In the morning, I saw a message in one of my product groups, a front-end technology bull who has worked in the goose factory for 47 years has been laid off, and he is 0 years old this year.
His name is Stonehuang, Chinese name Huang Xitong, and his classmates who do front-end technology may know him.
離職前，他職級序列 T13，是騰訊職級最高的前端技術專家。
47 years old, just one round older than me.
Some people must be curious, why was such a senior technical boss and an early employee of the goose factory still laid off?
According to her wife, there are three main reasons.
First, I didn't sit in a management position.
Second, there will be no upward management.
三,不願意不會 PUA。
今年 1 月份被裁后，他老婆就在小紅書開了一個帳號記錄他的日常生活，同時也分享了一些被裁的細節。
There are actually two reasons for not sitting in the management post.
One is the choice of technology stack, because it missed the development of mobile technology and stuck to the Web front-end, and missed the golden development period of App technology in the past 10 years.
The other is that after having a baby at home, because there is no one to help him, there is a squeeze on the working time and dedication, and it is naturally difficult to devote himself to getting better results.
Regarding the lack of upward management, it is mainly manifested in communication. Because communication skills are weak, it also affects the development of their own work.
As for PUA, let's be honest, this is common in the vast majority of companies, just to varying degrees. Acceptance or rejection varies from person to person.
Then some readers must continue to ask, was this big brother laid off because of his personal ability?
Not really.
After working in the goose factory for so many years, he is not only a programmer who only buries himself in technology, but also makes contributions at the product level.
As many people know, Tencent has a 404 missing children information publicity project on its website, which is to display missing children's information when the webpage is abnormal and enters the preset prompt page. For this reason, it has also helped many families find their lost children.
This project was initiated and led by Huang Xitong.
In addition, there is also a hidden link function that is said to be QQ mailbox, which can help visually impaired users complete convenient tasks.
Later, a visually impaired user also wrote a thank you email to Xiao Ma.
Both of these projects have been followed and praised by Xiao Ma, especially the 404 project, which has been publicly praised twice by Xiao Ma.
Therefore, he has a strong technical level, a product perspective and business capabilities, and he is not incapable.
So, why was he still laid off at the age of 47?
In my opinion, it is the company's cost-effective choice in the context of reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
As a veteran of the goose factory, his annual salary and the option of continuous maturity are certainly not low. For the company, the high cost corresponds to the relatively low value of the moment, and the cost performance is not high.
So, remove the high cost, leave the opportunity and space for the newcomer with lower cost and greater potential, and the veteran exits.
It has to be said that this is the reality.
還有另一個現實，如果不是他在前端技術領域的造詣，或許壓根抗不到 47 歲，早在三十多歲就領了畢業證。
Therefore, the excellent professional level, coupled with the contribution at the business level and the embodiment of personal comprehensive ability, has become the safety line of older professionals.
If you can't cross this safety line and can't find the second curve, then all you have to wait for is to be metabolized.
For me, it's actually finding my second curve, leaving the workplace path, but not leaving the workplace, and creating value in another way.
Because I know that I don't like everything that needs to be borne and endured next in the career path.
In addition, his situation and results are actually better than most older professionals. According to their own words, although they are still far from financial freedom, they will not have to live on compensation.
If you accept being laid off, the severance indemnity is indeed a lot of money for an old employee who has worked for 16 years, at least it can support their small family for a while.
But it's still unrealistic to lie flat on this, and continuing to toss in another way must be the first choice.
I have always believed that if you take the path of the workplace, you really can't relax for a moment. But if there is a window period, then its own value will be unstable.
The so-called window period means that there is neither a professional level upgrade nor a business level contribution. Just completing work tasks step by step every day is not valuable.
The company is not a home, it can give you a limited amount of tolerance, and it will not do charity to you.
Compared with an old employee who is not cost-effective, the company would rather use this cost to exchange for a few young newcomers.
Therefore, what individuals are good at, where their profession is, where they get results, how to continue to create, and how to gain influence inside and outside the company have directly become the basis for the value presentation of people in the workplace.
Many people wait until the day they look for a job and write their resumes to find that there are no bright spots in the past few years, and many people wait until they are overtaken by the back wave to realize that they have already lost their advantage.
In the big track of the workplace, we can only continue to run, and we can't afford a moment of rest.
Work, life, ideals, reality, we can never get the best balance, but we can continue to pursue the overall optimal solution of the moment.
Balance is the best answer at the moment.
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Acceptable Time
The goose factory is more conscientious, and the last day set for him is the next day when the option is mature and can be cashed.
他老婆把這些記錄分享出來確實獲得了不錯的流量效果，小紅書粉絲快過萬了，不愧是 PR 出身，嗅覺敏銳。
Two people, a freelance developer, a Montessori lecturer, and Ben Five's age, everything is possible.
Bless the veterans!