Today is the first day of work after the Spring Festival holiday. Some office workers are quite annoyed by the unconventional leave regulations issued by their companies before the holiday. For example, employees who return overweight during the New Year will be fined; employees must have their parents write a receipt to receive the red envelope from the company; and the annual leave for the new year must be taken together with the New Year's holiday... Have you heard of these shocking regulations?
Strange Regulation One
Employees who do not control their weight during the New Year will be fined
The joyful Spring Festival holiday has passed, and I believe everyone has attended countless family and friends gatherings. After each delicious meal, did you regret eating too much? After seven days of vacation, in addition to counting the delicious food you ate, did you also count the weight that unknowingly increased?
Xiaoyu, a new employee at a resort hotel, like many other women, is particularly worried about gaining weight during the Spring Festival. In addition to her love for beauty, it is mostly due to the "weight control regulation" issued by the company before the New Year. "Before going home, the company weighed each employee and recorded it," Xiaoyu told reporters that they didn't understand why at the time. A few days later, the boss announced a regulation that made everyone cry and laugh - based on the weight measured just now, please control your weight during the festival, and the fluctuation should not exceed 2 jin (approximately 1 kg). Whether heavier or lighter, those who exceed the standard will be fined 300 yuan.
It turns out that Xiaoyu's company is engaged in high-end services, and has relatively strict requirements for the image of its employees. Both height and weight were strictly standardized during recruitment. To prevent employees from changing their figure due to overeating during the festival, the company made such a regulation. For most female employees, this regulation is like driving to attend a gathering, becoming the best reason not to drink alcohol.
Strange Regulation Two
Write a receipt when giving money to parents during the Spring Festival
Giving gifts to parents during the Spring Festival is an excellent tradition in China, which values filial piety. But have you seen anyone writing a receipt after giving money to their parents? Wang Yong, a salesperson at a private enterprise, prepared paper money and watched his father write the receipt by hand so he could go back to work with peace of mind after the holiday.
It turns out that this is the regulation of Wang Yong's company, where most of the employees are young people in their twenties and thirties. During the Spring Festival, the boss decided to give each person a 2000-yuan filial piety fund, and this money must be signed by the employee's parents to be received. "Each person submits a receipt signed by their parents, and those who don't submit it will not receive the money," Wang Yong told reporters that issuing filial piety funds before the Spring Festival every year is a tradition of the company. However, last year, the boss accidentally discovered that the parents of a male employee had never received money from their son. Later, it was found out that this money was spent by the employee himself, which made the boss very angry and immediately fired him. Therefore, this regulation was introduced this year: submit the receipt first, then reimburse the filial piety fund. If the boss suspects the handwriting, he will make a phone call to confirm.
"How can we expect someone who doesn't love their own parents and isn't filial to care about the collective and love their job?" Wang Yong said that this is the boss's long-held belief. He grew up in a single-parent family and lost his father at a young age. He relied entirely on his mother's support for his education, work, and entrepreneurship, so he has always been very filial and requires his employees to meet this standard.
Strange Regulation Three
Annual leave must be taken after the Spring Festival
In recent days, while relatives and friends have returned to work, Xiao Zhu, an employee at a cultural company in Nanjing, is still "forced" to enjoy the holidays at home.
"It sounds enviable, but there's bitterness that can't be mentioned." Xiao Zhu told reporters that others take seven days off, but the employees in their company take twelve or seventeen days off according to their length of service. Relatives and friends seem envious at first glance, but in reality, these extra five or ten days are actually the annual leave for the whole year. It turns out that the leader of Xiao Zhu's company stipulated that all employees' annual leave would be combined with the New Year's holiday, meaning that after taking these extra five days, no more annual leave can be requested throughout the year.
In fact, the reason for this arrangement is that the boss has a clear understanding of the accounts. Because the month after the Spring Festival is the slowest period for business, there is nothing to do anyway. Instead of letting employees sit around doing nothing, it is better to let them use up their annual leave, so that there will be no opportunity to ask for leave during the busy times. The boss euphemistically said: "Annual leave is the leave taken during the New Year, right?"
During the interview, Xiong Jiqing, the HR manager of another large clothing company, also expressed that annual leave is generally arranged after the New Year, together with the Spring Festival holiday, and usually employees are not allowed to request annual leave during regular times because the clothing industry is relatively slow after the festival.
By Liu Yang