To Lin Tian's surprise, Director Xin, who behaved very similarly to Liu Haizhong, was quite quiet during the few days he came. He only met with a few store managers, and everything else was quite normal.
Perhaps the store manager Li Mancang is the one who gives Lin Tian the most headache. He spends 8 hours checking the account book out of 10 hours a day, and he doesn't know what the manager thinks. Anyway, let him be right, as long as it doesn't affect Lin Tian's slacking off.
But Lin Tian found that he was happy too soon. In fact, the grocery stores during this period still had abundant supplies, and the rationed supplies had not yet begun to be limited like in the following years. Moreover, the grocery store's purchases were actually just handing over work to the higher authorities, not real purchases. The occasional small purchases were also very small, just to enrich the supplies, just like when Lin Tian helped with purchasing at the beginning and went to the countryside to buy a batch of eggs.
Suddenly one morning, Lin Tian found that he was happy too early.
The fifteenth day passed peacefully. When Lin Tian arrived at the store early the next morning, he found that the managers of several other stores had also arrived and were chatting noisily in the store.
After a while, Director Xin came out from the inner room and handed out a piece of paper to each person. Lin Tian sat behind the counter, poured a cup of hot water, and looked at the group of people in front.
"Okay, everyone, please be quiet. I recently looked at the situation in each store and found that our materials and work are very undersaturated. How can we better build a new society like this? So I applied to my superiors and from now on, each store must complete the required purchasing quota every month based on the size of the store. The document I just sent to everyone is the indicator that needs to be completed." Director Xin said, standing in front of the crowd.
Wow! Everyone started talking about it. This was not just a matter of adding a little more workload, it was like causing a big trouble for everyone.
"Director Xin, what do you mean? Why didn't you discuss this with everyone when you did all this? Do you think our work is not saturated or not? You've only been here for a few days." A woman who was obviously older didn't give him any face and went straight to him.
"This is the decision made by our superiors. You just need to execute it. Do our superiors have to discuss any decision with you?" Director Xin said angrily.
"Whoever wants to do it can do it. I can't fulfill this kind of order. I'm leaving. I'm going to report to my superiors!" The elderly woman slammed the door and left.
"Yes, whoever wants to do it can do it! Let's go and react."
A total of 6 store managers came, and 5 of them left. It's really hard to say what's going on in Beijing at this time. Even though you are a leader, it's hard to say who has a stronger background. If you are a leader and I don't listen to you, you can't do anything to me.
The room suddenly became quiet. Only Li Mancang and a young man who looked not very old were left. Lin Tian saw that this man looked familiar. He was the manager of a small shop farthest away. He was the only one in the shop, and it was said that the shop was less than 10 square meters in size.
Director Xin was in a bit of a dilemma now. Lin Tian secretly glanced at the document they left behind. If it was according to what was written in the document, a shop like Lin Tian's with only two people would have to complete a purchasing task of 200 yuan every month. Although it is not a lot, prices are cheap in this era. It is difficult to get unplanned materials, and it would be difficult to get them in the countryside.
How much stuff can you buy with 200 yuan? Depending on the quality of rice, you can buy 1,000-1,500 kilograms, more than 100 kilograms of pork, and 1,000 to 2,000 kilograms of fruit. Unplanned supplies in this era were hard to come by, especially for a department under the Commercial Bureau, such as a grocery store. There was nothing to exchange, and most of it was allocated by others according to the plan.
So people had a big reaction.
"Dismiss...dismiss the meeting." Director Xin was so angry that he was speechless. He originally thought that he should achieve some results right after taking office, but he did not expect that the people below would use their connections to get unplanned materials to increase the performance of the leaders. It is not beneficial at all. Whichever store manager agrees to it, that store will be expecting the people below to curse at him.
"Director, we promise to complete it." Li Mancang said loudly. But he didn't notice that the young man next to him looked at him with a mentally retarded look and then left.
Director Xin ignored Li Mancang and went straight into the house.
"Xiao Lin, the task has been issued, and we must work hard to complete it." Li Mancang took the documents and came behind the counter and stood next to Lin Tian and said.
Lin Tian drank a sip of water without even raising his head, and said with certainty, "The store manager will definitely be able to complete it!"
"I'm the store manager, you must be the one to do the purchasing." Li Mancang said righteously.
"Oh, where are you going?" Lin Tian said lazily, which made Li Mancang even angrier.
"Let's go to the countryside first!" Li Mancang said angrily.
"Go to the countryside, sure." Lin Tian said nonchalantly.
"That's settled then. You go to the countryside tomorrow. I think I can handle the store by myself." Li Mancang made the final decision.
"There is no car, manager. If there is no tricycle, you can get a bicycle first." Lin Tian put down the enamel cup and looked at Li Mancang with burning eyes.
"Ah, this...car, why don't you buy one first?" Li Mancang said uncertainly.
Lin Tian raised his head and looked at him as if he were a fool.
"Why don't you just walk there?" Li Mancang had a lot of bad ideas.
"It's not impossible," Lin Tian said, smiling as if he was playing with a fool. "But, store manager, the doctor said that I have low blood sugar and can't work hard for a long time. How about you give me some sugar and food coupons?"
"Comrade, why do you have so many questions?" Li Mancang said a little angrily.
"Or, manager, why don't you buy a bike? Then you can ride it to the countryside and there won't be any problems." Lin Tian asked back.
Now Li Mancang remained silent for a long time.
"Why don't you ask if there's any connection, from which factory we can order some unplanned supplies."
Lin Tianle was happy. This Li Mancang was quite creative.
"Okay, manager. My mother works in a textile factory. I heard that their director likes to eat roast duck. How about you treat us to a meal and we can go ask him. They have a pretty good relationship with him." Lin Tian said with a smile.
"This..." Li Mancang grunted for a long time and finally stopped talking.
"Well, let's wait and see."
Lin Tian thought to himself, you have a nice dream, but there are no good things waiting for you.
This problem was not just happening to Li Mancang, it seemed like it had never happened in the entire store. Lin Tian also discovered that the store managers who came to settle accounts a few days ago didn't even say hello to Director Xin when they saw him.
Director Xin had no place to show off, so he could only say to Lin Tian every day when he came to the store, "Xiao Lin, when you see the leader coming, don't you know to open the door?"
Lin Tian just responded with some "hmm" and "ah" sounds, thinking to himself, "You go and have fun on your own and see what you can do."
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