Chapter 637: Assigning Work to Classmates

After chatting for a while, the people attending the gathering arrived one after another. Besides Chen Yang and Tang Miaomiao, everyone present were classmates with poor grades who had been forced to stay and develop in Qingshui City.

After not seeing each other for years, they had plenty to talk about. As the richest person in Qingshui City, Chen Yang naturally became the focus of everyone's attention.

Of course, their main purpose was still to ask Chen Yang for some benefits.

"Chen Yang, I heard you made Zhang Linlin a vice president at your company. When will you give us classmates a proper position too?" said Zhou Yunpeng, the class's number-one troublemaker.

This guy, relying on his tall and sturdy build, often hung out with outside socialites during school. Game halls, karaoke bars, and skating rinks were his usual haunts. To have fun, he stole the family's metalware and sold it.

The key point is, not only was he uneducated and talentless himself, he also led several male classmates astray. He angered the school authorities so much that they didn't let him graduate from high school and advised him to withdraw.

For someone like that, not to mention giving him a position, even placing him in my own factory worries me about corrupting the work environment.

"Zhou Yunpeng, if you want to start your own business, I can lend you some money. Come work at my company? Forget about it!"

"No way! Director Chen, I've already turned over a new leaf!" Seeing the former ugly duckling Zhang Linlin, who since following Chen Yang now dresses sharply and drives a Mercedes around town, Zhou Yunpeng felt intense envy. To leave a good impression on Chen Yang, he deliberately dyed his yellow hair black.

"Zhou Yunpeng, we've been classmates for three years; I know your background. What kind of person you are needs no further explanation. Moreover..." Chen Yang pointed at the other's large floral arm tattoo and said: "If you get such a big tattoo and go to my company, others will see it and think I run a gang."

Zhou Yunpeng said glumly: "Chen Yang, this is from my youthful ignorance; I regret it too! Can't you give me a chance to reform?"

Chen Yang said: "Didn't I just say that? If you want to do something on your own, I can lend you money. Nowadays, everywhere is pursuing economic development; as long as you're not afraid of hardship, you'll surely achieve something."

Zhou Yunpeng wasn't very happy about it; he'd rather have a comfortable office life. However, he had never dared to provoke Chen Yang during school, and now that Chen Yang has bodyguards around, he hardly dares to act recklessly.

"Chen Yang, just give me a minor leadership position at the shoe factory. We're all high school classmates; Zhang Linlin can be a vice president, so I might not be worse than her."

Chen Yang glanced at the slightly angry Zhang Linlin, then turned to Zhou Yunpeng and asked: "Do you know how many projects Zhang Linlin had already helped me with before becoming a vice president?"

Zhou Yunpeng shook his head. He had always thought Zhang Linlin could become a vice president only because she had some shady relationship with Chen Yang. But in front of so many classmates, he didn't dare speak those thoughts openly, lest he offend Chen Yang to death.

Chen Yang told him: "In my projects in Qingshui City, Zhang Linlin basically participated in all of them and completed them very well. That's why I made her a vice president."

Zhou Yunpeng said indignantly: "Chen Yang, if you just give me a chance, I'll definitely do better than Zhang Linlin."

Seeing Zhou Yunpeng unwilling to give up, Chen Yang said directly: "I have a large pig farm in Shuangfeng Town. If you can work there for two years without complaining, I might consider meeting your request."

Upon hearing he'd have to raise pigs, Zhou Yunpeng immediately shrank back: "Chen Yang, I grew up in the city; I don't know anything about raising pigs! Let me go to the shoe factory instead!"

Chen Yang laughed: "You haven't made shoes either, right? You'd still have to start from scratch."

Zhou Yunpeng frowned slightly: "Making shoes is cleaner than raising pigs, right?"

Chen Yang saw him picking and choosing in front of him and already didn't want to bother with him much.

Originally, we were just ordinary high school classmates, and our relationship back in school was merely average. He truly had no obligation to look after the other's emotions.

At that moment, Zhang Linlin beside Chen Yang said: "Chairman, Zhou Yunpeng wants to learn shoe-making, right? Then let him first work at our temporary factory for two months. If he performs well, I'll assign him a suitable position."

Chen Yang hadn't expected Zhang Linlin not only to bear no grudge against Zhou Yunpeng but also to proactively arrange work for him, which was somewhat unexpected. He looked at Zhou Yunpeng and said: "How about it? Willing to start as a general worker at the shoe factory?"

"Sure, then I'll come report tomorrow!" Zhou Yunpeng was very happy. Since the chairman and vice president are classmates, with that connection, who would dare to give him trouble in the shoe factory?

Chen Yang would hardly miss Zhou Yunpeng's thoughts. However, since Zhang Linlin wants to use him, she must have her own ideas. As long as it doesn't affect the overall situation, he decided to turn a blind eye.

Seeing that even someone like Zhou Yunpeng, an uneducated hooligan, could ask Chen Yang for a job, the others present couldn't sit still.

"Chen Yang, I also have no job; could I also go work at your shoe factory?"

"Chen Yang, I want to go to Old Citizen Meat Industry Limited Company; could you arrange that for me?"

"Chen Yang, there's no Old Citizen Agricultural Products Trading Company chain store near my home; could you give me an agency quota?"

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Chen Yang had actually anticipated this situation long ago, so he simply agreed to all of them. As long as it doesn't harm his own affairs, hiring anyone is fine.

To avoid future trouble, he made a declaration right at the dinner table: Those willing to work diligently at the company will certainly not be mistreated; those unwilling to work diligently will also be treated equally and handled according to factory rules.

Seeing Chen Yang agree to solve their problems, everyone's mood brightened greatly. The subsequent meal was especially fragrant.

Chen Yang didn't slight them either; he arranged the finest food and drink at Qingshui City Grand Hotel.

Doing this is to observe courtesy before resorting to force. By treating them with the highest standard, if they later violate company and factory regulations, we won't talk about classmate bonds anymore.

After eating and drinking their fill, everyone left satisfied, except the class teacher Luo Haitao, who stayed behind.

He grabbed Chen Yang's hand, with a look of shame, and said: "Chen Yang, thank you very much today. These classmates have ended up like this; as their homeroom teacher, I bear great responsibility. If back then I hadn't poured too much energy into the stock market and had paid more attention to them, perhaps their fates would have been different."

"Teacher Luo, let the past go; we must look forward." Chen Yang comforted Luo Haitao.

However, he also felt deep down that Luo Haitao was not qualified as a homeroom teacher. A teacher who trades stocks during work hours, even forming a habit, actually creates opportunities for delinquency for problem students like Zhou Yunpeng, and indirectly harms other students who want to study.

It's just that this generation of parents has a good temper. In another ten or twenty years, Luo Haitao's behavior will likely be exposed online, and his career prospects will be cut short early.