It was an era when foreign companies were surging in China. At that time, young people were proud to work in a foreign company, because entering a foreign company meant that you had a clear career prospect and the possibility of getting a high salary. At that time, the management standard of foreign companies was to plan everyone's career prospects, and there was no so-called group relationship. Everyone has a chance as long as you work hard. At that time, state-owned enterprises and private enterprises were antagonistic.
Of course, although foreign companies were a lofty existence in the minds of young people at that time, once they really entered it, they were self-aware.
"Floating and Sinking" depicts the living conditions of several young people in foreign companies.
In order to earn more money, Li Qiao (Bai Baihe) tries his best to squeeze into the sales department of Seth, an American-funded enterprise. Unexpectedly, he is used as a gun by the president and sales director of China District to intervene in the sales work of a large state-owned enterprise in a marginalized role. I know I am treated as a victim at work, but I can only bear it. Even the sales director who was her boyfriend at that time didn't have a chance to explain. Frank (David Wang), the sales director, has a famous saying that as your boss, I don't need to explain why I did it, but as my subordinate, you just need to carry it out. He warned Li Qiao that sincerity, trust and fairness are always luxuries in the workplace. You have to find your own way of life.
Although Li Qiao finally survived in Seth by virtue of her persistence and sincerity, the screenwriter even made her become the sales director of Seth, and was loved by the bosses of state-owned enterprises.
At the same time, the drama also involves the magnificent system reform carried out by the old state-owned enterprises in order to survive and develop.
Wang Guilin (Zhang Jiayi), the director of Jingtong Electronics Factory, a veteran state-owned enterprise, is a good director who does his best for the enterprise and only wants the factory to develop well and the workers to have food. However, due to the lack of system and development at that time, he could only turn off the main boiler in the factory to keep the workers warm and play chess to watch the children pass the time. When the reorganization plan was finally worked out, his younger brother Yu Zhide (WangZhifei) was sent to take charge of the reorganization. Of course, Yu Zhide eventually went to the abyss of crime because of greed and selfishness. The final restructuring of this old state-owned enterprise factory was presided over by the old factory director Wang Guilin.
What impressed me deeply here was Yu Zhide's first love and Duan Qin (Wang Weiwei), who eventually became his lifelong mistress. At that time, Yu Zhide abandoned his first love, Duan Qin, for his own career and became attached to the daughter of the vice mayor. However, when he happened to meet Duan Qin again, he desperately seized the opportunity as if to realize his dream of true love. He also greedily grabbed wealth by any means.
Although Duan Qin was addicted to his love network, when she saw that the essence of his love was just a shadow created by Duan Qin Wei, it was just a myth that he didn't want to choose in the past, especially when she knew that all the "wealth" he relied on came from the power he controlled, she resolutely chose to report and killed this so-called "love" by herself.
Now foreign companies have lost their former glory, and now young people are more keen on exams or squeezing into large state-owned enterprises.
Although this drama has a long history and reflects some laws of love in the workplace, it cannot be said to be an eternal "truth" that can be used for reference: there is no real fairness and trust in the workplace, only interests; Love doesn't just need "love" to be silent for many years. When it comes to sharing risks, the high probability is for self-protection.