Although he was resistant to working in the government in his heart, Wu Dao felt more joy in the first two days of his work at the Hecheng Municipal Government, and the office environment, accommodation conditions, and food standards of the Hecheng Municipal Government were much better than he expected.

Wu Dao is a graduate of a key university, is a top student in the eyes of outsiders, after he goes to work, every leader and colleague is very concerned about him, see him will ask him whether he is suitable for work, what difficulties in life, and said, if there is something, although to tell them, everyone seems to be very kind. At the first all-staff meeting after Wu Dao went to work, the mayor Han Siming introduced him:

"Wu Dao graduated from Jeju National University and is the first undergraduate student to graduate from a key university in our Ha town government. If such a high-achieving student can come to our town, he is our baby, and the future is promising. ”

The change in the external environment is still the secondary reason for Wu Dao's inner change, and the more important reason is the change of identity. Due to the poverty of his family, Wu Dao rarely bought new clothes when he went to school, and always bought the cheapest meals for dinner. Poverty has made him very inferior since he was a child, and he feels that he is not worthy of her when he has a girl he likes, so he dare not chase her. Now the people who come to the Hecheng Town Government to do things -- including the secretaries and directors of various villages -- see Wu Dao as "director" and "leader", and his attitude is very humble, because he works in a suite office with the town mayor, and the sign of "town mayor's office" is hung at the door, and people often call him "town mayor" as soon as he enters the door. He suddenly had an idea: "learning and excelling" is also a good life choice.

After the joy, the troubles soon followed. For the first three weeks of work, Wu Dao had no specific position, and he did nothing in the town every day. He also found that he was not the only one who had nothing to do, and that many of the people he saw were idle. The mayor seems to be very busy, and every day as soon as he goes to work, people keep coming to the mayor's office to look for him, and sometimes the mayor is not in the office all day, and no one knows where he has gone. Yu Ying, the deputy mayor of the opposite office, is not as busy as the mayor, Yu Ying and Han Siming are of the same age, few people go to Yu Ying, he goes to work every day to make a cup of tea, and then starts to read newspapers and magazines, and he spends three or four hours a day surfing the Internet in the electric classroom and watching TV dramas.

Only the secretary's office, the mayor's office and the printing room have computers in the town, and everyone else can only go to the telephone classroom to use the computer. Colleagues who can use computers often go to the electricity classroom to turn on the computer to play games and watch TV series, Wu Dao also wants to go online and open the email to see if there is a new email, but he is embarrassed to go, he just went to work, he feels that he should at least make others look hard. He flipped through various newspapers and magazines one by one to raise his consciousness.

The busiest time of the day in the unit is the hour after the first hour of work in the morning, and ordinary workers have to clean. In addition to cleaning the sanitation of their own department, the employees of each department also take turns to clean the public areas such as corridors and government compounds. Gao Kepan, the secretary of the secretary Wang Xinhui, is responsible for cleaning the secretary's office, although Wu Dao has no position, but he works in the same suite with Han Siming, so he naturally needs to clean the latter's office. Wu Dao had to clean Han Siming's office before he went to work, so he had to arrive at the unit twenty minutes earlier every day. Although Wu Dao has long heard of the life of the institution, it is still difficult for Wu Dao to adapt to being in it, and he feels that there is nowhere to put his life.

The mayor was next door, and when he looked up, he could see the deputy mayor of the opposite office, Wu Dao didn't know how to get along with the two leaders, and every time he saw them, he didn't know what to say, but he couldn't turn a blind eye, which made him feel very awkward. He remembered what Sartre said about "others are hell", he knew that the culprit of this hell was not others, but himself, he wanted to get along with the leader, and he also knew what to say when they met, but he just couldn't do it, he was hell.

On Thursday afternoon, Han Siming said to Wu Dao:

"Xiao Wu, you don't have to stay in the office all day and night, you go to other offices, take a look, and get familiar with the business in the town. When Secretary Wang comes back, I will arrange specific work for you. ”

After listening to Han Siming's words, Wu Dao felt as if he had received amnesty, he finally no longer had to sit in the office every day to read magazines, and he could go outside justifiably. Since Friday, Wu Dao has left the mayor's office every morning after cleaning and went to various departments one by one to learn about their work, and he and his colleagues quickly became acquainted.

Wu Dao found that each department has its own responsibilities, but the work is not every day, sometimes there are no work tasks for several days in a row, or there is only a very little work, which can be completed in a few minutes, so people often look like they have nothing to do, and sometimes people are so busy that they have to work overtime until midnight to finish.

In addition, Wu Dao also discovered an unbelievable thing: people read newspapers and magazines every day not all to kill time, and some people still look for their own names on them, and many articles in newspapers and magazines only write the author's name but not the work unit. He suddenly felt very admired for these colleagues, who could come up with such a way to steal other people's articles as their own without knowing it. Although this method is very good, it is not easy to find an article in the newspaper where the author has the same name as himself and does not write the name of the unit, and many people are still worried about the article, especially the colleagues of the career editor, they must publish at least three articles to evaluate the title, and if they want to compete with others, they must have more results. People knew that Wu Dao graduated from a key university majoring in Chinese language and literature, and they thought that he must be very good at writing, and several colleagues asked him to help write articles. Wu Dao doesn't want to do this kind of thing, it's disgraceful to write articles for others, if a colleague uses the articles he writes to compete with another colleague and compare the latter, then what's fair? He couldn't refuse directly, so he could only vaguely agree.

When walking between departments, Wu Dao also heard about the deputy mayor Yu Ying from Li Ruolan, the head of the statistics section: Yu Ying and Han Siming were originally the deputy mayors of the Hecheng Town Government, and the two competed for the position of mayor, Yu Ying had higher education, stronger ability, and earlier participation in the work, with these conditions, he felt that it was a sure thing to be the mayor of the town, but he didn't expect that it was Han Siming who won in the end, Yu Ying was disheartened and no longer sought promotion, he just wanted to stay up for a few more years, and he would be listed alone at the age of fifty. Give up the position of deputy mayor and go home to retire.

The busiest person in the river town government was the typist in the printing room, but the busiest person was an unstaffed temporary worker who received the least salary in the whole unit, only 500 yuan a month. There was only one typist in the printing room, and there was only one computer originally, which had been used for a long time and was too slow, so the town government bought a new computer, and the typist used the new computer, and the old computer was left next to no one to use it. The new computer is connected to the Internet, and the old computer is not. The text materials formed by each department are handwritten first, and then taken to the printing room for printing, so the printing room has endless text materials every day. Most of the staff in the town are over 40 years old, more than half of them don't know how to use a computer, and most of the people who can use a computer type very slowly. Once a colleague was in a hurry to print materials, and the typist was too busy, and after the colleague finished writing the materials, he asked Wu Dao to help type, and Wu Dao used the old computer in the printing room to finish typing. People found that Wu Dao's typing speed was quite fast, so colleagues kept asking him to help with typing. After a few days, Wu Dao became the second typist of the town government.

Although being a typist is not what Wu Dao wants, it is better to have something to do than to do nothing, Wu Dao feels that his life is much more fulfilling, and in the process of continuous typing, his typing speed has also increased rapidly.