Chapter 307: Not Progress, but Regression
Amid the noise, a young and graceful woman walked into the classroom and said in a graceful manner, "Dear leaders and colleagues, my name is Guo Qing, and I am a specialist in the Organization Department of the Provincial Company. I will be the one to serve you in this training class."
Everyone then quieted down and stared at her.
Beautiful women are indeed pleasing to the eye.
She is actually the head teacher of this training class, but everyone present here has a position.
So she could only speak very tactfully.
Guo Qing had extremely delicate facial features, she was pretty and charming, had short hair, and looked energetic. Everyone couldn't help but feel refreshed when they saw her delicate face and tall figure.
Chu Yang was also secretly amazed. There were indeed many beauties in this provincial company. When he saw Guo Qing, he didn't know why, but he always felt like he had seen her before, but he couldn't figure out where he had seen her.
Bai Xiyao, who was beside him, was also looking at Chu Yang seriously. She felt a little uncomfortable and touched Chu Yang's arm on purpose, but Chu Yang didn't notice and Bai Xiyao didn't bother to pay attention to him.
These men are all the same, but I am not bad either, with fair skin, good looks and a 36C body, huh.
Guo Qing smiled and continued, "You are all the backbone of the company. The leaders have high hopes for you, so they organized this training class. For the sake of training effectiveness, I will clock in every day. I hope everyone can abide by the discipline. If you really have something urgent or feel unwell, you can also ask me for leave."
When everyone heard that they had to check attendance every day, they immediately became unhappy. Some people even started to complain, and they suddenly had less favorable impressions of this beautiful woman. After all, everyone came out for the training and thought that it was just a place to play cards and chat.
Guo Qing was also a little embarrassed, and quickly said in a coquettish manner: "This is the request of the company's leaders. We are all outstanding talents in the company. I believe you will not make it difficult for me."
Guo Qing's coquettish behavior made people feel numb all over and their favorability towards her doubled. It turned out that girls who know how to act coquettishly have the best life. She asked each group to choose a leader to cooperate with her in management.
"Comrade Chu Yang, you are the secretary of Director Li, so you are the best person to be the team leader." Fei Muqing directly recommended Chu Yang, and the others also agreed. Chu Yang couldn't refuse at all, so he could only politely say: "Okay, then I will serve you all."
Comrade Guo Qing registered the team leader's information and walked out, and the first class started immediately.
This is an ideological education class.
Chu Yang felt that this course was indeed necessary. As a leader, he could be wrong in other things, but his thoughts and direction could not be distorted. The essence of the power industry is to serve the people, but many people now have forgotten this original intention.
The course was taught by the vice-president of the Party School, a senior professor hired by the company.
The content included the glorious history of the Party and recalled the deeds of several patriotic great men, including the great men of the country, such as Mr. Qian and Mr. Yuan, etc. Chu Yang admired these people very much, so he listened with great interest and was fascinated. The old professor was also very moved by what he said.
However, many people found this class boring. After a few minutes, they all lowered their heads to play with their mobile phones. Some people even went to the toilet to smoke and make phone calls to pass the time. The old professor turned a finished the lecture with tears in his eyes.
The second class was a bit boring. It focused on "Innovation and Patents" and was given by Wu Tiancai, the deputy chief engineer of the provincial company, a gold medal lecturer in the power industry, and the company's top technical expert.
He is the apprentice of chief engineer Zhao Chunrong.
Although Wu Tiancai is not a member of the board of directors, his status in the provincial company is not low. He may not even take ordinary directors seriously because he personally has more than 70 patents, more than 50 papers, and has published 6 books.
The company has indeed achieved great results, and it's really awesome. It makes a lot of money from this business every year.
He was very proud when he introduced himself, and listed all these certificates and patents one by one, as if he was afraid that others didn't know about them. Chu Yang took a look at his invention patents and was a little confused, as some of them were his original contributions.
Yes, he and Chu Yang had met once before. He also came when the Butai Intelligent Station was put into production.
However, he was not yet the deputy chief engineer at that time. When setting up the first smart station, Chu Yang discussed many technical issues with him, many of which he eventually applied for patents for and turned into his own achievements, so he was promoted to deputy chief engineer last year.
In this regard, Chu Yang's awareness of protection is still a little lacking.
In fact, it is very easy to apply for a patent at this time. An idea, a small scrap, a little money, something that you think is completely useless can become an invention patent or a utility patent.
It will be difficult in the future.
Chu Yang had originally been looking forward to Expert Wu's class, hoping that he could say something different and novel, but after listening for a while, he found it very boring.
Because the content of his PPT was very empty, it felt like it was done in a hurry, there were a lot of typos, and most of the analysis was copied from Baidu.
His PPT started by saying that innovation is the primary productive force and how important it is. He then said that we must have an innovative spirit and awareness. He then started giving examples to say how awesome our company's power innovation is.
Finally, I will teach you how to apply for a patent.
His proud words made Chu Yang feel that his innovation was not to make it easier for those below him to work, nor was it for efficiency, but it had become a process, a condition for promotion and a means to earn money.
Chu Yang finally understood why the company had so many useless innovations. There were dozens of types of guardrails, hundreds of types of screwdriver handles, and thousands of types of baffles.
It’s nothing more than performance. Who cares whether it’s useful or not?
Finally, expert Wu gave an example for everyone to learn. Because of a transformer oil leakage incident, a certain company installed a practical innovation to catch the leaking oil with an oil barrel. They won the company's first prize for innovation and also applied for a practical patent.
Expert Wu concluded: "Innovation is everywhere. As long as you are willing to explore, you can innovate everywhere, and as long as you dare to apply, you can apply for a patent."
Hearing this, Chu Yang couldn't help but stand up and asked loudly, "Expert Wu, I want to ask, what is innovation and what is the purpose of innovation?"
Suddenly, the dull classroom became lively. Everyone who had been drowsy just now looked up at Chu Yang, not knowing what this man meant by asking this. Bai Xiyao beside him also frowned. She glanced at the man and her heart beat faster.
It was that feeling, the same feeling the examiner had at the time, that Chu Yang was here.
When Wu Tiancai saw Chu Yang questioning him like this, he was a little confused.
However, as a great expert, he still smiled gracefully and said, "Expert Chu, you didn't listen to the class. I just said that innovation refers to the use of existing thinking patterns to propose insights that are different from conventional or ordinary thinking, using existing knowledge and materials, in a specific environment, based on ideal needs or to meet social needs, to improve or create new things, methods, elements, paths, environments, and behaviors that can achieve certain beneficial effects."
Chu Yang: "Innovation is the act of improving or creating new things, methods, elements, paths, environments, and achieving certain beneficial effects. So even if you can't simplify or reduce the burden of innovation, at least you can't make it more complicated, right?"
Wu Tiancai didn't know what Chu Yang was going to say, but he thought it made sense, so he nodded and said, "That should be the case."
Chu Yang immediately followed up with a sentence: "As for the innovation of transformer oil leakage that you just mentioned, Expert Wu, they didn't think of how to stop the oil leakage or suppress the oil leakage, but actually installed a tool to collect the oil. Not to mention that people have to pour the oil normally. Such a thing that puts the cart before the horse can actually be regarded as an innovation by you, and it can win the first prize for innovation. This is a joke."
Wu Tiancai didn't expect Chu Yang to be so disrespectful, and his face looked a little unhappy: "Well, Expert Chu, inventing this thing is multifaceted and multi-dimensional. Of course, you can come up with something new to stop the oil leak, but others' is also an improvement, and it can be regarded as an invention and progress. How can it not be innovation?"
"Excuse me, what is the use of installing an oil receiver other than preventing oil from dripping? I think the company should not promote such messy innovation. This is not progress at all, but regression..."
Chu Yang spoke in a resounding voice, and this expert Wu looked a little upset.
