Chapter 891: Learned a Dragon-Slaying Skill
The assistant thought for a moment and said, "It's not that there aren't any opportunities at all, but there are very few. The design department has the most people in the company; after all, it's the main department.
The technical department also sends people out every year, and almost every time they go out for training, some people decide to stay and work locally.”
Fang Dongmei continued to ask questions when the human resources manager came in and began to announce the job assignments.
"COLLIN currently has more than 300 designers, divided into three design departments: children's wear, women's wear and men's wear."
Wang Li pushed her glasses and said, "Each design department is divided into a varying number of design studios, totaling forty-six design teams.
As an intern designer assistant, you will first follow the company's assignments. If there are design directions you are good at, you can submit an application later for adjustment."
Fang Dongmei looked at the employment form handed to her and found out that she was assigned to the third design studio of the second department of women's wear design.
The twenty or so people who joined the company at the same time as her were all disbanded and assigned to different design studios.
"COLLIN company actually has so many designers." I sighed softly.
Luo Yong said nonchalantly, "COLLIN has been developing quite well in recent years. It is said that they can launch more than 2,000 new models a year, and there are more than 3,000 stores nationwide.
It's supposedly very profitable, so I don't understand why they're still doing that kind of illegal business behind the scenes."
On the screen, the HR manager was still giving his final remarks to the new employees, "Since the company has so many employees, and to prevent different design studios from copying and imitating each other's designs, each floor has its own access control system.
That is to say, if you are a staff member on the fourth floor, you cannot enter other floors unless you have special authorization. There is not much communication between the various design studios in the same department, and team-building activities are also organized separately.
This is also because the company considers that designers often don’t like too many social activities and are often socially anxious. We hope that the company’s atmosphere can make everyone feel comfortable.”
In the monitoring room, Lao Wen stroked his chin and analyzed, "They deliberately separated the newcomers to reduce communication between them. That way, even if someone goes missing or feels unusual, they won't be able to communicate with the newcomers, and even other colleagues won't notice anything unusual."
After the assignment was completed, the design studios that were assigned new people arranged personnel to pick up the people they were assigned to.
The girl who came to lead Fang Dongmei was a round-faced girl. Her name tag said "Women's Wear Department 2, Room 3". Her name was Li Xiaofan.
Li Xiaofan was quite enthusiastic. As they walked, he introduced Fang Dongmei, "We now have one design director, three designers, six assistant designers in Design Studio 3. Including you, there are eleven people in total."
"So every designer has an assistant, right?"
"Well, yes. In our company, as long as you are promoted to designer, you will be assigned an assistant. The design director has three assistants." Li Xiaofan answered patiently.
"Who will I be assisting when I go there? Will I choose my own teacher?"
Xiao Li laughed out loud. "How can you choose your own teacher right after joining the company? According to the rules of this industry, newcomers, regardless of where they graduated from, start as public assistants."
"Public assistant? Be an assistant to everyone?" Fang Dongmei continued to ask.
"Yes," Li Xiaofan said with a sly smile, "I was the last public assistant in our department. I served for a full year and now I'm Professor Zheng's assistant."
She paused, then continued, "That's the rule in the company. If you encounter a difficult designer, you might get a little angry occasionally. Just bear with it. It'll only take a year at most, and then you'll be promoted."
It seems there is still workplace bullying~
Fang Dongmei pretended to be a little worried, "Are there any difficult people in our design studio?"
Li Xiaofan gave her a sympathetic look and said, "It's not that bad actually. Besides, you got in through a competition. You might be going out for training in a few months."
Speaking of this, Fang Dongmei perked up again. "I heard from the HR staff that those who go out for training have the opportunity to stay and develop abroad, and the salary is much higher than in China. Has anyone in our design studio been there?"
Li Xiaofan's expression was a little strange. "Yes, I did..." She hesitated to speak. Fang Dongmei quickly asked, "Then what? Didn't you get to stay?"
Li Xiaofan lowered his voice and said, "Last year, a new employee arrived and left for Eastern Europe within two months. Later, I heard that she stayed at the branch office there. We all envied her. But..."
"But what?"
"Half a year later, her family came to the company and said she hadn't even gone home for the Spring Festival. The company explained to her family that there are no Spring Festival holidays abroad, and the company couldn't control how often employees could go home.
That's true, but it's been over a year now, and I heard she hasn't come back, and she only updates her Moments once in a while."
Then Li Xiaofan changed the subject, as if trying to convince her, "But my family is in the northwest, and I only go back once a year. If I go abroad, the round-trip cost is so high, so it's normal not to go home for a year."
The two chatted as they arrived at the twelfth floor. When the elevator door opened, they saw a long and narrow white corridor with offices separated by frosted glass on both sides. The doorplates were marked with Room 1, Room 2, Room 3 and Room 4.
It seems there are four design studios on this floor.
Fang Dongmei lived in Room 3. When she pushed the door open, she was greeted by eight L-shaped desks.
Li Xiaofan briefly introduced Fang Dongmei to everyone. A few faces popped out from behind the computer screen, smiled at Fang Dongmei in a fairly friendly manner, and then quickly retracted.
It turns out to be social phobia!
"This is your workstation. Get familiar with the environment first. The bathroom is on the other side of the elevator, and the tea room is next to the bathroom." Li Xiaofan instructed her, then as if he had accomplished something big, he exhaled and said, "Okay, I'm going back to my workstation to work.
If you have any questions, you can ask me."
Fang Dongmei sat down at her workstation, which was in the corner, right next to the printer. The wall to the right was covered with memo notes, and it was obvious that the person sitting here was a handyman.
"Fortunately, odd jobs are the easiest. I'm just worried about asking her to do something too professional. If I ask her to draw a design, it would be too easy to reveal her identity."
Luo Yong seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, leaning back with his hands on his head.
Fang Dongmei seemed very happy with this arrangement. I could even hear her humming a song out of tune with a quite brisk tempo.
Now I am the only one who feels inexplicably lost, as if I have learned a lot of dragon-slaying skills but have nowhere to use them.
It's been my fourth day working here, and apart from eating snacks and looking at the screen, it seems like I haven't done anything.
Oh, it seems a bit boring, so I went to get another bag of potato chips and ate while looking at the screen.
"Are you a graduate of University A?" A middle-aged female voice sounded beside him.
Fang Dongmei turned her head and saw a middle-aged woman who looked a bit like Nun Miejue, looking down at Fang Dongmei. The name tag on her chest read Zheng Guanqian, Design Director of the Third Department.
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