The Bottom of a Large Company Does a Good Job - Chapter 288



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Episode 288. Let’s get it together (3)

It started as a technical team in the general construction sector.

The general construction sector was responsible for construction other than housing, such as buildings, concert halls, and bridges.

In fact, housing is also considered building construction, but the apartment business has different business characteristics and is large in scale, so it is a separate sector.

Unlike apartments that are mainly redeveloped through bidding, there were various routes through which work came in, such as orders, requests, and bidding.

Unlike apartments that are built in the same manner, in the general construction sector, each incoming job had a different design and different requirements.

It is natural that the construction methods used to build a bridge and a concert hall are different.

That is why the technical team in the general construction sector has always been an important department dedicated to research and development.

Of course, there is a separate research and development department that studies the latest construction methods.

They call it the Technology Research Center.

This was a place where new technologies were developed throughout architecture, and each department’s technical team was a team that researched construction methods applicable only to that field.

In other words, the technology research headquarters was where new technologies were developed, and the technology team was where already developed technologies and methods were applied to the field.

Naturally, the intensity and level of the employees’ work was high.

The problem is that the team leader is incompetent.

“Oh my!”

A male employee who visited the team leader’s office expressed his anger.

The employees around them all raised their heads.

It was such a familiar sight now that I could guess why.

“Did it get stolen again?”

The female employee sitting next to me looked at me with pity in her eyes.

A male employee, unable to control his anger, slammed the documents in his hand onto the desk.

Even so, he must have let out a vague, thud sound at the end, as if he was afraid that the team leader’s office would hear him.

“Yes. He put his name on the report I brought. And he did it in front of me. Now he’s very confident.”

At first, it seemed like there was some guilt.

Because he listened intently to the reports his employees brought in and later secretly slipped his name into them.

But now it was really shameless.

Even when I went in to report, they barely listened.

In the old days, I listened diligently because I had to know what I was going to present to my superiors.

Now, we call the staff who wrote the report into the conference room and go in with them.

In the past, you would add your own name next to the name of the employee who wrote it, but now you erase it and add your own name.

It’s like they’re stealing it away as if they wrote it themselves.

But, aren’t you just taking your employees to the conference room without them even knowing the content?

What would the employee think if he were to give a presentation at a meeting attended by executives?

The name of the writer is clearly written as the team leader.

It was the same this time too.

“The Taesung Department Store building was something the chairman had specifically instructed us to pay attention to. So we paid attention to it, and now they’re taking it away from us as if they had been waiting for it.”

The latest construction method that took days and weeks of overtime work to come up with was stolen in just three seconds by changing the name by three letters.

This wasn’t limited to just this employee.

The surrounding employees were gnashing their teeth.

“I’m sure the chairman cares about that, so he’s just doing it to look good.”

“I knew it from the moment you kept nagging me to hurry up and submit the report. I had to hurry up and take the report to the chairman and show him that I was working hard. How frustrating would it have been for you to procrastinate while we were just looking for the latest papers?”

“I’m really going crazy.”

The female employee sitting next to me had bloodshot eyes and messed up her hair.

Her neatly groomed short hair became disheveled in an instant.

“You kept nagging me so much that I went to work over the weekend and looked up all the latest papers. And you’re going to wipe your mouth like that? I’m really going to kill you. I’m going to kill you… … .”

There was a murderous look in the female employee’s eyes, but no one tried to stop her.

No, I would like to rush to the team leader’s office together.

-Suddenly.

The door to the team leader’s office opened and a neatly dressed team leader came out holding a thick report in one hand.

When I went in to report earlier, I was clearly only wearing a shirt.

Before I knew it, he was dressed neatly, wearing a tie and a jacket.

In his other hand, he also had a USB containing PPT materials.

As soon as you upload it, just change the name and go report it to the higher-ups.

The eyes of the employees who saw that piece of shit grew wide.

“Should I just accept it and quit?”

Someone muttered.

His eyes were fixed on the back of the team leader’s head as he left the office.

The whites of my eyes were sparkling with life.

“Ugh, do you think that’ll fix it? You’ll only be hurt, sir.”

A dark-faced employee sighed deeply and stopped him.

“If I take it and go out, where will I go?”

“I guess it’s somewhere.”

“It’ll be hard if I leave. And I’m old. I’m not even sure if I’ll be able to change jobs… … .”

I omitted the rest, but it sounded good to the ears.

If you keep running wild and I get cut off too, you’ll have nowhere to go. Just endure it.

Then, the employees who had been glaring at the office door as if they were going to eat me sat down, gritting their teeth.

If it’s only you who’s getting fired, then it’s okay, but if it’s someone else’s job that’s at stake, then you can’t act recklessly.

“No, but isn’t it worth a try? This is too much. Skip the team leader and go find the manager or the head of the department… .”

When the youngest employee, who had just joined, couldn’t stand it anymore and started talking, the manager suppressed his anger and said.

“Go find them. What should I do? The manager, the head of the headquarters, the team leader is taking away our report. Are you going to do that?”

“Let’s tell the truth. Then, won’t something be done?”

The staff all laughed in unison.

Some people laughed at that.

“Those people, I know everything.”

“……yes?”

The youngest employee asked back in disbelief.

“We already know that you only changed the names in our report. The manager and the head of the headquarters are not stupid. How could they not know that?”

The male employee who had entered the team leader’s office with the report as a representative spoke as if he was mumbling something.

“Even if you ask the team leader about the contents of the report, he can’t answer. He brings his employees to an important meeting with the head of the department and the manager to explain it to them. Doesn’t it seem strange to anyone?”

“Oh, that’s right.”

The youngest employee tilted his head.

If the head of the department and the manager were as incompetent as the team leader, then there would be nothing to say, but when I saw how the company was run, at least that wasn’t the feeling.

“Then why do you pretend not to know even though you know?”

“Because I don’t want to be touched.”

The dark-faced employee spoke with a sigh in his voice.

“Anyway, the report we created belongs to the company. It’s the company’s property, so we produced the company’s information for the company’s business. Do you understand that?”

“yes.”

Sometimes, when people leave a company, they erase all the documents they created, and if they do that, they may end up in a lawsuit.

Even if an employee made it, it’s company property.

“Then, whether our name or the team leader’s name is written on the report, it is a report produced by the technical team, right? So, I think there is no problem.”

“Why is that not a problem? The performance evaluation will be different!”

“The team leader is someone who has nothing to do with performance evaluations.”

The youngest employee, who was unaware of the company’s internal affairs, was speechless.

What on earth does this mean?

“How do you think a team leader who can’t do his job would sit in that position? It’s absolutely impossible based on performance evaluations or achievements.”

“Then it’s a parachute?”

“Similar. It’s the line of the previous president.”

I had no intention of telling the youngest about complicated things like Taesung’s ex-wife and why he can’t even touch the chairman.

But if you convince them now, things will be quiet in the future.

“Currently, our company has almost all the important positions occupied by the former president’s line. The president and vice president are the same. There are also a few directors and managing directors. The team leader is the only one who can’t do his job well, so he can’t get promoted and ends up as a team leader. In some ways, that’s a good thing.”

“Is that a good thing?”

“Imagine if you had that skill and got into an executive position. How terrible would the company be?”

The youngest employee’s face turned gloomy.

“That’s not right. This is really not right.”

“Or what are you going to do? Try to hit them like the agent said earlier? Give it a try. Who will break?”

The youngest employee looked around.

There was a strong sense of defeat within the technical team.

“Since it’s the former president’s line, it won’t be cut anyway. They’ll just go on vacation under the pretext of self-reflection and come back as if nothing happened. And the person who suggested it will be kicked out.”

It won’t work anyway. It’s better to just endure it and get used to it.

Everyone seemed to be suppressing their anger with that kind of thought.

The youngest employee was the same.

I’m angry, but there’s nothing I can do about it.

When the youngest employee kept his mouth shut, silence fell on the technical team.

It’s no use talking.

Knowing that, the gloomy atmosphere continued.

But everyone knew.

There is no such thing as getting used to something.

The same thing happens over and over again, and it just rots you inside.

If I can’t hold out any longer, I’ll have to leave.

Like the seniors who shouted at the team leader and ran out.

There are a lot of people, but everyone is just breathing.

An eerie silence, like a sinking ship, descended upon the office.

It was a young couple who broke it.

“hello.”

The man who came in first just looked around the office without saying anything, and the woman who came in after him greeted him instead.

The eyes that had not yet been able to erase their desire to live shone brightly.

It was quite a brutal treatment for a guest who did not know the circumstances.

Although it was surprising, the man did not avoid her gaze.

The man looked at each of his team members’ faces and smiled.

“Judging by the atmosphere, it seems like you came to the right place.”

Every time his gaze met the woman’s, she flinched as if she had been burned, but quickly pretended as if nothing had happened.

And asked the man.

“Is this a good place to start?”

“It’s perfect.”

The representative asked the man and woman who were having a conversation in English.

“Where are you from?”

The man answered differently.

“Gloom, anger, resignation. It’s like a complete gift set with all these emotions swirling around. It’s a great start.”

“What on earth are you talking about? Who are you?”

Judging from the employee ID card he is wearing around his neck, he is clearly an employee of the same Taesung Construction company.

However, the technical team did not go out into the field and had little interaction with other departments, so they did not know people outside the team very well.

If you’ve been paying attention to the newspaper or TV, you would have at least recognized who the man is.

Sadly, they didn’t even have time for that.

Because I used to listen to my team leader’s nagging and work overtime and on weekends, I would always be lazy when I got home.

The man spoke to the woman who came with him with an excited expression.

“When the National Tax Service conducts a tax investigation, you see on TV that they raid computers and throw all sorts of scraps of paper into boxes as if they were seizing everything. People start complaining. In fact, it’s not like it never happened before, but it’s just an example, you know?”

The woman’s eyes widened.

“You’re going to do that here? I get that you want to start off as an example, but in a private company, that’s a bit… … .”

“I know. We’re not even the audit team.”

“So what are you going to do from now on?”

The man glanced toward the team leader’s office and said.

The technical staff still had no idea who these strange men and women were.

However, I just understood that the conversation these two were having was not ordinary.

These people are quick-witted.

Thanks to this, no one interrupted their conversation.

“A typical tax audit requires the taxpayer to provide additional information. When we looked at this part, we found it strange. We asked the taxpayer to provide supporting information on his own.”

You’ve been saying nonsense all this time.

The woman tilted her head and said.

“Oh, so you want help!”

“that’s right.”

The man laughed and clapped his hands.

“Okay, let’s go quickly before we come back!”

In an instant, the smile disappeared from the man’s face.

It was clear that he was a handsome man who I liked just a moment ago, but when his smile disappeared, a different side of him was revealed.

It was so cold that it seemed like even if you stabbed him, not a single drop of blood would come out, and the cold air was seeping out.

“I am Chae Kyung-jun, the leader of the special response team under the direct control of the president.”

“This is Chae In-ha.”

The man who finished greeting spoke in a cool voice.

“We have received intelligence that there has been misconduct in the technical team. To be exact, the technical team leader is the subject of the investigation.”

The employees’ mouths were wide open at the incomprehensible situation.

Since this was something that had never happened before, no idea immediately came to mind whether the special task force had this authority or what they should do.

Chae Kyung-jun spoke in a rushed manner without giving them a chance to think.

“If you cooperate well, I will not hold the technical team members responsible. If you protect the team leader, I will consider you an accomplice.”

My head, which had been spinning quickly, suddenly stopped.

Protection? Who, the team leader?

He’s the kind of guy who wouldn’t feel relieved even if you hit him in the back of the head.

Everyone pretended not to know and remained silent.