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Chapter 220: Squeeze out the last bit of value (6k subscription required)

I'm floating, I'm really fucking floating.

As Yang, Sun and Li emphasized their contributions to the company and interfered in the company's strategic matters, Chen Li's face became increasingly darker.

Especially the last sentence Yang Junfei said made Chen Li furious.

Among these three people, Yang Junfei is the youngest, has the brightest mind and the most ideas. It is normal for a person like him who has achieved good results at this age to have such ambitions and ideas.

But this is a big taboo in a team.

Although Chen Li is very close to the people in his project team, this is something that middle-level managers must do, just like Lu Yao would personally go to the grassroots level. In order to better understand the grassroots, he would sometimes even play double-act with others to obtain real information.

The competition among Internet companies is like setting a top speed record on the Nürburgring Nordic track.

If you want to achieve good results, you must really put your heart into what you create. Otherwise, you will know whether it is a mule or a horse once you pull it out for a while.

As for why some people are obsessed with the Nürburgring or other public competition test projects, it is mainly because there are too many fake test items.

Just like car companies at this point in 2015.

The safety performance of domestic and foreign versions of cars is completely different. Some car companies want to save costs and pass the test, so they will maintain the materials used in the test items of the car, and cut corners in other untested areas.

In the future, some car companies may even choose to cheat openly in order to pull down others, and even if they are exposed, they will remain silent. What they are competing for is their control over market opinion and the thickness of their information cocoon.

When people like Yang Junfei, Sun Jun and Li Jianguo appear in a team, the centripetal force of the team will gradually collapse.

This is equivalent to the core components of the car that is speeding starting to have problems. Once the core components have problems, let alone achieving good results in the sprint, it is very likely that the car will be destroyed and people will die.

So the best way for Chen Li at this time is to immediately draw a clear line with these three people, then report the situation to Lu Yao, expel these three people immediately, and dispel the doubts in other people's minds.

But still the same sentence.

The "Shoot It" project team is too short of manpower, especially these three who are technical backbones. It is easy to fire them, but what should be done afterwards?
So Chen Li stood up with a fierce face after Yang Junfei finished speaking, staring down at Yang Junfei and the others: "Only the four of us know this kind of talk tonight, I can pretend I didn't hear it. But if you still hold on to this idea, and even bring your personal emotions to work... I will always prepare your resignation report for you."

After Chen Li finished speaking, he planned to leave.

But he finally relented and said to Yang, Sun and Li with his back to them, "Let me remind you again, don't regard the platform as your own ability."

Many young people, especially those in sales, easily become arrogant once they have achieved some success. They think that the boss is just so-so and why should they have to put up with the boss when they are so awesome?

Gradually, these people will jump out and work on their own, and then be beaten up by society, only to realize that the operating logic of some things is not what they imagined at all.

However, these bloody lessons are of little use if we just listen to others' words.

Only after they themselves got hurt did they realize how naive and stupid they were.

Chen Li did not intend to teach them a lesson. He had said everything he needed to say. If they could wake up in time, everything would be easy. If they could not, then he had done his best.

After all, he didn't tell Mr. Lu about this.

……

After the team building, Chen Li could feel that the atmosphere in their project team had improved.

Although they are still short of staff and many plans have been cut, such pressure has forced them to strive for excellence and maximize efficiency as much as possible to ensure the smooth operation of the game "Shoot the Shot".

Even Yang, Sun and Li did not spread negative emotions in the company, but their work enthusiasm was not very high, and their work attitude was even a bit confused.

Considering their past friendship and the current shortage of manpower, Chen Li endured it.

However, he still submitted a report to his superiors to expand the staff, hoping that the addition of fresh blood would make the old hands feel a little more sense of crisis.

Lu Yao also received the request for expansion submitted by Chen Li. In fact, Shangnan Guang'an Network Co., Ltd. has always posted high-paying recruitment notices, and Gan Xiaoxi has also been searching for gaming industry talents in the market.

But this kind of technical talent, like good men/good women, is not widely available in the market.

All major manufacturers will keep this type of personnel in their hands and provide them with adequate salaries and benefits. Even if they have to lay off employees due to an economic downturn, they will generally start with unimportant areas.

Of course there are exceptions, such as technical talents in large companies.

A large company is a bit like the officialdom, where technology is secondary and interpersonal relationships are more important than technology. Technical personnel who are not good at these ways and just do door-to-door work will easily become the target of HR's cost reduction and efficiency improvement efforts.

For example, Didi will have a server crash in the future, and the business logic of Didi's travel software will be wrong for up to twenty hours, resulting in the loss of tens of millions of orders and over 4 million in transaction volume. The direct and indirect losses will be as high as billions.

The reason for all this is simply because cost reduction and efficiency improvement have reached the deep waters of the group, killing the people who actually do things.

Ten years later, Didi is no longer the Didi that existed during the “Didi War”.

Otherwise, Didi's business would not have been overtaken by AutoNavi ten years later. AutoNavi Maps had over 40 million daily active users, a market share of nearly %, and an average daily order volume of over million.

The same thing is still happening in 2015.

Feng Ji and others who were poached by Lu Yao were victims of the internal bureaucracy of the big company. Those who actually did the work were fired, and instead a group of sales people who were only responsible for marketing and performance were allowed to abuse their power within the project.

However, it is unrealistic to just think about picking up technical talents that big companies don't want to grow and develop.

Not to mention that there are geographical barriers involved.

Therefore, as early as the end of last year, Lu Yao had been cooperating with the school and some off-campus training institutions.

Most of the game industry knowledge taught in domestic college courses is outdated. It cannot be said that what is learned is useless, but it can be said that it is not very useful. Therefore, many students in the game, animation, modeling or drawing industries will enter off-campus training institutions for pre-employment training before officially entering the workplace.

Lu Yao had a high school classmate who was doing this, and he was very successful in this area in Luzhou Province.

When I had just graduated and was at a party, I heard that buddy complain that four years of college is not as good as one year of off-campus training for college students nowadays, especially in the industries that Lu Yao just mentioned.

School will not teach you how to use the latest AE, MAYA, or 3Dmax software. You have to learn these things by yourself.

It is not difficult to find some good talents in these after-school training institutions, so Lu Yao has connected with some after-school training institutions in Shangnan, the surrounding areas of Shangnan and even the surrounding provinces.

The school-based training program is also proceeding in an orderly manner.

However, the school-based training program is a long-term investment and distant water cannot quench immediate thirst.

Therefore, Lu Yao specially talked to Chen Li: "The domestic game industry, especially the mobile game industry, is booming. There is also a super first-tier city like Dahai City next to Shangnan that is siphoning away our resources. It is really difficult to find manpower in the short term, and you will have to work harder."

"I'll give you a little more monthly performance increase, so please bear with me."

Chen Li also understood the current situation. Lu Yao was still willing to increase the project team's performance. What else could he say?
Just keep doing it.

By the end of April, the first batch of school trainees of Lu Yao's company had become proficient in some simple and basic work in their company. Although fresh college students entering the workplace are inexperienced and prone to making mistakes when doing things.

But there is one good thing about newcomers in the workplace - they are humble, enthusiastic, and willing to work hard, especially in 2015, which is still an era of growth where the more you work, the more you get.

Therefore, after a new batch of employees entered the workplace in large numbers, Guangan Network's major project teams quickly added a fresh force.

Feng Ji and Yang Qi even promoted a few new people.

Because these newcomers’ brains are indeed very smart and useful, and they are entangled with the latest developments of the modern Internet.

Internet companies are developing very fast.

Penguin has undergone four major organizational structure adjustments in more than 20 years, and TikTok's content direction has changed as many as eight times in less than ten years. Even Alibaba has been keeping up with the development of Internet trends.

New brains have a unique advantage in sensing the atmosphere and direction of the Internet, so it is not surprising that newcomers are reused.

Chen Li also used the newcomers to sound the alarm for the old ones. These newcomers were more obedient, more able to endure hardships, and more creative. After they started working, they came up with many good plans and made many technical iterations.

But the arrival of newcomers has seriously impacted the interests of the previous group of old people.

After all, the year-end bonus is calculated based on the contribution within the year. If we continue to let this group of newcomers do this, will they still want this year's year-end bonus?

As a result, a series of ways of cheating people in the workplace began to appear in the project team of "Shoot a Shot".

For example, assign some trivial and worthless tasks to this group of newcomers.

For example, deliberately tampering with the work of newcomers to make them make mistakes, and then taking the opportunity to suppress them.

For example, during a group meeting, they deliberately stir up arguments to anger newcomers, and then accuse them of being emotionally unstable...

After this series of combined blows, the working atmosphere within the "Shoot Them" project team began to deteriorate rapidly. While everyone's work enthusiasm was affected, problems also began to gradually arise in the game experience and operation of "Shoot Them".

By the end of April, the daily active user loss in April was close to 10%, and the revenue dropped by 17 points compared to March. Many negative comments about "She Le Ge She" began to appear on major platforms. Just like the previous example...

When there are problems with a company's organizational structure and working atmosphere, it will definitely be reflected in the results.

Just like a car's power system has a problem, whether it is a problem with the atomizer nozzle or simply the wrong fuel, it will affect the car's final performance when it is trying to achieve a good result on the track.

In fact, Lu Yao had known about the possible problems that might occur in the "Shoot It" project team for a long time. He had already arranged for several people from a headhunting company to help him inquire about the situation so as to understand the current operation of the company.

The MOBA mobile game project team has no vested interests involved at the moment, so the atmosphere is pretty good.

It is difficult to describe the work atmosphere of the newcomers in the "Shoot a Shot" project team, especially the female employees who look more honest, who are bullied the most.

Lu Yao, who knew about these things, allowed the incident to ferment.

Arrogant soldiers and generals cannot be suppressed. The more you suppress them, the more serious their rebellious psychology will become.

Therefore, throughout history, there are only two ways to deal with arrogant and powerful generals. Either you are the most arrogant and powerful among them, so that they will be afraid of you and submit to you, such as Li Shimin and Zhu Yuanzhang. Li Shimin has many powerful generals under his command, and even more arrogant and powerful generals.

But why did no one dare to show his teeth to Li Shimin?

Because Li Er was the most powerful and arrogant general of that era. Which emperor could personally lead three thousand black armored soldiers to charge back and forth? Not only did he kill so many people that his sleeves were stained with blood, but he also lost six horses in his lifetime of fighting.

The same goes for Zhu Yuanzhang. He had many powerful generals under his command, but he was able to suppress them all, so he was not in vain.

As for why Zhu Yuanzhang later began to kill his meritorious officials, it was mainly because Zhu Biao died early. To be honest, when Zhu Biao died, Lan Yu and his group of powerful generals from the prince's faction were more sad than when their own father died.

Therefore, the second way to deal with arrogant and powerful generals is to kill them all.

In the workplace, it means dismissal.

But dismissal also requires a sense of propriety, not to mention that people with the heart of Lu Yao, even if they want to dismiss them, they must be reused and the last bit of value squeezed out.

Calculating the time, Lu Yao thought it was about time. He would get rid of those arrogant generals by the end of April, and then take advantage of the natural traffic of May Day.
But before taking action, Chen Li found Lu Yao first.

……

In front of Lu Yao's desk, Chen Li stood not far from Lu Yao's desk.

In fact, as the company grew bigger, Lu Yao also had his own office, but Lu Yao didn't like sitting in the office very much. He liked to wander around. Different project groups and different companies had Lu Yao's workstation.

The president's office of Guang'an Online Game Company is usually used by Lu Yao as a reception area.

Looking at Chen Li standing not far from his desk, Lu Yao leaned back on the ergonomic chair and asked with a faint smile: "You came to see me but didn't say anything, what's the matter?"

Chen Li pursed his lips, not knowing how to open his mouth.

In fact, as Lv Yao connected with Xiaomi's user base and ByteDance community, and the wave of marketing before the New Year, the number of users of "Shoot" has been increasing. However, while the number of users is increasing, the daily active users and revenue are decreasing, which shows that there are big problems with the project team's operations.

"Shoot It" is the company's first product. It was President Lu who, with the resources behind him, opened up the marketing chain all the way and established a firm foothold by finding a new way under the crush of the giant Penguin.

But now, he has handed in such an ugly answer.

Seeing Chen Li standing in front of his workstation like a wooden stake, Lu Yao stood up and said, "Then let's go to my office to talk."

When Lu Yao led Chen Li into the office, he said as he cleaned up and prepared to make tea, "Sit down."

Chen Li pursed his lips and said, "I'm too embarrassed to do it. We just held a mobilization meeting before the New Year and experienced such a glorious moment. But just over two months after the annual meeting, we were able to achieve this result with an increase in users..."

"As the project manager, I cannot escape blame."

After Lu Yao packed up his things, he pushed Chen Li down to sit on the sofa and said, "Then sit down and have some tea first."

After Chen Li sat down, Lu Yao said while making tea: "I have also learned about your situation. Where do you think the problem lies now?"

Chen Li took all the responsibility: "It's my poor management."

Lu Yao smiled: "Well, I heard that the atmosphere in the "Shoot a Shot" project team has been very bad recently. The newcomers to the team have been complaining quite a lot. I think this is not just a management problem, but a problem of atmosphere."

“Atmosphere is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it does have a huge impact on morale and efficiency.”

Lu Yao handed a cup of tea to Chen Li and said, "I think this matter needs to be handled seriously. You may have been with the people in the group for a long time and have developed feelings for them, so I think I can do this."

Chen Li opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Finally he nodded and agreed: "Okay!"

Lu Yao felt that the rectification of the work style within the project team was urgent. In the afternoon, Lu Yao gathered all the employees from the three project teams, and several hundred people gathered in the company's conference hall.

Executives from the three project teams were also present.

In the auditorium, under the gaze of hundreds of eyes, Lv Yao took the microphone and walked up to the podium: "Hello everyone, I am Lv Yao."

"The company has been developing very fast recently, and there are many new faces. Some of them may have seen me, but please don't let anyone know, okay?"

Some people who felt that Lu Yao looked familiar quickly realized what was going on, and then everyone couldn't help but laugh out loud.

After opening in a relatively relaxed manner, Lv Yao began to recount the company's development history and the achievements it had made in the past period of time. As someone who works in communications and marketing, Lv Yao has a lot of experience in speaking speed and the emphasis of words. His leisurely narration gradually attracted everyone's attention.

When talking about the inspiring things, Lu Yao's low but passionate voice, combined with his body language, made many old employees who have been working hard since last year feel proud in their hearts. Many of them subconsciously sat up straight and felt honored.

But soon.

Lu Yao changed the subject: "But not long after our highlight moment, our project team no longer seems to be the brave, diligent, brisk and fearless industry dragon slayer that it was last year."

He turned around and walked to the podium, picked up a report, waved it in his hand and said, "In April, our users were obviously growing, but our daily active users and revenue performance were actually declining compared to March."

"At the same time, I checked the work content within the project. Compared with last year's fast and simple process, it has become inexplicably slow. The daily maintenance, operation, and optimization of the game are also constantly encountering problems."

Lu Yao slammed the report document in his hand onto the podium with a bang: "May is Labor Day, but the event planning for May was only finalized a few days ago, and then rushed to finalize it a few days ago. This is wrong."

"In fact, I have long noticed that there is a problem with the atmosphere in the company, and I have tried to communicate with the heads of various project teams and solve this problem. Some project teams have done a good job, but some project teams——"

Lu Yao's eyes turned cold and he stared at the "Shoot the Shoot" project team: "Some project teams have made achievements and become proud, even arrogant."

As he spoke, Lu Yao began to call out names.

In addition to "Yang Junfei", "Sun Jun" and "Li Jianguo", Lu Yao also pointed out six or seven old people who began to take advantage of the situation and followed Yang Junfei and others to bully the newcomers.

As he spoke, Lu Yao took out several reports from the podium: "These are the reports that our functional support line HR department learned from newcomers. Several of them are reports about workplace bullying in the "Shoot a Shoo" project team."

When Lu Yao took out those reports, the faces of those people sitting in the audience suddenly turned dark.

Some people with poor psychological quality even panicked on the spot.

Lu Yao threw the document down again and said in a calm but cold tone: "The development of Internet companies has always been a race against time. Our goals are even more ambitious and arduous. In order to achieve our goals, I and many people present here have put in a lot of hard work and sweat."

"so!"

Lu Yao said in a resolute voice: "I will never allow some bad apples to disrupt our progress! So I announce here that after this meeting, all the relevant people will be expelled! I hope everyone can learn from this."

Wow! !

There was an uproar in the conference hall. Colleagues who knew each other immediately started whispering to each other, and the conference hall was suddenly filled with a "buzzing" sound, like a fly falling into a toilet.

Many people from other project teams looked curiously towards the area where the "Shoot Them" project team was located. Many new and old colleagues in the "Shoot Them" project team who had been bullied began to look at Yang Junfei and his team, whispering to each other.

"It's them, right? Just a dozen people are dragging down the entire project team! They truly deserve the title of black sheep."

"Yeah, Yang Junfei's nose is usually flying up to the sky, as if he is the most awesome in the entire project team. I don't know where he gets his confidence from."

"That's right, he is so ordinary yet so confident."

"I really came to the right place. Mr. Lu is awesome. He can get rid of this black sheep without any hesitation!"

The voices of discussion penetrated their ears like a piercing devil's sound. The humiliation and ridicule from Lu Yao and the colleagues around them made Yang Junfei and his colleagues feel like rats crossing the street, despised by everyone.

Under the gaze of hundreds of eyes, they finally realized what it meant to be "the power of public opinion can melt gold" and "the power of human speech can be feared".

Faced with the endless mockery, they didn't even have the courage to stand up and refute Lu Yao...

(End of this chapter)