Painting cakes is painting cakes to satisfy hunger. Drawing cakes refers to the "cakes" drawn by company managers during interviews, newcomers' entry, asking for a raise, or even resigning.
For example, career planning, commitment to promotion, salary increase, etc. It refers to the empty promises made by your boss. In addition, the boss will always draw a beautiful blueprint before doing things, so that you can devote yourself wholeheartedly, commonly known as drawing a pie.
Some companies especially like to say to job seekers, "We can learn a lot in our company. You are still young, and what you need most is experience. Our company is willing to give you a broad platform to train you and let you develop. " Like your parents, he has made a long-term and full plan for your success. The company seems to be an educational institution with compulsory teaching.
The origin of school painting:
Painting school did not appear in modern times, but was invented and widely used in ancient times. Painting cakes to satisfy hunger comes from a famous story: Cao Rui, the grandson of Cao Cao, was the second king of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period. He has a closest minister named Lu Yu.
The Biography of Lu Yu in the Later Han Dynasty records that once Cao Rui wanted to find a suitable person to be a "Zhongshulang", so he asked Lu Yu to recommend him. Lu Yu told him, "Don't choose talents just because he has a reputation. Fame is like a cake painted on the ground, you can't eat it. " From this sentence of Cao Rui, the idiom "painting cakes to satisfy hunger" came into being, which means to comfort yourself with fantasy or to set a routine for others.