In the countdown to the Hong Kong stock IPO, my work station became a note to be written off - and I was just one of the batch of fresh graduates who were recruited and were about to be "optimized".
The company did not misjudge its business needs. On the contrary, every step was calculated accurately: first, in the name of "talent density", it recruited graduates with master's and doctoral degrees in batches, quickly raised the educational curve of employees, and submitted a bright intellectual capital portrait to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange; when the critical window for listing review was reached, these new batch of newcomers with the lowest cost and lightest rights and responsibilities were dismissed one by one on the grounds of probationary period. As a result, the labor expenses on the books fell back, and the profit figures on the statements quietly reached the target - and we became the fraction most easily erased in this financial beauty technique.
