Employee Benefit

When the boss came in with a big watermelon, the office was suddenly filled with summer coolness. Like the mobile phone tablet he gave to everyone the year before last, like the gold earrings he gave to everyone last year. Some people cheered and gathered around, and some people poked their heads out of the cubicle and laughed. This scene is very ordinary, as usual as many times in the past five years-a beautiful New Year's down jacket, afternoon tea that suddenly appeared one afternoon, or a small reward that shines on the earlobes of female colleagues after completing the task.

Eating sweet watermelon, suddenly some trance. In five years, it was such a variety of fruits, clothes and encouragement. They are very light, as light as a gentle word in the welfare list; However, it is very heavy, so heavy that it can suppress the sense of wandering in the workplace and let the days give birth to a stable root system.

My eyes drifted unconsciously to the station by the window. There sat the "oldest employee" in the company. Sixteen years-this concept slammed into my heart. She had been sitting here for eleven years when I came. I witnessed the first annual meeting of the company, the first team trip, and she was calm and smiling. She is not like an "elder", but more like a calm sister in this big family, watching our later "sisters" happily receive every surprise from their parents.

Sixteen years is enough to turn an industry upside down and turn full of blood into job burnout. What makes a person willing to entrust the most abundant 16 years of his life here?

I looked at the boss smiling and giving everyone the profile of watermelon, and then at the elder sister's station, a potted plant that had been kept for many years but was still in full of green. Perhaps the answer lies in this trivial daily life. Perhaps the best motivation is never the earrings or the down jacket itself, but the feeling of being "seen" and "remembered" continuously. Is to know that your efforts will be cherished, and your warmth and coldness will be remembered. Behind those seemingly small rewards is a respect and care for people that has not faded for 16 years.

Earrings will fade, clothes will be out of date, and watermelons will be eaten up. But the sense of security that is securely loved and the sense of belonging that integrates the career journey into the growth of life can resist all storms and tiredness for a long time. It makes work no longer a wandering, but a soil where one party can take root; Let colleagues not only pass by, but become family members who witness each other's years.

Sixteen years is not the end of a miracle, but the proof of a tender contract. It tells us softly: here, there is a response to pay, and the years are sweet. And that most precious "golden earring" is no longer a material, but an indelible light of trust given by time itself.