I was invited to attend the regular executive meeting of General Manager Ouyang. At the meeting he announced my appointment and introduced me to the audience.

It was the first time I attended the executive meeting of the group, and the participants were all middle-level and above leaders of the group, except for Peng Jiahui, Meng Xiuwen and Li Xin, I didn't know the rest of the people. Mr. Chen and Mr. Ying did not attend the meeting.

General Manager Ouyang instructed the two business managers to transfer their business in the Russian-speaking area to me. The two of them had no objections.

In less than a month, I not only became a regular employee, but also worked as a department manager in such a powerful group, and all this happened a little fast. Sitting in the boss's chair, I looked around at my decent office and couldn't help but feel a little proud.

The two male managers sent over all the business documents they handled, and I copied the documents on the computer while checking the business content they handled.

It turns out that the sales department of our group is mainly to sell the special steel products produced by our company. Its main products are pipe fittings and consumables used in mines, construction and oil fields.

Customers in the Russian-speaking region are mainly in the Ural region of Russia and Kazakhstan.

To be honest, compared to the demand in the market there, the development of our group's business is really not satisfactory.

I sorted out the contract documents they sent me and sorted them into file cabinets. I cleaned up and cleaned my hands of dust, and as soon as I got out of the bathroom, I saw the two managers standing in the smoking area outside the men's bathroom, standing there with their backs to me smoking, and I heard them say:

- "We can be regarded as having survived, and we don't need to run to Russia in the future!" - "No, I didn't want to accept this business at the earliest, but Ouyang insisted on giving it to me".

- "At the last meeting, the boss also said that the progress of the business with Russia was slow, and the South American region would be surpassed...... It's not that we are not dedicated, the objective conditions are there, this Russian is too difficult to deal with, they are not good at English, and they are definitely not at the same level as European and American customers. 》

- "I feel that compared with Europe and the United States, the Russians are too backward in concept, and there is really no future in dealing with them. 》

- "Also, Russian is much more difficult to learn than English, I thought that with our English foundation, we really can't learn one more foreign language, and the skills are not overwhelming, but this Russian is too difficult, and the grammar is really complicated!" I tried, so forget it! 》

- "You really want to learn Russian, not to mention that Russian is not easy to learn, I don't even learn it, what is the use of learning it?" Do you really want to develop in Russia? To be honest, I'm not interested in countries other than English. 》

- "Yes, if you don't even speak English, you are far away from the world's civilization......

Hearing this, I not only laughed in my heart, but turned to leave.

When I returned to the office and turned on the computer, I suddenly noticed my keyboard with Russian letters, and I remembered the keyboard film on Andrei's two notebooks and the vertical rows of option signs in English, Russian, German, French, and Italian in his text bar.

Sergei studied in Germany, so he was fluent in German, and I later found out that his English was also very good, but Sergei never seemed to care about it, just like Andrei's attitude towards English, maybe in their minds English is just a language tool, and it is not attached so much meaning.

I am not proficient in English, just like Mary Sauer, we all have to learn English in order to finish our studies, maybe I don't need to rely on English to make a living, so I feel that my English is so-so, but it is enough to communicate.

However, after coming to this group, I have become more and more aware of the supremacy of English here.