Along the narrow stairs, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei climbed more than ten floors at a stretch before arriving at the man's floor.
At this moment, the man was still standing at the corner of the window sill of the ancient pagoda, with his toes even beyond the platform.
Lu Weiwei was panting and glanced at Gu Chen beside her.
Gu Chen made a silent sign to signal everyone to keep quiet.
Then he cautiously approached the man.
The man's ears trembled slightly, and he seemed to have noticed the movement behind him, so he turned his head slightly and looked at the two of them from the corner of his eye.
When Gu Chen saw this, he quickly stopped again.
At this moment, the man knew very well the purpose of Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei's coming, and he smiled and said, "What are you two doing here? Are you afraid that I will jump?"
"You...since you know, why are you still standing here? It's too dangerous, you...get down quickly."
When Lu Weiwei saw that the man was so unafraid of death, she was also very anxious. She felt that if she acted incorrectly or spoke too loudly, she might scare the man.
If he slips again and falls, he probably won't be able to shake off the blame.
When Gu Chen saw that the man had no intention of coming down, he also tried to persuade him: "Brother, I see that you have been standing up there for a long time, and your toes have already exceeded the window edge. If you are not careful, you may fall down.
"
Seeing that the man was still unmoved, Gu Chen said again: "How about we come down and talk about anything?"
"Hi!"
After hearing Gu Chen's words, the man also sighed, then turned around and held on to the window.
When Gu Chen saw this, he quickly ran forward and held the man's arm, fearing that he would accidentally fall down again.
After helping the man into the tower, Gu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Brother, where can't you go to play? You have to stand at the window, how dangerous it is."
"And I see that you have been standing there for a long time, and the wind in the river is so strong, yet you are still standing in the corner."
"If the strong wind blows and you don't stand firm, you probably won't have a chance to talk to us now."
"Yes, yes." Lu Weiwei originally came here to relax, but seeing the man's actions, she immediately put her bad mood out of the sky, and instead comforted the man and said:
"Brother, if there is something unhappy about you, you might as well tell us. At least we can give you some advice, don't you think?"
"Haha." The man laughed dryly, looked at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei up and down, and then asked, "Are you two a couple?"
"We..." Lu Weiwei glanced at Gu Chen and said, "We are colleagues."
"Colleague?" Hearing Lu Weiwei's words, the man chuckled, as if he had seen through the situation but didn't want to tell the truth. He also shook his head and sat on the floor.
Seeing this, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei also sat on the ground to the left and right of the man.
The three of them formed a triangle position and looked at each other.
Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen didn't know why the man stood at the window of the ten-story ancient pagoda.
If this was done accidentally, the man might have been smashed into a pulp.
Gu Chen was also the first to ask: "Brother, what troubles do you have, why don't you tell us? We happen to have troubles too, so we came here to relax. Since we all have troubles, let's talk to each other."
It is also based on a step-by-step approach to slowly open the man's heart.
The man didn't seem to have any other meaning. He just smiled and explained, "Do you think I want to commit suicide?"
"It's hard...isn't it?" Lu Weiwei glanced at Gu Chen beside her, and looked at the man curiously.
My heart says that if you are like this, you are not committing suicide? Are you lying to ghosts?
The man also nodded in acquiescence: "Maybe, for a moment, I had this idea."
"Maybe if you hadn't come up, maybe I would have jumped down, but in the end I was too timid and didn't dare."
"Haha." After hearing what the man said, Lu Weiwei also smiled teasingly: "That's great, it means you still live well."
"After all, life is precious. In this life, if money is gone, you can make money again. If you lose friends, you can find them again. But if life is gone... then it is really gone. Do you think this is true?"
"That's right." The man nodded silently and said with a sneer, "Maybe I shouldn't die."
"Brother, what are you worried about? You stand here so willfully. Have you ever thought that your family will worry about you?" Gu Chen said.
"Family?" The man was stunned and said calmly: "Yes, if it weren't for my family, maybe I wouldn't have hesitated."
Looking up at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, the man said again: "Have you ever discussed a serious issue, that is, what should you do when you are a white-collar worker at the age of 35?"
"What to do after the age of 35?" Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen looked at each other, thinking that they were both in their 20s, how could they understand this problem?
Seeing that Lu Weiwei and Gu Chen were both in their early 20s, the man waved his hand and said with a smile: "Why are I telling you this? How can you understand?"
"Perhaps we understand?" Gu Chen was afraid that the man would be confused again, so he tried his best to communicate with him.
The man sighed and said with a wry smile: "I used to think that this question, haha, was a very vulgar question and not worth talking about."
"Besides, I have always felt that 35 is just a timeline and does not mean anything."
"It wasn't until I became a project manager myself and the company required project managers to recruit themselves that I slowly realized that it seemed it was time for me to consider this issue."
"Yes...really?" Seeing the man's emotion, Lu Weiwei also echoed: "Then how did you recruit?"
"Just...the company's HR is only responsible for checking to prevent recruiting people with insufficient academic qualifications, or me recruiting my sister-in-law." The man said jokingly.
Lu Weiwei forced out a smile and continued to communicate: "You are the project manager. I think you should be quite powerful. Why do you have so many worries?"
"That's right." Gu Chen quickly found a topic and communicated with the man, saying:
"Logically speaking, you are already a project manager, your level should be high, your income should be pretty good, and you should be living a good life."
"No, no." The man waved his hand and replied to Gu Chen in a formal manner:
"Young man, maybe you don't understand it now, but maybe you will understand it in the future."
"Actually, when the company asked me, the project manager, to recruit on my own, I suddenly realized that the thread... was not drawn out of thin air."
"Actually, from the perspective of us recruiters, this problem is almost not a problem, because the development of technical experience has a curve."
Looking up at Gu Chen, the man also explained: "Some skills will reach their peak level five years after graduation."
"That is... around the age of 27, so between the ages of 27 and 34, for occupations with technical backgrounds, such as code farmers, the salary will generally reach the maximum."
"But once you cross that line, a state will quickly appear called laziness."
"I agree with this." After hearing what the man said, Lu Weiwei also raised her hands in agreement.
After all, Comrade Lao Wang is now past his peak period and is slowly becoming slack.
If Gu Chen hadn't suddenly joined in the process, Officer Wang probably wouldn't be doing very well in the police station now.
The man smiled faintly and added: "Actually, I couldn't understand this thing before, but after I worked for six or seven years and looked at the people around me, I gradually started to understand it."
"When I was young... I could concentrate on studying technology without any distractions, and I would often stay up all night to work on a small technical detail."
"But when it reaches a certain stage, more and more bad things will happen."
With a faint sigh, the man said helplessly: "The child is sick today, and the old man needs to go for a physical examination tomorrow. Later, he began to doubt life and find the meaning of life."
"I also hope to spend more time with my children and family, but my concentration and energy may not be enough."
Looking at Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei in front of him, the man also sighed with emotion: "The current physical condition of some of my classmates is really no different from that of disabled people. Naturally, they are useless in anything they do."
"So, the slackness I'm talking about here doesn't necessarily mean that you don't want to do it anymore. Rather, it means that you are too distracted and there are too many things around you."
"Indeed." As soon as the man finished speaking, Gu Chen quickly added: "Actually, many people are like you. When they reach your age, all kinds of trivial matters come one after another, and they can no longer work as they did when they were young."
"Sloakness... is inevitable, because you will be delayed by various family chores, and you will not be able to achieve a perfect working condition."
"Yes." The man smiled slightly and agreed, "As I said, slacking off is really scary."
"So much so that I can no longer concentrate like when I was young, nor can I concentrate on work like young people."
"Not only that, but a key issue is that when you are young, you feel that technology has a sense of sacredness, and this feeling will gradually fade with age."
"And until one day, you will find that technology itself is technology, and the coolest thing is actually money."
With his hands on the ground, the man also relaxed his body.
It seemed that communicating with these two young people, Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei, gave me a relaxing and pleasant feeling.
Therefore, the man kept talking about everything and continued to complain: "Actually, this change in mental state itself can also lead to a gradual loss of emotional control."
"To be honest, I have never met many people who still maintain a high enthusiasm for technology after the age of 35."
"But there is a problem with money. If you pay too much attention to it, you may not be able to earn it."
"If you care about things that can bring money, this thing will come to you unknowingly."
"Haha, it seems to make sense." Lu Weiwei smiled and glanced at Gu Chen inadvertently.
Gu Chen also nodded in agreement and continued to ask him: "Then what do you think can bring money?"
"Skills that can only be acquired through long-term practice." The man raised his right index finger and said jokingly: "For example, code farmers, they make this money."
"Then there's...the links between people. That's what those big Vs make money from."
"Of course, this requires a pair of keen eyes and a shameless temperament. For example, my former roommate, a fellow, quit his job as a programmer and went to the night market to sell skewers and barbecue. He was pretty good at one time."
"Barbecue?" Hearing that it was delicious, Lu Weiwei immediately became interested, so she quickly asked: "What happened next? Did you open your own shop?"
"Haha." The man laughed dryly, shook his head and said, "I don't know where the city management drove him later. I couldn't find him anyway."
"Then you are responsible for recruiting, so you should be able to find the talents you want, right? After all, the current labor market is." Gu Chen said.
"Yes." The man did not refute, but also agreed: "Anyway, when I recruit, I will also think about a problem, that is, recruit a young man, and I can tell him whatever problems he has."
"But when recruiting an older young man who is older than me, what should I say to him if he has problems?"
Seeing Gu Chen and Lu Weiwei looking at each other, they didn't seem to have thought about this problem.
After all, Lu Weiwei has never been soft-spoken when teasing Lao Wang and He Junchao, who are older than her.
Therefore, Lu Weiwei couldn't answer the man's question.
Because this problem is not a problem at all for Lu Weiwei. She likes to challenge her older colleagues the most.
When the man saw that the two of them were no longer talking, he joked to himself: "Of course, the most important thing is that the talent market has sufficient resources. I can find young people if I want."
"But I also often think about one thing, and that is, as I have talked to many people before, our country has too much manpower and it is too cheap."
"This has an obvious advantage, that is, the labor cost accounts for a very small part of the cost of manufacturing in China, which makes our products obviously competitive."
"Some big manufacturers even put out the slogan, don't compare prices with Hua, because no matter how much you quote, we will always be lower than you."
"And this low-cost cannibalization strategy has also allowed Xwei's products to almost take the world by storm in the past few years."
"That's it, almost all the friends and businessmen were killed, and they were forced to switch careers to other industries."
After a pause, the man said with emotion: "But the manpower is abundant and the shortcomings are obvious. It is almost very difficult for an individual to raise the price because the substitutability is extremely high."
"If you don't want to do this job, you can replace it with someone else every minute. This is a bit like England in the past, who would rather hire child labor than their parents."
"Can you imagine just letting this family raise their children?"
"I've heard a little bit about this." Gu Chen, who had learned about the history of this aspect, also followed suit and said:
"In fact, by doing this, the later English government was worried that the country would collapse, so it banned child labor."
"And because manpower is too abundant, any scarce position will become surplus in a very short period of time."
"So every time I see headlines like "China's rising labor costs lead to reduced competitiveness" in the news, I have mixed feelings."
"Haha, young man, it seems you pay attention to a lot of things." Seeing that Gu Chen even knew this.
The man suddenly felt that by talking to Gu Chen about his concerns, he seemed to have found a soulmate.
At least, Gu Chen could understand.
So the man continued: "In fact, as the working class, what we hope for most is a wage increase, and this wage increase will destroy competitiveness, which is a very dilemma."
"And over the years, I have a very bad feeling, that is, companies that generally treat their employees well will not go far."
"And the companies that go far are often the kind of companies that squeeze everything to death."
"For example, a big boss once said, don't treat the company as your home. People in your family can forgive you for all kinds of bad habits, but you are here to make money for the company. If you can't make money, you have to let others go.
Get out of here, you are so careless anyway."
"That's not the case for all companies, right?" Lu Weiwei felt that the man's words were too absolute, so she couldn't help but try to argue.
When the man heard this, he also smiled slightly and said: "I know that at this time, some friends may want to argue, saying that Google, or other such-and-such companies, are not that kind of company. Please wake up."
"Actually, have you ever thought about it? How many Googles are there in the world? And Google itself has monopoly dividends."
Seeing that Lu Weiwei didn't know how to answer, the man continued: "Actually, blue-collar workers in the United States have unions. There are very few unions in high-tech companies, and overtime is also very serious."
"And regarding big companies, just a few years ago, I had a chat with a process management guru from IBM."
"At that time, he told me that the most important thing for modern enterprises is process, and they want the enterprise to be like a tropical rain forest, or like the Internet."
"The system itself has redundancy, flexibility, and the ability to grow and adjust itself. Moreover, even if the boss of the company disappears, the company can continue to operate."
"The core of these high-end gadgets is one sentence: turn everyone into parts, and standardize and process every job."
"Only in this way, if anyone is missing, the system can quickly adjust and converge and continue to operate."
After a pause, the man seemed to be talking about his expertise, but he couldn't stop and said:
"Actually, this has two benefits. One is that it makes you more proficient in your work. Proficiency in the software industry is the key to improving product quality."
"On the other hand, it can also effectively prevent random job-hopping. The more single the job, the faster employees will become disabled, and the harder it will be to find a job in the talent market."
"This is the... dark logic of project managers in large companies."
"Dark logic?" This was also the first time Gu Chen heard this statement.
It felt like listening to the man say this, it seemed that he already understood a lot of things.
The man almost listed the relationships between these companies very clearly.
The man smiled bitterly and shook his head, and couldn't help but said: "Actually...even though these managers themselves are becoming more and more useless, haha, of course, don't ask me how I know."
"The irony is that with the large-scale layoffs of foreign companies in the past two years, the big shot I just mentioned has also been laid off, so he is also unemployed."
"Although the severance package was not bad, in the end, he was unable to find a job that suited him and could get as high a salary as before."
Speaking of this, the man's eyes seemed to be full of stories.
Gu Chen seemed to see from his eyes that this seemed to be a story about himself.
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