Lucky draw event
(4)
After the initial inorientation period, the days are like those of a testosterone-fuelled long-distance runner running far faster than he really is.
I am stuck in the morning and evening rush hour. The excitement of starting out in the workplace, pushing yourself to the top and learning to earn, is being worn down by the daily grind.
Life gets boring. During the day, I was worried about eating and drinking, and at night, I was deeply lonely and confused. Lonely time enveloped heart, heart heart read god quickly give me a mansion and a girl.
Everyone has their own way of dealing with loneliness. I pass the time by reading online novels and watching nostalgic TV dramas. Lao Pan steals network bandwidth to download pornographic videos. This I pretended not to know, can not bear to expose, after all, with tianya reduced people.
Old Pan was quite open-minded about girls. He thought that when he was rich and prosperous, he would be comfortable with all kinds of girls. I’m not as optimistic as he is. After breaking up with my girlfriend of three years, love has become a luxury for me.
I’ve come to accept the idea that I once sneered at but now take for granted. Given my current state of poverty and confusion, I’m afraid I’ll be alone for a long time.
Time flies, and soon comes to the end of 2013.
At the end of the year, the company’s departments organize annual meetings. Department boss in order to activate the atmosphere of the annual meeting, issued the task “each group at least one program, the form is not limited”.
The group leader, Lao Zhou, repeatedly urged, but no one in the group was willing to perform. Democracy didn’t work, so Lao Zhou had to be a dictator. When he stepped up, several of our new employees were the first to take the lead.
It was really difficult for me, who had no talent in singing, dancing and other talent shows. I’m not the only one. As we get older, we all resist the idea of showing our faces. Not to mention us programmers, who are known for being low-key and pragmatic. But no one dares to disobey a mountain of orders. All we new employees had to do was figure it out.
A week before the annual meeting, the department manager assigned a small task to our group: “write a lottery program for the annual meeting”. I volunteered, as a reward, Lao Zhou exempt my performance corvee, I was so happy.
The lottery program is not too difficult to implement, as long as it is fair and random. I implemented a simple version in my spare time at night. I stayed up a few nights and did some cool animations in order to make the final lottery results look gorgeous and make the game fun.
I have been working for more than half a year. As a programmer, I have finally written hundreds of lines of code for the company. I am very pleased.
(5)
Due to the company’s poor performance in recent years and the government’s strengthening control over the eating and drinking trend of state-owned enterprises, the department chose the underground canteen of the company’s building instead of going to a star hotel as usual.
On the day of the annual meeting, more than 300 people in the whole department packed the canteen to the brim. Leadership speech is inevitable, but is to thank you for a year of hard work, under the leadership of who, the company innovation brilliant……
Redundant and boring speech, people fall asleep.
Finally it was time for the show. Poetry recitation, chest broken stone, mouth swallowed big sword…… A quick show. With the exception of a few pretty female employees whose belly dances caused a minor stir, most of the shows were nothing new.
After the performance, the annual meeting will enter the most exciting lucky draw. Although the lottery program, I privately demonstrated more than dozens of times, the leader of the old Zhou also paid special attention to, repeatedly confirmed that there is no problem with the program, but I can not control the heart is uneasy.
In the host’s call and applause of the audience, the leader slowly walked onto the stage center. The big screen lights up and the lottery page loads. Sitting under the stage, MY body began to shiver.
The grand prize is a new Apple iPad. Everyone is very interested in this, private talk. Many people said that the winner must be the head of the department, lottery procedures have long written. As the designer of the program, I laughed in silence.
Mister first drew a few small awards, the program runs normally, lottery animation show on the big screen is particularly gorgeous. Mister specially praised that this year’s lottery procedures do well, can be extended to other brother departments.
The group vice president who specially came to attend the annual meeting of the department was responsible for the drawing of the ultimate prize. He stood on the stage, smiling broadly. At a command, the names of all the department’s employees scroll back and forth on a large screen.
The president shouted “stop” and the winning animation slowly loaded. The Chinese characters’ Yao Boqi ‘finally hit the screen. I immediately flushed, the first time looked back at the eye group leader Old week. There was no congratulation in the forced smile on his face.
After the president shouted “Yao Boqi” several times, I gritted my teeth and ran onto the stage. Taking that iPad in both hands was like taking a bomb ready to go off.
As I ran off stage with my iPad in my arms, I walked past Zhou and took a look at him. Instead of looking me in the eye, Zhou whispered to someone nearby, as if he suspected I had tampered with the program.
I ran back to my workstation and grabbed my laptop. Squatting next to Zhou, I clicked the mouse to light up the screen and run the program.
“Group leader you see, the program each time shake the person is different. Mister if shake again, the person who wins the prize certainly won’t be me.”
The more I explain it, the more I feel like there is no silver in this place, but I did not cheat. I have no choice but to prove my innocence.
Just with the old zhou whisper group old staff summer elder brother come forward, smiling way: “as long as the first time to ensure that you don’t become?”
“What do you mean, Shaggy? I’m going to get the computer off the stage right now and we can review the source code.”
As I stood up to rush to the stage, Diego grabbed me by the hem of my coat and forced a smile. “Xiao Yao, is Diego kidding you? Don’t take it seriously. An iPad costs a lot.”
Old Zhou stroked my back and motioned for me to sit down next to him. “Yes, it’s not much. We all trust you.”
Looking at old zhou and xia elder brother’s face that pair of artificial expression, I seem to have eaten a fly in general.
It’s not about the fucking money.
(6)
The next day, everyone went to work as usual, as usual pretentious greeting, the annual lottery has long forgotten. It was the usual day of gossip and gossip.
I sat at my desk staring at the unopened iPad in the middle of the table, feeling sick in my stomach. Given that the company is currently working on a product for the iPad, the testing department will need a real device to test it. After a long struggle, I finally sent the iPad to the test group.
About a quarter of an hour after the iPad was delivered, Lao Zhou came to my desk and motioned me to his office to talk to me about something. Stepping into Old Zhou’s office, I stood in front of him with my head down and said nothing.
Lao Zhou came straight to the point: “Xiao Yao, I heard that you gave the iPad to the test group, and you are still upset about yesterday’s annual meeting?”
I shook my head again and again, even if the heart is unhappy, the face of the leadership is not good.
Lao Zhou crossed his legs and said, “Xiao Yao, in my first year in the company, AT the end of the year, I was just like you, in charge of drawing up the lottery for the annual meeting of the department. But the way we used it back then was old-fashioned. Write your name on the paper and put it in a paper box. Do you know what I did?”
I stood there, neither nodding nor shaking my head. I could not help feeling uncomfortable remembering Lao Zhou’s usual sycophancy to the leaders.
“I didn’t put in the names of all the people in our group. Let alone me winning the lottery, if anyone in my group wins the lottery, everyone in the other groups more or less thinks there is something fishy in the lottery box.
Is it proud to gain fame at the expense of others? I have some angrily: “this is not fair to one of us ah, my program can ensure that the probability of winning the lottery is the same.”
Old zhou mouth twitch, face across a thin smile. Soon, though, it was serious again, just for a moment, but I noticed.
“It’s not 100% fair. Most people won’t win the lottery.” Old Zhou’s mouth slightly upturned.
I was speechless, knowing that he was unreasonable, but also not refute, only against his heart to nod.
Seeing me speechless, old Zhou said kindly, “Xiaoyao, among the new employees this year, your technical ability is the strongest, and many people praise you.”
It’s a slap in the face strategy that my dad used to work with me, and so did Zhou.
I had an unproductive conversation with Lao Zhou that lasted nearly 20 minutes. Before leaving Old Zhou’s office, I defied my will to express my gratitude for his inculcation.
Seeing me out, Lao Zhou patted me on the shoulder and said earnestly, “In our society, strong skills are an advantage and very important. It’s also important to be discerning when dealing with people and things.”
Words have so far, I can also how, only nod such as pound garlic.
Back at my desk, I sucked my teeth into Zhou’s words. Thinking of the instructions of the boss at the annual meeting to promote the lottery program to the brother department, in order not to let the colleagues in the brother department back, I immediately changed the lottery program again. A new page has been added that allows you to specify winners before drawing prizes.
The sweepstakes made me realize that “technical problems are never real problems. The most difficult ones are people’s hearts.”
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