Rebirth: Let's Talk About 1984

According to reports, this story begins at an entirely unscientific moment: Zhou Ziye, a designer who rose from creating counterfeit mobile phones, suddenly time-traveled back to the year 1984.

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Chapter 45 Two Heads of One Family

Many leaders present believed that such small products were a byproduct of the factory's engineers' research and development of other things, since some equipment requires electronic products.

Factory Director Li's control of the pace of the operation slowed down again.

"This thing was developed by a young man named Xing Baohua. Oh, right. He fixed the computers in the computer room before, and he was the main employee of the convenience appliance repair department in the logistics department. Everyone remembers him, right?" Director Li explained, then looked at the faces of the people around him.

This shocked everyone around them even more.

Xing Baohua and the others knew that someone had tried to fire him, but the factory director had saved him.

Does this thing even have anything to do with appliance repair? Did someone repair an electronic calculator and have him copy it? Does the factory manager want to transfer this kid to the R&D department as a technician? Or is he going to give him a nominal position as a reward? If it's a nominal position, the Party Committee has more options.

Party officials are all considering what position to assign to Xing Baohua, and they are also regretting not actively contacting this comrade.

The factory director asked the Party committee to give him some guidance last time, but he didn't take it seriously. Now he's starting to regret it.

Factory Director Li said, "The purpose of today's meeting is twofold: first, to appoint the two directors of Workshop 5; and second, to discuss third-quarter sales and last year's payment collection..."

The other issues were all decision-making matters, but the personnel issue was the only one that caught the attention of the other four leaders.

The positions of director and deputy director are somewhat attractive, especially when it comes to recommending one's own people for the position.

If the director or factory manager is promoted, then the deputy director will be temporarily sidelined, and each leader will have a nominee. Whether the nominee can be promoted depends on the balance among the leaders.

None of them expected that the factory director would have to handle everything. Bao Hua was nominated as the director of the fifth workshop. Hou Liwei was nominated as the first deputy director, and the second deputy director was put on hold for now.

The workshop currently consists of fifty full-time workers, working in three shifts, with a shift leader and deputy shift leader for each shift.

Only then did everyone understand that the positions of deputy director, a few team leaders, and some permanent employees were what they wanted. The factory director only wanted the positions of director and deputy director.

While the concessions are substantial, is it appropriate to promote Xing Baohua, given his age and the fact that his father is also a director?

The fact that one department has two directors is a remarkable story, but who would accept it?

Su Ya, who was recording the events, was stunned, especially when she heard that Xing Baohua had been nominated to be the director. Her hands trembled, and she didn't know whether she was happy or scared.

Another thing I heard is that Hou Liwei is also going there to be a deputy director? What would Director Li want him to do there? Go fight?

Thinking about their situation, Su Ya felt scared.

They work together every day, how could they not have sparks? No, how could they not have conflicts?

While Suya was lost in thought, she heard someone object.

The one who objected was the deputy secretary of the Party Committee. His reason was that Xing Baohua was too young and could not command respect. He argued that a more stable and experienced manager should take the lead, and Xing Baohua could serve as his deputy and learn from his experience.

That makes sense. Xing Baohua is only 19 years old. He's still a kid, his mind is not yet settled. Can he really take on a big responsibility?

There needs to be a transition period.

"Xing Baohua is young, but he has youthful energy. He was able to develop a calculator, which shows his ability. Management can be handed over to the second deputy director, and someone with management experience can be found to take over."

This statement seemed to be the final word.

There's no room for argument. If they keep bringing up Xing Baohua's youth or something, then they won't have a chance to share in the subsequent personnel arrangements.

The benefits have been plentiful. Xing Baohua was practically handpicked and promoted by the factory director. If the director hadn't made a one-year agreement with Xing Baohua, he wouldn't have taken such a big risk to promote him.

He was probably the only person who truly understood Xing Baohua.

This child has ideas that are beyond his years. When others don't understand them, he's already doing them. Only when he achieves results do others realize it. This is a kind of transcendence.

Initially, we wanted to keep him at the factory and train him intensively, but unfortunately, he looked down on big factories and preferred to run his own small factory rather than stay.

From what I observed, Xing Baohua is quite knowledgeable and also quite talkative.

You can even see his ambition. A person with ambition cannot be kept, nor should they be kept.

Only if he is put in charge of the fifth workshop will he be able to put his best effort into producing products. Otherwise, he will start to slack off again.

Aren't there plenty of lazy, irresponsible people in the factory?

Some people like to take advantage of loopholes. As long as the government can still pay them a salary, these people won't take their jobs seriously.

With the chief official decided, the remaining task was for the personnel department to draft the list, which Director Li didn't need to worry about.

A vote was held by show of hands, and the youngest director and deputy director in the factory's history were chosen.

Why is Hou Liwei not opposed by anyone?

Su Ya didn't even know how she got out of the meeting room. As for the leaders' decision-making plans afterward, she didn't really listen to them.

When I returned to the office, Xing Baohua was nowhere to be found.

Xing Baohua was called over by someone in the office to hang out, and the person asked Xing Baohua why his TV often couldn't receive a signal.

Xing Baohua told him that the first possibility was that the TV antenna was not receiving properly and that the antenna might need to be replaced.

The second possibility is that the analog signal receiving module may be faulty. This needs to be replaced.

If you ask Xing Baohua if he can repair it, Xing Baohua will certainly say yes, but ask if you can get the parts.

Actually, what they meant was whether it could be repaired without replacing parts.

Xing Baohua didn't have time to fix his antenna.

Actually, there are several other factors that can cause poor signal, but Xing Baohua was too lazy to explain them. He figured he'd just take the phone to him for repairs, and he'd only replace parts. That was the quickest and easiest way.

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