The Bottom of a Large Company Does a Good Job - Chapter 52



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Episode 52. Emergency (2)

Even though it was still spring, the nights were still chilly.

Chae Kyung-jun’s house was filled with unexpected worries.

“Child, why are you fidgeting so much? Just do it on your own.”

Since there was no living room, my father sat in the bedroom and spoke with a pretended seriousness.

But even the fact that he was sitting at the door already spoke volumes about his feelings.

“This guy! You’re always late these days! It’s past 10 o’clock and you haven’t even called me. I wonder if you’ve even eaten.”

He was a precious son.

He was smart and knew how to do everything by himself.

I had no intention of interfering with my son, who was in his late 20s and already working at a company, but it was true that I couldn’t just sit still when it got late without any contact.

I was so impressed that he was able to get his license, make money, and even get into a large company without any support.

He was a child that I would not mind putting in my eyes.

“Do you still think Kyung-jun is Anne? You’re already twenty-eight. You’ll be late today because you’re working overtime. That’s how it is at a company. It’s natural to work overtime since you haven’t been here long. I know a lot about big companies.”

My mother scolded my father for showing off.

“It’s been a few years since I worked at your company. These days, they say they don’t let their kids do much work. At our restaurant, they even say that if we make our part-timers work overtime, they have to give them more allowance.”

“Is it the same as that? No, and if you go overtime, you get paid overtime, right? You also get paid regularly.”

“If there are a lot of customers, I can wait 10 or 20 minutes longer.”

“What the? This isn’t the time to be talking about other people!”

“It’s already been several years since I started working there, how can you just throw it all away so cruelly?”

Before I knew it, the conversation had shifted to my mother’s restaurant, but the flow was very natural.

That’s how I kill time while waiting for my son.

Then, when I heard footsteps outside the window, I quickly stopped talking and looked at the front door.

When the sound of footsteps passed through the house and went away, they resumed the conversation, and when they heard footsteps again, they stopped and repeated this process.

It was almost 11 o’clock, and I was laying out the blanket in the main room, thinking it was time to go to sleep, when the front door opened.

“Oh! You’re here!”

The mother rushed out to greet her son.

Until now, both of them had been secretly waiting for a son, but they didn’t show it on the outside.

He just greeted me warmly without showing any sign of waiting.

“I’m back.”

“Why are you so late?”

“I was busy running errands. The addresses were all outside the metropolitan area, so I couldn’t stop by many places. But time passed quickly. I almost missed the last train.”

My father, who was solemnly laying out the quilt in the bedroom, glared at me as if telling me to look at it.

My mother also gave me a look that said, ‘What do you want me to do, you rascal?’

After a round of silent conversation between the two, Chae Kyung-jun seemed to pause for a moment.

“You haven’t eaten?”

“No, that’s not it… … .”

Chae Kyung-jun opened the door to the small room, threw his bag down, and approached the large room, hesitantly.

It was unusual for Chae Kyung-jun, who hated his father, to approach first.

Of course, the outward appearance was no different from that of any other household.

He always calls me dad, and he talks to me about anything other than work without hesitation.

But when it came to work, he was reserved.

I didn’t even tell them that I applied to Taesung.

I don’t know about him as a father, but he was not respected at all as a senior in life.

Because he was a loser who was stupid and innocent and ended up falling apart.

“What’s going on?”

It seemed like he was going to talk about work.

“Dad, do you know anything about finance?”

“Huh? Oh, of course!”

Although it was a long time ago, he was a director of Mirae Group, so he knows a bit about management and finance.

The finance he talks about is a little different from today’s accounting, though.

It was really rare for a son to bring up work first, so the father said excitedly.

“Do you know how we solved it when we got stuck on our tax returns? Back in the old days, we had to write them out on paper by hand. We had to go to the tax office and get the key to the storage unit…!”

“Oh my, are you crazy? You teach such great things. Do you think such methods are even possible these days?”

“Ouch!”

My mother slapped my father on the back as he excitedly told his tale of bravery.

“Why won’t the kid say anything? Just listen quietly.”

Only then did my father become quiet.

Chae Kyung-jun, who had a chance to speak, opened his mouth with difficulty.

Because for Chae Kyung-jun, his father was not a good role model.

“Dad. If you say that there is a business site that is separate from the headquarters and runs on its own, how can you find out what the internal problems are?”

Both father and mother looked at Chae Kyung-jun with slightly surprised expressions.

My son, who had never even mentioned simple business matters, is asking for advice on management.

My father answered seriously, both bewildered and excited.

“It depends on the type of business, but what is your exact purpose? Are you looking at the business itself, or are you looking at the headquarters line connected to the business?”

But I guess it wasn’t just the title of executive.

This accurately pointed out the part my son was talking about ambiguously.

Chae Kyung-jun spoke in a much lower voice.

“To be precise, I want to know the problems of the team that manages the business. To do that, I think I need to know the internal information of each business.”

“So that’s why you were late today because you had to take care of a client.”

My father crossed his arms.

Although he didn’t mention the exact name of the hygiene management team, my father knew the essence of the incident.

Each business location refers to the in-house restaurant and dispatched employees, and the team that manages that business location is the hygiene management team.

The hygiene management team was a team that inspected the hygiene of each restaurant and gave instructions for corrective action.

Even though it is a cafeteria, it is a restaurant so you can’t help but worry about hygiene.

If you don’t have enough points, you may be at a disadvantage.

Of course, the city hall or district office will conduct a hygiene inspection, but if caught, you may be subject to a suspension of business.

Before that, we want to manage it ourselves.

It’s a pretty good system, but that only works when it’s running well.

It was clear that there was something going on between the sanitation team and the cafeteria that was being inspected.

“Are you going there to find out their weaknesses?”

“huh.”

“They say there aren’t any materials yet.”

“That’s right. It’s not even enough to be used as evidence.”

At first glance, the ledger appears to be well-organized.

If you ask what an emergency fund is, you will probably answer that it is a reserve fund that each business uses in times of emergency.

Companies that have a dispatch-type workplace often have items in the form of reserve funds, emergency funds, or advance payments.

You can’t always plan a perfect budget, and prices for things like groceries can change.

When you need more money than what is budgeted, you inevitably need money that can be drawn on in a hurry.

That’s why there is money set aside as a reserve.

In other words, it means that it is the perfect money to play around with.

“Just go and ask for some money.”

“……huh?”

Chae Kyung-jun blinked at the unexpected words.

But my father wasn’t joking.

“Don’t say it out loud, but show it. Then we can see what kind of relationship there is between the workplace and the management team.”

“ah!”

Chae Kyung-jun nodded as if he realized something.

If you had a clean relationship, you would come out confidently.

If there is collusion, they will create an opportunity to poke you again and ask if you are familiar with it.

“But since you’re only in your first year, if you ask outright, you might get hurt.”

“I have to be clever. I think it’ll be okay since the relationship between the business and the management team is not very smooth.”

“Okay. Then do your best.”

My father uncrossed his arms as if he had said everything he wanted to say.

Chae Kyung-jun seemed to be in a good mood thanks to having unexpectedly obtained advanced information.

Father and mother also looked happy as they seemed to have become closer to each other after a long time.

“thank you.”

When Chae Kyung-jun left after saying a few words, his father smiled faintly.

And he said, touching the bridge of his nose.

“I’m not dead yet.”

* * *

Taesung Technica was an audio equipment sales company.

The main product is car audio that comes as an option in automobiles.

Because the factory was located there, it was located a little bit away from the metropolitan area.

However, since the scale of the factory was not as large as that of Taesung Semiconductor or Taesung Heavy Industries affiliates, and there was no competition to attract the company from the region, they settled down by choosing a site with reasonably cheap land.

Because of that, transportation was not very good.

I got off the bus at the train station and wiped the sweat off my body as I waited for the village bus to take me further in.

It was windy a few days ago, but now it’s hot.

It just so happens that the sun is shining on the day I’m out and about.

I got on the village bus and felt the weather change in just a few days.

The village bus, which arrived in 20 minutes, went up the hill, rattling as if it was old.

As we went inside, we came across a village, and a small commercial district had formed within that village.

Is that natural? Because that’s where people live.

After passing the local supermarket, rice fields and fields spread out on both sides of the road again.

Looking at the route map, it seems like if you continue this way, you’ll pass through another village and head towards the city center.

There was a stop before entering that other town.

It’s the bus stop right in front of Taesung Technica.

-Beep!

The bus left me behind with a loud thud.

A small factory on one side, a field on the other.

I hurried into the building where the office and restaurant were attached.

Cooking preparations were in full swing.

As I was looking around the cafeteria, which looked ordinary from the outside, someone shouted from inside.

“It hasn’t been distributed yet!”

“I came from Taesung Wellbeing headquarters. Is the branch manager here?”

“Head office? Just wait a minute.”

As the cooks, dressed in sanitary uniforms, looked around inside, a woman in her 30s wearing a white gown jumped out.

“Are you the store manager?”

“No, I’m a nutritionist. The store manager hasn’t come to work yet… … .”

The nutritionist looked puzzled.

“Is the normal start time this late?”

“Oh, no. The store manager worked late last night… … .”

The nutritionist was a simple person who didn’t know how to beat around the bush.

Even though it wasn’t his fault, he was so apologetic that I felt a pang of guilt as if I had been the one who had bothered him.

“I’m not questioning you. I’m just curious.”

Oh, this isn’t what it was originally.

Should I have been a little stronger?

But isn’t the nutritionist not at fault?

Since they are external employees, they are just like ordinary people who don’t know much about the company.

Until yesterday, I was burning with fighting spirit.

My mouth wouldn’t open easily because I was trying to do something I’d never done before.

Moreover, since my mother worked in a restaurant, she could not treat nutritionists in the same industry as me rudely.

Okay, let’s talk when the store manager, who is a dispatched employee from the company, comes.

I sent the nutritionist back.

“I’ll just sit and wait for a moment, so go back and do what you have to do. You must be busy.”

Normally, the time right before lunch time is the busiest.

The nutritionist quickly greeted me with a bright smile on her face.

“I’ll call the store manager and tell him to come quickly.”

“yes.”

It smelled delicious.

I think today’s menu is stir-fried pork.

I didn’t know it when I came here, but my stomach started churning when I smelled food.

I guess I’ll have to have lunch here before I go.

I sat quietly and watched the aunties inside the restaurant moving busily.

My mother must be working in a similar manner.

My heart became weak as I kept thinking about my mother.

Okay, let’s skip this one and try the next company.

As I was making that decision, I saw someone running out of breath from the parking lot in the distance.

As soon as a man in his 40s entered the restaurant, he looked at me and frowned.

“You’re here again? Aren’t you coming here too often? You have to consider our circumstances as well.”

I cancel my statement that I will start from the next company.

My mouth watered at the suspicious smell that wafted through the delicious smell of food.

You absolutely must stab here!