Outsider: The Fifth Young Master of the Kang Family

"Tianxiu, help Fourth Uncle get a bowl of rice."

That day, A Zu returned to Kang's house after get off work, looking depressed and dejected. After Tian Xiu agreed, A Zu said, "Half a bowl is enough."

"A-Zu, what's wrong? Are you unhappy as a manager?" The boss asked with concern when he saw him like this.

"More than unhappy, simply..." When Ah Zu was about to complain about the company's employees, he was interrupted by Tian Xiu. He took the food that Tian Xiu Sheng brought back and sat down again before continuing, "Those guys are simply uneducated, unmotivated, unreasonable, and simply don't know what they are talking about."

The more he spoke, the angrier he became. "The company's performance has plummeted in the past two months, and the head office previously lost a lot of money investing in Haiti. I originally wanted to support them to study and recharge themselves to see if they could help the company improve its performance, but in the end, those guys took reimbursement for clothing classes, driving classes, and beauty classes, which were completely irrelevant. Well, I hired a teacher to teach them, but one by one, they all found some excuses to take leave."

"Handsome boy, it seems that your management level needs to be improved." After listening to Grandpa's complaints for a long time, A Yao came to this conclusion. And the old man also agreed with A Yao's words, "Grandpa, after all, the third brother has been a leader for so long. At least he has some experience. Learn from him."

"So what's your trick?" A-Zu said.

"Me?" A Yao laughed at himself and said, "What tricks can I have? Those people in my office have made me run around like a monkey."

He suddenly changed the subject and said, "But jade from other mountains can be used to polish stone. Since you are spending time to train them, why not adopt the methods and approaches in the autobiographies of foreign CEOs?"

"In my opinion, learning and training are secondary. The most important thing for you now is to think about how to improve performance and how to increase the enthusiasm of employees." As a senior businessman, Er Lao pointed out the most pressing problem that A Zu is facing now. He should not think about how to improve the personal abilities of his employees, but how to mobilize their enthusiasm so as to achieve the goal of improving performance.

"That's right, Er Lao is right. Those guys are as lazy as snakes. We must find a way to stimulate them." After hearing what Er Lao said, A Zu agreed very much.

"There's a saying in my hometown that a good horse needs a whip to urge it on, let alone you..." Xianglan was interrupted by her second sister-in-law before she finished her words. She said, "Sister-in-law, no one listens to your great principles now. Speaking them out will only make people doze off. Listen to me, if you want to stimulate enthusiasm, it's very simple. One word: money, money, money, money."

"Sister-in-law, you mentioned so much about money. Where can we get so much money?" A-Zu glanced at her and said helplessly, "I just said that our company's performance is declining and the head office is also losing money. Where can we get the money to pay everyone? Go to the bank?"

The second sister-in-law thought about it briefly and had a new idea. She said, "If we don't talk about money, then let's talk about color is emptiness and emptiness is color." Before she finished speaking, A Zu slammed the table and interrupted her, saying, "Second sister-in-law, you are really getting more and more outrageous. Our company is a formal company. What are you talking about color and emptiness? Does it mean that every male employee of ours must be paired with a lady?"

"Grandpa, there are children here, please be careful with your words." The nanny warned Grandpa. Grandpa shrugged and smiled and stopped talking. At this time, A Yao had an idea and said, "I heard what my second sister-in-law said just now and I think it makes sense. As the saying goes, men and women work together and don't get tired." "That's what I meant just now. I saw in the news that the US space shuttle must have a certain ratio of male and female astronauts." My second sister-in-law likes to read this kind of gossip news the most.

The speaker has a good intention, and the listener has an even better intention. The next day, A Zu returned to the company and announced a new working method that would make it easier for men and women to work together, dividing the company's employees into groups and working together to share performance targets. The idea is good, but things often go against one's wishes.

Aqi was chosen to be paired with Yumi, but his mind was completely on Yumi. He wanted to turn work pairing into life pairing, and his mind was completely spent on flirting with Yumi. Aqi didn't take a very important sales plan seriously at all, but took Yumi out to have a good time, and the big customer was snatched away by someone else. As a result, the company missed the last chance to turn around.

Kou Shuiwei was assigned to work with Miss Tang, and he was happy now. Last time, because Yumei asked Lao Dou Mazi for mercy, he and Yumei were not fired by A Zu in the end. He didn't know how to do anything in the first place, and this time he was working with Miss Tang, so he threw all his work to Miss Tang without hesitation, causing Miss Tang to work overtime every day and still not be able to finish the work. In the end, even a strong woman like Miss Tang began to muddle through.

"What do you mean men and women working together is not tiring? It is absolutely tiring to work together." Ah Zu was so angry with the people in the company that he went home and complained to everyone: "Now the company is in a mess because of this method. Everyone has no morale and no fighting spirit. They are either thinking about picking up girls or being lazy."

"As a boss, I will teach you one more method, dinner party." After listening to A Zu's complaints, A Yao gave him another suggestion. Dinner party is an inertial action in their government unit. "Dinner party is the most traditional way for us Chinese to keep in touch with each other."

"Yes, Ah San is right. We must have a dinner at our Ruhao Tea Restaurant." Er Lao tried to attract business for the tea restaurant. After hearing this, Ah Zu said helplessly, "Er Lao, your tea restaurant mainly sells fast food. How can we have a dinner at your place? And with the current state of our company, we don't have that much funding even if we eat fast food."

Kang Qirui frowned when he heard this, "Is your company so bad now? You don't even have this little money?" Kang Qirui had the impression that A Zu's company had gone bankrupt long ago in the original timeline. Now, perhaps due to the butterfly effect, it has managed to hold on for a few more months, but in the end it still reached the point of bankruptcy?

"Alas, there's nothing we can do. All of our head office's previous investments in Haiti have been lost, hundreds of millions. During this period, many branches have announced bankruptcy. Our Cantonese branch had good performance last year and has been able to hold on until now." A-Zu confessed the company's situation to everyone.

"There is a way. When we worked in the factory, we liked to bring lunch boxes from home. When it was time to eat, we would sit together. You would try my food and I would try yours. We had such a good relationship. If you don't believe me, ask Xianglan." The boss suggested to A Zu based on his past experience. Xianglan nodded, "That's true. A Zu, you can really give it a try."

"That makes sense. I will borrow this precious land of our Kang family to hold a family dinner tomorrow." A-Zu was determined to give it a try.

Of course, the effect of risking everything was not good. "Why did you all bring rice?" Everyone's lunch boxes only contained rice, and the amount was only enough for themselves. A-Zu sighed and muttered to himself, "It seems that it is really difficult for the company to turn around."

After that day, A-Zu also gave up resistance and stopped trying to motivate everyone to work. Instead, he became one of the company's "lay-down" people. With everyone lying down, the Weirui Cantonese branch was finally announced to be dissolved by the head office at the end of July, and it would no longer belong to the Weirui Group from August 7. (End of this chapter)