Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Mean Director
The regular meeting will be held in twenty minutes, and Shi Ran seized the last bit of time to familiarize himself with the meeting documents, and suddenly the door rang.
"Enter."
A thin man with medium-length curly hair entered, his facial bones protruding and his expression grim.
Shi Ran got up slightly and beckoned, "Steven, sit." ”
It was Steven, the design director of the second marketing department. Wearing a light gray linen dress and white stocking shoes, the whole person has a popular ascetic atmosphere. A pair of deep and slightly coffee-colored pupils, coupled with towering eyebrow bones, have a sense of distance that is difficult to approach.
"How?" Shi Ran asked. He had always had a lot of respect for Steven, and although he was the leader of the other party at the administrative level, he had never put on an official role.
"Not good." Steven replied unceremoniously, and as soon as he sat down, he crossed Erlang's legs.
He never assumed a flattering posture in front of anyone, even in front of the leader. Independent personality, leapy thinking, and dislike of opposing opinions from others are the three major characteristics of his personality. But in all fairness, even if the three departments combined, he is the most outstanding talent. Shi Ran had worked hard to poach him from another company, and if it weren't for the years of friendship, Steven would never have come to Huanyu - he didn't look down on most people in this company.
"That'...... Tell me about your suggestions. ”
"My suggestion is that there are more and more people eating idle meals, and if you want to change, you must change your blood."
Shi Ran took out the soda from the mini refrigerator and handed it over, but Steven didn't respond, he had to put it on the table with a little embarrassment.
"Aside from that, is there anything easier to implement?"
"Is this hard? It's easy for the boss. ”
"Oh, yes, other people's companies, you can use whoever you want, but it's not so easy for us. What you said is that the company's current situation of overcrowding is becoming more and more obvious, and I have also submitted a written report to the president's office on this issue, but the boss may have his own ideas, and he has not replied for the time being. Before we make a big move, we still have to use the current team to push the work forward......"
"Push, how to push, hard push? The car had to put down the handbrake before it could hit the road. These people are either falsifying their academic qualifications or exaggerating their experience, what art academy graduation painting major, I think the most ordinary artists in the copy shop are better than them. ”
"Hey, you and I know a lot of things, what can be done. Those people have the final say on who to recruit or not, Huanyu is such a big system, and the relationship network is very complicated, you teacher can be more patient. ”
"I'm here to do things, not to teach, to teach, these people all have to go back to the furnace and reinvent."
"Their academic qualifications should be true, but they still need to run in. This recruitment is urgent, and there is a shortage of talents in your industry, so the requirements for the review may be lowered. You, the veteran driver, should take them on the road more often and get familiar with the style of doing things here as soon as possible. ”
"I didn't have anything to do when I was hiring, but now I want to bring ...... Don't bring! ”
"Brother, don't make it difficult for me, the second department pointed at you in the company and raised your eyebrows. If you are in a mood, how can you carry out your work? ”
"We are friends and I came to Huanyu, but I didn't expect this to be an empty shelf. I knew that the business level was like this, and I didn't come to the eight sedan chairs at the beginning. ”
"But Huanyu is the most powerful advertising company in Lucheng, and its performance is far ahead, no one can deny it, we have to use data to speak."
"You don't understand, performance and level are two different things."
"I know that you are an artist and you demand perfection in your work. But we are doing things for customers, and customer satisfaction is the last word. There may be a lot of people in the world who are not, but the continuous flow of high-quality customers is beyond the reach of other companies. ”
"In short, I am very dissatisfied with this team, other things can be done, and there is no way to do design."
"Tell me, what kind of support do you need?"
Steven just wanted to open his mouth, but Shi Ran added.
"Except for substitutions."
"Then change me, or you won't be able to do it."
Before Yang Qianye joined the company, the company set up a new design team for the second marketing department, led by Steven, who was responsible for the visual system design of the two heavyweight brands signed this year. The previous design team was led by David and was in charge of the Shihao project. In other words, one serves external customers, and one serves internal brands.
"Eliminate gas." Shi Ran pushed the soda towards Steven again, and this time Steven picked it up, "The work still has to be carried out." In this way, I will report back to the boss and recruit a batch of designers as soon as possible, and you will interview in person at that time. ”
Steven's tense facial expression relaxed slightly, and he unscrewed the cap and took a sip.
"But now the progress is tight, the plan that should be completed can only be advanced and not postponed, you still have to worry about it, let them work overtime, and they must deliver on time."
"A group of stupid pigs, what about every day and all night, as soon as the sun comes out, they are still stupid pigs."
"Take care of it."
"Hey, okay, I'll have to spend a little more time on my own." After Steven finished complaining, he got up to leave, "I did it myself...... Let me tell you, Shi Ran, if you give me a team like this time, I really won't do it. ”
"Absolutely not, don't worry, I promise."
"I have time to talk to the boss, this is not a nursing home, don't stuff all kinds of goods into it."
"The treatment of the world is good, everyone wants to drill into it, some people start trading on it, you and I can't control it." Shi Ran alluded to Li Muyuan and his ilk.
Steven opened the door and turned back suddenly.
"The new secretary is too, isn't he?"
"You said Yang Qianye? It's true that it was arranged from above.,But it's the meaning of the boss.,I don't know how the ability is.,But the girl looks pretty honest and not fancy.。 ”
"That's the criteria for choosing a babysitter."
"Oh, you mouth...... Let's go, let's have a meeting. ”
The two of them left the office one after the other and walked towards the conference room.
In terms of style, Shi Ran is probably the most temperamental of the executives, and the employees of the second department have hardly seen him angry. He is not only very respectful to a top soldier like Steven, but also smiling and very patient with ordinary employees. This has led to him being at a disadvantage in the internal competition, but it has also gained a good reputation. Everyone thinks that this manager understands people and is easy to get along with, and he doesn't have power and oppression. There will be no fat to eat with him, but there will be no hunger either, compared to the working atmosphere where everyone is in danger in the first and third parts, it is much easier to be his subordinates.
Steven, on the other hand, is not so easy to get along with, relying on his superior experience and ability, and almost never takes the people he works with in his eyes. He is known for his harsh bigotry, often giving merciless criticism of the designers' work, using garbage as a metaphor to make people embarrassed. The low-level ones are afraid of him, and the high-level ones also avoid him, and they basically have no friends in the company.
But it is not unreasonable for him to be upright and arrogant, but everything he handles with his own hands is convincing. It is undeniable that he has a high level of talent, and it is not an exaggeration to call him a visual artist.
And a small person like Yang Qianye, he doesn't regard it as air at all.
At lunch, the little rabbit's warning was still in his ears, and he never expected that at the afternoon meeting, he gave Chiba a "meeting gift".
When discussing the creative direction with the designer, he proposed to look at the historical manuscripts of similar customers in the past six months, which were classified and stored according to different standards, and both text and electronic files needed to be extracted from the library quickly. However, on the first day Chiba came to the company, he was still slowly getting familiar with the business under the guidance of his colleagues, and it was obvious that he could not meet this requirement.
It wasn't a big deal, but in the process of explaining, she inadvertently said, "I'm not familiar with it when I first came", and Steven suddenly became angry and sent out all the fire in his chest towards her.
"Just here? So how long does it take you to cook? The process you are familiar with is also being paid by the company, and the speed is not in how efficient you are, but in how thick-skinned you are. ”
"I'm sorry Director, I'm not making excuses because ......"
"Not so much because, okay is okay, no good is not good. If everyone finds a reason, there is no need for anyone to take responsibility. ”
"No, I'm ......" Chiba was still trying to argue, but Bunny secretly grabbed her shirt, "I won't do that next time." ”
"Remember, there's no such thing as an assistant role, it's your job to help with the office and familiarize yourself with the essentials of the department. As for archived documents, both text and graphics must be well understood, as long as the documents are not older than two years old, they must be quickly retrieved and extracted from the archive. Don't think that the secretary is just pouring water to connect the wiring, and want to be lazy and go home and lie down, it's easier than here. ”
Until the end of the day, Steven's words still echoed in Chiba's ears.
Of course she felt aggrieved. On the first day of my arrival, even if I knew that I needed to have a comprehensive understanding of the company and be as familiar with the business as possible, it was not possible to do it in a moment. And there is no specific chronology for many of the links in this process. If you spend the morning familiarizing yourself with the archives, you won't be scolded in the afternoon. However, if the identity and position of the participants are not clear at the afternoon meeting, then the work in the morning will be said to be reversed.
In short, bullying newcomers is an industry habit, and only recognition. Even the little rabbit who graduated from a famous university was bullied so much that she cried for three days when she first came to the company, not to mention her.
Still, she developed a genuine admiration for Steven. At the regular meeting, Steven's views are unique, not similar to others, and he is not deliberately unconventional. His mind jumped, his horizons were broader, and when he spoke, he knew that he was the one who had the goods in his belly. In fact, if you think about it, Steven is right in criticizing that work can only be done and not worked, and there is no need for excuses.
She really should have figured out what to prepare and what she might need before the regular meeting, rather than prevaricating on the grounds that she was new to the meeting. Steven and the others were not obligated to sympathize with her, and she was seen as a secretary, not a person. People can have many special circumstances, but the role is not qualified to justify dereliction of duty.
Thinking of this, she looked up ahead.
At the back of the office building is the exit of the parking lot, and private cars are rushing out, and several people holding the steering wheel are colleagues from the second department, they are the same age as her, even if they are older, they are only a few years old.
Looking at these young and promising people, and then looking at himself who was destitute, Chiba had envy for the first time.
Yes, it's envy, not just inferiority. She doesn't envy the ease with which people drive to and from work, or the comfort of discussing where to go for dinner on the phone while driving. She envies that they can get a relatively calm life through their own abilities, and they don't need to write their inferiority complex on their faces, nor do they have to worry about life in a panic.
Remembering that she had to catch the bus to go to the gym to work part-time, and she didn't have time to solve dinner, she couldn't help but secretly resolve that she must put in more effort than others to gain a firm foothold in the group.