Five years ago, Ma Yun claimed that the Internet company's 996 overtime culture was a blessing for repair, and said that beyond the time and hard work of others, how could he achieve his desire to succeed, but he was criticized by Xinhua News Agency for this distorted view of struggle, and the so-called struggle of 996 is by no means a blessing.
Now this whirlwind of overtime culture has blown to the automobile circle, and even further upgraded to 896, that is, to work at 8 o'clock in the morning, to work at 9 o'clock in the evening, working 6 days a week, among which the leading brother is the power battery industry giant CATL, which has gradually expanded to vehicle manufacturing enterprises.
Among them, Gao Xinhua, president of Chery Automobile Engineering Technology R&D Institute, issued an internal email in March last year, saying, "Inform all employees that Saturday is the working day of strivers because of strivers." The email quickly fermented and sparked widespread discussion, and was considered by netizens to be a "moral kidnapping self-touch".
By July this year, some Chery employees posted that there was forced overtime within Chery Automobile, with more than 20 hours of overtime per week, no overtime pay, only 10 yuan meal allowance, which was even more unacceptable to cover up the fact of overtime, and the employee's clock-in history has been closed, and the default display clock-in time is 8:30-17:00, which has become the fuse of employee dissatisfaction.
In addition, department leaders will also check the working hours, and criticize the backward employees at the weekly meeting, and the performance pay of employees is also linked to the overtime hours, which forces employees to roll up their working hours, but the actual salary is pitiful, the breaking news that the employee revealed that he worked 120 hours of overtime in May, plus 174 hours of normal working hours, a total of nearly 300 hours of working hours, but the salary is only 4800 yuan, and the hourly wage is only 16 yuan.
This is more ruthless than Ma Yun's 996 good fortune, at least the Internet company can have a high salary reward for overtime, but the car company 896 goes to work, but it is better to deliver a takeaway to earn more, no wonder young people are reluctant to work in the factory, this is by no means the path of the rise of Chinese automobiles.
We all know that Chery Automobile, after experiencing the dilemma of selling itself in 2019, was able to successfully turn around in the adversity after the epidemic in 2020, and relied on the previous overseas market layout to grow into the second leader of China's own brands, with annual sales of 1.88 million units in 2023, far exceeding the two car companies of Geely Great Wall, and it is rumored that Chery's production line has been dried up and smoking.
However, it is such a thriving car company, Chery Automobile's total number of employees in 2023 is only 40,000, the annual salary is only 4 billion yuan, and the per capita salary is only 100,000 yuan.
However, in the face of this ironclad fact, there are actually Internet trolls who comment that in the current economic environment, it would be good to have a job and work overtime, and I feel angry at this kind of brain circuit thinking, is it that the economy is not good and unemployed, it can become a reason for enterprises to ignore labor laws, and it can become a reason for squeezing employees without a bottom line.
Previously, we were still complaining about the 996 overtime culture in the Internet circle, using two people's wages to do three people's work, which is to squeeze out one person's employment in disguise, which is the root cause of the current surge in the domestic unemployed population, and now the 896 culture in the automobile circle, not only the overtime hours are better, but also there is no high salary, and even food delivery is not as good, and it is a gift to be complained about by the water army, isn't this worth our reflection?