Chapter 10 Chapter One

The personal identity investigation reports commissioned by companies to credit investigation agencies or private detectives are mostly boring and boring, unlike character investigations such as having an affair or spending money like water.Most of the survey objects commissioned by the company are the characteristics of the employees that the managers do not like, and the newcomers who are scheduled to be hired.The purpose of the latter's entrustment is clear, but the other commissioners did not reveal their purpose, but only commissioned the investigation.It may be to avoid unnecessary preconceived notions by investigators in order to obtain objective information.

The investigative report is likewise made up of boring words and sentences.In fact, even the investigation report of an affair is nothing more than an example: "At △ o'clock in the afternoon on △ day, Mr. △△△ met Ms. △△ in front of △△ station, and took a taxi to △△ hot spring hotel. Wait until △ o'clock△ At △ minutes, the two of them still haven't come out, so the investigator will end today's follow-up." Since the object of the investigation is an affair, the boring words arouse rich imagination.But the same articles in the ordinary character investigation report are so monotonous that it makes people breathless.

Kasai Heitaro is the person who appeared in this kind of monotonous investigation report. A Credit Investigation Institute was entrusted by a certain electrical industry to investigate Heitaro Kasai and put forward the following points: 1. This agency has paid attention to the person under investigation, but the character of this person is unknown.2. The respondent is currently working in the D automobile industry in County S, but I don't know if he is satisfied with his current job?3. Are there other companies poaching corners?4. If the conditions are good, is he willing to change jobs?5. Experience, family content, friendship situation, etc.

——Based on these few points alone, it can be seen at a glance that the client's "attention" to Heitaro Kasai was intentional poaching.In other words, the purpose of the investigation has been indirectly manifested. What kind of experience Kasai Heitaro has and what kind of personality he has can be seen at a glance from the investigators collecting information on the spot and submitting the investigation report to the client about a week later.That is tantamount to describing the whole person.In plain words and sentences, it is classified into categories and described item by item, without unnecessary descriptions, so it shows realism instead.

However, realism is the most boring.First, Kasai Heitaro is a boring man, and the style of the report describing him is boring, so it is not appropriate to quote this article to introduce him as a character.However, because it is the content of the investigation of the old-fashioned investigation, it can be trusted. Kasai Heitaro was thirty-five years old (when this survey was conducted), and his academic qualifications are quite impressive: he graduated from the mathematics department of the Faculty of Science of a certain university in Tokyo, entered the graduate school of the Faculty of Science of the same university, dropped out of the same graduate school, and entered the third-year class of the Department of Precision Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the same university , and graduated at the age of 27 with excellent academic performance.

In the year of graduation, he joined M Optical Industry Co., Ltd. in Tokyo.This is the first-class camera industry company. It is a pity that the investigation report does not record the dynamics of Heitaro Kasai's university days.Perhaps the investigators were satisfied with the "excellent academic performance" provided by the school, and did not inquire about other aspects of the students at the same level.However, the circumstances of his tenure at M Optics are described in detail. When he first joined the company, Kasai Heitaro fully demonstrated his newcomer's intention and fighting spirit. He was recommended by the company during school and applied for the company. He went to the company as an intern during the summer vacation of the year before entering the company.The factory is located on a plateau with clear air in the middle.During his internship, he became interested in lens design, so he decided to formally enter the company.When I wrote my graduation thesis, I also made use of my internship experience, and used "lens design and measurement" as the theme.

After entering the company, Kasai Heitaro was immediately assigned to the research department of the Optical Division of the Technical Department, and was responsible for the design of lenses.His face is so pale that it should be said that he is tall and thin, with neat and almost nervous hair, black-rimmed glasses on his long face, a high nose bridge, and thin lips, giving people an impression of wisdom.With soft shoulders, he looks like an impeccable young technician.There are more female employees in the factory than men, and they give him eyeballs and whistle unceremoniously, and some girls admire him passionately, but Kasai Heitaro never dismisses these temptations.

When he joined the company, M Optics introduced a computer that had not been tried before.That is a relay computer, which seems to be a very preliminary technology now.But he uses it to craft work plans and advance technology.The company uses a two-person system, so there is another colleague besides him, and they advanced the technical development of lens design by nearly six months, so the company values ​​their ability. After the three-month trial period ended, M Optical asked Heitaro Kasai to write an article about the company. The content of this article is as follows: "Besides me in my university, there is another classmate A who participated in an internship last summer. He went to B Optical to apply. During the interview, the examiner asked in detail about the content and impression of his internship in M ​​Optical. It is said that his answer Vague, unwilling to explain clearly. However, lens design is the most confidential part of the Optical Industry Corporation, so I think it is dangerous to let students come to practice."

This is quite pertinent advice to the company.Furthermore he wrote: "It is unreasonable that there is not much difference in treatment between people who have graduated from ordinary universities and people like me who have studied in a research institute for two years. In addition, it is unreasonable for people who work at the Tokyo head office to work in factories in the countryside. It is also unfair that the technicians who work do not give regionally differentiated subsidies. For example, in the United States, the academic qualifications of employees are quite reproduced. The company's treatment obviously reflects the academic qualifications. The era when the production of lenses relied on the inspiration of craftsmen has passed In the past. Now it is produced by sophisticated minds and machines, so it is unreasonable to treat technicians as craftsmen."

This was a criticism shared by the company, but what confused the leaders was that he had only been in the company for four months and was still a rookie.Moreover, his articles are blunt and intense. However, the company valued Kasai Heitaro's talent, and believed that this was a venting article for a young man who had just entered the society and was not yet well-versed in the world, and expected him to gradually change and become more tactful. However, Kasai Heitaro not only expressed his dissatisfaction with the treatment to his superiors in words, but also kept complaining to his colleagues.Of course, these words were passed to the personnel department and cadres indirectly.Among the employees of the technical department who entered the company at the same time, he was the only one who expressed dissatisfaction, and the others did not protest, which made him particularly eye-catching.

Takaichi Mizuma, who entered the company at the same time and was assigned to the same unit from a different university but with the same education, is a gentle person.Although he agreed with Kasai Heitaro's dissatisfaction with the treatment, he never expressed his dissatisfaction like Kasai did.On the one hand, this may be due to the fact that Takashi Mizuma has a somewhat inferior feeling towards Heitaro Kasai.Mizuma is short, with angular face, which is much inferior to the dashing Kasai.Besides, his grades in the research institute were not as good as Kasai's—of course it was a different university research institute—and his skills after entering the company were also worse than Kasai's.In fact, Mizuma's weight in the company is second to Kasai's.Therefore, he psychologically felt that he could not stand on the same ground as Kasai, who had excellent grades, and expressed his dissatisfaction.He passively agrees with Kasai's proposition, but cannot actively assert it. Kasai Heitaro didn't seem to mind that Mizuma didn't actively express his dissatisfaction.The character of being indifferent to other people's movements and only caring about one's own interests has been manifested since then. However, although Kasai's dissatisfaction has spread to the ears of the cadres, he cannot be given special treatment to him who has just joined the company.Moreover, the camera industry was still in recession at that time, and the salary was meager overall.Therefore, Kasai was always in a state of dissatisfaction during his two years at the company. Kasai Heitaro, who was living in the company's bachelor dormitory at that time, had no special hobbies. He just liked reading American technical books and technical magazines that he ordered from foreign language bookstores in Tokyo. Most of these books were related to computers. It seems that since then , Heitaro Kasai was disappointed with the optical industry and was considering a job change. Kasai is such a hard-working person. He despises those around him who are obsessed with Go, Shogi, mountain climbing, golf, etc. He thinks it is a waste of time. Therefore, Kasai also gave advice to Takashi Mizuma to go fishing every holiday.Before Mizuma came to this factory, he was fond of fishing. There are big lakes and small mountain lakes, overlapping high mountains and many streams.Every holiday, Mizuma came back from catching a lot of trout, and when he saw Kasai reading a book in the crab-shaped script in the dormitory, he blushed and smiled embarrassedly.Mizuma couldn't give up this hobby of fishing, which made him slightly inferior to Kasai Heitaro. Two years after joining the company, Kasai Heitaro insisted on resigning regardless of the cadres' retention.He resigned because he lost hope for the downturn of the optical industry. In retrospect, it is obviously his miscalculation.Because a year later, the industry began to be active, and it soon ushered in an unprecedented boom. Takashi Mizuma also doesn't have the ability to see through the industry, but he is reluctant to leave his outstanding colleagues and keep him.Of course Kasai would not change his mind because of this.At this time, Mizuma asked Kasai about his future movements, and Kasai told him that he planned to transfer to the automobile industry, because the automobile industry will enter the era of using computers, and his technology will be able to be used.From his tone, it seems that he had arranged a new job before resigning. Kasai watched with a slightly contemptuous look at the waters of M Optics, which was sluggish, and left the small town in the basin surrounded by beautiful lakes and mountains.