Chapter 40 Chapter 2 The Question of Values

Marty accompanied Dr. Chen back to the company from the World Trade Exhibition Grounds. Dr. Chen was driving, and Marty sat aside. The atmosphere was a bit dull. This is an international computer exhibition organized for European and American customers. Weiqing Computer Company owned by Dr. Chen has rented eight standard booths in total, and even hired a design company to decorate a distinctive facade.Seven to eight million yuan was spent on venue management alone. Dr. Chen is very concerned about the effectiveness of this exhibition. The general person in charge of the company's participation in the exhibition is Vice President Li, but in fact Sister Liu is in charge.For this exhibition, she was so busy that she lost weight.But obviously from the results, Sister Liu's weight in Dr. Chen's heart is not advancing but retreating.

After the five-day exhibition, the number of orders received at the booth was less than one-third of the estimate, and the number of customers visiting the booth was much lower than last year.The downturn in the overall environment is firmly reflected in the booths.Marty thinks that the organizer should also be responsible. The publicity work of the exhibition is not good, and the scale of the exhibition is deteriorating every year, and the number of international customers naturally shows anti-growth. But Dr. Chen doesn't think so. The more difficult the environment is, the more domineering you must be to win in defeat. It's a pity that you can't cultivate a group of champions who have the vigor to turn defeat into victory.Look at the vice president Li who is stationed at the booth, trying his best to deal with the original agent customers and consolidate his business site, but does not spend much energy to develop new foreign buyers.Lazy, a lazy business vice president, what to do with him?He should step on the stairs well, right?Dr. Chen is determined to redesign the bonus structure of the business, and give poison to this kind of business veteran who sits on long-term commissions and waits to die.

Sister Liu was so busy that she was really pitiful but hard to sympathize with.The on-site management and scheduling of the booth requires a vigorous and courageous supervisor. Seeing her exhausted, the booth collapsed half before it opened. It is old, and the company is like a tree. The old branches and leaves should be pruned so that new branches can emerge. Head, why is it that a woman can't let go of her heart? What also makes Dr. Chen unhappy is that several situations happened at the exhibition. Xiao Chen from the business department temporarily resigned two days before the exhibition. The reason is unknown. In order to rearrange his customer service matters, the business department is very busy. .At the exhibition hall, the work-students who were invited to help receive them were overwhelmed with the busy work and asked for leave one after another, causing Sister Liu to be in a hurry to call the family members of the employees to come to help.

Dr. Chen sighed.It has been half an hour since the car left the World Trade Center, and it is still stuck on Keelung Road.Damn traffic!How does such a city attract international customers? "Dr. Chen, please don't worry too much. According to the survey at the exhibition site in the past two days, our order status is considered to be very good. The organizer did not manage the exhibition well. Such a result is already good." Marty said. "Well, I know." Dr. Chen said. "Xiao Chen's business has also been covered, and there is no loss." Marty said. Dr. Chen took out a letter from the storage rack in the car, handed it to Marty, and said, "Look."

This is a letter written by Xiao Chen to Dr. Chen. It is full of emotion and eloquence. There are three pages in total.On the whole, the detachment of this letter is far from the fact that Xiao Chen resigned categorically.His motivation for writing this letter is not difficult to understand. After Xiao Chen resigned, he still had some financial relationships with the company that did not receive commissions, so he kept his sympathy and was not afraid of future disputes. "It seems that Xiao Chen will leave sooner or later." Marty said after reading the letter.Xiao Chen wrote in the letter that he was going to sell the house under loan, leave Taipei, and start anew with his wife and children at his hometown in the central mountainous area.

"This boy! He has great potential, but it's a pity that he can't figure it out. Xiao Chen's prospects in the company are very good, and his salary is also reasonable. After a while, he will be able to succeed. Sigh, letting go, I gave up my great future for nothing." "Maybe he didn't want that kind of future," Marty said. "Then what's the future? There is such a great opportunity in Taipei, and he has to give up even after buying a house. What will he do when he returns to the countryside? Open a small shop? Farm?" "I think there is a rural life in the countryside. If people's life is not just about making money, not just earning social status, then leaving Taipei is not a loss."

"This kind of thinking is naive. What is the countryside? The vast fields and peaceful life? Taiwan no longer has the so-called countryside. Transportation and communication have made the life of the countryside and the city gradually homogeneous, as well as the homogeneity of values. In addition to a relatively spacious living space, what rural people pursue is the same as that of urban people, but they also lose a lot of priority in opportunities. Xiao Chen's departure is just to delay the problem of livelihood pressure. One day , he or his next generation still have to face it from the beginning. The road to success is not easy! If you don’t take advantage of the momentum and miss the opportunity, you will only make yourself a disadvantaged group.”

"I've recently started to think, what's wrong with being a disadvantaged group? Being a slob, crawling around in a low posture, that's called relaxation." Marty said, without turning her head, she could imagine Dr. Chen frowning expression, "The point is, as long as he really doesn't envy the world of the powerful, who has the right to criticize his happiness? Dr. Chen, I know that these words are not good for me. Independence and ambition are the qualities of employees you care about I haven't forgotten what you said when I came to apply for the job. It's just that honesty is also an important quality for me. What I want to express is that although the environment cannot be changed, values ​​can be varied. The most terrifying thing is the strong unity It seems that if you leave the city, you will be separated from the mainstream of society. It seems that if you don’t work hard to make money, you are doomed to be the weak in the world. It’s not like this. What else is there to do, than to pursue what you like as much as possible? Is your life more important?"

"New human values! Tell me, can a person guarantee that his values ​​will remain unchanged throughout his life? People are like this. When they are young, they pursue wild and happy lives, and when they are old, they want to live a comfortable and comfortable life. Their own values ​​​​are irrelevant to others. Intervention, but if it becomes a parasite of the society in the end, why should the society pay him for nothing? Today's young people are too egotistical. They only think of themselves and don't think of others. The decadent atmosphere is eroding our next generation , it's really worrying."

The car finally passed through the bottleneck at Ren'ai intersection, and began to accelerate a little.Marty looked at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall outside the car window. In the green shade, there were dozens of colorful kites breaking through the crowd in the square in front of the memorial hall, floating against the wind in the gray sky. Marty thought for a long time about Dr. Chen's last words.She knew that if she continued to speak, she would be labeled as a new human being in Dr. Zhen's mind, a label that hindered her from climbing up, but at this moment her courage was like a spring, and it would not be the end of the world if she didn't climb up!This almost angry sentence flashed in her mind.

"The new and new human beings are also the product of the times. Dr. Chen, you are a physics student. Isn't everything having the instinct of self-balancing and self-filling? In this society, everything looks at money and acts on money. People are suppressed and become slaves to money, so Only then did such a reverse thinking appear. You said that the new and new human beings are decadent, don’t you think that this decadence just reconciles the frenzy of money worship in society? Both are extremes, and I can’t tell which one is more decadent.” "You must think I'm old fashioned. Marty, I'm not conservative, but I believe in moderation. This society is full of extremes everywhere, so people with steady steps are needed, who are not influenced by trends and maintain the lifeblood of social survival. When a person reaches a certain age, he must have a sense of social mission so that he does not live in vain.” Does Dr. Chen really think so, or is he making a scene to maintain his nobility as a boss?These words seem familiar, but they seem to be Jill's high-level remarks. "Marty, I've always felt that you have potential. Think long-term and don't blindly pursue pleasure. It's a blessing that you are talented enough. In those dichotomies of the strong and the weak, you can always They are all strong people, but don’t forget that smart people coupled with youthful vigor are the most prone to arrogant criticism. As a destined strong person, you should do more constructive thinking and don’t live up to your luck. There is a kind of People, with too little talent, have to work hard to get ahead. They are the ones who should criticize the unified values. Like you and me, they are born with vested interests of the unified values. Do you understand? You should understand. You are smart enough. "Dr. Chen raised his eyebrows at Marty and said, "There are some people in the company whose work value is not proportional to their income. These talents should worry about the issue of values." "What do you mean?" Marty asked. Dr. Chen didn't answer.He was referring to Sister Liu. Sister Liu counted the heavy items that were withdrawn to the company after the exhibition, and led the work-students to pack up the market materials collected at the exhibition venue. It was already past nine o'clock in the evening. She was so busy at this moment that she realized that she hadn't had dinner yet, and she probably forgot to drink water since noon. She felt like she was exhausted, so she hurriedly made a glass of milk, and called home while drinking. The son who was staying at home hadn’t eaten dinner yet. Sister Liu almost got angry on the phone. She patiently instructed her son to take out the frozen meal from the refrigerator, put it in the microwave oven, and cook it. She then instructed her son to prepare a bag of seaweed Soup with rice.She didn't hang up the phone until her eleven-year-old son heard the sound of chewing food on the phone. All the people in the company had left, and Sister Liu planned to work some more hours to complete the order report at the booth, so that she could leave in time for the business report tomorrow morning. Of course she was very tired, the body of a forty-year-old woman was full of sore backs, and of course she also felt that it was unfair to have too much work, but reason told Sister Liu that it was best to persevere.The job of assistant manager of foreign trade is not easy, especially since she doesn't have a business background, if she doesn't work harder, how can she lead people?The current subordinates do not believe in authority and are blindly professional-oriented, making it really difficult to lead people.Besides, her position in the company is too special. Although she is only an assistant manager, as the most senior employee of the company, she has the most benefits distribution. When it comes to year-end dividends, even Dr. Chen is heartbroken by her share. Even Vice President Li was jealous.The past efforts are now harvesting, so don't be lazy and let go. Sister Liu knew that she would not let go of her current position even if she was exhausted.A woman who graduated from a high vocational school is middle-aged, divorced, raising a son, and has no major other than loyalty. Does she have the qualifications to let go?Are there other options in her life?Being able to be an assistant manager is because of seniority, not ability, Sister Liu understands.In fact, she hates going to work, but if she leaves Weiqing, she will have nothing. Who can she rely on in the crowds of Taipei?Leaving Taipei, who can rely on in the vast sea of ​​people? It was exactly eleven o'clock.Sister Liu typed up the computer report and called a taxi from the Women's Association.She turned off the company's air conditioner and turned off the lights. The company was in darkness, and she groped out of the door.