Chapter 43: Yuji Naka, the Father of Sonic (Asking for Recommendation Votes.)
Tamahideyoshiro shaved his beard in the bathroom, washed his face, and went to the living room.
The wife went to drop off her daughter from school, and breakfast was ready to be put on the table. Tamahideyoshiro tied his tie and arrived at the dining room, where a glass of warm milk, a medium-rare poached egg, a slice of fried bacon, and a few slices of sliced square bread were on the table.
Taking a sip of milk and biting on bacon in his mouth, Tamahide Yoshiro couldn't help but think of the phone call he received last night.
The call was made from the United States.
The caller was made by a friend he had made during his time at Atari exchange, Mark Saini, a talented game designer, who had now left Atari to join a new game company as head of development.
This company called Mars Entertainment had never been heard of before.
Recently, however, it seems that his company, Sega, is going to cooperate with a company called Mars Entertainment on a game, because the company has just developed a game that has taken the United States by storm, and the company's headquarters wants to introduce it to Japan, but he is only a deputy head of the human resources department, and there are five deputy directors like him in the personnel department of the Sega Osaka branch.
He was the youngest and the least entitled.
"I recommended him to come to Sega before, but now he is already a director of a company, and he seems to be doing well." Thinking about the content of the phone call, and thinking of the confusion and doubts about the future when he talked to Mark Seney on the phone two months ago, he couldn't help but sigh that Shibetsu wanted to see it for three days - although this description is very inaccurate, this is indeed Tamahideyoshiro's inner thoughts.
"As the director of the Japanese branch?" What Mark Saini said on the phone last night made Tamahidejiro's heart feel like an extra crawling worm, which made him extremely excited, and he couldn't resist the increase of 50% of his current salary.
The director means director in Japanese, the president means the general manager, and the representative director means the chairman.
In Japan, a highly hierarchical society, the seniority wage system has become almost a tradition in the past golden decade, and no one dares to challenge it, and Japanese companies are proud of it, and it is also regarded as one of the foundations of Japan's economic take-off.
No matter how much credit you have, if you want to get a high salary and get promoted to a high position, you must talk about the merits, look at the sequence, and compare the qualifications.
Tamahide Yoshiro knew that if he wanted to get the level of salary that Mark Saini told him at Sega, it would take at least ten years, ten years, how many decades in his life?
But he was still hesitant, after all, he didn't know much about the company that Mark Seni was in, what if it failed?
Sega is a big company after all, and it took nine years for me to get my current position and salary after graduating from university.
Life can't come again! They have a family, a virtuous wife, and a lovely daughter, they need to be responsible for themselves, they are not young people anymore, and they can't take risks at will.
If you fail, do you have to start at the bottom? What about my family?
The pie in front of you looks tempting, but who knows if there is a hidden abyss ahead?
The idea gradually became clear, and Tamahideyoshiro seemed to have made a decision, but the salary that Mark Seni promised kept jumping out of his mind, and it seemed that it could not be erased.
A full 50 percent increase in salary......
Sighing, eating the last piece of bread and swallowing the last sip of milk, Tamahideyoshiro put on his suit, changed into his shoes, and walked out of the house.
In any case, I can't be late for today's work.
Thinking so, Tamahide Yoshiro hurriedly walked towards the station.
An ordinary house in Osaka.
A shy young man who looked to be less than twenty years old, with a three-to-seven hairstyle and a pair of round-framed glasses, sat on the tatami mat in a daze.
He was holding a job application slip in his hand, and the first box said CSK Corporation, Japan's largest software company, but the back of this volunteer had already been marked with a bright red X with a red pen by himself, and he failed.
In the second compartment, it is written NEC, the famous NEC, but this intention is followed by the same as the first one, and he also drew an X with a red pen, which failed.
The third grid is written Sharp, Japan's well-deserved home appliance giant, this intention is no different from the first two, and the back is still a red X, failure.
There are only three boxes on this volunteer list, all of which have been filled and all have failed, but on the border outside the grid, the young man still writes four English letters with a pen, SEGA, Sega.
The young man just looked at the volunteer list in his hand blankly, with a confused look on his face.
He suddenly held his head in his hands, grabbed his hair hard, shook his head vigorously, and complained in a small voice full of resentment, "Why can't high school students write programs?" Why do they only ask about my academic qualifications and not look at my abilities? Are only college students the privilege of writing programs? ”
This young man's name is Yuji Naka, nineteen years old, a graduate of the electrical department of Nishinoda Technical High School this year, despite the fact that the name of this school sounds lofty, in fact, it is only a vocational high school, that is, he is a high school graduate.
This is not a high degree in Japan.
With this kind of education, it is indeed a bit whimsical to want to enter the internationally well-known companies that he volunteered for.
"Brother!" At this time, the door of Yuji Naka's room was opened, and a cute little girl about ten years old stood in front of the door, blushing, pouting and saying, "Big lazy worm, you won't miss the train if you don't get up again!" ”
Although Yuji Nakatsu is in an irritable mood now, he still loves this only sister very much, he just squeezed out a smile on his face, waved his hand, and pretended to be very confident: "Kako! You don't know your brother's strength! I'm definitely going to get hired this time! ”
"Come on!" The little girl also showed a bright smile when she heard her brother's words, and at the same time clenched her fists and waved them vigorously, as if to cheer her brother on.
"I must succeed today!" Yuji Nakatsu came out of the house, still holding a half-eaten omelette in his mouth, clenching his fists vigorously, thinking so.
Tamahideyoshiro came to the company and looked at today's work arrangement, there was an interview meeting in the morning, there would be more than a dozen job seekers for interviews, and there was a mid-level meeting in the afternoon, as if to discuss the promotion of a game.
"I heard that the agency rights to the game that the company just won cost a full 20 million dollars!"
"Really? Isn't that billions of yen? ”
"Yes, I heard that this company has just been established, and it has just become popular in the United States with a game that has sold 100 million dollars a month!"
"Lie to people, how can you say it, pay back 100 million dollars!"
"Really, I heard from a friend in the headquarters, I don't believe you to ask, that company is called Mars Entertainment......"
Tamahideyoshiro, who was holding a stack of job application materials, suddenly stopped, and he looked at the staff members who were talking with some shock, his head full of what they had been talking about.
After a slight hesitation, he also stepped forward, coughed, and deliberately asked in a flat tone: "Isn't that game company called Mars Entertainment just established?" How is it possible to have $100 million in sales in a month? ”
Tamahideyoshiro is the deputy head of the personnel department, and in Japan's hierarchical society, ordinary employees are the first to bow when they see it.
These ordinary employees who were chatting saw that it was Tamahide Yoshiro, and hurriedly bent down to salute, and after Yuxiu Yoshiro waved his hand to signal that it was not necessary, the one who knew carefully answered Tamahide Yoshiro's question.
Yuxiu Yoshiro, who received the reply, left with a blank face, which made these ordinary employees look at each other, wondering how this Yuxiu senior, who had never been interested in gossip, could suddenly be interested in an American company.
Tamahideyoshiro was now full of information about Mars Entertainment and $100 million, and he couldn't wait to find out if the information he had just heard was accurate, and the decision he had already made during the meal didn't seem to be very strong, and he suddenly realized that the proposition he had used to convince himself that Mark Seni was going to a small company was not valid at all.
No matter how small a company used to be, it will not be a small company when it gets $100 million in sales a month.
The person in charge of this interview was his boss, the head of the personnel department of the Sega Osaka branch, a very stubborn, mean person, and he had personally experienced the economic miracle of the golden decade, so he often became smug about it, and often commented on his subordinates in a contemptuous tone, for example, you people are not much better than pigs, and so on.
Originally, he was in charge of this interview, and his boss was supposed to go to the headquarters today to listen to President Nakayama's teachings, but President Nakayama left for the United States this morning, so a high-level meeting that had been scheduled was canceled.
So Tamahideyoshiro's boss saw that there was an interview meeting this morning, so he decided to take charge of it himself.
This made Tamahide Yoshiro, who was originally in charge of this matter, a dispensable deputy, and he was also a little dissatisfied with this, but he was helpless.
"Bang!"
Tamahideyoshiro, who was thinking about things, didn't pay attention to the front, he was holding a cup of coffee in his hand that was no longer steaming, and his steps were a little fast, and he accidentally bumped into someone around a corner.
At the same time, the cup of coffee in his hand was also unstable, the cup was crooked, and the coffee liquid that was no longer hot poured on the other party's brand-new suit, and the cup fell to the ground and shattered.
Fortunately, Tamahideyoshiro's body was still quite strong, his body only shook after this impact, and did not fall, and the person he hit was much thinner than him, and he could only sit on the ground with his butt when he hit him.
"I'm sorry!" Seeing the person sitting on the ground clutching his chest and a painful look on his face, Tamahide Yoshiro hurriedly helped the place up, and kept saying apologies in his mouth.
Yuji Nakatsu covered his chest, scolding himself for being so unlucky, he could stuff his teeth with cold water, and finally found someone to ask where the interview was, and he was knocked down for no reason when he was about to arrive, and at this time he felt a sticky slip from the palm of his hand pressing his chest, and it was wet with a warm feeling.
He hurriedly looked down to see that the front of the new suit he had just spent a lot of money for his graduation job interview was stained with a large yellow-brown coffee stain.
You can't wear it at all.
Seeing this scene, Yuji's eyes instantly turned red, and he looked at the middle-aged man who knocked him down with some annoyance.
He's going to have an interview today! Now that my clothes are like this, how can I participate in the interview? Attending an interview without a suit will definitely be considered disrespectful to the interviewer and will be ruthlessly kicked out.
Thinking that he was likely to fail the fourth interview in a row, Yuji Naka, who was introverted by nature, suddenly felt the urge to cry.
Tamahide Yoshiro looked at the time on his watch, and his face showed an anxious look, it was very close to the time of the interview, if he was late, he would definitely be mercilessly humiliated by his boss who had long looked at him unpleasantly.
He could only tear a piece of paper from the notebook in his folder, and took a pen and wrote down his name and a string of numbers on it.
Yuji Yuji put this piece of paper into the hands of Yuji Naka, and he said in a rather anxious tone: "I still have urgent matters to deal with, this is my name and my home phone number, you go to the personnel department to find me at noon, if I am not here, then you call this number at night, and I will definitely compensate you for your clothes." ”
After saying that, Tamahide Yoshiro, who couldn't afford to delay the time, trotted away.
Yuji Nakatsu held the paper in his hand, and watched blankly at the back of the middle-aged man in his thirties who knocked him down as he gradually disappeared in front of him.
This left him a little dumbfounded.
"When I'm a fool?"
Suddenly, he took a bitter sip in his mouth, then glanced at the contents of the paper, and the next second he crumpled the paper into a ball and threw it into the trash can on the side of the aisle without hesitation.
"It looks like this interview is going to be ruined again." While thinking so pessimistically, Yuji Nakatsu took off the suit he was wearing and put it in his hand, and walked listlessly towards the interview location, although he knew that his hope was not great, but Yuji Nakayuji didn't want to give up just like that, after all, he had to try to make him die.
What he didn't notice was that he was walking in exactly the same direction as the middle-aged man who knocked him to the ground just now.
In the room where the interview will be held.
Sitting in a chair, Tamahideyoshiro looked boredly at the cover letter in front of him.
The 50-year-old man next to him was in complete control of the entire job search process, and he and the other two assistants were like spectators, only spectators, watching the whole process.
All the problems of job seekers are in charge of the personnel section chief Suzuki-senpai next to him, and he can't even interject half a sentence by himself.
In the beginning, whenever he was interested in a job applicant and wanted to ask about it, his Suzuki senior would give him a cold look and say, "Your interview is over, next one." ”
In the face of this situation, Yuxiu Yoshiro, who couldn't even conflict with his boss, simply ignored it, and no matter how his Suzuki senior interviewed, he didn't meddle in his own affairs, anyway, the recruited person was not qualified, and naturally the person who was recruited was responsible for the selection of the personnel class.
He's happy to be relaxed, too.
"Next."
With this voice, Tamahideyoshiro casually flipped through the cover letter of the previous interviewer.
When he saw the photo on the cover letter from the next job seeker in front of him, his eyebrows suddenly furrowed.
Isn't this the young man he knocked down earlier?
Tamahide Yoshiro hurriedly moved his gaze to the name column, Yuji Naka, education, electrical department of Nishinoda Technical High School...... High school?
When he saw the other party's academic qualifications, Yuxiu Yoshiro's pupils shrank sharply, and he suddenly thought of the contemptuous attitude of the Suzuki senior next to him towards people with a college degree or less, and he hurriedly looked at the other party's job search intentions, game developers, or programmers.
Tamahideyoshiro secretly said that with the rigid Cheng of his boss, he would never agree to a person with only a high school education to apply for such a high-tech position.
Yuji Naka, who was not wearing a suit, but a white shirt with brown stains faintly visible on the front of the shirt, walked in, and he first bowed to the interview examiner in the room.
The moment he walked in, Tamahide Yoshiro's boss, Section Chief Suzuki, frowned for the first time, and seemed to be extremely dissatisfied with the other party's outfit.
"Humph!" Seeing the other party bowing respectfully, he just snorted expressionlessly, as if he didn't care about it.
Then, Suzuki glanced down at the cover letter of the job seeker in front of him, and he didn't know what he saw, his face instantly turned red, and an extremely angry gaze shot out of his pupils.
He slammed the table and stood up.
One finger pointed at Yuji Naka, and his mouth was unceremoniously angry.
"Did your teacher in school teach you to use such a look to apply for a job?"
Seeing that Yuji Naka's face turned red in an instant, Suzuki seemed to become a little unforgiving, and he continued to say in a snarky tone: "It's really a shame for your teacher to teach such a student who has no manners. ”
Regarding Suzuki's accusation, Yuji Nakatsu could only blush, and he couldn't say a word with his head down.
"Smack!" Tamahideyoshiro, who was a little apologetic to Yuji Naka, couldn't listen any longer, and he slammed the table and stood up, interrupting Suzuki's words with the sound of his palm slapping the table.
Yuxiu Yoshiro looked at his boss Suzuki with burning eyes, and said without humility or arrogance: "Senior Suzuki, don't you think it's a bit too much for you to say this about a young man?" ”
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