua first, she didn't know either; it was just her heart's intuition driving her to do so.

Perhaps after getting along with Wang Xiaohua these days, she had developed trust and reliance on Wang Xiaohua.

Seeing Wang Xiaohua not reply for a long time, she sent another line:

"You don't have a job either; you wouldn't look down on me, would you?"

Wang Xiaohua saw the message and didn't know whether to cry or laugh; he hurriedly replied:

"A lost job can be found again, no need to be sad; the most important thing is to maintain a positive and optimistic mindset."

Wang Xiaohua's words were just chicken soup talk.

Any ordinary person would definitely not listen to it.

But Zhang Ruoshui was able to listen to it.

Because she trusted Wang Xiaohua very much.

She felt Wang Xiaohua was ten thousand times cleverer than her, so listening to Wang Xiaohua would definitely not be wrong.

From childhood to adulthood she was an obedient good child.

In childhood she listened to her parents, when she grew up a bit she listened to her teachers, later she went out to work, whatever the leader at work told her to do she would do it, she never thought about whether the leader was deliberately making things difficult for her.

It was also precisely because she was obedient that parents and teachers all told her to study hard, so she really studied very hard, and then tested into a bottom-tier second-tier university.

If she hadn't worked hard, with her IQ, she probably couldn't even have gotten into a second-tier university.

"Right, didn't my eldest sister-in-law mention before that she would bring you along when she starts her entrepreneurship? She's doing short videos now, why don't you go do this line of work with her!"

Wang Xiaohua gave Zhang Ruoshui this suggestion at this time.

After passing through these days of getting along, Wang Xiaohua was also gradually accepting Zhang Ruoshui.

Mainly because Zhang Ruoshui took care of that little cat fairly well.

Her rental house did not become a mess because of raising a cat.

No matter how busy work was, every day when she went back, she would scoop the cat litter, change the cat food, clean the sanitation, and make the rental house clean and tidy.

It looked like she was indeed quite responsible towards this little life.

"But, I haven't been in contact with this line of work, I don't know how..." Zhang Ruoshui didn't have much confidence in herself.

Wang Xiaohua encouraged her:

"My eldest sister-in-law didn't do this line of work before either, now isn't she doing it quite well, don't think too much, just follow along and learn."

"How about this, I'll go talk to my eldest sister-in-law, she's out on a self-driving tour now, we'll see when she comes back, when she comes back she'll bring you along to do it, these days you just find some materials online yourself, learn a bit yourself."

Zhang Ruoshui busily replied:

"Okay okay, thank you Xiao Hua, you're really good to me!"