Standing in her office, Jiang Youyou was at a loss and shook her head embarrassingly. “This is the first time I took meeting minutes.”
“Even if you don’t know how pork tastes before, you must have seen a pig running. Miss, you’re a college graduate, and you tell me you don’t know how to take the meeting minutes?” Huang Yu was somewhat impatient. “This is the first time you made such silly mistakes, but never make the same again. The meeting minutes must truly reflect the substance of the meeting and the authenticity is the life of meeting minutes. You must base your minutes on the essentials of the meeting but not on your own subjective imagination and groundless conclusion to add or deduct something, not to mention interpreting out of context. If doing so, the meeting participants won’t be convinced, which increases the difficulties or makes mistakes in carrying out the resolutions. What’s more, generally a divisive proposal at the meeting should not be written in the record. And it’s not necessary to take down those slobbery words. Then, last but not least, to enhance the exactness of the meeting minutes, the minutes must be checked by your leaders, me, for example, before you print and hand over to the boss instead of distributing to each of the attendee. Hand over before I have checked, you see?”
Luo Junchang’s voice came out from the GM’s office, “Huang Yu, come here!”
Huang Yu gave an alarmed look, “Now look what trouble you’ve caused! Whenever he calls me in such a tone, it’s most likely for nothing good.”
When someone who was always calm got flustered, she looked more flustered than a flustered person.
“Tell that nonesuch girl who was in charge of taking minutes to come in.” Luo Junchang was putting his legs on his desk, who would change his dark colored socks every day.
“Well, she was only a newcomer, I don’t think she was doing that intentionally…” Jiang Youyou’s innocent expression came into Huang Yu’s mind and she couldn’t help trying to explain for her.
“Huang Yu, you looked like my mother very much recently, with too much superfluous words.” Luo Junchang waved her away.
Jiang Youyou went into the GM’s office in a daze, and everyone in the outer office got in a sweat for her.
“What’s your name?”
“My name is Jiang Youyou, Mr. GM. I will pay attention next time. I’m sorry. I never did this kind of work before. But I will actively learn from my seniors to improve myself.” Jiang Youyou was so ashamed that she nearly cried.
“He-he, I don’t eat human beings. Raise your head and look at me.” Luo Junchang thought Jiang Youyou was very nonesuch and very cute as well. In the meeting minutes she wrote, “Finally the GM summed up as the following: ‘…in the next quarter, we must fulfil the goal of the profit increase by more than eighteen percent on the basis of this quarter’s export bills. All of us must rally to cooperate with one another to achieve our goal. Otherwise, everyone present, including me, can’t account for the failure to the board and all of us have to pack and leave. Don’t take what I’ve said as farting, I’m serious.'” The words made him laugh for no less than ten minutes. He hadn’t laughed like this for a long time since last month the chairman of the board inexplicably lost his temper to him because he felt the company was under-performing.
The chairman was an old man that he dared not to offend. When the old man poached him from OLE Investment Consulting Firm and appointed him as the General Manager, he was puzzled very much. Why did the old man only select him for the position among so many high-level talents? There were plenty of MBAs in financial field and also plenty of skilled capable staff, how could the chairman took a fancy to him, who had a working experience less than eight years and disliked to be (stuck) in a groove? The old man said, “I have so many companies and I value this one most. You must work hard for me. I like your disobedience to the rules.”
In previous years the company’s performance was still very well, but now it slowly declined. When Xia Yan, the chairman of the board, came here, he said to him, “Now the financial crisis is sweeping the world and the foreign trade market is shrinking sharply. And the sharp shrinkage of the foreign trade market leads foreign trade enterprises to transfer from overseas market to domestic sales one after another, thus increasing competitive pressure in domestic market. This chain reaction then causes a bad market environment. Leaving the front-line enterprises aside, those enterprises in the second and third tier will surely try hard to find ways to climb up during this period of time, if they fail, things will be quite pessimistic. Next year many small businesses will perhaps collapse, but I don’t want to see the company I took every effort to establish die in your hands.”
Jiang Youyou peeped at Luo Junchang. Perhaps because of the glory of the title of General Mananger, his originally handsome facial features reflected by the sunlight coming in from the French windows on the balcony gave her a certain illusion that he was like an inaccessible deity.
“I like your disobedience to the rules.” Luo Junchang glanced at her and said, “Do your best. Now go out.”
“Are you serious?” Jiang Youyou began shaking. Damn strong coffee. She would never drink it any more.
“Are you shivering? Now go out to work.” Luo Junchang thought the girl was funny due to her peculiarity.