Chu Tian smiled and said, "Manager Liu, you can just say it directly. You don't have to treat me as your boss now, just treat me as an ordinary friend."
Liu Qiping exhaled and said, "Okay, since you asked me, I'll just tell you something."
Chu Tian gestured for him to say whatever he wanted.
Liu Qiping spoke slowly, "I think a boss should act like a boss, and an employee should act like an employee!"
"Well, go on."
Liu Qiping continued, "I feel like you, Manager Zuo, and Manager Chu are all too kind and gentle to your employees. This is really not good. For the sake of your future, you can't always be so kind to your employees. You need to balance kindness with authority."
Chu Tian was puzzled. "I understand the importance of combining kindness and authority, but why do you say that being good to employees is actually bad?"
Liu Qiping glanced at Chu Tian in surprise, but still answered, "Why? Because you're too nice to them. Having a good temper isn't a good thing."
"It's inevitable to make mistakes at work, and when you make mistakes you'll be criticized and even punished. This is very common. However, if you're too nice to them and don't have a bad temper, over time they'll feel like they don't have to worry about making mistakes, because you won't do anything to them anyway. If this goes on for a long time, then..."
At this point, Liu Qiping knew he should shut up, but he remembered Chu Tian's kindness, so after thinking about it, he continued, "Boss, I know that you, Manager Chu, and Manager Zuo all want to be friendly, generous, and tolerant, and get along with employees as friends. You won't be arrogant, and you'll be especially gentle and easy to get along with."
"But as your company grows, you can no longer be friends with your employees. You can't give them the impression that you're weak and easygoing."
"Boss, I think there are three very important things when a boss treats his employees: one is 'degree', one is 'principles', and the other is 'sincerity'. As long as you grasp these three points, most employees will be full of trust, support, and gratitude towards you and the company..."
Taking a deep breath, Liu Qiping watched Chu Tian lower his head and fall silent. After a moment of thought, he added, "In short, don't be stingy with encouragement when things are done right, and punish when things are done wrong. Make it clear to employees that they will have to pay the price for doing something wrong."
"In short, I think it's possible to be both ruthless and compassionate at the same time."
Chu Tian nodded, raised his head and looked at Liu Qiping, smiled faintly, "I understand, I will have a good talk with the two managers later."
Liu Qiping stood up and said, "Then I'll go out first."
"Well, go ahead."
Watching Liu Qiping leave, Chu Tian lowered his head and began to think. He felt that he was too arrogant now, taking people and things for granted. He always felt that as long as he treated them as friends, then he could...
He completely forgot that in his previous life, in various forums, many workers talked about the two-faced people and various pitfalls in the workplace.
If Liu Qiping hadn't reminded him today, he probably would never have realized how big a problem there was with his current behavior and attitude towards employees.
Chu Tian sighed and thought to himself that he was really relaxed. He believed what Liu Qiping said. After all, Liu Qiping had worked for a wealthy businessman who had been rich for generations. He must have seen a lot of how his former boss treated his employees.
Correcting mistakes as soon as they are discovered is a good quality of Chu Tian. So when he realized that he had been doing something wrong for a long time, he found a suitable time to have an in-depth discussion with Zuo Zhuang and Chu Min, reflecting on their respective shortcomings and how they should correct them in the future.
Zuo Zhuang thought of something and quickly said loudly, "Brother Tian, I didn't think of it until you mentioned it. Now that you mentioned it, I think of it now."
"At the beginning of this month, Li Shugen, a worker with particularly good skills, told me that he wanted to find a job for his wife. I was thinking, aren't there always those three people cooking in the kitchen?"
"Wang Qiang's sister-in-law told me twice that they were short-staffed, so they simply arranged for his wife to come in. At first, she saw that the food she cooked every night was not finished, so she asked me if she could take some home to feed the children. I thought it was hot now, and I was afraid that if I left it until the next day, it would go bad and make someone else sick."
"So I agreed!"
Chu Tian nodded, "Yeah, so what?"
Zuo Zhuang said angrily, "Just take the leftovers back. It's not much anyway. But she's getting more and more excessive. For several days in a row, she has been serving the leftovers before the workers get their meals..."
“It’s all meat…”
Chu Min was stunned for a moment, "How did you know?"
Zuo Zhuang took a sip of water and continued, "It was a coincidence. I came back that day just in time for dinner. I was so hungry that I thought I'd just eat here. But when I walked into the kitchen, I saw that there wasn't much good meat in the fried chicken. It was just potatoes, chili peppers and so on. When I asked Wang Qiang's wife about it, she looked bewildered and said it was impossible. She fried the chicken herself, so how could there be no chicken..."
"Finally, I found a basin of carefully selected chicken in the basket that Li Shugen's wife brought every day. It was all meat without any vegetables. There were three chickens in total. I guess she probably had a whole one in her basin alone!"
Chu Tian frowned, "So how did you deal with it in the end?"
Zuo Zhuang scratched his head awkwardly. "Um, Brother Tian, didn't you say earlier that it would be better to have more employees?"
"I, I wanted to say something to her, but before I could say anything, she burst into tears and said that her children hadn't eaten meat in years, and she was so soft-hearted that..."
Chu Min was so angry that he stood up and cursed, "Bullshit, Chu Tian always gives meat to workers during festivals, you know that! How could he not have eaten meat in several years?"
"Even if she didn't take the meat home, her husband's monthly salary of 40 or 50 yuan can't even afford to buy a pound of meat? Isn't this fucking bullshit?"
"This is clearly because they are bullying you because they think you are easy to talk to. You..."
Chu Tian interrupted the furious Chu Min, "Second brother, stop scolding Zuo Zhuang. He is young and has grown up in a good family. It is normal that he has never seen such a shameless woman."
After he finished speaking, he turned to look at Zuo Zhuang, who looked embarrassed. "Zuo Zhuang, aren't you going to the machinery factory site soon? Brother Wang Qiang and Li Shugen, the man of that woman you mentioned, are both at the site over there these days. Ask them both to come back."
Zuo Zhuang nodded, "Yeah, I understand."
Chu Tian's expression was not very good at this moment. He knew that there would be no fish in clear water, so he never stopped some workers from taking advantage of others and occasionally taking leftover food home. But you can't go too far, right?
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