As Bi Ka entered the company door, two ghost-like figures, one on the left and one on the right, pounced on Bai Weiran with the posture of a hungry tiger attacking a lamb.
"Wei Ran! Wei Ran! How can I live without you?!!! How could you betray me and leave work?!!? Hit me, hit me, hit me! I've already told the ghost messenger that my brother Weiran will die with me! I won't leave if he doesn't die!"
Bai Weiran: ...Thanks a lot!
The person holding his left arm and crying was Guo Guo. Just like her name, she had a round apple face, wore thick-framed glasses, and had two braids. Her face was pale, with dark circles under her eyes.
"Brother Wei Ran, help me! I can't understand the requirement document given by Sister Luo Qi!" The one holding his right arm was Chao, a delicate and petite boy. Due to his fair and tender appearance and his love for enoki mushrooms, he was given the nickname Enoki Mushroom.
Fortunately, there was no one in the office except for the cleaning lady in the morning, otherwise, it would have caused a commotion.
But on the other hand, it proved that they were in the company so early, not because they came early, but because they didn't leave last night.
Weiran looked helpless.
"Can you at least let me put my bag down first?"
Entering the small conference room, Guo Guo, who had seniority over Chao, rushed to speak first, pouring out her complaints to Weiran like a bean.
Bai Weiran is currently working on a R&D project.
Guo Guo is the copywriter and planner for this R&D project.
Although R&D sounds flexible and free, it is actually a miserable experience.
Nothing is settled, everything could be turned over, everything could be changed.
What is agreed upon today may change tomorrow.
And the working-class people happen to have a selfish leader and naive boss.
Their leader is named Dong Zhengyuan.
In the early years of the Internet, when it was in a period of rampant growth and booming profits, as long as one stood in the right wind, even pigs could take off with a spray of manure.
Their leader joined the gaming industry when the market was just taking off.
After experiencing layoffs from two companies and a failed business, Dong Zhengyuan joined the newly established world entertainment Inc where Bai Weiran now works.
The slogan of World Entertainment Inc is—to make games that make the world happy.
World Entertainment Inc took off.
Riding on the dividends of the era, the company became extremely wealthy in four to five years.
This wealth was not strongly linked to the employees' abilities.
As the industry progressed, more and more talented people joined, causing a clear talent gap in the company.
The older employees panicked, realizing that their skills were not as good as the new ones.
Dong Zhengyuan is one of those panicking ones.
He is in charge of the game's data, also participating in the development of several games. Dong Zhengyuan's data are copied from benchmark products, then degraded by himself, and it works.
As long as the art and design look good, the game's mechanism and data are directly copied from the mature benchmark products, and with the blue ocean market in the domestic, it's easy to make money with any project.
He also climbed to a leadership position with the lucky projects brought by the time.
Now the producer of R&D project A-0021, where Bai Weiran is.
Since he's a leader, he doesn't have to do the work himself. Dong Zhengyuan uses his experience to pick on his subordinates. If a project doesn't produce results or the boss is not satisfied with the demo, he pushes all the responsibility onto his subordinates. In this project, all positions have been replaced in just two years, and some have even been replaced more than once.
Bai Weiran was not originally part of this project but joined when his direct supervisor resigned.
The direct supervisor, an "old-timer" employee with a single-digit employee number, who made tens of millions from stock bonuses during the company's boom, continued to work in R&D simply because he was bored.
Realizing that the industry is getting harder and harder to work in and much more exhausting, and their skills aren't as good as the new, rising companies, the direct supervisor thinks it's better not to torture himself.
"What the hell is making happy games for the world?"I, with tens of millions in my account and no need to work, am the happiest person!
Casually leaving work, I travel around the world, checking in every day.
Bai Weiran arranged for Dong Zhengyuan's project team.
Bai Weiran had heard of Dong Zhengyuan's character before, but his personality is gentle and he's always calm. When he was in a difficult situation in his life, his previous supervisor helped him a lot. Bai Weiran remembered this kindness and planned to return it by staying longer in the company.
After all, work is work no matter where you are, right?
Life is not elsewhere.
There are already many things going on in the research and development project, and the leaders are always causing trouble for others.
Dong Zhengyuan is unable to manage the data and system mechanism, so he focuses on troubling the art and copywriting team.
Guoguo, the copywriter, was the first to bear the brunt of the trouble.
She stepped into the "mine pit" without knowing Dong Zhengyuan's character beforehand. She only felt that the supervisor was kind and respectful during the interview, and the company's compensation was satisfactory, so she joined.
After joining, she found out that things were not as expected.
Guoguo offers plans every day, while Dong Zhengyuan denies them all the time, without being clear about what he wants.
"I want you to give me something that I can't think of, something that one look at will make you say, 'Ah! It's going to sell a lot!'"
"As for what it is, I'll leave it to you to think about."
"Don't worry, don't be discouraged. The reason I keep denying you is that I have higher aesthetic taste!"
Three sentences that cause employees to cough up blood.
Guoguo has racked her brain and lost a lot of hair in the process. Finally, she decided to tie her long hair into braids, which may look old-fashioned and ugly, but can at least prevent her from pulling it out, saving her money on hair transplantation.
A copywriter's salary is not as high as a programmer's, so she can't afford to spend much on hair transplantation.
Guoguo's reason for crying to Bai Weiran was that the plans she had finally put together last week were suddenly rejected by Dong Zhengyuan, saying that the beginning of the story was not exciting enough.
In fact, the main storyline hadn't even begun yet; it was just setting the tone for the worldview.
Dong Zhengyuan excitedly said that it needed a big train collision explosion to start off with, like a Hollywood special effect with lots of flashy effects!
Guoguo was dumbfounded because this is a fantasy world with a low level of mechanical civilization.
Guoguo argued, but Dong Zhengyuan insisted on this approach. With these requirements, the whole worldview would need to be readjusted, and the art team had already been exhausted from Dong Zhengyuan's repeated changes, causing them to become furious with overtime work.
Even though everyone knows that it's the leader's problem, they can't openly scold the leader.
Being caught in the middle, Guoguo became the scapegoat.
Guoguo started crying and asked Bai Weiran to find a way to block Dong Zhengyuan's overly creative ideas.
Bai Weiran sighed and handed her a melon-flavored lollipop from his pocket.
Chao choked up as he told his story; he was an intern who had been pulled in to develop an editor.
The editor was supposed to help the team's workflow, but its functionality was unclear. The person who wrote the requirements had very vague expectations. Although each word could be understood individually, when put together, it was impossible to understand the meaning.
When Chao went to ask the planner about the requirements, the planner accused him of being the problem.
It was truly a case of an old bird bullying an intern.
"I understand," Bai Weiran rubbed his temples.
"Brother Unforeseen, why didn't I get a candy?"
Bai Weiran: ...
He took out another orange-flavored lollipop from his pocket and gave it to him.
Thinking is brain-consuming. Bai Weiran has the habit of replenishing sugar. The whole office knows that he always has candy in his pocket. Santa Claus distributes candies on Christmas, while Bai Weiran is the non-Christmas candyman.Bai Weiran was about to break one for himself when his phone started buzzing.
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