National Tide 1980

At 8 pm on May 2.

In a small disco in Roppongi, hundreds of employees of Nomura Securities' Central District Sales Department were celebrating the second place in the mid-year performance growth evaluation.

Of course, this also indicates that the upcoming half-year bonus will be exaggerated to the point where people shout "Long live".

So almost everyone in the field was drunk without reservation, enjoying the pleasure of feasting and revelry under the light of the rising and falling light balls and the strong European beat electronic mixed music!

A middle-aged gentleman who looked very gentle off the field was obviously drunk.

Even if he was not on the dance floor, he suddenly wrapped his tie around his head, then stood on a chair and shouted to his colleagues in the field, "Cheers! Cheers! What's the point of the Minato District Sales Department? We will definitely win the first place in the Central District in the second half of the year!"

Then he tilted his head back and drank the wine in his glass in one breath.

And the others, whether they were on the dance floor, not only did not stop it, but responded in unison.

"Another glass! Quick! Another glass!"

"Give him a bottle! Give him a whole bottle!"

"Director Sasaki, you are really manly! Long live the Central District Sales Department!"

Countless people shouted with deliberate incitement, and a waiter immediately filled his glass.

The female dancers and transvestites in the store clapped their hands in unison to create an atmosphere.

This man named Sasaki drank one glass after another like drinking water. It was a bottle of French red wine worth up to 30,000 yen!

That's not all. A guest in the dance floor drank too much and suddenly grabbed a Thai transvestite next to him.

In order to see the "secrets" of the transvestite's body, he shouted like crazy and tore the transvestite's skirt vigorously, and only stopped when the skirt was torn.

Although the transvestite was frightened and her face changed color, it also attracted many waiters to intervene.

But because it was a special private booking, the brand of Nomura Securities could not be underestimated, and the man was a key business person, so he took out several "Da Fukuzawa" as compensation and stuffed them into the transvestite.

Not only did this matter quickly come to nothing, but it also aroused more enthusiastic laughter in the dance floor, making the carnival atmosphere even more intense.

This little twist even became a joke for Goto Kanji, the general manager of the Central District Sales Department, who was sitting in the audience and surrounded by many grassroots cadres.

He did not care but laughed out loud, and drank and celebrated with his capable subordinates.

It has to be said that practitioners in the securities industry of any country are of the same virtue.

The work pressure is high, but the profits that can be created are also high.

Therefore, it is common to have serious symptoms of dependence on alcohol, drugs, food, sex, gambling, and shopping.

Moreover, in this era, even civilians cannot avoid becoming like this.

So in Goto's view, as long as his subordinates do not act recklessly at work and do not cause trouble with the judiciary.

Then no matter what these people are willing to do, everything is understandable and acceptable.

To be honest, in fact, it is quite the opposite. He actually looks down on those employees who follow the rules and have no ambitions and desires.

Because without these, there will be a lack of motivation to work.

For example, Kenichi Sagawa, the newly promoted head of the second sales department.

This guy has no extra hobbies except smoking and drinking.

He has always been mediocre in business, and is not outstanding compared to employees of the same period.

But at least he worked hard in the past.

Goto Kanji still remembers that when he was the head of the sales department of the central sales department, Kenichi Sagawa had just graduated and came to work in the sales department. It seems to be in 1972.

At that time, Sagawa graduated from the senior year, full of energy and enthusiasm. It was easy for him to believe the "dream" advocated by the company and enthusiastically devoted himself to the frontline work of the sales department.

You know, Nomura Securities recruits more than 200 new employees every year, and most of them will leave sadly after experiencing the taste of disillusionment.

Sagawa is one of the few people who can persist by constantly working hard to increase sales performance.

But as he gets older, his enthusiasm for work becomes less and less.

Now he has even become a subordinate who is idle and does nothing.

During the daily business hours, he has neither the enthusiasm to develop customers nor the work of selling bonds assigned to him.

Every day, he just comes to the company to clock in, attend meetings, read newspapers, and complete his own work.

Others have to go to the company at 7 o'clock in the morning and can't go home until 11 or 12 o'clock at night.

But he doesn't know since when, he has become laughing and leaving before 5 o'clock every afternoon, leaving get off work more punctually than him, the general manager.

Because he left too early, he naturally lacked private communication time with his colleagues. He didn't even participate in drinking together. He was completely an alternative person who was separated from the entire Central District Sales Department.

Logically speaking, a guy like Sagawa who just eats and waits for death and slacks off at work would have no chance to take advantage of loopholes in today's work environment where performance indicators and data are completely controlled by computers.

Because according to the unwritten rules of the company, the older the employee, the heavier the burden on his shoulders.

If his performance really declines day by day and his performance is surpassed by his juniors, even if he is already a senior employee, he will never reap the rewards.

Either they were sent away after experiencing the loss of dignity, or they were whipped hard by their superiors like an ox or a horse, forcing them to work hard for performance.

But the problem is, I don't know what luck Sagawa had, but he actually firmly grasped a large client who was called an investment expert.

He is obviously a Chinese from the third world, and his start-up capital is only a few hundred million yen, and the follow-up capital is only a few billion yen.

However, by relying on full financing leverage and an investment strategy with almost no major mistakes, it has grown to hundreds of billions of capital in just two years, becoming the most funded individual client of the Central District Sales Department. the first person.

Even the third generation of the Toyota family, the heir to the Nishiro Group, and Harunori Takahashi, an investment celebrity in the real estate industry, were outclassed by this guy.

Who dares to believe this?

It can be called a legend in the investment community.

So this guy Kenichi Sagawa has made enough money. He has such a customer that is as good as ten thousand ordinary customers.

Not only does he have a basic performance guarantee that he can easily complete every month.

From now on, you can be lazy and enjoy the leisure of completing your goals easily.

Furthermore, the sales department had to promote Sagawa based on the quality of customers and the principle of promotion based on merit, and based on his merit, he would be given the treatment of a section chief.

Of course this is what it should be, but the problem is that Sagawa is too unprogressive.

Obviously, with such good quality customers, there is great economic potential to be tapped.

As long as he persuades customers to do more transactions or buy some bonds and trust products, he can create more income for the sales department.

But he actually did nothing. Sometimes, the customer's account went silent without any transactions for a month or two.

As a result, the only fixed income the sales department can obtain every month is the interest on loans lent to customers.

Even the boss's reminders and hints were ignored, pretending to be stupid.

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Isn't this a waste of high-quality resources and watching a large amount of gold and silver slip away from one's hands?

Especially recently, during the semi-annual performance evaluation, the Chuo District Sales Department led by Goto Kanji was once again surpassed by the Minato District Sales Department with a slight advantage.

Therefore, for Goto Kanji, who had long been thinking about being promoted to the deputy head of the headquarters based on his merits, this really made him angry. He really wanted to beat up this unsatisfactory Sagawa.

It is obvious that Sagawa is already a fool who has forgotten his duties and responsibilities, failed in vain the opportunity given by God to make a fortune, and cannot distinguish between big and small kings.

He actually only focused on satisfying customers and forgot about the interests of Nomura Securities and the sales department.

Otherwise, if he is willing to work hard, such a performance gap can be easily made up.

It can be said that the entire sales department was defeated by Sagawa this time.

So at this time, I had long been dissatisfied with Goto Kanji, and finally couldn't help but use the excuse to make use of the wine.

"Everyone, at yesterday's meeting, I analyzed the current situation facing our sales department. This time, the performance gap between us and the port sales department is only 7 to 8 billion yen, which averages to a little more than 100 million yen per month. Well. It’s a pity that we lost. If we work harder, maybe our Tokyo Chuo District sales department will be the best sales department in the first half of this year, not just the runner-up in the second half of this year! , everyone should work harder to realize our common dream!”

Kanji Kanjima glanced at everyone, his tone was sincere, and he sounded like a good, serious and responsible leader.

As expected, his words were widely echoed. In Japan during this period, migrant workers were as enthusiastic as if they had been pumped full of chicken blood. They often used the astonishing slogan of "The company is the best in the world, aiming for hundreds of billions of profits."

Especially for sectors such as the securities industry, where performance has soared, and because of the sudden increase in bonuses in the entire industry, these employees have turned into subhuman economic animals.

"The general manager is right. We are just a little behind Minato. It's such a pity to lose. In the second half of the year, we must work harder. Our second lesson has decided that we will work overtime until our brains change." Even if it has become a paste, we must find a way to increase the performance by another 80 million yuan per month on top of the original basic performance requirements..."

"Asshole, if our first class is here, where will your second class be? Eighty million yen is nothing. We want to add another one hundred million..."

"General Manager, our investment department might as well exaggerate a little bit. We will definitely double the scale of our self-operated investment in the second half of the year! Profits will increase by at least 20%..."

"Don't worry, general manager, we will definitely obey the command and follow your arrangements. This is a battle we cannot lose. Whether we can get the attention of the top, as well as everyone's bonuses and futures all depend on this..."

However, despite the united efforts and the statements of grassroots cadres, Goto Kanji still felt dissatisfied and unhappy.

For no other reason than because Kenichi Sagawa, the head of the third section of the sales department, still behaved so incompetently.

He just stood up and chimed in a few words. He looked really lacking in energy and had no intention of dedicating himself to it.

In his opinion, this guy has reached the point where he must be given strong medicine to make him full of fighting spirit and work hard for him!

"Okay, okay! You must remember that there is a stage for you to display your talents. As long as you have the ability, becoming the youngest managing director of the company is not a dream! Young people like you here who are willing to work hard and are eager to fully display their talents People are exactly what we at Nomura Securities are looking for!”

So even though Kanji Goto spoke words of encouragement to his subordinates, he was actually criticizing him.

And immediately after that, he tilted his head slightly and turned his attention to Sagawa Kenichi.

"Sagawa-kun, what's your attitude here? What's your attitude in the third class? I didn't seem to see your work enthusiasm just now! You are an old employee. Hiroo in the second class is still your junior. Your courage is always You won’t be compared to the younger generation, right?”

"I will try my best to complete the tasks assigned by the general manager, but to be honest, it will be difficult for our three classes to achieve performance growth in the second half of the year." Kenichi Sagawa answered truthfully.

"Why? Section Chief Sagawa, are you kidding?"

Unexpectedly, under such circumstances, I still haven't gotten the desired statement.

Now Kanji Goto was really angry at Kenichi Sagawa who was showing off.

In his opinion, this was simply Sagawa Kenichi blatantly flouting the authority of his boss and deliberately singing the opposite tune, so he asked angrily and loudly.

However, Sagawa's answer was very reasonable, which not only surprised him, but also shocked him.

"I'm sorry, general manager, but my client, President Ning, has already given me an order to reduce my position. Not only has he decided to repay all the 27.3 billion financing quota taken from our sales department for stock trading, but he has also proposed 38 billion yen of funds!”

"What? Thirty-eight billion? Are you right?"

"How could I hear it wrong?" Kenichi Sagawa said, "President Ning and I met face to face. His order was very clear, and he told me to handle it as soon as possible!"

This was great all of a sudden. Not only did General Manager Goto Kanji stand up, but other people also lost their composure.

Everyone knows the impact that the sales department's largest customer will reduce its position by more than 60 billion yen at a time on the performance in the second half of the year.

Including interest, it's several hundred million yen. This is simply bad news that makes people completely desperate.

"Director Sagawa, how do you protect your customers? We all work so hard, but instead of adding support to our common goal, are you going to hold us all back? Over 60 billion yen, the sales department suddenly lost so much How much impact will operating with more funds have on performance? Do you think it is possible for us people to make up for such a huge performance loss and defeat the Port Sales Department even if we work hard overtime?”

Without even waiting for Kanji Goto to express his stance, Hiroo, the principal of the second class, slammed the table to express his dissatisfaction.

"Isn't there anyone who doesn't know how good the current stock market is? As long as you put money in, you can make a fortune easily. Having said that, President Ning is not so stupid, right? With such a good market, it is so easy You didn’t make any money at all? Sagawa, what are you doing! How did you offend this first customer?” The head of the first class accused Sagawa just based on speculation.

"Why don't we freeze his funds? As long as we make up some procedural problems, we can keep his funds in the account. It's not like we haven't done this before. Those Hong Kong investors, some stocks have been We are frozen..." The head of the investment department was having a bad idea.

"But this money is too big. It's so big that it will cause a sensation in the industry! What about our reputation at Nomura Securities? What's more, President Ning is not an ordinary person. No one really knows how complicated his background is. But as far as I know, Not only does he have extensive cooperation with Credit Suez Bank, but he is now getting closer to people at Sumitomo Bank headquarters. Even Yamaichi Securities has been wooing him. You would not think that he has such connections in the Japanese financial industry. He will just swallow his anger and be helpless like those people in Hong Kong City. If he does this, we will definitely turn against President Ning."

Kenichi Sagawa was quite calm, and he finally won the approval of Kanji Goto after he argued with reason.

"Don't talk nonsense. This can't be done. If a customer wants to withdraw funds, as long as he has it in his account and it doesn't involve trading operations... there is no good reason to refuse."