Chapter 100: I Only Intended to Poke a Two, But He Played a King Bomb!

"Xiao Sun, what kind of tone is that? Look at everyone else; they all arrived at the Company early. Ah, do you really think there's nothing wrong with arriving at this hour?"

"Young people need to learn skills properly. Don't always think about clocking in right on time; you won't learn anything that way. If you want to establish yourself in this society, you have to learn properly."

"Once you've mastered your skills, things will be better in the future. When you're young, you should strive more; don't always think about 'lying flat'."

By the end, Director Wang even deliberately smiled and made a witty remark. He had seen the "lying flat" culture in a short video posted by some expert before.

That expert's words really hit the spot for him. Young people, in the prime of their lives, society has nurtured you, so you should contribute to society properly.

Lying flat is a sin.

In any case, at the time, Director Wang felt it was absolutely right. As expected of an expert, the things they say are so high-level!

That is why he specifically brought it up today, to show that he is the same as the young people.

However, this brand of chicken soup that had always been effective in the past failed Director Wang this time.

Opposite him, Xiao Sun bristled: "What kind of tone? What kind of tone? Is it wrong for me to call you Wang Ge? What does it have to do with me what time they get to the Company!"

"I came to the Company to make money. What, you expect me to give my life to the Company for this pittance during my probation period?"

"I'm not 'lying flat'; I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do and earning the money I'm supposed to earn!"

"Look at you, Xiao Sun, why are you getting so worked up while I'm talking to you? My point is, you're still young, don't keep talking about money. Young people really need to strive more, don't always think about resting..."

"Look at you, always thinking about resting. Then why even come to work, right?"

In the office area, the Company's veteran Employees were already wanting to laugh. This conversation was almost no different from the one with Zhou Yi earlier, only this Xiao Sun was even more irritable.

Director Wang probably still thought every young person was like Zhou Yi. At the very least, Zhou Yi had worked like a horse for a year after joining.

"Are you done talking? What exactly do you want? So what if I clock in right on time?"

Just as they were speaking, two more young people arrived from behind. Checking the time, it was exactly eight fifty-nine.

And one of them was laughing: "Not a minute off. Please call me the Master of Time Management."

As it happened, they had just come up and heard the two arguing, and soon joined in.

"You set the nine o'clock clock-in rule yourselves, so what? Is it wrong for us to clock in at nine? You've been spoiled rotten. Damn it, I quit! What the hell!" The Master of Time Management who came up later was even more irritable.

Huh? Director Wang was stunned. This... they're just quitting like that?

Seeing that Director Wang didn't know what to say, Ma Yao had already crowded over, looking fawning: "Zheng, don't be so hasty. Director Wang is actually doing this for your own good."

"Besides, if you resign so impulsively, you won't get your wages..."

It would have been better if she hadn't said that. As soon as she did, Zheng bristled even more: "If they don't give it, they don't give it. Who cares about their measly wages? It's not even enough for me to gas up my car. They really think they're something special!"

"Exactly, just a bit of pocket change. I quit. Damn, what a pain."

The young people were shouting that they quit. Zheng even went straight to the office area to pack up his things. This made Director Wang a bit anxious.

Although the Company hadn't dismissed any veterans during this period, they had already been preparing them for departure through job transfers and talks.

Then they were just waiting for the newcomers to be trained so they could dismiss the veterans.

As it turned out, before anything had even happened, the newcomers were already quitting, and they didn't want anything, packing up their things to leave cleanly and efficiently.

Director Wang had truly never seen employees like this. This was malicious resignation!

The Master of Stirring the Pot, Ma Yao, was still saying: "Zheng, you have to notify the Company in advance if you're resigning. You can't just leave like that. It'll be bad for your future job hunting..."

Zheng had already packed everything and said directly: "Bad is bad, I don't care. I just can't stand this guy surnamed Wang. I quit!"

He paused and then greeted: "Brothers, I'm off. I hope this crappy Company goes bankrupt soon. I'm fed up with the boss's empty promises; I want to go cycle the Qingzang Line to digest it."

Truly waving his sleeves without taking a single cloud with him.

Director Wang was stunned watching this. Are young people nowadays all this brave?

Xiao Sun was also packing his things, and others were hesitating. Director Wang hurriedly said: "No, don't be in such a rush. The reason you're earning less now is because of the probation period. Once you're made permanent, your wages will go up."

"Look at all the veteran Employees in our Company. Why can they do it, and you..."

However, before Director Wang could finish his sentence, his phone rang.

After picking it up and listening for a few moments, Director Wang's expression changed drastically. Looking at the veteran Employees in the office area, he said directly: "What are you doing? What are you all doing? Did you plan this? A collective resignation?"

Pfft! Xiao Sun next to him couldn't help but laugh out loud.

"Hey, didn't you just say your Company's veteran Employees were so good and responsible? Why are they resigning too? May this crappy Company go bankrupt early."

Director Wang pointed at the other party but couldn't get a word out. Too busy to consider what was going on with these newcomers, he hurried off to find his brother-in-law.

This matter was too big, because Manager Wu from Personnel had just called to say that the Company's employees seemed to have planned it, all going in droves to submit their resignation letters.

Manager Wu had been in Personnel for so many years and had never seen so many people resign at the same time!

Most importantly, basically everyone in the Design Department had submitted their resignations and were all leaving, not a single one staying.

The problem reflected by this situation was very serious; it meant that you, as a leader, hadn't led your people well at all!

In the Chairman's office, Zhao Youde was pacing back and forth. Soon, the office door was knocked, and Director Wang walked in.

"Brother-in-law, this matter, I'm looking into this matter too. The main thing is that it's still unclear who is leading it..."

"Didn't I tell you last time? Call me Chairman in the Company!" Zhao Youde shouted.

He paused, then said: "You still don't know anything at this point? Forget it, I'll go talk to everyone. Your department is actually all resigning; you're really something!"

Having said that, Zhao Youde walked out directly. If we're talking about being anxious, he was the truly anxious one.

Arriving at the Personnel Department, there were already quite a few people there. Manager Wu was busy, sweating profusely, constantly trying to persuade everyone to go back and calm down first.

"Listen to me, you really can't just resign like this. Don't you know the situation in the industry right now? Is it that easy to find a job after resigning?"

Ma Yao, who was to the side, stepped forward and said: "Whether it's easy to find a job or not is our business. We work hard and put in overtime, only to be inexplicably transferred in the end. We don't want to end up like that in the future."

"That's right. How long have Han and the others worked here? They were transferred just like that, and suddenly they're in administration. Such an absurd thing, we're afraid we'll end up like that too."

Manager Wu said: "Everyone listen to me, calm down, you really need to calm down. Han's situation is special, and besides..."

"What about me? Is my situation special too? I was the one you told yesterday that I should resign myself!"

Ma Yao said with great surprise: "Yesterday I just said that if the Company doesn't give me severance pay, I won't resign, and your face changed so fast, you were practically cursing at me."

"After I went back, I thought it through. Look, I gave you my resignation letter today, and you're telling me to calm down again. How is it that we're wrong no matter what? Resigning is wrong, and not resigning is wrong. Anyway, you're always right."

Manager Wu had a headache; having worked in human resources for so long, he didn't need to guess to know that the Company's recent moves were quite significant.

Employees are people, not nails, nor are they donkeys on a production team; they all have their own thoughts.

Moving veteran employees around and calling them in for talks—even if it was supposedly confidential—everyone wasn't blind.

But he was just in human resources; he had no way to influence what the Company's top management wanted to do.

To put it bluntly, many human resources staff are just there to clean up after the top brass; the top brass won't tell you directly to get lost, it's always human resources that notifies you.

And then, when you talk to human resources about compensation or the like, do they have the authority to decide that?

The answer is, of course, no, so in the end, it just becomes a case of employees making things difficult for other employees...

The difference is that some human resources staff, after working for a long time, subconsciously elevate their own position, thinking they are in charge of people, and that's all there is to it.

So, Manager Wu could only try his best to urge everyone to calm down.

"Off you go, off you go, get back to work. I've notified you in advance anyway, just make sure you settle my wages for me when the time comes."

Many companies have some inexplicable rules, such as requiring Company consent for an employee to resign; these are all just bluffs.

For an employee to resign, they just need to provide written notice to the Company thirty days in advance—read that clearly, it's written notice!

It doesn't require his consent; when the time is up, I can leave if I want to, and he still has to settle that month's wages for me.

If they don't give it, just keep the evidence and go to Arbitration.

Zhao Youde looked at the situation and turned his head to ask, "Who in your department is easier to talk to?"

Director Wang thought for a moment and said, "That person, Han, is especially easy to talk to. When asked to transfer, he argued a few times, but didn't say anything else."

"Fine, then call him in for a talk first, and then call another five or six people."

Soon, Han received the notice that the Chairman wanted to talk to him.

He went all the way to the Chairman's office.

Zhao Youde was already sitting on a small sofa waiting; this was also to get closer.

Director Wang was sitting nearby, and seeing him enter, he immediately stepped forward and smiled, "Han, sit down quickly, have some tea first."

"Don't misunderstand, because everyone wants to resign this time, the Chairman has decided to talk to everyone one by one to see what demands and problems everyone has."

"If there are any, we can just solve them; there's no need to resign, right?"

Seeing Director Wang's polite expression, and even pouring tea for him, Han hurriedly said, "Director Wang, leave it, I'll do it myself, I'll do it myself."

After exchanging a few polite words, Zhao Youde began, "Han, you are a veteran of our Company; you've been here for quite a while, and I've always known about you."

"You've put in a lot of effort for our Company over these many years, and your salary has risen slowly; the Company has indeed treated you a bit unfairly."

"Regarding the previous transfer, I hope you won't take it to heart. The Company is in a bit of difficulty right now, so let's have mutual understanding. Look, you can go back to the Design Department next month, and we'll give you a raise."

"I remember everyone who has contributed to the Company."

Han still wore that very polite smile on his face; if he hadn't seen the Company's ridiculous operations with his own eyes during this time, he really would have believed those words...

Never mind anything else, you, the Chairman, remember me?

You didn't say anything when transferring me, and now you come out and say don't take it to heart...

Not to mention the Chairman, because many Company executives are actually very polite to the employees below them.

This is also easy to understand, because Company executives only need to manage the people under them, while employees face their immediate superiors directly.

If their immediate superior is scolded, they will naturally come to find trouble with you, so many grassroots employees feel that the big leaders of the Company are especially polite.

Even if there's a problem, they won't scold people; they have such poise.

Instead, it's my team leader or whoever who scolds me at every turn. Sure enough, the big leaders have cultivation; someone like you deserves not to be a leader...

And as for "Skin-Peeler Wang," he was arguing with me before, and now he's this polite?

Han also didn't know, otherwise he would definitely have thought of this sentence!

After we leave, they will build schools and hospitals for you, and they will increase your wages. This is not because they found their conscience, nor because they became good people, but because we were here...

Therefore, Han smiled and said, "Well, Chairman Zhao, it's really that I have something going on at home, there's no other way, I must resign, so you see..."

Something going on at home—as for what it is, I certainly can't tell you.

Zhao Youde didn't speak, but Director Wang had already opened his mouth: "Han, you're being a bit unreasonable here. The Chairman has already said he'd give you a raise, just tell us what you know."

"How come everyone is suddenly bringing up resignation for no reason?"

"Director Wang, I don't know either. I really just have something going on at home, it's a coincidence."

Seeing that there was no result after asking several times, Zhao Youde picked up his teacup to drink tea.

So Han took his leave.

However, although Han was a "good old man," he was very smart, and after a few more talks, Zhao Youde found out the reason.

"You mean, these people have all found their next employer? So it's another company poaching us?"

"Tengda Company!"

Director Wang hurriedly started checking; now, registered companies can be easily looked up, and he soon found this so-called Tengda Company.

"Registration time... oh, it existed before. Legal representative... Zhou Yi?"

Not to mention anything else, this name was just too sensitive!

"What did you say? Whose company is that? Zhou Yi? Is it that Zhou Yi you fired before?"

Zhao Youde, who was nearby, looked as if he had seen a ghost upon hearing this.

Director Wang felt cold sweat starting to break out on his forehead: "It shouldn't be, right? I only wanted him to go through Mediation, it shouldn't be... it shouldn't be that he specifically opened a company..."

Although he felt it wasn't reasonable at all, because it really shouldn't be!

Just because we suddenly fired you, and didn't give you double wages, didn't give you severance, and even filed a Lawsuit to make you compensate for the Company's losses, you're going to open a company to poach people directly?

Is it worth it?

Good evening everyone, I'm trying my best to write, but the speed just won't go up. If I go any faster, it will be very watery...

(End of chapter)