Chapter 320: Encounter with the Boss (Part 1)
As time goes by, the influence of the Million Painters talent show has gradually grown. After all, the magic of money has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts with the reform and opening up.
Even because of the huge bonus of one million, some parents in some economically better-off areas have started to enroll their children in calligraphy and painting hobby classes. Many people who run training classes have earned this sudden windfall with tears in their eyes, and they even want to provide Lu Yiming with a place in the immortal ranking.
Rely on your parents at home, and rely on Mr. Lu to make money.
Newspapers, magazines and other media also began to report the news in succession, using Shijinji as a typical example for publicity. It was obvious that they had received official instructions to use this example to prove that the national policy of focusing on economic construction had begun to show results, that private enterprises and market atmosphere had become quite active, and that Xia's economy had achieved leapfrog development.
What's this?
This is definitely a political achievement!
On a weekend night, after finishing his meal, Lu Yiming went out for a walk and unknowingly walked to the office building where Shijinji was located. He looked up and was surprised to find that Shijinji was brightly lit and crowded with people.
It’s already past eight o’clock, why are there still so many people in the company?
Driven by curiosity, Lu Yiming went upstairs and found that the employees were answering the phone or opening letters, and they seemed to have no intention of leaving get off work.
To be honest, this situation was caused by a company employee management rule that Lu Yiming had issued before. He emphasized that the company implemented a normal working time of eight hours a day with five days off and two days off, and statutory holidays would not be adjusted for rest. If overtime is necessary, it will be paid at three times the normal salary.
After all, as someone who had been a social animal and had been subjected to all kinds of 996007PUA, Lu Yiming wanted to be a saint and let his employees experience the joy of working overtime.
Anyway, making money is a very simple thing for him. He does not need to rely on exploiting employees to realize value-added. Instead of competing wits and courage with employees, he can just find a track to invest in. Wouldn't he make more money?
When Lu Yiming walked into the company, he immediately attracted everyone's attention. The employees greeted Lu Yiming with smiles on their faces. Lu Yiming responded with a few words, and when he saw Lei Peilin was there, he immediately waved to Lei Peilin and said, "Old Lei, come here."
Lei Peilin came to Lu Yiming and said excitedly: "I'm here, what do you want, Mr. Lu?"
Lu Yiming looked at the employees who were happily working overtime and asked depressedly, "What's going on? It's already so late and they haven't left work yet?"
Lei Peilin said with a smile: "They are working overtime."
Lu Yiming became even more depressed: "Why do we have to work overtime? Why do some people like to work overtime?"
Lei Peilin smiled even more happily: "It's all because of you, Mr. Lu."
Lu Yiming curled his lips and looked at Lei Peilin with a look of disgust: "Because of me? I didn't ask them to work overtime, don't slander their innocence."
Lei Peilin, who was in a dilemma, had to explain to Lu Yiming seriously: "Only a fool would not work overtime with triple pay. Now everyone wants to work overtime every day, even sleeping in the office. I am almost driven to death by these people. Now they are required to work overtime only until 12 o'clock at night, and no salary will be paid after 12 o'clock."
Lu Yiming was shocked when he heard this: "Oh my goodness, they are trying to take advantage of me?"
Employees are taking advantage of their bosses. What the hell is this world?
Lei Peilin ignored Lu Yiming's excitement and continued to talk about the company's situation with great interest: "Oh, by the way, President Lu, I have good news for you. Now all kinds of media have begun to come uninvited and write all kinds of articles, which continuously improve the company's reputation and directly save a lot of advertising expenses. Your operation is simply a stroke of genius."
Spending one million on TV advertising will actually have limited effect.
Because for a TV station, this amount of money is really nothing, especially for an advertisement of the level of CCTV's winning bid, which can easily cost hundreds of millions. Even if they spend one million, it is estimated that it will not even make a splash.
On the contrary, if Lu Yiming took out the one million directly as a bonus, the effect would be completely different.
Because for ordinary people, one million is an unimaginable amount of money, a huge number that many people cannot earn in their entire lifetime.
So they would naturally pay attention and have expectations. Even if they were just curious about who would get the one million in the end, Lu Yiming successfully attracted enough attention and established the brand of Shijinji.
Speaking of this, Lu Yiming remembered another thing: "By the way, some time ago I asked you to find a software company to design a telephone voting statistics system for us. How is the progress now?"
In order to increase the ratings and popularity of this "Millionaire Painters" talent show, it is natural to allow ordinary people to participate widely, so Lu Yiming specially created a telephone voting mode.
Viewers can vote by calling a dedicated hotline while watching the show.
The main reason was that there were too few mobile phones in that era and they had not yet become popular. Otherwise, Lu Yiming originally wanted to implement text message voting.
In fact, he had originally planned to handle this matter himself, but unfortunately his studies in the third year of high school were already very busy, and if he had time, he would have to continue to improve the MM chat software, continue various stress tests and fix bugs, so he had no extra time to waste on other things.
So Lei Peilin outsourced the telephone voting system directly and found a software team to do this.
"I have received the finished product. I brought it over this afternoon. I was planning to report this to you tomorrow."
Lei Peilin took out a box from his seat , which contained a CD.
Lu Yiming took the CD and returned to his office. After turning on the computer, he inserted the CD into the host CD-ROM drive and the computer began to read it.
The software of this era, whether in terms of interface or operation, is completely different from that of later generations, and can even be said to be two different species. The installation of software is not the kind that can be installed for you by clicking one by one. Users need to set it up bit by bit according to their own needs and configurations and follow the instructions.
However, this does not pose a problem for Lu Yiming, because even twenty years later, some software are still the same.
Watching Lu Yiming performing various dazzling operations on a bunch of all-English interfaces, Lei Peilin just stood there in amazement.
He was thinking, Mr. Lu is so proficient in software programming?
As a result, before Lei Peilin could finish his sigh , a blue background interface suddenly popped up on the computer - it had crashed.
"this……"
Although Lei Peilin didn't understand computers, he knew that this thing would definitely not work.
Sure enough, looking at the blue screen prompt on the computer screen, Lu Yiming was very unhappy: "What kind of crap is this? It can't even pass the first level of stress test. It will crash if it can only count signals from ten channels at the same time. I might as well count the votes manually. Lao Lei, have you paid the company yet?"
Lei Peilin said with a guilty conscience: "I gave him a deposit of 10,000 yuan."
Lu Yiming slammed the table and said, "That's enough. You don't have to pay me anymore. I can write a better program with my eyes closed than this piece of junk. They made a lot of money by giving them ten thousand. If the law didn't support it, I would have wanted to pursue compensation!"
Originally, a budget of 100,000 was allocated for this thing. When Lu Yiming saw the effect, he decided to stop the loss in time.
Lei Peilin thought that he had messed up again and felt very guilty: "Mr. Lu, I'm sorry. I'll pay the ten thousand yuan out of my own pocket."
Nowadays, there are very few people who know computers, and even fewer who know software. Lei Peilin spent a long time looking for such a software company, but because he didn't know much about the business, he was fooled by the other party.
Lu Yiming touched his chin and waved his hand: "This is not a matter of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan."
Ultimately, this matter is Lu Yiming's responsibility.
No one in the company knows software, and Lu Yiming doesn't care. If something like this happens, he is the first person responsible. So he didn't blame Lei Peilin.
"The preliminaries are about to end. According to the contract signed with Mingzhu TV, we have about five days to prepare. Even if we delay a little, it will be ten days at most. So, we only have one chance. Forget it, I'll make the software myself."
Lu Yiming couldn't help but sigh. He had originally wanted to spend money to be lazy, but now it seemed that he couldn't be lazy. With the current level of software production in China, it would be difficult to meet his requirements.
On the way back, Lu Yiming kept thinking about how to solve this problem.
Or, just take a few days off and work day and night.
Or, find another software team with a big boss in charge.
Do you want to try to find Zhou Zhiming?
But Zhou Zhiming is also preparing for the college entrance examination now, and it would be a sin if I delayed his studies.
After thinking about it, Lu Yiming found that the only reliable option was to work hard on his own.
In the dead of night, when Lu Yiming and Zhao Tiezhu were passing the bend at the entrance of the park, a fierce argument caught his attention.
The public security these days is still quite chaotic, and it is very easy to encounter various emergencies when going out at night. Although Lu Yiming is not a pushover, he is still happy to preside over justice when encountering such things.
After all, if you do good things now, you don’t have to worry about some awesome judgment like “Why should I help if you didn’t hit me?”
It is still possible to be a good person in this era.
Under a big banyan tree, a young man who looked to be in his twenties or thirties was guarding several boxes of pirated CDs.
Several scoundrels with colorful hair, wearing leather jackets and ripped jeans surrounded the young man.
A scoundrel with dark brown lipstick said to the young man selling CDs in a lewd way, "Hey, do you have any colored CDs?"
The young man shook his head blankly. He had been in Baiyun City for more than two years, and his Cantonese was basically just at the stage of being able to understand, and he couldn't speak it at all. The bastard was chewing gum while speaking, and his speech was unclear, so the young man didn't even understand what he was saying.
A scoundrel nearby cursed, "Ti, are you dumb? Brother Dafei is asking you a question, are you being disrespectful?"
The young man apologized repeatedly, somewhat fearfully: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't speak Cantonese."
The scoundrel laughed and said, "You idiot, you don't even have 'salty slices', and you have the nerve to do business?"
He squatted down and picked and chose, found three movie discs with more attractive covers, threw down a five-dollar bill, and prepared to leave.
The young man got anxious when he saw it, and he stood up, chased after the gang leader, grabbed his arm, and said, "This disc is ten yuan a piece, three for thirty yuan..."
"Fuck you, Da Fei bought your stuff to give you face, don't complain about this and that, do you deserve a beating?"
After saying that, he started to beat the young man up.
After the hooligans had had their fun and left, the young man got up from the ground with a wry smile on his face. He looked at the wrinkled five dollars in his hand, patted the footprints on his trouser legs, and decided to call it a day in a depressed mood.
Just because he couldn't speak Cantonese, he was bullied by the locals even when selling pirated CDs and couldn't make any money.
He couldn't help but think back to the time when he had just graduated four years ago. With a master's degree from Huazhong University of Science, his treatment was naturally not bad, and he was directly assigned to a telecommunications-related public institution.
Relying on knowledge to achieve class crossing is what many people in this era dream of. The young man is so lucky, but he is not satisfied with this.
Life in a public institution is predictable, and he is bound by rules and regulations. This is not the life he wants.
People outside the wall want to come in, and people inside the wall want to go out, and young people are the latter.
Without any hesitation, he left his stable job and plunged into the unknown world of the Internet.
The Internet at the end of the 1990s was far from being as popular as it would be more than a decade later. At that time, it was like a blank sheet of paper, without any signs of development.
But the young man just didn't believe it, and he bet his entire fortune here regardless of the consequences.
Even if there is only a 50% chance of winning, he is still willing to give 100% effort just to maximize that 50% possibility.
That’s how he came to Baiyun alone in his twenties and started working in a software development company.
The company he worked for at the time mainly developed software related to document management. This little thing was a piece of cake for the young man.
At that time, the C language had just been introduced. Relying on his strong talent and solid foundation, the young man quickly taught himself and became successful in the company with his strong ability.
In the early days of the development of the Internet, there were many testers like him who, with a strong desire, dared to jump into the deep ocean of the Internet, just like the adventurers who started the Age of Discovery in Europe.
However, not every adventurer can live to see the moment of success, and many die by drowning.
Unfortunately, the company that the young man joined became one of the earliest cannon fodders of Xia Guo’s Internet.
The software he and his colleagues worked so hard to develop was never put to good use, and eventually the company ran out of money and its account was hopelessly empty.
In less than two years, the company could no longer hold on and was disbanded on the spot.
In an instant, he, the proud child of life, became an abandoned child and became unemployed like many laid-off workers.
Without the support of the company, the young man was all alone. In order to make a living, he could only take on some private work and write programs for others to earn some extra money.
Although I didn't make much, at least I could support myself and not starve to death on the street. In order to increase my income, I would set up a stall at night to earn some extra money.
As a result, he found that he could not make any money by setting up a stall at night and was often bullied.
While thinking about all sorts of things in his mind, his hands did not stop moving. He put the pirated CDs into a woven bag and prepared to return to the rental house.
At this moment, the road in front of him was blocked. He looked up and found that it was the gangsters who had forced him to buy the discs just now.
However, at this moment, they all looked depressed. The one who was chewing gum took out all the money in his pocket, threw it in front of the young man, and then ran away. The others also scattered like birds and beasts.
The young man was suddenly confused and looked at the two people in front of him who had not left.
