Chapter 25 The Workplace
Spring is the beginning of all hopes, and the TV station makes personnel adjustments every spring, mainly promotions and dismissals.
After the holiday, the three directors of the news channel retired. Tan Zekai, director of Zhou Zixuan's "Everyone Says" column and deputy director of the news center, is one of them.
This news made Zixuan extremely excited, and every time he met him in the stage, his cheeks were slightly red, like every day in the cave room.
For Zixuan, this is an opportunity, if he is elected deputy director of the news center, he will become the youngest director of the center in the history of the TV station, and the future is unlimited, and of course, he will also become one of my top bosses.
The station began to organize evaluations, and Director Zhou frequently patronized our channel, euphemistically praising the program "Everyone Says Things" for becoming more and more novel, and the production quality was far ahead.
This is in support of Zixuan, who is the producer and host of the show.
And there are good and bad jobs, just praising his son's program is too obvious, so "Lucheng Zero Distance" became a victim, Director Zhou severely criticized our column for not keeping up with the development of the times, always staying in a micro perspective, and not having macro thinking.
made us confused, and Director Zhou didn't say what the macro meant, whether to look at the whole country or pretend to be stupid.
Producer Li Yi didn't know what was going on, he felt that since the director was criticizing, he should learn with an open mind. So in front of many middle and high-level people, he humbly asked the director how to be macroscopic.
Zixuan's father's original intention was to let "Everyone Say the Truth" stand on the shoulders of "Lucheng Zero Distance" and elevate his son, which most people understand. But Li Yi is an editor, who deals with words every day and does not understand political psychology. His question embarrassed the unprepared director, but Zhou Yu was the director after all, and said to Director Wang that we want to give full play to the power of democracy, you go back to have a meeting, study the problem of "Lucheng Zero Distance", and don't expand it. Director Wang willingly agreed.
Originally, Li Yi was very promising to be elected deputy director of the news center, and he and Zixuan both belonged to the children's faction of the TV station, and Li Yi's father served as the editor-in-chief of the station a few years ago, but retired early due to illness. It is said that his father and Zixuan's father are of the same level, both are powerful factions, the difference is that Li Yi's father retired and became a veteran, while Zixuan's father is in power.
When people are in office, they are left and right, and once they step down, they will be yellow after autumn.
Li Yi especially wanted to be the deputy director and was full of confidence, and accepted our advance congratulations many times. Li Yi has a high degree of education, many years of experience in editing and production, and is kind-hearted, and has a better attitude towards subordinates than leaders.
During the unanimous vote, I hesitated between Li Yi and Zixuan, and finally voted for Zixuan, because I felt that Li Yi must be no play, and it can be seen from the atmosphere before the election, it is better to let Zixuan be elected, and I am not familiar with the other candidates. In fact, even if Zixuan is not elected, he will definitely be the one who is elected in the end.
Sure enough, Zhou Zixuan took the place of Director Tan and became the deputy director of the news center as he wished.
After losing the election, Li Yi was extremely angry and reportedly reported shady scenes to his superiors many times.
Li Yi wants to be the deputy director not for anything else, but for the house.
After Zhou Yu became the director, the TV station built a high-rise family building in the new area, which was neat and beautiful, with garden-style greening. Taili stipulates that only employees above the deputy director level are eligible to buy at the internal price, and the so-called internal price is 1,000 yuan per square meter, while the external housing price of the family building is more than 8,000 square meters. That is to say, after a 100-square-meter house is in hand, you can earn more than 700,000 yuan from changing hands.
Li Yi has been working at the TV station for many years, and his daughter-in-law is a full-time housewife, and the family of four is crammed into a dilapidated house of less than 60 square meters in the old city.
There is no hope for promotion, hope is disappointed, Li Yi's personality has changed greatly, he is addicted to alcohol, looking for drinking friends everywhere, and his colleagues in Taiwan feel that it is none of their business, let alone dividing the house, most people have not even solved the treatment, the same job, but only take the salary of a temporary worker.
So Li Yi found a drinking friend, that is, Lao Ma, the director of the security monitoring department of the TV station, Lao Ma thought that he had never met a talent, and gradually became a famous drunkard.
As soon as Li got drunk, he scolded: "There are already three houses, and they are still fucking greedy and corrupt!" Bloodsucker! ”
He scolded Zixuan's family.
People who are full of confidence in advance and end up in a fiasco afterwards are most likely to become "resentful women", Li Yi has been a little broken since then, drunk and irritable, unkempt, and his personality has changed dramatically.
At the same time, he doesn't want to lose his job, and sometimes he is more restrained, and after thinking about it, he is unwilling, and he will become more alcoholic and irritable.
A reporter went to deliver the manuscript and witnessed Li Yi go crazy, he took off his shoelaces and slapped his face with all his might, and after finding someone looking at him dumbfounded, he immediately pretended to be fighting flies.
When Li Yi's personality was about to split and he wanted to be "pumped" and "abused", someone soon helped him realize this wish - Chu Qing slapped him, and he was pumped for Zixuan.
Zixuan once passed by the bathroom on the floor of our column and met Li Yi urinating.
"Grandson!" Li Yi lowered his head and looked at the toilet bowl and said.
Zixuan didn't pay attention, he smiled at Li Yiyi, and when he put on his pants and left, he heard a voice behind him, "True grandson!" He turned around in response and found that Li Yi was pointing at his back and scolding, and he was spitting.
"Who are you scolding?" Zixuan suspected that he had misheard.
"Grandson! Turtle grandson! Turtle Sun! Rotten grandson! Grandson! Li Yi, who is an editor, has a lot of vocabulary, his eyes move downward, but his head is still on Zixuan.
"Who is the grandson?!" Zixuan understood that Li Yi was scolding him this time.
"You're not my grandson, I'm your father!" Li Yi finally broke out, and his voice became louder.
scolded Li Yi, who was born as an editor, Zixuan was obviously not an opponent, and he went up to tear Li Yi in a hurry. The two of them tore from the bathroom to the corridor, just as Chu Qing was passing by, she saw Zixuan pressing the skinny drunkard Li Yi against the wall, Li's face was flushed, his hands were slapped indiscriminately, and he struggled desperately, like a skinny monkey who was about to be strangled.
Chu Qing hurriedly ran up to pull Zixuan away, she stood between the two and said, "A deputy director, an editor, aren't you afraid of being embarrassed!" ”
It's good that she didn't mention the deputy director, but when she mentioned the deputy director, Li Yi, who was still dying just now, was like a divine help, and his eyes were on fire and he scolded: "Slut, what kind of saint is pretending, who doesn't know that you are messing with him!" ”
Chu Qing couldn't believe her ears, she verified: "What did you say?" Li Yi didn't respond in the ventilation, and she said again: "We two lonely men and widows, oh no, are single men and women, is it wrong to fall in love with Zhengdaguang?" ”
"Slut!" Li Yi approached forward and shouted at Zixuan through Chu Qing.
Chu Qing wanted to turn her head and walk away, but even if Zixuan hung Li Yi on the wall like a monkey again, she wouldn't care. But when he retreated, he suddenly found that Li Yi's pants were not raised, and his autumn pants were loosely placed on his legs, and Li Yi was unaware of it in private daylight. Before Li Yi could lift his pants just now, Zixuan pulled him out of the bathroom.
Because he was busy facing the battle, Li Yi forgot to protect his privacy.
Chu Qing raised his hand out of instinct and gave him a slap, this slap was very loud, and the people running around the corridor heard it from afar.
When she slapped her, Chu Qing did not shout "hooligan" or anything like that, which shows that she is very kind, and she is fully qualified to pull Li Yi like other women and shout slogans such as "play hooligan, shameless", so that Li Yi will be speechless in the crowd of onlookers, and her personality will be disgraced.
And Chu Qing just slapped him and left without looking back.
Li Yi's pants were still put up by Zhu Ning and Wen Liang, who came to hear the sound, and were slapped by Chu Qing, he didn't hold a grudge, and he still greeted politely every time they met, but since then he and Zixuan have formed a deep hatred.
There are many people who are as dissatisfied with Li Yi, and my internship teacher Feng Gu is one of them, Feng Gu is a front-line main force in Taili, and his works have won many awards, because he has no background, he has been a temporary worker.
Zixuan said that there are hundreds of front-line personnel from various channels in the station, divided into four classes:
The first class is the children, most of them are the children of Taiwan leaders, regardless of the level of education, they are regular workers when they enter Taiwan, enjoy the career establishment, high salary, and good welfare, and emphasize that it is very rare for a child like him to return to his hometown after graduating from a famous university in Beijing.
The second class is Taiwanese hired workers, with relatively good treatment and good benefits, and most of them are relatives of city leaders, called related households.
"It's very unfortunate that you belong to Taiwan." Zixuan pointed at me and said.
The third class is a channel worker, with a small salary and meager benefits, which is also called column employment, and others call them border related households.
The fourth class is temporary workers, accounting for nearly half of the total staff, who are not paid, get paid for their work, and have no money if they don't work.
"You're first-class?" I asked him.
"Wait! We are honored to be selected from the thousands of heroes who have returned to their hometowns and are listed as first-class citizens. ”
Zixuan held his head high, his eyes squinted at the sparrow in the tree outside the window, with an aristocratic demeanor, and peeked to see if I was ashamed of myself.
I walked around him, kicked him hard in the ass, left a big footprint on his black trousers, and he touched his ass and said, "You are guilty of the following crimes, and you should be punished." ”
The system of television stations is similar to that of the Yuan Dynasty, which divided the people into four classes after the Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty: Mongols, Semu people, Han people, and Nan people.
And I belong to the color eye people in Taili, I don't know much about this race, and when I look at these two words, I always think of color blindness.
Zixuan said that all TV stations across the country are classified by three, six, nine, etc.
He quoted "Dream of Red Mansions" as a metaphor for this phenomenon, where a formal worker is like a lady in the main house, with authority and high treatment, and the representative figure is Mrs. Wang.
Taiwanese workers seem to be an important role, although they are inferior, they are appreciated and live a nourishing life, such as Lin Daiyu and Xue Baochai.
The channel worker is a big girl, and she has no authority, but they are indispensable, such as mandarin ducks and flower raiders, these people are not in the upper class, but they still have their backs to the big trees to enjoy the shade.
Temporary workers are authentic little maids, with no status or reputation, such as Jin Chuan and Yin Chuan, and these little maids are the ones who work.
Feng Gu has always had a dream, that is, to be able to turn into a channel worker and be a third-class person.
In this opportunity in the spring, there were many people who had the same hope of being officially hired by Taili as Feng Gu, but most of the hopes were disappointed, not only did the problem not be solved, but they were dismissed, and then many related households were added, and Zixuan became the object of envy of most people.
Every year, Taili uses personnel adjustments to clean temporary workers and vacate new positions for related households.
Feng Gu has saved the day in the past few years, and this year he can't hide from anything. Like Feng Gu, some of the dismissed temporary workers have been working in Taiwan for nearly ten years, and every year when they watch the children of Taiwan leaders or leaders of various units in the city become official reporters, they can only swallow their grievances and work hard, hoping that one day they can meet wise leaders and be officially hired, but in the end they are greeted with disappointment and despair.
When he left the TV station, Feng Gu wrote a letter of 10,000 words, printed a few copies, and posted it at the entrance of the station and all over the studio building, denouncing the unhealthy practices of the TV station, nepotism, disorderly government, and a group of fools parasitic on the state finances.
Feng Gu also openly challenged, saying that he could choose a random topic and PK with any reporter, guaranteeing that these fools would be willing to bow down.
Originally, everyone had some sympathy for him, but in this way, it caused dissatisfaction among the official reporters.
The leaders of Taiwan are all bureaucrats, usually study politics, and are supported by the state, so they will only ponder the use of media power for their own benefit, make some painless little news, and tell the citizens that the sewers will soon be blocked, and the road will soon be opened to traffic.
On those days, the TV station was filled with sad emotions, as if it was going through a bleak apocalypse. Standing on the platform of the media, you are the "uncrowned king", respected and superior. Once you leave, you will be useless, and the past and the future will draw a sharp line.
After Feng Gu left the TV station, he didn't find a job for a long time. After working as a temporary TV station worker for so many years, I finally found that I couldn't do anything other than learn to drink and socialize, write news, don't look at what I say on TV, but being able to say and do are two different things. In addition, I have been spoiled by society for many years, and I can't let go of my mentality, and I don't want to touch my general work.
Some grieve and some rejoice. After Zixuan was elected deputy director, he called me as soon as possible.
I said, "Director Zhou, it's all in the stage, two steps away, you just come over and inform me, and you still need to make a phone call?" Once you will succeed, you will be happy, how many people will be ruined. ”
Zixuan was stunned for a moment and said, "Hey, what do you mean?" If you don't congratulate me, forget it, and sarcastically mock me, are you psychologically unbalanced or whatever. ”
Then he said: "My dad praised our column several times, but when he ran for the election, he avoided it, and this is all your own vote." ”
I changed the subject and said, "Look at you, you are an official, is the host quitting?" It's time to stay in the office and recuperate. ”
"Look at your pursuit!" Zixuan said disdainfully, "What is a deputy director, my goal is the director of the center, and if you are elected in the future, I will let you be the producer." ”
"I'm good at being a reporter......" Before he finished speaking, the phone was hung up.
I thought to myself, leaders are factional, and you don't need to say hello to anyone.