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Author: Cai Guobian
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Courage is a very important quality. Pengcheng Company pays great attention to the assessment of resilience during recruitment. Now, a group of young men are waiting outside the HR office, dressed in student uniforms. Ma, a 19-year-old high school graduate, is among them, being the only one with only a vocational school diploma, while the others are mostly college graduates. When they knock on the HR office door, Manager Ding Song is sitting at his desk drinking coffee. The young men knock for a long time without a response, but they are scheduled for interviews. They are helpless and look at each other, then decide to listen through the door again, but there is no sound! So Ma bravely said, "Maybe he didn’t hear. I’ll knock again!" The other young men shrugged. "Go ahead if you want!" Ma knocked, and a furious curse came from inside. "What did he say?" Ma wasn’t sure either. "It sounded like, ‘Come in!’" another replied. So Ma turned the doorknob, and the door opened a crack. The young men all stood in the doorway. "A group of uneducated brats! I said not to bother me, do you have ears?" a furious voice came from behind the desk. The young men instinctively took a step back. "Hmm, why aren’t you saying anything? Speak up!" Ma stepped forward: "We came here as scheduled. Please forgive us. We thought you were inviting us in." "Oh? You’re here for an interview? Then you haven’t learned to wait? Get out and wait outside! Didn’t you see I’m busy?" The door slammed shut with a bang. The young men grumbled angrily and sat down on a bench. "Is this guy too arrogant?" someone said angrily. After a long time, they were finally let in. By then, Ding Song, who had been fierce earlier, seemed more compassionate. His questions were brief and to the point, and the answers should be the same. "Have you learned your lesson from what just happened?" he suddenly asked unexpectedly. The young men murmured something, looking a bit confused. "Speak up!" one replied: "Of course, you were right!" Ding Song’s expression was unreadable. He stared sharply at Ma: "What do you think?" To everyone’s surprise, Ma answered firmly: "I don’t think so!" "Oh? Then what’s your opinion?" "We weren’t trying to bother you. We just didn’t understand what you said. We thought you were inviting us in." "You probably think that, right?" "Yes, I do." "Young man, don’t you think you’re too foolish? Is your head really just for wearing hats?" Ma’s face flushed red, his teeth clenched tightly against his lower lip. The other interviewees laughed, their laughter tinged with both a sense of flattery and schadenfreude. Ding Song still asked mercilessly: "Am I wrong?" "Wrong, I will never let anyone suppress my thoughts!" "Oh? Then that’s good, this..."