And Zhao Huixin was standing at the reception desk with her big belly, her face blue.
“I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m late because I didn’t feel well last night.” Jiang Youyou was still a little shivering and her head was swimming.
Zhao Huixin sighed, “I’m going to hospital for a pregnancy test this afternoon, so you have to go to take the minutes instead of me. Don’t be late again.”
When she received a notice of criticism, Jiang Youyou felt quite guilty. Not only was she herself penalized, even Zhao Huixin was also involved and penalized. For herself, just one hundred yuan was deducted from her salary and an extension of her probation period, but Zhao Huixin had a three-hundred-yuan deduction and a serious warning.
She hadn’t got much of an appetite at lunch. Xu Nuo had been out to follow a senior staff of marketing department to visit the first-class customers. Dai Jingcheng came up to her, “You’re an odd girl.”
“How could you say I’m odd?” Due to the criticizing notice and penalty, Jiang Youyou was very unhappy. And what’s worse, someone said she was odd.
“There is something in you which is very different from others’, or an impressive and unforgettable experience, isn’t it?” Dai Jingcheng whispered in seriousness, “Do you mind telling me about it?”
“You’re really an arrogant person. Granted that I had impressive and unforgettable experience, why should I tell you about it? Who are you? I don’t seem to have any contact with you.” Jiang Youyou gave him a disdainful look.
“So could you tell me why on earth you should make every effort to seek a job in the company?” Dai Jingcheng was very curious.
“Why?!”Jiang Youyou thought there had already been enough to upset her, and she still had to deal with such a guy. “So can you tell me why I should seek a job in the company? And why should you work in the company? To make money, to make a living, to feed myself and my family, of course! How baffling you are!”
Jiang Youyou thought there would be someone who simply asked such unreasonable questions.
“I advise you to stay away from Zhao Huixin. In the workplace, colleagues should simply be colleagues, and boss should be boss, you should never make friends with them. The closer you get to them, the more secrets you will know; and the more secrets you know, you will be more regretful.” Dai Jingcheng said mysteriously.
“Why?” Jiang Youyou heard him mention the name of Zhao Huixin.
“You will know later. Wish you have a good appetite.” Dai Jingcheng left with his food tray.
Perhaps everyone had his own unknown secret.
Just at the very beginning of the meeting Luo Junchang found the new face of Jiang Youyou. He asked Huang Yu, “Where has Zhao Huixin been?”
Huang Yu answered with a flattering smile on her face, “She has asked for leave to go to hospital for the routine check-up, and the new administrative clerk Jiang Youyou will take the minutes.”
Jiang Youyou thought Luo Junchang was like a transformer. How could that somewhat dispirited young guy she met in the staff canteen now turn into a mature businessman in suits and ties? She couldn’t believe it. It seemed that men were also changeable animals.
An indubitable commanding tone with gentleness could be sensed in his voice. “As our routine, each department gives a summary to your weekly work, then the marketing department conducts the market analysis.”
Jiang Youyou moved her fingers fast on the keyboard of Zhao Huixin’s notebook to take notes. The sound she made was a bit loud when she knocked the keyboard, Huang Yu frowned and motioned her not to hit the board so hard.
Luo Junchang was fond of interrupting the report of the department managers and asked sharp questions for them to answer. The marketing manager was a little wet with cold sweat and said in a shivering voice, “In this quarter, the overall operation of our foreign trade export is good, but we’re still facing a great pressure. In the last quarter we acted early and accurately to focus on the target customers so that our product structure has undergone gratifying changes. That’s why we’ve still achieved our periodic objectives of fulfilling half of the sell-through within half of the operating time even in the case of a sharp decline in exports of small commodities and ornaments. However, there’s too much competition in the market, so we are feeling an increasing pressure, and some of our products have already been copied by businesses of the same type.”
Luo Junchang lit a cigarette and took a puff in the air, with his sharp look sweeping over everyone’s face. “I want to know what you’re going to do to all these instead of leaving the problems to me.”
“We are going to develop new products to break through the bottleneck and this will need the active cooperation of the Department of New Project. And we will offer satisfying service to all our long-term clients so that none of them will lose.”
Saying these, Luo Junchang’s eyes fell on Jiang Youyou, “You, the clerk taking the minutes, do write down the following words of mine: in the next quarter, we must fulfil the goal of the profit increase by more than eighteen percent on the basis of this quarter’s export bills. All of us must rally to cooperate with each other to achieve our goal. Otherwise, everyone present, including me, can’t account for the failure to the board and all of us have to pack and leave. Don’t take what I’ve said as farting, I’m serious.”
Before knocking off, Huang Yu saw a meeting minutes without a signature on her desk. Besides the terrible format, she surprisingly saw in the last line the words “Finally, the General Manager summed up with the following: In the next quarter, we must fulfil the goal of the profit increase by more than eighteen percent on the basis of this quarter’s export bills. All of us must rally to cooperate with one another to achieve our goal. Otherwise, everyone present, including me, can’t account for the failure to the board and all of us have to pack and leave. Don’t take what I’ve said as farting, I’m serious.”
She sent for Jiang Youyou. The new girl was actually properly dressed, and her make-up was just so-so, yet still okay. However, Huang Yu didn’t know whether she should laugh or cry to see the sentence “and all of us have to pack and leave.” She asked, “Have you ever taken minutes before?”
Standing in her office, Jiang Youyou was at a loss and shook her head embarrassingly. “This is the first time I took meeting minutes.”