After the layoffs, I became a tech godfather

Chapter 216 Some places are completely hopeless!
While this chip industry summit was taking place, other work at Baiju Technology was also proceeding in full swing.

For example, the recruitment of top talent.

Just earlier, Cao Song and the company's human resources were conducting a comprehensive assessment of the people who came from Xinbian Technology in the temporary office in Hangzhou.

The most critical link, naturally, comes from Xiaosha.

In addition to this task, Cao Song also has another task - to attract more talents for the company, including talents in EEG, sensing, chips, biology, materials and other fields.

Since the relevant recruitment announcement conference, there have been countless responses.

According to Hao Cheng's request, Cao Song would go directly to the other party's city to have a detailed chat with some important people.

On the other hand, in Nanling, Xiaosha just informed us that there was a person.

Xiaosha thinks highly of this person, believing that he has great talent in the field of neural electrical signal recognition, and that his professional compatibility with Baiju Technology's human body sensing project is as high as 99.2%.

When Cao Song saw this, he was extremely excited, because this person was not valued in his original company. He was just an ordinary employee, and his salary was only 7500. However, his workplace was in Nanling, and 5500 was just the salary for an intern.

"Han Dong," Cao Song nodded, dialed the number he left, introduced himself, stated his purpose, and when he was preparing to return to Linzhou, he would take a bus to Nanling and meet and chat.

Han Dong, an employee of a certain technology company, is engaged in [peripheral nerve-physical electrical signal] conversion. The company's current main product is: a robotic finger.

This robotic finger is very powerful. After a finger is amputated, you only need to put this robotic finger on the end. You can even directly control the end of this robotic finger through the brain, and grasping, throwing and catching are almost the same as the original finger.

The main problem is that it doesn’t look good, it’s not a beauty finger.

Of course, functionality is the most important thing.

And Han Dong is one of the important technical personnel.

However, being important does not mean making a lot of money.

The company only gave me 5500 yuan, and refused to give me salary increase several times with various excuses.

Moreover, I dare not resign.

Because as long as you resign, the company will definitely activate the non-compete agreement, and the liquidated damages stipulated in the non-compete agreement are very high, even up to 2000 million.

The monthly compensation, 20%, is only 1100 yuan.

Is this reasonable? This is unreasonable!
Is this illegal? Yes, it is illegal! Because the law stipulates that the standard of compensation cannot be lower than the local minimum wage standard.

In Nanling, the current minimum wage standard is 2490.

But, so what? The enterprises are fearless! The entire Nanling, whether arbitration, first instance or second instance, all favors the enterprises.

Even the obviously unreasonable breach of contract compensation of 2000 million was supported by the court.

Moreover, in the post-judgment Q&A session, the judge directly stated: As long as an agreement is signed, it is valid. The clauses of 30% compensation or minimum wage standard only apply to situations where there is no agreement. As long as the contract stipulates it, the agreement shall prevail.

The meaning is very clear: it is legal to agree on a compensation of 1 yuan and demand compensation of 2000 million yuan.

Can it be explained this way? If you look at the words carefully, yes.

But if you ask Xiaosha, it says: "The original intention of the law is to protect the rights and interests of both parties, and the rights and responsibilities should be equal. Therefore, this cannot be reasonable."

Xiaosha knows this, but Nanling Court doesn’t know it?

But it's no use knowing it, they just make the decision anyway.

One of Han Dong's colleagues encountered such a thing. The lawyer he hired from Beijing was so crazy that he posted a video on his TikTok:
“It’s not that I’m incompetent. When a certain hospital in a region is determined to stand on one side, there is very little we can do.

"From today on, I will no longer accept any labor dispute cases from Nanling. It's useless to accept them. When something happens, everything is already determined and no one can change it."

This video was restricted, complained about, and even deleted on Douyin.

But in Xiaosha's related fields, it was spread very widely. Some people also sent complaints to Baiju Technology and asked it to delete it, but Xiaosha ignored it and the video is still there.

Xiaosha’s reply to the other party was: If Nanling believes that this video should be deleted, please provide a letter with the official seal, we will delete the video and publish the letter to everyone.

"Nanling, that place, no wonder! In that place, indeed, you can only suffer in silence, there is no other way."

"I really hope that Baiju Technology can fix it. They are simply crazy over there and they still want the Six Little Dragons. I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone: Don't go to Nanling to work. If you have gone, run away immediately.

"Also, never sign a non-compete agreement with any company in Nanling. Non-compete agreements in other places are considered non-compete agreements, but in Nanling, it is a direct prohibition of employment!"

"Look at me, I live under a bridge and I am forbidden from delivering food. Besides, isn't the maximum non-compete agreement two years? We signed a ten-year agreement here and the hospital approved it.

"It is because the clause states that the period of non-compete is generally two years. Therefore, if the company agrees to a ten-year period, it is not an ordinary case and is legal.

"So, don't hesitate, run! That place is completely hopeless!"

"Hehe, that's great. It turns out that Linzhou is similar, but it's much better now. No one dares to mess around in Linzhou anymore."

Han Dong wanted to resign, and he even submitted his resume in Xiaosha, wanting to join Baiju Technology.

The evaluation result made him very happy. He thought that he had to leave even if it meant losing money to the company. He couldn't really lose 20 million, right?
However, after watching the video of this lawyer, he was completely heartbroken. If he left, he would not be able to work for ten years. If he worked, he would have to pay 20 million yuan in compensation. A certain hospital actually supported such an outrageous agreement. Even the lawyers from Beijing did not dare to come.

5500 yuan, if you take it until you die, your life will have no hope and the future will be bleak.

And at this moment, Han Dong received a call from Cao Song.

"How about it? Are you interested in us?" It was the first time that Cao Song met the applicant with a 99.2% fit rate. After introducing his position and purpose, Cao Song invited him.

"It's not a question of whether I'm interested or not." Han Dong was speechless. It was such a good opportunity to join Baiju Technology, but he couldn't go.

"What's going on?" Cao Song heard that Han Dong obviously still wanted to come.

After Han Dong told Cao Song everything, he was speechless. He still remembered that the company wanted to lay him off and caused a lot of trouble. At that time, he felt that the company was outrageous.

But I didn't expect that there is still a master here, who is paid 5,500 yuan a month and cannot leave. The key is that there is no way to reason with him.

“Nanling, are you crazy?” Enterprises have no bottom line. Cao Song can understand that you are bad, but he is worse than you, but what do the local officials want to do?
"Hmph!" Han Dong sighed and groaned speechlessly.

"Please wait for a moment, I will call you again later!" Cao Song looked at the time. Mr. Hao should be giving the opening keynote speech at the chip industry summit at this time, so he sent a message first to explain the situation.

This situation is a bit weird and serious, but non-compete clauses are common in the flow of high-level talents. You may encounter them a lot in the future.

And Nanling's situation is obviously unreasonable. According to Cao Song's own idea, he must do it directly. What the hell, if it doesn't work, just stop their permission to use Xiaosha!

You don't know until you look it up, and it really is there. This company has even submitted an application for a fine-tuned model of Xiaosha, and is still waiting in line. What are you waiting in line for? This is rubbish!
Just as Cao Song was filled with indignation, Hao Cheng called him back.

"Cao Song, what's going on?"

"This kind of thing? Don't worry about it, we should collect the money! At worst, we will pay the penalty! Then we will directly put the relevant companies on the cooperation blacklist and never cooperate with them again..."

When Hao Cheng heard this, he was furious. What is illegal or not illegal? Just because it is not illegal does it mean he can do whatever he wants? And this behavior of his may not be illegal.

As for the local support in Nanling, we love to support it. A place of this level will not have any impact on the current Baiju Technology.

"Xiaosha Xiaosha, if we take this job, what is the probability that we will have to pay compensation to the other party?" Cao Song asked.

[For this incident, we can sign an agreement with Han Dong, stipulating that we will pay all the compensation. Then, when his original company sues, it must add our company as the defendant.

If our company becomes one of the defendants, we can directly raise an objection to jurisdiction and ask the other party to sue in Linzhou. In this case, there is almost no chance of paying a lot of money.

[To put it another way, with our current influence, the other company may not have the courage to sue. Even if they sue in Nanling, Nanling may not dare to continue to act according to their ideas. ]

Legal services is Xiaosha’s original business, and even Hao Cheng’s first pot of gold came from the compensation he received from his original company.

And now, this ability has obviously reached a new level. It has begun to consider issues beyond the original legal framework, such as the influence of Baiju Technology and the fact that some people will do whatever they want.

After hearing this, Cao Song felt relieved.

As for whether anyone would think that Baiju Technology is abusing its influence to bully the weak, Hao Cheng just said that it is a matter of conscience to disclose the truth, and everyone who knows it will only support it more.

So Cao Song called Han Dong again: "If everything you said is true, we can sign an agreement with you, and Baiju Technology will be responsible for all compensation, if any.

"Well, let me ask you again, are you willing to join us? What is your answer?"

"Ah?" Han Dong was stunned at first, then he was delighted: "Of course I am willing!"

"Okay, after confirming the facts today, we will give you an agreement. Then, tomorrow you will go directly to the company to send a resignation notice. Before sending it, ask Xiaosha and let him assist you!" Cao Song gave a final reminder.

"Okay, okay, okay!" Han Dong was instantly excited.

……

On Hao Cheng's side, at the chip industry summit, his opening speech has ended, and now he is carrying out the second process of the first day - claiming a project.

Class C projects are open to the public, while Class B projects are for strategic partners determined by Baiju Technology itself.

Today, the Class B projects in the chip industry are placed in front of the participating companies. Each company will make the first claim based on its own industry, position in the industrial chain, existing technologies and products, as well as future R&D capabilities and plans.

After claiming it, provide solutions and technical certification, and be evaluated by professional Xiaosha.

While others were doing this, Hao Cheng called Xiaosha and said, "Notify the media that we will hold an off-site press conference for the chip industry summit at 17:30. Invite them to attend."

Originally, Hao Cheng had not planned to hold any press conference. The essence of this summit was to arrange everyone's work.

But now think about it, there are some things that can indeed be announced to the public, for example, EUV lithography machines, there is no point in keeping them hidden, and EDA electronic design automation tools are also something that many people are thinking about.

The recent breakthroughs in these traditional chips can be reported here together.

More importantly, Hao Cheng wants to set rules this time!
AI is becoming more and more powerful, but at this time, the more we need to value and protect talents.

Even though Xiaosha is strong, it doesn't mean you should use Xiaosha to oppress and exploit talented people!
Nanling’s behavior, haha, will never let them touch Xiaosha again in the future.

At this time, Hao Cheng was even considering the one drop of blood principle, that is, any company that cooperated with them would stop supplying Xiaosha Professional Edition.

But problems can easily arise if the balance is not properly grasped. Moreover, Hao Cheng is also worried that if he does things according to his own likes and dislikes, something might go wrong one day.

"This is definitely the right thing to do." Hao Cheng nodded: "Let's think about it more deeply later."

……

Inside the park, each family is happily planning for the future, while outside the park, people are also busy.

More and more people have gathered around the park. It’s not that they have to have any specific purpose, but they all feel very satisfied just walking around the park.

In fact, the environment here is really good, especially on both sides of the river. The pedestrian walkways and green spaces have begun to come alive. Some people even set up temporary tents here and enjoy this brief comfort.

"Do you think the chip problem can be solved this time?"

"Just remove the 'ma' from the word. It will definitely be solved. It just depends on time."

"I saw a report in Hong Kong media that Huawei's EUV lithography machine at a production base in the south has begun trial production of the EUV remake of Kirin 9020, the 9020Super."

"It should be fake, right? For the previous chips, America couldn't figure out where they were produced for a year or two. How could this EUV trial production be exposed?"

"Tell me, is there a possibility that they didn't want to let them know because they were worried about the industry chain being implicated, but now, do you think America dares to fart? This is a different time, there is no need to keep it secret at all."

"There are many upstream and downstream industries in the industry chain. If Baiju Technology and Huawei are not afraid, are other companies not afraid?"

"What are you afraid of? Haven't you noticed that America hasn't been making any noises lately? Isn't the whole world a lot quieter?
"But they have never stopped their plan to recruit people from all over the world. They must be causing trouble. Now it has reached the stage where it's either you or me. Let's just do it!"

A group of people sat on the grass, chatting about all sorts of things, and the topic unconsciously turned to confrontation and competition:

"I remember someone named 'Wang Bin' went there. He said he wanted to get a chip implanted to become a superior person. When he got off the plane at Fort Worth Airport, he said he would broadcast the entire process live. Now it's been so many days, what's going on? I've been paying special attention to him, why hasn't there been any movement in the past two days?"

Someone thought of Wang Bin, who vowed to run to America to become a superior person.

"Wang Bin? I've been following him too. That was his last live broadcast at the airport. He hasn't been online since then!"

"How rare! You went to be America's guinea pig, and you were allowed to come out and broadcast live? That's a beautiful thought! It's not certain whether you are still alive now!"

"Hahaha!"

"Hey, look over there, what are you doing?"

In the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Park, which is now the South Gate Square of Xiaosha Town, staff were setting up the venue for the press conference as required, and a group of people not far away immediately stood up and swarmed over.

"Press conference outside the Chip Industry Summit, 17:30!"

(End of this chapter)