boss, i mean it

In January of the new year, the biting cold winter sticks to Hangzhou.

Gu Tianjiao said that no matter how difficult life is, we must continue to live.If others hear it, they must think he is hypocritical.

After all, there are still many people in this world who don’t have enough to eat, or who are trapped in the tragedy of war or natural disaster, and worry every second about whether they will die or live in the next moment.Their life test of this level seems to be groaning/groaning without illness.

So in the days that followed, Gu Tianjiao didn't mention anything about what had happened.Yu Cheng knows how to be funny, and stays with him in the mortal world, and continues to laugh and act good for daily necessities.

At the beginning of the month, the Super V operation department fired another seven people with the last elimination system.Yu Cheng's vigilance has been raised again and again. If he is inattentive and gets fired, not to mention continuing to support his good brother elephant who is still struggling below the poverty line, it must be a real blow to Gu Tianjiao.

Therefore, he is extremely dedicated to work.The training class maintains the rhythm of homework report once a week and written test once every two weeks. While feeding new knowledge, it forces everyone to keep returning to known business.No matter how efficient Yu Cheng's overtime hours are, he still has to leave after eleven o'clock.Gu Tianjiao didn't want to stay alone in the vacant room, so he worked overtime in the car downstairs and waited for him.

Time flies as usual in a state of being completely dominated by work.

In late January, the Super V Department notified a major news: the head of the group, Yang Yu, the legendary Internet giant, in order to express his importance to this new department, will step on a cloud from the sky and come to the world to give a demonstration for their department. Motivation speech.

When the news spread, the Fu Qian Shuang building exploded and boiled, and Yu Cheng was also very excited.He joined Twelve Angry Men for more than two years, and the most curious person was Yang Yu.

I used to be a BD, and I met many people in the superstructure for business reasons, but I didn't meet Yang Yu.Yang Yu does not work in any of the subsidiaries of Twelve Angry Men. His main responsibilities are to be a trapeze artist, to visit the world to open his eyes, to attract shareholders to make new investments, and to give passionate and inspirational speeches on TV.Binjiang allocated him a luxurious office of [-] square meters, and he hardly ever went there.Yu Cheng can only watch him on the screen, or on big days such as the company's anniversary, group wedding, etc., over the heads of thousands of people, at least ten meters away.There is no opportunity to communicate, and there is no difference between seeing and seeing.

But he still remembered the photo of the angry men on Mount Tai that he had seen during the Bainu training. He wanted to observe closely. After 11 years, did Yang Yu's eyes still maintain the light of a dreamer that he had in the early days of his business.

That is what Yu Cheng longs for, beyond the suffering of the world, the lighthouse on the other side of dreams.

On the day of the meeting, everyone in the whole department looked like a new daughter-in-law meeting her in-laws, dressed up brightly, and spoke in an octave higher voice.For the meeting at two o'clock, the training room was full of people at one o'clock.The crowd formed a three-tiered circle, and there were many strangers standing outside the circle, who were said to be the bosses of various departments of the Fuqian Shuang subsidiary.

Sa Yinghua, whom I hadn't seen for a long time, also came. He changed his usual successful man's attire in a shirt and suit, wearing a bright sweater on his upper body and a pair of loose jeans on his lower body.

Yu Cheng sat in the crowd, listening to the confusion of those around him about the sudden change in the big boss's dressing style.When Yang Yu himself appeared accompanied by four tall and handsome security assistants, everyone understood.

Yang Yu is also wearing a bright sweater with a pair of baggy dark jeans.

It seems that people in the workplace use all available sensory tools to show that they are on the same side as their boss, from the grassroots to the top.

Thinking along this line, what should the board of directors look like?In the movie, when Wall Street's financial leaders slapped tables and quarreled, tearing each other to death, all of them dressed up as gentlemen in suits and leather shoes; would the leaders of the twelve angry men wear bright sweaters and dress like rainbows? , surrounding Yang Yu in harmony?

Yu Cheng snickered, and before he could think about it, the meeting officially began.

Sa Yinghua first started a humorous scene with a smile on his face, and Yang Yu was invited to the middle of the circle to speak under the silent admiration of everyone.Yu Cheng sat in front of him, recording key words on paper with a pen.

Yang Yu first talked about his original intention of establishing this team by name, and said: "We Twelve Angry Men have developed to this day and have become the world's leading e-commerce giant. But no matter what the crocodile is, the Chinese pay attention to 'drinking water and thinking about the source'. Our achievements today are The credit of all merchants on the platform. Therefore, if we want to continue to prosper, we must first let the merchants on the platform make enough money. How to make enough money? It depends on you, using your professional level and understanding of Internet consumer groups in the future, Take them to the e-commerce highway. Take it steadily and run fast, and the image of our platform will be solid in the hearts of buyers."

Everyone wrote vigorously and applauded enthusiastically.Xiaogangpao was by Yu Cheng's side, scribbling and memorizing to death, for fear of missing a word.Yu Cheng looked at her full of ink in a daze, thought for a while, then turned around and wrote in his notebook: "Make money".

Yang Yu said: "As for how to bring the business, don't ask me, I don't know. I want to be clear, why are you still looking for Sam and you guys? But, as long as you can bring the business well, money, right? , Your salaries, phone bills, business travel subsidies, year-end bonuses, are all easy to talk about!"

Say Yinghua took the lead in laughing and applauding.

Everyone around him grinned, but Yu Cheng lowered his head and wrote a new line in his notebook: "Send money".

Yang Yu said: "I am here today, and I will talk about one direction. As the leader of the Internet platform, we have made great achievements in both B2B and C2C (personal transactions). At the same time, the banner of Internet sales channels is It is better than the business model of traditional offline enterprises. It does not require middlemen, stores, counters, and shopping malls, so as to reduce the cost of goods and return the saved money to consumers. But it is not so complicated in consumers’ minds. They just Know one thing - 'cheap'. Buying things online is usually cheaper, and it is even cheaper on special days. It is not enough to be cheap in a single store, but it needs to be cheap on the entire platform to make sales blind the eyes of traditional companies. In the first two years , we set up a subsidiary company that is different from the B2B and C2C models, called 'Feitian', to make up for our gap in the field of B2C (business-to-personal transactions). Feitianfei has been working for a while, trying to play with other B2C platforms. Twice 'Double Eleven'. The outside world said that it flew well, but it was far from what I expected. So next, I hope you all, give full play to your subjective initiative, so that Feitian can really fly Soar to the sky and create a new legend."

The people around him wrote another big article, but Yu Cheng wrote two more words: "Save money".

Yang Yu has a tight schedule, so this single-spray meeting was only arranged for 10 minutes.

His speech style is still the same. With his sparkling eyes and excited voice, he establishes the value of work for people and arouses the enthusiasm of everyone present.After Yang Yu left, Yu Cheng recalled this close-distance meeting with great men who still could not be called communication, combined with the three lonely words in his notebook, he figured out the development direction that Yang Yu pointed out for the Super V department: pick a day, Choose merchants and get crazy discounts.

He was speechless after writing it.

What about the Dreamer and the Lighthouse?It feels like I met a God of Wealth, who sprinkled a lot of Mao Zedong from the sky.People happily flocked to pick it up, and found that it was actually their own money after picking it up for a long time.

In this way, Yu Cheng once again recalled what Gu Tianjiao said: "...it is the money machine that is running."

Gu Tianjiao's words are too worthy of scrutiny!

After get off work, Yu Cheng ran to Gu Tianjiao's car, closed the car door and smoked three cigarettes to pay respects to him: "Awesome, awesome, really awesome!"

Gu Tianjiao couldn't laugh or cry: "Did you take the wrong medicine?"

On the way home, Yu Cheng poured out Yang Yu's words and all the fallacies he had figured out to Gu Tianjiao.Gu Tianjiao listened happily: "You can also see clearly. Employees look at the boss, the boss looks at the shareholders, and the shareholders look at the profit. No matter how high-end the packaging is, it boils down to the word 'money'. People with a small layout, look at it." One-acre three-point land grows money; a person with a big social network leads a group of people to make money online. If the money is earned more than the ability to spend, it starts to consider earning a reputation and a sense of accomplishment within the scope of the entire society-this is called 'Self-actualization'."

Yu Cheng: "But I still can't figure it out. Yang Yu talks about social responsibility every day. He also talks about Buddhism and Taoism. After a long time, he is still a down-to-earth person?"

Gu Tianjiao smiled: "No one knows what he thinks except himself. But judging from the company's behavior that has evolved from his thoughts, that's all. If he has truly become a Buddha, we will still be with other people. What kind of battle does the platform fight, and where does it circle? The group plans to "accept when you see a good deal" this year, which means to buy in when you see a good business. Isn't this to realize the ambition of "all the money in the world flows in my house"? The ambition is equivalent to For ambition, what is ambition? Great desire. However, Yang Yu’s desire can’t be compared with that of ordinary people. He shows his face everywhere, I guess, his “self-realization” is to “go down in history”. Wait what In one year's textbooks, from contemporary history to introduction to e-commerce, if his name cannot be avoided, he will be."

Yu Cheng thought for a long time: "...deep and disillusioned!"

Gu Tianjiao: "If you understand his thoughts, you will know the development direction of the group at this stage, and then introduce the KPIs of your department. Haven't you been calling to be a 'highly paid executive'? David's annual salary was 6000 million , when are you going to max out, do you have a strategy?"

Yu Cheng nodded: "Yes."

Gu Tianjiao: "Yes, please share!"

Yu Cheng: "Take the merchant to play first to get a discount."

Gu Tianjiao laughed heartily: "Being able to look up at the sky, but also keep your feet on the ground, is promising!"

After parking the car in the community, Gu Tianjiao took out a cashmere scarf and wrapped it around Yu Cheng's neck as if by magic.Yu Cheng was taken aback for a moment, Gu Tianjiao placed a kiss on his forehead: "Don't worry about it anymore, we both forgot about your birthday a few days ago."

Yu Cheng felt warm all over his body: "It's true, I worry about work every day, and I don't care about life and death!"

Gu Tianjiao asked with a smile, "Did the wish you didn't mention last year come true?"

Yu Cheng nodded with a smile, raised a finger, and pointed at Gu Tianjiao.

Gu Tianjiao smiled: "There are no candles this year, so please make a promise to this scarf!"

Yu Chengshen picked up a piece, closed his eyes and muttered for a long time, and voluntarily said two things: "After the training is over, I will be promoted to P7! Elephant will succeed in starting a business this year!"

Gu Tianjiao smiled tenderly: "Go up, I will serve you well tonight!"

Yu Cheng's face was hot, and he shouted in his heart: "Wow! Wow! Clap! Hahaha!" He jumped out of the car happily.

Wishes are wishes because they show no sign of fulfillment in the short term.

At the end of January, Gu Tianjiao looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally hoped for a chance to take Tingting home for the weekend.Yu Cheng was so happy to see that yellow-haired girl again, hugging his head and rubbing his face in various ways.

Tingting's mother wanted to have an outbreak, but their agreement did not include "no close contact with the child".So she didn't say anything, and watched the three of them hid in Gu Tianjiao's car and drove away at high speed.

During the short weekend, Yu Cheng and Gu Tianjiao circled around Tingting during the day.On Saturday night, he told her a story on the bedside, and when he saw the little girl fell asleep, he really wanted to shake her awake and continue telling.Even Gu Tianjiao couldn't stand this overwhelming enthusiasm, so he gently entered the room and dragged him away.

That night, Yu Cheng fulfilled his promise and went back to live in his home.Early on Sunday morning, when Gu Tianjiao got a phone call, he rushed out.Like the father and daughter wrestling their fingers, they were half excited and half sad to enjoy the rest of the reunion time.

At six o'clock in the evening, under the urging of Tingting's mother on the phone, Yu Cheng watched Gu Tianjiao drive the little girl away, feeling uncomfortable.

Fortunately, when it comes to working days, most of the time for the two of them is filled, and there is not much leisure to be sad.

In February, there was one week before the Spring Festival. After laying off nine people, the head teacher announced the new news: everyone's immediate superiors will arrive at their posts one after another in the last week.

Before Yu Cheng entered this department, the boss who interviewed him was actually a senior manager under Sa Yinghua.The leader with the grassroots will go down to another level, and all of them will be hired outside.

Before Gu Tianjiao asked Yu Cheng to think about the "soft skills" of going up, Yu Cheng's answer "be polite, talk less and do more; people don't offend me, I won't offend others" was regarded as a big joke.He couldn't think of a new trick, so he turned them all over and became: "Vicious and mean, do less and talk more; if people don't attack me, I will attack them first."

Um?Isn't that a bitch?

Yu Cheng shook his head and put the matter aside.He planned to wait until the boss he really had to face appeared before thinking of countermeasures.

Two days before New Year's Eve, there was no class in the afternoon, and the class teacher asked everyone to "study by themselves".While researching a lot of terms in front of the computer, Yu Cheng's screen was shaken by a familiar account, which was "Coco".

The other party didn't introduce himself, and asked, "Xiao Cheng, let me ask you, what do you do in the Super V department?"

Yu Cheng was puzzled, typed "Who are you?", deleted it, and replied: "The general direction of the department is to make the platform merchants have more fun. The specific business content, the leaders are still thinking about it!"

Coco: "Do you think it's reliable?"

Yu Cheng: "Look at what you said, Mr. Yang's wish, how can it be unreliable!"

He still couldn't remember who this person was. When he checked the intranet, the other party said: "Haha, that's true! It's mainly my husband. This year, he started a business and closed his business. If he returns to hire Twelve Angry Men, he will go to your department!"

At the same time, the intranet search results came out: PR specialist of the marketing department of the B2B international station.

Yu Cheng frowned, yes, Coco!Isn't it the person who Rao Haizhen showed him the red line when she showed affection to him in the early stage!

is she married

Husband... He hurriedly asked: "Really! We are so destined! What is your husband's name?"

Coco sent a big laugh: "You really want to laugh me to death! It's called 'Lu Xiang', and I'm here today."

Yu Cheng continued to search, but unfortunately the name was not on the intranet yet.Just when he was feeling very uneasy, Shi Shiran, the head teacher, floated to the side of their group's work station and shouted: "Group [-] students come and gather!"

Behind the class teacher was a fat man, about 35 years old, with double chins, big eyes, and a good temperament.Yu Cheng dragged along behind everyone and surrounded them, lowered his head to listen to the class teacher's introduction: "This is your future boss, Lu Xiang, everyone welcome!"

Yu Cheng: "..."

Everyone smiled kindly and applauded foolishly.Yu Cheng laughed and drummed, but he was embarrassed to death.The world is really small sometimes.

The head teacher withdrew the applause after calling, and a clear male voice continued her self-introduction.

Lu Xiang's words are also entangled in Chinese and English, but he is active in thinking, friendly and expressive.If Yu Cheng hadn't known in advance that he was Coco's husband, maybe his aura would have already caught on at this moment.

After Lu Xiang finished the opening, he led sixteen people to the leisure area to sit around him and let them introduce themselves one by one.

When it was Yu Cheng's turn, he raised his eyes and saw Lu Xiang giving him a "acquaintance" look.

Lu Xiang: "Yu Cheng, I've heard my wife tell you about you a long time ago. You are more handsome than the photos on the intranet!"

The people around laughed together, and showed him the look of exploring the relationship between the two.

Yu Cheng broke into a cold sweat: "I just heard from my sister-in-law that Brother Xiang is coming, and there is nothing on the intranet. However, it is even better to see Brother Xiang in person. Brother and sister-in-law are a match made in heaven!"

Lu Xiang "lie down" and laughed.The gang didn't understand what was going on, so they laughed.

Yu Cheng was in a cold sweat. He was not sure whether the relationship between Coco and Rao Haizhen was a real sister or a casual sister.If it is a real sister, then in Lu Xiang's eyes, he should not be a good thing.

The self-introductions of the sixteen people were long and short, and some of them who came to things pulled Lu Xiang to ask questions frantically to show that they had full interest and desire to understand this boss.After completing a round, one hour passed before everyone returned to their workstations.

Immediately afterwards, Lu Xiang went to a small conference room to talk behind closed doors.

After Yu Cheng was passed in, Lu Xiang first asked him about his work experience, career planning, and what he was good at.After the chat, Lu Xiang laughed and said, "I never thought there would be such a fate. My wife said you chased her before?"

Yu Cheng was embarrassed, held back the word "ah", and said, "Brother Xiang, I misunderstood!"

Lu Xiang: "Oh?"

Yu Cheng: "...Sister-in-law Bingxue is smart...she is warm and kind. If I, I dare to chase her, then why would I want to eat swan meat?"

Lu Xiang laughed loudly: "Damn! Do you want to be so vain? If you chase after me, I will chase after you, and I won't do anything to you! Doesn't that prove that we appreciate the horizontal line?"

Yu Cheng raised his head, Lu Xiang's expression didn't look fake, so he could only laugh along.

Lu Xiang: "We have a friendship! I used to be an international station, and I was mainly a PD (product manager) at that time. I went out to start a business last year, and I just came back. I still don't know anything. What are the general attributes of our team? Let me tell you."

Yu Cheng was helpless.Regardless of whether Coco hacked him or not, he couldn't answer Lu Xiang's question completely.He pondered for a while, and had no choice but to play a conservative card, picking out the advantages of others that he knew.

While listening, Lu Xiang took a pen to write in his notebook.After he finished speaking, Lu Xiang looked at his notes and nodded, then took out a piece of paper from the folder of the notebook.

Lu Xiang: "In the past two months, you have done seven homework reports and four exams. You are P4, and your performance score exceeds many P6s. I also chatted with other students just now, and they have a high degree of recognition for you. "

Yu Cheng said where and where, Lu Xiang changed the subject: "But our group has [-] people, the most among the four teams. The head teacher said that before the end of the year, our group will eliminate another one from the bottom of the previous rankings. I just finished today. Come on, it's Chinese New Year again, it's not good to kick people when you come up. Can you help me?"

Yu Cheng: "Huh?...The last one, who is it?"

Lu Xiang: "Your team leader."

Yu Cheng: "..."

Lu Xiang: "Actually, there are three people at the bottom, so the class teacher can't make up his mind. I just talked to everyone separately, and your team leader's performance is the worst. A few common sense of business that I know as an outsider, he said bluntly I don't know, and I keep answering irrelevant questions, so I decided to be him."

Yu Cheng was speechless.The last time he had a fight with the team leader about work efficiency, Gu Tianjiao said, "Congratulations on making a new friend." He didn't believe it at the time.Unexpectedly, after that, the team leader really liked to chat with him.Now...he really wanted to make a phone call to Gu Tianjiao, begging him for an idea!

Lu Xiang looked at him eagerly, Yu Cheng calmed down a bit, and smiled: "This is really inexperienced."

Lu Xiang closed the notebook: "It doesn't matter, you go back and think about it. Call back tomorrow morning, if it doesn't work, I'll find someone else."

Yu Cheng: "...OK."

Yu Cheng got up and went back to his workstation, opened the Shuahua friend list, stared at the name of the team leader, scratching his head and not knowing where to mention it.

Suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder, Yu Cheng turned his head: "Team leader?"

The team leader smiled and said, "What are you in a daze for? Come on, I'll smoke a cigarette with you!"

Yu Cheng suspiciously followed to the smoking area. The team leader was not a smoker, but asked him for one. The two of them looked at the bleak winter scenery outside the window together, and said something.

After one cigarette, the team leader said, "Xiao Cheng, I don't want to do it anymore."

Yu Cheng: "Ah...why?"

Team leader: "In this department, the training alone is like this. Those who abandon their wives and children are exhausted. The head teacher has been preaching every day for the past two months, and my self-confidence has been blown into a negative number. I am in my thirties. Not happy to be scolded every day."

Yu Cheng: "Really..."

Team leader: "Besides, my grades were not very good in several exams. I guess I should have been rejected in the round when I came back at the end of February." He smiled, "Being dismissed at the beginning of the year is a bad omen. Go by yourself and save yourself some face."

Five minutes later, the two returned to their work stations from the smoking area. Yu Cheng sent a message to Lu Xiang: "Brother Xiang, the work of the team leader is settled. He will send a letter of resignation tomorrow."

Lu Xiang sent a series of angry expressions, Yu Cheng stared at the computer screen, heaved a sigh of relief, feeling uncomfortable.

When seeing Gu Tianjiao after get off work, Yu Cheng felt like seeing a savior.On the way home, I finished talking to him about several people: "Fortunately, I was lucky! I escaped this kind of bloody disaster, otherwise if I really kicked the team leader, I will still be able to hang out in the same batch after it gets out! Brother , You said, Lu Xiang did this when he came here, is it aimed at me?"

Gu Tianjiao: "Do you have a hunch that he is targeting you?"

Yu Cheng: "I don't understand! He has a reason, but the people in this company, no matter how wicked things they do, don't they all have a reason?"

Gu Tianjiao thought deeply: "Since he opened his mouth about this matter, no matter who receives it, he can only bite the bullet. But suppose he really targets you, and if you want to be promoted in the future, is there any way to turn it around?"

Yu Cheng: "Then we can only wait to die!"

Gu Tianjiao smiled: "Don't get discouraged so quickly. Just imagine how to keep your progress from being delayed when the immediate boss is not supportive or even hinders you. Okay?"

Yu Cheng: "..."

That night, Yu Cheng didn't fall asleep most of the night, afraid of alarming Gu Tianjiao, he insisted on not moving.Early the next morning, Gu Tianjiao softly called him to get up, Yu Cheng frowned and opened his eyes, seeing the dark sky outside the window and it was raining again.

Gu Tianjiao straightened his coat and took him out, and asked with a smile, "Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and I'm going home, are you happy?"

Yu Cheng regained his senses from outside the sky: "Brother, you confused me."

Gu Tianjiao: "Huh?"

Yu Cheng haggardly smiled, Gu Tianjiao observed his words and said, "Did you not sleep well last night?"

Yu Cheng: "Brother, besides seeing friends, do you visit relatives during the Chinese New Year?"

Gu Tianjiao: "The main reason is to go to my parents' house for a New Year's Eve dinner, why?"

Yu Chengxiao: "I'm not going back this year, how about staying here with you?"

Gu Tianjiao: "Then your family..."

Yu Cheng: "Don't worry about them, this kind of people don't even make a phone call that they care about, and they hope to get more money during the Chinese New Year... Whoever has an opinion, I will break up with them."