Smiling Monkey (Office Story)

Author: Li Jiang
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: The unit is like a tree covered with monkeys. Looking up, you see nothing but butts; looking down, you see nothing but smiling faces; looking left and right, you see nothing but informants. Everyone wants to climb a few branches higher to see more smiling faces. In a certain department, there are five people: the fat director, Ma Erhu, Big Old Liu, Wang Xiaocong, and a male colleague. The fifth is a newly arrived female college student, Simin. In the entire organization, this department is considered relatively idle—present or absent, it makes little difference. Except for the fat director, everyone else is a senior clerk. The former deputy section head was promoted to a section head in another department, leaving the position temporarily vacant. The director of the division in charge is quite the opposite of the fat director—he's a slim, energetic man in his fifties, with a young heart. He has a mistress in the adjacent department, named Wang Meili. These few people stage a full-blown drama of joy and sorrow in the office, giving rise to countless absurd and dull stories.