Confessions of a Salesman

Chapter 586 Exam Begins

After teasing at night, Xiao Zhang gradually became familiar with us, and expressed his feelings: "So, you are not much different from us. When we are together, you are always talking nonsense. You didn't say a word seriously. With so many things to do every day, a word is worth a lot of money!"

I smiled and said: "Everyone is ordinary people, what's the difference? They all have part-time jobs, and they have to eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom. Why can you do whatever you want after work? We have to pay Continue to worry about the country and the people?"

Lao Feng nodded and said: "We recruited a new sales director before, who is diligent every day, does not smoke or drink, and wishes to be in the company 24 hours a day. He can't understand me very much. He thinks that I am late and leave early every day. I just played minesweeper and Solitaire, but he never saw me do any serious things. He always wondered, what’s the point of being in the company for a person like me? Why did they invite an old man like me back one day? I couldn't bear it anymore, and raised an objection at the company's monthly meeting! Guess what our director Lin said?"

Lin Jiasheng took the words and said: "He is also out of his mind. If he can see Lao Feng coming in late and leaving early all day, playing games at work, he will hear that he is not working? I am busy all day, how can I have time to care about it?" What are others doing? I can't handle my own affairs!"

Old Feng smiled and said, "Our Director Lin said that I can't control him, but you still want to control him?"

Xiao Zhang said disdainfully: "There are two official words, whoever is the most official has the final say, right?"

I shook my head and said, "This is not a question of who is the official and who has the final say. My subordinates often scold me. As long as I do something wrong or bad at work, I can say and scold me. This It is a matter of looking at the problem from different angles. If you are in your position, seek your job, and do what you are supposed to do. Everyone has their own position in the company. Don’t use your own work standards to ask others! Who would dare It is said that I can do more things in the company 24 hours a day than I go to the company for an hour, not necessarily! It is a matter of efficiency!"

Xiao Zhang shook his head and said, "That's not right! If you can do what others do for 24 hours in one hour, why don't you do two more hours, so that you can do what others do for 2 hours?"

I sighed and said, "I'm not selling to the company anymore. Why should I work for an extra hour? You can ask Mr. Lin, if he is allowed to go fishing and delay him for an hour and let him work, would he be willing?" ?”

Xiao Zhang said affirmatively: "President Feng may not be willing, but Director Lin is definitely willing? This is his company!"

I laughed haha ​​and said, "Fuck! He's lazier than Old Feng. He usually looks serious, with a sullen face all day long. He is the least diligent among them. When I went to his company, I never saw him do it." It's a serious thing! That is, when he was a salesman, he looked good at that time and scolded me every day!"

Lin Jiasheng said dissatisfiedly: "You have lost your conscience when you say this, but I serve the company wholeheartedly! I learned from Lao Feng, never stand when I can sit, and never sit when I can lie down. You can ask me to worry about it, why should I spend money to invite so many people back? Why should I pay them wages? You remember that if the boss of a company is as busy as a dog every day, the company will definitely not grow big!"

Xiao Zhang understood a little, nodded his head and said, "It seems to be the case, so what is the relationship between you two? Mr. Chen, why did you work as a salesman for Director Lin?"

I shook my head and said, "I'm not a salesman for him. I'm selling to him. I'm a salesman. He's a buyer, a bitter buyer. He and Feng were rivals in love at that time, and neither of them You fell in love with someone, so you took it out on me, understand now?"

Xiao Zhang was even more confused, unable to figure out the relationship between them.

We didn't bother to explain, Lin Jiasheng asked me: "What are your plans tomorrow? Do you have a chance to be the president? The outside world is speculating that you are the first president!"

Old Feng echoed: "Yeah, how many favors have you given? You are so popular, it is said that you are the pre-determined candidate for the president?"

I snorted and said, "I have money to spend on that, am I crazy? Besides, it's different this time, it's useless to spend money, no, it's like I've spent so much money in the past, Let me tell you that it's impossible, and I won't be the chairman of this shit, I just want to join in the fun like you!"

Xiao Zhang looked at us and asked suspiciously: "Don't you all want to be the president? Although the president is not a government establishment, I heard that the power is still great? Our leaders attach great importance to it. In the past, we I have never held such an event with such a big posture. It’s all on TV, and I heard that many big leaders will come tomorrow?”

I shook my head and said, "Shoot the top bird, those of us who are entrepreneurs are not interested in those powers, what we want is a beneficial economic policy, which is more valuable than a false name!"

At nine o'clock in the morning the next day, we arrived at the auditorium under the guidance of the receptionist.

I, Lao Feng, and Lin Jiasheng were all assigned to the second row, but Mr. Luo was actually assigned to the first row, which made us very dissatisfied!

Participants entered the venue one after another. The meeting at 9 o'clock was delayed for half an hour before the real start.

There were 5 or 6 people sitting on the rostrum, one of them was Mr. Zhu, and the most central place was always vacant.With the sound of applause, a ministerial leader, accompanied by a group of people, stepped onto the rostrum and sat in the very center. The person next to him was the old principal who spoke at the Top Ten Economic Figures Awards Ceremony .

The host introduced one by one: "The chairmen and guests attending today's conference are..."

Then the ministerial leader spoke first: "My mission today is very simple. One is to facilitate the smooth holding of such a meeting, the other is to supervise the public election of the permanent directors of the association, and the third is to meet my old friends. Let's continue the meeting process!"

Next, Mr. Zhu, one of the members of the main committee, introduced the process of the entire meeting. There are a total of 20 candidates, selected by the elites of various enterprises and industries, to compete for the position of the five permanent directors this time. One of the five is the president of the association, and the other four are vice-presidents. Everyone performs their duties.Then elect a secretary-general of the association, who will preside over the daily work of the association.

Then, the big screen behind the rostrum lit up, and 20 candidates were displayed on the big screen. I saw that my name was in the third place. Lao Feng, Lin Jiasheng, and President Luo were all on the list. When I arrived at Hu Junsheng, Gucheng, what surprised me the most was that Lu Ping’s name was still there, and the company written behind her was the general manager of Lotte Technology.

I asked Old Feng in a low voice: "Why hasn't Lu Ping been investigated? Shen Yang has been arrested, why is she fine?"

Old Feng snorted and said, "How do I know? She didn't count us Yingke!"

I said angrily, "Did you forget how Yingke was acquired? Sun Shengguo must not be able to run away, and she, Lu Ping, is also one of them!"

Old Feng shrugged, saying that he didn't know either.

Mr. Zhu continued: "These 20 candidates will be voted by representatives of the 150 association units present today to select 5 people. After three rounds of competition, the five people will finally compete for the position of president. After three rounds of competition, the first The first round is a technical competition. Mr. Zheng Qinan, the former principal of the business school, will set questions and score them. The second round is the defense session. The following participants will randomly ask two questions, and the candidates will answer them. Vote and score. After the second round, the five candidates with the highest scores will enter the third round, and the five will read out their campaign speeches and vote again, and the one with the highest number of votes will win."

I couldn't help complaining: "It's more troublesome than choosing Miss Hong Kong, what's the matter?"

Old Feng laughed and said, "My Miss Hong Kong won the championship, and she has a car, a house, and cash. If this one wins, can I get some wool?"

I waited and looked around, and only in the same second row, I saw the ancient city that was also looking at me.Hu Junsheng was sitting next to him, discussing something with the person next to him.

I said disdainfully: "He is such a famous entrepreneur, chairman, shouldn't he be indifferent to fame and fortune? Why join in the fun with a group of young people?"

Old Feng smiled and said, "Why are you worried? In this industry, he is a beginner and a newcomer. There are quite a few people who know him, but how many people in the industry can recognize him?" Him? Besides, isn't our President Lin also here?"

I hurriedly explained: "Where am I worried? I just think he really doesn't need to show his face, just arrange an ancient city! Can Lin always be the same? He belongs to the people who live everywhere!"

The meeting continued. The old principal took out 20 test papers and said: "There is only one question in each test paper, and they are all in disorder. Those who come up to get the questions will randomly pick one, and then I will give you 2 hours. , be supervised by your receptionist and complete independently. Those who read their names, come up and get the test papers."

I was the first to be called up, and I muttered, "My name is easy to pronounce, isn't it?"

After going up, the old principal asked me to choose by myself, and I took the top one. The old principal said to me earnestly: "Answer well, you are playing it like a joke, your President Dong has high expectations of you, don't let her Disappointed!"

I hummed and said, "Don't worry, old principal, I won't embarrass our business school!"

The old headmaster nodded in satisfaction.

Then, Xiao Zhang led me to answer questions in a conference room at the back.

My question is: "Among the existing industry national standards, which product standards do you think do not meet the national standards?"

I am surprised that this question is completely incongruous. The product standard is much more detailed than the national standard. The national standard is relatively general. The technical parameters of a product vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but they can basically meet national standards.

At the current stage, basically every enterprise's standard and the products it produces can easily meet the national standard, that is to say, the enterprise standard is much higher than the national standard.

In other words, even if the product standard does not meet the national standard, how can it be possible that the product standard does not meet the national standard?

I've racked my brains and can't think of an answer.

Think carefully, is this a trick for me?The old headmaster shouldn't make such a simple mistake, right?A full hour passed without writing anything, just staring at a blank sheet of paper in a daze.

The receptionist Xiao Zhang was worried for me, and reminded me in a low voice: "Mr. Chen, please write a little bit, as long as it is not a blank paper, I will give you points!"

I smiled and said gratefully: "Yes, yes, no, no. The main problem is that I didn't understand it!"

Xiao Zhang sighed, probably thinking that leaders like us only drink and chat, and know nothing about professional and technical matters, so he was somewhat disappointed.

I didn't need to explain anything to her. In the last 10 minutes, I simply wrote a few words and handed it to Xiao Zhang. Xiao Zhang took the paper helplessly and said to me: "Mr. It will be very low, if you think about it again, no one is urging us to hand in the paper anyway!"

I said gratefully: "No, just hand it over!"

When I got back to my seat, Lao Feng and the others were already sitting on the chair with their chests full and waiting for me.

Seeing my anxious look, I joked: "Is it because you can't write a complete sentence without the Xinhua dictionary? I asked you to recognize a few more words, but you just didn't listen!"

I said angrily: "I don't know much Chinese characters, I want to write in English, I'm afraid they won't understand!"

Old Feng pouted and asked, "What question are you asking? Why did it take so long to come out? Shouldn't it be? My question is very simple!"

I hummed and said, "It shouldn't be difficult, but I just felt that the questions in my test paper were wrong. After thinking about it for a long time, I finally scolded the person who made the questions!"

Old Feng was startled, and hurriedly said: "This is a question from your old principal, you dare to scold him, you are really courageous, you really don't want to be the president?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah, I'm not interested. Didn't I scold him on purpose, but the questions on this test paper are really wrong!"

Old Feng snorted and said, "You're done, you just wait to be told, and the grading begins!"

The old principal commented one by one, first took out a test paper and read: "This is the test paper of Mr. Ying Kelin, his question is based on the GB35467-2001 standard, explain why household electrical appliances must meet this standard? I won’t read the standard here, Mr. Lin remembers it very clearly, let’s talk about the questions he explained, and his answers are very precise, worthy of being an elite in the industry! 10 points out of [-]!”

Lao Feng and I cheered from below: "Boss Lin is mighty!"

Then I read the answers of several people. Most of the old principals are still very face-saving. Even if they don’t understand it, just write a few sentences casually. The old principal still praises more and criticizes less. 7, 8 points.

(End of this chapter)