Volume 1: Onboarding Section 1: Interviews
"I'm really convinced, the recruitment information posted on the wall is really unreliable, a broken factory is embarrassed to call the company, at a glance I know that the working environment is not good, and licked my face and said that no matter whether I eat or live, the monthly salary is two thousand, and the other depends on the commission, this is the provincial capital city Qicheng, just that salary, I can't even eat after renting a house!"
Zhang Su looked angry, holding the phone in his right hand, constantly complaining in his mouth, his steps kept moving forward, and there were stones and branches on the sidewalk, as long as they blocked the way, they were kicked out by Zhang Su.
"Hey, who asked your dad to ask someone to find a job that made you quit, now you know how difficult it is to find a job." A man's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Brother Rui, are you souring me, what kind of job did he find me, I won't talk about the low salary, there are a lot of idle things, except for repetitive physical strength, there is no development prospect at all, I don't want to waste in that kind of place at a young age."
When Zhang Su talked about his previous work, he didn't get angry.
The person on the other end of the phone, known as Brother Rui, is Zhang Su's good brother for more than ten years, named Wang Rui, and Zhang Su directly chose to find a job after graduation, Wang Rui chose to continue his graduate studies after graduating from his bachelor's degree, and he was also admitted to a well-known university.
"Big brother, don't you watch the news, do you know how difficult it is to find a job now, how difficult it is to find a stable one, do you know how many people are unemployed after graduation, thanks to your father, you can still find one for you, but you are complaining there, I heard that you had a dispute with your father before you resigned, why bother." Wang Rui persuaded.
"I know all this, but I can't do it if I want to be the lowest waste person for the rest of my life, don't you just use me as cheap labor to do the work of those machines, I don't want to be eliminated by society early, do you want to try my job? I've heard that it's also hiring. Zhang retorted.
"I'm not going, I'm not interested in listening to you complain about the situation over there, let's talk about the topic now, or what do you plan to do in the future, you interviewed six or seven companies, did you meet your expectations?"
When Wang Rui heard this, he quickly rejected Zhang Su's kindness, he heard Zhang Su talk about the situation of working in that state-owned enterprise, although the job is stable, but the salary is not high, the wind and sun are exposed all the year round, and the danger is still high, he doesn't want to go to that kind of place after finishing graduate school, so he rushes to the signboard of a graduate student of a famous school, and it is not easy to find a good job.
"No, those interview companies do not have high salaries, and there are a lot of conditions, what is proficient in three languages, what I have done a few independent projects, I go, if I know those, why am I looking for a job, I work part-time as a translator to earn more than going to them, I really don't know whether the current company is recruiting workers or immortals, no wonder a lot of people have resigned to start a business." Zhang Su complained.
"Of course, when a worker thinks about doing less and taking more, when the boss doesn't think about his own employees doing more and taking less, now the threshold for entry is not low, no one wants you if you don't go to graduate school, by the way, isn't the company you just interviewed still have a commission? Is the commission high? Wang Rui asked.
"I don't know, I ran out without asking." Zhang Su replied.
"Now most companies are taking commissions, maybe the commissions are good." Wang Rui explained.
"The main reason is that the position they recruited is too strangely written, and I feel that their company seems to be a fraud, so I quickly ran out." Zhang Su said.
"What is written?" Wang Rui asked curiously.
"What kind of soul master!" Zhang Su's right eyelid jumped and said.
"Yes, what kind of new concept is this, is it to recruit the dancing god, I think you can try it, maybe someone who does a white thing will come to you, and then you will make money." On the phone, Wang Rui said with a smile.
", I'm not in the mood to joke with you, I feel like the company might be engaged in pyramid schemes, or some crazy people, or it could be a madhouse." Zhang Zhen guessed.
"If there is no drama in this house, then what are you going to do in the future, go home and gnaw the old?" Wang Rui asked.
"What else can I do, continue to look for it, but next time I really have to screen and screen, I can't go to the interview anywhere, I spent a lot of money on travel expenses this month, and if I run like this, all the rest of the money will have to be wasted." Zhang Wei sighed helplessly.
"Why don't you also review and prepare for the graduate exam," Wang Rui gave Zhang Su an idea on the other end of the phone.
"Forget it, I'm not learning material." Zhang Su shook his head.
"Okay, buddy, I wish you success in advance, and when you find a job, I will go to your Daqi City to find you, and I will invite you to eat a promotion and salary increase!" Wang Rui blessed in advance.
"You're going to invite me to a big dinner with your slamming energy? Come and play, just say come and play. Zhang Su responded with disdain.
"Then I'll go to class first, goodbye." After Wang Rui finished speaking, he hung up the phone.
In the eyes of his father, the state-owned enterprise is the kind of big and too big, the treatment is very good, and the existence of double face is doubled when he says it, if his son can work in it, he can live a stable and peaceful life for the rest of his life, and he feels that his father is also dutiful.
But Zhang Su didn't think so, he worked in that state-owned enterprise for two years, and his personal experience told him that he was not as good as he imagined, front-line work, black and white shifts, high hours, heavy physical strength, poor environment, and health overdraft. Speaking of the nature of work, it is mechanical repetitive work at a small level, without much technical content, and sooner or later it will be replaced by the rapidly developing scientific and technological environment; Looking at the big picture, it is the fat and bloated system, and the leftovers left over from the old era are still being used, Zhang suspects that he still has some unbroken ideals, so he resolutely chooses to submit his resignation and say goodbye to the "stability" in his father's eyes.
The most important thing is that after Zhang Su joined the state-owned enterprise, Zhang Su's father went out to show off the state-owned enterprise everywhere, in order to show off his connections and ability, Zhang Su's sudden naked resignation made the old father unable to hang up in face soon, and came up with a lot of ways to prevent Zhang Su's resignation, and also led a group of relatives and friends to persuade Zhang Su to change his mind, thinking that Zhang Su was in the blessing and did not know the blessing, tried all means to get Zhang Su to go back to work honestly.
Zhang Su also understands their respective considerations, but in his heart he doesn't want to use his future to pay for his father's pedantic face-saving feelings, so the two are completely different from the starting point, and they argued with each other for a long time during the period of resignation approval, fighting with each other, sabre-rattling, and even quarreled at the expense of a big fight, and almost broke off the father-son relationship.
The final result is, of course, that is, Zhang Su insisted on his choice, he decisively chose to resign, in fact, the idea is very simple, that is, he doesn't want to become the kind of uniform cancerous cells on this tumor, he wants to devote himself to the society This big Shura field to accept the destruction and grinding, what he wants is to wash away the immature wind and rain, is the thunder of tempering the will, in Zhang Su's eyes, this is what he needs to transform from a cell to a complete person.
As soon as Zhang Su resigned, the first Shura test came, in the months after the resignation, Zhang Su successively submitted dozens of resumes to different companies, some of the resumes have been sunk into the sea, some companies do not recruit Zhang Su this kind of white, some companies offer wages after paying the rent is not even enough to eat, looking for it, Zhang Su did not find a few satisfactory companies, but the savings in his hands are dying out, and he is embarrassed to ask for help from home, looking at the sky of the big city, What Zhang Su felt was not the freshness of autumn, but the gloom that came to his face.
Three months since his resignation, this is already the 37th company that Zhang Su ran, Zhang Su saw the information from a recruitment notice posted on the wall indiscriminately, Zhang Su never looked at these small advertising signboard information in the past, but now he is also in a hurry to go to the doctor, Zhang Su who can't find a job all day long is very anxious, as long as there is an opportunity to find the desired job, he will not let go, especially when he saw the recruitment notice mentioned a well-paid word, immediately wrote down the name and address of the company on the recruitment notice.
The company is called the Soul Hunting Company, although the name is a little peculiar, Zhang Su hesitated for a long time and decided to take a look at it first, and the next day, Zhang Su took a ride early to the Soul Hunting Company to participate in the interview.
Zhang Su found this company according to the address on the signboard, it was built in an abandoned factory area not far from the city, and it was necessary to pass through a narrow and remote alley to enter it, this soul hunting company is located in the deepest part of the alley, surrounded by gloomy and lonely, black crows chirped, Zhang Su thought of the horror haunted house in the fairy tale, and his heart kept trembling, but he still had the courage to come to the door of the company.
Said to be a company, in fact, from the outside looks more like an old-fashioned factory, the east half of the factory building, the factory seems to have been abandoned, Zhang Su looked through a few broken glass windows, the steps inside the factory floor are already overgrown with weeds, moss all over, the huge factory building seems to have become a plant paradise.
The other half of the factory is a tower the size of a factory, from the outside, the side of the tower is slightly better preserved than the side of the factory, the outer wall skin is almost all peeled off, revealing the original concrete blue-gray of the wall, but there is not much moss and creeper on the outside of the tower, and when the rhizome of the plant extends to a hidden boundary between the factory and the tower, it seems to be contained by some mysterious force, and it stops abruptly at the edge. Zhang Wei remembers reading a book that said that people's anger will inhibit the spread and erosion of these plants, which proves that there are always people in the tower.
Zhang Su looked up at the iron frame signboard hanging on the roof of the company, cautiously walked into the empty hall on the first floor of the company, shouted two words inside, and about half a minute later, a young man who looked about the same age as Zhang Su came out to receive Zhang Su, and Zhang Su explained his intention to the young man.
Originally, the young man who received him thought that Zhang Su was the one who took the wrong way and broke in by mistake, and his whole face showed an expression of rushing people away, and when he heard Zhang Su say that he was here to apply, the young man's face was instantly full of smiles, and he enthusiastically welcomed Zhang Su into his office, served tea and poured water, and let Zhang Su sit and wait in the office for a while, and he went to find personnel to arrange an interview.
After a while, Zhang Su was taken by the young man to a small meeting, and an old woman who looked to be in her forties was already sitting opposite Zhang Su, and Zhang Su learned from the woman that she was the company's HR, that is, the person in charge of the company's human resources, of course, the interviewer who came to interview Zhang Su.
Zhang Su clearly remembered the interview process, after the old woman got her resume, she just looked at it briefly, and then put it down impatiently, and didn't ask any questions, but the eyes with old folds on the corners of her eyebrows kept looking at her body, her eyes kept wandering, and she didn't leave her body for a moment.
Zhang Su smiled bitterly, feeling like he was being scanned with infrared rays, he had the illusion of being naked in front of others, cold sweat broke out all over his body, goosebumps jumped up from the smooth skin one by one, and his ass was almost unable to sit still.
The old woman scanned Zhang Su with her eyes for a while, nodded seriously at Zhang Su, and directly told Zhang Su that the interview was passed, and then gave Zhang Su a brief introduction to the strange recruitment conditions such as recruiting soul masters, salary is a basic salary of 2,000 plus commissions, etc., The reason why it is weird is because the old woman interviewer did not explain inexplicable words like "soul master" to Zhang Su, and then hastily asked Zhang Su's wishes.
The more Zhang Su listened, the more he felt that something was wrong, and he kept thinking in his head, he had never heard of the soul master at all, let alone knew what the soul master did, in addition, the basic salary of two thousand also made him unacceptable, in Qicheng, the basic salary of two thousand was almost enough for the rent, and the commission was too ethereal in Zhang Su's eyes, and more importantly, Zhang Su remembered the eyes of the old woman who looked at him just now, Zhang Su felt that he was either taken by the old woman, or he had strayed into some illegal place, A few days ago, Zhang Su just saw the news in the news that college students were looking for a job and strayed into a pyramid scheme, Zhang Su immediately contacted his current situation, the more he thought about it, the more panicked he became, and after finding a reason to go to the toilet, he grabbed the door and trotted all the way out of the soul hunting company.
What happened after that was that Zhang Su called to inform his best friend Wang Rui of the interview, on the one hand, he complained and complained, and on the other hand, he reported his position to prevent him from encountering any accidents.
After talking to his friends on the phone, Zhang Su put his mobile phone in his pocket, walked in this lonely alley when he came, looked up at the sky shrouded in haze, thinking about the experience of these days, and his heart was as cloudy as this sky.
Looking at the narrow alley not far away, Zhang Su buried his head again, since he chose to jump into the sea, he couldn't let his body continue to sink in the boundless darkness, and the result of sinking could only be slowly drowned.