Beijing, after all, has nothing to do with me

Chapter 5 Annoying colleagues (1)
The scorching heat is coming, and Tao Jie's commute to and from get off work is even more difficult.

When he first came to Beijing, because Tao Jie had no job, Li Yaoming rented a place close to the company he worked for, and it was only three stops away by bus.While BR is in Guomao, Tao Jie has to take Metro Line [-] to Xidan, and then transfer to Line [-] to Guomao.Compared with taking the bus, there is no such thing as traffic jams, but God knows how crowded the subway is!
BR actually has a shuttle bus, but it does not pass by the place where Tao Jie lives. Li Yaoming once considered changing his residence to a place closer to China World Trade Center, or moving to a place where the BR shuttle bus passes by, but after asking around, the rent is a big deal. The problem, and in that case, it would be inconvenient for Li Yaoming to go to work, as their company does not have a shuttle bus.

Tao Jie in turn persuaded him, "Forget it, bear with it, anyway, it's only temporary, and we'll think about it when we buy a house in the future." Let it go.

It's just that the feeling of squeezing the subway every day as a sandwich cake is uncomfortable, especially in the summer when wearing thin shorts, and there are many other unexpected troubles.

So Tao Jie would often plan to buy a house in the crowded carriages, a little wishful thinking to quench his thirst.

But with that came another layer of trouble.

Since she planned to buy a house, Tao Jie began to pay attention to Beijing's real estate market. With this attention, she realized that buying a house in Beijing is a much more difficult task than finding a job, and it cannot be solved by determination and confidence alone. Yes, the most critical factor it needs is strength.

There is a capable mother and a considerate father in the family. Tao Jie has never bothered about the trivial matters of food, rice, oil and salt since she was a child. Even the matter of buying a house is decided by her parents. She bought it, and she moved there. Although it has also soared in the past, the overall price is still firmly controlled below 1 yuan. It is not like in Beijing, where a house with more than [-] yuan per square meter can be said to be cheap.Looking around, it is impossible to even think about it within the Fourth Ring Road. Even if she is willing to buy this old house that she always dislikes, the landlord may not be willing to sell it.As for the area beyond the Fourth Ring Road, it depends on the location and the quality of the real estate.

According to Li Yaoming, many of his colleagues have already started to develop in the direction of Yanjiao, because several real estates have been developed in the local area, all of which are known for their low prices, and in conjunction with the intercity railway track that the developer announced will be put into construction, according to According to the developer, it only takes half an hour from Yanjiao to the vicinity of Guomao.

The price of 6000 yuan per square meter, Tao Jie was quite moved after hearing it, but when she looked at the map, Yanjiao was not even considered a suburb of Beijing. It was under the jurisdiction of Langfang, Hebei Province. She was immediately discouraged and traveled thousands of miles to Beijing. Come to take root, do you still want to take root in a small town on the outskirts of Beijing?It's better to go back to your hometown.

But even if they make up their minds to buy in Yanjiao, they have no money to pay the down payment at all.Housing prices climbed up all day long, making everyone watching trembling with fear. Tao Jie watched the depreciation speed of the money in their passbooks in the real estate market as fast as diving, and felt distressed to the point of cramp, but also felt at a loss. To dominate such madness?developer?Real estate speculators?Or the graduates who flock to Beijing every year?
For ordinary people, analyzing these factors is tantamount to talking on paper, meaningless. As long as he/she still insists on taking root in Beijing, then how to own a house of his own is the most meaningful thing. Countless ants He is working hard for this.

Another day when the sun was rising, Tao Jie came out of the rented house, stopped in front of the row of pancake and fruit stalls at the gate of the new village, and ordered two things. The vendor quickly packed the package and handed it to her. Pass the money too.I have eaten many times, and I count each other.

I got up late again this morning and didn't have time to make breakfast. Li Yaoming went to work half an hour earlier than her. When he got up, he saw that she was not awake, and he didn't wake her up, so he left quietly.

Tao Jie was woken up by the last deadly alarm clock she set on her mobile phone. She got up dizzy, sighed, and could only eat greasy pancakes again.She actually likes to drink porridge. When she was at home, her mother would cook it in advance every morning. When she got up, a bowl of thick and soft rice porridge had already been placed on the dining table in advance. It was delicious to eat with bread or fried dough sticks. .

Tao Jie took a hard bite of the hardened pasta, drove the good memories out of her mind, and rushed towards the bus station under the hot white sun.

The subway cars are full of people.

Tao Jie felt that she was tightly covered up like paper in a book, her head could not be turned left or right, either the thick shoulders of others or the mouth exhaling hot air.

She can only look up.

The scenery above is not much better. Countless sallow hands are hanging on the crossbar and the handle, like the mustard pickled by the mothers and aunts in their hometown in spring. Hulala hangs a drying pole, miserable in the wind. swing.After watching it for a long time, a chill suddenly crept through her heart, as if she was in a horror movie, she hurriedly closed her eyes.

The speed of the car dropped sharply, and soon there was a heavy gasp, and it entered the station.

After a short period of loosening, the density becomes more dense, like tamped soil.

Tao Jie struggled to raise her hand to check the time on the watch, but only halfway through the struggle, suspicious and disgusted eyes shot at her like thieves, she froze for a moment, gave up, looking was useless, Just increased anxiety.

Finally, a reminder message came from the radio that Guomao had arrived.

With great effort, Tao Jie broke through the encirclement two seconds before the door closed, and swam out of the car like a nimble fish.

The car drove away immediately, Tao Jie brushed back her half-length hair, then bent over to wipe off the dirt from being trampled on her feet, exhaled heavily, with the lingering fragrance of pancake fruit, she swallowed a few After a while, I felt like an inflated ball, full again.

When she arrived in her blue cubicle, Tao Jie glanced at the time, it was still two minutes away from nine o'clock.

BR is an irregular working hours system. You don’t need to clock in and go to and from get off work. It’s all voluntary. It is said that it is adhering to the democratic and free style of Americans. Tao Jie was not used to it when she first came. He picks to death and is used to being monitored.

Whether it is democracy or freedom, they are all appearances. After a week in the company, she tasted American-style madness, and at the same time realized the profound meaning of the so-called "flexible working hours system": it is not that you can go to work when you want , but whenever the boss wants you to work overtime, you have to work overtime!
Before her butt was firmly seated in the chair, Alice behind her raised her hand and handed her a stack of evaluation forms, "Tao Jie, can you make the evaluation report of the communication skills training in the morning? I just took a rough look at it. Next, the grades are not bad."

The pimple in Tao Jie's heart suddenly thickened, bit her lip, and still took it in silence, Alice sweetly said, "Thank you!"

Ever since Alice sensed Tao Jie's awakening from her aura, every time she asked her to help with something, she was a little more polite than at the beginning, but the number of times she used Tao Jie was not reduced.

For half a morning, Tao Jie worked hard with a bunch of evaluation forms. Inputting data and applying formulas to calculate the scores of the training courses was only part of it. What was difficult was to give reasonable explanations and suggestions for future improvements to the items that did not meet the standards. This should be done at all. It was Alice's work, but she gave Tao Jie a few old reports as a reference, and she must make a draft first, and then she would revise it based on the draft.

Making up stories is not Tao Jie's forte. When she was thinking hard on the screen, Betty called her and asked her to go to her office immediately.

Tao Jie had to drop what she was doing and rushed to Betty's office.

When she took over the new task from Betty, her heart twitched for a while, adding data to the form, and the horizontal lines below, it was definitely for people to fill in their suggestions for improvement.

"GPP's training results summary, please make it as soon as possible, I want it before [-]:[-] pm." Betty ordered concisely, "If you don't understand anything, you can ask Alice."

Facing the two evaluation forms spread out on the table, Tao Jie could make a decision on who should come first without much hesitation. She quickly left Alice's share and concentrated on the task that Betty had just assigned.

Before looking carefully, Alice came back from the outside. When she passed by Tao Jie's seat, she turned her eyes and saw that she was doing other things. She immediately stopped and asked, "Is my share ready?"

"No, Betty just gave me this. She needed it before one."

Alice's face darkened slightly, "I also want mine before one o'clock."

Tao Jie swallowed, "I'll do my best."

Alice moved her mouth and wanted to say something, but finally swallowed it back, lifted her feet, and went back to her seat.

Just started, Tao Jie found that the data sheet that Betty gave her was only superficially similar to Alice's. Some uncommon words and abbreviations in the list alone were enough to test her. According to incomplete estimates, BR has more than 3000 unique abbreviations of our company, which cannot be found in English dictionaries. Someone once tried to compile all the abbreviations into a book, but this is indeed a huge project because too many departments are involved. And new abbreviations are still coming out, so there is no official help manual available yet.

Tao Jie drew circles with a pencil on a few words that she didn’t understand, then turned around and asked Alice who was busy in front of the computer. In the notes, I didn't hear something clearly, and I had to keep checking with Alice, and she got annoyed within a few minutes.

"I'm catching up on an email, can I wait until I finish writing it?" Alice said with restraint, but her face was full of impatience.

Tao Jie felt aggrieved, but she couldn't justly go back and say "Betty asked me to ask you", that would be too childish.

"Okay." She had no choice but to turn around awkwardly, and do what she could do first. She has done Alice's share many times before, and practice makes perfect, so she mentioned the front again and continued to think hard. The task is waiting, but it is not so difficult for her to do it now, and it is done in less than 10 minutes.

"I've done your part." She turned her head and reported to Alice.

"Okay, then you can send it to me." Alice said briskly.

Tao Jie did so, and asked her back, "When are you free?"

"Wait a little longer." Alice replied solemnly without looking at her, her eyes fixed on the computer screen.

Tao Jie had no choice but to continue to wait obediently.

But she was still too naive.When Alice finally stood up from her seat, Tao Jie handed over the document she had marked down almost at the same time, but she pushed it away.

"Sorry, I'm going to the factory. Jimmy just sent me an email. He seems to be looking for me urgently." Alice said anxiously.

"But me..." Tao Jie was also anxious, but before she finished speaking, Alice ran away and disappeared.

It was already eleven o'clock at this time, and it would be lunch time in half an hour. Alice would definitely not come back so soon.

Tao Jie was bitter, and it was only then that she finally realized that Alice didn't want to help her at all.

She stared at the inexplicable symbols on the paper for a while, and began to search for help in her mind.

Betty has been preparing lessons behind closed doors these two days, and unless she calls out, no one will see her, let alone bother her with such trivial matters as asking for advice.

After thinking about it, Tao Jie realized that she was in BR. In this department, she was too weak, and she felt sad for a while.

But things can't always be stuck like this.

Anyway, I have to hand over something!Tao Jie gritted her teeth and thought to herself.

Holding back her energy, she set off again and began to study seriously again, putting aside the vocabulary she didn't understand for a while, and then said after calculating the data.

After stumbling around until 12:30, Tao Jie took a look at the results she made for the last time. Leaving aside some unclear meanings, in terms of form, it seems to be quite similar.

She pursed her lips, tapped her fingers a few times, and gently sent the result to Betty's mailbox.

Returning to the office after lunch, Alice was still missing. Tao Jie sat down in her chair, and when she lowered her head, she saw a yellow note on the table. The words on it were written by Betty, " Come back to my office right away."

Looking at the words scrawled on the note, Tao Jie felt ominous, so she pushed open the door of Betty's office.

Betty sat at the desk with a slanted sign, typing like flying to the computer, beside the computer was a cup of milk tea and two kinds of fruits.She skipped lunch and only ate fruit and milk tea for energy, so she was lean and pale.

"Betty, are you looking for me?" Tao Jie asked, clearing her throat.

After Betty typed the last word, she turned around with the boss's chair, with a serious face, "What did you send me just now?"

Tao Jie blushed, her heart sank, and she immediately understood that the boss of her "masterpiece" was not satisfied.

"You don't know what to say!" Betty reprimanded angrily with a sullen face, "I can see that you don't understand this form at all. I told you a long time ago. If you don't understand, you must ask Ellie. Si, I never thought you would be so smart!"

The reprimand caused all the grievances in Tao Jie's heart to surge up, and the eye circles immediately turned red. Betty looked at her expression, her heart softened a little, she calmed down, and waved her hand: "Go out first, if you have time Ask Alice carefully."

Tao Jie sniffled and swallowed back the disappointing tears, "Then today, should I..."

"Forget it!" Betty understood what she meant, "I need to use it for the meeting at 01:30, so I'll change it myself." Deep disappointment was revealed in her tone.

Tao Jie was very sad, but she couldn't argue at all, and she couldn't sue Alice in front of Betty. That would only make Betty feel that she was incompetent and like to shirk responsibility. She still had common sense about this.

Turning around sullenly, just as she was about to go out, Alice happily came in holding a dragon fruit, "Betty, your favorite dragon fruit!"

Betty hadn't escaped from the emotion just now, she asked calmly, "Where did it come from?"

"Jimmy from the factory gave it to me. I just came over from him and I'm talking to him about the training plan for the next season!"

Betty's expression softened greatly, and she said with a smile: "You are so quick! I'm already talking with them about the plan for the next season! But I really need to get in touch with the bosses of the factory, and I will ask them for help in many places in the future. Woolen cloth!"

"I know I know." Alice obediently agreed.

"By the way, Alice." Betty pointed to Tao Jie and said to her, "You can teach Tao Jie the evaluation format of the GPP training when you have time. I asked her to help make a copy today, but there are many problems. She After all, the newcomer is not familiar with this set of things.”

Tao Jie could tell that Betty still saved some face for herself in front of Alice, but Alice might not be unable to guess Tao Jie's unlucky situation in her heart, which can be seen from her slightly satisfied face .

"No problem!" Alice smiled, turned her head to Tao Jie and said, "Why don't you ask me if you don't understand! There are many abbreviations that newcomers don't understand."

Looking at her enthusiastic and innocent appearance, Tao Jie was so angry that she almost gritted her teeth, her eyes flashed with anger, she endured it, finally suppressed her anger, and walked out without saying a word.

(End of this chapter)