Chapter 1901 Impatience

Silicon Valley.

Although it was late at night, the NEXTDOOR headquarters park, like other parks here, was still lit everywhere.

Well, on the surface, the United States is a country where all companies do not work overtime.

Like in China, whether it is New Year's Eve or 11:00 p.m., the boss gives an order and many people have to go to the company obediently. Then, whether it is a meeting or overtime, you have to do it and express your honor.

But in the United States, if the boss does this, HR must first stand up and express opposition.

If the boss takes out the boss's style and says that he will ignore his reminder, I want to do this, then many people he asked to notify may also ignore his notification.

The American people, who are happy and a little lazy, are unwilling to run to the company during their rest time, and are even more unwilling to get up from bed at four or five in the morning at your call.

However, the routine of capital is the deepest routine in the world.

Silicon Valley's flexible working hours and unlimited paid vacations are the concrete manifestation of this routine.

Flexible working hours mean that there is no set time for going to and from get off work. You can come and go at any time you want, and you can work at any time you want, and you can not work if you don't want to work.

Unlimited paid vacation is just as its name suggests. There is no set time for vacation. You can take vacation at any time as long as you want to take vacation. You don't need to report to HR or count the time.

This is simply better than you can imagine. It is a situation that only appears in the communist era, isn't it?

But in fact, no one dares to do that.

Do you want to be promoted, do you want to get a raise, do you want to stand out? Then, for the same task, you have to complete it as quickly as possible?

But unless you are a genius, you have to work hard to complete many tasks assigned to you before the deadline.

If everyone can easily complete their work before the deadline, then, with the nature of capitalists, they will definitely reduce the number of people in this project team at the beginning - that is, this situation will definitely not exist.

That is, under the routine of Silicon Valley capitalists, many coders who enjoy working whenever they want and not working whenever they don't want also work spontaneously until late at night.

Therefore, the so-called flexible working system actually has the greatest effect of avoiding a lot of trouble for the boss from the legal perspective. We all implement flexible working systems, so where does overtime come from?

As for unlimited paid vacation, it is also a beautiful vision. As long as you can accept the situation that your former subordinates become your superiors after you return from vacation, then you can indeed exercise such rights.

Therefore, compared with the routines of some domestic companies forcing overtime, the Silicon Valley routine is still more sophisticated.

In the Facebook office building, COO Sandberg came out of the tea room with a cup of coffee. This is not because she sympathizes with the secretary, but because she has been sitting for too long and needs to get up and walk around.

Looking at the office in front of her that is still brightly lit, she feels very relieved and very fortunate.

She is really a very lucky person.

Joining Google just caught up with the years when Google was rising rapidly, and joining Facebook is once again riding a rocket.

This is a company that is making rapid progress every day, just like Google in previous years. The number of users is growing every minute, and new product ideas are emerging every day...

The best thing is that Sandberg doesn't feel the problems that her classmates who are also in high positions in other companies have to face every day, such as office politics and various shirking of responsibilities.

Even better, as a company that mainly conquered the world and developed more registered users in the early stage, Facebook's business system is currently a blank sheet of paper, which allows her to freely write.

With Facebook's current high user base, Sandberg is very confident that the company will be profitable within one to two years.

After taking up such a high-level position as COO, Sandberg has higher requirements for herself. She is now overcoming her biggest problem, which is the problem of being impatient when a job is not solved.

However, as a woman, a middle-aged woman, she must consider another problem at this time, the problem of children.

Although Feng said that this was not a problem when he visited her home that day, it would be the best decision to wait until all the work at Facebook was on the right track and it was best to achieve profitability before having children. However, what would her physical condition be at that time? In addition, her husband Goodberg's wishes were also a problem.

As soon as she returned to the office, she saw her phone light up. It was a call from Goldberg. He probably wouldn't talk to her about this issue at this time!

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Cummins was also in the office at this time.

Unlike Sandberg, who had just joined Facebook and was entrusted with a lot of work to do, Cummins, who had already gotten started with the work, didn't have to work so hard at this time.

Indeed, he could usually guarantee to get off work after 5 pm. At least he didn't have the pressure of deadlines, which was praised by many Silicon Valley people as the first productivity.

He was still in the office at this time, not because of the unfavorable activities against Feng Yiping on Facebook and YouTube, but because there was no very clear progress in the acquisition of Marvel.

After Disney's rare surrender, he had several phone calls with Marvel's Palmater, but although the guy always showed interest in being acquired, and even discussed how the two companies could join forces and how to use Feng Yiping's influence to promote Marvel's "Fantastic Four" in China, when it came to key issues, the guy only cared about freedom and other things.

Cummins was really tired of playing ambiguity with such a cunning old man.

He looked at the watch and saw that another day was about to pass, and he couldn't help but get a little impatient.

If it dragged on like this, there might be some new variables. You know, there is more than one Disney in Hollywood.

But he also knew that the current stage was a stage of secretly competing with Marvel, and the competition would see who would fail first.

Although impatient, he still had to hold on.

He turned off the computer and was about to turn off the desk lamp when his phone vibrated. He saw the caller ID. It was Palmat again. He suddenly became a little excited. This person called him so late for the first time.

"Good evening, Mr. Palmat,"

"Cummins," Palmat's voice sounded a little tired, but there was a sense of ease in his tone, "I want..."

"No problem, Palmat," Cummins suppressed his excitement, "We can discuss the relevant issues the day after tomorrow,"

"Well, see you the day after tomorrow," he hung up the phone, threw down his briefcase, rolled up his sleeves, and trotted to the office of the M&A team.

His arrival did not attract everyone's attention.

The office of the M&A team was still filled with a tense atmosphere at this time.

If Palmat had already expressed a clear refusal, everyone could have a good rest, but Palmat had been flirting with him recently, in case Palmat suddenly gave in tomorrow. Many people were also in the office at this time, and were still repeatedly perfecting various plans.

"Everyone," Cummins clapped his hands a few times. Seeing that everyone finally turned their eyes, Cummins said loudly, "Just now, we received that call,"

"Yeah!" Instantly, cheers resounded throughout the building, and some flying papers and documents could be seen in the air.

Many people hugged the people around them excitedly. Finally, once again, we will usher in victory!

Cummins and several leaders of the team hugged each other heavily, "Okay, now everyone put down the things on hand and go home to rest early. Tomorrow afternoon, we will set off for New York to complete this project and welcome a new member to join,"

"Suddenly I feel so hungry," someone said.

"Now that you mention it, I think so too," Cummins touched his stomach, "Let's go, I'll treat everyone to dinner,"

"Yeah," a group of people cheered again.

But they were too happy too early.

"I heard that there is a restaurant in the park that serves Chinese dumplings in the evening?"

"Tsk!" His words attracted everyone's boos. Do you need to treat us to eat in the park restaurant?

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Cummins, who got the good news, was no longer impatient, but in another park in Silicon Valley, another big boss who was also in the office at the time could not help but get impatient.

ps: The routines of capitalists are really the deepest. For example, in the end, we will find that all those shopping seasons that say they will save us money are actually making us spend more money.

Is there anyone who really wants to chop off his hand now?