Natural beauty, inspirational nature

Chapter 35
If the shopping mall is like a battlefield, so is the workplace. Although the battle situation is not so tragic, all kinds of cliques and open and secret fights are commonplace for people in the workplace, and they are commonplace.

In the past ten years, except for being deceived by my boss in Shanghai, my career has been smooth and I have never encountered any particularly bad things. But after arriving in this new city, I really realized what is The workplace is full of twists and turns, and the situation is treacherous.

Entering the marketing department of MG Plastic Surgery Hospital, as the design supervisor, I am serious and responsible in my work. Young people can't afford to work overtime and stay up late, but I can bear it.

The plastic surgery hospital needs to attract customers, and pays special attention to design and publicity. The division of labor between designers is very fine. There are only 7 light designers in the hospital, 2 from the marketing department, 2 from the network department, 2 from the marketing department, and 1 from the hand-painted design.

My job title at the time was Head of Design in the marketing department.Although I am only in charge of one designer, in fact, I control the design and positioning of the whole hospital's Meichen, outdoor advertisements, and the theme advertisements of each issue of the Internet Department and Marketing Department.

To put it simply, I am the main project designer, who determines the main picture image and overall design style of each hospital advertisement.The other 6 designers are all guided by my design plan to carry out related design work.

I like this job very much, because I am particularly fond of beauty. I have been fond of painting all kinds of beauties, ancient, modern, court and folk since I was a child.

My mother still marvels at my amazing drawing talent when I was a child. No one taught me, but I can draw by myself, not only drawing faces, but also designing and matching different costumes for them according to different characters.

Therefore, I have a unique advantage in this work of creating and disseminating beauty.For each issue of advertisements on the street, the design drafts I drew outperformed the design proposals provided by the designers outside the hospital.

The boss is a successful woman who is not a few years older than me, an elite in the industry. She was born as an operator. MG is well-known in the beauty industry. There are 3 or 8 branches across the country. The Changzhou branch was newly established under her leadership.The hospital has been preparing for the opening for more than a year. The year I joined coincided with the official grand opening of the hospital on March [-].

So from the first day I joined, I plunged headlong into high-intensity design work, busy preparing materials for large and small events every day, especially the opening ceremony was the top priority of the design at that time .

My subordinate, Du Xiaoran, is a little girl born in the 90s. She leaves after get off work every day. She is not happy if you ask her to work overtime.

When we first entered the company, the manager of the marketing department introduced us, saying that she had only worked for two years after graduation, and she didn’t have much design experience. She also told me that I came from the same city as her hometown. Take her a lot.

Knowing that she and I are fellow villagers, I am naturally very happy. I think it must be a special fate to meet fellow villagers in other places, and I also regard her as a little sister from the bottom of my heart.

But such a little sister is sloppy in doing things, afraid of suffering, has no design experience, messes up the materials, and refuses to listen to reasonable advice and suggestions.And later on, I kept getting stuck in my work, which really gave me a headache.

She has to get off work on time every day, and she is not happy when she is asked to work overtime. After work, you can't talk to her about anything related to work.What she taboos the most is that people send her messages after get off work, but I didn't know it at first.Occasionally chatting about trivial matters in life after work is purely out of the kindness of getting closer to people and exchanging friendship with colleagues, but in her eyes, regardless of what you say, sending messages after get off work is "harassment", and posting work matters is even more serious Taboo.

You can't point it out to her if she doesn't do something well. If you kindly teach her, she will not only be ungrateful but also make a lot of nonsense. You can talk a lot of nonsense on WeChat.

She is unwilling to cooperate with work, and the more she sees that I am dizzy with work, the more she intentionally bombards me with text messages to disrupt my work.

In a word, it is to fight with you to the death, deliberately sing against you and raise arguments, and she will say something when you say something, the kind of non-violent non-cooperation.In desperation, I had no choice but to block him and stop talking to him. I said I didn't have time to quarrel with you, and I had to communicate with you on work matters.

The most excessive thing is that she is an old employee of the company who is half a year ahead of me and has already passed the probationary period, and I was still a newcomer who had not completed the probationary period for three months, so she deliberately played a scheming game to openly win Dingshang sent me a message saying: I have investigated, and they said, you are not my leader, I am not under your control.You can't pass the probation period.

I said: You are not a personnel, nor a boss, this is not your decision.

Her advertising design was not done well, the boss was not satisfied and asked for revisions, I asked him to make adjustments according to the boss's requirements, and told her how to make adjustments, but she refused to change it, and yelled at me in front of the audience He yelled and said: "But I just think it looks so good. If you insist on changing it like this, I can't change it! I can't change it! If you have the ability, you can change it yourself! Make me tell you about the message you sent me at night ?"

I was a little angry, and I yelled at her: "Tell me, I'm not afraid of you saying it, did I send you something shameful? It's all work-related information, I'm kind enough to teach you, you're a donkey, Don't make it seem like you have caught me. You are told to work overtime and you argue with me every time, why do you ask others to wipe your ass every time for your own business?"

She didn't listen to me at all. When I spoke, she raised her volume and continued to repeat what she had said before, but only raised the volume by another decibel, desperately suppressing the volume of my speech.

Because we share a big office with [-] people, there are three rows of computers in the lobby, and each row seats ten people. You have to stare at me like a joke. Fortunately, it was already off-duty time at that time, and basically everyone had left.

However, this scene was caught by the boss's secretary assistant Tingting, and Tingting ran over to scold her: "Stop arguing, I asked you to change this plan, why? Do you have an opinion? If you tell me to change it, you can change it, what are you doing?" So much talk? Every time overtime is done by Feifei alone. The opening is coming soon. She works so hard every day. There are so many people in your team. Why do you have to eat? Let her do it alone. Are you embarrassed? "

Tingting is talking about our department, but she is actually talking about her, because the whole department, as far as my work and her work, need to cooperate with each other.

After meeting a powerful master, this dead girl couldn't be fierce anymore. She opened her mouth, wanted to say something, and then held back.

After Tingting finished speaking, she came over and patted my shoulder. I immediately understood that the boss had learned about the situation in our department and sent heavenly soldiers and generals to help me subdue the "little demon".

Seeing the momentum, Tongtong, the planner at the side, hurried up to smooth things over, and made a show of flirting with Xiao Ran: "Okay, Xiao Ran, please stop talking, don't you see what's going on now?

Xiao Ran pouted and was still willful and stubborn: "What's the situation? I don't believe that the boss can still fire me?"

I know what she means is that she has passed the probationary period, and the boss can't easily kick her out.And now that the company is about to open, there are so many design jobs that I can't handle it alone, and it's impossible for the company to recruit another new designer immediately because of the quarrel between me.

Before, the boss also approached my direct supervisor, Ding Ning, and asked Manager Ding to act as a peacemaker, hoping to do a good job in Xiao Ran's ideological work and persuade her to actively cooperate with my work.

Xiao Ran and I are both recruited by Manager Ding from the marketing department. Manager Ding is a smooth person, but neither side can offend him. Xiaoran's work is arranged and coordinated by him, don't let me directly assign and manage Xiaoran's work.

But the boss doesn’t agree with Manager Ding’s opinion. She thinks that the design management work must still be controlled by me. All the design drafts completed by designers must be submitted to me for review and inspection, and other designers must obey my management unconditionally.

On this matter, the opinions of the two senior leaders once diverged.But I can feel that the boss's heart is clearly towards me.Manager Ding's attitude is unclear, it seems that he is more willing to play the role of peacemaker, and let him control the work of me and Xiao Ran.

The company has a high-end club next to the hospital. The people who come and go in the club are the daughters or proprietresses of famous celebrities and wealthy businessmen in the society. Every time a large-scale salon event is held, our design department needs to cooperate with the market to design a bunch of Advertising materials, ranging from membership cards, VIP cards, leaflets, brochures, to posters, and the main background of the event.

Once the club held a cheongsam salon, the company attached great importance to it and spared no expense to invite senior training lecturers and cheongsam models from the cheongsam association to participate in the event. The boss asked two planning specialists from the marketing department to be responsible for the copywriting of the event. Design materials.

The two planners thought about it for a long time, but they couldn't think of a brilliant copy title. The bosses were not satisfied with the theme plan they sent to the group, but the organizer and co-organizer of the event urgently needed us to finalize a theme plan for the event. Topics move the work at hand forward.

Leaders are very anxious.I also urgently need to plan and give me the theme copywriting as soon as possible, so I can prescribe the right medicine and design a poster screen that fits the theme content, but the copywriting skills of the planning are still a bit weak, and the themes provided are similar to "Big Cafe Cheongsam Show" and "Oriental Beauty Charm Cheongsam Salon" "Looking at the lifeless, dry and uninfectious words like this.

In the end, I had an idea, combined and edited everyone’s text, retouched and processed it, and typed a line of words on the screen——

Main title: Banner Encounter, subtitle: Freehand oriental beauty, enjoy the cheongsam show.

When the boss saw it, he immediately praised it, and replied in the group: This is wonderful, that's it.

Not only that, but she was so excited that she ran out of her office and praised me in front of everyone: Feifei, you are amazing, your copywriting skills are really good.Everyone will learn more from Sister Feifei in the future.

It is said that after Manager Ding interviewed me, he recommended me to the boss and told the boss that my salary requirement was 1W. The boss thought the salary requirement was a bit high, and none of their previous design supervisors had received such a high salary.Manager Ding told the boss that I am not only good at designing, but also planning, and I have strong writing skills.

Presumably the boss was dubious about this at the time, because in order to test my design ability, they first called me to the marketing department to operate the software to design posters on the spot to test my actual computer operation ability.This is not over yet. After I got home, they gave me another exam question, and gave me a "proposition composition", asking me to design a large-scale outdoor advertisement according to the theme.I designed two plans and presented them to Manager Ding. Only then did Manager Ding show his satisfaction and inform me to go to work in the company.

But they can only test my design ability by asking me to design works, but they can't test my copywriting planning ability, because as far as the job content of the post itself is concerned, the graphic design post does not include the additional content of planning.

Their test requirements for me have exceeded the requirements for ordinary interviewers. During the interview, I was repeatedly asked to draw a plan, and I did not show the slightest impatience.Ordinary job seekers have long been impatient and left. They think that my patience is surprisingly good, and that I can satisfy the boss's usual perfectionist tendency to keep improving the design works, and I am suitable for this position.

Only then did the company agree to my high salary request, but the boss had only heard about my copywriting planning ability before that time, and she had no idea. She saw it with her own eyes this time, and she believed that I really have two talents.

After I contributed ideas to the cheongsam show that time, the boss began to look at me with admiration and smiled every time he saw me.Every time an event is held, I will be called to the office to personally communicate with me about some work content in planning and design.

I am grateful for the trust of my boss.Although Xiao Ran continued to play tricks with me from time to time, trying to get rid of me before I passed the probationary period, but in the end he still failed.

Against her wishes, I managed to pass the probationary period.I think it is inevitable that there will be villains at work who will not unite and engage in deliberate confrontation. Fortunately, the boss is a fair and understanding person. He has to help me establish prestige both openly and secretly. I have enough confidence to stand on the same front with the boss, and work is also easy. It's even more exciting.

(End of this chapter)