Your loneliness is more moving than this world

Chapter 25
With tears in his eyes, Xiao Ma put the briefcase on the table, and packed the laptop and the balls of thread under it in full view. Half a minute later, he stood at the gate and said loudly: "Grandson, listen to me one by one, This is Beijing, it's Lao Tzu's territory, don't leave this building if you have the guts!" Then he kicked down the giant potted plant at the door.

I picked up the lint on the ground and said, "Everyone, let's go, and the colleagues in the personnel department don't have to jump to conclusions on this matter. We'll talk about everything when Mr. Dou comes back."

Lao Dou looked down at his watch and said to the vice president, "Okay, let's get started." The vice president rushed to the door and shouted: "All departments, hurry up!" Men and women in and out of the conference room quickened their pace and quickly found a seat. Down.

The projection screen was lowered, and Lao Dou put his hands on the table and said: "It's been more than a month, and everyone has no chance to hold a plenary meeting. Before this meeting, please let our new vice president make an announcement to everyone. Come, Xiao Zhao, tell me." The vice president stood up, nodded to Lao Dou with a smile, and then said, "Hello everyone, I will try to be brief. The company has decided that from today onwards, the planning department will change the nature of its work and only be responsible for the future development of the e-commerce platform. The publicity work no longer involves the planning of specific projects, and Ma Tao, the former director of the planning department, was fired; the design department and the media department were merged and changed to the operation department, responsible for the construction and maintenance of the e-commerce platform; the sales department changed the nature of its work, and will be responsible for e-commerce in the future For the investment promotion and operation of the platform, the manager of the sales department was promoted to the director of sales; the public relations department was changed to a customer service center to assist the work of the new sales department; please pay attention to the latest announcement for changes in other departments. From now on, I will distribute the work of all departments of the company , the performance will be jointly supervised by Mr. Dou and I. I hope that everyone will actively cooperate with the company's arrangements. Thank you." After the sparse applause, Lao Dou stood up again and said: "This time the company's organizational structure is readjusted. In addition to our e-commerce The main purpose of the general direction is unity. I hope that everyone can be united. I have been in the industry for so many years, and the only experience I have is unity. Unity, we can accomplish anything; if we are not united, no matter how much we have No matter how much money you have, you are doomed to accomplish nothing. For those who intend to destroy the unity of the company, I will not keep him. For those who can never stand in the same direction as the company, I ask you to think again, Some of your opinions may not be correct."

The vice president walked to the projection screen, put his hand on his black-rimmed glasses, and began to introduce the wine and water e-commerce at length.His dress, posture, movements, and tone of voice all imitated Jobs, and he even directly copied Jobs' humor, which made several people in the sales department laugh again and again.He raised his right arm and said solemnly: "My friends, real geniuses don't bother to refer to the market at all, but lead the market."

"You can't resign." Li Da took the wine handed over by the waiter and said, "If you leave now, it can only prove that you have failed. It's not that you caused the current situation in your company. You have done something. Opinion I also mentioned, what will happen to the company in the future, and what does it have to do with you? Why should you leave?” I said, “Do you want me to follow these people to do wine and water e-commerce? This is not the original intention of my coming here. " Li Da sneered and said, "The question is, do you think they can do it? You think too highly of the people in your company."

Li Da greeted the bar again and asked the waiter to change to a larger glass. I said, "When did you drink so much?" Li Da didn't answer, turned around and waved to the far corner, and Lao Liu slowly walked out from the light.

Li Da asked me, "Do you know who he is?" I said, "What do you mean?" Old Liu said, "Xiaoyu, you don't understand some things very well. It's not your fault. You're all focused on the specific work." I said, "What exactly are you trying to say?" Lao Liu raised a glass of wine, leaned over and said, "The former general manager of this company, Lao Zheng, was my father's colleague when he was in a state-owned enterprise. After Lao Zheng retired, the board of directors deliberately asked my father to come over. Running the Beijing company, but the chairman temporarily decided to hire someone else, so my father can only go back to another subsidiary of the group to be the vice president." I glanced at Li Da and said, "Then what is your relationship?" Old Liu said: "The subsidiary that Mr. Li invested in is the company where my father works. Do you understand now?"

"So... that's why you have always hated Lao Dou?" I looked at Lao Liu and said.Lao Liu took a sip of wine and said, "It's not hostile. Originally, several directors of the group intended to give up their media career in Beijing after Mr. Zheng retired and focus on real estate projects. My father and Mr. Li persuaded them to stay. I got off this stall. At that time, Mr. Li proposed to buy this place and hand it over to my father to take care of it, but the chairman was not reconciled and asked his old classmate to come out halfway to take over the place. Unfortunately, the old classmate he relied on couldn’t do it. In half the time, the place was messed up. The rest of the board of directors were very dissatisfied. , It’s just a mirror image, a meal without rice, and it can’t be done at all.”

Lao Liu handed me the wine with ice, and continued: "Xiao Yu, you are an expert in media, but you are a bit of an amateur in business management. In the past, you attributed the company's problems to nepotism. Let me tell you, you see These problems are side issues, not fundamental, and it is not nepotism that ultimately ruined the company. Xingan also has the kind of nepotism you mentioned. Mr. Li and Li Da are still father and daughter, but how are they doing? I have also seen it. In addition, e-commerce is indeed a trend, but it has not yet formed a climate in the liquor industry, and it takes a long time to go. It is not a mistake to use a pro, but it is a mistake to use a pro and not to be talented; A business whose input and output are not proportional is a mistake, and this kind of mistake will only accelerate the abandonment of investors.”

I looked at Lao Liu expressionlessly, and Li Da said: "In short, your company is going to end, and no one can change the fact. Isn't your e-commerce website already built? But the subsequent operation and promotion will take a long time. No one in the board of directors will buy this fee, the day your e-commerce platform goes live is the time when Lao Dou says goodbye to this place."

"Xiao Yu," Lao Liu became more and more excited, "Do you know Lao Dou? You don't think he has the identity of an Australian Chinese, but he is actually a vulgar bastard in his bones. He was able to go to Tsinghua University because of his status as an athlete. He was a well-known bastard when he was doing sales in the IT industry. He made money and hacked money, but he was addicted to gambling. He lost all his money in Genting overnight. The mortgage abroad so far is his university professor. His wife is still here. He was investigated by his superiors because he often made false accounts in his previous unit, so he took advantage of the invitation of the chairman and resigned from his job there to work here. He still has a lover in Haidian. The so-called business trip, do you really think he is there to discuss a project? In a word, he is a scumbag, or an old scumbag!"

"So, stay here," Lao Liu said with a sigh of relief, "Lao Dou and this company are hopeless. It may take a year or half a year. There must be a high-level change here. As employees, we don't care about everything. You don't have to do it, just wait." Li Da chimed in and said, "Yes, you understand everything now, so there's no need to be emotional."

I approached Li Da, looked at her and said, "You didn't tell me this before, because you were afraid that we wouldn't be friends because of it? Or because you were afraid that I would cut off my inside line?" Li Da was anxious, and said loudly: "You are talking nonsense. What, who do you think I am?" I raised my head and drank the last glass of wine, and said, "I'm sorry you two, I have something to do here, excuse me."

Xixi voluntarily left the planning department and returned to the original sales department. Then, the new employees of the planning department submitted applications to the vice president one after another, asking to be transferred to other departments that were in full swing.It is everyone's survival wisdom that the tree falls and the monkeys scatter. They don't need to work with someone who has fallen out of favor. The planning department that Lao Dou set up for me is now only an empty director and a girl in old clothes.

The manager of the administration department looked at me innocently, and with this innocence, I handed over the keys, and the special car from the planning department was allocated to the overcrowded sales department.The sales department resumed weekend parties and drove colleagues in the department to various KTVs and resorts to decompress. They scrambled to upload party photos in the mobile App (application program) group. Lao Dou deliberately called my name in the group. I know him No malice, just showing off the "unity" he's achieved to a mob like me.

Soon, I heard a rumor, to the effect: "Guo Xiaoyu is dissatisfied with the company because she hates the new vice president." I don't know whose judgment this is, maybe it's the old Dou, maybe it's the new vice president , maybe other people, I don't blame them, because they said so, so naturally they understand it that way.People often say: "IQ determines thinking, and mind determines good and evil." In the eyes of some people, any voice of opposition can be understood as personal grievances, because these people usually only have personal grievances in their lives.

I hit rock bottom in my CBD career and lost everything including my dignity.If the sales department is my first enemy, I don't pay attention to them at all; Xingan Media is my second enemy, and I can seek opportunities to turn enemies into friends through my own efforts; I can't cross the gap that Lao Dou has drawn. I can only watch him and his soldiers revel in ignorance on the cliff opposite the gap.

In order to avoid Li Da, Lao Liu and others, I no longer go to the bar on Chaoyang Road, and I no longer go home directly after get off work, but walk aimlessly by myself until I get tired and lost, and take the subway Or take a taxi back.The strong wind rolled up the scraps of paper on the street, flew to a height of more than ten meters, and hovered slowly in the lights. I finally had time to see the city I was in. It bloomed quietly in the twilight, so beautiful I am suffocated, the beauty makes my heart ache.

I walked to a dilapidated shopping mall, where all the stores were closed, and the surrounding area was so deserted that there were no stray cats. The sporadic lights from nearby residential buildings illuminated the billboards above the shopping mall vaguely. I walked I used to decipher the writing on it, and found a dark red blood stain hidden between the paint and rust, I only took one look at it, and it became thick before my eyes, and then began to spread, dripping from the height to my feet , making a sharp sound.Out of my wits, I ran to the nearby downtown area panting heavily, and vomited out the contents of my stomach while holding on to the telephone pole.

Lao Dou's alcohol e-commerce platform was officially launched. In order to reward his employees and show off his ambition and efficiency, he booked the largest buffet barbecue restaurant in the East Fourth Ring Road and organized the largest dinner party in the company's history.At the climax of the dinner party, I drank perfectly, and fell on the bathroom floor, and the pictures began to play out of order like a slide show in front of my eyes:
Li Xiaogan held the iron pot and faced the sunlight on the balcony and said, "Is Wang Dandan trustworthy? Don't forget, he is also a person in the business field."

Old Dou stood in front of the window and said with a dark face: "Xiao Guo, you shouldn't have gone to Li Xing'an, this is the worst thing you did in this company."

Li Da shouted at me under the persuasion of everyone: "Guo Xiaoyu, who do you think you are, what right do you have to talk to my dad like that!"

Mr. Tang put down his teacup and said, "Xiao Guo, this is business. We all like to talk about feelings in life, but this is business."

I lay on the hospital bed and said to Liu Jing at the door: "Liu Jing, why don't you like me? What's wrong with me?"

The ex-girlfriend threw the TV remote control in her hand against the wall and yelled, "You go or I go!"

With Li Xiaogan's slap, I woke up, and I asked him hoarsely, "Where is this, what time is it?" Li Xiaogan walked to the end of the bed, put down his backpack and said, "Downstairs hospital, you had a shock last night." , Liu Jing called to inform me that she and I... by the way, and your colleague named Liu got you into the car. It's 10:30 in the morning, don't worry, I'll help you ask for leave from your company " I shook my head and sat up, reached out to pull out the needle, Li Xiaogan held me down and said, "You are crazy!" I said, "I'm fine, go back, I don't want to stay in this kind of place."

Li Xiaogan unscrewed the door and helped me into the room. I slowly sat down on the bed while leaning against the wall, looked around and said, "You cleaned it up?" Liu Jing did it. Last night we stayed with you in the hospital until after eleven o’clock, it was too late, so I arranged for her to come to you to sleep for a night.” I smiled and said, “What a good girl who knows how to live. "Li Xiaogan said: "Okay, if you have the ability to chase after me, it's just a joke. If you want to eat, I'll get it for you." I said: "Whatever."

I moved to the window, drew the curtain and opened the window, and the cold air instantly filled the whole room, like a cold curse.

10. The Traitor in the Corridor
As the new year passed and the spring came early, I became more lazy and stopped going to work on time. The company stipulated that people above the director level can clock in at 10:30 at the latest. I just took advantage of this convenience to avoid frequent meetings.The vice president came out of the conference room and saw me clocking in at the front desk from a distance. Although I was displeased, I couldn't say anything.

Frequent meetings indicate problems.As Li Da said, it is easy to build an e-commerce platform, but it is difficult to operate it with influence. The first stage of promotion alone requires a lot of money, but the company has no money, and the new leadership The budget application was handed over to the top level years ago, and then disappeared.Lao Dou and the vice president were puzzled and naively thought that there was something wrong with the budget application report, and called on the leaders of various departments to hold frequent meetings and re-evaluate the budget.

Lao Dou personally participated in the work of the new budget, and his face was more nervous than others. Obviously, he was also thinking about the actions of the board of directors, and realized that he might have made a wrong move.Originally, in the eyes of Lao Dou, if the chairman was settled, everything would be settled. The chairman nodded and agreed. Even if other members of the board of directors have opinions, it is impossible not to give face, but he did not expect that this old guy will be the last moment. Leaving it to other people to make the choice, I took the initiative to choose to disappear.

The chairman's words failed, and the Beijing company's project offended the public. From the group company to each subsidiary, almost everyone was against Lao Dou.The chairman understands that in most industries, he is just an investor, not an operator. Others have made his wealth and reputation. He would rather give up some of his dreams than those who helped him make money.

The chairman, Li Xing'an and Lao Dou, the three are Tsinghua alumni who graduated in the same class. Now one is the richest man in the frontier, the other is a media tycoon in Beijing, and the other is a migrant worker who is about to be abandoned.

On the second weekend after the Ching Ming Festival, Lao Dou called me. After half a year, he called me for the first time on his own initiative.I signaled to my teammates on the basketball court to change, ran to the sidelines and pulled out the phone and asked, "What's the matter?" He said, "Is it convenient? Have a drink at the old place in the evening." I said, "Playing with some friends in the gymnasium, I agreed to have dinner together in the evening, if you have anything to tell me on the phone, I will help you think about it.” He said, “It’s better to talk face to face, so are you free tomorrow?” I said, “Forget it , Mr. Dou, see you tonight, I haven't been there for a long time."

I shouted to the people on the field: "Brothers, I have some business tonight, so I won't have dinner with you." Wang Dandan turned around and said, "You are sure, maybe you are on a big Saturday." It’s business ass, can’t it be that Li Da again? A date is a date, what kind of business are you pretending to be?” I said: “It’s not Li Da, the boss of the company. He asked me to go to the bar to talk about things tonight, do you want to go?” Dan said while dribbling: "No!"

After finishing the cups, the waiter said, "I haven't seen you lately, what did you do?" I, said: "Xiao Guo, I may have to leave." I said: "Why? Because the new project was rejected?" Lao Dou took another sip and said: "No. I will tell you about this matter Say, don’t tell others. The chairman recently talked to me and said that another boss of the group named Liu will come to Beijing to help me manage the company’s business, and he will also sell one-third of the Beijing company’s shares to Xingan Media. It’s easy to do things with more people, huh, isn’t that nonsense? It’s obvious that I’m going to be evacuated, and after I’ve been evacuated, let our company be a younger brother and helper for Xingan Media.” I stayed silent for a while with him, and said: “The e-commerce company As for the project, has he made a statement?" He said: "This old guy said he still supports us in e-commerce, but he said there is a fart in his mouth, and he completely threw the right to review the budget to the other heads of the board of directors. Son, nothing so far. Well, I was wrong about him."

He put his hands on my shoulders, frowned and said: "Xiao Guo, I have a feeling that after I leave, you will be reused by them. I don't care, I should retire in a few years, and I can do something when I return to Australia. My own business, but I don't worry about my little brothers. They have been with me for so many years. I am sorry for them. I hope you will say a few words for them and keep the e-commerce platform that we have worked hard for more than half a year. Come down and give everyone a chance to start over." I said, "Do you think my words carry so much weight?" Lao Dou said, "Try it, brother, I know you have a good relationship with Li Xingan, even if you look at everyone In terms of the two years of friendship, you should also try it."

Beside the main road, Lao Dou turned around and said, "Don't give it away, you go back and play." I said, "Mr. Dou, this place is quite far from where you live, so you should take a taxi." He said, "No , not far away, I just happened to take a stroll."

(End of this chapter)