After Du Qiu got up, he hurriedly dressed and washed, heated the meat buns in the refrigerator in the microwave, and ate them with yogurt.
Then I drove to the company to work.
After Dr. Du Qiu graduated, he declined offers from some cooperative units and applied for a job at a start-up company that makes driverless cars. He has been working there for almost a year.
In the past year or two, the field of autonomous driving has been heavily hyped by capital, and it was easy for various startups to obtain capital before the second half of last year.
Dr. Du Qiu's professional direction happens to be machine perception, and he already has a certain obsession with driverless driving, so it was easy for him to join this company.
However, since the end of last year, the direction of capital towards driverless driving has changed, and the cold winter has quietly arrived. At this time, most driverless products have not yet formed an effective market.
The company where Du Qiu works is naturally in an unprecedented crisis. In fact, the company already started to owe wages last month.
If Du Qiu's father hadn't been in an accident last month, and then the crystal pillow caused him to dream every night, and his mind was filled with stars and sea, I'm afraid Du Qiu would have finished changing jobs long ago.
But since I haven't changed jobs yet, I can't be late for work.
It's just that when Du Qiu arrived at the science and technology park building where the company is located today, he felt something was wrong with the atmosphere.
Normally, the security guard stood at attention solemnly at the door, but now he was muttering to the side with the cleaning staff, turning a blind eye to the people entering and exiting the building.
When Du Qiu arrived at the fifth floor where the company is located, it was 8:59 a.m., and the company's working hours were nine o'clock. Logically speaking, he arrived relatively late, and there should have been no people queuing up to clock in at the door.
But when Du Qiu got out of the elevator, he saw a mass of black heads.
The entire entrance corridor was blocked by colleagues in the company. If Du Qiu wasn't 1.82 meters tall, he would be considered relatively tall.
He probably wouldn't know that the company door was not open at all.
"Hey, Dr. Du is here. Didn't Mr. Yan run away?"
"Dr. Du, the company still owes us two months' salary. We suddenly announced the closure of business. When will the money be repaid to us?"
"Boss, you're here. I thought you knew the inside story and ran away in advance."
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Du Qiu is responsible for leading a team in the R&D department and is considered a small middle-level cadre. As soon as he stepped out of the elevator, he was surrounded by various inquiries and greetings.
People also moved him close to the company gate, and the person who called him boss was none other than the capable person in the group, electrical engineer Liu Yaofeng, nicknamed "Big Liu".
"What's going on, Da Liu?" Although Du Qiu roughly understood what happened, he still wanted to ask about the ins and outs of the matter.
"Boss, it seems you have been kept in the dark too."
After Liu explained, Du Qiu understood what was going on.
It turns out that when everyone came to work this morning, they found that the company door was not open, and there was a notice posted on the door.
The notice stated that due to the company's capital chain being broken and the company going bankrupt, everything will be done in accordance with bankruptcy procedures. Employees are asked to find their own way out, and the corresponding back wages will also be included in the bankruptcy procedures.
Although most employees know that the company is facing difficulties, the management has always vowed that it is negotiating with a certain venture capital and that the B-round investment will be completed soon.
Who would have thought that just last month I was owed wages, and only one-third of the way through this month, the company would shut down so simply and suddenly.
After Du Qiu heard this, he quickly glanced at the crowd blocking the company door, and an expression of surprise suddenly appeared on his face.
People from the Finance Department and the Personnel and Administration Department would definitely know about this kind of thing in advance. As expected, Du Qiu didn't see any employees from these two departments in the crowd.
Most of the people stuck here are people from the R&D department. People in the R&D department are ill-informed and easily bullied.
He even saw Sun Hongming, the deputy director of the R&D department, who was being besieged by a group of people.
Just by looking at the pained and confused look on his face, you can tell that this middle-level and senior management failed to get the news in advance, which shows how simply the company management ran away.
"Old Sun is also an abandoned son. Who put him at odds with the 'Mad Cow Disease'?" Da Liu couldn't help but said when he saw Du Qiu looking at Sun Hongming.
"Mad cow disease" is the nickname of Feng Niubin, the director of the R&D department. This guy was born in a state-owned enterprise and his management level is not very good, but he is good at summarizing the work achievements of his subordinates into his work reports, which makes several founders of the company think that he understands management very well.
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Of course, the most important factor is that "Mad Cow" is the brother-in-law of the company's chairman, but most people in the company don't know this.
Du Qiu also learned about it by chance, so he once advised Sun Hongming to avoid conflicts with "mad cow disease".
In fact, Sun Hongming is already middle-aged. Although he comes from a technical management background, he is still very understanding of the world, and he is very tolerant and humble towards "Mad Cow Disease".
Just because Sun Hongming has real abilities, one of the directors and vice presidents above him admires him more, which caused the "mad cow disease" to have pink eye. He wanted to run away this subordinate who threatened his position, so he naturally made all kinds of difficulties and made money for nothing.
Throw it towards Sun Hongming.
"Don't say weird things, Lao Sun was forced to do so by 'mad cow disease', but Vice President Xiao didn't notify him of the bankruptcy, and it seems he didn't regard him as one of his own." Du Qiu couldn't help but sigh.
Da Liu echoed: "Who says it's not the case? Vice President Xiao is just using him as an informant."
"Hey, Doctor, why are we talking here? Think of a way, how can we get back wages?"
A woman squeezed in front of the two of them and interrupted.
Da Liu smiled, "Hey, Sister Yuan, your Human Resources and Administration Department has also been abandoned?"
"Who says it's not the case? I just went to the park management committee and they didn't know about this situation, and they didn't know the password to open the door either," Yuan Minhua said with a sigh.
Only then did Du Qiu realize that he had made a misjudgment. It seemed that in all departments of the company, except for all members of the finance department, only the directors or managers of each department knew about it.
Yuan Minhua is only the personnel director of the Personnel Administration Department, and is obviously not among the insiders.
"No matter how you think of it, everyone has declared bankruptcy and gone through the procedures. The most you can do is to use your meager assets to pay our back wages first after the procedures are completed. Don't think too much about the rest." Du Qiu answered what Yuan Minhua just said.
Ask questions.
Yuan Minhua said angrily: "But... even if we are going to go through bankruptcy proceedings, we have to notify our employees in advance. What's the point of just locking the door?
I still have a newly purchased set of cosmetics in my office. I forgot to take them with me when I got off work yesterday. What should I do now?"
As soon as Yuan Minhua's words came out, they immediately aroused a resonance. Many of the people who were emotionally blocked here had important personal belongings left in the company.
Those employees who did not have this problem left long ago after reading the notice. Instead of being stuck here at this time, it is better to find a job early.
Of course, there are also a few people who are unwilling to give up and are stuck here to see if there is any improvement.
Du Qiu looked at the company's door. This door used a combination lock. He had disassembled and studied this brand of combination lock. It was not difficult to open it.
In fact, Du Qiu also has a personal mobile hard drive placed in his desk, which is more important to him. It contains the research data he collected.
He brought it to the company for reference and comparison.