Chapter 37: The “Man-Eating” Shanghe Chen Mo also assigned some work tasks to Sun Ziwei. Ask him to ask the operation and maintenance staff for a server, and prepare the basics such as space, domain name, and configuration in advance. After thinking about it, according to the established trajectory, Huang Jiangji and others should continue to follow MIUI's old path. It would be too bullying if he also followed this path. Therefore, Chen Mo thought of a new name for the system to be developed, let's call it MIOS. At this time, beep beep QQ on the computer was jumping wildly, and Chen Mo clicked it. 【Gun in hand, follow me! 】 Meng Meng Da: Master, something terrible has happened~~~Σ(°△°|||)︴ Cute: @Silence is golden Meng Meng Da: Where are the people? Call Super Wings! Σ(っ°Д°;)っ I am still the boy who recharged money (Programmer-Zhang Chao): Brother Mo, the HR and Brother Li just informed us that we need to follow the labor law procedures to resign, which will take at least one month, and then we were quarantined by that old bastard! I am still the young man who recharged: Later, Brother Li secretly told us that Wang Defa, that bastard, had issued a death order and would not release us. He did not have any good solution at the moment, but just asked us to complete the acceptance first, and he would think of a solution. Tianxia Buwu (Test-Zhang Wu): At worst we can just go our separate ways and leave. They can't kidnap us. The Submarine Who Loves Diving (Procedure - Rigorous): I just checked the terms. If we really quit and go to Xiaomi, Wang Defa will definitely take the opportunity to hold us accountable. Money is a small matter. By then, not only will we be in trouble, but Chen Mo will also be implicated. It's not worth it.

I am still the teenager who charged money: Damn, if the legal working hours are 40 hours per week, we work at least 60+ hours per week on average, why didn’t they pay overtime according to the regulations? Now they are taking it too far? Who is this thing protecting? Meng Meng Da: ┻━┻︵╰(‵□′)╯︵┻━┻. I am going crazy. The workplace is too dangerous. I want to go back to school!~~~ Benbobaboben (Artist-Li Jing): Don't worry, wait for Xiaomo to come online and see if he has any good ideas. Looking at the chat records above, Chen Mo remembered one thing: these young people still thought too simply of Wang Defa. Delaying is just his first step, followed by disgusting and outrageous actions. He remembered drinking and chatting with his former colleagues from Shanghe in his previous life. At that time, he mentioned a thing. He had a friend who was also from Shanghe. He had very good skills and wanted to change jobs. The new company's salary would be doubled and he also had options! In an IT industry like this, salaries generally increase as a result of job hopping, and staying in one company will only result in an insulting salary increase. When he applied for resignation, the project was at a critical stage. He had a lot of unpleasantness with Wang Defa and was let go after a full month. Fortunately, the next company he found was easy to deal with and adjusted his starting date, otherwise the offer would have been canceled. However, to join the next company, you need a certificate of resignation from the previous company, and in order to obtain a certificate of resignation, you have to sign an additional non-compete agreement. This is the beginning of the nightmare. The guy didn't think much of it and signed the contract casually, thinking that he had finally returned to the sea and the world would be wide open. However, after working in the new company for a few months, he received a lawsuit from Shanghe, demanding a huge non-compete fee from him. He found the previous non-compete agreement and realized that he had been cheated. The non-compete agreement stipulated that he could get 30% of the basic salary every month. Although his previous salary in Shanghe was around yuan per month, it seemed okay at first glance. But in fact, his salary structure was in the form of base salary + position + performance, so only 30% of the base salary was calculated, which was just over yuan per month, lower than the minimum wage standard in Beijing at that time. Even food and clothing became a problem, and he was banned from working in related industries within one year. If a programmer’s youth has been wasted for one year, it is basically time to change careers. He faces the requirement of paying Shanghe 24 months' salary and returning the non-compete compensation that has been paid, a total of 36 yuan in compensation. There is an interesting detail: the compensation is based on the base salary, while the penalty is based on the total monthly salary at that time. Later, this guy appealed. Although he was forced to sign at the time, it was difficult to provide evidence. With the words in black and white, it was obvious that he would lose the case! As if it weren't raining, he finally bought a house in Beijing a while ago after years of hard work and emptying his family's pockets to buy a house with a mortgage. He didn't even have time to look forward to a better life. With the loss of the case, the mortgage repayment account was frozen, and the collapse seemed to occur in an instant beyond cognition. At the time, he was on the verge of collapse and faced with the inability to obtain compensation. He asked his lawyer a question, "If I die suddenly, will the litigation process be terminated?" The lawyer was silent for a long time, then replied, "Even if the defendant dies suddenly, the estate will still be prosecuted!" And then there is nothing else, the story ends here According to the description of this incident by a former colleague, there may be some water in it, but it still caused a huge mental shock to Chen Mo at the time, and he still remembers it vividly even now. No wonder Wang Defa spent a lot of money to hire several lawyers in the company who are good at handling labor dispute cases. It turns out that they are specifically responsible for this job. Later, Chen Mo suddenly had an idea and looked up relevant statistics online. In the past year, 87% of the civil judgments related to non-compete agreements confirmed or defaulted on the validity of non-compete agreements. It was terrifying. When they are working, the employees are treated like slaves, eating grass and milking cows. When they leave, the capitalists are still nostalgic and want to squeeze the last wave of surplus value from these employees who have no say. This is about firmly grasping core technology.

Is a non-compete agreement bad? Look at both sides of everything. It was originally a safety measure used to restrict senior executives and employees who hold core business secrets within the employer to avoid causing major losses to the company. There is nothing wrong with this. After all, the company's business secrets and intellectual property rights should be protected. But it is not necessary for ordinary employees. Even unskilled workers such as packers are required to sign a non-compete agreement, which is putting the cart before the horse. Non-compete agreements should be agreements that protect both companies and workers, rather than agreements that are used by some unscrupulous companies to "eat people." Some capitalists instill the idea that “enterprises cultivate people”, which is essentially a reciprocal “mutual achievement” in that people also create value for the enterprise at work. There is nothing wrong between the two parties. The expansion and abuse of non-compete agreements by companies is, to put it in a broader sense, suppressing the development of the entire industry. It is a destruction of talents when outstanding talents are unreasonably "locked in" and miss the best opportunities for development. Many things are like this. The starting point is good, but they go astray as time goes by. Thinking of this, he took out a brand new notebook and wrote something on it. Chen Mo, who was writing and drawing, suddenly paused. So was Wang Defa’s death in a car accident an accident? Thinking of this, Chen Mo was shocked. (End of this chapter)