After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 426 We can't let them run wild.

"A second Lin Guiyan?" Zhou Haoran shook his head, thinking she was overthinking it. "With me here, what's there to be afraid of?"

Hu Xiaochen retorted, "You were on 'Family Matters' before, and you didn't find anything either?"

Zhou Haoran thought to himself that they had been misled by beauty, and said, "That's different. Aren't we the ones choosing the editor-in-chief this time?"

"They gave us three nominations, and we'll choose from them." Hu Xiaochen curled his lip. "It's obvious that these are probably all people with connections. The situation isn't much different from Lin Guiyan's."

"Ah."

Zhou Haoran nodded, finding this analysis to be quite reliable.

Having experienced Lin Guiyan's situation, Hu Xiaochen was much more experienced than Tang Shiyi, who had just founded "Family Matters" two years ago. He said, "Master, I can see it now too..."

At this moment, Qiao Suiqing, having signed the job adjustment agreement with HR, appeared at the door and knocked: "May I come in?"

Zhou Haoran waved, "Come on!"

Qiao Suiqing asked, as if to avoid suspicion, "I won't disturb you..."

"Come quick!" Hu Xiaochen hurried over, took her arm, and said crisply, "This is the office; you can't flirt here."

Qiao Suiqing pursed her lips and said, "I didn't mean you two were flirting. You're the leaders of the program team, right? If you need to discuss work, I'm afraid there are some important matters that need to be kept confidential, and it wouldn't be appropriate for me to be there."

"We're all family!"

Zhou Haoran set the tone immediately.

Hu Xiaochen pulled her to sit on the sofa, "We're discussing who should be the editor-in-chief!"

“Editor-in-Chief…” Qiao Suiqing looked at Zhou Haoran, “Isn’t it you?”

Hu Xiaochen sighed and said, "No, the boss said that the two of us are too young and not suitable to work together. He wants to find a mature, experienced editor-in-chief."

"That……"

Qiao Suiqing had obviously thought of what had happened with Lin Guiyan before.

Hu Xiaochen analyzed, "The booth manager gave three nominations, and all three of them must be people with connections. Just like 'Family Matters,' when the show starts, people with connections become the editor-in-chief. If it fails, the producer takes responsibility, and the editor-in-chief can find the next project; if it succeeds, they share the fruits of the labor. When the time is right, they can seize power and reap the rewards. Lin Guiyan was willing to work as Teacher Tang's assistant back then, which must have been for this reason."

Qiao Suiqing nodded in agreement, "That should be it."

Zhou Haoran pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you recognize those three nominees?"

"I do not know!"

"You don't know any of them?"

"Yes, they're all from the general channel." Hu Xiaochen was very worried about this. "They're all strangers who don't know anything about this. What if they don't coordinate well after they arrive? Wouldn't that affect the progress of the program?"

Zhou Haoran asked again, "Have you seen it?"

Hu Xiaochen shook her head. "No, I just want you to be the editor-in-chief."

"How could I possibly have time to be the editor-in-chief?" Zhou Haoran was the type to work sporadically, often skipping work every few days. He was content with a nominal position. "It's alright, I'll go ask around!"

Hu Xiaochen's concerns are somewhat valid.

If the appointed editor-in-chief is muddle-headed at work and spends all his time plotting internal power struggles, the column team will definitely be in chaos.

Zhou Haoran went to the personnel department.

There are acquaintances here.

"Sister He Jin!"

Zhou Haoran appeared with a smile, seemingly unconcerned about the strange looks from the other people in the office.

"Haoran?"

For the past six months or so, He Jin has had very little contact with him.

Zhou Haoran asked, "Are you busy?"

He Jin understood and said with a smile, "It's alright, it's been so long... By the way, I have a friend who wants to transfer to your 'Everyone's Art' program, let's go get a coffee!"

"Okay!"

Zhou Haoran now understands why a two-story coffee shop was set up in the courtyard of the TV station.

Isn't this blatantly encouraging employees to go out for coffee during work hours?
Actually, it was intentional.

Some things are not convenient to say in the office; they need to be discussed privately in a coffee shop.

He Jin was a divorced woman in her early thirties with a voluptuous figure. She had helped Zhou Haoran a lot when he first joined the company, and he had even taken a liking to her. Later, Lin Guiyan came along, and then the even better Sheng Wenwan appeared, so he forgot about this woman.

"It's been so long since I've seen you!"

He Jin took out three 10-yuan bills and paid for two cups of coffee.

Zhou Haoran smiled and said, "Busy!"

He Jin tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, pursed her lips, and asked, "So, what happened?"

Zhou Haoran cleared his throat. "I need to ask you something."

Is it related to "Everyone's Artistic Achievements"?

He Jin gave a half-smile.

Zhou Haoran slapped his thigh and exclaimed, "Sis, you understand me so well! We're soulmates!"

"Don't give me that." He Jin rolled her eyes at him and said softly, "I've been following 'Everyone's Art Up.' Hu Xiaochen is quite capable. She even converted her office into three mother-and-baby rooms. All the mothers in Taiwan are attracted to her."

Zhou Haoran said seriously, "Sister He Jin, the task of 'Everyone's Art Up' is urgent and we need to start work as soon as possible. Hu Xiaochen is not as experienced as you in recruitment, so we will have to trouble you to help out more."

They call it helping out, but it's really just about doing someone a favor. Hiring is a matter of power.

State-owned enterprises are all about connections. Now that He Jin is helping Hu Xiaochen with recruitment, she can arrange for some of her relatives and friends to come. Originally, He Jin was asking Zhou Haoran for help, asking him to arrange two people; now it's turned into Zhou Haoran asking He Jin for help, asking her to help with recruitment.

He Jin appreciated the gesture and nodded slightly. "Okay, what do you want to do?"

Zhou Haoran said, "The plan is as follows: 100 people will be enough for the initial stage of 'Everyone's Art.' My plan is to select about 70 people from within the organization, and recruit the other 30 people publicly from the community. We will look for some young college students, or capable people from other media organizations or county-level TV stations."

He Jin said quite frankly, "In the short term, we can rely on the station's allocation. In the long term, we still need to recruit from the public. People recruited from the public are the ones we have on our side. We still need to be careful about those who jump over from other departments."

"is it?"

"The work atmosphere in our unit is quite good. Most of the capable people are in core positions. Recently, there have even been new reform measures. Producers over 50 years old are all required to step down to the second line. This is to make room for capable people."

"Ah."

"So, only a small number of people who don't do well in other program groups are unappreciated or marginalized at work. Most of them are simply not capable enough to be in core positions."

He Jin sat opposite him, wearing a woman's short-sleeved shirt with the collar open, revealing a glimpse of snow-white skin.

Sometimes I look down and drink coffee.

Even the cleavage was exposed.

Zhou Haoran couldn't help but glance at her a few more times. Actually, there was nothing wrong with her; she was just a woman, and he'd seen her before... But the feeling of spying on her was truly different.

He Jin seemed to sense something and quietly buttoned up his collar.

The expression is peaceful.

It was as if nothing had happened.

Zhou Haoran sighed inwardly.

Women are indeed different.

If it were Lin Guiyan, she would definitely tease him, and might even take the initiative to unbutton another button on her collar, making full use of her feminine advantages.

He Jin continued, "Hu Xiaochen has already submitted several lists to me, all of them for personnel transfers, and I'm keeping an eye on them. There are already 42 people, and they're all doing quite well. However, I think that's about enough."

"Almost there?" Zhou Haoran thought to himself that he really needed to find professionals. "The rest of them aren't very good at it?"

He Jin nodded. "Pretty much. People who are truly motivated and capable would definitely fight for such a good job transfer opportunity. They would even give up their National Day holiday to compete for the opportunity in the company."

"It really is!"

Zhou Haoran has a deep understanding of this; subjective initiative can often be an objective standard for judging a person's ability.

He Jinping said calmly, "They're not new to the workplace anymore. They have job transfer opportunities, but they're still waiting silently, even taking time off during the National Day holiday... They never take initiative and just wait to be chosen. These people basically have no workplace skills."

Zhou Haoran quickly said, "Sister He, then you can go over there in a bit and work with Hu Xiaochen to oversee things. The editor-in-chief of 'Everyone's Art Up' hasn't been decided yet; she's doing it all by herself."

"Editor-in-Chief candidate..."

He Jin remembered something.

Zhou Haoran asked, "Are you aware that there are three nominees for the editor-in-chief of 'Everyone's Art' on the channel?"

He Jin nodded slightly, "Yes, the connection is with HR."

"Who are they? Do you know them?"

"do not know."

"You don't know any of them? You don't know a single one?"

“They’re all from the general channel.” He Jin gave him a deep look. “This is a very complicated matter!”

Zhou Haoran, leaning on the table, asked with concern, "What happened?"

He Jin whispered, "The director of the Lifestyle Channel is concurrently the booth manager. Soon, he will be reassigned and will no longer serve as the director of the Lifestyle Channel. Song Yongjun, the deputy director of the General Channel, will be transferred here to be the director."

Zhou Haoran immediately realized, "So all three nominees are actually people from the new director, Song Yongjun?"

He Jin said, "I have no evidence, but this is my analysis. 'Family Matters' has a new editor-in-chief. Guess who it is?"

Zhou Haoran was stunned for a moment. "Lin Guiyan said that after she is promoted to producer, she will promote Xu, the team leader of the directing team, to editor-in-chief."

That was her suggestion, but the leadership didn't agree.

He Jin, being in the personnel center, is very familiar with these matters.

Zhou Haoran suddenly realized, "So the new editor-in-chief of 'Family Matters' also came from the general channel?"

"Yes, a director, not even the head of the directing team. He's over forty, but quite experienced. After coming here, he became the editor-in-chief in no time. I guess he must have been brought over by Song Yongjun, and the exhibition director gave him a lot of support."

He Jin's tone was rather unfriendly.

She works for the lifestyle channel and hopes "Family Matters" will get better and better. But they appointed someone in their forties who had never even been a head of the editing team as editor-in-chief; it's simply an abuse of power.

This incident serves as a starting point to understand the bigger picture.

The three editors-in-chief nominated for "Everyone's Art" probably won't fare much better!

Zhou Haoran narrowed his eyes. "It seems we really can't let them run wild!"

He Jin sensed his sharpness and was taken aback. "What are you going to do?"

"No way! We don't want a single assigned editor-in-chief!"

Zhou Haoran didn't care who the new director was.

Although, according to normal administrative ranks, a director is equivalent to a division chief, so what?
(End of this chapter)