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Wu Di had a premonition that the first peak in his career was about to come.
After thinking about it carefully, Wu Di became suspicious again. It had only been more than nine months since he was transferred from the company's marketing department planning position to the sales department regional manager. Promotions were mostly based on connections and seniority. How could he get a job with a new business person who couldn't even say flattery? The construction and ceramics industry he was in was in a stage of steep decline. For the sales staff who had just transferred to another job, they were lucky enough not to be cut or laid off. How could they encounter such a good thing?
Due to his introverted personality, poor conversational skills, short stature and ordinary appearance, Wu Di has had low self-esteem since he was a child and has never considered himself to be a sales material.
But sometimes people are forced out. At the end of 2017, in order to become stronger, bigger, more refined and more refined, the company decided to expand the sales staff team, instead of recruiting from outside, directly selecting people from the marketing department through internal transfers. On the one hand, this is to give an opportunity to those in the marketing department who have always wanted to do sales but found it difficult to do so. On the other hand, it is also to allow fresh blood to stimulate those sales veterans who are unwilling to make progress amid the trend of channel fission and consumption upgrading.
Wu Di didn’t want to switch jobs to sales, but his income from planning in the marketing department was really limited. He was in his early thirties and still had no house, car, wife, or even a girlfriend. In addition, as an honest and conscientious person, he works overtime every day but cannot be reused by his leadership. He has almost no future and no spare time. He lives a life as hard as an ascetic.
Therefore, Wu Di was forced to make changes and risked his life to make a comeback. Unexpectedly, he successfully passed the selection and became a salesperson, but he was assigned to a very ordinary sales area; he also did not expect that most customers (dealers) actually recognized him, even though he was a salesperson. A sales rookie with low emotional intelligence, poor conversational skills, and only immersed himself in the terminal to do practical things. Unexpectedly, with his efforts, he exceeded the sales target for many months in a row, and his income after sales was higher than when he was planning in the marketing department. Income has at least doubled.
As income goes up, so-called love will follow. Wu Di had been working in sales for less than six months when he found a girlfriend and soon entered the stage of marriage.
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There are no absolutes in this world, and Wu Di’s premonition was soon fulfilled.
The day before the Mid-Autumn Festival, the company held an unprecedented Mid-Autumn Party, which included eating, drinking, guessing and drawing, and all employees were required to bring their family members to attend. This is probably because the industry situation is not good. In order to stabilize employees and teams, companies have to deliberately create a family culture to show concern for employees.
At the Mid-Autumn Festival party, when Wu Di appeared in front of all his colleagues and their families with his fashionable and well-groomed girlfriend, everyone looked at him and his girlfriend with admiration.
Amidst the wonderful music, Wu Di held his girlfriend's hand with satisfaction, walked past tables filled with colleagues from various departments, and came to the two tables where colleagues from the marketing department were sitting.
"Brother Wudi, good job. When your business is prosperous, you don't forget your roots and remember your poor brothers! Come and sit here, the seat in the marketing department will always be reserved for you!" Lin Denggao, a colleague in the marketing department, said loudly to Wu Di.
"Yes, Brother Wudi, good job. Come on, sister-in-law, please have a seat." Other colleagues also followed Lin Denggao in cheering.
"Xiao Gaozi, Biao Biao, Xiao Li, Lao Chen, A Yan, A Ming...Thank you, thank you! Have a few more drinks later!" Wu Di greeted his colleagues in the marketing department one by one.
With the host’s passionate opening, the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner officially kicked off. First, the general manager gave a speech and toasted to all the employees; then he followed the process, guessing riddles, drawing prizes, eating and drinking…… After three rounds of wine and five dishes, Wu Di felt a little tipsy.
Unexpectedly, the general manager walked onto the stage and said that he would announce the adjustments to the company's personnel and organizational structure in advance. In an instant, the whole place was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
"...After research, the company has decided to appoint...Appoint Wu Di as the Northeast Region Director..." The general manager's voice was impassioned and echoed for a long time.
Wu Di didn’t listen to other people, he only heard information about himself. He couldn't help humming Andy Lau's song "Today": "I have waited for a long time and finally waited for today. I have dreamed for a long time and finally realized my dream..."
He picked up a full glass of red wine, clinked the glasses with his girlfriend, and drank it all in one gulp. In his drunken state of mind, he looked at his girlfriend's beautiful face, thinking about the good news of being promoted to regional director, and felt that his life had reached its highlight moment.
Suddenly, there was a loud thunder outside, followed by strong winds, heavy rain, and the beautiful weather with a full moon in the blue sky suddenly became so scary. What's even more weird is that the rainwater actually seemed to have grown legs, passing through the door and soaking Wu Di to death.
Then...then I woke up from the dream.
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After waking up, Wu Di found himself lying on the hotel bed. It turned out that he had this long "TV dream" last night after he was so drunk that he stopped watching movies.
Most of the things in the dream are illusions, and even his name is not the mighty "Wu Di"”, but called the very down-and-out “Wu Ming”; only the fact that Xianyu turned over from planning to sales and was affirmed by most dealers is true.
At this time, Wu Ming, who had a splitting headache, came to his senses and returned to the reality he was unwilling to face, remembering the facts he was unwilling to accept.
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and I have been on a business trip for nearly a month. It seems that this reunion holiday will have to be celebrated elsewhere. The company will announce the layoff list after the National Day. Whether I will stay or leave is still unknown. I want to give it a try but feel Feeling helpless; the marriage with my girlfriend is about to be finalized, but the girlfriend in reality is not the beautiful and gentle girlfriend in the dream. It seems that as long as her wishes are not fulfilled, the two will break up; the mother His old habit happened again. His father asked him to transfer some money, but he only had a little over 100,000 yuan in savings...
Thinking of this, Wu Ming said firmly to himself: "You must not lose your job!"
But who gets promoted and who gets demoted, who stays and who goes, in many cases are not based on ability, but on your ability to flatter someone and your relationship with the leader.
Is the workplace in the ceramics industry really so dark? Send 1,000 yuan to regional director Liu Bin? Send 2,000 yuan to deputy general manager Gao Ruosong? Give 3,000 yuan to general manager Cheng Shi? Transfer via WeChat? Is cramming useful? Will they charge it?
He has never been good at flattering, and even saying unintentional flattery feels very embarrassing. Now he has to send red envelopes to his boss through WeChat, which is as difficult as heaven.
He picked up the mobile phone that was placed next to his pillow, opened WeChat, clicked, read, and thought, over and over again... Half an hour later, he still couldn't muster up the courage to transfer 3,000 yuan to Cheng Shi. .
MD, if you can’t do this shit, why should I keep you? While scolding himself in his mind, heBian used the five fingers of his right hand to make a fake pistol, pointed it at his head, and continued to curse in his heart: You bastard, you have to give it to me today, or you have to give it to me if you don't, otherwise I will kill you with one shot!
I didn’t expect to be forced like this, and it really gave me courage. He quickly transferred 3,000 yuan to Cheng Shi on WeChat.
In Wu Ming's company, it has long been a secret that employees "tribute" to their leaders for various purposes. Although he knew that 3,000 yuan was just a small sum of money to Cheng Shi, he should still accept it.
A few minutes passed, a dozen minutes passed, half an hour passed, and an hour passed. Wu Ming waited extremely impatiently, but Cheng Shi still confiscated the money he transferred.
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No, something big is definitely happening.
Wu Ming clicked on Cheng Shi’s WeChat Moments and found that Cheng Shi had posted a message three hours ago asking everyone to like it. Three hours later, there were only a few likes. This is obviously an abnormal situation; if in normal times, as long as Cheng Shi posts something casually in Moments, company employees, dealers, other friends, etc. will immediately like it. To exaggerate, it will be 10,000 likes in an instant. But today there were no likes. Where were those sycophants?
At this moment, Lin Denggao, a colleague from the marketing department, sent a message on WeChat: Brother Ming, let me tell you a piece of good news and a piece of bad news. Which one do you want to listen to?
Before Wu Ming could reply, Lin Denggao sent another message: The good news is that Cheng Shi was fired from the company. It is said that he embezzled tens of millions, but the rumor is that the prince of the group is going to take over our brand, so he will transfer all the employees in the company. Cheng Shi, who has been here for more than ten years, is gone; the bad news is that the company has announced layoffs, and your list is also included in the list of layoffs, and so am I
This message from Lin Denggao was like a thunderbolt from the blue. It shocked Wu Ming for a long time.come over.
Impossible, Lin Denggao must be joking. However, sales department colleague Lu Xiaoguang also sent a message, which was exactly the same as the message sent by Lin Denggao.
"I...I...I was laid off." Wu Ming said to himself, "Wu Ming, Wu Ming, you are such a failure! You were fired, and the whole company knew about it, and you are the only one who is still in the dark. In the dark, you are still working hard to do activities for dealers. You are simply being fooled by the whole world. How sad!”
At this moment, Wu Ming wanted to die. However, think about your girlfriend, who may not necessarily break up with you; think about your parents, who are still waiting for you to support and repay; think about poetry and the distance, how many beautiful lives are waiting for you to experience...
This idea is so fucking nonsense. Can't die!
Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered a very important thing, that is, he was about to send a message to Cheng Shi, asking him to let him go and not accept the 3,000 yuan.
Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Wu Ming said to himself in his heart that he should quickly go to the high-speed rail station to buy a ticket back to Foshan and celebrate the Reunion Festival with his girlfriend. She likes to eat Liuzhou snail noodles, and as soon as she returns home, she takes her to eat at a more authentic store in Geely Shopping Plaza. In fact, she is still a relatively good girl, not so vain and realistic.
Wu Ming firmly told himself again: Well, I will go back to Foshan to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.
✎ The original title of this article is "Highlight Moment". The story is purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental.
