Chapter 51 Is it tolerable, but it is unbearable
Entering the fourth quarter, the company's annual sales target has not been completed, and the sales department is a little anxious, because the purchase orders that several large customers have agreed in the middle of the year have not come down as scheduled.
Every large company generally makes a financial budget for the coming year at the end of the year according to the current year's business situation. Therefore, in order to have a generous budget for the next year, these companies will definitely try their best to use up this year's financial funds at the end of the year, and even slightly overdraft some of the next year's expenses. Because only when money is used can performance be brought about. Everyone needs political achievements to prove their management skills to the boss.
So, it's not a good sign that the customer hasn't placed an order in the fourth quarter. What exactly is the reason why they are dragging their orders?
Jack Fang from the sales department and Steve from the marketing department had a small meeting, hoping to tactfully urge customers to place orders immediately.
At the end of November, an international electronic components exhibition will be held in Munich, Germany. The marketing department of the company decided to take this opportunity to invite the buyers of several customer companies to participate in the exhibition, and in fact, take them to Europe for a trip at public expense. I hope that when they return to China, they can help push (promote) the procurement process of their respective companies together.
The marketing department intends to send a commissioner with him. This person should not only be good in English, but also smart, can help the sales department understand the real reason for the delay in the customer's purchase plan, and maintain the future customer relationship, and answer the customer's questions about the product at any time.
Steve originally planned to arrange for Bai Guorong to go as usual, but Xiaobai was sleek and had a special set of handling tricky guests. But thinking that Leslie Bai has been working under him for three years, he has been in vain. Obviously, Leslie Pak is a person who lacks pursuit in his career. Is he thinking about whether to use this opportunity to "beat" Xiaobai and make him more aggressive about his work?
In the end, Steve crossed out the name of the professional "Minister of Mission" Bai Guorong in his heart, and decided to send Meng Tianci on the expedition: to accompany the client to Europe. He hopes that Meng Tianci can take this opportunity to learn more about the products of competitors in the industry, and come back to bring some new ideas to his colleagues in the R&D department and marketing department of Kute China.
Bai Guorong, who joined the company 2 years earlier than Meng Tianci, originally thought that Steve would tend to Meng Tianci in the allocation of resources at work, so he would always take care of and compensate him in some other aspects and do a good job in balancing colleagues in the department. After all, although he did not have an excellent performance in his work, he was never without merit. In the past, the task of accompanying customers to inspect every year was assigned to him. At least he can travel at public expense, and when he returns, he can reimburse some more expenses to fill his small coffers. The owner of a foreign restaurant does not have to worry about the tax problems that will arise after the receipts are lost to China, so he can even give you the receipt book if the customer asks for it: let you fill it out yourself.
When Bai Guorong learned that the boss actually handed over the beauty of accompanying the client's European inspection to Meng Tianci this time. It's tolerable, it's unbearable! He didn't have the guts to challenge Steve, and he didn't have a reason to go to Meng Tianci to cause trouble. However, let him swallow this evil breath by himself, and he doesn't have such a big belly.
That's right, he admits that he is such a cautious man! Thinking that he was nearly 30 years old and still struggling in a position of marketing specialist in an almost marginal position, he began to buy drunk in the bar: only when he was drunk and lying at the bar, he could not see the imprint of the 'loser' in his heart - he lamented the injustice of God to him - when he first worked, because he did not dare to take out a loan to become a house slave, he lost the best opportunity to buy a house, and now he can only live in a room with his parents as he looks at the rising housing prices every year.
In Shanghai, because there was no big house, the girls he could see took a detour after seeing him.
Watching his old classmates rise one by one, he was no longer willing to even participate in the class reunion.
If it weren't for Meng Tianci, maybe he wouldn't have so many troubles - seeing that other colleagues who were older than him were either promoted within the company or changed jobs to find another job, he could barely comfort himself with his seniority; But seeing that Meng Tianci, who was so much younger than him, also had a smooth career and a happy love, the hatred and jealousy in his heart increased day by day.
One day, when he found out that he was subconsciously collecting evidence of Meng Tianci's work mistakes, he himself was taken aback. Forget it, he then thought "don't do it, don't stop it", only by bringing down this kid can he get on the throne.
He began to consciously build a good relationship with Alice, the cashier of the company: he would pretend to pass by Alice's desk and give her the extra small gifts from the marketing department.
Sometimes, when he invited customers to dinner, he would also call Alice to eat with him in order to make the scene more lively. Anyway, he is happy to be generous to the company and establish his own network.
Yes, he figured out that Guò Alice mastered Meng Tianci's usual reimbursement of customer relationship expenses.
Alice is just an insignificant little girl in the company, usually busy with work, but no one treats her, so she can't help but feel excited when she meets such a colleague who cares about her.
In order to prove that she is a useful person, she will not only quietly tell Leslie Bai about the cost of Meng Tianci, but also the public relations expenses of the boss of the marketing department. Sure enough, every time she talked about this, Leslie White would be very gentle with her.
Alice is a little girl who is not deeply involved in the world, and she can't tell whether Bai Guorong is in love with her or takes advantage of her? Or is it both? She, like many girls immersed in romance idol dramas, has been looking forward to being romantically pursued by her own Prince Charming. Now, Leslie Pak is the only man around her who has a passable education, appearance, and position. As for the house, she didn't care, because her family had been allocated five villas in the suburbs during the government's demolition and relocation projects in previous years. Later, her family sold 2 villas and bought a commercial house in the city.
Slowly, Leslie Pak found that Alice's eyes were getting more and more confused when she looked at him in the company, and he was worried that this little girl was really ...... to him
He still rejects office romances, otherwise 24 hours a day, day and night, it's strange if he doesn't get tired of dying! He knew Alice's heart for him, but he looked down on Alice's rustic spirit that had not faded even after receiving higher education. He began to deliberately distance himself from Alice.
His requirements for his wife are at least to go up to the hall and down to the kitchen! If he doesn't have the right partner, he won't waste his time talking about meaningless love with little girls.