Chapter 31
Early this morning, Lin Gui got up early and went to the pet snack exhibition. Today's activities were just meetings and lectures to learn new knowledge.
Lin Gui brought a sample of each of those snacks to share with others when she has the chance. The main preparations for the exhibition will be delivered tomorrow. Today she is traveling light, so Lin Gui is the only one here.
After arriving at the exhibition venue, we followed the relevant instructions and went to the conference hall to officially start listening to lectures. When Lin Gui was a student, what he hated most was listening to lectures, thinking they were useless and a waste of time. But now that he is a worker, he has to listen carefully to the specific content of lectures and meetings to grasp the direction of the times.
The content of the lecture was mainly about pet food safety and the importance of food safety. Lin Gui listened very carefully at the beginning, but later he found that it was almost entirely about the importance of safety. The leader who was speaking seemed to be just reading from a script, and after listening for a long time, there was no other key point.
Looking at the people around, most of them were playing with their mobile phones. There were almost no people listening as seriously as Lin Gui, as if everyone knew what the content was. Lin Gui secretly asked a colleague next to him why no one was listening carefully to the lecture.
"This is your first time attending a lecture at this kind of exhibition. Usually, the speeches given by leaders at lectures are based on scripts written by others. The content is quite repetitive and just for the sake of formality. You see, almost no one is paying attention. There will be a meeting in the afternoon, and the speeches of important leaders at that time will be more important. You will know after coming a few times." The guy with glasses answered Lin Gui's question seriously.
"Oh, I see." This was also the first time that Lin Gui had attended a meeting of migrant workers since college. Moreover, she had not graduated yet and did not know much about this kind of formalism in the workplace.
"Hey, are you in sales or some other position? Usually, it's the little guys like us who come here to listen to lectures. The boss doesn't come until the afternoon." The guy with glasses asked again.
Could Lin Gui answer that she was the boss? Of course not, because it would make her shop look so informal. So she replied, "I'm just a management trainee. Our shop sent me to check things out."
"I see. I was wondering why you listened so attentively before. It's good that you just graduated, young and full of energy." The guy with glasses sighed.
Lin Gui smiled but didn't answer. Since the lecture was not interesting, Lin Gui didn't dare to play with her phone. She just communicated with 009 in her mind and pretended to be in a daze.
"Host, the way you do things here is amazing. Why can't you just go straight to the stage in one step?" 009 asked.
Lin Gui guessed: "Maybe it needs publicity, and these things, like food safety, are very important content, so they are emphasized on publicity." In fact, Lin Gui himself is not very clear about the specific arrangements of the activities. Maybe only the arrangers know the purpose of these arrangements.
However, by the afternoon, Lin Gui knew the significance of the meeting. Lin Gui arrived at a large conference hall on time before the meeting. This large conference hall was a bit like a classroom for large classes in a university. It was much smaller than the auditorium in the morning and there were far fewer people.
Lin Gui was one of the early ones to arrive. She glanced a few times but didn't see the guy with glasses who had talked to her in the morning. All she saw were people with more imposing manners. It seemed that what the guy with glasses said was right, the bosses all came in the afternoon.
Since the small snack brands with some fame were all established earlier, the bosses all looked a little older than Lin Gui. Sitting among them, Lin Gui looked like a little chick surrounded by a group of big roosters.
Like Lin Gui’s shop, most of the shops participating in the exhibition are brand stores with some fame. There are too few private shops like Lin Gui, and they are inconspicuous among the many famous brand stores.
But Lin Gui was confident that her shop would grow from a small chick to a giant eagle soaring in the sky, just like her. Lin Gui was suddenly full of fighting spirit.
009 looked at these imposing bosses and an idea flashed in his mind: "Host, our store was hacked by someone before. Could the mastermind be hiding among them?"
It had been a long time since this incident happened, and with Ertu Snack Shop thriving, the account's like rate had skyrocketed. Lin Gui had almost forgotten about the hacking incident before. After hearing what 009 said, it felt very likely that it was someone among them, but she just didn't know which one of them it was.
Lin Gui looked up and glanced at the bosses in the circle. Everyone seemed to be smiling and very friendly. They were worthy of being bosses. Although everyone was obviously competing with each other, there was a friendly atmosphere on the surface.
Lin Gui saw it all and learned from it, determined to become a qualified boss in the future. Unable to tell the difference between these bosses, Lin Gui gave up.
Just then, the senior leaders arrived, and the bosses welcomed them with applause. Lin Gui even spotted Aunt Ye's husband among them. It turned out that Aunt Ye's husband was the Deputy Director of the Publicity Department of Ping City. No wonder there was news about this exhibition. However, judging by his position, Aunt Ye's husband should not be the focus of this meeting.
Sitting in the center of the meeting was an old man who looked to be in his fifties or sixties. From his self-introduction, he seemed to be the head of the Animal Management Bureau. He was using this exhibition to discuss some rules regarding urban pets.
After listening to some of the content of the meeting, Lin Gui understood why the boss came in the afternoon. The meeting discussed regulations on urban pet adoption, urban pet protection, and pet food.
If you want your own store or brand to survive better, you must strictly abide by government regulations. "I've made a lot of money by attending this conference." Lin Gui thought to himself.
Things that we previously only knew about on public accounts or in the news should all be the results of discussions in these meetings. By the time the news is reported, it is too late to change them. Knowing the news earlier can help you seize opportunities.
Lin Gui carefully recorded it in the notebook he brought. This time, the boss sitting next to Lin Gui was a middle-aged man who looked very kind.
Seeing that Lin Gui was taking notes so seriously, he didn't bring a notebook with him, nor did he record any key points on his mobile phone, so he asked Lin Gui in a firm tone if she could take a photo of him after she finished writing.
To be fair, hearing his tone, Lin Gui didn't want to borrow it. They were all competitors, and the others who didn't bring notebooks were taking notes on their phones. So she politely declined: "This is my first time attending this meeting, and I'm not sure if my memory is accurate. I can show it to you, but you can't blame me for any mistakes. However, I still recommend that you take your own notes, after all, everyone grasps the key points differently."
The middle-aged man's surname is Dong, and everyone calls him Boss Dong. Since he became the boss, he has handed over all the work to his assistants. He lets his assistants do everything without asking about the situation at all. If the assistants make mistakes, he will scold them and deduct their wages.
So a few days before the exhibition, his current assistant resigned. Time was tight and he didn't have time to find another assistant, so he had to do it himself.
Seeing that Lin Gui's words hinted at a rejection, Boss Dong's expression changed immediately. He had asked Lin Gui in the first place because he saw her young age. There were other people sitting next to them, but he didn't bother any of them. He said to Lin Gui, "You are young now, and you will focus on the wrong things, so please write them down and I will carefully select them later."
The leader on the stage was still speaking. Lin Gui listened to what he said but was unwilling to argue with him. He simply ignored him, pretending he didn't exist, and continued to listen attentively to what the person on the stage said.
Seeing that Lin Gui ignored him, Boss Dong no longer had the smiling face he had before, and began to ask the middle-aged man and woman next to him about the records they had made.
The team of middle-aged men and women were not of good temper either. They had just witnessed the small conflict between Boss Dong and Lin Gui, and they were unwilling to get involved.
Moreover, she was unwilling to show others the key points she had memorized, so she decisively rejected him: "It's still not too late for you to record it yourself. Our records are messy and only we can understand them."
Boss Dong was furious when he saw that these two people had also rejected him. However, he was also afraid that making too much noise would annoy his boss, so he just held it in and turned on the recording on his phone, thinking that he would find an assistant to sort through the recording afterward. As for the previous content, he would find a chance to get a copy after it was finished.
Lin Gui carefully recorded the key points of the meeting. The more he recorded, the more surprised he was. He felt that he had learned a lot. These leaders not only explained the regulations in plain language, but also gave some vivid examples to illustrate the necessity of these regulations. From these examples, he could summarize some of the pitfalls of running a store.
These are the painful lessons left by our predecessors, which have added a lot of experience points to Lin Gui, the descendant.
When the meeting ended, Lin Gui was still reluctant to leave, but tomorrow was the day when her snack shop would be on display, so she had to hurry back while Zhou Xiao and Tang Mingcheng were still in the store arranging tasks for tomorrow's exhibition. So, a moment after the meeting ended, Lin Gui rushed out.
It was also because it was Lin Gui’s first time to participate in this type of exhibition, and he didn’t know these bosses at all, so he didn’t have to think about attending social events and chatting with these bosses.
After Boss Dong finished chatting with the other bosses he had dealings with, he went to find Lin Gui and wanted to forcefully ask to see her notes. However, Lin Gui was already on her way back to the store.
The other bosses who stayed were not so easily fooled and easily rejected Boss Dong's request for the meeting minutes.
Because he missed some key points, Boss Dong failed to seize the opportunity and suffered a lot of losses later. He blamed all the mistakes on the new assistant, which led to the assistant resigning after just one month.
Lin Gui didn't know all this. She was busy in the shop, preparing for the wonderful launch of her own snacks tomorrow.
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