Chapter 45: An Old Acquaintance
Yu Qi got off work early in the morning, as if she saw a familiar figure being brought into the small conference room in the middle by HR. Who is she? Yu Qi couldn't remember for a while.
Yu Qi answered a few phone calls, and when he ran to the printing room to get the text, he suddenly heard a voice: "Yu Zi, is it you?" ”
Yu Qi raised her head in surprise, she hadn't heard this call for a long time. She remembers that when she was in high school, there was a time when Cui Xinyi, who was at the same table, saw that she always talked about the "Zhihu person" in the ancient text. Just follow the example of the ancients and call her "Yuzi". She didn't dare to be as famous as "Confucius" and "Lao Tzu", so please Cui Xinyi don't torture her. But this girl is in the rebellious period, and the more she doesn't let her call, the more she calls her "Yuzi" with an iron heart. Yu Qi couldn't resist her, so he could only go with her.
Since the college entrance examination, she went to Australia to study, counting the time that she has not been able to meet again in her previous life, it has been ten years since their two best friends were separated. Yu Qi met her friend from high school again, and saw her hair hanging high behind her head, and her jet-black hair became more and more white. She was wearing a low-cut skirt, a flickering career line, and the smell of perfume that could be smelled from 10 meters away from her body, Yu Qi felt a blur. Thinking of the simple ** child in the school uniform in her impression, the woman in front of her made her feel a little rusty.
"Sure enough, it's you!" The girl behind HR exclaimed softly, and the two old friends were reunited, and they were extremely happy.
HR originally planned to take her out of the company, but since she met an old acquaintance, she handed over smoothly.
"Cui Xinyi, it turned out to be you!" Yu Qi forgot the company etiquette for a while, and jumped up excitedly in the company's aisle.
"I just saw the silhouette of you entering the conference room, and I thought, who is so familiar! Didn't you go to Australia to study? Why did you come back so soon? Yu Qi couldn't help but wonder when she thought that she still had a year to graduate.
Seeing the colleagues passing by, Yu Qi realized that the two people were blocked in the aisle, which was too eye-catching. So he led his friend to the pantry and sat down and chatted.
"Oh, I went to Australia for a three-year bachelor's degree. I got my diploma in March this year. No, I went back to China a few months ago to look for a job. My mother said that there were few opportunities for foreign companies in her hometown, so she bought a suite in Shanghai, and the whole family had already moved to Shanghai. Cui Xinyi proudly introduced herself. She looked at Yu Qi with a smile in her eyes, "Meet your old acquaintance in another country!" It's a pleasure to meet you. After I went abroad, I lost contact with everyone. I didn't expect to meet you in Shanghai. Even if I can't work here, I'll be able to keep in touch with each other in the future!"
Cui Xinyi glanced at her watch and said, "Yuzi, it's time for dinner, I'm not familiar with the neighborhood." Why don't you take me out for lunch? I'm in for a treat, and you lead the way! Let's talk while eating? ”
"That's it!" Yu Qi secretly blamed herself for meeting her old classmates, and she was so excited that she forgot about the time.
Sitting in a tea restaurant near the company, Yu Qi curiously asked her what position she was applying for?
"Project Management Specialist." Cui Xinyi happily replied, "I took a PMP (Project Management Professional) certificate, and I heard that it will be easier to find a job in project management in China. ”
"PMP, oh, it's the legendary 'sycophant' certificate!" Yu Qi remembered that in the past, the project team often mocked this certificate that foreigners value very much. Many local project managers went through the actual project management step by step ten years ago, accumulated experience, and reached the position of manager, so they do not value this certificate very much. This certificate is just in the eyes of HR, which is more valuable. Therefore, the people in the business department are very disdainful of those PM (ProjectManager) who have graduated for a few years because of this certificate. The smart **** people took the pinyin initials of "patting" and gave this certificate an alias.
"Yes, yes. There is also a PMPMP certificate, which is desperately patting on the back. Hahaha...... "Cui Xinyi's ability to laugh at herself is unparalleled.
The two girls haven't seen each other for many years, and they chatted, but they didn't feel strange. They seem to have returned to the beautiful green years of high school.
"Go back and help me find out the results of today's interview!" Cui Xinyi said angrily, "Is there anyone in the DPRK who is easy to do!" If possible, help me say a few more kind words to HR and project managers...... she couldn't help it, but she still went around the back door cheesily, ready to walk in.
"Of course, if you don't say it, I'll keep an eye on it for you." Yu Qile swallowed the sprite and agreed.
"Tell me about you, shall we? How's it going? Are you here......" Cui Xinyi is also full of curiosity about Yu Qi's separation in the past three years.
"Oh, I went to college in Shanghai and will graduate next year. Here's just an intern in the marketing department. Yu Qi thought that his former classmates were already looking for a company to sign a formal offer. But he is still messing around, and his competitiveness has been hit a little bit.
"And what about your feelings?" Cui Xinyi is desperate to fill in the blank space in Yu Qi's memory for the past three years. She asked a barrage of questions.
"My boyfriend is also from the marketing department here, a specialist."
"Oh, so your company isn't against office romances? That's good. Cui Xinyi couldn't help but think of the past of the company where she interned in Australia: she once thought that if she became the woman who was the manager in Australia, she could marry him and get a permanent status in Australia, as well as a stable job.
However, the shameless old Australian man, after enjoying her youthful body, not only did not help her stay in the company, but tricked her into resigning and leaving the company on the grounds that the company did not allow office romance.
After leaving, the old Australian man never answered her phone or dated her. It wasn't until she rushed to the office and saw the old man holding another Asian girl that she knew she had been kicked mercilessly like a broken shoe.
Therefore, she realized that in Western countries, no matter how good she is, she cannot fit into the life of the locals. Only by returning to her homeland will she succeed in obtaining the status and wealth she seeks and satisfy her vanity.
Yu Qi didn't expect that although she had the mind and experience of a 29-year-old woman, she still looked so immature and simple in front of Xinyi, who seemed to have gone through vicissitudes. Is it true that the Western world of flowers can change a person?
Seeing that there were fewer and fewer diners in the restaurant, Yu Qi apologized to Cui Xinyi and said that she was going back to work. Xinyi smiled and nodded, made a "six" gesture with her right hand, put it to her ear, and said goodbye to her with a smile.
At the end of the meal, one of them collected enough information, and the other relived the good old days, and both sides took what they needed, and each happily "went back to their own homes and found their own mothers".