Objectively speaking, I always think that Dong Mingzhu is a successful entrepreneur. She has created and owned a real ** era, and she even maintains the diligence and momentum of her youth to a large extent, but she no longer has the ability to really stand in the perspective of young people to see, understand and adapt to this new world.Author |Xiao Yao, Xiao Aoi.
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I lost a role model.
The moment this fact was confirmed, my phone was **that paragraph**. At the annual meeting of Gree, the female employee in the red jacket sang happily while shaking the allegro: My mother is Dong Mingzhu.
This directly triggered my physical discomfort. At the age of 22, I am not blessed with this greasy.
My list of "life models" is not long, but Dong Mingzhu has been on the list for a long time. When I was a child, I heard that there was a female boss in Gree, and when I was a teenager, I saw her participating in activities with characters like Ma Yun, Ma Huateng, and Lei Jun, and I thought she was even more powerful.
On Douban, many people posted that Dong Mingzhu is a proper heroine of Shuangwen. She has been working hard as an independent woman, selling Gree Electric Appliances all over the world, and also making a significant contribution to the national tax revenue. Coupled with her flamboyant personality and language style, she perfectly matched the young man's strong psychology and won the title of "Sister Dong".
But my opinion of her has become noticeable in the last year.
I have concluded that there are probably three reasons: one is that she "backstabs" women, the second is that she "backstabs" young people, and the third is that she "betrayed" the "proletariat" (note: this is the self-deprecation of our moneyless people).
The expressions "backstab" and "betrayal" may be exaggerated, but I can't think of a better word to express my disappointment. After all, proletarian + young + female = myself. Rounding it off, I was abandoned by Dong Mingzhu.
The change involves two key figures: Meng Yutong and Wang Ziru.
The impression of "backstabbing" is mainly derived from the former. Meng Yutong resigned from Gree in May 2023, and in August, Dong Mingzhu said in an interview, "Some people eat in the bowl and look at the pot" "There are too many such people, so we will never allow him to stay here for him", which is suspected to mean Meng Yutong.
The more he went to the back, the more Dong Mingzhu let go, and played a clear card against Meng Yutong's accusations. Especially the internal speech, it is even more fierce than when my mother scolded me angrily: "When I was a secretary, I couldn't even write a single article" "You just earned a little more money today, so I think this shape is like a corpse, there is no difference, what about being rich?" ”
Such a "relentless pursuit" is very Dong Mingzhu's "Iron Lady" style. She entered Gree as a salesman that year and recovered the first payment in Anhui, relying on "relentless pursuit". It's just that, in our opinion, a boss who always diss former employees in public is somewhat unseemly.
The plot of "women helping women" that I was expecting has become a chicken feather.
Wang Ziru seems to have poured a bucket of oil on the chicken feathers - "greasy" oil.
Like Meng Yutong, he joined Gree with fame, but he showed a completely different ability to adapt. It can be said that it is completely integrated into the discourse system of Dong Mingzhu and Gree. The interview remarks that made him ridiculed by the group are enough to prove:
I haven't read the salary slip that Gree gave me, when I came to Gree Electric, I said, Mr. Dong, can you give me an office close to you, I will report to you at any time, and then I don't think the rest is important. I fantasized that one day, if I had a career where I could work with a top entrepreneur, even if I didn't do anything every day, I would watch how she held meetings, and I would listen to what she said and did every day, and I felt very happy. ”
An unconfirmed news is that this time the annual meeting that made Gree and Dong Mingzhu rush to the hot search again, Wang Ziru was the main planner.
Judging from Dong Mingzhu's smiling face that the camera frequently scanned, the boss is obviously satisfied.
In fact, I used to think that Dong Mingzhu was a good boss.
This impression is mainly established by watching variety shows and reports. For example, in 2021's "We Are New to the Workplace", she will encourage interns and solve the problems of interns who make mistakes. After the recording of the show was completed, she asked the winner Meng Yutong to become a regular and enter Gree as her secretary. ——Although this move is suspected of rubbing traffic, it also reflects the characteristics of her commitment.
Also in that variety show, she noticed that a bowl of spicy tang eaten by the company staff cost more than a dozen yuan, and she felt that it was too expensive, so she immediately asked the person in charge to ask for adjustment. Words are full of love for employees:
Our employees get that much money a month, and for them two dollars less for a meal, six dollars less a day, and two hundred dollars less a month, they will have two hundred dollars for something better. ”
In addition, in 2018, Dong Mingzhu promised that Gree would give each employee a suite. In 2019, Gree announced a salary increase for all employees, with a total amount of nearly 1 billion yuan, and an average monthly salary increase of about 1,000 yuan per person. ——This made me, who was still in high school in Inner Mongolia at the time, have a simple liking for this generous boss.
The filter is broken in 2023.
When I saw Meng Yutong being a secretary and being taken by Dong Mingzhu to perform and dance on various occasions, I was really shocked in my heart. Coupled with the information she disclosed piecemeal on social platforms, such as salary not exceeding 10,000 yuan and 24-hour standby, as well as Dong Mingzhu's various "daddy" remarks, such as young people should not be self-centered and young people should not be for money, I gradually changed.
It seems that she is more like an authority in a traditional company, unchallenged and unable to empathize with ordinary workers. Although she herself has stepped from a front-line migrant worker to where she is today, many of the things she believes in are actually ineffective at the moment.
However, when she condescendingly looks at the young people of the new era, she will only habitually move out of the old world and forcibly preach, and if she does not do what she says, she is making a mistake.
It made her look more like a stubborn old man – and she did get old. Despite her toughness, it's easy to overlook that she's nearly seventy years old.
I see in her more and more of the shadow of the elderly. For example, the third-generation Gree rose air conditioner that rushed to the hot search some time ago and was designed by her at the helm. In my opinion, this is the aesthetics of my grandfather's and my grandmother's generation, Dong Mingzhu is very satisfied with his taste, but judging from the dismal sales, consumers don't buy it.
Objectively speaking, I always think that Dong Mingzhu is a successful entrepreneur. She has created and owned a real ** era, and she even maintains the diligence and momentum of her youth to a large extent, but she no longer has the ability to really stand in the perspective of young people to see, understand and adapt to this new world.
However, I was a little sad to find that after removing Dong Mingzhu, there were few entrepreneurs left in my list of "life models". To be precise, there is only one left, and that is the boss of Fat Donglai: Yu Donglai. He has always been low-key, compared to Dong Mingzhu, he is almost the best person on the Internet. But Fat Donglai's ultimate experience and thoughtfulness to the staff made me feel good about him.
As for the level of my admiration, it is basically the same as my envy of Gree employees in high school. To put it simply, if there was a chance for me to work for him, I would be willing. - That's the biggest recognition I've ever given to a boss.