Chapter One Hundred and Sixty-Seven: The Person in Control I (2/2)

The whole incidence ended up with the female employee opening a new bank account. That was when the Finance department had realized that the reason why her initial bank account had two levels of password security was because her account had over ten million dollars so her account was automatically set up to have transfer confirmation.

Qin Xi knew that there were some people who came to YL for Yan Jin, like a fangirl pursuing her idol. But the indescribable characteristic she noticed was different from the typical admiration. It was more aggressive and with distinctive motive.

Zhang Yuji had this particular characteristic.

“Chairman Yan would find out anyway. You’ll see the consequences.” Zhang Yuji did not answer Qin Xi’s question.

“Hm. Thanks for your concern.” Qin Xi said.

“You! I advised you out of concern, but you won’t listen. Don’t take it out on me when things go wrong.”

“I won’t.”

Zhang Yuji’s arrogant shadow slowly disappeared from sight as Qin Xi continued to draft the contract.

It was possible that Chairman Yan had some big secret background that normal employees did not know of. But “they” knew it very clearly.

Everyone still had lingering fears regarding the mass retrenchment exercise that had happened in the design department not long ago. It was one of the reasons why the design department was still lacking in employees despite two mass recruitment exercises in the past. Nevertheless, the pressure and panic in other departments was not as obvious compared to the design department. As time flew by, the impact caused by that incident was starting to vanish and the nervous atmosphere in the other departments slowly disappeared.

Qin Xi was a HR personnel, which was why she had a better idea of what had happened than everyone else. The majority of the people who left during the retrenchment exercise had that particular characteristic.

Could this possibly mean that Yan Jin was not unaware of these seemingly unsuspecting “internal troubles”?

Also, after the retrenchment incident, the peace had finally returned. Was it really so simple for these people just because they were not from the design department?

With regards to the retrenchment, there was much speculation in the employee group chat. But from how Qin Xi looked at it, only their small group of over ten odd people had guessed the most logical and possible situation correctly.

How interesting.

Qin Xi smiled.

……

On the second day of work, Nan Wei felt the malice from the other interns.

Other than himself, this group of interns were mostly graduate students with majors in design or people with a few years of internships from other companies who came to try their luck at YL. Overall, they had lower spending power and could not afford S City’s high-priced properties nor rental and were left with living at the employee hostel that YL provided. It was located near the office and could save the time and effort travelling between work and home.

And so, Nan Wei who drove to work was very eye-catching to them. Plus, with the “impressive feat” of reporting late to work on the first day, his reputation was instantly widespread among them.

The development of this incident was also partly because of the introduction that Qin Xi had given them regarding the internship program.

YL’s internship followed an elimination system – if they were in other departments, the senior employees would evaluate them according to their overall work performance, while the design department’s evaluation focused more on drawing quality and the passing rate of their drafts. The interns had the same work requirement every day and about 80% of the interns would be selected and 15-20% of them would be eliminated based on the passing rate of their drafts.

Despite Qin Xi emphasizing that the design department would only look at the quality of their designs, most of them still believed that their confirmation would be based on their overall performance.

Thus, the unconventional Nan Wei was deemed to be the first person to be eliminated among all of the interns.

There were a total of twelve interns. 20% would mean that only two people would be eliminated. Hence Nan Wei’s elimination was a big relief to them.

It seemed especially so to them when all the other interns were cautiously and conscientiously working on their drafts while Nan Wei played his mobile as he sat at the sofa near the window, enjoying his cup of tea. Almost everyone felt that it was already a miracle that a young and idle person like Nan Wei could even be recruited to be an intern.

Nan Wei did notice the intentional isolation by the people around him. Still, he continued what he did and seemed uncaring about this treatment.

This treatment lasted a whole month until…

“There’s some issues with your first draft. I remember it’s not my first time telling you that there’s no need to be so detailed at first.”

Xiao Yu held a stack of drawings as he walked into the interns’ office. He immediately saw Nan Wei who was sitting by the window and very casually walked over.

Nan Wei also very casually accepted the drawings and casually asked, “How did you get here, Master?”

“Yan Jin went off for a meeting. I seized the opportunity to come over. I’m afraid I’ll get moldy if I continue to stay at the thirtieth-floor.”

Xiao Yu did indeed make a convenient trip over to hand over the reviewed drafts and was prepared to head back already. Before he left though, he went through the important points with Nan Wei again.

“Sure, I’ll correct it right away.”

“I’ll have to trouble you with the Summers new release. Our younglings at YL are simply too inexperienced. They are fine with free-styling, but not even as competent as a high-schooler when it comes to assisting with other drawing. Thanks for the help anyway, I’ll get Yan Jin to increase your pay.”

“Sure, just give me the word.”