376 Just like the first time we met
In the blink of an eye, it's summer vacation again.
Throughout the first half of the year, Fu Zhengtu arranged his work very tightly, working overtime most of the time and rarely taking a break even on weekends, all for the purpose of taking out a ten-day vacation to accompany Su Taotao back to her mother's home in City G.
Su Taotao is the same. She works overtime to make new products and put them on the market before the Dragon Boat Festival. After all the orders are sent out, she starts preparing for the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This batch of special supplies for the Dragon Boat Festival are hard candies, which are more durable in storage and transportation, and will not melt even in hot weather. In addition to the new "comic strip" on the new packaging, a few lines of Qu Yuan's poems are printed on the back.
The units that received the Dragon Boat Festival special supplies felt that the products of this affiliated sugar factory were simply works of art. Not to mention how delicious they were, each batch of candy packaging was worth collecting.
Careful people have already noticed that the children on the packaging bags are still the same two from last year. They have grown up with the sugar factory, and the pictures are similar, but the children have grown up, and their clothes and hairstyles are different. There is also that cute voice-over, which is very interesting to watch.
The children who got the packaging bags couldn't let them go. They put them away carefully and showed them off to their friends everywhere.
This show-off was so big that the children who didn't have such candy bags at home went home to make trouble for their parents.
Naturally, coconut candy is not as well-known as White Rabbit milk candy. Adults had no idea what it was and had to ask people around.
Word of mouth spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and before we knew it, we were promoting Su Taotao in disguise.
Su Taotao had foresight. The contact number that had been "lurking" on the packaging bags for so long finally came into play, and orders from all over the country came in like snowflakes.
The phone of the sales department led by Xiao Lu was almost smoked by calls, and everyone was booking Mid-Autumn Festival gifts in advance.
Not only that, state-owned supermarkets and supply and marketing cooperatives from all over the country also called to place orders.
The factory was once again in a situation where supply could not keep up with demand.
When Xiao Lu came to report the situation, his throat was about to smoke: "Sister, it's really bad, the orders are full, and we have to continue to recruit people in the next two days.
By the way, can we let Lao Gao build the production line first? Then we can start another one."
Su Taotao calmly threw the pen back into the pen holder: "Don't worry, take as many orders as you can, and turn down all the orders you can't take."
"Rejected?" Xiao Lu thought about it and realized that this was not the first time. He had rejected many orders when he was still a small workshop. "It's just a pity."
"Do you know what hunger marketing is?" Su Taotao asked.
Xiao Lu shook his head: "I don't know."
"It can also be called rare goods, similar to the ancient practice of hoarding goods and waiting for a good price to be sold. Of course, we are not intentionally creating the illusion of hunger marketing. We are really in short supply, and coincidence can achieve this effect.
In short, scarcity makes things valuable. Now every unit wants our coconut candy, but we can only supply it to some units on a first-come, first-served basis. Don’t the units that order a small amount of our coconut candy feel particularly proud?
They will think it is a great value for money and will continue to show off everywhere, doing free publicity for us. The wider the word spreads, the greater the reputation, and the more scarce the product will be.”
Xiao Lu couldn't hide his worshipful look and gave Su Taotao a thumbs up: "My sister is awesome, my dear sister!"
Su Taotao thought it was a little funny. She could only fool Xiao Lu here. In those days, supplies were scarce and no manufacturer would put effort into packaging.
She just happened to pick up this gap in the market, and the taste is really good. Eating this candy makes you feel proud, and the 80% taste becomes 120%.
When various complementary foods flooded into the market, her coconut candy had become the sentiment of a generation and was also not a problem in sales.
Now it seems that her idea was at least half successful.
As the saying goes, man proposes, God disposes. For the other half, leave it to time and God.
"By the way, I'm going to take a ten-day leave. Please keep an eye on the things at the factory." Su Taotao said.
Xiao Lu's heart skipped a beat: "Ten days? Sister Su, the factory can't do without you. It's okay if you leave for three or five days, but ten days is so long that I'm afraid I can't stand it."
Su Taotao: "We have to carry on even if we can't. Don't we still have Auntie Zhong? Zhou Shiyan is not bad either. He can be trained as a backbone. The assistants under him are not bad either. Although they can't take charge on their own, they can still handle things steadily.
As for the directors, they are also commendable, not particularly outstanding, but they won't cause any trouble either.
As for Zhang Jing'an...I'll talk to him later."
Speaking of Zhang Jing'an, Su Taotao really could not find any fault with him. The team of the Party Committee had been established, and he had done a very good job in Party Committee affairs, safety guidelines, policy implementation, and ideological education of employees... Whether it was supervision or management, or even the guarantee of safe production.
Normally, there are no obstacles in communicating and cooperating with her at work.
Often he seemed to know what Su Taotao was going to do before she finished the first half of a sentence, which made her feel that "talking to smart people is worry-free."
Especially when it comes to passing on information, when he reports his work to the organization, he always says good things, obviously in favor of the factory.
To the point that Su Taotao even felt a little guilty for having once thought that he had ulterior motives.
They are just honestly representing the organization to provide supervision and management, and there is no sign of selfish motives at all.
His mood and personality are very stable.
In short, what Su Taotao would most like to see is that he can be on the same page with the factory.
In principle, she should discuss the matter of taking leave with him.
After Xiao Lu left, Su Taotao called Zhang Jing'an.
When Zhang Jing'an heard that she wanted to take leave to visit her relatives in City G, he was unexpectedly silent.
The trajectory of everything in this life is completely different from that of the previous life.
Even if Su Taotao returns to City G, she probably won't renew her relationship with Xu Jiadong, but she also won't abandon her husband and children and never come back, right?
Zhang Jing'an was silent for too long, and Su Taotao couldn't help but shout, "Secretary Zhang?"
Zhang Jingan came to his senses:
——"I'm sorry, someone just came to report on work and I was distracted. If you have any work that needs to be handed over during your leave, please give it to me."
Su Taotao: "Okay, I'll come find you after I'm done."
--"OK."
"Do you need me to bring anything for your family?" Su Taotao asked politely.
——"No thanks, I mailed something back before the Dragon Boat Festival."
…
After hanging up the phone, it was Su Taotao's turn to be silent.
Gentle, humble, and fair, just like the first impression I had when I first met him.
Time reveals a person's true character. He is indeed a good person and a good secretary.
Maybe it was really prejudiced before.