–Illustration by Steve Scott

It’s that time of year again when you have that company dinner.

First of all, xi Erqi people will choose a hotel near the company, jiutou Bird, Xiaoxiang House, and Yi restaurant as the first choice, the rest of the main distribution in shangdi, the furthest must not exceed the colorful city, the largest principle is shared bikes within the ride.

Wait, this is a little different from what you might think. Fortune 500 people make 20,000 or 30,000 yuan a month. Shouldn’t these people make that much for every meal? The occasional dinner should be at least pangu seven Star buffet Level, right?

Sorry, you think too much, when it comes to eating, xi Erqi people pay attention to the cost performance, a meal to eat 0.01 square meters of the house? No way.

So Pangu Seven Star, not group construction is certainly not to eat, if it is at its own expense, didi downstairs 99 pieces of self-help, xi Erqi people think it is good.

Soon it was noon, and everyone got off work ten minutes earlier and set out on shared bikes.

If you ask why you don’t drive, you may not be an employee of xi Erqi, an Internet factory in Xi erqi, where there are too many young people who can’t get a place.

So half of these people unlocked the mobike, the other half unlocked the yellow bike, and a few literary youths insisted that xiao LAN was the best bike to ride. The back of the people who stubbornly unlocked the lock looked like declining nobles.

Keep in mind that the group of people riding up to you at Xi Erqi could be the entire development team for a product you use every day, and the fat, wheezing guy at the end of the line could be the product director of your favorite APP.

There is a rule when you sit down, and the rule is to sit wherever you want.

Some friends from International trade and friends from Shandong will be very surprised to have a meal in xi Erqi, the leader did not sit on the main seat facing the door of the box!

Perennial in xi Erqi mixed people are also very surprised, what is the main seat? Others will be more surprised. Who is in charge?

As a university student in Jinan, I didn’t know how to sit the first time I went out to eat with my colleagues at Xi ‘er Banner, but I soon learned to take the seat closest to serving food because the brain workers at Xi ‘er Banner were so good at eating.

In addition, xi Erqi colleagues never drink to dinner, especially when there are programmers to participate in dinner, also do not know who rules this, anyway, the implementation of the eight rules are strict.

I think programmers’ brains are the main asset of many xierqi companies. I feel that many companies want to give programmers’ brains social security alone.

If you do not drink, there will be no toasting, so the words “Chen” and “Wang” will not appear on the table of xi Erqi people, if there is, it is also in the commercial mutual blowing between colleagues. There are “please take more care of” such words are also not some, ten thousand said that the scene will be very awkward: ya is the international trade.

During dinner, no matter what topic we talk about, it will soon fall into the tide of Internet entrepreneurship, which company has reached the C round of financing, which company has been acquired by BAT, and which company will soon be listed, how many shares each employee shares…… There was a heated discussion, and no one knew this better than the people of Xi Er Qi.

The attendant of the box was tired of listening to it every day. When he went out for air, he greeted other attendants: How is your side? My side is a pile of diaosi who make Internet.

After dinner, if they have time, people in Xierqi may go to karaoke or climb a mountain. In short, the average spending per person is less than 100 yuan.

Can you imagine that scene, the normally silent programmer, the screaming king of karaoke and the grandiose, I don’t want to remember more.

So every time at this time, I will take the initiative to suggest that today the haze is so thick, it is better to climb a mountain to feel the friends?

After eating, xi Erqi rode the shared bikes and returned to the company with satisfaction — ah, another happy dinner!

Hey, where is happiness, I said, how can I not see it?

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