Konstantin started his new job in marketing on a Monday. Before he arrived, the office had sent him a friendly welcome email. It was full of useful details, and it contained one small mistake. It called him "our new IT specialist."
康斯坦丁在一个周一开始了他在市场部的新工作。他到公司之前，办公室给他发过一封友好的欢迎邮件。邮件里满是有用的细节，也有一处小小的错误：它称他为“我们的新任IT专员”。
He noticed it only after he got there, and by then it was too late. At the front desk, the receptionist shook his hand warmly. "Oh, thank goodness," she said. "Our printer has been broken since Thursday."
他到了公司才注意到这一点，而那时已经来不及了。前台的接待员热情地和他握手。“哦，谢天谢地，”她说，“我们的打印机从周四起就坏了。”
Konstantin opened his mouth to explain. Then a woman hurried over to ask about a forgotten password. A man behind her said his computer was "doing a strange blue thing." Konstantin was actually quite good with computers. He decided to help first and explain later.
康斯坦丁张嘴想解释。这时一位女士匆匆走过来，问起忘记的密码。她身后的一个男人说，他的电脑正在“出现一种奇怪的蓝屏”。康斯坦丁其实很擅长电脑。他决定先帮忙，以后再解释。
That was the real mistake. By Tuesday, he had fixed three printers. By Wednesday, he had changed fourteen passwords and rescued a lost spreadsheet from a trash folder. People had started calling him "the lifesaver." Somebody brought him a cake.
这才是真正的错误。到了周二，他已经修好了三台打印机。到了周三，他改了十四个密码，还从回收站里救回了一份丢失的电子表格。大家开始叫他“救星”。有人给他带来了一个蛋糕。
Meanwhile, nobody had given him a single marketing task. His real manager, who also believed the email, kept telling him, "Take your time. You're clearly busy."
与此同时，没有人给过他任何一项市场工作。他真正的经理也相信了那封邮件，一直对他说：“别着急。你显然很忙。”
On Thursday evening, he sat at his desk with a headache. He had come here to write campaigns, and he had not written one word. He had a list of IT requests longer than his arm. His drawer was full of cables that people had given him.
周四傍晚，他坐在办公桌前，头痛欲裂。他来这里是为了写营销方案，可他一个字也没写过。他手里有一份比胳膊还长的IT请求清单。他的抽屉里塞满了别人送给他的线缆。
On Friday, he finally stood up in the team meeting. "I have to tell you something," he said. "I'm not the IT specialist. I work in marketing. The email was wrong."
周五，他终于在团队会议上站了起来。“我得告诉大家一件事，”他说，“我不是IT专员。我在市场部工作。那封邮件写错了。”
Nobody spoke. Then his manager began to laugh so hard that she had to put down her coffee.
没有人说话。接着他的经理笑得太厉害，不得不放下手里的咖啡。
"So who has been fixing our printers?" she asked.
“那么，一直在修我们打印机的人是谁？”她问。
"I have," Konstantin said. "I should have said something on Monday. But everything was already breaking."
“是我，”康斯坦丁说，“我本该周一就说的。可当时所有东西都已经出问题了。”
"Honestly, you did the job better than the last guy," a colleague said.
“说实话，你干得比上一个人还好，”一位同事说。
The following Monday, a tall man named Werner arrived with a laptop bag and a big smile. "Hello, I'm the new IT person," he said. "I hear you've been keeping my chair warm."
下一个周一，一个高个子男人拎着电脑包、满脸笑容地来了，他叫维尔纳。“你好，我是新来的IT人员，”他说，“听说你一直在替我暖椅子。”
Konstantin shook his hand. "It's all yours," he said. "The printer on the second floor makes a terrible noise. The password list is in the blue folder. Good luck."
康斯坦丁和他握了握手。“它是你的了，”他说，“二楼那台打印机会发出可怕的噪音。密码清单在蓝色文件夹里。祝你好运。”
Then he went to his own desk and opened a blank document. At the top of the page, he typed: "Campaign ideas."
然后他走回自己的座位，打开了一个空白文档。在页面最上面，他打下了：“营销方案创意。”
