Undercurrent - Who Decides Your Career Prospects - The Small People Are Your Life's Blessings

Author: Zhang Zhongfu
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Publish Date: 2006-07-01
Features: Too strong-willed modern female secretary Xia Xiaojie is a Chinese literature graduate. After graduation, she joined an import and export trading company as a secretary. You have to know that a modern female secretary isn’t just about typing, making tea, or taking meeting notes. She has to be skilled in all kinds of skills and cannot be too strong-willed. Otherwise, how can we ensure that the talented and capable boss not only commands respect but also ensures that every task is carried out promptly, correctly, and smoothly? So, many things are greatly related to the personality and social skills of the secretary. However, Xia Xiaojie was different. Perhaps because she had just graduated, she still looked like an ignorant little girl. Combined with her natural straightforwardness, she would always tell the boss the truth, whether right or wrong, and often clashed with colleagues or the boss. Since she was like this, the boss naturally didn’t like her and always assigned important tasks to another college student in the office. Watching that colleague rise step by step while she remained unchanged, Xia Xiaojie grew very anxious. She always couldn’t understand why her abilities were clearly stronger than that girl’s, yet she wasn’t given more responsibility? One day, the department head made a mistake while sending an email to a client. The client discovered it and complained to Xia Xiaojie. Xia Xiaojie immediately told the head the truth that he had made a small mistake he shouldn’t have. What Xia Xiaojie didn’t expect was that the head, instead of admitting his mistake, stubbornly shifted all the blame onto her. He deliberately shouted loudly, “You need to work more carefully in the future. You even made such a small mistake that you shouldn’t have?” Xia Xiaojie didn’t back down and raised her head, shouting loudly, “It was clearly your mistake, yet you shifted the blame onto others. I have principles in my life. If it’s not my fault, don’t even think about me admitting it!” The atmosphere in the office suddenly became very tense, and everyone held their breath, looking fearfully at the head’s livid face. The next day, the head went to the boss to complain about her. When the boss scolded her, she still argued with the boss in her usual stubborn manner, saying that the boss only listened to the head’s one-sided story and acted unfairly. She kept going until the boss couldn’t bear it anymore and had to say, “I am your boss!” However, this only made Xia Xiaojie even angrier: “You are the boss, take a look at what you’ve done. Does it look like something a boss should do? Does it look like a boss at all?” Xia Xiaojie continued to scold until the boss was defeated and surrendered. However, the next day, Xia Xiaojie was kicked out of the company. P20-21