Аннотация: A chinese casket on the Kosti-NF. A story (continued).
A chinese casket on the Kosti-NF. A story (continued).
Mr. Wintertund, the second deputy general director of the Kosti-NF radio station, came to work early in the morning and sat in the comfortable chair.
"It would be wonderful to have some tea!"
Mr. Wintertund turned on the electric kettle and put a little package of fragrant Indian tea in the cup.
The yesterday evening left a slightly disturbing impression.
However, the plot began to move a long time ago, back in 2019.
Once upon a time on the radio station "Kosti-NF" there were almost no programs about China.
First, there was not a single specialist on China at the radio station.
Secondly, in the absence of specialists, there was no plans to make a programs about China.
Thirdly, if there are no specialists, then how can you manage, position, edit programs about China in this situation?
But a real radio station is not strong by specialists, but by the correct organization of work and the correct system of goals.
An author appeared on the horizon of the literary world with an interesting book on literary success. Naturally, neither the author nor his book was given a possibility to move forward, but they stole from this book all the ideas that they could steal, hid all the money (connected with the book sale) that were able to cover, to hide, and began to observe, to keep track this author.
The author, not receiving a kopeck for the book he wrote - he relatively quickly wrote several more books about success in other spheres ; also everything was stolen from these books, that they could, - began publishing miniatures on the site for a free literary publications!
And what, we read! It's interesting!
At some point, works about China began to appear in his line of miniatures! Moreover, this impudent person had translated one of his miniatures into Chinese without knowing the Chinese language. It was unbearable!
At that moment, the radio station understood: "We urgently need programs about China!"
But who to invite for preparing such programs?
Messengers ran through the capital, ran, and a terrible truth was revealed!
It turned out that there are many organizations in the capital that are researching China directly or indirectly.
Most of so named researchers have never been to China. They used secondary publications.
No one in the capital knew Chinese language. Of course, in the questionnaire, some individuals wrote that they know the Chinese language, but when traveling to China, these connoisseurs of the Chinese language used the services of translators. They explained this by the fact that in China there are many language dialects ...
The emissaries of the radio station, while searching for, stumbled upon a studentess from China. She, of course, cannot be a radio host, - but, taking advantage of the situation, the emissaries showed her the translation of that impudent person (from Russian into Chinese). She read, she mumbled something positive as a kind of non-negative assessment.
After this experiment, the situation became completely unbearable. He translates, not knowing Chinese, own miniatures into Chinese, and we cannot organize programs about China on our radio station!
Mr. Wintertund remembered how he dropped the pen, how he bent over looking for the pen, which rolled under the table, and, settling himself as close as possible to the mysterious telephone, whispered: "We need a good specialist in a China theme!"
Somewhere in unknown heights, a huge flywheels started to spin.
A kind of sucker was found, who improved the own skills in Chinese language, instead of a searching and pulling out a money, instead of organizing a profitable Moscow marriage, getting a Moscow apartment and arranging a regular trips to tropical beaches. And, finally, this man was able to travel around China without an interpreter, made acquaintances in China, wrote some scientific works about China, and generally developed a vigorous activity - albeit without tangible (for himself) financial results.
The higher spheres created a system of special motives for this dude. The dude was offered to organize and head the Institute of China, they gave him the position of the "acting director of the institute".
Why not the position of the "director"?
This was understandable for Mr. Wintertund.
Positions and money are given not to those who know something and who can do something, but to those who will demonstrate unquestioning loyalty. And from experience everyone knew that if a person possesses some abilities and knows a lot, then he feels self-respect for himself, and for this reason his loyalty is potentially unreliable.
Naturally, no one informed the dude about the logic of appointments. Let him try! Let him do attempts!
The dude bent his back, ran about the institute cases - the stage of organization is the most difficult. When everything is organized, any mid-level capital inhabitant can steer.
At the same time, he was involved in organizing a radio broadcasts on China.
He was hinted that the radio station is very influential, that this organization will be very useful to this "acting director" in all matters, that he will acquire a great, wide fame and an undeniable reputation. The dude swallowed it all and with readiness began to prepare the programs.
How to name the program - a cycle of radio programs?
From the miniatures of the impudent author, they took the word "casket", threw out "with a game Mahjong", put "Chinese" instead. It turned out to be a "Chinese casket". Fine! Let it be so!
Gradually, Mr. Wintertund stopped listening to the programs of an expert on China. There wasn't the main thing in them. For what money does Russia trade with China? At what prices? What are the results of this trade? What are the economic results of cooperation? What do the numbers look like? General chatter on general topics, although at times interesting. Though, the higher spheres are accustomed to the style "Awareness [information security] [information resource] of aunt Manya (from a provincial village)".
A fragmentary information about the supply of, for example, electricity, gave rise to the suspicion in Mr. Wintertund that trade was being conducted at a loss. An official trade (although without a public control). It's better not to think about bank accounts in Hong Kong.
To a greater extent, Mr. Wintertund was interested in how the issue of "acting" ["acting director"] would to move. Either the dude will still be appointed "director" (because of lack another variants), or they will make some kind of trick with ears.
In front of the imagination of Mr. Wintertund, a huge computing complexes were working, which were choosing options - they were looking for a suitable "director" for the Institute of China. It's impossible to make a mistake!
The fact is that the impudent author, who fulfilled a translation into Chinese and invented a "casket" in one of his miniatures, began to pump the rights: why did they not pay him for his intellectual product - at least in an indirect form? Why does the radio station not mention either his surname or his works?
But the radio station pretended not to know anything and she did not react in any way to these claims of the author. Legally, you can't to achieve, to touch us. And what about conscience? ... We are experienced and seasoned people.
But if something will be wrong with the "acting" ["acting director"], then the impudent author would publish a new ironic humorous miniature. After being translated into Chinese, after the "casket", after he directly hinted about stealing intellectual products, it would have been absolutely unbearable. So, a huge servers were working, they were looking for a suitable candidate for the Institute of China - to appoint a "director" without any roughness.
But the problem is that Russia is big, but she has no connoisseurs in Chinese language (with a real skills) - except for that dude who was appointed "acting".
In general, it was interesting how all this gimmick with the "acting" ["acting director"] will end.
One day there was a slight whirlwind.
The dude, for his knowledge of the Chinese language and for the ability to communicate with the Chinese, was respected by one lady - with vast experience of work in Arab countries. (Not many people know Arabic. Recently they boasted that after the outbreak of events in Syria they revived the school of Arabists. Internally, Mr. Wintertund was laughing. A new Leonids Ilyichs! "Rebirth"!). (However, in Arabic, an alphabet is applying, not hieroglyphs ...).
So, the lady's respect led to a new explosion of jealousy. A mockery of the title of "professor" began - when referring of the "acting". A little later, the word of "professor", seem, disappeared ...
And yesterday, before leaving the office, when all the employees went home, Mr. Wintertund heard a special desktop landline telephone apparatus emited a new sound, a new signal - a nightingale trill.
That is why there was a disturbing feeling after yesterday.
"Yes, the working day has already begun!" - Mr. Wintertund interrupted the own reflections .
Mr. Wintertund summoned a pawn from the departments of announcements and of explanatory and educational inserts.
The pawn appeared with some trepidation.
After talking about this and that, Mr. Wintertund got close to the question of interest to him: what about the title "professor" - concerning of a dude who knows Chinese?
The pawn knew almost nothing on this matter. But she remembered some conversations on this topic. It seems that for a "professor" title needs a VAK [the Higher Attestation Commission] diploma, but someone called somewhere, and a connoisseur of the Chinese language was temporarily admitted to some university on a professor's job, and now he can be called "professor of such and such a university."
"Fine!" - Mr. Wintertund exclaimed. - 'It's a useful title for him now! If for another five years he will be the "acting", then we will presenting him as a "professor". If he will be appointed "director", then with this turn of events we will take a separate decision. And if another person is appointed as the 'director' of the Institute of China, then the radio station will continue to say the word 'professor'! '
The pawn nodded obediently.
Mr. Wintertund graciously let go of the pawn, warning that she should inform the department management and employees about the instruction received.
The pawn went out the door.
The special desktop landline telephone apparatus again emited a new sound, a new signal. Now he was grunting with a pleasure.
A call from the boss's phone number: "A pork!"
Mr. Wintertund took out a handkerchief and rubbed his face. Everything was done correctly. In the tundra, not only who are the strongest are surviving, but those, who are the cognoscenti, masters in shamanic techniques. It necessary to be able to hear the voice of the spirits. And then you will not freeze because of a sudden blizzard.
The water in the kettle boiled. Mr. Wintertund filled a cup with boiling water. He took some honey and put it in tea. A great tea!
A real tundra people know how to choose a good tea and an excellent honey!
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January 20, 2021 12:24
Translation from Russian into English: January 21, 2021 10:42.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Китайская шкатулка на Кости-NF. Рассказ (продолжение)'.