Ode to joy

Chapter 51

It is said that the best payday was when there was no bank card in the early years.One hundred yuan and ten yuan, one penny and one dime, how much wages, the real money will be handed over by the financial staff.But when the salary is getting higher and higher, the salary bag is becoming more and more heavy, and when receiving the salary is getting more and more enjoyable, suddenly one day, the salary will be transferred to the bank card.Even though you can check whether your salary has been credited online now, and the salary figure is not missing a penny, but the real feeling of receiving real money on payday is that this feeling can be remembered.

The people in Room 2202 are completely indifferent to the December payday.Because that day is the day when they pay the rent for the next three months, the salary in December is just stored in the form of data in their account, and then they are quickly transferred to the landlord's account by electronic payment. There are only traces of one in and one out, and the white clouds are empty for thousands of years.

Another person on the 22nd floor who is indifferent to salary is Andy.Tan Zongming came to Andy's new office in person. It was a cold day, but he saw Andy wearing a shirt, trousers and flat heels, with a bottle of steaming ice mineral water in his hand. It was flattering to describe Andy as commanding. What Tan Zongming saw in her eyes was madness.And this is exactly what Tan Zongming is familiar with.Tan Zongming didn't bother, and waited patiently in the small meeting room, cutting the cake on the table to eat.It seems that the people on the whole floor are wrapped up in Andy's central computer room-like brain, and no one cares about the delicious cake in the small meeting room.Tan Zongming commented on the work scene in front of him like tasting a cake. In the past, he always wondered why Andy's mechanically cold and regular brain had strong gambling and crazy decision-making at work, which seemed very contradictory.

It wasn't until Andy returned to the country that he helped Andy find out the mystery of his life experience that he vaguely understood that it all came from the hand of God.

Until, Tan Zongming saw Andy drop the whole bottle of mineral water, and he could skillfully predict what kind of foul language Andy would swear in an inaudible voice. He knew that the meeting time had finally come, and that was also a custom. I don't know how many lawsuits I have fought for Andy, because my colleagues can't keep up with Andy's rhythm, and Andy is always annoyed that the good time is wasted.In the early days, Andy was not well-trained, so he inevitably spread his anger to his colleagues. The daily work summary would make his colleagues run away. Some colleagues even asked the court to intervene for various reasons.Later, she finally learned her lesson and only vented her anger on the mineral water bottle.And usually she always tightens the cork of the water bottle before throwing it out.Like today.After dropping the bottle, all was well.

Tan Zongming stopped Andy on the way, and handed her a file bag, "I helped you pick up the new car, and put it downstairs. Can I return my car?"

"Hey, I'm going to see it." Just after getting off the battlefield, Andy spoke quickly, "Remember to wipe off the evidence of the corner of your mouth after stealing the cake." She hurriedly wrapped her windbreaker from the office and rushed to the basement to look at the new car.

Tan Zongming didn't see him either, and followed closely. "I read last month's report, and I didn't expect you to enter the role so quickly, and new funds have already approached me to discuss cooperation."

"Looking for you, not me? It means that the new funds are huge and the sources are complicated. I want an extra bonus."

"Fuck, I bought a house in a civilian area, bought only one car, and asked me to dig out the M3 and replace it with a 320 plate. Let me ask you, have you only used the first month of your salary after returning to China? You are so stingy, why save so much money, let me tell you, the shroud has no pockets."

The colleagues next to the elevator who were about to go down for dinner heard the noise of the two bosses, but they all pretended to be indifferent.Andy laughed and said: "Recently, the expenses are a bit high. Someone often gave me gifts, so I had to return them. Otherwise, I would become a legendary fishing girl. This matter is very troublesome. It is necessary to negotiate a rule to avoid comparisons between gift giving and take it back." The gifts that come are all locked in the safe, which is a waste. But let’s say it again, the amount of the bonus is not determined by consumption, but by profit.”

Tan Zongming smiled and asked Andy to enter the elevator first. After entering the elevator, everyone stopped talking.When she went down to the underground garage, Andy almost fainted when she saw her new car. It turned out to be a coquettish orange color, which reminded her of the famous pink Bentley. "Old Tan, you did it on purpose, you did it on purpose."

"Hey, if I didn't know that you don't like flowers, I would definitely draw you a big peony on it. Let's go for a drive." The two got into the car, and when the car started, Tan Zongming looked around and asked: "That Mr. Wei ,deal?"

"It's settled. Are you dissatisfied?"

Tan Zongming was silent for a while, and said: "I'm not satisfied. In this relationship, you underestimate yourself too much. Although Mr. Wei is also a good person."

"It's not a deal, it's a relationship where it's all about fit. And he's good. The BMW M3 drives well."

"The point of my last sentence is: you underestimate yourself."

"In terms of work, no one has the possibility to underestimate themselves. In terms of life, you overestimate me."

Old Tan said: "You don't need to worry about what you have and what you don't have. If you don't worry about it, if you don't say it, who knows."

"I know."

"So, Mr. Wei knows everything?"

"Know it all. I admire him for being able to receive well."

"Revealing the truth is not necessarily a virtue. Sometimes the truth is a thorn in the heart forever. It is necessary to conceal it in good faith."

Andy's heart was shocked, what is the right to know?It can also be said that she will confess everything to Singularity, let the innocent Singularity bear the risks brought by her with her, and when the risk is fulfilled, she can still tell Singularity with an innocent face, I have If you have a confession, you already know about it, and you have nothing to say.Yes, Singularity did know about it, but Singularity also suffered a dumb loss.This is similar to Andy's skillful contract trap.Appearing to love him, but actually using his kindness to frame him?Moreover, in the foreseeable future, she will live with the thorn of the truth in her heart, and Singularity will also have the thorn of the truth in her heart, and live with her.Why did he suffer.

Why did she do such a mindless thing.If she didn't say anything, she would be the only one stabbed, but the result would be exactly the same.She sighed, "The so-called love is to deal with life in a chaotic way with logic, and the use of logic leads to chaos in life. Don't remind me, let me continue to be chaotic in logic."

"That's right, life that cannot be solved by logic, the logic is chaotic, but it keeps moving forward. It's better to be a little confused. But I still remind you, don't underestimate yourself, don't think you are a burden. In fact, whoever gets you is the lucky one."

"Old Tan, you said the last few sentences too loudly, but I understand that you helped me simulate a righteous mind."

Lao Tan is speechless, Lao Tan's own flaw is fat that can't be lost, so when he sees a crush he likes very much, he always spends money lavishly with a guilty conscience.He can roughly understand Andy's psychology.But he really felt that Andy didn't need to feel inferior.This is how people know that they need logic, but they live in a chaotic way.

Andy feels guilty about Singularity, but he can't live without Singularity, which only makes the guilt worse.

Fan Shengmei turned on the computer in the company, entered the personal bank account, and checked whether the salary had been credited.Her digital memory is not good, and sometimes the password has to be recorded in a notebook so as not to forget it.But she still knows the salary figure clearly.After opening the account and taking a look, she said to the colleague next to her, "There should be a year-end bonus next month. I don't know how much it will be this year."

The colleague said: "Last year, no one dared to mention the year-end bonus. Thank God for not being put on the layoff list. This year... depends on the leader's conscience."

Fan Shengmei looked at the salary in pain.She only needs to do a little operation, and a sum of money will be transferred to the landlord's account immediately; another light operation, and another sum of money will be transferred to the parents' account.Looking at the account again, the balance is already very small.But no matter how little it is, it’s still money. This month is Christmas and New Year. Countless stores are offering discounts to welcome the new year. Countless stores are celebrating their n-year anniversary. How many wishes she has accumulated are waiting for this month’s discount season.Her biggest worry is only one, but facing the discount season, she has more than enough heart but not enough energy.With this little account balance, as long as you squander it a little bit recklessly, it will bottom out in a week.She couldn't help but think of the famous saying by netizens, "Salary is like a big aunt, once a month, it's gone in a week", she smiled wryly.

Fan Shengmei is worried about next month's year-end bonus. She has worked for many years, and of course she doesn't expect her boss to find out, but she has to do something for her year-end bonus.As a senior HR, she knows in her heart that the boss's conscience reflected in the year-end bonus is linked to the supply and demand relationship in the talent market. If a large number of people are laid off like last year, and countless people apply for a position, the incumbents will be panicked, and the boss will naturally have a dark conscience. .But this year is different.

Fan Shengmei took the initiative to ask Ying to write a report describing the talent shortage environment faced in the recruitment work in the fourth quarter of this year.In the report, she pointed out that this year, no matter in the talent market or in the recruitment of fresh graduates in schools, they have encountered the problem of picking and choosing talents, especially in some professional positions. The market is booming.But at the end of the report, of course, Fan Shengmei will not remind the boss to pay the year-end bonus in order to retain the company's existing talents. Instead, she puts forward the company's talent strategy for the coming year from the boss's strategic height, how to stabilize the company's employees in the general environment team, and plan the recruitment plan for the coming year in advance.She handed the report to the department manager.When the manager saw it, he understood it, but he still modified a few words routinely, reprinted it, and reported it to the boss.

On her way home from get off work, Fan Shengmei is still proud of her proficient office routines.In her eyes, the office is nothing more than a community of interests. As long as each matter proposed reaches a consensus of interests among the office crowd as much as possible, the development of the matter will often rush towards the path of common promotion.On the contrary, you must never be the first proposer, it is absolutely thankless.The winter time was short, and it was almost pitch black around the bus, but Fan Shengmei seemed to be able to see the shadow of the year-end award jumping into her bank card account with a "ding dong".

She was thinking with a smile when her cell phone rang, and it was an old classmate from her hometown calling.The old classmate said to her very embarrassingly, "Your brother is doing a good job as a security guard. It was good at first, but today he fought with his immediate boss, and he didn't care about the occasion. He didn't look at the VIP guests in the lobby, so he started fighting in the lobby. Both of them were injured, and they were sent to the hospital first and then to the police station. Fan Shengmei, I can't protect him this time, the boss is angry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry."

Fan Shengmei repeatedly apologized to her old classmates on behalf of her brother, but it would be of no use to apologize again, her brother would lose his job again.She predicted that soon, her sister-in-law would call her and complain that half of her income was gone and her life was hard to live on. She would just divorce the wretch and go to her mother's house with the grandson of the Fan family.After coming down, it will be her mother who calls, and her mother will cry and beg her to think about her brother's family, and then find a relationship with her classmates to find a relaxing and decent job for her brother.At the same time, her mother will ask her to pay a little more money this month to support her brother's life.And then, her brother will appear on the stage in full bloom, begging her bitterly.Fan Shengmei let out a long sigh and turned off her phone, wishing she could just disappear in the sea market and not let anyone find her.For example, she didn't tell her family her current address. Of course, she often moved after work, and her family didn't bother to ask her where she moved again.She only needs to turn off her mobile phone, and the kite will be offline from then on.

But less than 5 minutes after the shutdown, she had no choice but to turn it on again.If the phone is not turned on, the impatient father will drink too much, and will beat her mother if he drinks too much. Housework has always been solved by closing the door.

Sure enough, my sister-in-law's call came.The grandson of the Fan family is the trump card in the hands of the sister-in-law. As long as the sister-in-law talks about divorce, no one in the Fan family dares to neglect her.The sister-in-law kept calling until Fan Shengmei entered the subway.As soon as the sister-in-law hung up the phone, it was her mother who appeared immediately.Everything is set, but Fan Shengmei can only squeeze in the crowd and listen patiently.This time was very bad. Not only did my brother have to pay his boss for medical expenses, but he also had to stay in the detention center for three days.Who pays?
Fan Shengmei let out a long sigh, of course she paid for it.At this point, all the complacency at get off work is gone.

Not allowing Fan Shengmei to sigh, the third call came into her mobile phone.Fan Shengmei was already very annoyed, she didn't even look at it, and said "Hello" feebly.But on the other end of the phone was the voice of Zhang Mingsong who had disappeared for several days.

Fan Shengmei could only pull herself together and listen to what Zhang Mingsong had to say.Zhang Mingsong said that some friends had a party, and he wanted to invite Fan Shengmei to attend together. He asked where Fan Shengmei was at the moment, and he drove over to pick her up.

Fan Shengmei didn't want to go anywhere at this time, she just wanted to go home and pull up the quilt to sleep.Besides, she is well-informed, Zhang Mingsong is almost standing at the door of the hotel on the phone at this time, there is only one reason, the person Zhang Mingsong originally made an appointment with missed the appointment, and he temporarily finds someone to replace him.In such embarrassment, Fan Shengmei still smiled and agreed, and made an appointment for a meeting place.

What can I do? If I don't agree, I have no chance.

Stepping out of the carriage, Fan Shengmei seized the time to find a corner, took out the mirror, and adjusted her makeup a bit.It is better to be late than to appear in front of others.As for her brother's matter, she had to forget about it. When she walked out of the subway station and found Zhang Mingsong's car, she quietly turned off her phone.After getting into the car, she greeted Zhang Mingsong skillfully like a normal person.One said it was embarrassing for an urgent invitation, and the other said it was fine and happy to be invited.The two were polite, and Zhang Mingsong took out a shopping card and handed it to Fan Shengmei while driving, and said with a smile that it was just given to him by someone else, and he didn't know how much it contained, and gave it to Fan Shengmei for fun.Fan Shengmei politely declined again, and then reluctantly put it in the bag.

The restaurant at the end of the year was full of guests, and Fan Shengmei ate, drank and laughed with Zhang Mingsong. She saw many such occasions, and they always appeared in pairs, calling each other so-and-so, but the men didn’t ask the women for business cards, and the women didn’t Ask the man for his business card, get closer than relatives when drinking, and say goodbye when you check out and leave the house, and you don’t know anyone.

Fan Shengmei was annoyed, and she couldn't close the gate when drinking.Zhang Mingsong saw that something was wrong, so he reminded Fan Shengmei to pay attention to his drinking capacity, and Fan Shengmei said she knew it well.When she drank too much wine, she would make witty remarks, driving Zhang Mingsong's friends to their knees.But as soon as he turned around, he went to the toilet to dig out everything, spit it out, cleaned it up, and returned to the battlefield.She was upset, and when she got drunk, she seemed to vent her anger a little.

Qiu Yingying received her wages and returned home.Although she was just a novice, this month she received a commission in addition to her salary.When she climbed onto the subway, she took out a thin pay slip before she had time to check the details.The most important thing for her is to calculate whether the commission is underpaid to her, and she keeps every sum in her heart.After all the calculations, there was nothing wrong, and she put the pay slip in her bag.Yes, a few hundred yuan more than when I was a clerk.There should be more next month.Qiu Yingying was very happy, and began to think about the money at hand again.She now has some money from her father, plus today's wages, minus the rent, the rest is only two thousand.She is very glad that she made up her mind to cook her own meals to reduce the cost of living, otherwise, after deducting the transportation expenses, she would not have enough to eat every day.

Qiu Yingying didn't have a lot of money, and she didn't spend much. She settled the accounts very quickly, but the subway couldn't get to the station. So Qiu Yingying recalculated in her head to make sure that the first calculation was correct.By the time she got out of the subway, she had counted for the third time. Before the result came out, she couldn't wait to call her dad. "Dad, I paid my salary today. That's right, this company is not in arrears. It's more than before. There should be more next month. Dad, you don't have to send me money this month. It's enough, it's enough, Hahaha, I have enough."

Dad was of course very happy, but he hung up the phone resolutely after three words of praise, in order to save call charges.

(End of this chapter)