‘Did he mean this by ‘look forward to it’?’
As if they selected employees from their face, a woman with looks that might appear on TV was politely sitting. On the other side, YongHo was politely sitting on a sofa.
After receiving the interphone, the woman stood up.
To relax the tension in his stiff body, he inhaled. He didn’t do anything wrong anyway so YongHo followed the secretary inside.
Ta-tap. Ta-tap.
“He just entered?”
“If you’re done preparing, send the memo.”
“Is this really necessary?”
“The thing you’re doing right now. Team leader Jeong DanBi is also saying she will leave the company continuously… I’m afraid if you’re just making things bigger.”
“I understand.”
This was a top-command bottom-obey structure which was even stricter than the military. The level of the man’s questions could also considered going quite overboard.
After the man left, a memo arrived at chairman Jeong JinYong’s secretary room.
Tiger face.
It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say Jeong JinYong’s face from up front was exactly like a tiger.
“Welcome.”
“G, good day to you, sir.”
He didn’t say anything special, but YongHo’s face lowered just from feeling the imposing voice. Jeong JinYong, who was standing up, sat down first. YongHo, who was standing there awkwardly, also sat down on the leather chair.
“……”
-You will be fine if you’re quiet when a superior is talking.
“I’m doing my best.”
“None, sir.”
“Where do you think the problem is in Shinseki?”
At that moment, YongHo doubted his ears. His confusion showed up on his face at the sudden question. He never imagined that someone would ask a new recruit like him, who didn’t even work in the company for 1 year.
After understanding the intention behind the question, YongHo posed himself before he started talking. His tension decreased perhaps due to having seen the chairman once already in Busan.
YongHo started talking about the problems he was thinking about by comparing it to programming.
Jeong JinYong said with his eyes. ‘Stop beating around the bush and say it quickly.’
Jeong JinYong’s expression didn’t show much of a change even after listening to YongHo’s confident words.
The common point was – managing outsourcing.
It maybe a naïve thought from a new employee who hadn’t even worked for 1 year. There may be some complicated relations inside the company which YongHo didn’t know.
Progress is made this way.
“That is it, sir.”
“No, sir.”
The interphone went off in the chairman’s office. Jeong JinYong stood up from his seat and went towards his desk. Then he put down the phone with a stiff face.
Jeong JinYong’s figure from the back was emitting an aura of a tiger chasing prey. The calm atmosphere from when he was listening to YongHo was all but gone.
“You, is your salary not enough?”
At the out of the blue question, YongHo asked back. However, Jeong JinYong didn’t listen to him anymore.
The confident voice became cold. His raised voice represented his mood.
YongHo could only helplessly leave after standing up, as Jeong JinYong said.
“Mr. Lee YongHo? We’re from the inspection team. Please come with us.”
“First, come with us before talking.”
They were in front of chairman Jeong JinYong’s office so it wasn’t the right place to talk. Perhaps having predicted the future, YongHo touched his watch.
“What did you say?”
“How could they?”
“This… there are some witnesses who gave it directly to him so… won’t he be dismissed at the very least……”
“It was an employee from a cooperating company. The company he belongs to mostly receives work related to managing premium outlets and it doesn’t seem that big.”
Jeong DanBi abruptly stood up from her seat. Then she left the office with hurried steps.
Someone called YongHo, who was about to get on the elevator. It was Jeong DanBi who was just going to the inspection team.
“Oh, team leader? What are you doing here……”
“What happened?”
“I’m not sure what happened, but it’s all solved now.”
Jeong DanBi asked with a worried expectation. Bribery wasn’t simple. If there was even a witness, then YongHo would be punished without being able to do anything.
“I got involved in something unbelievably absurd once, so I bought a watch.”
Jeong DanBi, who didn’t know the specifics, signaled with her eyes to talk more. As such, YongHo tapped his watch he was wearing on his right wrist.
YongHo, who was talking, didn’t have a good expression. His expression looked bitter rather than happy from the problem being solved.
Jeong JinHoon, who was receiving the report, seemed surprised as he stopped tapping the desk.
“They said the whole situation was recorded. We’re in a situation where we have to punish some other person now.”
He blinked a few times as if he was thinking complicated things.
“We should. Show all the company employees an example of what would happen to them if they received bribes.”
“It seems Jeong DanBi has some luck with people.”
“Didn’t you say he was the core developer for Shinseki Magic Mirror? We can’t give him to Jeong DanBi.”
“You do know that things are getting more and ugly, right?”
“This will be bad. Whether for you or for me.”
“There’s a favorite line from our chairman Jeong JinYong. ‘Bring me results’. This will be the last opportunity for you.”
Jeong JinHoon’s fingers tapped on the desk again and started producing a clear sound.
On the grill was a nice looking rib-eye. The worker who was grilling the meat on the side carefully placed the delicious looking rib-eye to the plate placed in front of Jeong DanBi.
Jeong DanBi picked up the meat on her plate with chopsticks and moved it to YongHo’s plate.
YongHo ate a piece of meat with a tired expression.
However, due to the exhaustion given to him by the incidents that happened in the day, he couldn’t taste it properly. From interviewing the chairman to an inspection by the inspection team… The day went past without him knowing what happened at all.
Jeong DanBi said while putting a piece of meat into her mouth. However, YongHo didn’t believe that declaration.
Absolutely.
He realized again after today’s incidents.
If he just forgot last time’s experience, then he might have been in trouble today.
There are countless incidents which people don’t account for. He suddenly got the bug window ability, he was conspired against… He didn’t know what might happen in the future. Reality was more unbelievable than novels.
The bug window may disappear too.
This was what YongHo was thinking while eating meat with Jeong DanBi shining prettily in front of him under the bright lighting.