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Chapter 5: Office Automation

With great enthusiasm, Su Cheng came to the Ministry of Petroleum and explained his purpose to the door, and then walked into the agency building smoothly.

This is a building with a solemn appearance and heavy interior. The decoration traces are lighter, and the stairs and corridors have not been greatly changed. Only by entering the office of the Personnel and Labor Department on the third floor can you see the not very smooth floor and blue paint. From Su Cheng's perspective, it is simple.

The young clerk of the Human Resources Department had a natural arrogance on his face. He heard that it was Su Cheng from Peking University, and then he smiled a little and said, "Director Liu went to the meeting. He specifically instructed you to wait for a while and have a tea?"

"Just boiled water."

The clerk poured him boiled water and went to do his own business again.

Su Cheng leisurely raised his legs and waited with peace of mind. The personnel department was in power, and the office he assigned was good, facing the shaded green trees in the backyard, with a unique scenery.

The only thing that was a little annoying was that the large office was too noisy. Four or five staff members were spinning around two computers, and there were a few men carrying information next to them...

Computer? Su Cheng suddenly shuddered. In China in 1987, this was a rare thing.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Su Cheng leaned over and looked in under the shoulders of a small clerk.

On the Japanese brand phone, the words "Big 286" are written. The monitor's butt is big and long, and the screen used for display is small and square. At this time, the person being used is the familiar Excel that Sucheng is.

However, looking at the angry expressions of the clerks around, the software is obviously not easy to use.

Two computers, two people read, two people input, and three people were helping around: "Oh, the name is wrong again."

“It’s too difficult.”

"So is true of Minister Ma. You must print the file. How good was it hand-drawn before..."

After listening for a while, Su Cheng understood. The oil department carried out office automation, requiring new technologies such as electronic reports, electronic documents, and emails. But looking at the staff around you, you will know that almost all of them came from the age of sports. Older athletes are old athletes, and younger ones only learn to exercise, and they are good at criticizing and fighting, and they can make up for their work by writing something, so they will be completely confused by playing with technology.

The good Excel form was changed by them, and it was already messy. However, the report workload of the Human Resources Department and the strict time limit were very high, so I started to scold it anxiously after a while.

Su Cheng looked at it for a while, coughed lightly and said, "The problem of consistency between the names of subsidiaries and departments can be solved by using the data validity function."

"Ah? What?"

Su Cheng squeezed in, held the long-lost mouse, sighed for a moment, and started to operate it directly.

After a while, he looked at their files and said, "I see that you have a lot of the same data, and these can be put in together."

"How to put it in together? It's not connected together." The fat man on the seat tried quickly with his eyes. Unfortunately, he could only use his mouse and keyboard to select horizontal or vertical cells.

Su Cheng immediately understood that these staff members would not use excel at all.

In contrast, he spent two years with a spreadsheet at the Petroleum University, so he said unstoppably: "Discontinuous cells can also enter the same data, so I'll demonstrate it."

Su Cheng snatched the mouse from someone's little hand and started the operation.

In a few seconds, dozens of data from different positions were input.

The mission was expected to be completed, and a group of clerks suddenly became excited, and someone shouted: "Oh, there are experts and there are rescues."

The gentlemen who were still calm finally became uneasy and flocked to the computer where Sucheng was located, and asked their own questions.

Excel in this era is not yet mature, but the prototype has emerged. Sucheng is a little familiar with them and it is very easy to solve their basic problems.

I don’t know how long it took, but after hearing a heavy cough behind me, Director Liu said majesticly: “What are you doing around there? What do you look like!”

The old man was pitiful at the Peking University Admissions Office. When he returned to the Ministry of Petroleum, he still had an image as a great god.

Su Cheng laughed secretly and stood up and shouted, "Director Liu, I'm here to report today."

"Su Cheng." Director Liu's expression cleared and asked, "What are you doing?"

Seeing that they met, someone stood up and laughed: "Director, Comrade Su Cheng is a computer expert, and he teaches us to use spreadsheet software."

Director Liu raised his hands suspiciously and asked with great official spirit: "Su Cheng, you are a student in the Chinese department, why have you become a computer expert?"

Su Cheng said modestly: "I have been in contact with you when I was in school, so I understand a little bit."

"I don't know a little bit. Master Su is much better than Japanese technicians. Director Liu, with his help, our report today is expected to be completed." Everyone in the Huahua sedan chair was raised. With the eyes of the personnel department, it is easy to see Director Liu's tendency. Just by saying a word, Su Cheng has become one of the rare computer masters in the world who have ancestral secrets.

As for the relationship between computers and ancestral traditions, it is a topic that no one cares about.

Su Cheng is a highly educated talent recruited by Director Liu. The better he performs, the more he can prove Director Liu's vision.

So, the Director General changed back to the image of an old man, laughed happily and said happily: "Okay, Xiao Han goes to handle the procedures for Sucheng first. Xiao Su, you can help them first."

Su Cheng responded and started working hard in the office.

Director Liu also stayed in the office, watching him operate the computer with great interest.

For people of this era, computers are an extremely magical machine, much more magical than TVs and photocopiers. But most people have never seen ones. Even the mouse that modern people are most accustomed to is not standard on 286 computers. The Japanese brand computers of the Personnel Department were used. So two mice were installed. Other departments mostly use the Dos system, but they don’t even have a mouse.

In addition to graduates in recent years, ordinary clerks in central ministries and commissions are mostly around 30 years old, who have gone up mountains and down villages, and may have been to the Workers' and Peasants' and Soldiers University, but they have not received systematic learning. Faced with a large number of English and inaccurate Chinese terms translations, it is inevitable to catch them blindly.

However, among the middle and high-level cadres of Director Liu's age, there are many old college students with solid foundations. If you take a closer look at it for a while, you will have some experience.

Director Han, who was in charge of the service, completed the procedures, came to the middle of Director Liu and Sucheng, and asked with a smile: "Director, which department Xiao Su sent to?"

Director Liu asked without looking back: "Xiao Su, which department do you want to go to?"

Everyone looked at each other sideways.

It is not an ordinary preferential treatment to be able to pick up a place.

Su Cheng was confused and smiled and said, "I am a revolutionary brick. I need to move wherever I need to. However, I hope to go to the oil field and do practical work."

In the final analysis, the oil major is what he knows.

Director Liu didn't take it seriously and thought to himself, you, a student from the Chinese department of Peking University, what can you do in the oil field? He pondered for a moment, remembered Su Cheng's performance just now, and said, "Let's do this, stay in the Personnel Department first, help everyone make forms in the past two days, familiarize themselves with the environment in the department, and then make a decision."

This was an unparalleled preferential treatment. Everyone showed surprise eyes, and then they made their own judgments without understanding. When Director Liu left, they all rushed forward and got caught.

The fat man who had been sitting in front of the computer did not dare to show weakness and said to Su Cheng: "Brother Su, please accept me as your apprentice."
Chapter completed!
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