According to my experience in Dongguan for half a year, my work experience, even my school knowledge, is far from the workplace environment in Dongguan. If you are just looking for a job, there is no problem staying. It's just a vague voice in my heart telling me that this is not the life and career I want. Unfortunately, I can't clearly find the reason why I feel this way.
I slept on the train floor for two days and finally got home.
It's just that something happened that made me angry. When I was thinking about what to do next to develop, my family didn't ask for my advice. After some hard preaching and accusations, they told me directly that the train tickets in Dongguan had been bought and they would go directly after the New Year. I know who this is because of, not my family, and I hated this person at that moment. Because of this, I think my family has a great influence on me.
But I can't. I have no money. Only a few years later, I set foot on the train to Dongguan.
Similarly, I have been unable to find a job for a long time. Later, I came across B&Q, an enterprise that had a great influence on my life.
The process of entering B&Q is also tortuous. It wasn't B&Q who started hiring, but Obeid. I still remember when I went to the construction site to apply for a job, I was a little nervous and my salary was low. I just want to go in. I didn't know at that time that the salary requirement represented your understanding of your work ability to a certain extent. My job is similar to supermarket experience, and the evaluation of this job in my resume is relatively high, but the salary requirements are completely inconsistent with this evaluation. At that time, Zhi Li, the future manager, was in charge of recruitment. He is a very clever man. He probably had doubts about this and was dissatisfied with my on-the-spot performance, so he was brushed off. Then I found other jobs, such as selling goat milk, and stayed for more than a week before I ran away. It was during this period that B&Q acquired El Obeid and then began to recruit people. I think the job here is obviously suitable for me, so I submitted my resume again. It's good this time. Everyone recruited by HR has passed. Then the manager brushed the second round, maybe Zhi Li forgot me, or the environment changed, no problem.
Catch up with Obeid to close the store when you go in. The working environment is terrible, most of the doors are closed, and the store smells of formaldehyde. After staying for more than ten minutes, my eyes were not stimulated. At that time, I was randomly assigned to a clearing and found a little guy to take me. It doesn't matter, just come in. The best way is to talk less, do more and learn faster. Every day, the goods that Obeid enters the store should be packed and recorded. It's been over a week, and everyone is familiar with it. Then when it comes to salary, my work experience is good. As a result, the required salary is the lowest 1200, just like a girl who just graduated, and others are above 1300. No wonder Zhi Li brushed me at that time. I thought there was something wrong with my work experience.
It's hard to clean up, and the rest is nothing to us. In the next few days, everyone will concentrate on learning corporate culture, rules and regulations, product knowledge and so on in the office area. At that time, the store training specialists were MAX and SEM, who later stayed in the store and became deputy stores and HR managers. The contract was also signed in those days, but I forgot to ask if I could change my salary. Then I started to be busy opening a shop.
Everyone has a plan. I was in charge of contacting the store opening department at that time, that is, communicating with the designer about the distribution area and shelf layout of our department, the piling progress in the area, calculating the number of beams needed for the shelves, and arranging to take them back to the department in advance. This thing is quite good. It's hot in Dongguan. Every day when I'm sweating, I run to the store department and sit there for a few minutes. The environment there is much better, with air conditioning and refrigerators. Go to a familiar designer, throw something to eat and drink, and then chat. It was in that small room that I saw the detailed decoration drawings for the first time, and I knew for the first time what designers can do. For the first time, I knew that if I want to learn decoration design, I need to have a deep understanding of space planning, moving lines and so on. Of course, I also drank Watson's "root beer" for the first time, which was delicious.
But this kind of good thing is done occasionally, and most of the time it is very busy. Install the beam on the first floor, put the partition, then climb up with the beam and the board, and install the second floor to the top floor. Looking down from the top of the station, although the safety rope is tied, it is still quite empty and a bit high. Our department is efficient and will finish it soon. Then I began to ask suppliers to deliver goods and look for promotions. I called another person one by one to confirm and urge, and finally completed the delivery of the department before the deadline.
At the end of the store, I also had physical problems, severe back pain, and even bloody stool for several days. But I'm afraid of spending money, and I'm even more afraid of unemployment. I got through it without saying anything. Then I was not so tired, and my symptoms basically disappeared, and I slowly forgot. Only after that, there were two more problems: I couldn't bend over for a long time, and I grew up with backache; You can't drink too much mung bean soup. Too much also hurts.
Before the official opening, the staff of this department made another adjustment. Some people left their jobs, others changed departments, and I also gained several titles, such as employee relations Commissioner, employee grass-roots Committee officer, complaint Commissioner and training Commissioner. Because of these responsibilities, I am familiar with the human resources and management of shopping malls.
After official business, life is relatively dull. B&Q's management system is well done, and the purchase, sale and storage are all clear in the computer. When the scanning gun is swept away, the state of the same goods is basically no problem. We only need to maintain and modify it, and try our best to ensure that the state in the system is consistent with the actual state of the goods. The goods in the store are divided into two parts, self-operated products and supplier products, and we are directly responsible for the self-operated part. The supplier part is basically solved by promotion. Everyone has a corresponding category, and the store will also issue a report on unsalable goods every week and month, which is a task that we need to complete ourselves in sales. Under this management system, there is basically no big problem. Even if there are problems, most of them have mature solutions. As long as you know how to learn, you can get them. Systematic solutions, decomposition of problems, finding the final point of solving problems, thus solving the whole problem, these methods of thinking and doing things are slowly learned and understood in daily work.
Zhi Li, the manager, is a demanding person and a bitter person. In those months, I had the urge to beat him up several times. But this person's characteristic is practical, at least I haven't found anything inappropriate because of his personal likes and dislikes. When he opened the store, he basically stayed with the manager, but the affairs of the department were still handled in an orderly manner. At the morning meeting every morning, assign the work to everyone to ensure that everyone has something to do and the task can be completed. And basically do not interfere in the process, all by yourself, only when necessary, the purpose is to let you finish the work quickly, so as not to affect everyone. He basically stays out of the daily management, and Lao Liu is in charge. It seems that he is doing very easily in this department, and it is us who are tired of doing things, but the actual situation is that the work efficiency is very high and everyone is promoted quickly. Moreover, in this process, everyone's abilities and preferences have been clearly demonstrated. That's how teacher Chen and I jumped out. Mr. Chen was originally a senior employee of Metro, but no one knew about it. When I first came in, I was dull. As a result, because of this way of working, it was finally put forward that Mr. Chen and I were responsible for regional management, and no one else had any objection. Maybe, but I just can't convince the public. However, Zhi Li's stay in this department is too short. Only two months after he officially opened the store, he was transferred to Guangzhou as a store opening specialist. After he came back from the opening of the store there, he began to leave the management department More than a month later, he went to the second store in Dongguan to open a shop and stayed there. Before I left, I asked our advice and chose two people with good administrative ability to take with me. This time, I didn't join in the fun.
Because there are too many managers, our department has no managers for half a year. In practice, it means that we are all promoted to a higher level. The supervisor is responsible for the manager's affairs, and Mr. Chen and I are responsible for the supervisor's affairs. Then I felt a little annoyed. At first, we had nothing to do. Later, Zhi Li was often absent and Lao Liu had a rest, so the two of us had to attend a management meeting. We have to talk in meetings, but we can't talk empty words, forcing us to check the situation of departments, study sales and write reports every day. Later, my duty diary was written in standard sentence patterns, Khan. In daily work, the store manager or the manager on duty, as well as the service department, will call people over on the intercom from time to time to ask questions and deal with problems. Mr. Chen just slides. As long as I'm here, he basically doesn't care, so let me come forward. It took more than a month to get used to this state.
But at that time, I began to feel that comprehensive management was not the career path I wanted to take in the future. Although various abilities have been improved rapidly and management experience has become increasingly rich during the shift change, after all, you are not officially sitting in that position, and you can't touch many things and rights, so you can't learn what rights the manager has and how to make decisions in line with the interests of departments and stores. Accordingly, cumbersome management has also caused me confusion. I find that I really can't adapt to this kind of work that has to be dealt with in all kinds of situations.
Zhi Li has been away for more than a month, and the new manager, Zhang Dewu, has been transferred. Practically speaking, Zhi Li's management ability is very poor, and the means to deal with problems are insufficient, which seems to be not suitable for the manager's duties. His characteristic is that he knows how to delegate power and take responsibility. If he can't handle it, he will discuss it with us. He won't go his own way, nor will he command blindly. He won't ask us for help if there is something wrong with handling the problem. At that time, Liu was still in the department, and Kerwin Chen and I worked as interns in the department management for several months, so we could work together in a team. But it didn't take long for Lao Liu to have a child, and the work in the sales department had a great influence on his life, so he applied for a transfer to HR. Without the head of the department, Mr. Chen and I went back to the old days. In addition, the presence of Zhang Dewu is really not high. Slowly, he didn't remember that he had something to talk to the manager above, and he came directly to look for the situation on our head. After a month, the store probably felt that there was a problem, and finally the supervisor was transferred. This is an acquaintance, Zhang Shun, from another department in the same store. Zhi Li brought it before. He has certain abilities. I don't like this man. He is capable but not outstanding, and always wants to get ahead. Later, he often went against Zhang Dewu. He learned Zhi Li's way of doing things, but he didn't have enough experience to deal with it himself, and there were many contradictions in his work, so he couldn't do it. And because of the power struggle with Zhang Dewu, there is a conflict in the distribution of work. During that time, the department was in poor condition and was often asked by the manager. Later, B&Q adjusted its sales incentive plan. Unable to bargain, the store began to acquiesce in giving customers discounts through employee cards. This is probably Zhang Dewu's strong point. He took out several big lists and began to speak with his work permit. Later, I couldn't even get an employee card, so I had to go to mass service. Zhang Shun also began to show his strong points, being good at dealing with suppliers and coordinating many problems. Probably because of the development potential of group buying, B&Q started to set up a group buying department, and Zhang Dewu was transferred as a manager to avoid internal friction. But we had a bad time. When Zhi Li was here, he solved all the problems; With Liu or around, they will resist the pressure above, and we just need to do things; He comes to Zhang Shun, and if he can't handle it, he throws it at us. He also scolds him when we have problems, so I have more and more opinions about this person, and it is inevitable to complain when I meet the management directly.
Before the conflict broke out, the inventory began. The first contact with inventory, the overall feeling is very bad. The preparation before inventory is only complicated, and the write-off after inventory is the biggest. I haven't stayed in the department for more than a week, and overtime is normal. Every day, I look for differences in a pile of statements, or I look for the goods that have disappeared in the statements in the warehouse. I was so busy that I finally reduced the loss to an acceptable level.
After the inventory, I started post management and was directly named into the working group in the store. First, rack one's brains to fight for goods and improve the utilization rate of positions to the highest; Then get together to make suggestions and make conditions to solve the allocation area of each department; Finally, I went back to my department and arranged my department's storage plan according to the assigned area. Finally, people in our department saw that I had run away and were afraid of working as coolies; As soon as the promoter saw me, he asked if he wanted to lighten up his position and where to put the goods in the future. People in the warehouse are afraid to see me. When you go, just say you don't have time or a car. Of course, it was completed later. Before I left Dongguan, the feedback was very effective.
This is also the last time I am busy. I get the lowest salary in the department, do the most things, work two hours more every day, and call from time to time to disturb or even work overtime during breaks. You can never say I don't know. But I asked max and others, and it is basically impossible to raise wages in this situation. If you want a raise, the best way is to take part in the training and assessment of management positions in the store, and then you will have a chance. But I refused. I really learned a lot this year, but this trivial and repetitive routine made me feel very tired and really didn't like it. On the contrary, I am more suitable for all kinds of special work in the store, such as position management and inventory.
I started my holiday. Make-up leave and annual leave have more than ten days, and I only have to take three breaks before I quit. Both HR and the store manager are asking to change departments. I didn't promise, and finally left.
Summarizing the two years in Dongguan, I have the following views:
1, the reward of work should be in line with your own interests. If a job can't improve your ability, you must be able to get enough pay. If you can't achieve both, it's not a good job and you should consider leaving your job quickly.
It depends on the company to find a job. If there are differences in the development direction of leaders, internal friction in management, insufficient technical support and lack of boss credit, make plans early and get out early.
3. Find what you are good at, increase its proportion as much as possible, and avoid wasting too much time on things you are not good at.
The last and most important thing is to follow the right person. A competent superior may make you work hard, but it can make you learn more and improve faster. Or a superior with average ability will delegate power. You may not learn from him, but you will increase your experience by being able to handle the work independently. Other types are up to you.
It's a pity that I just analyzed this now. I didn't consciously analyze these things at that time, so that I planted several big pimples on them in the next few years.