Chapter 6 Chapter 3 Who is more important to the boss

Time flies, and Lala has been working at DB for more than two years without knowing it. When she was in college, she rode a bicycle and waited for her graduate student boyfriend downstairs in the girls' dormitory. Fortunately, she was sent abroad by the company and didn't want to come back. Long Lala's six-year-old graduate student boyfriend inspired her that love is not for testing, but for cherishing, and it is better to end early than to be far away thousands of miles away. He put himself in Lala's shoes again and said, "For girls, youth is short, and the greatest harm is to hold on to a love with too many variables."

As expected, Lala could hear the words, so they voted unanimously to pass. Deciding to end is always more difficult than deciding to begin, especially when the end means erasing the past seven years. Even out of inertia, it also makes people feel at a loss for the future. Lala feels pain, and her boyfriend, a graduate student, guides: "Everything has two sides , from the optimistic side, you have gained freedom and have the possibility of better choices.” Who doesn't yearn for freedom? The poet Pei Duofei said it well: life is precious, but love is more expensive. If it is for freedom, both can be thrown away!

When you are eighteen years old, you are in love with a man who is not only six years older than you, but also hard-working in thinking, sometimes it is very depressing mentally.Thinking about it, Lala has completely freed her mind since then, and the pain has really eased. The boyfriend of the graduate student also suggested: "Lala, you mark it on the calendar every day, and when you cross three months, you will be relieved." When the pain has a time limit, the person concerned has a hope to survive. Every day, you know that you are farther away from the pain. It’s only three months, so Lala really feels that the pain is not so daunting. up.

The boyfriend of the graduate student successfully used "SWOT analysis" (referring to the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) to persuade Lala, and then contributed a third strategy: "Participating in more group activities can speed up the benign process." Now Lala quit, and she objected: "It costs money to participate in group activities, so it's better to watch TV and read books at home." As a "petty bourgeoisie" of DB, that is, a "poor person", the "free" Lala used the 120,000 yuan she had saved for five years to pay for the down payment of a small unit worth 320,000 yuan and an area of ​​80 square meters. , Ended the life of living in a rented house.Lala takes the bus to and from get off work every day and spends two-thirds of her income every year to repay the five-year mortgage.

At this time, the position of administrative director of DB Guangzhou Office is vacant, and a replacement needs to be found. The HR people approached Lala and asked her if she would consider this position. They value her because her ability and sense of responsibility have been proven; she has worked in the Guangzhou office for two years and is familiar with the people and things in this office; in addition, this position requires a person with good English people, and Lala's English is second if not the first in the DB Guangzhou office. Lara still doesn't know how to weigh the difference between working in the core business department and working in the support department. She doesn't know that she must develop close to the big tree of the core business, so as not to be marginalized and to develop the fastest.Lara only thought that a supervisor is always higher than an assistant, and not every regional sales assistant has the opportunity to be a supervisor of another functional department.

At that time, Lala worked as a sales assistant for two years. After two 8% salary increases, her annual salary reached 70,000 yuan (12 months of basic salary a year, plus three months of year-end bonus). Eighty-five thousand, this account is easy to calculate. Thus, Lala became the supervisor of Helen, a beauty in Guangzhou. She herself reports to the assistant administrative manager of DB China headquarters, a Shanghai belle named "Rose". The rose grows very delicate, and its voice is dripping.Lala's voice is also whiny, but not as loud as Rose.Lala originally had a good-looking appearance, but her superiors and subordinates were all good-looking, which made her lose all her glory.

As soon as Lala took office, the Guangzhou office was going to do a small renovation, so she found three suppliers to quote according to the company's standard operating procedures for selecting suppliers.After two weeks of comparison and negotiation, she picked out the most satisfactory plan and reported it to Rose. Unexpectedly, Rose involuntarily appointed a supplier from Shanghai to do the job, and Lala was ordered to contact this supplier. Decoration is a job of testing details, but Lala finds that the other party's plans always have mistakes of one kind or another.For example, there is a big pillar in the field. When Lala saw the position marked on the drawing by the supplier, she knew that the person who drew the picture hadn’t been on the spot to measure it carefully. If she really wanted to order the furniture according to his drawing, the furniture at that position would not be placed at all. Can't put it down, have to buy it again.Another example is that on the drawings they produced, the position of the power point is 40 cm above the ground, but the baffle of the supporting furniture is only 30 cm above the ground. When you want to plug in the power, you have to move the desk away first. If this is the case, the user department will not be able to scold the administration department to death in the future.

Mistakes like this kept happening, and after a few rounds, Lala felt very powerless.On this day, Lala discovered on the electromechanical diagram that the air-conditioning switch shared by the two managers' offices was installed in one of the manager's rooms. Lala questioned the supplier, "Why don't you install the air conditioner switch on the corridor outside the two rooms? In this way, both managers can easily control the switch. If it is installed in one room, the other manager has to adjust it." Don’t you have to go to other people’s offices to operate the switch? How inconvenient!”

The supplier quibbled: "Many companies put such a shared switch in one of the rooms and counted. You didn't say in advance that the switch must be placed in the aisle outside the room." Lala was very angry when she heard that, who is the expert in decoration?Shouldn't he do the job well after taking the money?If you don't do your duty, point it out to him, and talk nonsense! Helen leaned forward and told Lala that the work done by this supplier in Guangzhou was very bad, and all departments were dissatisfied.She took Lala to see the rough work of this supplier on the spot, and encouraged Lala to drive this supplier away.

Lala didn't know how deep she was, she really told Rose about her feelings and the information she heard from Helen. Rose was furious, swearing, miscellaneous, without a single dirty word (the culture of multinational companies emphasizes respect for every employee, and it is not advisable to swear at others, whoever swears at others is not integrated into the company culture), She scolded until Lala couldn't find the door. As a result, Lala could only point her head on the phone like a chicken pecking at rice. The conclusion was: the supplier that Rose chose was the right way, and Lala should communicate more with the designated supplier to ensure the quality of the project.

After Lala agreed one by one, Rose said kindly, "Lala, I'm sorry, you interfered with your work just after you took office." Lala hurriedly said: "Where is it? I have just arrived at this position, and I am not familiar with many things. Please remind me more, so that I will not make mistakes." Helen was like a ghost. Seeing that Lala had a bad face after the phone call, she pretended to complain and added fuel to the flames: "Lala, if you use this supplier, there will be problems with the quality of the project. It's not you who will bear it." Responsibility!" Lala has been depressed like this several times, but she always loses her mind and is very troubled.As soon as Rose's call came, she was nervous for fear of being scolded, not knowing what she did wrong again. The problem now is that she can't make a correct judgment on which issues should be consulted and which issues should be decided by herself; within the scope of the company's policy, which things should be handled as long as they are in accordance with the policy, and which ones should be handled according to Senior Rose. professional experience to deal with. Sometimes she asked for too many instructions, and Rose became impatient: "Lala, I'm very busy. You are the supervisor of the Guangzhou Office, so you have to make your own decisions." Lala then made a decision by herself, but as soon as the report was reported, Rose's cursed call came again. All Lala can do is to kill one: before the rules of the game are figured out, be meek to the end. Therefore, every time she learned the lesson from roses, Lala had to make a summary on the spot like "You always taught me well". On the contrary, Rose said kindly several times: "Lala, I know you have worked in a Taiwan-funded company before, and you are always very obedient to your superiors. We are an American company, and DB's culture is very open (enlightened), advocating direct communication. If you have different opinions, feel free to bring them up for discussion, don’t be too careful.” Lala said in her heart, how dare I communicate with you directly, isn't that just asking for money. But just blindly "you know how to teach" can't solve the problem fundamentally.Lala thought, if you don't communicate directly, you can't communicate directly, but she must figure out the rules of the game for communicating with Rose. There are three administrative positions under Rose, among which the administrative director of the Shanghai office is a rotten and honest boss (or pretending to be so loyal and useless), Lala is the manager of Guangzhou, and the other is Wang Qiang, the manager of Beijing. Lala called Wang Qiang, the administrative director of the Beijing Office, and tried to find out how she worked with Rose under the guise of horizontal contact. This Wang Qiang was also oppressed, because the two had the same feelings, they couldn't help muttering for a long time. But Lala put down the phone and summed up the content of the conversation. In fact, there were not many valuable parts.She just figured it out: Rose has the same style for Wang Qiang. Wang Qiang has worked in DB for three years, but the time she reported to Rose was not very long.According to her, Lala's ex didn't get along well with Rose, but Rose persuaded Liszt to agree and fired him. Wang Qiang was obviously not convinced by Rose. She once wrote an e-mail of her disagreement with Rose and reported it to Rose’s boss, Liszt, the director in charge of human resources and administration, but Liszt forwarded Wang Qiang’s email back to rose treatment. Wang Qiang encouraged Lala to say: "If I mention it alone, Liszt may think that there is something wrong with me, or that there is something wrong with Rose; if you mention it with me, and you all say that there is something wrong with Rose, the boss will think, always Not all executives have problems, do they?" Lala understands Wang Qiang's logical deduction. But Lala thought that if she communicated directly with Liszt, she would leapfrog the level to sue Rose.Leapfrogging is one of the most serious behaviors of foreign companies. Lala has worked for six years, and most of the leaps and bounds she has seen end in frustration.Maybe you could win in terms of the matter itself at the time, but in the long run, basically you still lost. Lala always thinks that the leapfrog complaint system in the HR system of foreign companies is more of a preventive and warning function, so that those who are in charge can be cautious and independent.Once someone really set foot on that complaint channel, they just use their own future to maintain the enlightened image of corporate culture. The complaint itself has a high percentage of fair conclusions; the supervisor who has been complained has been severely injured, but for the complainant, in the future, no one is willing to reuse a person who has complained about his supervisor, and it is likely that he will face ending. Lala feels that she has just arrived in office and is far from being the last pawn to take the step of leapfrogging and appealing. She should try various methods to get along with Rose. In addition, Lala vaguely felt that Liszt, the director of this department, was not interested in upholding justice for his subordinates and judging right from wrong. He hoped that his subordinates would cooperate well and not cause trouble for him——he forwarded Wang Qiang's mail to Rose to deal with , expressing his position. Liszt is an American, nearly sixty years old. He has worked in DB for more than 20 years, and he has not been transferred to China for a long time.For him, staying safely in China until retirement is his most important strategic goal, and everything must revolve around the word "safety". He tries to avoid making decisions.When encountering a problem, always ask the manager to go to the relevant departments, even irrelevant departments, and ask the directors one by one for their opinions, and finally come to a collective decision. When faced with changes, he can always procrastinate and try to wait until he has a comprehensive look at the situation before deciding which the way to go (direction of action). When Lala was just promoted, she went to the Shanghai headquarters to meet Liszt.His tie was neatly tied, his hair was not messed up, his waist was straight, and although he was no longer young, he looked like a big-name Hollywood star. He is very polite to everyone. When he enters the company at work in the morning, he first says hello to the front desk, and then he goes all the way to his office. For Liszt, administrative manager Rose is more important than administrative director Wang Qiang and Lala. If Rose leaves, neither Wang Qiang nor Du Lala will be able to take on Rose's responsibilities for at least two years. This is the last word. DB is the best company Lala has ever experienced.The so-called good, one is income, the other is the environment, and the third is the future.There are many benefits that cannot be covered by money. For example, the colleagues who work with you are all high-quality and professional people, which will make you feel more joyful and fulfilled in your work. This is an intangible Welfare. There are only 500 of the top 500 companies in the world, and more than half of them have not yet invested in China. Among the top 500 companies that have entered China, if the labor-intensive enterprises are excluded, there are not many left to choose from. For Lala, such a job as a small supervisor with an annual salary of 85,000 is not so easy to obtain. Although Rose is not good, it is just a small regret in a good choice. She can try to avoid Rose; If you lose your job opportunity at DB, it will be difficult to guarantee you will be able to enter a good company like DB in the future. In short, when Lala approached Wang Qiang, she was just trying to find a rule of the game, not because she wanted to work together to kill Rose, but that was a troublesome idea. Lala tries to persuade the angry Wang Qiang.But Wang Qiang has Beijing-style pride and self-confidence, and she doesn't quite listen to Lala's advice. Lala was thinking about the conversation with Wang Qiang, when Helen poked her head over, she rolled her eyes wide and said, "Rose looks at the call list from the billing system every month, she is very careful, when she looks at the extension list , you may notice that you have been talking to Wang Qiang for a long time." Lala was very displeased with Helen's sneakiness. Why did Helen know about it as soon as she and Wang Qiang talked on the phone? However, Lala also had to admit that Helen had no bad intentions, and her reminder was right. Lala thought to herself that she would never have such dangerous communication with Wang Qiang again.