Is it appropriate for female leaders to criticize me in public because of some problems other than work?

In my masterpiece "Only Working for 20 Years", I mentioned my professional experience in a large foreign company in the fourth chapter, in order to explain how to make a choice when the interests of the company, departments and individuals are inconsistent.

There are many people named Linda in foreign companies. Everyone may be familiar with Linda, the master of my next job. In fact, when I was the first wholly foreign-owned enterprise in my career, there was also a Linda, who was my colleague. This Kobe is our leader. He has been suppressing us and all kinds of PUA. After the last three years, the three of us naturally separated.

This is roughly the ending: Kirby, the manager, was robbed from his main workload and his subordinates to do a boring idle job, and soon he was unhappy and took the initiative to leave; Linda was promoted to the leadership and managed more than a dozen people; I transferred to another department and worked as a project manager in R&D department. Although I am also a soldier, I belong to the manager level.

It is no exaggeration to write a book in this process, which is interspersed with various stories and truths for more than ten years. We can examine and evaluate their respective gains and losses from a more objective historical perspective. I believe it is of great benefit to colleagues who are suppressed by leaders in the workplace, especially foreign companies.

To describe it in an article requires a high degree of generality, so let's watch a fast movie.

That was around 2004, and the annual sales of domestic cars just exceeded 654.38+0 million. It is expected that it will continue to increase soon, and it is said that it may exceed 1 10,000 to 2065.438+06 in another ten years. As a result, major auto companies have started to increase their scale and enter China, including leading auto and parts giants.

Now 2022 stands at the commanding heights of history. Of course, we will know. In fact, the original forecast was conservative, because the annual sales of automobiles in China increased from 1 10,000 to110,000, which was almost reached in 20 10. It only took five years, even with the American subprime mortgage crisis in 2007-2008 and global finance.

Undoubtedly, an automobile giant should further explore the China market at this time, especially increase R&D functions, establish an R&D center, and set its Asia-Pacific headquarters in China to further meet the local market, customer demand and production demand in China.

In a word, this American Fortune 500 company bought a piece of land of 100 mu in Shanghai in 2005, and opened the China R&D Center as the headquarters of China and Asia-Pacific region, with an estimated scale of 1500 people. It was a triumphant era of automobile and manufacturing, so now everyone can understand that I can get an Offer by interviewing 2-3 companies.

My general plan is as above. You said you would suddenly build a new headquarters in Shanghai. Then, other parties, as well as the world's four major headquarters, the existing more than a dozen R&D centers and hundreds of related factories, should all contribute their own strength? The answer is yes.

In addition, among the 1500 people to be recruited, there are about 800 R&D-related engineers, and other auxiliary personnel account for about half. I later switched jobs from a small foreign company in Xujiahui, and my salary doubled. Of course, I went to the purchasing department.

Of course, the purchasing department belongs to the purchasing department of one of the business divisions (automotive electronics), and the R&D-related procurement matters of this business division mainly need to be contributed by the US headquarters, the European headquarters and the Singapore Old Asia-Pacific Headquarters. In this process, in fact, everyone wants a share, because it involves the distribution of rights, powers, obligations and interests.

The purchasing department of this division will probably occupy 50 of the final total of Asia-Pacific headquarters 1500. Who will go first? I tell you, the purchasing manager in Singapore is the most agile. He was the first to send a senior manager, Koh, who was the first employee of the 50-person purchasing department.

When Koh first arrived in early 2006, he immediately contacted the personnel department and started a large number of recruitment. In just three or four months, he recruited more than a dozen employees in one breath. Let's use our ugly sons Yin Mao and Tatsumi to represent these new buyers at noon. My brother is like Chen among the twelve new employees, almost the same as the fifth employee recruited by Koh. The previous article includes Linda, the big sister mentioned in my book, who is roughly an employee of Yin.

Of course, after all, Koh is the manager of Singapore, mainly taking orders from the director of his Singapore headquarters, and dare not recruit people in the Asia-Pacific headquarters of American companies alone, so he also applied to the American headquarters for an American director to guide the establishment of the new department. The United States was busy and finally arranged a purchasing director transferred from Australia. In fact, I came to support him and went back in a year, mainly to help interview and find new people and help maintain the facade. At least your purchasing department has a foreign supervisor. This is the director Bai I met in the interview, but mainly Koh is the leader, and he also said that he should report to Koh after he joined the company.

However, two weeks before I joined the company, HR contacted me and said there was an extra exam. A new manager wants to talk to me by phone. The new manager, Kirby, is from China. I remember it was a walk after lunch. I found the second floor of a McDonald's near the Luomei Building in Xujiahui, and talked with Kirby for ten minutes, which was his interview with me.

Let's take a look at the history of Kirby.

Let's take a look at the picture above. This is the purchasing department, with a final size of 50 people. At present, the first manager Koh is sent by Singapore. When I first recruited four employees, Kirby, the purchasing director of Suzhou factory, sent a manager before I was about to join the company.

This Kirby actually worked as a buyer in Suzhou factory for two years, and later left to be a supervisor in pursuit of better career development. It is estimated that the factory is developing in general, so when Shanghai wants to set up a factory, the director of Suzhou continues to recruit him back, saying, "If we build our headquarters in Shanghai, you can go directly to be a manager and double your salary." That's why we're here, manager Kobe.

Half a year later, the ice manager sent by the United States is an ABC, that is, a Chinese American, who has been abroad for nearly 20 years. Europe was lazy, saying that China was poor and no manager wanted to come, so I sent two buyers. As there is no manager, they report to Koh by default.

Of course, the purchasing department is mainly responsible for docking with four product lines, so each product line will be equipped with a purchasing manager, with an average of five or six purchasing engineers, quality engineers and project purchasing specialists.

Koh's first recruitment target, ugly Tatsumi Yin Mao, applied in Youyou Sea at noon. According to the distribution, Linda and I, as well as my brother and sister, are all under the name of manager Kobe.

Attention, everyone, these four people were mainly recruited by Koh at the beginning, and Koh also said that he would report to him during the interview. Therefore, they were assigned to Kirby, the manager of China district, shortly after joining the company. We are puzzled, but what is more sad than us is Kobe himself, because he didn't recruit the employees himself.

Kirby began to constantly suppress the four of us, with Linda, the oldest female employee, gaining the most power and constantly playing tricks on her; I'm a little better, because at least he gave a ten-minute telephone interview; Later, Kirby continued to scold Youxuedi and Xu Xuemei, who were younger and new recruits and just graduated. Both of them were recruited by Koh for less than half a month. Kirby directly sent Youxuedi and Xu Xuemei back to Koh, and began to recruit people himself, and found an a A Xuedi and a B Xue Mei, which were considered as one of our own.

So, the story is repeated as described yesterday. Is it a good thing or a bad thing to find that the leader is not the person who interviewed me after joining the company? Linda and I were not recruited by Kirby, who kept pushing us down, even though we were the best at work and had the most work experience. At this time, Linda and I will bear the burden of humiliation, and everything we say and do is wrong. I couldn't understand it at that time, so my brother is also from bad karma. But Linda must have understood, but she didn't tell me at that time.

Using this group friend case, let's look at the picture below. This female group friend has been working in a large foreign company in Shanghai for more than a month. At first, she was interviewed by two leaders from the headquarters in Hong Kong and Beijing, and was assigned to a new department in Shanghai. One of them just worked for two months.

During this month and a half, the group friends have been under the strong pressure of female leaders, only knowing criticism and asking questions. No comment. The female supervisor forced the group members to work overtime, and sometimes even asked her to work until 3 am and work overtime on weekends. No matter what we do, the female supervisor is not satisfied and calls names. The supervisor has repeatedly told the management of Jinggang that we have just joined the group friends for a month and a half, and the female supervisor even often scolds them in front of many people. ......

This is the same as the historical plot. It is not that you are wrong, but that your position is wrong. Linda and I were also suppressed by Kirby. However, Linda is better than others. In the third month after that, when she was teased by Kirby in a global conference call, she directly said that Kirby's request was unreasonable and she dropped the phone and stopped attending the conference call.

After the meeting, Kirby came to Linda. Kirby said, "I am your leader, at least you can give me some face." Linda didn't give Kobe any face at all and said directly, "I don't agree with your management style." Sorry, I have already sent an email, so we won't interfere. "

Actually, Linda has gone to the personnel department to find the personnel manager and offered to be transferred to Koh. Then a big email listed dozens of unreasonable places of Kirby. In short, it needs to be transferred to a small department internally, and the personnel relationship has been discussed with the personnel manager at home and can be operated.

Later, Linda left my department and career line in her senior year and went to work in Koh. Moreover, when Koh's three-year support for China expired after two and a half years, she was elected as a manager by Koh, with about 15 employees.

I have been bullied by Kirby, but I can be independent, so I finally stayed here with Kirby and swallowed it.

However, I cultivated various relationships with external departments, that is, R&D departments, and did not participate in the political struggles of the managers and directors of the four factions, such as Gao. I have a good working relationship with the boss of the R&D department. After they repeatedly persuaded the purchasing department to give me a promotion, I was transferred to the R&D department as a project manager, and I got a raise after internal transfer. Actually, I only stayed for two months. At that time, I was young and wanted to continue to do purchasing. So I jumped out to work as an assistant purchasing manager in a medium-sized company.

I didn't run away, but I wasn't much better. But Kirby got the worst result, and was maintained as a manager, but took all the personnel and projects, and was marginalized to do cost analysis. After a few months, he quietly left his job.

I won't say more about it. Obviously, when you meet a leader who thinks you are wrong from the beginning, and you are not the interviewer who recruited you, you have to fight, report to the big leader, collect the "criminal evidence" of the supervisor, and even go to the personnel department to ask for a change of department. The key is not to be patient. I didn't understand it at first. At that time, the market was good, or I would have been fired by Kobe.

Not much to say, I wish friends and readers, don't be weak when it comes to fighting! Read my article "Encountered an" Impossible Task ". What should I do? The essence of "! I wrote this fifteen years later, and I am no longer ignorant. This is a lesson of blood.