Chapter 90: The Catfish Effect

The king wants his ministers to die, and the ministers have to die.

This is a wise saying that exists in both worlds.

This was the case in the court in ancient times, and now it is not much worse in the workplace, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will be kicked away.

Why do so many people squeeze their heads to climb up? Because the higher you go, the greater your power, when a supervisor can manage more than a dozen people, and when you become a manager, you may be able to manage dozens of people, and being a leader may not be able to decide the fate of those subordinates' lives, but they can make those subordinates work overtime for three or five months instantly come to naught.

You can also lay a trap at will, and you still have to jump into it when you know it's a trap. Because of the words of your boss, you have to listen.

Zhao Qingshan shook his head and said: "This is different, when you are in the game, it is naturally difficult to break the game." Danger in the workplace is not alarmist, you can ask your leader, he must have suffered more losses than you, so he knows how to use those seemingly useless chess pieces better than others. Whether you can establish yourself in the workplace does not depend entirely on your work ability, or work ability is not only about what you can do for the company, but also whether you can deal with those internal guns and arrows. ”

Chess piece, Ye Mei didn't like this word very much, but she had to admit that she was indeed regarded as a chess piece, and she only blamed herself for not being deeply involved in the world at the beginning.

But the person in front of her is a few years younger than herself, is she really just a little involved in the world? She asked curiously: "Is Mr. Zhao's work experience very rich?"

Zhao Qingshan said jokingly: "The work experience is not rich, but reading history can be wise, don't you think that the workplace is like the ancient officialdom? ”

Ye Mei is silent, she understands the truth, but she has not been used to fighting since she was a child, and she can't cope with the deception in the workplace, especially in state-owned enterprises with personnel in the system, and there are endless open and secret fights.

The two had a tacit understanding and ate a few bites of food, and Ye Mei called the waiter to send two bottles of beer, opened one bottle and poured wine, and took the initiative to toast Zhao Qingshan.

The two of them each lit a cigarette, and Ye Mei took the initiative to say: "So I resigned from Bright Jewelry Co., Ltd. and applied for the current private company." The company I work for is actually the same as the company where Situ Haiyang works, it is nominally a company, but it is not registered, so I simply think that there should be no conflict of interests in a company like this, and there are only a dozen people in the office, who is fighting with whom?"

Zhao Qingshan said with a smile: "Then you should be very wrong." ”

His smile is not schadenfreude, but to show understanding, many people's simplicity has nothing to do with age, some people even if they step into the workplace for more than ten years to the age of thirty or forty, they will not dig out their minds to fight with anyone, just be an ordinary employee honestly, and be lucky to be a small leader, but also can't arouse their ambitions.

This kind of personality is like this, simple and satisfied with the current life, will not take the initiative to offend anyone who is embarrassed, and will not invest easily.

For them, a stable job and life trump anything else.

Ye Mei glanced at Zhao Qingshan with deep meaning, flicked the cigarette ash, and said helplessly: "Yes, it's very wrong." When I learned about the structure of the company, I couldn't believe that a private company with an annual revenue of hundreds of millions of dollars had a pitiful number of college students, a chairman and a general manager, and then an office director plus a manager, and only the office director was a college student among the top executives. The more this happened, the more I felt that my abilities were put to good use. ”

Zhao Qingshan smiled and asked, "Why are you looking at me with such eyes? I am not one of those colleagues who have targeted you, nor is I the chairman or general manager who treats you as a catfish." ”

Ye Mei was puzzled: "Catfish?"

Zhao Qingshan blurted out: "You haven't even heard of the catfish effect, have you?"

Ye Mei was even more puzzled and asked, "What is the catfish effect?"

Zhao Qingshan just wanted to ask her what kind of college she graduated from, but suddenly found that this is a word on the earth, and in this world, although there is a similar concept, it is not called the catfish effect.

Fortunately, catfish and sardines also exist in this world, which is easy to explain.

"I'll tell you a story I've seen myself, sardines are very popular with the locals in Obic, especially live fish, so the price of live fish in the market is much higher than dead fish. As a result, fishermen always try to get the sardines back to the fishing port alive, but despite all the efforts, most of the sardines die of suffocation halfway through. There is only one fishing boat that always makes it back to the fishing port alive. The captain kept it a strict secret, and the mystery was not revealed until the captain died.

It turned out that the captain put a catfish in a tank full of sardines, and after the catfish entered the tank, it swam around due to the unfamiliar environment. The sardine was very nervous when he saw the catfish, rushed left and right, dodged in all directions, and accelerated his swimming. In this way, the problem of lack of oxygen in the sardines will be solved, and the sardines will not die. Some people call this causality the catfish effect. ”

After Zhao Qingshan finished speaking, Ye Mei also fell into contemplation and took a deep puff of cigarette.

After a long time, Ye Mei laughed miserably: "I see. ”

It is easy for newcomers in the workplace to fall into a misunderstanding, and if they don't understand, they will ask if it is not the fine tradition of our country? Once a colleague is perfunctory, he will complain that his colleagues do not help me at all.

But have you ever thought about it, why should people consume their own time to solve your problems?

The workplace is not a good place and does not encourage employees to help others, and if you want your colleagues to show kindness to you, you have to behave yourself.

You are lively and cheerful and quickly mingle with your colleagues, and naturally someone will give you feedback on your enthusiasm, let alone delay them for a few minutes, why not talk to you to work overtime?

You are beautiful and stylish, and female colleagues may be jealous of you, but on the bright side, they are happy to be with you, talk to you about fashion and cosmetics, and will a little favor reject you?

If you graduate from a prestigious school and have the potential to work hard, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that you can bring performance to the team in the near future, then everyone will respect the word "team".

If you are scolded by a leader, you will slander how the leader is so stingy, and it is good to scold people if you have corrected a small mistake? As everyone knows, your little mistake is very likely to lead to the postponement or even failure of a major project.

If there are too many "little mistakes" in an enterprise, it may be a matter of life and death for the enterprise.

The current Ye Mei is definitely not a qualified manager, and even being an ordinary staff member will put pressure on her.

But she has a lot of temperament that the elderly in the workplace do not have, she is very principled, she will not sacrifice her body in order to keep a job and get a job, a person who does not know how to love herself and is only limited to immediate interests, will not go far. You can take a shortcut or two, but when you get used to taking shortcuts, you're blocking your path.

She will not be as jealous as most women, Zhao Qingshan originally thought that after being sneered at by Xiao Kewen, she would at least say bad things about Xiao Kewen at the dinner table, such as Xiao Kewen's plastic surgery is a good target. But she didn't, she didn't want to be a broken mouth.

You say she doesn't have scheming? There must be, but her scheming is used on the right path, for example, she said that the workplace story is to show herself through her own story, showing that she has good work ability, as well as self-esteem and self-love as a woman, and the momentum of a young person.