-Shinseki’s S Mall lots of complaints
-Current state of the big company’s service.
A news article that popped up on an internet media, that prioritizes consumers’ rights and interests, spread rapidly through SNS.
Most of the problem was errors in the program.
“I, I’m sorry. I will fix it right away.”
However, even that person had to lower his head eventually. Calls from above that person, and even above that person continued, and eventually, chairman Jeong JinYong called for a meeting himself.
Chairman Jeong JinYong asked with short words but with power.
One of the board members answered Jeong JinYong’s question. However, his answer only raised Jeong JinYon’s question.
Jeong JinYong asked again as if he didn’t understand. The members of the board couldn’t say anything. The bugs which occurred before YongHo was sent there was mostly solved by Yongho. This was the latest story that Jeong JinYong knew.
Side effects were endlessly creating more bugs. When he didn’t hear an answer, Jeong JinYong continued speaking.
The heavy voice filled the conference room. It was quiet. It was a wonder that even with so many people in the conference room, the conference room could be so quiet.
Jeong JinYong looked at the general manager who was in charge of the S Mall development team.
The general manager, who was so confident in front of the manager, couldn’t do anything in front of the chairman. He stuttered and cold sweat flowed from his forehead.
At the scolding words, the general manager replied with difficulty.
“What, hospitalized?”
Jeong JinYong looked at the general manager as if he didn’t understand. The general manager was only guilty for speaking the truth. Due to that sin, he had to receive sharp glares from the members of the board and the chairman himself.
In a 6-man ward, YongHo was lying down and was immersed in thought.
HIs face was full of comfort.
‘It must be chaos everywhere right now.’
He ended the call with the excuse of being unwell. However, even after he ended the call, the phone kept ringing like mad.
‘To think I was under burnout syndrome…’
The powerlessness he experienced recently also had a name.
However, he was recovering now.
As soon as he thought that, two people entered the ward.
It was Son SeokHo and Jeong DanBi.
Son SeokHo was calmly looking at Yongho. The empty eyes had changed. He knew that something had changed in that time.
“Now that I’m lying down, I think I can survive.”
Son SeokHo placed a box of sweet bean bread on the table. Jeong DanBi seemed overwhelmed and shook her head.
“They say I was under burnout syndrome. And so it’s better the more I rest… It seems like something happened at the company?”
“I don’t know what you’ve done until now but the S Mall development team says that they need you, Mr. YongHo.”
At Jeong DanBi’s words, YongHo replied slyly. Jeong DanBi seemed to have recognized that YongHo changed as she laughed.
“Well, there were a lot of things.”
“I think you can work when I look at your state now, so, what do you need for you to get up?”
Jeong DanBi cut short YongHo’s words which were about to get long. And finally, the words YongHo wanted came out of Jeong DanBi’s mouth.
“Did I? Maybe I did that.”
However, that was Jeong DanBi’s misunderstanding. YongHo could sleep in his underwear in the clubroom in the middle of summer.
“Why are you so concerned about him? Aren’t you strangers anyway?”
The YongHo that Jeong DanBi and Son SeokHo knew was an employee who was passionate about programming. There was only that he had distinguishing ability from others. They didn’t think that he was so altruistic.
“Strangers… We are indeed strangers, alright. But I want to ask back. Does team leader not care whether a stranger dies or not? Are you a person who would ignore even if a person collapsed right in front of your eyes? I couldn’t do that. I looked at a person who collapsed in front of me and …. Bang! Lightning flashed in my head.”
“I don’t know the law that well, but I consider myself quite capable at programming. A person collapsed in front of my eyes, and I can do some programming. And so I thought. ‘Ah, I don’t want to see this dogshit again.’ ‘I can’t handle it anymore.’”
In YongHo’s opinion, only manager-level personnel and above had ‘power’. He thought that only people at the manager-level position could do whatever they want.
Starting now.
Son SeokHo was clapping.
Only Jeong DanBi was confused. She was confused as to how to receive this situation.
Yu JaeMan’s compensation, which was dragged out for so long, was processed quickly as soon as YongHo got up from the ward.
As Shinseki was result-focused, the process was quick.
YongHo who was put again into the S Mall started overtime work again. And within one day, he had produced a result of fixing bugs.
And the day he came back.
“Seon…bae…”
“Ah, M, Mr DaeBang.”
At Na DaeBang’s words, YongHo could only nod his head. If he didn’t, he didn’t know what he had to face. The bloodshot red eyes and the limping body reminded him of a zombie.
And that zombie was saying it will eat him if he didn’t reply as it wanted.
When the situation with the S Mall finished with YongHo put into it, YongHo’s name was firmly engraved again in chairman Jeong JinYong’s mind.
To get an employee’s name get known by the chairman was unprecedented.
“It seems Mr. LeeYongHo is a great programmer.”
“But you know… The company known as Shinseki is run by a system, not by a person.”
Jeong JinHoon replied while lowering his head. However, Jeong JinYong wasn’t looking at him. He was looking at the setting sun outside the window.
The red sunset was shining through the window and illuminated the chairman’s office. It was an evening where such a beautiful light seemed bloody to a certain person.
With this as the trigger, the way YongHo lived his life changed. If he had lived passively until now, it changed to living actively.
To live actively, the first thing he did was to find his ‘original intention’. Achieving the objectives that he thought of when he first set foot into this industry.
His objective was clear, but the process was blurred. Moreover, there was no clear standard for being the ‘world’s best’. Who would be entitled, and who would entitle, etc… There was such things.
YongHo started writing a more specified list of objectives in his notepad.
Topcode first.
Stack Overfly first.
Developing a programming language that gets most used.
‘To think I can set objective like these……’
However, that all changed now.
He thought that he could do anything when he set his mind to it.
This was the biggest source of his confidence.
With a nervous mind, YongHo couldn’t sleep for a long time.