Confessions of a Salesman

Chapter 747 Chips in the future

At ten o'clock sharp, Mr. Gao finally came to the office on time, and I heard him say to the front desk outside the door: "Bring me a cup of coffee!"

I looked at the coffee machine on the bar and thought to myself, is this coffee machine a decoration?Where do I go to make him coffee! ?
After entering the office, I saw the three of us sitting on the sofa. I guess I didn't see who we were, so I asked the front desk loudly: "Who told you to let people into my office? Didn't I tell you countless times?" Well, I can't come in and out of my office casually, here are all the company's confidential documents, what should I do if they are leaked?"

Then I pushed my gold-rimmed glasses. From my point of view, maybe I didn’t recognize me. I was just about to get angry, but I saw the old lady Huang with a face of class struggle, so she changed it into a smiling face, politely Said: "Mr. Huang, why are you here? What do you need from me?"

The old Mrs. Huang's gloomy face could drip water and said: "Mr. Gao, I have been sitting for an hour. What are your working hours? The workshop at the headquarters is at 8 o'clock, and the administrative staff is at 8:[-]. I I don’t know what time does our R&D center go to work?”

When Mr. Gao heard this, he was unhappy, and he argued loudly: "Mr. Huang, can our R&D center be the same? How can there be a certain time for scientific research? When encountering a subject, you may not sleep well for several days and nights. If you work overtime, With such rigid regulations on our working hours, this work cannot be carried out at all!"

The old Mrs. Huang looked at Mr. Gao and asked, "Then you worked late yesterday?"

Mr. Gao didn't answer her question directly, but asked instead: "Are you interrogating me? We are at the same level, and we are both department heads. It seems that it is not your turn to question my working hours, right? When it's time for us to At this level, which one of the working hours is not arranged by myself!"

I didn't say anything, I wanted to see if the old Mrs. Huang could handle it. The old Mrs. Huang said unhurriedly: "I asked you about the working hours, which is my scope of work, and this is my job function. Even Mrs. Chen President, the former President He always reported their working hours to me so that I can arrange other people’s work reports. Is there anything special about you? I just want to ask you, how many hours do you work in a day? How should I pay you the basic salary?"

This Mr. Gao, who combed his shiny back hair, was wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses. No matter how he looked, he didn't look like a scientific researcher. He looked at the old Mrs. Huang unconvinced, and was about to refute it when he looked carefully. After looking at me, he came to his senses, hurriedly walked up to me and said, "Mr. Chen, you see you are here, why don't you talk to me!?"

I said angrily: "What are you talking about? Do you want you to come to work earlier?"

Mr. Gao hurriedly explained: "You misunderstood! I worked overtime too late last night, and I have something to do this morning!"

I groaned and said: "Let's not talk about this for now, bring your latest research and development progress, and hold a meeting with some heads of your department to report on the research and development situation."

Mr. Gao nodded hurriedly and said, "Okay, okay, I'll call a meeting right away." Then he turned his head and asked, "Do you want to ask Mr. Lu to come with you?"

I nodded and said, "I'll call her."

The meeting room of the R&D department was full of people, all whispering to each other, as if they had a premonition that a storm was coming.People who are familiar with me know my style. If I invite people to talk alone, it is often not a big deal, but once everyone participates, it will be a big deal.

The old Mrs. Huang pushed the door open first, Mr. Gao followed behind, and I, Lu Ping and Wang He were at the back.

The meeting room fell silent in an instant. I found a random seat and sat down. Mr. Gao was going to sit next to me. Seeing that Lu Ping was sitting on my left, he planned to sit on my right. Wang Hetong was very blind and sat down On my right side, Mr. Gao was very embarrassed, so he had to adjust his sitting posture, stood up straight, walked to the side of old Mrs. Huang, and sat down unwillingly.

Mr. Gao coughed dryly at first, and then said to the already silent crowd: "Everyone be quiet, now we have a meeting. This time, Mr. Chen came here mainly to hear about everyone's recent work situation. Let's all make a work summary. .”

Then I looked at me, and I nodded, indicating that I can start.

Mr. Gao pointed to a tall, thin middle-aged man and said, "Mr. Hu, please tell us about the situation in your department first!"

Mr. Hu stood up tremblingly, and said in a low voice: "I'm not prepared here either! Our department is developing power converters and voice control systems..." Then he was silent for a while, obviously not knowing what to say.

Mr. Gao reprimanded displeasedly: "Is it that difficult to ask you to report a job? You think about it first, and you can talk about it later!"

Then I ordered a few more people in a row, and the reports were almost the same. There was one who blushed and couldn't say a word for a long time. From his expression, it could be seen that he was really nervous.

Mr. Gao looked at it disappointedly and wanted to explain.

I shook my head and asked, "Who can tell me how far the chip research has gone? How long will it take for me to see the test product and when can I try it out?"

No one answered below.

I looked at Mr. Gao again and asked, "Is there anything wrong with the question I asked? Is it difficult to answer?"

Gao Zuo said in a loud voice: "Because this is an extremely complicated chip, it needs the cooperation of many parties to complete, and the specific time when the chip will be developed can only be known based on the research and development progress of different departments."

I asked curiously: "Then gather it up for me! When will the parts be formed, just add up the time for me, or it will be fine! Is there no one, can they be summarized in a unified way? Just do it yourself. What if things can’t be assembled?”

Mr. Gao still wanted to answer, so I waved my hand and said to Wang Hetong: "Now go and count the progress of their various departments, and give me the exact time!"

Wang Hetong nodded confidently, looked at the document in his hand and said: "The leader of the program control department, come to me first, and the people I will call in a while, come to me to report one by one, I will ask you to answer it. .”

Mr. Gao seemed a little displeased, and said to me: "Mr. Chen, isn't this very good? How about I do it?"

I glanced at him and said, "If you could come, you should have done so long ago! You and I, Mr. Lu, Mr. Huang, and your two deputies are all going to the office. I have something to say!"

Mr. Gao’s two assistants, one of whom I know well is Gou Wenhua’s assistant, a single woman in her 30s with a high degree of education. Relatively low-key, was transferred up this time, and went abroad for training.

I'm not familiar with the other one. It should be transferred by Mr. Gao himself, and he also went abroad for training. She is also a woman in her 30s, with an ordinary appearance, but she always feels charming.

I scanned around the people present, and said to Lu Ping: "Lu Ping, you should introduce me. After the establishment of the new R&D center this time, I have never been here once. I am not familiar with many people. what!"

Lu Ping hummed, pointed at Mr. Gao and said, "This is Gao Jin, the person in charge of our R&D center, next to him is Liu Lili who is in charge of purchasing, and on the right is Zhu Lisa who is in charge of information collection."

I hummed, and asked Zhu Lisa: "Lisa, when Mr. Gou left, why didn't you go with him? Mr. Gou still thinks highly of you, and now he often mentions you!"

Zhu Lisa lowered her head and replied: "Mr. Chen, I still like Wanzhong more. After so many years, I have developed feelings. Besides, I don't have any ambition or fighting spirit. I'm just a scientific researcher, which is good!"

I frowned and said, "Then what you're doing now isn't scientific research? You can find anyone to do information collection. You're a bit overqualified!"

Zhu Lisa seemed to be in distress, but she still said flatly: "You can't underestimate this information collection. Information collection data is always a huge project..."

After that, he explained a lot to me, and I nodded and said, "Okay, okay, don't teach me any more!"

Then he asked another Liu Lili: "Are you in charge of purchasing? Do you have a recent purchase list?"

Liu Lili looked at Gao Jin hesitantly, Gao Jin gave her a hasty look, and then Liu Lili replied: "Yes, I'll bring it to you." After speaking, she walked out.

The two assistants finished speaking, Gao Jin was waiting for me to ask questions, but I didn't ask anything, just waiting here for Liu Lili's purchase list.

Gao Jin said with a little embarrassment: "Mr. Chen, I'm in charge of the overall planning. According to the research and development progress I have mastered, it won't take too much time. We can develop the chip!"

I asked with a groan, "It doesn't take much time, how much time? Be specific!"

Gao Jin made a sound, and said hesitantly: "It will take about a year and a half!"

I curled my lips and said, "It takes one and a half years to produce a product, plus your operation, to the real finished product, which is applied to home appliances. Don't I have to wait two years? What will the home appliance market look like two years from now? Who can know?"

Gao Jin patiently explained: "Mr. Chen, you also know that developing new products will definitely take time, and it cannot be accomplished overnight. If you make a mistake, the entire chip will be destroyed, and the research results of hundreds of people will be destroyed! You must not act too hastily, the time given to me by President Lu is also two years!"

I snorted and said, "The time given to you in two years is that I want the entire control system, not a single chip! Waiting for you for two years, what's the use of your chip if I want it?"

Gao Jin wanted to explain, so I pointed at him and said, "Sit quietly and keep your mouth shut when you're not allowed to speak! You're just making excuses for me by spending such money. ?”

Gao Jin's face turned red and white.

Liu Lili's shopping list was finally brought over, and the paper was still hot in my hand, it was just printed out.

I took it over and looked at it, pointed to another item and asked, "What kind of light-emitting diode is this? It costs 8 dollars a piece! How about buying 40?"

Liu Lili wiped the sweat from her forehead and explained: "This is a light-emitting diode imported from the United States, which is used to upgrade the voice control system. It is difficult to buy in China, and it is often burned out, so I bought a few more indivual."

I asked curiously: "Since it is so easy to burn out, why do you still buy it? Can't you replace it with a domestic one? What am I asking for? Didn't you listen?"

Lu Ping added from the side: "Mr. Chen said that all accessories must be produced by ourselves, and all domestically produced! This is so that we don't have to be choked by others in mass production in the future! I have also emphasized it again and again! "

Liu Lili hurriedly explained: "There is no way to do this. There is no such technology in China at present, so we can't delay the entire research and development process because of a diode, right?"

I looked at the purchase list again, threw it on the table angrily, and said, "These are usually imported originals. I won't talk about the price, but what is the original intention of our research and development? Have you all forgotten? We developed it in this way." The products are still imported, so I don’t need you at all, I might as well just go abroad to import chips and use them when I come back! What are we spending time and energy doing now? Are you clear about it?”

Seeing that I was angry, Lu Ping persuaded: "Mr. Chen, you can't blame them all. Many domestic accessories do not meet our specification requirements. They also bought them and researched them before trying to find a substitute!"

I didn't stop Lu Ping from coming to the stage in public, but I didn't speak anymore.

After a while, Wang Hetong came in shaking his head. As soon as he came in, he said to me: "Except for the differential electromechanical and image contrast devices that can achieve the expected results, it will take at least one year for all other departments to achieve the expected requirements!"

Then, he said with an ugly face: "And I looked at the expected requirements! To put it bluntly, they are all rubbish! Such expected requirements cannot achieve the effect you want at all! Chips can be made, but the cost required It’s too big and the cost is too high, what they do is to disassemble the imported originals and assemble them into domestic originals, this is to deal with the business!”

After hearing this, I was furious and said, "What? Spend the company's money and come to deal with me!?"

Lu Ping didn't expect this to happen, so she hurriedly wanted to explain it to me. I waved it and said, "It has nothing to do with you, and you don't understand technology! I just want to see how our President Gao explained to me?"

Gao Jin also hurriedly said: "This is impossible. I designed it. If everything is designed according to my design, it is impossible for the situation he said to exist. He doesn't understand at all!"

Wang Hetong said plainly: "No one among you will understand better than me!" After finishing speaking, he took a pile of drawings in his hand and said, "Shall I explain them one by one?"

I suddenly said: "What are you explaining? How much can you understand? That's fine, you go out first, it's none of your business here!"

Wang Hetong was taken aback by my sudden change of attitude, and immediately fought back at me, but when he saw me glaring at him, he walked out of the conference room silently

(End of this chapter)