As a mage, I just want to pursue the truth

Chapter 320: Miaomiao tries to get the topic back on track
Some company internal forums are nominally anonymous forums, but in fact, as long as the internal IP allocation is fixed, it is very easy to find out who posted the anonymous post.

You can even analyze what software each employee uses during work and how much time they spend using it based on how they use the company's wifi.

Gome’s internal disciplinary documents at the time clearly stated which non-work-related software the disciplined employees used and how long they used it.

At times like this, WeChat becomes particularly important. You can use WeChat to chat about work with colleagues and clients.

WeChat’s built-in public accounts and search functions can help you kill some of the boring time at work.

Meeting the employees of Ke Chuang Biotechnology was just an episode for Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao, or even not an episode at all.

Zheng Li was a little curious: "What do internal forums usually discuss?"

When the internal forum was first established, Zheng Li went in to take a look.

He felt that the content was far less interesting than that in the magic forum.

The magic forum he set up was filled with intrigues among wizards from various countries.

Everyone wants to obtain research results from other countries, but does not want to expose their own research progress.

It means you want both.

Under this premise, some word games become particularly important.

It is normal to have some linguistic embellishments and exaggerations in the R&D progress.

Moreover, it is easy to tell in magic forums which posts are posted by mages from which countries.

Although the Magic Forum is able to achieve accurate, accurate and elegant automatic translation, the diplomatic embellishments and rhetoric of various countries cannot be concealed even after translation.

The way he speaks is roundabout, and what he says may actually have several meanings. This is a Chinese wizard.

It seems to be possible on the surface, but in reality it is not possible most of the time. This is the Neon Mage.

Compared with the magic forum, the internal forum of the Science and Technology Department can be described as a simple and harmless little white rabbit.

Moreover, due to the relaxed management environment of the Science and Technology Innovation Department, no one will pursue who has made some not-so-politically correct remarks.

Of course, even internal forums must comply with the management of relevant Chinese departments.

It’s just much more relaxed than other companies’ internal forums.

In ZTE's internal forum, someone posted a message suggesting stopping "voluntary overtime" and increasing overtime pay to restore the company's image.

The post was later deleted.

Similar situations will not occur in the Science and Technology Innovation Forum.

However, after everyone complained about overtime, there was no improvement in the situation.

Because when a company becomes large, it is difficult for the will of the actual controller of the company to be implemented on everyone, let alone small matters such as whether to work overtime.

Yes, whether or not to work overtime affects the happiness of lower-level employees, but it is just a trivial matter in the eyes of senior management, and senior management cannot empathize with the lower-level employees.

Even Li Miaomiao, who is very young and still has an idealistic naivety, still thinks that working overtime is normal.

Given the general environment, they worked overtime every day when they founded Ke Chuang Bio.

Therefore, Zheng Li advocates avoiding overtime work. Whether to work overtime needs to be determined by department or even group.

Within science and technology enterprises, some are very competitive, while others are very relaxed. In the relaxed departments, not to mention working from 9 to 5, there are even departments that work from 10 am to 4 pm.

And there is a transition between loose and tight.

Previously, due to the monopoly of Ke Chuang Future, relevant staff would only work overtime before the product was launched or the system version was updated.

Now the news that Kechuang Future will split into two companies, hardware and software, has spread within the company, and the management in the middle knows something about the inside story.

Therefore, they want to go to the monopoly-type Ke Chuang Future Software Company, and then try to perform better and leave a good impression on the senior management.

Once the middle managers start to compete, the employees they directly manage will naturally follow suit.

Even Li Miaomiao, who is deeply involved in the specific operations of the Science and Technology Innovation Department every day, does not know these details, let alone Zheng Li.

Li Miaomiao knows the average at most, and then intuitively judges how much overtime everyone works based on her observations after get off work.

Moreover, even if Li Miaomiao knew that some employees were working overtime, she would at most mention it once or twice and was unlikely to punish anyone for this reason.

Unless an employee reports it.

Under the current economic situation, the remuneration provided by the Science and Technology Innovation Department is sufficient to encourage employees to work overtime voluntarily, and almost no one will publicly report this to their direct superiors or higher-ups.

When Zheng Li heard Li Miaomiao mention the intranet forum of Kechuang Biotechnology, he asked, "What is the difference between the intranet forum and social platforms like Weibo and TikTok?"

Short videos were once popular in the League of Mage, or rather, they are now popular among some groups.

However, due to the limitation of the Internet, the impact range is only about 100,000 people at most, and it is impossible to form an application with a scale of billions like Blue Star.

Moreover, the popular short videos in the League of Mages are all first-person screen recordings of some virtual reality game players, who record the scenes of killing everyone and then let others experience them.

Or they could record the highlights of the fighting arena, also from a first-person perspective, to give other players a sense of the experience.

Such videos are mainstream.

There are absolutely not as many styles as Blue Star Short Videos.

The only social platforms Zheng Li has experienced on Blue Star are Weibo, Douyin and Zhihu. He thinks Zhihu is nothing special and the quality of the answers there is very poor.

Instead, it was Weibo and TikTok that allowed Zheng Li to witness the vigorous vitality of normal people.

Li Miaomiao replied subconsciously: "Everyone will be more restrained in the intranet forum.

We have never punished employees in terms of performance based on comments made on the intranet forum.

Employees will still have concerns.

In the intranet forums, people are friendly most of the time and speak nicely.

I have heard before that employees from the Science and Technology Innovation Department made some strange remarks in external forums.

They don’t dare to publish similar remarks on the internal website.”

In fact, the strange remarks here refer to writing about the daily life of Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao, or the daily life in the employees' minds.

Since Zheng Li has no scandals, no girlfriend, let alone marriage, all kinds of speculations are made by the resourceful netizens.

Like some niche forums, Zheng Li and Cheng Gang, Zheng Li and Lei Jun, there are all kinds of strange and weird articles.

It’s just that Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao’s daily life was posted on Douban, and the poster claimed that he was an employee of Ke Chuang Biotechnology, and also posted photos of Zheng Li and Li Miaomiao taken from unknown angles.

That’s why that post went viral.

Li Miaomiao heard the story from Li Shuyao. After reading it, Li Miaomiao not only did not pursue the matter, but also felt secretly happy and a little melancholy in her heart:
It would be great if Zheng Li and I were really like what you imagined.

After listening to this, Zheng Li nodded and said, "I understand. Just like ByteDance and Tencent are fighting each other, but Pony Ma and Zhang Yiming still have to be friendly at the dinner.

Internal forums are more formal, while social media is less formal? "

Li Miaomiao felt that this metaphor was a bit strange: "You can understand it this way.

No, no, no, that's not the same thing, because speaking carelessly in an internal forum may have consequences.

You are much less likely to face the consequences for saying anything wrong on social media.

Just like after the establishment of the truth system, the media will have to bear the consequences for speaking nonsense, and there will be obviously much less fake news.

We-media will also be more cautious.

This has nothing to do with the occasion, but everything to do with risk-reward. There are some substantial costs to being able to talk big in an internal forum.

And you can indulge in your chatter on social media without paying any price.

It’s like magic.”

Li Miaomiao originally wanted to mention the magic forum, but she remembered the confidentiality regulations and there were a lot of people around.

He immediately stopped talking.

Zheng Li asked: "What is magic?"

Li Miaomiao shook her head: "Nothing."

Li Miaomiao took Zheng Li to a store near the cinema and bought a wand jointly branded by Harry Potter and a listed forestry company in China before leaving the cinema.

After Merlin appeared in Stockholm, forestry companies in the A-share market suddenly hit their daily limit.

For these forestry companies, they all treat it as an interesting story to talk about the rich imagination of speculative capital in A-share market.

There are a lot of weird operations in the A-share market, and it is not uncommon to see a sharp rise or limit-up due to some inexplicable news.

Just because it is called Chuansheng, Sichuan University Zhisheng had a big rise in value in 2020 when -year-old Americans were competing for job opportunities.

However, one forestry company failed to realize the business opportunity and began to transform itself into making magic-related peripheral products, mainly magic wands.

It did open up a way.

The company's magic peripheral business line is led by the 20-something daughter of the company's actual controller, and has created quite a stir.

Thanks to the co-branded wands with Warner Bros. in the Harry Potter series, the company's magic peripheral brand has gained a firm foothold.

The company's market value also saw a wave of growth.

The magic wand that Li Miaomiao bought in the cinema was from this company.

Li Miaomiao walked on the road and picked up the magic wand and waved it, "Only with the magic wand can I feel like a wizard.

With nothing in my hands, I feel like a Muggle no matter what."

If there were no confidentiality agreement, she would say that even if she had magical powers, she would still feel like a Muggle.

Zheng Li smiled and said, "I remember you seemed to have bought a lot of wands. Why did you buy them here this time?"

Li Miaomiao explained: "This is a limited edition for the 40th anniversary of the Harry Potter series. There are only 5,000 of them in the world, so I just wanted to buy one for fun.

It’s only about a thousand dollars anyway.”

“But most of the limited editions that are intentionally made are not very valuable.

On the contrary, due to some unexpected circumstances, there were only so many consumer goods, which gave rise to prices that were unimaginable at the time.”

"Limited editions in this era are all illusions created by merchants and are a concrete manifestation of consumerism."

After studying for an MBA, Li Miaomiao has a deeper understanding of consumerism.

Contemporary society is full of consumerism.

Zheng Li said: "It all comes down to productivity. Productivity growth can solve most problems."

Li Miaomiao shook his head and said: "The growth of productivity can solve problems, but it will also bring new problems.

In fact, Blue Star’s productivity has increased countless times compared to the past.

When I was taking an MBA course on human economic history, the teacher showed us a graph that showed that productivity had been growing explosively since the second half of the 20th century.

But looking back today, many problems have been solved, but many problems have also arisen.

On the contrary, I believe that the continued growth of productivity in the future will lead to a more detailed division of society.

In the past, the social structure could be roughly divided into three levels, but in recent years some people have proposed that our society can be divided into nine levels.

Maybe in the future it can be divided into thirty layers.

I think we’ll see it in our lifetime.”

After listening to it, Zheng Li didn't think so, but he couldn't tell Li Miaomiao the social structure of the Mage Alliance.

There are three levels in the Mage Alliance: civilians, mages, and gods of mages.

"What if material things are extremely abundant and can be provided for free?"

In response to Zheng Li's question, Li Miaomiao thought for a moment and replied: "It is still possible to create differences to divide classes and distribute wealth.

If the material is free, then the virtual product will be charged.

If the material things in the real world become worthless, then the real estate prices in the virtual world will soar to the sky.

Huanyu Pengcheng, Huanyu Shenhai, and Huanyu Hangzhou are emerging one after another. On the one hand, housing prices are one aspect, and on the other hand, the value is given to antique collections and the NFT form of various collections.

These are just the means available now. If it really comes to that, more means will be created.

Humans have always been gifted in this area.”

“The hero in the movie is also a wizard in the real world, and he contributed to solving the London serial murder case.

Warner Bros. has been hyping this up a lot in its publicity lately." Li Miaomiao quickly changed the subject.

Li Miaomiao always felt that every time she went out on a date with Zheng Li, the topic would turn to some strange topics.

It is a topic that ordinary male and female friends would not discuss when they go out.

She hoped to get tonight's date back on track by changing the subject.

Zheng Li pretended to be curious and asked, "Master?"

"Can he perform magic?"

Li Miaomiao explained: "A wizard under the London concept can only cast magic in London. Once he leaves London, the magic will be ineffective.

However, even so, such publicity has little effect on the citizens of London, but it is still very beneficial for publicity to other countries.

After all, those countries don't know the specific situation of magic in London.

Anyway, judging from the public videos, the other party has a good grasp of elemental magic.

Warner Bros. treats this as a gimmick and tells it every time.

But they were honest enough to admit that they couldn't use magic once they left London."

"That's good. A magician plays a magician. This is progress." Zheng Li joked.

Li Miaomiao followed his words: "Then it would be more appropriate for you to play the role.

However, it is impossible for the Harry Potter series to have a yellow person as the protagonist.

We may see black magicians as protagonists in the future, but forget about it for yellow people.”

“Compared to the movies, I would rather master the magic in real life.

Changing shapes and shadows, how cool." Zheng Li's tone showed a hint of yearning.

You have to know that the spatial teleportation of intelligent life is something that even the Mage Alliance cannot do.

(End of this chapter)