Chapter 56: Elizabeth's Struggle
While Chen Hongjun and Yuan Jia were discussing Chen Geng, Elizabeth pushed open the door of Chen Geng's office cubicle in Detroit, USA, and said to Chen Geng: "Boss, there is a situation that I think you need to know. ”
Speaking of Chen Geng, the boss, is also pitiful, he is also a rich man who makes millions of dollars a year, but he doesn't even have an office for himself, and a transparent compartment of 15 square meters is made in the large office area, which is the exclusive office of Chen Geng, the boss. The biggest advantage of this is that Chen Geng can see that the employees outside are not lazy as soon as he looks up, so many people have deep resentments about their boss's office.
Chen Geng didn't care about this, he was a little curious about Elizabeth's words: "What's the situation?"
Elizabeth said: "From a person who came to our company to buy a used car, the number of customers from Canada has risen very quickly. ”
This situation made Chen Geng a little surprised: "Really, how many?"
It is very convenient for Americans and Canadians to visit each other's countries, who makes people visa-free, especially people from Windsor, Canada, who come to Detroit It is more convenient to come to Detroit, and they can drive directly here, but Canadians come to the United States to buy cars, and they also buy second-hand cars, this situation is really rare, and the point is that Elizabeth can come to tell herself about it, then this proportion should not be too low, right?
Elizabeth: "A week ago on Tuesday, there were three people, and of the cars sold yesterday, eight of them were sold to customers in Canada, well, five of them were sold in our store, and three of them were sold in Todd's partner stores. ”
"Are you sure?" Chen Geng, who originally thought that there were few of them, suddenly couldn't sit still when he heard this.
Yesterday's transaction volume was 41 cars, of which 3 were bought by Canadians, accounting for 7.31%, and the entire "Fernandez Used Car Sales Alliance" sold 83 cars yesterday, accounting for 9.64%, and nearly 10% of Canadians came to buy their own cars without any publicity in Canada, which is really amazing.
"I'm pretty sure," Elizabeth nodded heavily, her expression a little excited, she knew very well what this statistic meant: "I haven't counted the number of Canadians who come to us to buy cars these days, but overall, the proportion of Canadians has definitely continued to rise." ”
Chen Geng couldn't sit still at all: "Let's go, go to the computer and have a look." ”
Yes, Fernandez has just purchased an IBM computer and a dot matrix printer to organize and print daily sales, inventory, stockpiles, and customers' personal information.
This computer is equipped with one of the most advanced Intel's 8086 central processing unit, this is a 16-bit central processing unit, with a 20-bit address bus, the maximum addressing capacity is 1MB memory, Chen Geng wants to cry, so he never touches this computer, but there is no doubt that this IBM's 8086 computer is already the most advanced personal computer in this era, and it has just been listed this year, and this computer of Fernandez is also the first commercial computer in the entire Detroit used car industry, Chen Geng inadvertently created a record......
It's just that after this computer was bought, although the whole company was very rare about this computer, Chen Geng had never touched it, and you had already used the "Core i7 quad-core CPU+16G memory+three 250G solid-state drives composed of disk arrays + two sets of GTX980 graphics cards cross-linked" Chen Geng, how could he be in the mood to play this kind of antique?
But Elizabeth was very happy, even though she was already the department manager, firmly occupied this brand new antique in Chen Geng's eyes, and never allowed others to interfere in the daily recording of data into the computer, and even this computer was not allowed to be touched.
Speaking of Chen Geng, he also admires Elizabeth, after listening to Chen Geng say that the company is going to prepare to add a computer, she only took half a month to learn the basic operation of the computer, memorized hundreds of common commands, Chen Geng felt that she should add more chicken legs to every meal.
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Looking at the creaking dot matrix printer, Chen Geng couldn't help but sigh and feel sad: there is no database these days, if only there was a database software with automatic analysis and sorting functions.
Strictly speaking, it is not that there is no database software, but there is no database software for ordinary small and micro business users. Analysis, but now there is not even a database software similar to access, and now the database software with this ability on the market, without exception, is designed for medium-sized enterprises, and the price is even more expensive, can you believe that the price of a set of database software is in "ten thousand dollars"?
Thinking of the high price of database software, Chen Geng has the idea of making a set of access database software to make money.
After the dot matrix printer creaked for a while, Elizabeth took a few pieces of paper and had an expression of invitation: "Boss, look, these customers I hooked out are customers from Canada who came to us to buy cars, I only printed yesterday's, and I haven't played a few days ago, if you want to see it, I'll type it out with you......"
"No need," Chen Geng waved his hand: "Just have this as a reference." ”
That's right, the information is very clear, not only the transaction time, purchase model, transaction price of these 8 Canadian car buyers, but most importantly, their contact information, then there will be absolutely no mistake.
"Boss, I don't think it's an accident," Elizabeth said confidently: "I specifically asked a few Canadians who came to buy a car from us, and they said that they heard from a friend that there is a used car dealer in Detroit that offers a full vehicle warranty and two years of free maintenance for the cars they sell, so they are very tempted and come over to see that there is a guy who is still ready to buy a new car." ”
Chen Geng raised his eyebrows: "So?"
"Boss, the population of Windsor is quite large, I specially checked the sales data of new and used cars in recent years that Windsor can find, the entire city of Windsor can sell 12,000 new and used cars a year, even if we win 10% or even 5% of the market, there will be almost a million dollars in profits that year......"
Elizabeth's eyebrows fluttered, and it could be seen that she had really put her mind on this matter.
Chen Geng was very relieved to hear this, the Americans are very lazy, and they will definitely not do more than half of the work given to them by the boss, and there is no doubt that what Elizabeth has done has greatly exceeded the scope of her original work, so ......
"So what?" Chen Geng asked, "Do you want to come to Canada?"
"Yes, sir, I also hope to be able to make more money and live a better life like Mr. Bob and Mr. Anderson," facing Chen Geng's gaze, Elizabeth nodded vigorously: "I'm ...... that"
Sure enough, that's the case.
Looking at Elizabeth who was talking eloquently, Chen Geng finally confirmed his guess: the success of Bob and Anderson greatly stimulated other employees of the company, and they really began to realize that what Mr. Fernandez said before was not casual, his words were not deceiving, and he was really willing to share the dividends of the company's development with his own employees.
Last month, Anderson received more than $3,000 in dividends from the car parts business, and I heard that there are tens of thousands of dollars in dividends this month.
Americans are lazy, not because they are really lazy, but because there is no hope, after more than 200 years of development in the United States, the solidification between classes has almost been completed, and it is almost impossible for people from the next class to flow to the next class.
In the United States, the only billionaires who are really ordinary civilians or from the poor are those who engage in sports, but how many of those who engage in sports go bankrupt and become penniless within five years after retiring? Just because no one taught them how to manage their finances and increase the value of their wealth, and these are the secrets of all American elites, and it is absolutely impossible for people in the next class to know such knowledge -- now everyone knows that we have known since childhood, but we have never regarded it as the same thing, "people have no foresight, they must have near-term worries", " Save some money in case you need it", and know the preciousness of the values that we tortured in high school, dialectics, looking at problems with a dialectical eye, the theory of relativity, and the theory of practice, which are the core secrets of the elite in capitalist countries.
Elizabeth was lucky to have an opportunity to change her destiny that she might never encounter once in her life, and she was working hard to get it.
"I said that I am willing to share the dividends of the company's development with everyone, and I also hope that everyone can work together for the development of the company," as if waiting for a century, in Elizabeth's anxious waiting, Chen Geng finally spoke: "I will give you this opportunity, but how to do it, you need to go to Windsor by yourself and talk to the second-hand car operators over there, and the company's support for you will not be unlimited, you understand?"
"I understand!" Elizabeth's face turned red all of a sudden, and she said excitedly: "Thank you, sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to change my fate, I ...... I...... If you don't mind, I can go to you in the evening......"
Faced with this opportunity to change her fate, Elizabeth didn't mind thanking her boss in this way, but Chen Geng was extraordinarily unproductive and fled suddenly.
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PS1: I checked it for a long time, but I didn't find the specific launch time of IBM's first computer equipped with an 8086 processor, only found that it was 1978, and the specific month was not found, so it was considered to be on the market at this time.
PS2: If you say three more, you will definitely have three more, this is the second watch, but the third watch will be later, about 11 o'clock.
PS3: Brothers, it's really not a millennium not to check, you have to check every time you finish writing, but you check your own things, and many times you can't check it......
PS4: It's going to be chopped tonight, brothers, cherish!