Seeing that Yang Lei was tossing ribs again, and his brain was open to sign a female model under a competitor, even Xu Shiwei complained: "Why did you change your career to make ribs again?"

Yang Lei explained: "This is not a career change, I was originally making sports ribs to get the first pot of gold, in the third year of high school, I won't design ribs for you and Nini? Maybe one day I will set up a special rib company on a whim to produce exclusive models for you, which is very important." ”

Thinking of those things in the third year of high school, full of youthful memories, Xu Shiwei felt funny: "Just to make me wear more comfortable, you just want to open a company? ”

"It's to spoil you. ”

"There are many lies, obviously I just want to sign those Victoria's Secret female models, you don't want to think about it, Victoria's Secret can let their big show models endorse you?"

"You can not let them endorse the ribs first, you can just throw a few collaborations in other industries, shampoos, cosmetics, as long as you can sign it, how to hype it in China, it's not what we say?"

"Why don't you want to sign Miranda Kerr, but you want to sign Candace Swanepel by name, just because one of them is married and the other is not?"

"It doesn't matter if she is married or not, she is sugar candy, Victoria's Secret ace, a small waist essence with a waist circumference of 58cm, she smiles so sweetly, the dream of men all over the world ......"

Toot toot.

Xu Shiwei's phone hung up directly.

Yang Lei was stunned, what kind of phone did he hang up after chatting well, is this angry?

No, Xu Shiwei has never been angry about this kind of thing, did he say it too much? He didn't say it wrong, he told the truth......

Considering that Victoria's Secret Ribs and X-Sports are competitive, the content of Tangtang's cooperation is only in the gym field, which can be regarded as a disguised endorsement, which also made Xu Shiwei pay a price of $1 million a year, so that Tangtang's annual income rose from $5 million to $6 million.

What changed Xu Shiwei's attitude was because Tangtang had a public Brazilian boyfriend who looked at her to death, and Yang Lei personally went to Peking University to apologize and coaxed her for a long time before she showed a sly smile and forgave Yang Lei.

"I'll just say, how can Shiwei be angry with me. ”

Yang Lei breathed a sigh of relief, in this matter, Xu Shiwei rarely showed the appearance of an ordinary little girl, but it added to her cuteness, if she was a cold-blooded robot, Yang Lei didn't dare to ask for it, no one wanted to be tired outside for a day, and when she went home and saw a cold face, the inflatable doll was still laughing.

Victoria's Secret female models are just episodes, and their roots are still in shoes and sportswear.

X-Sports' talent acquisition never stops.

Li Ning and Anta laid off employees, foreign companies such as Adidas, Reebok, and Nike gradually withdrew from the mainland, and many excellent designers were laid off and needed to find new jobs.

X-Sports has hung the golden sign of the sponsor of the Chinese national team, and countless outstanding designers have defected to it, and the design team of running shoes and spikes has also been established, enriching the entire product line.

Tony transitioned from a design supervisor to an administrative one, helping Yang Lei manage the entire design department.

Sunday, March 26th.

Yang Lei is drawing and making samples in the design studio at Fudan University, preparing to design a new running shoe.

The old building next to the open-air basketball court, rebuilt by the shed, accompanied Yang Lei for three years of design time, and now most of the designer employees have moved to the new place of Wanda Plaza to work, only to wait for Yang Lei to graduate in June this year, it will be completely closed and changed into an "innovation factory" of Fudan University.

I haven't touched the sole material for a long time and drawn drawings, Yang Lei's craftsmanship is a little rusty, and he has destroyed several molds on the humming machine.

An SUV drove along the side of the stadium and stopped at the door of the design room, Tony walked down, swiped his card to push open the code door, and the sound of a drop attracted Yang Lei's attention.

"Isn't it a day off, why are you here?"

Yang Lei sat at the table without looking up, and continued to study the glue injection large bottom pattern in front of him, using a sharp small clipper to sharpen the anti-friction lines on the gel, as if designing a beautiful work of art.

Tony walked over, sat across from him, and said worriedly: "Mr. Yang, I feel a little wrong recently, they all say that my left eye jumps for wealth, my right eye jumps for disaster, and my right eyelid always jumps." ”

Yang Lei asked casually: "What's wrong?"

"The personnel aspect. Since the seventh day of the first lunar month, Hu Jian and many well-known technicians in the industry in eastern Guangdong have been submitting resumes to us, or they are going through the internal staff recommendation channel and want to join us. ”

"Famous generals choose good masters, masters choose good companies, isn't it a good thing to change jobs?"

"But the number seems to be too much, I have screened, several people are the technical partners of the original factory, although it is a small and medium-sized factory, but there are several brushes in technology. ”

Hearing Tony say this, Yang Lei put down the things in his hand and raised his head.

Tony didn't have a smile on his face and whispered, "I wonder if something is wrong?"

What could be the problem?

Yang Lei picked up the wet towel next to him to wipe his hands, and he was also thinking.

I don't even want the identity of a technical partner, so I deliberately came to work here?

Stealing technology?

It shouldn't be possible, he has patents for the technology here, and the core materials such as GEL and TPU are all closed production, Lao Yang personally controls them, and the front-line assembly workers in the shoe factory get all the finished raw materials that have been mixed and pretreated, and they will definitely not be able to steal it.

Is it that the business has closed down, the economic environment is declining, and there is no future in sight?

It's not like that, 2013 is in the stage of rapid economic development, and there are still several years before the economic recession in 2018.

Yang Lei put down the wet towel, thought about it and asked, "Did you ask why these technicians didn't do it?"

Tony replied: "I asked, many people said that we squeezed their market share, because they didn't make money, they were hard and tired, they didn't want to set up a factory, or the company was transformed, they were laid off, and they wanted to come to our company to get a position as a senior designer and continue to do the work they like to love." ”

Yang Lei smiled, leaned on the back of the chair, picked up a paintbrush and played with it, and asked him: "Accustomed to being a boss, a technical director, commanding hundreds of workers, with an annual salary of one million and dividends of tens of millions, this kind of person is willing to condescend to the designers of our company with a salary of hundreds of thousands of dollars that year?"

"I didn't believe it at first, but I couldn't find anything wrong with it, and I couldn't tell if their purpose was true or false. ”

"Don't worry, I'll ask someone to find out. ”

Yang Lei waved his hand: "There are 3,000 nails for the broken ship, even if they lose money and close down, they must have earned millions of dollars over the years, I don't believe in the nonsense of 'I love the design industry', who is not here to make money?"

This is human nature, Tony thought to himself, the boss always looks at things from the perspective of people, people are right, things are right, people are wrong, no matter how tempting the pie is, it is useless.

Tony admired Yang Lei very much in this regard, and said embarrassedly: "Okay, I'll go check and verify it again." ”

Before he was about to leave, Yang Lei stopped him: "Did you send Mr. Xu the information of these people?"

"It's sent, there's no news over there. ”

"In this way, you report the situation to Mr. Xu and see what she says. ”

Yang Lei thought for a while and said: "I'm still a little worried, we go hand in hand, can you arrange it, let me meet with them in person? ”

"Let's arrange to have a meal together. ”

"Yes, you can arrange it, pick a few people with the best skills to sit at a table, and the average person will forget it. ”

"Okay. ”

After Yang Lei waited for Tony to leave, he didn't toss the outsole of his running shoes, looked at the information on the table, and thought about it seriously.

He is more worried about the rampant fakes, after all, he has worked in the fake factory in his previous life, and knows that this line of work is profiteering, for those genuine manufacturers, fakes are similar to locusts, attached to the body to suck blood, very hurt.

So two years ago, he recruited the two most famous high-imitation masters "Nanchen Beima" who he knew in his previous life to give high salaries as technical guidance, which is equivalent to spending money to support the elderly.

It stands to reason that the rest of the rest of the peers are not to be afraid because of technical shortcomings.

Let's say a pair of genuine X-Sports popcorn running shoes score 100 points, including 60 points for craftsmanship and 40 points for materials.

The two masters of Nan Chen and Bei Ma can probably achieve 60 points for craftsmanship, 30 points for materials, and a total score of 90 points.

Other peers may be a little worse, the process is 56 points, the material is 28 points, and the total score of 84 points is called A goods.

Or a little lower, 55 points for craftsmanship, 25 points for materials, and a total score of 80 points, which can probably be regarded as B goods, or lower.

Whether it's ABC or Super A, what is fake is fake, and it can never be true.

"Let's see what the situation is, I can't be the one who drove these little factories to death? I didn't do anything. ”

Yang Lei wants to complain a little, before 2016, the domestic garment industry is still very interesting, in the economic environment of big money printing, everyone raises wages, wealth increases, everyone has money to consume, where are the poor?

Five days later, it was another weekend.

Tony invited the five most powerful senior designers, the vice president of factory technology, to Shanghai, and he and Yang Lei received them together.

Xu Shiwei has investigated the information of these people, but she knows very little, after all, these technicians in their forties and fifties do not like to surf the Internet as much as young people, and there is very little information that can be found on the Internet.

The restaurant where the guests are invited is the roast goose shop on Huaibei Road, which is the 800 yuan gooseneck restaurant that Cai Lan praised before, and now it has become Yang Lei's favorite Chaoshan flavor restaurant, at least go to eat a big meal every month, and the chef has become good friends.

Today's meal is half a table of Chaoshan cuisine and half a table of Jiangsu and Zhejiang flavors.

It is just right to satisfy these guests from Hu Jian and Yuedong, everyone is full of praise for the dishes, and the chef personally delivers the dishes, introducing the source and eating methods, and the service is particularly thoughtful.

"Mr. Yang is really too polite and makes you break the bank. ”

"You are all seniors, you are my teachers, if you are not well treated, please forgive me. ”

Yang Lei's attitude is very low, mainly because he doesn't want to leave a handle for his peers, lest someone feel insulted and turn around and talk nonsense.

Look around, some people are dressed in suits and leather shoes, some people are dressed casually and ordinarily, some people have weather-beaten pleats on their faces, and some people are forced to smile and their eyebrows are tightly locked.

Yang Lei asked: "You are all well-known people in the industry, I am curious, the business is doing well, why don't you do your own thing, and want to join our X-Sports?"

A senior technician in eastern Guangdong shook his head and sighed: "Every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, if it is not for difficulties, who would think that they will have to leave their hometown when they are old?"

Yang Lei became serious: "Master Guan, you are from Guan Dongyue Garment Factory, right? Doesn't your factory have more than 3,000 employees, what happened?"

Master Guan's expression was a little hesitant, and he had something to say in his heart, and he didn't know whether to say it or not.

A round-faced middle-aged man next to him was anxious and said loudly: "Lao Guan, it's all on your head, what dare you not say? If you don't say it, I'll help you say it! Mr. Yang, Lao Guan was laid off by the factory, and he worked hard for Feiyue Factory for 15 years, but when he said that he would lay off employees, he would lay off employees, which was too cold-blooded and ruthless!"

Everyone looked at Master Guan, who was also full of bitterness, and added: "We were originally OEM foreign brands such as Barbury, Morningstar, and Sixteen, and we were making ready-to-wear, shoes, socks and hats, and I was mainly responsible for the shoe production line. But at the end of last year, the factory suddenly lost the shoe order in the second quarter of this year, and the boss was also anxious, and personally called the other party to ask what was going on, but he was still unable to recover, and he still failed to get the order back after the New Year, so he had to announce a large-scale layoff to reduce the burden......"

Yang Lei felt strange: "Even if you lay off employees, you will first lay off ordinary front-line operators, how can it be cut on the head of your technical director? Don't you need to make shoe samples in the future?

Master Guan shook his head and sighed: "To be honest with you, the efficiency of the flying shoe-making production line has not been good, the domestic sales can't do your X-Sports, and the export sales are also difficult to get new orders. ”

The round-faced middle-aged man next to him said: "Feiyue that proprietress has a tense face all day long, looking at everyone like a dead mother and owes her money, and the old manager has been angry for many years before he took the initiative to come out with me to find something to do." ”

Yang Lei looked at the round-faced middle-aged man, and the information said that this person is also Guan Dong, Master Lu of Wansheng Shoe Factory in Bluff, and Master Guan's accent is about the same, it is estimated that he is a fellow countryman who is so helpful.

Yang Lei asked: "Master Lu, your Wansheng shoe factory also cut the shoe-making production line?"

Master Lu was indignant: "The production line was not cut, but the salary was cut by 50% and the performance was halved." My son just went to college last year, and the annual tuition and living expenses add up to more than 30,000 yuan, and he has to get married, buy a house, buy a car, and take a half cut in salary, who can afford it?"

The chatterbox opened, and the two masters Lu Guan took the lead, and several other people also complained.

For a while, it seemed to be a miserable meeting.