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Lin Nan has been working in the new company for almost a month, and he began to get to know the colleagues around him slowly.

The one sitting next to Lin Nan is Brother Cool.Brother Cool also has his own name, but that name has more than a dozen letters. When his parents named him, they might just want to show off his uniqueness, without considering his feelings at all.Because the name is too long, few people can remember the spelling of his name since he was a child, so everyone simply called him Cool Brother.

Brother Ku has a bit of an anti-social personality and doesn't like to talk much.Lin Nan has been here for a month, and he hasn't spoken more than five words to him.Most of the time, Cool Brother wears headphones and listens to heavy metal rock music in silence in his own world.

Cool Guy is currently "in theory" single.He is very sure that he really can't continue to be with his ex-girlfriend, but he is afraid of breaking up.After much deliberation, in order to have both fish and bear's paw, I invented an AI that can chat with me.This AI collects the history of the two people's acquaintance, Ku Ge's mantra and various characteristics of his ex-girlfriend, and can replace Ku Ge to call and text his ex-girlfriend by himself.So far, apart from the inability to see each other often, the ex-girlfriend has not found any abnormalities.Brother Ku is complacent, thinking that his AI has basically passed the Turing test.As for the ex-girlfriend, it's a day if it can be delayed.

There is also Eric in the group, who is also Asian. Eric grew up in the United States, and he hated people calling him Banana Man the most.Although I was sent to a Chinese cram school by my parents since I was a child, after studying for a long time, I can only speak Chinese, and I can't read or write.

Eric's only hobby in this life is gossip, and he was given the nickname "theNews" News King.Although he is a code farmer by profession, he has no interest in writing code in his heart.The reason why he took this path is entirely because Eric has a pair of very motivated immigrant parents.They stipulate that Eric can only choose three professions in his life-doctor, lawyer and software engineer. Eric couldn't get into a good law school and was dizzy, so he learned about computers.

Lin Nan sometimes heard Eric crying while writing code, complaining about his parents, complaining about being born in Silicon Valley, and complaining about elite education.But as long as you tell him the three words "there is gossip", all his depression can be cured immediately.

Before Lin Nan came, Brother Ku completely ignored Eric, and Eric suffered from the fact that he had no one to share his gossip.Lin Nan's arrival was like rain after a long drought for him, he could finally find someone to gossip about!Finally he can unleash his nature!

Eric told Lin Nan the day before yesterday that according to reliable sources, the company might be acquired, and Lin Nan was asked to find another home before being laid off.Yesterday, I told Lin Nan that according to reliable sources, the company plans to move to Arizona to build a new headquarters in order to save costs, and asked Lin Nan to find another home as soon as possible.Eric's "reliable news" today is that the company intends to go public through a backdoor, and the CEO will definitely run away if he cheats, so I advise Lin Nan to find another home as soon as possible!

In addition to Matt, Eric and Cool Brother, there is only the boss of the department who can't see the end of the dragon. Since Lin Nan came to the company, he has not been seen. It is said that he has been talking to various people in various meetings. The bosses of the department battle.

Why do you want to battle?Because the internal struggle in this company is very serious.Directly opposite Lin Nan's seat is a meeting room called "Hell".All the people invited to the "Hell" meeting room are basically fired, the key cards will be degaussed immediately, their things will not be cleaned up, and they must leave on the same day.

Lin Nan has only been here for a month, and he has already seen many people walk into this conference room with sullen faces, and then come out blushing or crying.Some with a bit more temper would pour hot coffee and tea on HR's face on the spot and flip the table over.There was even one day when people from a whole department were called to the Hell Conference Room without any warning, and then they left collectively.

Eric enjoyed sitting close to Hell's conference room so he could stay up to date with the latest company gossip.Lin Nan felt that sitting here and watching all kinds of horse-catching reality shows with naked eyes every day made him very upset. He ran to ask Matt if he could change seats.

Matt reassures him that as long as the boss is still around, they won't be hurt by these office politics, and they won't have a day in hell's conference room.

Compared with Lin Nan's side, Qin Chuan's side is not easy, and it can even be said to be a dragon's pond and a tiger's den.

The morale of the colleagues who came to the group was low. It could be seen that they had a lot of doubts about the new work direction, and they did not believe that this project could be successfully launched.

More than one person has asked Qin Chuan: "What are the advantages of our company's internal chat software, which can beat Slack, the dominant software in the market?"

Qin Chuan answered the question with a question: "Then tell me, why don't you like Slack?"

Team member A: "The search ability is too bad. Every time I want to go back and look for the previous files and chat records, I can't find it."

Team member B: "Video and voice functions are limited. If you want video conferencing, you have to buy other software."

Team member C: "Slack claims that it can replace Email forever. Although Email is less used now, why do people still use Email?"

Team member D: "When I open Slack every day, there are 100+ messages. It's just bombing. I don't even want to click on it, let alone find the key points."

Qin Chuan: "You are all right. These are the directions of your work this quarter."

Team members: "..."

There are three groups in the cloud department of the big factory, and they are also making similar products.They heard that Qin Chuan's side had sprung up suddenly, and they chose the same direction, so they came to spy on the military situation one after another.

Although the managers of these three groups usually fight with blushes, but now they encounter a common enemy, they decided to temporarily truce and unanimously speak out.

They have adopted the strategy of "respect first and then soldiers".

The supervisors of these three groups first arranged a daily meeting with Qin Chuan, the main purpose of which was to discuss which group had greater advantages, more concentrated resources, and a higher possibility of occurrence.The meeting was both official and polite on the surface, but the real purpose was to dissuade Qin Chuan from leaving.

Of course, Qin Chuan didn't like this. He went to this meeting twice and never went again.

The supervisors of the three groups saw that Qin Chuan released their pigeons, and the bones were still quite hard, so they slapped the table and reported Qin Chuan to Patrick, the director of the cloud.

Patrick naturally does not want Qin Chuan to take this piece of fat away, but he needs to maintain superficial justice and advocate a corporate culture that encourages "peaceful competition".He convened the three groups and the Qin Chuan group, and said that he would give all of them two quarters to make a demo, and then take turns to test it within the company, and whoever had better data would use it. this struggle.

Now these 4 groups are all working hard, and they want to see the results in 6 months.