All unhealthy ends up in tribulations, and all winds can't blow away the blue sky. Optimism and self-confidence are Yu Zijin's business card, and it is also her persistence.

Later, Yu Zijin left the supermarket and worked for a while in a travel company called Jinmei, and later went to Quqin Company. Looking back, those days left a deep impression on her.

The company is located on the base branch road near the Mekong River, but it is no longer in the urban area, but in a relatively remote place. The streets are narrow and difficult to navigate, and they are surrounded by old houses that are years old, built in a haphazard manner, as if they were never planned. Some people's toilets are facing other people's doors or bedrooms, and some people just hold out a dangerous attic that they don't belong to, like the branches of a tree growing out of nowhere, in short, it's certainly not a high-end community. To the east of Jifen Road, not far from the bus station, there is a sizable textile factory called the Quqin Garment Company. The boss of this company is surnamed Du, and his big name is Du Guteng, because he is stingy, the employees call him "stomach ache" behind his back. I heard that Jinmei Travel Agency also belongs to Quqin Company. Behind the factory, there is a gray three-story office building in disrepair, where the headquarters of the Quqin company is located. The building had been built for many years and looked very old, with mold stains on the sewer pipes in the corners. It's even more unbearable inside, the chandelier is full of dust, and if you speak loudly, you will probably be shocked and fall down. The white ash on the ceiling fell off in many places, revealing cracks like the national border, which were half-broken and accumulated a lot of dust. On rainy days, the ceiling at the corner of the corridor will leak rain, and the floor will leak wet, and no one will care. The large and small rooms on the first floor and the second floor are arranged neatly, and the large rooms are opened up by small rooms, some of which are two and some are three. There is only a little basic decoration in the room, and the floor is covered with plastic glue with beige patterns, which cracks everywhere after a long time, and there are many holes, and in some places there is a piece missing, revealing a dark cement floor. There is a sign nailed to the door of each room, indicating the various departments, including the Finance Department, the Personnel Department, the Logistics Department, the Chairman's Office, the General Manager's Office, the General Affairs Department, the Conference Room, the Procurement Room, and so on.

At work, especially in the morning, every room is quiet, and I don't know what they're doing, but whether it's tea, smoking, making personal phone calls, reading newspapers, chatting, flirting, playing Go and cards, there are very few people who sit at their desks seriously. Some people walk from room to room, sit here, stand there, talk to this one, beg for a cigarette with that one, and then disappear, and outsiders don't know which department they belong to, or whether they are people inside the company.

The reason why this happened was because Boss Du went to the United States one year because of business, but he didn't come back on schedule. What was supposed to be a normal business suddenly went into chaos, and rumors spread. Some people say that Boss Du was shot dead in the United States and can't come back, and some people say that he was kidnapped or arrested, and people are panicking. Suddenly, one day, the general manager received a fax from the United States, and the specific content on it was the business and work instructions, which were exactly the same as usual, and there was no flaw in sight. Everyone settled down a little and continued to work step by step, because the textile industry was still relatively good at that time, the export of products to the United States was quite profitable, and the company had saved a lot of money in the account. After a while, I still didn't see the boss come back. However, business faxes and customer payments continue smoothly.

Everyone then speculated that the boss must have studied hard and just didn't want to come back. Maybe you have a gold house in the United States, or you have bought a house and bought a business, and you are ready to do a public pension. But the facts are not clear to anyone. Through inquiries from the industry and customers, for some reason, everyone is secretive. Some of the employees who are restless slowly leave the company, feeling that the company is not normal. Some of them have no better place to go, happy that no one is around to supervise them, and they get a lot of salary, but they are more determined to stay. But the discipline and appearance of the company, no one cares. The door to the chairman's room was locked, and no one went in or out, leaving a thick layer of dust.

Yu Zijin didn't work in Jinmei Travel Agency for a long time, because she was not a local, she was not familiar with receiving foreign tourists, and she was not good at soliciting business, and later the introducer arranged for her to go to Quqin Company and stayed there for a long time. When she went, Boss Du had been out for a while and had not returned, but the personnel faxed her employment application to the United States, and Boss Du's signature was no different from usual. So I went into the company and went step by step according to the normal process. The company is profitable, and she was also assigned a dormitory, although it is not large, but there are only two people to live in. The girl on the other side doesn't live here a lot of the time because she has a boyfriend. Yu Zijin was happy, closed the door alone, read books and laundry, very comfortable. The company bears all the rent, water and electricity, she is like a Wei and Jin Chinese in a paradise, and she doesn't know why happiness comes so quickly.

But Yu Zijin has a headache during work hours, she hasn't figured out which department some people are in and what positions they are in for a long time, and even some people she never knows what their names are, because these people come to work for a few days, and they will disappear for a long time. Moreover, no one blames or reprimands others for their idleness, as if everyone is accustomed to all of them. As for coming late and leaving early, it is even more common in the company, usually by three or four o'clock in the afternoon, there are no more people in the company.

Yu Zijin has been here for a few days, and when he sees such a scene, he is quite confused, and he doesn't know what kind of company this is, and what such a group of people are doing here. After staying in the company for a long time, I gradually got a general understanding of the situation, and finally understood what was going on.

This brings us to the general manager, Boden.

Boden was in his forties, tall and thin, but with big feet, walking with figure-eight steps, and his chest was as tall as a penguin, and everyone called him "Antarctica" behind his back, because only Antarctica. He was of ordinary appearance, bald, with a pair of small bulging eyes, and he looked fierce, and his face was often oily, but his beard was fairly clean every day.

Boden followed Lao Du when he was young, and he was an entrepreneurial veteran. But his great achievements in the early days of the business in full swing are now impossible to investigate, but outsiders think that it must be exciting and beautiful. He is more honest, and the original general manager is not him. Later, because of the tax inspection, Du Guteng was a private boss, and there must be something unclean in the accounts. Supposedly, he was going to be arrested and spent some time in prison. Then the general manager and the finance at that time fled, and only Borden stepped forward and took the blame for the boss. He didn't stay in prison for a long time, and when the news passed, Boss Du remembered his kindness, spent money to find a way to get him out, and made him the general manager. It is not difficult to guess that this experience had a very important impact on Borden's future life, and cultivated a very strong sense of identity in him, that is, as long as you are faithful, as long as you are my person, obedient, even if you don't understand anything, you can't know anything, you can raise it. In the era when business was going well, the company had enough funds to support its employees, which made Borden very beautiful at that time, and it also caused the tail to be big, and Boss Du later had no way to take him. At first, the little white rabbit that was thought to be harmless to humans and animals has grown into a big bad wolf with its fangs exposed.

Borden is getting more and more inflated, especially when Boss Du is stranded in the United States and has not returned, he looks like an emperor. He believes that the highest pursuit in life is to gain more and more power, that is, to do great things and become a big official. Presumably when he was the general manager, it felt too good to command thousands of troops, it was too good to be looked up to and worshipped, and it was too good to be able to do whatever he wanted.

Since Boss Du crossed the ocean, Borden first found an opportunity to gradually lay off some workers in the factory who had opinions about him, and then he probably thought that all the workers had basically worshiped him, so he replaced his brother-in-law as the director of the factory. It should be said that in addition to being power-hungry, Borden is still somewhat capable, and he is also good for the benefits below. From the beginning of the processing of incoming materials, OEM other people's versions, to later find someone to design, create his own brand, to open a counter in a large department store, production, supply and marketing one-stop - his own fixed-point fabric supply, his own design, his own manufacturing, his own sales, it didn't take long, and the business was booming. A lot of people have made a fortune with it.

What is surprising is that Borden did not have the idea of replacing Boss Du with him, nor did he intercept the company's business and funds to enrich himself, but instead perfected the function that a general manager should play in the modern enterprise system. Money was clearly not the ultimate goal for Borden, but only a means to gain power and fame. Because of this bizarre business model and power structure that is difficult for outsiders to understand, Borden made a name for himself in the textile industry in Bangkok, and he later led the establishment of the Thai Textile Industry Association, of which he served as its president and chairman. It stands to reason that this is a non-governmental organization, and as long as Borden is at ease as his professional manager, he can make his own wealth and exercise his own rights. But Borden didn't think so, firstly, in the environment at that time, the textile company could hardly borrow money from the bank, so if the company wanted to achieve greater development, it would definitely be difficult without a large amount of capital investment. Second, what political status does the boss of the textile company have, and how big an official is it, and what level of leadership is it equivalent to, to be exact? So if you have no political status and can't be considered an official, what is it to make a fortune? Thus, for the sake of these two considerations, Borden tried to reside the Quqin Company on the side of the proper government agencies. In the beginning, Quqin Company was an independent legal entity and did not belong to any government department or agency. Later, Borden came up with a ghost idea, he first donated a batch of stockpiled materials, and through an intermediary, the United Nations Bangkok Textile Import and Export Company donated together, and in the registration of the civil affairs department, he took the charity certificate as his own, and the external propaganda secretly changed the concept, and slowly created a feeling that he belonged to a state-owned listed unit. But later, when Borden learned that the Bangkok Textile Import & Export Company was only a lower-level unit, he thought he had been deceived and was furious: "They're just a sesame unit, so what level are we?" ”

As a result, Borden attached Quqin Company to the Bangkok Administrative Law Enforcement Corps through his own connections, at the cost of paying a naming fee of 10 million baht per year. Now Borden's heart is finally at ease. He didn't have the heart to renovate the company's building, nor did he have the heart to seriously manage his subordinates, so he spent all day doing public relations to the outside world and admonishing him internally. At a company meeting, Boden lectured his cadres like this: "You all have to work hard, or the company will go bankrupt, I will have nothing to lose, and I can go to the administrative brigade to be a supervisor, where will you go to eat?" ”

In this way, at least nominally, Quqin Company is no longer a private enterprise, but a state-owned unit under the provincial level, and the general manager, Boden, feels that he is a leading cadre. It was probably from this time that Borden felt that he was a big man and began to have an unusual boldness.

In order to expand the company as quickly as possible, to have more subordinates, and to make his leadership worthy of his name, Borden has swallowed up several small businesses that are on the verge of collapse. There are printing and dyeing factories, mold factories, carton factories, packaging companies, and at the same time, many new units have been set up under the company, such as tourism management department, toy factory, advertising company, agricultural and sideline products wholesale department, restaurant, and also set up a pig farm on the outskirts of the city (specializing in raising Ukrainian white pigs), in short, the bigger the stall is spread Boden, the happier it is. It was in this process that Yu Zijin was mixed into the Quqin Group.

Naturally, the annexation of other enterprises and the establishment of subordinate units required a lot of money, and Borden did not blink an eye for this, but only borrowed money from the bank. Hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, just like straw paper, just take it from the bank, and spend it like wiping your butt with straw paper. Well, the bank was not opened by Boden, how could he casually lend in large quantities? This brings us to Borden's way of employing people, which shows both his cleverness and his stupidity. After the expansion of the Quqin Company into a group, Borden recruited a large number of relatives and friends of powerful people to work in the group. As a result, the daughter of the president of the bank, the brother-in-law of the director of the investment promotion office, the fellow of the deputy director of the silk factory, the younger brother of the president of the economic division of the court, the son of the deputy director of the engineering college, the sister of the chief of the tax section of the tax department, the friend of the chief of the police station, the lover of the director of the hospital, the cousin of the director of the radio factory, the nephew of the director of the propaganda department...... In a word, Borden has used this method to weave a strong network of relationships for himself. The benefits are self-evident, loans, guarantees, tax reductions, land grants, defaulting on debts, and so on. The disadvantages are also obvious, these people are either not able to do things in the first place, or they disdain to do things because of their own relationships, and they are not easy to manage, except for Boden himself, anyone can manage them, others want to manage them, they really have to think about it, and the people who are not in charge are not good, and the people who are in charge are scolded by Borden first.

However, the company's chaos may be only a secondary reason, and the main reason is that Borden himself is an incorrigible drunkard.

I heard that Borden hadn't been so drunk before, but as the company got bigger and bigger, he felt better and better, and finally he couldn't drink anymore. Borden drank twice a day, once at noon and once at night, and whenever he got drunk, he would get drunk, and whenever he got drunk, he would go crazy, curse, and do all kinds of ridiculous things. Everyone in the company knows that when you talk to the general manager Boden about work, it must be in the morning, and he will no longer be awake after noon.

Big people have big people, Boden is naturally the same, he drank, the middle and upper cadres of the group company have to be accompanied, and then Boden drank too much - this is almost without exception, and he began to scold, on the wine table to see who is not pleasing to the eye, the scolded person not only has to swallow his anger, but also to lose his smile, otherwise a wine glass may fly over, close to the slap, many middle level of the group have been beaten by Boden. Whether you are scolded or beaten, you don't dare to say anything, unless you don't want to do it. The only thing he could do at this time was to pray that Borden would get drunk as soon as possible and be taken off the table.

After Boden got drunk, he became more famous. Once drunk, several cadres helped him to the company's conference room and let him lie down on the couch to rest. At this time, in order to please Boden, the chief of the personnel department, Qiu squatted down to take off his shoes, and was kicked in the waist by Boden, and his waist was almost kicked and exploded, and he was paralyzed on the ground and couldn't get up. He rested at home for several days before coming to work, and when he saw Borden drunk, he dared to stand sideways in front of him in order to kick him in the waist again.

On another occasion, the director of the company's office in Yangon returned to the company to report on his work, an old man, in his fifties, surnamed Fang, who also served as the company's deputy general manager. When I came back, I naturally had to accompany Borden to dinner, nominally to pick up the wind for the director of the house. At the wine table, Borden really praised the director of the room, and made a few glasses of wine with the director in a row, and ordered others to toast the director of the room. The director of the room was tired of traveling and traveling, and secondly, he was old and frail, and he was too strong to drink, so he left the table early after drinking for a while and returned to the company's conference room for a lunch break. After Zhou Yazhen got drunk as usual, several cadres also helped him to rest in the conference room. As soon as Zhou Yazhen entered the conference room, he saw the director of the room snoring and sleeping on the couch. The director of the room has a habit of sleeping, his eyes are half-open and half-closed, revealing the whites of his eyes, Borden saw this, shook off the person who was holding him, rushed over and pounced on the director of the room, pinched his neck tightly with both hands, and scolded while pinching back: "Let you roll your eyes, let you roll!" The poor old man was pinched so that his face turned pale, and his tongue was spit out, and if it had not been for the crowd of others who rushed up and pulled Boden away, perhaps the old man would have been strangled to death on the spot.

Also, Borden was notoriously, even more so when he got drunk. In the past, when Borden returned to the company after getting drunk at noon, when he saw a female employee, his eyes would light up, he would raise his index finger, and then hook his index finger in front of him, meaning to ask someone to come over. Who dares to come over? When the female staff saw him like this, they all lost their faces, and they fled as quickly as a mouse saw a cat. Once, an old woman in her forties in the design department was afraid of her ugly appearance, moved slowly, did not escape, and was blocked in the office by Borden. Without saying a word, he pressed her down on the desk, causing the woman to scream like a pig, of course, nothing terrible happened, but Borden grabbed two handfuls, and before he could make any more moves, the cadres next to him immediately pulled him away. However, there will not be many such things in the future, because Borden got a female accountant in the finance department at some point, and then the two openly lived together regardless of their respective families, and then the female accountant was promoted to the director of the finance department, which is now Minister Lan. With Minister Blue, Borden is much more restrained in this regard. Still, the female staff were still apprehensive, and when they saw Borden drunk, they ran faster than rabbits.

So this has almost become a routine, whenever Boden gets drunk in the restaurant at noon and is about to return to the company, there will always be a cadre who accompanies him to return to the company in advance and inform everyone: "The boss is drunk, come immediately." ”

At this time, the men and women in the company all dispersed in a hurry and began to hide in Tibet, and some people simply went home from work. The woman is afraid of being molested by Borden, and the man is afraid of being scolded by him. Suddenly, the company became quiet, and then I saw a group of middle- and upper-level cadres in the company hugging Boden back. It wasn't until he lay down and fell asleep that the company would be lively again.

To say that Borden is so reckless, why don't many people below leave their jobs? Not only are there very few people leaving, but there are many people who want to come in. Why should everyone live under him? The answer is this, there are pros and cons to everything, and although there will be a lot of trouble under Boden, the benefits are obvious. At least you can earn money without working (or doing very little work), does this kind of good thing exist in other units? Secondly, those who are cadres, who have a little real power, are taking advantage of the chaos of corporate management to make more or less money for themselves. Let's talk about Vice President Han, after the end of Quqin Company, he opened a chemical factory of considerable scale by himself, so where did the money for his factory come from?

In addition, to be fair, Borden was quite good when he was sober, and even a little amiable. When he went to work, he walked around this office, around that office, patted this on the shoulder, and said a few kind words to that one. Some people have just been drunk and scolded by him the day before, and they will be praised by him in public the next day. There was a man who was transferred to the company from other places, because there was no house to live in, and the whole family could not live, and after Borden found out, he said to him on the spot: "You go and rent a house and bring your family over." Reimbursement by the rental company. "This rent is not a small amount, but since the general manager has spoken, no matter how large the amount is, it is not a problem. When the mood came, Borden would immediately beckon someone to play Go or cards with him in the office, and naturally any discipline and indiscipline would be funny for him.

When Yu Zijin first came to work, as soon as Boden arrived at the personnel department, his eyes lit up, and he often came to her to chat about family life, and said to her: "Do you have any difficulties?" If you have any difficulties, tell me, you're welcome, your cousin is my old classmate, and we had a good relationship back then. Another time he said to her, "You don't have a boyfriend yet, what kind of do you want to find, I'll introduce you." If there is any man in the company, you look pleasing to the eye, tell me, no problem. "Of course, Borden is just talking about it, and he forgot about it. But once Borden called her into his office, and said to her very seriously: "Do you want to do something?" ”

Yu Zijin didn't understand what Boden meant for a while, and asked, "What are you doing...... What do you do? ”

"If you want to do something," said Borden, "you go outside and find a storefront and open a shop, such as a calligraphy and painting shop, an antique shop, or something, in short, a more elegant shop, of course, it belongs to the company, and then I give you a sum of money to contract, do you do it?" ”

"I haven't done it," Yu Zijin shook his head in a panic, "I can't do it, I can't do it." ”

Borden laughed. "Stupid, I want you to make a fortune, as long as you don't lose money to me, all the profits will be yours."

Yu Zijin still shook his head. "Thank you, boss, I really can't do it."

That's the end of it. Later, Yu Zijin talked about it with a colleague named Wu Xia (she had the best relationship with her in the company), and she scolded Yu Zijin for being a waste and missing a great opportunity to make money: "The boss is currying favor with your cousin, you have lost all the money he gave you, and he will not do anything to you." Which unit under the company does not lose money, but which contractor himself does not make enough money? ”

Thinking that this is indeed the case, Yu Zijin regretted it a little, even if he didn't love money, but it was definitely urgently needed organizationally. But it was too late to regret it, and Borden never mentioned it again. This is probably the only chance she has had to get rich until now, but she missed it in person, so she can only lie dormant at present, waiting for the opportunity, and complaining about others.

Sometimes, Borden was in a particularly good mood, and when he was about to leave work at noon, he would ask each office of the cadres to make a notice: "After getting off work at noon, everyone will go to the restaurant for dinner, and the boss will treat you." Then everyone in the company happily flocked to the Penang Gold Hotel, eating and drinking, naturally, except for the cadres, everyone else had to slip away quickly when they were full of food and drink, otherwise it would not be fun to wait for Borden to get drunk and catch him.

The company's earliest office address was these houses on Jifen Road, and later Borden changed it into a restaurant for the convenience of eating and drinking, and also in order to use the façade room to set up an additional subordinate unit. The company rented a tube building behind it for office use, although it was broken, but there was not much public office anyway, that is, to find a place for a group of idlers to sit.