I am a super cop

Chapter 1380 Dark Logic
Along the narrow stairs, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei climbed more than a dozen floors in one go, and finally arrived at the floor where the man was.

At this moment, the man was still standing at the corner of the window sill of the ancient pagoda, with his toes even protruding beyond the platform.

Lu Weiwei was out of breath, and also glanced at Gu Chen beside her.

Gu Chen made a silent sign language to signal everyone to keep quiet.

Then he cautiously approached the man.

The man's ears trembled slightly, and he seemed to have noticed the movement behind him, so he turned his head slightly and looked at the two from the corner of his eye.

Seeing this, Gu Chen quickly stopped in his tracks.

At this moment, the man was very clear about the purpose of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's coming, and he also smiled and said, "What are you two doing here? Are you afraid that I will jump off?"

"You... Now that you know, what are you still doing standing here? It's too dangerous, you... Come down quickly."

Seeing the man so unafraid of death, Lu Weiwei was also very anxious. She felt that if she did not operate properly or spoke too loudly, she might frighten the man.

If he stumbles and falls again, he probably won't be able to get rid of the pot.

Seeing that the man didn't intend to come down, Gu Chen persuaded him kindly: "Brother, I see that you have been standing on the top for a long time, and your toes have exceeded the window sill, if you are not careful, you may fall off. "

Seeing that the man was still unmoved, Gu Chen said again: "Why don't we come down and talk about something?"

"Hi!"

Hearing Gu Chen's speech, the man also let out a long sigh, and then turned around to support the window.

Seeing this, Gu Chen quickly ran forward and grabbed the man's arm, for fear that he would accidentally fall down again.

After helping the man into the tower, Gu Chen heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Brother, where can you go to play? It's so dangerous to stand at the window."

"And I see you standing for a long time, and the wind in the river is so strong, you are still standing in a corner."

"If the wind blows and you don't stand still, you probably won't have a chance to talk to us now."

"Yes, yes." Originally, Lu Weiwei came here to relax, but after seeing the man's operation, she immediately put her bad mood out of the blue, and comforted the man:

"Brother, if there is something unhappy, you might as well tell us, at least we can give you some advice, don't you agree?"

"Hehe." The man laughed dryly, looked Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei up and down, and then asked, "Are you two a couple?"

"We..." Lu Weiwei glanced at Gu Chen, and said, "We are colleagues."

"Colleague?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, the man chuckled, as if he didn't tell the truth, he also shook his head and sat on the floor.

Seeing this, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also sat on the ground on the left and right of the man.

The three formed a triangle position, looking at each other.

Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen didn't know why the man stood at the window of the ten-story ancient pagoda?

If this is not careful, the man may have been smashed to pieces.

Gu Chen was also the first to ask: "Brother, what troubles do you have, why don't you tell us? It happens that we also have troubles, and we just came here to relax. Since everyone has troubles, why don't we communicate with each other."

It is also based on a gradual approach to slowly open the man's heart.

The man didn't seem to have any other intentions, he just laughed and explained, "Do you think I want to commit suicide?"

"It's hard... Isn't it?" Lu Weiwei glanced at Gu Chen beside her, and also looked at the man curiously.

My heart said that if you are already like this, is it suicide?What about cheating ghosts?

The man also nodded by default: "Perhaps, for a moment, I had this idea."

"Maybe if you didn't come up, maybe I would have jumped down, but I was still scared in the end and didn't dare."

"Hehe." Hearing what the man said, Lu Weiwei also smiled teasingly: "That's great, it means you still understand."

"After all, life is precious. In this lifetime, if you lose money, you can make money, and if you lose friends, you can find them again, but if you lose your life... then you really lose it. Is this the truth?"

"That's right." The man also nodded silently, and said with a sneer, "Maybe I shouldn't die."

"Brother, what is on your mind? You stand here so willfully, do you ever think that your family will worry about you?" Gu Chen said.

"Family?" The man was taken aback for a moment, but said flatly, "That's right, if it wasn't for my family, maybe I wouldn't have hesitated."

Looking up at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, the man asked again: "Have you guys discussed a serious question, what should you do when a white-collar worker turns 35?"

"What should I do after the age of 35?" Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen looked at each other, thinking that everyone is in their 20s, how could they understand this question?

Seeing that Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen were also in their early 20s, the man waved his hand and said with a smile, "Why are you telling me this? How do you understand?"

"Maybe we understand?" Gu Chen was afraid that the man would be overwhelmed again, so he tried his best to communicate with him.

The man let out a long sigh, and said with a wry smile: "I used to think that this question, hehe, was a very vulgar question, not worth talking about."

"Also, I always feel that 35 years old is just a timeline, it doesn't mean anything."

"It wasn't until I became a project manager myself, and the company asked the project manager to recruit by myself, that I gradually realized that it seemed that it was time for me to consider this issue."

"Yes...is it?" Seeing the man's emotion, Lu Weiwei followed suit, "Then how did you recruit?"

"Just... the company's HR is only responsible for checking to prevent recruits with insufficient education, or I recruit my sister-in-law." The man said jokingly.

Lu Weiwei forced a smile, and continued to communicate with him: "You are a project manager, and you should be quite powerful, so why are you so troubled?"

"That's right." Gu Chen also hurriedly found a topic, and communicated with the man and said:

"It stands to reason that you are already a project manager, your level should not be low, your income should be good in all aspects, and you should be living a good life."

"No and no." The man waved his hand and replied to Gu Chen politely:
"Young man, maybe you don't understand now, but maybe you will understand later."

"Actually, when the company asked me, the project manager, to recruit on my own, I suddenly realized that the line...was not created out of thin air."

"Actually, from the perspective of us recruiters, this problem is hardly a problem, because the development of technical experience has a curve."

Looking up at Gu Chen, the man also explained: "For some skills, after five years of graduation, they will reach their peak level."

"That's... probably around the age of 27, so between the ages of 27 and 34, for occupations with technical backgrounds, such as code farmers, the salary will generally reach the maximum."

"But once that line is crossed, a state quickly emerges called slack."

"I agree with this." Hearing what the man said, Lu Weiwei also raised her hands in agreement.

After all, Comrade Lao Wang is now past his peak period and is slowly slacking off.

If it weren't for Gu Chen's sudden joining in the middle, I'm afraid that the current police officer Wang might not be doing very well in the police station.

The man smiled lightly, and said again: "Actually, I couldn't understand this thing before, but after working for six or seven years, and looking at the people around me, I gradually understood."

"When I was young... I could concentrate on researching technology without distractions, often working on a small technical detail all night long."

"But after a certain stage, there will be more and more broken things."

Sighing faintly, the man also said helplessly: "Today the child is sick, and tomorrow the old man needs to go for a medical examination. Later, he began to doubt life and wanted to find the meaning of life."

"I still hope to spend more time with my children and family members, and I may lose my concentration and energy."

Looking at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei in front of him, the man was also quite emotional: "The current physical condition of some of my classmates is really no different from that of disabled people, so naturally they can do nothing."

"So, the slack I'm talking about here is not necessarily because you don't want to do it yourself, but because you are too distracted and there are too many things around you."

"Indeed." As soon as the man finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly answered, "Actually, many people are like you. When you reach your age, all kinds of trivial things come one after another, and you can no longer work like you did when you were young."

"Slack...is inevitable, because you will be delayed by various family chores, and you will not be able to achieve a perfect working state."

"Yes." The man smiled slightly, and agreed, "As I said, laziness is really scary."

"So that I can no longer concentrate like I did when I was young, and I can't concentrate on work like young people."

"Not only that, the key issue is that when you are young, you feel that technology has a sense of sacredness, and this feeling will slowly fade with age."

"And until one day, you will find that technology itself is technology, and the coolest thing is actually money."

With his hands on the ground, the man also relaxed his body.

It seems that communicating with two young people, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, brings a sense of ease and pleasure.

Therefore, the man also had nothing to say, and continued to complain: "In fact, this change in mental state itself will also lead to a gradual loss of emotional control."

"To be honest, I haven't met a few people who are still very enthusiastic about technology after the age of 35."

"But there is a problem with money. If you pay too much attention to it, you may not be able to earn it."

"If you care about things that bring money, this thing will come without you knowing."

"Hehe, it seems to make sense." Lu Weiwei casually glanced at Gu Chen while laughing with her.

Gu Chen also nodded in agreement, and continued to ask him: "Then what do you think can bring money?"

"Skills that can only be acquired through long-term polishing." The man raised his right index finger and said jokingly: "For example, code farmers, they earn this money."

"There is also... the link between people, those big Vs are making money from this."

"Of course, this requires a pair of sharp eyes and a shameless temperament. For example, my former roommate, a fellow villager, quit his job as a code farmer and went to the night market to sell skewers and barbecue. It was not bad at one time."

"Barbecue?" Hearing that it was delicious, Lu Weiwei immediately became interested, so she hurriedly asked, "Then what happened after that? Did you open your own restaurant?"

"Hehe." The man laughed dryly, then shook his head and said, "I don't know where the city management drove him after that, and they couldn't find anyone anyway."

"Then you are in charge of recruitment, so you should be able to find the talents you want, right? After all, the current job market." Gu Chen said.

"Yes." The man did not refute, but also echoed: "Anyway, when I was recruiting, I would also think about one problem, and that is to recruit a young man. I can talk to him casually if he has any problems."

"But recruiting an older youth, who is older than me, and he has problems, what should I say to him?"

Seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looking at each other, it seems that they haven't thought about this question.

After all, Lu Weiwei has never been soft-spoken when teasing Lao Wang and He Junchao who are older than her.

Therefore, Lu Weiwei couldn't answer the man's question.

Because this problem is not a problem at all on Lu Weiwei's side, I like to challenge older colleagues the most.

Seeing that the two of them stopped talking, the man joked to himself: "Of course, the most important point is that the talent market has sufficient resources, and I can find young people if I want."

"But I also often think about one thing, that is, as I have talked to many people before, our country has too much manpower and it is too cheap."

"This has an obvious advantage, that is, in the cost of manufacturing in China, labor costs account for a very small part, which makes our products have obvious competitiveness."

"Even some big manufacturers put out slogans, don't compare prices with Hua, because no matter how much you quote, we are lower than you."

"And this low-cost encroachment strategy has also made Weiwei's products almost sweep the world in the past few years."

"That's it, almost all the friends and merchants are forced to change careers and do other things."

After a pause, the man also said with emotion: "But this manpower is abundant, and the shortcomings are obvious. It is almost very difficult for individuals to increase the price, because the substitution is very high."

"If you don't want to do this job, you can change someone else every minute. This is a bit like England back then. It would rather hire child labor than hire child labor parents."

"Just let this family let the children take care of them, can you imagine?"

"I've heard of this a little bit." Gu Chen knew the history of this aspect, and said in a similar tone:

"In fact, in doing so, the later English government was also worried that the country would collapse, so it ordered the ban on child labor."

"And because there is too much manpower, any scarce position will become redundant in a short period of time."

"So every time I see headlines like "China's Rising Labor Costs Lead to Declining Competitiveness" in the news, I feel a little mixed."

"Hehe, young man, it seems that you pay attention to a lot of things." Seeing that Gu Chen knows even these things.

The man suddenly felt that he had found a confidant by chatting with Gu Chen about his concerns.

At least, Gu Chen can understand.

So the man also continued: "Actually, as a working class, the most hopeful thing is to increase wages, and this kind of wage increase will destroy competitiveness, which is very difficult."

"And these years, I have a very bad feeling, that is, ordinary companies treat their employees well, and such companies often don't go far."

"And the ones that go far are often the kind of companies that are squeezed to death."

"For example, a big boss once said, don't treat the company as your home. The people in your family can forgive you for all kinds of bad things, but you are here to make money for the company. If you can't make money, you have to let me You get out, anyway, that's what it means."

"That's not the case in all companies, right?" Lu Weiwei felt that the man's words were too absolute, so she couldn't help but want to slap her.

The man also smiled slightly when he heard the words, and said, "I knew that some friends might want to say something at this time, saying that Google, or other such-and-such companies, are not such companies. Wake up, you."

"Actually, have you ever thought about it? How many Googles are there in the world? And Google itself has monopoly dividends in it."

Seeing that Lu Weiwei didn't know how to answer, the man continued: "Actually, blue-collar workers in the United States have unions, and high-tech companies have very few unions, and overtime is also very serious."

"And about big companies, just a few years ago, I once chatted with a big guy in IBM's process management."

"At that time, he told me that the most important thing for a modern enterprise is the process, so that the enterprise should be like a tropical rainforest, or like the Internet."

"The system itself has redundancy, flexibility, self-growth and self-regulation capabilities, and even if the boss of the enterprise disappears, the enterprise can continue to operate."

"The core of these tall things is one sentence: turn everyone into a part, and standardize and streamline every job."

"Only in this way, the system can quickly adjust and converge without anyone missing, and keep running."

After a pause, the man seemed to be talking about his expertise, but he couldn't stop saying:
"In fact, this has two advantages. One is to make you more proficient in your work. Proficiency in the software industry is the key to improving product quality."

"On the other hand, it can also effectively prevent random job hopping. The more monotonous the job, the faster the employee will be disabled, and the harder it is to find a job in the talent market."

"This is the... dark logic of project managers in big companies."

"Dark logic?" It was also the first time Gu Chen heard such a statement.

It feels like listening to the man say so, it seems that many things have already been understood.

The man almost listed the relationship between these enterprises very clearly.

The man shook his head with a wry smile, and said involuntarily, "Actually... Although these managers themselves are becoming more and more useless, hehe, of course, don't ask me how I know."

"The irony is that with the large-scale layoffs of foreign companies in the past two years, the big guy I just mentioned was also laid off, so he also lost his job."

"Although the severance package is not bad, in the end, he couldn't find another job that suits him and can get the high salary before."

Speaking of this, the man's eyes seemed to be full of stories.

From his gaze, Gu Chen also seemed to see that this seemed to be a story about himself.

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