The year of 2018 is coming to an end. I would like to share this story with my brothers who worked together in the past.

Those of you who follow my blog should have read an article I wrote before, “Remember the experience of being cheated into starting a business”. The article records the blogger’s struggle in a startup company. Although the process is hard, it also brings back a lot of memories. Especially the guy who made a lot of friends. This article is about what happened after the blogger left his job.

Picture cakes are out of date

All startups have to solve a common problem: why do employees work for you? One tactic employed by most smart-aleck bosses: drawing pies. The pie is as big as the heart. Cake painting is a means to see the effect of the shadow. Especially for the simple programmer brother, the company’s appropriate picture cake, can make it immediately passionate, working for several nights is not a problem. But programmers are often not easy to provoke, when he found your routine when he was careful to be deleted by his library run.

Several brothers who entered the company with the blogger before were lured by the boss to draw cakes. But as time goes on, the effect of pie painting wears off. When everyone is found to be set, the company’s combat effectiveness can be imagined. Time is money, and any startup that doesn’t have a strong fighting force will end up dead.

Soon the financing ran out and the company was in a life-or-death phase.

Employee equity purchase

The boss may also realize that the company could go down the drain. However, the company does not want to give away equity to employees, what to do?

After a careful design, the company decided to open up the equity to the company’s key employees to buy. The company’s argument is that the next round of financing is imminent, and that it is in the employees’ interest to buy shares before the equity premium. And since only core members can buy, those who do not buy are basically not core members.

My colleague Mr. A, in order to keep his core team membership and be seduced by the good wish of equity premium, spent more than 100,000 yuan to buy equity from the company.

Fall into a bigger trap

Everyone happily bought the equity, and soon a month passed. A jun found that the salary has not been sent last month! Mr. A was surprised and asked his colleagues about it. None of the employees who had bought shares had been paid last month. Then the boss called a shareholders’ meeting and announced that the company was in for a tough time. All shareholder salaries are on hold until business picks up.

In this way, half a year has passed in a twinkling.

One day, Mr. A invited me to dinner. After three glasses of wine, he began to complain. The company had run out of money, so it was open for everyone to buy. There are two purposes: 1. Raise money from employees to support the operation of the company. 2. You can openly not pay wages to the shareholding employees, and you are not afraid to run away from the shareholding core employees, unless you do not want shares.

I listened to the surprise, the original routine can become fine!! I couldn’t think of anything better to do than comfort Mr. A. ε=(´ο ‘*))) Alas, what more is there to say? Since ancient times, true feelings have not been retained, only the set pattern wins the hearts of the people.

Never believe that pie will fall on your head, maybe you can eat less.

The status of bloggers

Since I changed my job, I have joined Xiaomi. Then he began to write a blog, and also opened a wechat public account called “Brilliant Programmer”. I began to review my 12-year code career and write down some of the things I experienced. Fortunately, I was liked by my programmer friends and felt very happy. In more than one year, I wrote more than 100 original articles and shared my technical experience and feelings. Friends have time to go to my blog and public number to stroll around, support the blogger.

2018 will be written into history, the heart is reluctant, but what can be done? I wish you a better and better 2019. – 2018.12.30