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Chapter 200: Follow Mr. Yang and eat nine meals a day
When he got off work in the afternoon, Lin Cao looked at his phone and found that the tasks assigned above had been downloaded.

At 10:30 tomorrow morning, he has to go to Spark Records for the first wave of inspections.

Suddenly, a voice came from behind: "Brother Lin, I took a taxi, can you come up together? We live just two steps away, so we can save money on the taxi."

Lin Cao waved his hand and said to him: "Just go back by yourself. I have some personal matters to deal with today."

"Okay, then I'll go first."

The employee didn't ask any questions. He took a bag of honey popcorn from the company's mountain of snacks and followed the crowd into the elevator.

Lin Cao packed up his things, took the next elevator downstairs, hailed a taxi, and went to a small restaurant.

After more than 20 minutes of driving, we were already approaching the suburbs, and the taxi stopped in front of an old building.

After paying the fare and getting off the bus, Lin Cao looked at the building in front of him. Through the rusty windows, he could vaguely see the four dilapidated words "Spark Music" on the fifth floor.

Lin Cao shook his head slightly, walked into the private room of the small restaurant downstairs, ordered some home-cooked meals, took out his mobile phone, and sent a message to someone: "Not down yet?"

Soon, a message came: "Brother Lin, wait a moment, something happened temporarily on my side. It will be resolved quickly, within 5 minutes."

5 minutes……

Tsk tsk, these 5 minutes of overtime work would be set up as a negative example of the company by Mr. Yang at Kuaiguang Group.

Recalling the past events, Lin Cao felt inexplicably like he was in another world.

There were originally at least twelve or three people who knew him at Spark Records, but now only three are left.

Although he has developed very well in Yuefu and Lin Cao was promoted very quickly among the same batch of employees, anyone who knows Lin Cao has a good relationship with him.

After all, he is a considerate leader.

However, later Lin Cao was fired by Yuefu and after he started working in Guangguang, he stopped talking too much about his work to his old colleagues.

The others were also very sensible and did not ask any more questions.

Of course, both parties tacitly refrained from mentioning this matter, and considered the issue from different perspectives.

What the old colleagues were thinking was that Lin Cao had been fired miserably and had been mistreated by his leader Zheng Weineng for several months. He finally found a new job in another city and had to start over again. The wages and benefits would definitely be much lower than before.

Kuaiguang Group is not bad, but it is still far behind compared to Yuefu.

Even if Lin Cao's position in Kueiguang Group is the same as that in Yuefu, he is an agent and manager, but the treatment of the two is definitely very different.

If your old boss and old colleague who are good to you are in trouble, how can you expose their scars?

Lin Cao never mentioned anything about his new job for the completely opposite purpose - since joining the Kuaiguang Group, his life has been getting better day by day, and he is afraid that his brothers will explode if he speaks out.

The wages on paper are twice as high as during the Yue Mansion period, not counting various miscellaneous benefits and bonuses...

Although he is a manager, he is not a human resources officer. None of his former colleagues are expected to be artists or anchors. If they cannot help their brothers, it is better not to talk about it at all.

Now that Spark Company is likely to become a branch of Kuaiguang Group, Lin Cao and three old colleagues took some time to make an appointment to catch up on old times.

Five minutes later, three people opened the door and walked in.

They are all dressed in simple white-collar attire.

"Xiao Huang, this way, this way."

"Brother Lin, you are really... you must be very busy at work, and you still find time to treat us to dinner." The assistant named Huang Wei came over with a smile, holding a bottle of newly purchased liquor in his hand, "I'm late, I'll wait a minute. I punish myself with a drink.”

It can be seen that Huang Wei is very concerned about the acquisition, and he probably loves this job very much.

Whether the Kuaiguang Group ultimately chooses to acquire the company is his only hope for continuing his job.

Not allowed to get a tip from the old leader?

"Hey!" Lin Cao immediately raised his hand to stop Huang Wei from opening the wine, "I won't drink this wine today, we are just here to chat."

Huang Wei immediately put the bottle of liquor worth three to four thousand under the table, with an inexplicable expression on his face: "Really nagging?"

"What a nonsense!" Lin Cao smiled easily, "We can discuss work matters during working hours. This is our company's rule. I'll treat you to this meal. It's all your favorite dishes. You're welcome."

"This Kuoguang Group is quite humane, haha..."

"Brother Lin looks good!"

"It seems like you can do well in the new company, Brother Lin."

Seeing Lin Cao's appearance, several people who were too embarrassed to ask their old leaders about the new working environment relaxed.

If you don't mix well, you definitely won't behave like this.

"It's really good. It's much better than that crappy place in Yue Mansion." Lin Cao, who had a deep hatred for Yue Mansion, took a bite of food and said vaguely, "The boss is not bad either."

"Yes, the company is smaller, the boss is young, the atmosphere is good, and the work is easy. Even if the salary is lower, it's worth it." Huang Wei couldn't help but start chatting at this time, "It's not like us, hey... Brother Lin... Tell me about what happened in the new company?"

Lin Cao deliberately put on airs and pretended to be a leader: "How can I let the leader say it first? You say it, and I will say it after you say it."

After eating a lot of food and drinking a lot of tea, the atmosphere at the table gradually became more lively.

When leaving the company, Huang Wei made sure that his boss Ma Yuan had driven away and was in the box again, so his voice became louder.

"It's no different from before, half dead."

It seemed that the management headed by Ma Yuan had been dissatisfied for a long time. Huang Wei began to complain crazily to the old leader and pour out his bitterness.

"Among these managers, less than half are Ma Yuan's third and seventh aunts. I think he is eager to bring his dogs to the company to guard the house!"

"There are no such people as the guanxi family. We just put up with it after a few scoldings. But the problem is that these guanxi family members don't know anything. They only know how to give random orders all day long. They include private goods in the assigned tasks and want us to do what they like." s song……"

"The sales target is also funny. It seems that no market research has been done at all. They come up with it as soon as they hit the head, and decide it as soon as they hit the table. In the end, the project failed, and they left as soon as they slapped their butts, putting all the responsibility on us. !”

"The only way the songs he made according to his requirements would be successful is to sell them."

"The company has been going downhill since then, and many people ran away with their buckets. Those talents realized the seriousness of the matter and began to blindly follow the trend. They asked us to do whatever was popular, and even found some Internet celebrities to be singers without any in-depth analysis. The reason why people are successful.”

"We fail, we are trash."

"But one time we made a song exactly according to the management's requirements, and it was a hit. They blamed this audience for not being good enough."

"Stupid and crazy..."

In fact, the previous things were fine. Lin Cao just listened to it as a joke while eating. It wasn't until the last sentence came out that he finally couldn't hold it any longer.

If your own things are not recognized by the market, why should you blame the market?
"I have a question..." Lin Cao picked out a few fish bones and asked doubtfully, "Why on earth can your company persist until now?"

"It's not like we employees have created a small program by ourselves to attract some individual customers...it's just that the traffic has been cut recently, and it's almost dying." Huang Wei sighed, "Hey, stop talking, you'll get angry if you say it! Where are you, old leader?"

Lin Cao picked up the tea cup and smiled calmly: "I'm okay. I'm in charge of the anchor business and some actors' business over there in Kuai Guang. Have you heard of "The Dragon Son Who Protects the Country"? I brought out the starring role."

"The Dragon Son-in-law who protects the country"?
Huang Wei doesn't like to watch dramas, and he is very busy at work. He can only have some fragmented entertainment time to relax his mind and body. He suddenly didn't think of this popular drama.

But just a few seconds later, he found the relevant memory in his mind.

Some time ago, various hot clips were edited out...

Huang Wei asked with some uncertainty: "Is it the actor whose mouth looks like a hook when he smiles?"

"Yes." Lin Cao nodded calmly, as if this was just an insignificant thing he did.

"This drama is so popular! And I heard that it directly led to a large wave of copyright fees for similar novels, as well as advertisements... Hey, Brother Lin, have you secretly become rich yourself?"

Lin Cao drank a cup of tea: "It's okay, a little better than when he was in Yue Mansion."

"Congratulations... A few of us thought there was something wrong with you before, but we didn't dare to ask you. As you know, our brothers, with a salary of two to three thousand a month, can't help." Huang Wei spoke from the bottom of his heart. Congratulations.

Lin Cao comforted him: "It's okay, won't we become colleagues again soon?"

"How can this be the same? You are the manager of the company's headquarters, and we are the adopted sons who have been brought in. We will not care about each other... It will be fine if the new boss does not lay off employees and change blood, and does not reduce wages." Huang Wei shook his head, not thinking about the future. Not optimistic.

If Kuaiguang Group wants to acquire such a run-down company, it must have taken a fancy to the opportunity to make a profit. But these people can't find jobs after they go out, and they are desperately begging the boss to keep them here. Can they not just let others take advantage of them?

The record company industry is now a buyer's market.

"Then you are wrong." When Lin Cao talked about the group, he felt proud and superior from the bottom of his heart. "Our boss has always made clear rewards and punishments."

At this point, Lin Cao no longer hid his words and openly told about his grudges with Yang Ruoqian, his embarrassment after being expelled from Yue Mansion, and what happened after he came to Kuaiguang Group.

As for Mr. Yang’s foresight and miraculous operations, the company’s salary that is much higher than the industry average, various welfare bonuses, various paid holidays, paid activities, the new concept of lost time pay after compulsory leave, etc. , they all said it incidentally.

The three people from Spark Company, who were enjoying their food and drinks, just listened with the mentality of listening to a story at first, but the more they listened, the more shocked the expressions on their faces became.

So much so that I no longer even thought about eating!
It's not that they despise the old leader's good life, but it's just that this thing is too shocking and a bit fanciful.Just be willing to hire people who are a little bit extravagant as employees. There are a lot of big bosses out there...

But with this salary level, the annual income of being a security guard in Kuaiguang Group is higher than that of their brother? !
Huang Wei is not a narrow-minded person who hates seeing his brother drive a Land Rover, but now his brother is not driving a Land Rover, but a private jet!
It's normal to be inferior to the leader.If you are no match for your peers, if your skills are not as good as others, then you have to admit defeat.But why can other security guards and cleaning aunts have higher wages than me? !

As for the anniversary celebrations, punitive salary increases, and punitive vacations, they are all out of fantasy and have entered the stage of nonsense.

"Brother Lin, are you sure you haven't been tied into some fraud company?" Huang Wei looked at the table of sumptuous meals in front of him with no appetite.

Of course this is a joke.

The Kuangguang Group is likely to be rated as a model enterprise in Jinhae City. It is a large local taxpayer and has deep connections with the Chengyu Group. There are also various anchors and online dramas emerging one after another. It is obviously a company that does practical things and will never engage in fraud.

Lin Cao looked at him with a look that you really don't know: "Look at you, you have been in the garbage company for a long time, don't you know that things have changed outside? You follow Mr. Yang and eat nine meals in three days, do you understand? Understand?"

If the weather changes...it won't be like this, right?

Besides, just because they are having a hard time on their own, it doesn't mean they have no social circle. How can they not know what's going on outside?

Huang Wei was silent for a long time, then suddenly stood up and raised his tea cup: "Brother Lin, I heard that the Kuaiguang Group will send someone to inspect us tomorrow. Do you think you can help smoothen the relationship?"

Lin Cao sighed: "First of all, unfortunately, I am the one who will inspect your company tomorrow. Second, I will report the situation of your company to Mr. Yang truthfully. I don't want to lose my job because of such a trivial matter." …”

"So, you'd better ask for your own blessings. The most I can do is not to put your shoes on. As for whether you can seize the opportunity, it all depends on your personal destiny."

"Mr. Yang's review standards are extremely strict, but this strictness is not based on various rigid indicators. What he pays most attention to is a company's potential and future development space."

"Be prepared. Even though your company is in shambles, it has done something right to be named by Mr. Yang for inspection and included in the acquisition plan."

Huang Wei was extremely moved: "Okay, Brother Lin... we must prepare well!"

……

Friday, 09:30 am.

Yang Ruoqian sat in front of the computer and looked at the inspection report sent to him by Lin Cao.

click...

Accompanied by the sounds of mouse clicks and scroll wheels, Yang Ruoqian quickly finished reading the report.

I have to say that the report given by Lin Cao was very objective and almost truthfully reported.

Even if Spark Company has done enough to show off its appearance, some of the inner things cannot be disguised.

Unfortunately, a veteran like Lin Cao has an absolutely sharp eye for this kind of thing.

"The company is rigid and inflexible, and work efficiency is extremely low; there are huge conflicts between employees and leaders, and disagreements within the company; company management is chaotic and irregular; overtime is serious; and market acumen is extremely low..."

One shortcoming after another was listed before Yang Ruoqian's eyes, and he was overwhelmed.

Can't help but be happy.

I don’t know, I’m scared.

At first, Yang Ruoqian thought that Spark Company was a broken house that would fall down if there was a gust of wind.

Now it seems that describing it as a broken house is a bit insulting.

This is obviously a smelly sewer.

Chang Zhiqing sat aside, glanced at the screen with her beautiful eyes, and asked knowingly: "How is it? How is the company doing?"

Yang Ruoqian asked this soul and fell into silence for a moment.

After a while, he quickly said: "The current Spark Company has not identified its own differentiated track, missed the opportunity to complete value transformation through the accumulation and reuse of potential energy, and lacked a unique starting point to find the vertical areas in which it is good at. . The co-construction of the industry and the blockage of carrier channels have led to the overall failure of the focused strategy of combining points, lines and planes, and it has never been able to refine and detonate the explosive point in the red ocean industry of records."

"At the same time, Spark Company did not use its influence to empower local resources and contacts at the beginning, so it missed the window period for collaborative operations, failed in its attempts to transform the industrial structure, was not precise enough in filling the niche areas, and stepped on the unstable qualitative and quantitative mines. The critical path life cycle of all businesses is too short to build an industrial moat."

“However, even though the month-on-month growth in performance failed to fully meet market expectations, business development encountered bottlenecks, the implementation of new plans faced growth earthquakes, active customers showed irrational changes, business volume fluctuations caused severe distrust on the supply side, and the cognitive structure was misaligned As a result, it is impossible to match explicit players...I still think that after solving these problems, Spark Records will explode with amazing power."

Yang Ruoqian said this lot of words very smoothly without making any drafts.

Chang Zhiqing: "...Have you watched too much "Yes, Prime Minister" recently?"

Otherwise, how could you compose such a long and difficult sentence?

"Ahem, in short, their current development is average, but I think the potential is still there and there is a lot of room for exploration." Yang Ruoqian explained in a polite and not embarrassing tone.

"Okay, okay, whatever you want." Chang Zhiqing will not interfere too much in the company's business, especially if Yang Ruoqian makes the decision personally, "You are going to make a surprise inspection of Spark Company today, right? When will you go?"

As a veteran employee from the company's inception to the present, she still admires Yang Ruoqian's abilities.

"I'll go there later, how about you come with me?"

"Okay, it's not enough for you to go there alone." Chang Zhiqing immediately agreed, "By the way, call the driver too. After all, it's a visit between companies, and sometimes face-saving projects are also very important. . Oh yes, don’t forget to bring the information to prove your identity.”

Listening to Chang Zhiqing's orderly arrangements, Mr. Yang sighed in his heart that it was great to have someone to help handle these tedious things.

……

After sorting out their clothes, Yang Ruoqian and Chang Zhiqing quietly came downstairs to Spark Company.

Before entering the elevator, Yang Ruoqian notified the company and asked them to convey the information that he had arrived.

The elevator arrived at the fifth floor and the metal door had just opened. A man who looked to be in his mid-35s and wearing large-framed glasses ran over in a panic and almost bumped into Yang Ruoqian head-on.

"Sorry!" The man apologized quickly and turned sideways to enter the elevator.

Of course Huang Wei was anxious.

Just now, his boss gave him an order to put down all the work he was doing and go downstairs immediately. No matter what the cost, he must hold off the chairman of Kuaiguang Group for half an hour!

Having just welcomed Lin Cao yesterday, Ma Yuan, who felt good about himself, immediately ordered all the face-saving projects to be removed. As a result, at the most chaotic moment, Kuaiguang Group actually informed him that Yang Ruoqian was coming to inspect it personally!
If such a messy scene is seen, the acquisition plan will most likely be ruined!
For the sake of a bright future for all the people in the company, whether it’s a treat to dinner, a foot wash, a K-sing, whatever we can ask for, and everything we can spend, every extra second is worth it.

Mr. Yang raised his hand slightly: "Hello, I am Yang Ruoqian, the chairman of Kuaiguang Group. Do you know how to get to Spark Records?"

"Ah, ah... I, I... ah, hello, Mr. Yang! I..." After all, Huang Wei didn't want to be as good at dancing as Lin Cao. When faced with an emergency, his mind went blank and even his tongue was tied.

Seeing this reaction, Yang Ruoqian suddenly understood: "Your boss asked you to go pick me up, right? No need to bother, I came here today just on an impromptu basis and just took a look on the way."

Finished!

Still a step too late.

Huang Wei wailed in his heart and finally struggled: "Mr. Yang, how about... I take you to have a foot bath?"

Yang Ruoqian glanced at Chang Zhiqing out of the corner of his eye and refused righteously: "No need to bother, I'll have something urgent to do later, just take a look and leave."

Seeing that the big benefactor was firm and time was urgent, Huang Wei, who was at a loss for words, could only smile awkwardly and said: "Well, Mr. Yang, please come inside. We, Mr. Ma Yuanma, are waiting for you inside."

There is no way, people come too fast...

I can't hold off any longer, I can only hope for a miracle to happen.

Yang Ruoqian followed Huang Wei into the company. The first thing that appeared in front of him was the office area, which was quite crowded, densely packed like a pigeon cage and extremely narrow.

Moreover, the environment of the company is not very good. Broken pieces of colorful balloons can be seen everywhere on the ground, ladders that have been hastily hidden behind potted plants, and various old office equipment that have been wiped clean but cannot cover up.

The employees who were short of orders were obviously doing nothing, but they still tried hard to pretend to be working seriously.

Tsk, as expected, in order to cope with Lin Cao's inspection, Spark Company did enough to save their reputation.

It's a pity that Lin Cao doesn't seem to like this.

Seemingly knowing that his company's image had been completely destroyed, Huang Wei got a cup of hot water from the water dispenser and pointed Yang Ruoqian in the direction: "Mr. Yang, please give me a drink over there."

Yang Ruoqian was too lazy to expose these little tricks, and walked to the door of Ma Yuan's office with Chang Zhiqing.

Before he could reach out, the office door was opened from the inside.

Ma Yuan put his cell phone in his trouser pocket and hurried out. When he saw Yang Ruoqian, he immediately made a surprised and angry expression: "Mr. Yang, I'm really sorry... I was just talking about a big project. I didn't ask my employees to take you to a place where the environment is better." Where to talk?”

After saying that, he turned his attention to Huang Wei and scolded: "Xiao Huang, what's the matter with you? The company is being renovated. Who is Mr. Yang? You let him come to a place like this to suck exhaust fumes? The basic principle of hospitality is that I Did I teach you all this in vain?!"

ps: The status is back a bit, starting from today, the daily update will be restored to 6000 words.

End the mess, starting today!
　Those three long and difficult sentences, in human terms, are:
　　"Until now, Spark Records has not found its own characteristics and advantages, missed the opportunity to use its own resources and abilities to create more value, and has not found the type of music it is good at. At the same time, it has not cooperated with other peers and has not established itself well. The lack of sales channels has led to the complete failure of all their strategies and they have never been able to stand out in the highly competitive record industry."

　　"At the same time, Spark Records did not use its influence and connections to cooperate with local resources and talents when it first left Yuefu Group, and missed every good opportunity. They also failed in their attempts to transform and innovate. Having entered some fields that are not suitable for us, the company's overall risk resistance is very weak, all its businesses are short-lived, and it is unable to establish its own advantages and barriers."

　　"But even if their performance is very poor, they can't make profits, they are close to bankruptcy, there are fewer and fewer customers willing to pay for their products, banks are no longer willing to lend to them, and they can't find investors in the market... I still think that, After these issues are resolved, Spark Records will have great potential for growth."

　　(The words are adapted from John Khan Jr.)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)