Two days later, a tearful letter from the salesperson accusing Lashou.com was posted on Weibo.
The letter stated that Lashou.com had poached new merchants from Koubei.com at high prices, and then reduced the subsidies for existing merchants. The existing merchants went to Koubei.com to protest, but to no avail, which led to their departure in anger.
My task was to bring these long-time merchants back to Lashou.com, which was inherently difficult. The other party's boss had already been wronged and was speaking rudely. I was young and hot-blooded, which led to the conflict.
I acknowledge that the fight was my fault, and I have deeply reflected on it. I will definitely be more careful in the future.
Subsequently, Lashou.com came to the detention center and threatened that he had to apologize to the other party's merchant and take photos so that Lashou could do public relations, otherwise he would be fired.
As a junior salesperson, I had no choice but to agree to the terms of a large company like Lashou.
But who would have thought that after the other party posted a photo of himself bowing and apologizing, they still fired him and put all the blame on him.
This not only cost me my current job, but also made me unemployable in the industry. Left with no other choice, I had to speak out to clear my name.
The entire letter was written with heartfelt sincerity, immediately allowing the reader to empathize with the image of this helpless, struggling worker in a big city, who was ultimately deceived and abandoned by a large company as a sacrifice.
The Lashou.com incident was already generating a lot of buzz, and although Lashou was trying its best to control the comments, for some reason, this letter went straight to the top of Weibo's trending topics in less than half an hour after it was sent out.
Immediately afterwards, online comments began to sympathize with this working man and condemn Lashou.com, saying that Wu Bo was a capitalist disguised as an entrepreneur, a new-era bloodsucker, and should be arrested and locked up in a cowshed.
Meanwhile, many people claiming to be employees of Lashou.com began to speak out, recounting the unfair treatment they had received.
Although they were all minor things, such as being frequently asked to work overtime by the boss, having to get up and revise PPTs even when sick at home, and having to accompany the beautiful boss on business trips...
The crisis management efforts that Lashou.com put in over the past few days have instantly become worthless, a complete waste.
Once the momentum of public opinion took hold, it became unstoppable, gradually spreading from Lashou.com to other major internet companies.
The first to be affected is Xingchen Technology. Some people have come forward to say how inhumane Xingchen Technology's CEO, Lin Chen, is. Although the company's break room offers unlimited free tea, drinks, and snacks, there is no coffee. Does he even know how important coffee is to a working person? It's practically a second life!
Netizens were subsequently stunned.
Are you sure you didn't come to Versailles?
"Your company even has a break room? And not only does it have one, but it also offers unlimited free tea and snacks?"
"Do you know that our company doesn't even have a break room? They don't even let us boil water in kettles. We have to buy water from the supermarket every day! The difference is huge..."
"Hey, upstairs, stop talking. Some colleagues at our company complained about the lack of a break room, so our boss put a vending machine in the stairwell. [Are you being polite?]"
"Vending machines? Your boss is ruthless, making money off you even when you're just drinking water. Is this some kind of salary recovery plan?"
Next, the most shocking scene appeared.
Lin Chen commented on this Weibo post.
"Arrange it immediately."
Seeing Lin Chen's reply, netizens became even more restless and began to criticize their own companies. Among them, Lashou.com was undoubtedly the one that was criticized the most.
Unfortunately, this whole thing started because of Lashou.com.
If it weren't for Lashou.com, this person from Xingchen Technology wouldn't have posted on Weibo about Versailles, Lin Chen wouldn't have replied, I wouldn't have known that other companies not only have good benefits but also such good bosses, and I wouldn't be so upset.
Hmph, trash Lashou.com, uninstalled.
Mr. Lin, a concerned netizen, sat in his office, looking at the online opinions, and said to Zhang Yiming with satisfaction.
"Mr. Zhang, these employees who specialize in public opinion management are really capable. Where did you recruit them?"
"Hehe, many of them were poached from UC News, and a few were poached from gossip magazines."
"Tsk tsk tsk, this is truly a perfect match for one's major."
However, Lin Chen also realized the importance of Weibo. To wage a war of public opinion, having your own platform is the most important thing. Otherwise, buying trending topics every time would cost a lot of money.
So, Lin Chen looked at Zhang Yiming and said.
"Mr. Zhang, I've decided to create a short video platform."
What is a short video platform?
"You can think of it as a video version of Weibo. Each video is only about ten to fifteen seconds long, which is about the same as reading a Weibo post, making full use of people's fragmented time in life."
At the same time, based on user preferences, big data algorithms push different video content to different people, making it impossible to stop.
"That sounds great! If such software existed, I would definitely try it. What about our video content?"
"First, find some female streamers on Panda TV and film some short dance videos with the same catchy music. It would be best if they wore less clothing, were more sexy, and hotter... cough cough, um, you know what I mean."
"Mr. Lin, seeing the drool at the corner of your mouth, I pretty much understand."
"Once we have a large user base, we will launch a series of creative reward competitions to guide users to become video publishers and encourage more people to participate in shooting to expand our content library."
"I think I understand now. It's about using users to support other users, but what about data usage? This kind of application must consume a lot of data."
"Have you forgotten about the Xingdong Card and Chenxin Card that we cooperated with China Mobile and China Telecom on? We can just ask them to add this application to the targeted data cards later."
"Perfect, so what's the name of this app?"
Lin Chen didn't answer but asked a question instead.
"Mr. Zhang, why don't you think of a name?"
Zhang Yiming thought for a moment and said, "How about calling it... Douyin!"
At the same time, job applications flooded the HR department of Xingchen Technology.
Numerous potential merchants also contacted Meituan's sales representatives across the country.
Wang Xing selected the best parts for Meituan to keep, and the rest were given to Koubei.com through a signed agreement on strategic cooperation between Meituan and Koubei.com.
The person in charge of Koubei.com looked at the ever-increasing market share data in the backend and was very puzzled.
I haven't heard anything big from Meituan lately, so how come their market share is increasing so rapidly?
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