Originally, I wanted to introduce the strange characters of this strange company in turn according to the order of the characters' appearances, but for the company's empress (the second in command of the company), I wanted to write her out in advance, and the degree of strangeness of this person was not unpleasant
I must explain that in the eight or nine months of this company, I have never had contact with her, nor have I dealt with her, but just by looking at her daily speech and behavior, behavior and various decisions, I have only one impression of this person: this sister is not a spy sent by another company ~ the only purpose is to bring down the company...
The eccentricity of the Empress is manifested in all aspects.
1, it must be said that she is dressed.
Earlier, we introduced the daily life of HR director Sister M, but Sister M is worth affirming that most of her work time is still dressed more normally and professionally, and when she needs to lecture to employees, she will dress more formally.
But the Empress's style of dressing is a little... It's a bit weird. Although you can also see that she is dressed a little more professionally (high heels, white shirt, suit pants...). ), but often also dressed in eccentricities.
For example, once we had an employee event, she also needed to come up on stage that day to open a champagne together. Logically, you should dress more formally and demurely than usual, right? Unexpectedly, the empress wore a oatmeal-colored knitted skirt suit, the style of the top was more loose and casual, the lower body was a straight skirt a little below the calf belly, and then put on a pair of flat wool shoes. This very homely dress makes the originally low empress even have no aura, and it seems that the commission is to "hide in the city"...
2, take the "approachable" road, so that others have nowhere to go
In your mind, what should the second-in-command of the company, the actual person in power, look like? High? Stern? Decisive? Wise and bold? None of this is in the Empress... Sometimes, I think she has less roots in her speech...
For example, she saw that a girl in our department who always walked with her chest up and her head was like this: "Oh ~ how is your waist so straight?!" ”。 She saw that the operating girl was talking like this: "Oh ~ how do you look so good!" You look so good business must be doing very well ~"
Sometimes you can see her rushing out of the office with a pillow in a rage; sometimes you can see her walking in the workplace holding an apple and nibbling on it; sometimes you can see her leaning on the desk in her office to interview candidates; sometimes you can see her holding this or pulling that past you...
I think this man must be "innocent" to the extreme...
3. The person in power who cannot see the slightest ability
It is said that the empress is a financial background, and was previously the CFO of a large company. After arriving at our company, how others are, I don't know, anyway, she is a liter and a liter. From the CFO to the general manager to the president, it is infinitely close to the CEO anyway. But the company's financial accounts are really a mess.
It is reasonable to say that the empress who is born in finance can't manage the business, and managing money is not a piece of cake! Not to mention that it is still a small company of five or six hundred people like us. Unexpectedly, the people in the financial department recruited a lot, and the peak period approached 30 people!!! Can you imagine that? A monthly flow is only a volume of eighteen million, the size of five or six hundred people, financial! 30 people! (I heard that according to the plan of the finance manager, the financial staffing will increase to nearly 100 people in 2022!) When I heard the news, I laughed... ）
The most important thing is that the company also spent a lot of money to buy the legendary sap of expensive and complex, only the top 500 dare to use the enterprise resource management system SAP, in this case, our financial personnel actually did not reduce but increase?! But whenever he says it, there is no one who does not laugh at the company's illness...
Under the double blessing of people and systems, the financial management of our company is unproductive, full of loopholes, vulnerable, useless, unplanned, no budget, no control, no planning (the number of times omitted 10,000 words of description)... And then...... hehe...... As a direct result, the company can only be described as a lingering breath...
I have always felt that the Empress came to this company to enjoy life rather than work hard.
When I first arrived, the former sales director proposed to organize a potential improvement training for TOP sales employees, and external lecturers came to give lectures. When preparing related materials, I asked HR Director M Sister, do you need to prepare some coffee break snacks or the like? What is the approximate cost standard for the company in this regard? Sister M let me watch for myself.
According to my previous experience, I was ready to let the small partners of the department go to the supermarket to simply buy some small cakes, small biscuits and other snacks, and then prepare some mineral water and instant coffee. But later, the job of preparing for the tea break was taken over by the administrative partner. That shot is a big deal: Starbucks fixed a cup of coffee (about 30 participants), specially go to the Sam's Club to buy fruit and snacks, the cost directly exceeded a thousand.
Afterwards, the administrative friend joked with me: spending money too much, but also buying instant coffee, the empress did not agree when she heard it, so it was replaced by Starbucks. I smiled and laughed to myself: "We had this kind of training all day before, only to prepare instant coffee, I really didn't expect the company to be so rich, can directly give Starbucks ~"
But ask yourself: Is it really necessary? Is a startup really rich enough to be this level? Is the purpose of the training for everyone to learn new knowledge, increase their insights or to enjoy?
The people the empress tried her best to dig up were all strange.
The empress's greatest contribution in this company is not to play a role in the business, but to do everything possible, do not know from which street and which alley to find a variety of strange characters, in the search for "the same kind", the empress is very skilled.
Of course, this may also be the result of the near Zhu people who are close to the ink and the black. She herself is a strange person, and it is not difficult to collect strange things.
Many of the company's so-called executives (senior manager, director level or above) were thrown in by her. There is no normal interview and evaluation procedure, and it is directly handled. So there is C who will run the business more and more after coming; F who doesn't know what he's doing every day; G who shouts slogans every day and is the "inheritor" of wolf culture; Y who is maverick and self-righteous; L whose brain hole is very unique and does not see output in the business... These people are all "characters", all of them are "legends", and when we are finished one by one, if you can still remember that we talked about the empress today, you can understand why she is the leader of the strange! If you can get them together, the empress is really powerful!
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Compared with these practices and behaviors of the above empresses, the most disdainful and disgusting thing is her pure PUA theory.
When there were problems in the company's operation, she did not reflect on how unsuccessful her past decisions had caused today's situation, did not actively change and adjust, did not adopt the reasonable suggestions of some personnel in time, but still maintained a one-word style.
In the case of the delay in the payment of wages and the drumming in the hearts of employees, he said to the grass-roots employees: "The current situation is to look in the mirror, to kick out those who have two hearts, so that employees who really want to follow the common development of the company will struggle for several years less &%#......&*&**...", "It is impossible to pay you immediately when you go to arbitration, and don't want to continue to work here, even if you leave your job, you can get money next month &¥#@@......&*¥#...""At this time, It's to find a companion who can go with the company to the end &^$%^..."(Because I didn't hear the original words, they were all relayed by others, maybe slightly different, but you look at her remarks...) Can't pay the salary is so reasonable? Still inverting black and white? Also look in the mirror??? ）
I don't know if the Empress has the right understanding and thinking about the needs of people and the management of personnel. At least from my subjective point of view, employees and companies are only positions in the professional community: I pay labor, and the salary you give me is reasonable. And if you ask employees to pay more, such as sacrificing short-term benefits, then either the company did it in advance or the manager did it. If neither, what position do you take to demand or evaluate others?
No path leads to sincerity, sincerity itself is the path...