Chapter 140: Knowing the limits is the key to success
"Honey, I have interviews with two companies today, so I won't be back until noon."
"good."
Tong Cheng listened to his wife's words and nodded.
After their son’s apprenticeship ceremony ended yesterday, the couple had dinner and then returned home.
Although I am reluctant to leave my son, life must go on.
The son has recovered from his illness, but the family still owes a lot of money. His wife quit her job to take care of his son. Now his son stays in Raocheng to study, and his wife sent his resume to several companies last night.
"Then I'll eat at the company at noon."
"Hubby, come on!"
Faced with his wife's encouragement, Tong Cheng smiled. For the first time, he felt so relieved and full of confidence in the future.
Their family has finally seen the sun after the storm.
However, after arriving at the company, Tong Cheng's good mood was ruined.
"Tong Cheng, because of your absence without reason, you will not receive this year's year-end bonus."
"Manager, I asked for leave."
"You've asked for leave. Have you ever counted how many times you've asked for leave? We know your child is sick, but the company is not a charity. Tong Cheng, tell me the truth. If you continue like this, the company will fire you sooner or later."
The manager looked at Tong Cheng, and when he saw Tong Cheng was silent, a gleam in his eyes. Tong Cheng had been in the company for seven years and was currently a small supervisor. It was nothing originally, but now that the company has been acquired, the head office will allocate a large amount of resources to the company, and the company's development prospects are very promising.
In this situation, he was thinking of recruiting his brother-in-law into the company, but Tong Cheng blocked his brother-in-law's position. For employees of Tong Cheng's level, the head office would not conduct too detailed background checks. When his brother-in-law joined the company, he would be fine as long as he did not fill in his wife's name in the relative column.
"Tong Cheng, I also know about your family situation, but you have also seen that the company has changed its senior management. Otherwise, I will explain your situation to the higher-ups and ask the company to compensate you, and you can apply for voluntary resignation."
"Manager, my son's illness has healed, and I won't ask for leave again."
Tong Cheng’s words stunned the manager. If he recovered, how could his brother-in-law come in?
"Tong Cheng, this is not a question of whether your son's illness is getting better or not, but the higher-ups have already considered firing you. I'm telling you this because we've been colleagues for many years and I know that your family is in trouble. You have to know that if the higher-ups really start taking action, there are plenty of ways to force you to resign."
"Manager, I take more leave than other colleagues, but I pass every assessment and I work the most overtime in the company."
Tong Cheng argued that because of his son's illness, he and his wife often took their son to see a doctor. Nowadays, some good hospitals and some great experts have very regular work and rest schedules. They don't see patients on weekends and may only see patients two or three days a week, and they have to wait in line.
For this reason, he could only ask for leave from the company, and the company expressed understanding. However, in order to be worthy of this job, he would choose to work overtime every time he worked and finish his work ahead of schedule.
"Tong Cheng, I'm telling you these things from the bottom of my heart because we've been colleagues for many years. If you don't listen, that's your business."
The manager was a little annoyed and angry, and asked Tong Cheng to leave the office after saying this.
Tong Cheng walked out of the office with a depressed look on his face. His son had just recovered from his illness, so was he going to be unemployed?
Ding Dong!
At the same time, the wife's message also came.
"Honey, I passed the interview and can start work tomorrow. You can go home for lunch. I'll go back to buy groceries now."
Seeing the content of his wife's message, Tong Cheng smiled.
After all, there is good news.
After get off work in the morning, Tong Cheng left the company and walked home. When he arrived at the gate of the community, he found two little girls selling flowers.
flower!
As far as I can remember, the last time I gave flowers to my wife was on their first wedding anniversary. Later... later, every penny was saved for Tongtong's medical treatment. Not to mention buying flowers, it seems that I haven't even gone shopping with my wife in the mall.
Thinking of this, Tong Cheng walked up to the little girl and asked, "How much does this cost?"
"Uncle, ten dollars a stick."
"Give me one."
After paying the money, Tong Cheng took the flower into the community and opened the door with the key.
"What are you...doing?"
The wife looked at Tong Cheng holding a flower, her eyes lit up at first, but then she complained: "Husband, although Tong Tong has recovered from her illness, we still have to make money. Tong Tong's education costs money, and we can't let Tong Tong's teacher pay for it. We also have to pay back the relatives."
"It's not expensive, just ten dollars."
"Ten yuan is not a lot of money. When I took Tongtong to the hospital, I wanted to save..."
The wife didn't say anything else. In order to save money, when she took Tongtong to the hospital, she would buy a few extra buns for breakfast and save them for lunch.
But she knew that her husband was the same, thinking of various ways to save money, not to mention quitting smoking. Her husband used to like to get together with friends occasionally, but in recent years it has been rare. Even if his friends know their family situation, he doesn't have to pay every time. But if he eats a meal with someone, he owes that person a favor, so he can't let others treat him every time.
But since there was really no money at home, my husband simply turned down his friends’ invitations.
"The company I interviewed this time has a one-month probation period and offers a salary of 5,000 yuan, with a monthly meal allowance of 1,500 yuan."
"That's not bad."
In Qu City, this salary is not low.
"By the way, how are you doing? Have you explained it to the manager?"
Tong Cheng did not hide anything and said truthfully: "No, the manager deducted my year-end bonus."
"It was deducted. How could he do that? Otherwise...or else, why don't you talk to Consultant Lin? Didn't you say yesterday that the chairman of your head office was also present at the scene?"
Tong Cheng shook his head after hearing what his wife said. His wife continued, "Judging from what happened yesterday, Tong Tong's teacher is more powerful than we thought. If he tells Mr. He, it will definitely be helpful."
"It is precisely because of this that I cannot say anything." Tong Cheng looked at his wife and said seriously, "Wife, it is a blessing for our family that they can accept Tong Tong as their apprentice."
"I just think that Consultant Lin is Tongtong's teacher, helping us..."
"Don't have such thoughts." Tong Cheng interrupted his wife and continued, "Mr. Lin has only Tongtong as his apprentice now, but considering Mr. Lin's age, he will definitely take more apprentices in the future. We must let Tongtong have dignity. Even if we can't help Tongtong, we must not hold him back. Let Tongtong and Mr. Lin maintain the purest teacher-student relationship."
"What you said makes sense, but I think..."
"It's okay. Now that Tongtong has recovered, we will have less expenses in the future. It's just that we don't have a year-end bonus, but we will get it if we work hard next year. Our lives will only get better and better in the future."
Tong Cheng comforted his wife but did not tell her about his manager's suggestion that he resign. He had finally seen hope and he did not want to make his wife feel bad again.
If you are really going to be fired by the company, then just change to another company. It doesn't matter if it's a little more tiring and hard.
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Longxi Group Headquarters!
"Mr. He, this is the information you requested."
The assistant handed a personnel list to He Jie, but there was confusion in her eyes. Why did the boss suddenly care about an employee of the Qushi branch, and a middle-level employee who was not even a manager?
He Jie was holding the information, on which was a photo of Tong Cheng, but the Tong Cheng in the photo looked much younger than he is now.
What Tong Cheng didn't know was that He Jie also recognized him yesterday, but she didn't say it out loud.
In that kind of occasion, as a spectator, it would not be appropriate for her to greet Tong Cheng as a boss, as it would bring more pressure to the couple.
What made her appreciate was that Tong Cheng must have recognized her, but he never revealed his identity from beginning to end. Putting aside other things, based on the situation yesterday, if he had said that he was from the branch company, she would have given him some care because he was the father of Lin Ye's apprentice.
She admires people who don't take shortcuts.
"How is the situation of the branch in Qu City recently?"
"We have just integrated the resources of several branches. At the last meeting, we arranged for Vice President Xiang to go there. He just went there this morning."
"Then give this information to Xiang Ming."
"good."
The assistant didn't ask any further questions, and He Jie didn't explain. Xiang Ming should know what to do when he saw the information.
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"Mr. Xiang, I have been looking forward to your arrival."
"Well, let's go meet everyone first."
Xiang Ming did not say too much politely. As an airborne general manager, he naturally knew that some of the branch's original executives would definitely not be convinced of him. This was also the norm in the workplace. When a company was acquired, most of the original executives would eventually leave, and only a few who could see the situation clearly would stay.
A new emperor appoints new ministers, and the same applies to enterprises.
Before coming here, he had selected a few names of people he could win over, but just now in the car, when he received a message from Mr. He's assistant, he knew it was time to make a change.
Xiang Ming glanced around the company and quickly locked onto the protagonist.
Children's city!
Seeing Xiang Ming walking towards Tongcheng, the other managers who followed him were a little puzzled. They exchanged glances, but then they found that the others also looked confused.
"You are Tong Cheng, right?"
Tong Cheng looked at the man in front of him and was a little slow to react. The manager behind him quickly reminded him: "Tong Cheng, this is our new General Manager Xiang."
"Hello, Mr. Xiang."
Hearing the manager's words, Tong Cheng quickly stood up from his workstation.
"I looked at the company's employee profiles before I came here. Tong Cheng, you have worked in the company for seven years and you are very serious about your work. That's good. Work hard. The company will not mistreat any hard-working employee."
Xiang Ming patted Tong Cheng on the shoulder, said this, and then walked away.
He believed that the managers behind him could understand what he was expressing, and he was not afraid that someone would report to the head office that he had unscrupulously started to win over and arrange his cronies as soon as he arrived at the branch.
This is the person that the boss hinted at promoting, even though he didn't say it explicitly.
No matter who is behind this person, the company belongs to the boss. Since the boss wants to promote him, he must complete the boss's instructions.
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