The Bottom of a Large Company Does a Good Job - Chapter 55



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Episode 55. Sanitation Management Team (1)

I was surprised by the unexpected sight.

I had delegated the work to the finance staff, but I didn’t expect it to end up like this.

Even though it was only a few weeks, the people I saw were definitely not hard workers.

But when I came back, I saw that there was a box full of materials.

“and…….”

I took out one of the files on the top shelf and looked at it.

It’s not perfectly organized chronologically or by name, but at least I’ve got everything I need.

This alone will greatly reduce my workload.

“You’ve done all this… … .”

As I was admiring them, the employees smiled proudly.

“We also added a little bit of our own.”

He also raised his hand and claimed a stake in the personnel and support departments.

The office staff was mobilized to pull out the data, so it should be possible to do it.

It was even more surprising when I thought about it.

No, these people who were just browsing the shopping mall during work hours volunteered to collect the data.

Did the atmosphere change like this just because I turned the office upside down?

No matter how much I think about it, that’s not it.

I felt like there must be some other reason.

I took a quick look around the office and took it all in.

Some people shrugged as if they were being shown something great, while others were proud as if they had accomplished something great.

Not a single person gave me a life-threatening look.

I felt puzzled.

“Thank you so much for helping me out in other areas. I didn’t know you would go that far to help me out.”

Someone in the support department snorted.

He was the person who had been displeased with me, but who had been more pleased than anyone else earlier.

“Huh, if you look at the way they usually act, they deserve to get beat up. Go and give them a good shake-up. Don’t go there with our team name on it and come back with an embarrassing defeat.”

Aha, so you’ve had a bad feeling with the hygiene management team.

If that’s the case, I feel relieved.

Because there is no such thing as pure goodwill in the world.

It would have been stranger if he had said that he helped her purely because he had a change of heart.

“Thank you. I will do my best.”

“Just do what we did here. The sanitation team won’t be able to do anything about it.”

Leaving behind the employees who were giggling with selfish intentions, I sat down and started organizing the data.

Since there was quite a lot of data collected, I had to go through every nook and cranny.

You need to know what weapon you have in your hand before you can decide how to use it.

No matter how much data you have, you can’t use it if you don’t know what it is.

I organized them by date and then added an index.

And I made a table at the very front and roughly listed what kind of information there was.

Of course, that wasn’t the end.

I was finally able to get up from my seat after reading all the materials thoroughly for two full days, to the point where I could recall where each material was even with my eyes closed.

“Oh, are you finally leaving?”

But when I stood up, everyone somehow became nervous.

They stopped their work and started clearing out their desks one by one.

As I was blankly watching, he thought I was urging him, so his hands started moving faster and faster.

“Oh, our youngest is waiting. Hurry up and do it!”

Before I knew it, my nickname had become Maknae-nim, meaning ‘youngest’.

It was because even though I was the youngest, I couldn’t just call them by their first name.

At first I thought it was sarcasm, but after I realized it wasn’t, I gave up on using titles.

“Just type in the numbers! Wait a minute! Oh, I’ve done it all! Let’s go!”

I asked back as I watched people quickly get up after finishing up urgent work.

“Would you like to go together?”

“sure!”

When I heard this answer, I thought that since we were on the same team, we would fight together.

“The most fun thing in the world is watching a fight!”

I laughed in vain after hearing what he said next.

Aha, you’re going to go sightseeing.

“Huh? Should I help you? Hey, you’re the strongest in our team. I don’t think you’d lose if you fought against the hygiene team.”

“That’s right. We’re going to watch because we think Chae Kyung-jun will win.”

“go for it!”

If you can’t speak, at least hate me.

Yeah, it was incredibly helpful just to have people here research this stuff.

If I wish for more than this, I have no conscience.

No one wants to be at odds with other teams.

And yet they helped me.

Even though you can pretend not to know, you show your face on purpose.

Even if I was just going to look around, I felt like it would be more reassuring to have these people standing behind me rather than going alone.

I chuckled and picked up the box.

Finally, the three section chiefs cleared their throats and lifted their heavy buttocks.

If they come out too, there will be no one left in the office.

Leaving an entire office empty would be unthinkable in other companies, but here it was a normal part of everyday life.

Well, in a normal company, it wouldn’t make sense to stop them from going to fight with other teams, but it would make even less sense to go and watch them.

I left the office feeling a subtle sense of security.

* * *

“Let’s see, how much emergency funds did Taesung Security receive this time?”

The hygiene management team was busy settling accounts.

Just as the finance department has a month-end closing, they are also settling their monthly income.

Of course, it is not the impressive sales figures that are officially reported in business reports.

It’s just a little bit of extra income from your job.

“It’s 300 thousand won.”

“There are fewer people this month than I thought.”

The team leader looked visibly disappointed.

At first, they asked for 50,000 won or 100,000 won as a fee, but at some point, the amount increased to 300,000 won or 500,000 won.

At this rate, it was impossible to know when it would go up to 100.

It’s the same with the management support team.

As he went undetected, he gradually gained courage.

“I should put in 500,000 won. I’m thinking of leaving some money aside when I get the emergency fund anyway.”

Just because they embezzle emergency funds, it’s unlikely that other businesses will do the same.

However, the team leader naturally assumed that others would embezzle as well.

“It’s a leftover money anyway, so are you going to let the guys who went on a business trip eat it all by themselves? Our team that goes around to affiliated companies should also get some compensation. It’s a kind of incentive. They get some travel expenses because they work hard.”

Even though most of the money was going into the team leader’s pocket, the employees kept their mouths shut.

The embezzlement that took place in the sanitation team was quite simple.

Each business establishment has an emergency fund set aside for use in emergencies.

The hygiene management team goes out to conduct a hygiene inspection.

They secretly take a portion of the money paid out as emergency funds.

When you bring that money, some of it goes into the team leader’s pocket, and the rest goes to the employee who went out to inspect.

The team leader never ate all the money by himself.

Employees were also made to participate in this internal loop, preventing them from reporting internally.

They were all made from the same stuff.

The staff were naturally awkward at first, but they gradually got used to it.

Now, I’ve gotten to the point where I can ignore the prickling in my conscience.

“Then let’s continue the settlement. Taesung Medical Equipment gave us 40 this time, so give them a moderately high score. Don’t give them full marks.”

It may seem like they can just give out hygiene scores like this, but the employees wrote them down as the team leader told them to.

‘I guess it’s okay. Who knows if they checked it properly or not?’

Is it because the team leader taught me something bad?

Some employees even pretended to go out for a hygiene inspection without even going to the workplace.

In a word, it was a mess.

I’ve never had it before and I never will.

This had become their daily routine.

Until this moment today.

-Knock knock knock

As with any other office of Taesung Wellbeing, the hygiene team had little interaction with other teams.

Knocking on the office door meant that no one from this office existed, and all the hygiene team members were already in their seats.

“who…….”

In the past, when wellness was somewhat decent, there were times when people from management support teams or sales teams would come to visit for work, but now, even those visits have long since stopped.

But that doesn’t mean the CEO or executives will come looking for you.

The high-ranking people of Taesung Wellness have heavy buttocks.

The hygiene team members had never once seen the president or any of the executives make an inspection.

“hello.”

The door opened wide and a face I had never seen before appeared.

His young face, which looked to be in its late twenties, had no expression whatsoever.

Then, when he made eye contact with the employees, he smiled brightly, and at that moment, it was a warm smile that completely changed first impressions.

“Who are you? What’s going on?”

The employee closest to the door asked.

The young man groaned without answering and came carrying the box, then placed it down on the desk next to him.

“My name is Chae Kyung-jun, and I’m a new employee in the finance department of the management support team. I’ve been here for about three weeks.”

“Ah… … So you’re the person who just joined the company.”

The employees who thought I had come to say hello turned their heads to what they were doing with expressions of innocence.

The man sitting closest to the door, the youngest member of the sanitation team, seemed to sympathize with the man and welcomed him warmly.

“Oh my, why are you going all the way to the other team to say hello? I didn’t do that either. Anyway, welcome. That person over there is the team leader, and the person sitting over there is the section manager of this office.”

The management team was divided into three parts and had three part leaders, but the hygiene management team had only one job, so it was not divided into separate parts.

However, there was a section manager who was in charge of overall office management instead of the team leader.

It was the moment when the youngest employee was introducing himself as the representative and trying to open the conversation.

“Oh, thank you for the introduction. The team leader happened to be here too.”

But that wasn’t what the young man wanted.

The young man took a quick look around the office and spoke without hesitation.

“I checked with the hygiene management team and found something strange. I came here to ask for an explanation.”

For a moment, a cold air passed through the office.

It was the team leader who broke the mood.

He shouted in a voice full of anger.

“what?”

* * *

“Hey. Let’s start, let’s start!”

The area in front of the hygiene management team was crowded with people.

They were employees of the management team who were waiting outside, unable to go in for fear of being a nuisance.

In fact, it was not that I was being a hindrance, but rather that I was afraid of stepping forward and being held responsible, so I stepped back.

If we all go in at once, it will turn into a fight between teams.

That wasn’t what Chae Kyung-jun wanted either.

In the end, this had to be a case of new recruit Chae Kyung-jun beating up the hygiene management team out of a sense of justice and passion.

In a situation where even the team leader is present, who would think that the fight is led by the youngest member?

“We don’t have to go and help, do we?”

I don’t want to be the first, but I guess I’m still worried.

Someone asked timidly.

“It’s okay, it’s okay. Judging from what you did to Manager Oh, the hygiene team is more than enough to eat and drink. We can just watch the show and eat rice cakes.”

“I understand it’s good, but what about rice cake?”

“The hygiene team is falling down.”

The employees who had been treated badly by the hygiene management team laughed.

I couldn’t stand the thought of the sanitation team suffering the same humiliation that Manager Oh suffered. It was so funny.

“No, since when did you trust the youngest so much, sir? If someone saw you, they would think you’ve been working together for years.”

“I have a good eye for people. I can tell just by looking at them.”

“But I think the hygiene team leader is inside.”

“Huh? Huh? Is the team leader here too?”

Even if it’s up to the deputy manager level, it’s a very high rank for an ordinary employee.

How much more important would the team leader be to the youngest member?

The manager opened the office door quietly, perhaps because he was secretly worried.

A shout burst out through the slightly open gap.

“What did you just say! It hasn’t even been three weeks since that green-eyed kid came in? What did our team do?”

A cry of “Oh my!” erupted among the employees.

“Oh no. The team leader is really here.”

“Can we win this?”

“Then shouldn’t we run away right now? If we stay here and get caught, we’ll all get in trouble too.”

“Is that so?”

The youngest was divided into those who wanted to get out quickly because it seemed like he would lose, and those who wanted to just watch for a bit before leaving.

The head of the finance department caught them with a displeased expression.

“The youngest is going in and fighting alone, but what can we do when our senior is so scared? Even if we can’t fight together, we should stay behind!”

“We are not here to help, we are here to watch.”

“That’s it! It gives me strength if I stand behind it!”

“Huh? Is that so?”

The management team’s staff was getting more and more squeamish as they exchanged silly questions.

Because it was hard to see through the small gap in the door.

Inside, a young man was speaking softly, but I couldn’t hear him clearly because of the conversation of the management team.

“Hey, get out of the way.”

“Open it a little more.”

Because it was a sliding door, the door opened wider and wider as the employees behind pushed it.

At this point, the door is practically open.

It was a presence that could be noticed even from inside.

“Oh, I don’t know.”

The employees opened the door with shameless faces, perhaps having learned something from watching the youngest.

“What are you guys doing now!”

The team leader’s shout erupted.

“Oh, we followed you because the youngest said he was going to have an accident. Don’t worry about us and just keep going.”

“What the heck are these, seriously. I’m going crazy.”

The team leader grabbed the back of my neck as if I was going to fall over.