Revival Road

Chapter 55 Questionnaire
Li Zhibin was late on Monday morning.The working time he set for himself was 07:30, but it was already 45:[-] when he came to the office today.Tao Tang has come and is looking at the documents.

No time to clean the office...damn it!He didn't even hear the set cell phone alarm.

Yesterday afternoon, Tao Tang arranged for him to collect the questionnaires from the trade union, and asked the General Manager Office to read them first and make classified statistics.After he reported to Director Zhang, Zhang Xingwu immediately convened a meeting to make arrangements and handed over the work to the secretary group.Each of the seven secretaries undertook part of the reading and summarizing tasks, and then everyone went their separate ways.

Li Zhibin knew that Mr. Tao attached great importance to this questionnaire which he had personally revised, and Mr. Tao had a very strong sense of time.So he decided to get it out as quickly as possible.He didn't remind others, but sent Chen Yan a text message asking her to work overtime.After get off work, he had a quick dinner and came to the office without returning to the dormitory. Twenty minutes later, familiar footsteps sounded in the silent corridor, and Chen Yan came obediently.

"Are you in such a hurry? I'm going on vacation soon." Chen Yan said to him standing at the door of his office.

"Mr. Tao has a strong sense of time. Since he said to get it done as soon as possible, he must want to see the result before the holiday. It's better for us to finish early. If we have a few meetings tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, how can we have time? Maybe you have to sacrifice your vacation." Li Zhibin stood up and replied.

"I don't want to work overtime on holidays..." Chen Yan turned and went to her office.

Li Zhibin knows that this May Day is special.Meng Fan had already organized an outing, Chen Yan would go, so would he, and he decided to use this outing to accomplish that.

After reading more than a dozen questionnaires, he had a rough idea in mind, and began to design forms on the computer, and deliberated and revised the categories he set.This work took him 10 minutes, and then he read a dozen papers from another unit.After fine-tuning his classification form, he printed a blank form on the printer and took it to Chen Yan's office.

"For your reference." He put the form in front of Chen Yan who was buried in reading.

"Oh, it's pretty good. As expected of the No. [-] secretary, the level is high." Chen Yan admitted that the classification and statistics table Li Zhibin made is very scientific and basically covers all kinds of questions raised by the employees.

"You read a copy, just draw orthographic characters on it, and after reading it, the statistics will come out."

"Do you really want to read them all?" Chen Yan looked at the pile of papers in front of her with a bitter face.

"Tao is always a very serious person...By the way, you are only assigned to four units, right? I will print three more blank forms for you, and one for each unit. I noticed that the report of the unit is not 100%, you Is there the number of people registered in each unit here?"

"But I have a retirement center. This must be Zhang Xingwu's punishment for me." Chen Yan said with a bitter face. "Why do you want the number of people on the register?"

"The recovery rate of the questionnaire should be indicated in the remarks. In addition, similar statistics should be made for various questions."

"You are really detailed enough. You should go to the Ministry of Public Security to get comprehensive statistics. Oh, after finishing all this, are you still going to sleep?"

"I think I'll hand it over to Mr. Tao tomorrow morning. Work hard. It won't hurt."

"Director Li, Leader Li, if you don't make progress, it will be unreasonable..."

Li Zhibin ignored Chen Yan's teasing and went back to work. Half an hour later, he came back and gave Chen Yan a box of mints, "Refreshing."

Chen Yan glanced at Li Zhibin, unscrewed it and popped out a piece, and threw it into his mouth.

The two finished the work almost at the same time. Chen Yan sent over the completed form, and Li Zhibin said to her: "Give me your stack of papers, and you go back first. I will handle the rest. Wait, I will Take you home. It's too late."

Without any explanation, Li Zhibin accompanied Chen Yan back to the dormitory.In fact, the office building is not far from the single building, and the straight-line distance is less than 200 meters, but it is already 01:30 in the morning...

Neither of them spoke on the way.Li Zhibin watched Chen Yan enter the bachelor building, then returned to the office to continue the rest of the work.He entered the two people's handwritten statistical forms into the computer, then double-checked them carefully, and corrected two statistical errors.Print out the summary sheet, and then tidy up the rolls.When he left the office, he looked at his watch, it was already three o'clock in the morning.

As a result, he overslept and woke up at [-]:[-]. He hurried to the office without even having breakfast.

"I'm sorry Mr. Tao, I'm late."

"Oh," Tao Tang looked up at the secretary, "Did you sleep well?"

"It was too late to collect the questionnaire last night..."

Sure enough, Tao Tang became interested. He closed the folder, "The statistics are out? Show me."

He handed over two statistical summaries totaling 11 units to Tao Tang, "Yesterday afternoon, Director Zhang assigned some of our secretaries a division of labor. This was just done by me and Secretary Chen." He said on the word "afternoon". Deliberately emphasized the tone.

"Where's the original?"

"I only have the two of us..."

"Hmm... well done." Tao Tang quickly finished reading the classification and summary, "The reporting rate is not high, why don't you ask the trade union?" Tao Tang knew that Chang Wenhai had assigned this job to the trade union.

“机关要高一些，我负责的7个单位平均数为77%。基层是62%小陈那部分分别是79%和63%……”

"That means 30% of the employees didn't fill out the questionnaire...why?" Tao Tang said to himself.

He didn't answer.

"It's been hard work. You did a good job. You pick out the papers from the research institute, technology, regulation, marketing, production, procurement, quality control, etc., and give me the other two branch factories...well, eleven points factory and the [-]th branch factory."

"understood."

He immediately asked for the unit papers that Tao Tang wanted from several other secretaries. He saw Chen Yan yawning and gave her a look that understood.

At about nine o'clock, Mr. Tao threw two folders to Li Zhibin and went to Secretary Zhao's office. Li Zhibin endured the constant sleepiness and began to process the materials that Tao Tang wrote and signed.One of the two folders contains documents and internal references, and the other is for instructions and reports.Unlike Song Yue, Tao Tang was always very quick in dealing with documents and requests for instructions, never delaying, and almost always returned them to him at this time every day. and related units.He needs to hand it over to the company leader, chief assistant, or deputy chief engineer in person, and for other units, he needs to call his subordinates to pick it up.

It took him an hour to do all this.Mr. Tao didn't come back, so he probably went down again.For some reason, Tao Tang never took him, let alone anyone else, to the workshop, and always rode Master Wang's old-fashioned bicycle alone.

Today is the 29th, and due to the exchange of two public holidays, we will face a five-day continuous holiday.Li Zhibin, who has worked in the general manager's office for more than two years, already feels the unique atmosphere of the approaching festival.It was a special feeling. If I could use one word to describe it, it would be "retracting", shrinking, not doing anything that should be done, and waiting for the festival to come.The force of habit is always extremely strong, and there are obviously fewer meetings in Building No. [-] today, and there are also a lot fewer vice presidents and middle-level officials who come to Mr. Tao for instructions and reports.

This "May [-]st" holiday has an unusual meaning for Li Zhibin.He has signed up for Meng Fan's "tour group" and will go on an outing with a dozen single college students.I didn't like this kind of activities at first, just like he generally doesn't participate in mahjong, bridge and various ball games for singles.Not only because of his quiet character, but also because of his unique position.

During this trip, he will choose the opportunity to make a clear and unmistakable confession to Chen Yan.According to his judgment, the probability of his success is more than [-]%.After he had a long and in-depth conversation with Chen Yan that did not involve personal feelings, his confidence exploded.

Mr. Tao unexpectedly came to the single building that day, played a wonderful round of badminton with Meng Fan, and went to the dormitory of Chen Yan and You Benling to talk a lot with the singles about the promotion work.That night, Li Zhibin went out for a walk as usual—this activity was ridiculed by the singles, who thought it was a sign of premature aging. When he came back, he saw Chen Yan sitting alone on the stone table beside the court in a daze, so he grabbed her. Seizing the opportunity, I had a long heart-to-heart talk with Chen Yan.

The topic started with Mr. Tao.Chen Yan said that Mr. Tao is much better than Song Yue.

He said, Chen Yan, I told you once that in our business, it is most taboo to evaluate leaders in private.

Chen Yan said, isn't this talking to you?You don't agree with me, but also everyone's point of view?Has Song Yue ever been to the Single House, and has she ever cared about the lives of the singles?You see, the bathroom is almost ready, and the reading room has new books, how wonderful.

He said, I am not saying Mr. Tao is not good.Mr. Tao must be a rare good leader.What I mean is that our main ability as a secretary is to adapt to various leaders, not to choose leaders.It is our blessing to meet good leaders, and we have to adapt to bad ones.

Chen Yan said, I understand why Zhang Xingwu chose you and Mr. Tao.You will improve soon, and you will have to cover me by then.

He said, why do you think I can be promoted?
Chen Yan said, because the director likes you.

He said, can the director be promoted if he likes it?Leaving aside, in the four years of Song Yue and the three years of Mr. Liang before Song Yue, seven secretaries have been promoted to the middle level in seven years, an average of one per year.Do you think it's the director's fault?
Chen Yan said, what you mean has nothing to do with the director?Was it mentioned by the company leaders?
He said that Ma Zhe said that things must grasp the principal contradiction.You have been working in the factory for two years, do you really not understand the company's cadre management system?There is only one person who plays a decisive role.

Chen Yan nodded, which is even more congratulatory.

He said, I'm not done yet.There are necessary and sufficient conditions in mathematics.Unless you have grasped the main contradiction, otherwise, the director, or the leader in charge, often fails to succeed in this kind of thing.

Chen Yan said, you are really vicious.But your words are right, learned.

He said, so you have to change your character.The first step is to make them not hate you.In our system, we don't punish hardworking or lazy people, but only those who don't have good eyesight.

Chen Yan said, I'm afraid I'm the one who doesn't have eyes.

He said, you are not.Even if the former directors didn't like your style, but now it's a brand new start, everything is in time.

Chen Yan asked, is there time?

He said, of course.You are smart and have a strong pen.Dare I say, chances are more for you.Don’t you get the first draft of the quarterly work summary that the general manager’s office gives to the boss every quarter and every year?Did you hear what Mr. Tao said that night?Why not write a manuscript for the factory newspaper?Mr. Song never read the factory newspaper, but Tao always read it, and he read it very carefully.Think about it, it is said that once the emperor and the courtiers, as much as Mr. Song mentioned, Mr. Tao will probably mention as much.When he first came, whoever made a good impression on him would have a chance.Maybe, I still need your care.

Chen Yan smiled, you can be my teacher now.Compared to you, my two years as a secretary are nothing.

He said that it was for nothing in the past, but it is not for nothing now.

He knew that Chen Yan had listened.Otherwise, Chen Yan wouldn't have listened to him and stayed up all night working overtime to collect those questionnaires.

He likes Chen Yan.I like her beauty, her straightforward personality, and her non-vain nature.After Chen Yan rejected that Mr. Mao, he knew his chance had come.

His and Chen Yan's personalities are completely different. In Chen Yan's words, he is too "listened".There is nothing wrong with this, isn't there countless such examples in life?Couples with complementary personalities live happily ever after.

Judgments are based on facts, and recently Chen Yan's sarcasm and sarcasm towards him have increased significantly.This is a good sign, it shows that Chen Yan cares about him.Just like the long conversation he had with Chen Yan outside the single building that night, it was absolutely impossible in the past.

He has pursued Chen Yan in his own way for a long time, even when Chen Yan was friends with others, he did not give up.He stubbornly believed that Chen Yan's love would not succeed, and it turned out to be the case.In his eyes, Chen Yan is a very special girl. She is not the type who loves vanity and pursues material things first, nor is she a woman who worships power. She is like an elf who advocates freedom, values ​​spirit over matter, and despises everything Rules, but I work in the most disciplined department.So she was always criticized, full of complaints, dissatisfied with the status quo.Among the three leaders of the General Manager's Office, Director Zhang was dissatisfied with her, and so was Secretary Zhu.Deputy Director Jia, who appreciates her, has other plans for her, which Li Zhibin can see.Fortunately, Chen Yan was very upright, and Jia Jianxin couldn't find any opportunities.

When sharing the same office with her, he once advised her, telling her what she should pay attention to and what she should not do in a tactful tone, but she always got ridiculed and sarcasm.He didn't care, and tried to make up for her possible mistakes as much as possible.He firmly believed that she felt everything he did.Sure enough, after she ended her last relationship, in a relatively leisurely afternoon, she talked with him a lot about her distress at work, and talked about the reasons for her rejection of the other party, and regarded him as a trustworthy friend.At that time Song Yue had just been taken away, he was on standby, and his office was back to Chen Yan's office, so he had the opportunity to have a deep talk with Chen Yan.He told her that jobs can be changed, but marriage cannot. That person is indeed not a good match for you, so your decision is right.

You are really born to be a secretary. I really wonder if you are hiding your age.However, talking with you is really a lot more comfortable.Chen Yan said to him.

He knew what she was worried about.He told her, you don't have to worry about Mr. Liu retaliating against you.They are too busy to take care of themselves, how can they have the energy to take care of you?Do not worry.However, you are really not suitable for the general manager's office. You should change posts, but don't worry.Because there is only one opportunity, you must wait for the leader to raise it before you throw out your request. In order for you to leave peacefully, [-]% of your request will be met.

As a result, Mr. Tao came without waiting for the leader to act.The matter was naturally dropped.

He knew about Chen Yan's family situation, but she didn't necessarily know about his.They are all ordinary citizens with no background.Otherwise, relying on Chen Yan's character, she would have resigned long ago.The reason why she didn't leave Hongxing, who was treated very generally, was not because she had an attempt to make progress, but because she was dragged down by her family.Her parents are divorced, she and her mother, her mother is not in good health, so she can't leave Hiraizumi, in Hiraizumi, except Red Star, there is no better state-owned enterprise.Her diploma and major limit her freedom. For example, Donghu, the treatment must be better than that of Hongxing, but she can't go.He knew that she secretly applied for Donghu Real Estate, but failed.

Getting married is an old idea, but it's also very practical.Couples with different family backgrounds are more likely to have conflicts.He didn't dislike Chen Yan's family, but thought it was better.Because his parents are also very ordinary, it is impossible to give him the material support he hopes for in his marriage.Chen Yan doesn't admire vanity, she is exactly the good match he has been looking for for a long time.He worked hard, trying to figure out the intention of the leader, in order to achieve his goals.The goal is simple, and that is to get into the middle of the company.Not for anything else, just for that expensive treatment, for the happiness of his future small family.

He firmly believes that love without a material basis cannot last.Spirit can never replace matter.

His career suffered one of its biggest failures.That was Song Yue's downfall, almost pushing him into the abyss.After Song Yue was double-regulated, he accepted two inquiries from the Provincial Anti-Corruption Bureau, which were of course aimed at Song Yue.His attitude is sincere, answering all questions, never concealing, but never making out of nothing, never making unfounded speculation.He has only been with Song Yue for less than four months, and has not gained Song Yue's true trust. Most of Song Yue's private affairs have not been involved, which has saved him. What he encountered was only a temporary "unemployment".Unexpectedly, he turned out to be Mr. Tao's secretary, which was entirely supported by Director Zhang.This further strengthened his outlook on life and proved that his previous working methods and attitudes were completely correct.

Hope is revived.But he found that Tao Tang was a completely different type of person from Song Yue, and it seemed even more difficult for Mr. Tao to trust him.Mr. Tao never talked to him about any topic other than work, and Mr. Tao has stricter requirements on work.He privately summed up Mr. Tao's work style with two points: First, the concept of time is very strong, often accurate to hours or smaller time units, and there is absolutely no vocabulary such as "a few days".Correspondingly, the subordinate must also make an account according to his timetable.The second is precision. For his report, the data, personnel, and content must be accurate.

That puts pressure on him, but also greater opportunities.

(End of this chapter)