This
picture was taken on June, 23rd, 2015. Our employees and I had a
dinner together after moving into Juxian. The weather was so great that we ate
in the yard in front of a restaurant. There are two employees missing in this
picture. One went back to Hong Kong, and the other went to Yiwu.
I hope
everyone working in our company will be fine even though they leave the
company. Actually, we all were really inexperienced. Mr. Kook, Mrs. Chin, and
me… However, a year later, everyone becomes different. I am getting used to
this rural area, and other people including Mr. Kook, Mrs. Chin, and some
employees who I saw first in Juxian are also doing so.
Some of them met with a
Korean person for the first time and quickly got accustomed to working in the
factory because we rarely saw each other. There is a Chinese word, 拖拖拉拉(toutoulala).
Its meaning is the same as a word ‘dawdle over.’ Like this, we seem to dawdle
over preparing something new. Including me, everyone has changed a lot.
Actually, I don’t know what producing a brand shopping bag means, but we have
totally reduced the rate of errors more than in Yiwu. When we were in Yiwu, we
had a lot of defective goods in our warehouse.
But, now, we have only a few
things. This does bode well for us. Everyone knows what happens when we get
errors, so we all have changed in a good way. Nowadays, I think that Mr. Kook
changed a lot. We can’t usually what Mr. Kook is doing because his duties are
consciously and unconsciously carried on. When he was up all night printing,
our employees don’t know what he does.
Only our Chinese boss and I know the
fact. I sometimes don’t know. He usually works outside of our office in order
to see printing, look for paper, order a new knife, and more…
Actually, other
employees don’t know he really does that all. Even though our company is small,
our boss definitely knows whether he is idling away or actually working hard
when she sees him. In fact, Mr. Kook does his best on his duties.
However, he
is not good at dealing with other employees because he never learns how to do
so. He probably doesn’t have enough time to learn it because there is an
organizational problem in our company.
What I want him to do is to handle six
or seven employees under him well, but he didn’t much care about them first.
So, I warned him against his behavior several times, but I totally realized
that he didn’t know how to educate other people. Another problem was that Mr.
Kook and Mrs. Chin have several same duties. Then, I reduced her duties and
assigned all things within our factory to Mr. Kook. Also, I asked him to study
bookkeeping and other things, but he couldn’t change a lot first.
One or two
months later, he started to do suitable work for his position. He has changed.
There seems to be something different. The more Mr. Kook changes, the more Mrs.
Chin is comfortable. She can do other things and have enough time to take care
of her child. I think he shows only 30% of his power at work. A change in the
power makes him different.
I don’t want him to put in his all efforts. I know
that many things will be changed if he displays at least 50% of his ability.
What a company and his life… He does not know where the end of his ability is.
It is not easy for me to guess that. Nonetheless, I know one thing. If he does
his best more, he will receive twice as many results and pleasure as his life
so far.
I hope that his change supports our company’s very tremendous adventure
this year. In some ways, it might be a good opportunity to see his change and
make up my stagnant mind. He seems to be interested in his change. I hope that
his interest will be a first step to learn another technology. It’s 50%, not
100%...
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