The reality show "Exciting offer2" of legal and workplace observation continues the model of the first season. Eight interns with different backgrounds and distinct personalities, after a month’s internship under the guidance of four lawyers, finally two interns can get an exciting offer. This season, the guests in the observation room are He Jiong, Sa Beining, Adam, Charlie, Yang Tianzhen and Xu Lingling.
"Exciting offer2" poster
However, compared with the previous quarter, the second quarter has also been slightly adjusted. First of all, the interview is a pilot film alone, which makes the interns’ interview performance more intuitive; The elimination of the interview link also reflects the competitiveness of the interview. Secondly, this season’s internship is even more cruel. Unlike last season, eight interns can successfully practice for one month. If the interns don’t perform well at first, then new interns will replace them. The competition is more intense and the "suspense" is stronger.
There will be elimination during the internship.
However, according to the current audience feedback, many people think that the second season is not as good as the first season. The reason is that many places make people feel "stuffy". But as a person who has been floating in the workplace for many years, I like this kind of "tightness" in the second season-because it may be closer to the real workplace ecology. A lot of beauty in the first season is more like variety effects.
Like many workplace dramas with the workplace as the background, they eventually become idol dramas under the banner of the workplace; Although the first season of "Exciting offer" is supported by strong professionalism, as a reality show, its "show" filter is a bit thick. What the program presents for us is an idealized workplace; At least in the current context of China, the workplace in variety shows seems to exist in a vacuum. Every teaching lawyer is persuasive and always treats interns with gentle breeze and drizzle; Although interns come from different families and backgrounds, they have a fair starting point in the workplace, and women will not encounter any invisible workplace ceiling; Interns have established a profound "revolutionary" friendship. They have competition, and they are more like partners … This is what we expect, but it is not what we expect.
In the first season, every intern was so "perfect"-even the shortcomings made the audience so sympathetic that after the program was broadcast, more than half of them turned into "online celebrity" and stepped over the threshold of debut with one foot.
In the second season, the criticism of the young audience became fierce. The author saw a critical voice saying that after the first meeting in the first season, the lawyer invited the interns to have dinner and chat together, which was equal, friendly and enjoyable. This season is gone, the human touch is very weak. This criticism is "naive" at first glance. You know, there may not be so much human feelings in the workplace, so don’t take others’ feelings as your duty.
Of course, the focus of criticism is mainly on teaching lawyers and interns. At least in the program, they are not as "lovable" as in the first season, and some behaviors are "stuffy".
The law firm filmed in this season’s program is one of the most famous law firms in China. The teaching lawyers are all excellent, and the sense of elitism they generally have makes some viewers feel that they are indifferent, arrogant and have no humanistic care (only representing the views of some viewers). In their view, it seems that the teaching lawyers have always been biased against Xiaoding (because the interns are all amateurs, this article has replaced them with their surnames). First, Xiaoding graduated from an ordinary college in Jiangsu Province, not a prestigious school in the traditional sense. He entered the law major of East China University of Political Science and Law only at the master’s degree. Lawyers are a little disdainful of Xiaoding’s first degree. Secondly, Xiaoding was an intern in another well-known law firm before, and he was a "strong enemy" with the law firm in the program. During the talk with the lawyers, he also showed some "disdain" for his family. In addition, Xiaoding is a "last stand" from the postgraduate entrance examination to this internship. He has worked hard and made others work hard.
Xiaoding’s resume is actually not the worst among them.
These may all be the effects of the program, perhaps to suppress first and then promote-with the level of this intern, Xiaoding has great potential for counterattack. But at least in the program, the teaching lawyer is not so tolerant of him. So, after the interview, he ranked at the bottom, and after the first project, he ranked at the bottom again-although in the studio, Xu Lingling and Sa Beining ranked him first after reading his finished draft.
Lawyer Xu thinks Xiaoding is the first, but he ranks at the bottom.
The overall level of interns also has a "gap" with the first season. He Yunchen and Li Haoyuan in the first season are really great figures. This season, interns have not yet emerged, and even their performance in internships and projects has made the audience feel some kind of "flashy". The law firm seems to pay too much attention to the background of studying abroad, but studying abroad does not necessarily have gold content.
Xiao Qu, for example, studied in a university in Shanghai as an undergraduate, and studied in an American university for a master’s degree, but his GPA was not high. When he was asked to introduce himself in English during the interview, he suddenly got stuck and didn’t say a word of complete English. Xiao Wang, who talked in English and Chinese in Kan Kan during the interview, was set up by a scholar. After three sentences, he never left his master’s school, Stanford University, and said it was normal that he didn’t understand the China method. However, it is clearly stated in his resume that he received a master’s degree in law education in China for seven years and only attended Stanford for one year. When he finished his first project, he made a big mistake by quoting a large number of codes that had not yet come into force.
Xu Lingling’s Comments on Xiao Wang
"Exciting offer2" inadvertently conveys the impression that the teaching lawyer (leader) is not so friendly, and even wears colored glasses to look at people, with academic qualifications to despise the chain; The intern (colleague) is not so good, and his ability is not necessarily better than yours, but the leader is more eye-catching to him … Again, all this may be just editing effect.
The program is therefore less pleasing to the audience, but it is more in line with the real workplace ecology. On the one hand, leaders are not so affectionate and considerate. On the contrary, the workplace has a law of the jungle, a lot of prejudices and misunderstandings, and even a lot of unfairness. On the other hand, a colleague’s behavior does not necessarily conform to your three views. His ability may not be as strong as yours, but his promotion is faster than yours.
As people in the workplace, we have a high probability of encountering such a situation, and we are in a passive position-we can’t quit our job as soon as we are unhappy. At this time, what should we do? How can we win openly?
In the workplace, how to deal with things that make people "stuffy" is the wisdom. Therefore, on the contrary, I prefer to chase the exciting offer2 without filters. I want to know whether Xiao Wang can "return the king", whether Xiao Ding can achieve counterattack, and when people with insufficient ability will "show the clues". After the show, I hope that it is a lawyer (even if it is not perfect), not online celebrity under the perfect filter.
[Specially published by Shanghai Literature and Art Review Special Fund]