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1933年初，哈里逊纺织公司遭遇了一场灭顶之灾——大火把厂房、设备、存货等等一切都化为了灰烬。 3000余名员工在突如其来的灾难面前目瞪口呆，他们一个个垂头丧气地回到家中，绝望地等待着董事长宣布破产和失业的来临。但出乎他们意料的是，经过漫长的等待，董事会居然给每个人寄来了一封这样的信：向全公司所有员工继续支付一个月薪水。 —个月后，正当大家再次为以后的生活犯愁时，董事会的信又来了：向全公司所有员工再支付一个月薪水。 如果说接到第一封信让几千名员工感觉意外和惊喜的话，那么这第二封信简直让他们热泪盈眶。确实，在失业席卷全国、人人生计无着无落之际，能得到如此照顾，谁会不感动万分呢？ 结果正如董事长预料的那样，上千名员工在收到第二封信的当天，便纷纷涌向公司，主动清理起废墟，收拾残局，还有人主动联络中断的货源。 3个月后，新的哈里逊公司重新出现。 如今，哈里逊公司已经成了全美国最大的纺织品公司，分公司遍布50多个国家。 世界上任何形式的灾难，核心都是人，想办法化解人类精神上的灾难，希望和奇迹也就会出现。要想做到这一点，理解、爱心与智慧都不可或缺。 Understanding, Love and Wisdom At the beginning of 1933, Harrison Textile Company suffered a crowning calamity the plant, equipments, stocks and so on turned to ashes. More than, 3000 employees were dumbstruck in the face of the unexpected disaster. Dejected, they returned home, desperately waiting for the chairman to declare the bankruptcy and unemployment. But to their surprise, after long waiting, the board posted each person such a letter: pay one month’s salary to all the employees of the company. A month later, when all of them sank in distress for the life of future, the board’s letter came again: pay one month’s salary to all the staff of the company. If the first letter surprised and delighted thousands of employees, this second letter almost moved them to tears. Indeed, when the unemployment swept the country and the people had no way for living, who would not be touched under such care? Just as the chairman expected, on the day of receiving the second letter, thousands of employees rushed to the company, cleaned up the ruins, tidied up the situation after fire and some of them even took the initiative to contact the interrupted supply of goods. Three months later, the new Harrison Company sprang up once again. Today, Harrison Company has become the largest American textile company, whose subsidiaries spread all over 50 countries. The core of any form of disasters in the world is human being, so try to dissolve the human spiritual disaster and hope and miracle will appear. To do this, understanding, love and wisdom are indispensable . calamity 灾祸；不幸 dumbstruck 被吓得目瞪口呆的；吓得发懵的 distress 忧虑 initiative 主动性 subsidiary 附属物；附属机构；子公司 dissolve 消除 indispensable 不可缺少的；绝对必要的 |
