Time Mansour - Chapter 137



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Episode 137 A little slower than lightning

Kwarrung. Boom.

The weather was ominous. Lightning flashed, followed by thunder that timidly followed.

I opened my umbrella amidst the pouring rain.

“The weather is bad… Looks like I’ll have to do two rounds.”

Today is going to be a busy day. I have to meet the kids briefly in the morning and then head straight to the data center in the afternoon.

I pushed myself to finish coding the second app to meet the deadline. After staring at the monitor for days, I could still see the code before my eyes.

I opened the cafe door with my tired body. Inside the quiet cafe. There weren’t many customers, so it wasn’t too difficult to find the kids.

“Oh. You’re here.”

“So, how have you all been?”

Let’s have a formal greeting and take a seat.

“You’re really getting married, huh?”

Seongtae pushed the invitation in front of me.

“Yeah. So you should go quickly too.”

So you guys, hurry up and go. I’m almost forty. Forty. Now there’s one more person to nag me about.

‘As time goes by, other kids will also turn into nags.’

Well, it was fortunate that there were still more kids who listened to the nagging.

After hearing Sungtae and Changseok tell him to get married for a long time, Gukyeong started to get bored and slyly changed the subject.

“But what about our wedding song? What song would be good to sing?”

“You still haven’t decided?”

“Uh. Any good ideas?”

I shook my head at the national question. Can’t I just sing any song? That’s what I was thinking.

“What’s the idea? Please. Just sing any song that’s often used as a wedding song. Don’t do anything weird.”

Seongtae read my thoughts and answered in a voice. He glared at the kids with a frown, but they ignored him and continued their conversation among themselves.

“How about going with a slightly funny song?”

“Let’s do a heartbreaking breakup song. It’s funnier that way.”

“Then it would be good if divorce was mentioned in the lyrics.”

“Hey you crazy guys.”

In the end, Seongtae grabbed Gukyoung by the collar. Divorce was too much. He knew it, so he obediently grabbed Gukyoung by the collar.

It really doesn’t change. I thought it would be the same even if I had a child or a grandchild.

“Okay. Sorry. Sorry. Wait. Let go of this. No, I’m not running away. I’m just going to go have a smoke.”

Guk-yeong smiled slyly. Seong-tae let go of his collar when he said he was going to smoke a cigarette. Then the kids all got up. Several chairs were pushed back at the same time.

So all the smokers went to the smoking room and only Seongtae and I were left behind.

“Hey, that’s right. You’re talking about the donation app.”

Seongtae raised his head as if he remembered something.

“huh?”

“Volunteers who donate their talents. Create a bulletin board for reviews.”

“Why a review?”

“Talent donors go to the facilities themselves and get a general feel for the atmosphere. Their experience can be helpful in sponsoring.”

I understood what Seongtae meant and nodded slightly.

People who go to donate their talents may have likes and dislikes about the facility, so let’s share that with others.

“Okay. I’ll think about it.”

“Huh? You seem to accept it so easily. If there’s a bulletin board, there’ll be a lot of complaints. It might go viral? Do you think you can handle it?”

“Uh. I don’t know. I’ll just ignore it now. I’ll figure it out somehow.”

I also felt the need to grow the community within the app a bit more. If communication becomes smoother, the number of users will increase.

It was now inevitable that side effects would occur in the process.

I just have to manage it more thoroughly.

I was thinking for a while about the direction the app should take.

moment.

“Hey, I decided what song to sing.”

Bam.

I heard Gukyoung’s voice behind me. The sound was a little faster than the smell, so I smelled cigarette smoke after that.

“What song?”

“Let’s just sing our own song. Wouldn’t that be more meaningful? Since all the songs are composed by Seongtae.”

What did Guk-yeong say? It made sense, so I nodded and looked at Seong-tae.

“It’s not bad, but let’s change the lyrics.”

Seongtae didn’t look very pleased.

“why?”

“Our song’s lyrics are written by Youngjun. That’s why the lyrics are all depressing.”

I looked around and wondered what was wrong with the lyrics I wrote.

Nod.

Everyone was nodding their heads up and down like they had broken their necks.

“Is that all?”

“Honestly, divorce is better. The lyrics of our songs are just about people dying in pain and stuff like that.”

“That’s right. It’s not bad, but it’s not good enough to be used as a congratulatory song.

I didn’t sympathize though.

Because public opinion is so bad.

So I was wondering if I should change the lyrics.

“Hey, then it’s better for you, Seongtae. Even if you’re busy, you should try revising the lyrics.”

I made a suggestion while looking at Seongtae. I thought that since it was going to be a meaningful congratulatory song, it would be better if Seongtae wrote the lyrics himself.

“Yeah. That would be better.”

The kids nodded to my suggestion. After confirming that the public opinion was not bad, they stood up from their seats. They slowly straightened their bent bodies.

I think the song has been decided. Now I should go and take care of business.

“Why are you leaving already?”

“Oh. I told you. I have plans in the afternoon.”

“Are you a woman?”

“Change your repertoire. Your lines are too old.”

He turned his back, giving a tired answer to a tired line.

We’ve received the invitation and the song has been roughly decided, so we’re done with everything we need to do.

Now it was time to really get to work.

**

I shook off the umbrella and put it in a plastic bag. The moisture that was left in the umbrella gradually gathered under the plastic bag.

Even though the weather was quite chilly due to the rain, the inside of the server room was still filled with heat.

“i look forward to.”

“Oh, yes···”

I glanced around as I said hello. The employees’ expressions seemed even worse today.

Well, I can’t help but feel good.

‘Because today is Sunday.’

A holiday in bad weather.

It’s one of those days when I lose all desire to work.

‘It’s all because of this representative.’

Because the representative said that other days were not available, all the employees were dragged out on Sunday.

Although performance testing is a very important task, it is not something that a CEO should be involved in in the first place.

This is something that can be handled simply by the working-level staff.

However, since the CEO does not trust the other employees, he comes and supervises them himself.

“There is nothing wrong. The data is normal. There is no problem with performance. I think it is okay to open it as is.”

The performance expert nodded.

The developers talked to each other, glancing at the CEO.

“Good. Then we can just add the live translation feature here and set an opening date.”

“I think some design changes might be needed there as well.”

The development team changed their strategy. If they tried to deny the app’s performance now, they would only get more hate from the CEO.

So, it seemed like the strategy was to just add simple functions to the app I made to make it look like we had developed it together.

We don’t have the confidence to develop something new to fit the platform environment.

But I don’t want to get scolded by the CEO for the whole year while the project is in progress.

It’s like they’re just pretending to work by adding simple additional features.

It was a pretty good idea.

if.

“Wait a minute? What did you just say?”

If the opponent wasn’t this representative.

“We will finish the additional work within this week and prepare to launch the app next week.”

If it had been a slightly less oblivious boss rather than the experienced CEO, it would have been easy to fool him.

however.

bang.

Thunder crackled at the desk. Lightning flashed across the representative’s face.

“Just doing odd jobs? Are you sure you’re talking about hundreds of developers?”

“No, that’s not what I meant···”

Before Manager Kwak could even finish speaking.

Again.

bang.

Representative Lee slammed the desk. His palm turned red.

Realizing too late that it was a signal to stop, Manager Kwak closed his mouth.

“Since the CEO doesn’t know much about development anyway, does that mean he can fool people by just pretending to do the work?”

“Sorry. I’m sorry.”

“Everyone… If Youngjun is the only one developing everything, why do the people here get paid?”

The mood sank again. The performance expert, now accustomed to it, averted his gaze and rubbed the back of his neck.

He tilted his neck from side to side several times because it felt sticky.

The representative was angry for a long time.

Suddenly he turned his head and looked at me.

“You said that, other than Youngjun’s platform, you have no experience developing a shopping mall app.”

“I have tuned it to make it perform better, but I have never built it from start to finish with my own hands.”

“Then let’s have the market app developed separately by the development team. There’s nothing good about having too many people. Youngjun will do the fan community related apps. The rest will be done by the development team. Let’s do it that way.”

Thump thump.

The judge lightly banged his fist on the table twice, as if striking a gavel.

The employees bow their heads at the representative’s verdict.

The trial is over.

A performance expert fiddles with his bag as he prepares to leave work.

So my gaze also turned to the backpack hanging behind the chair.

“Mr. Youngjun, come up here with me for a moment and we can talk.”

Of all people, this representative singled me out.

**

As soon as he entered the office, the CEO threw himself on the sofa.

He covered his face with both hands and slowly opened his mouth.

“I’m sorry. The staff’s attitude is so annoying.”

“I understand. The numbers were a bit shallow.”

“If you’re going to lie to me, you should lie so well that I don’t even notice. Where did you come up with such an obvious trick?”

The representative lies on the sofa, as if he were lying down, and holds his face for a long time.

After waiting for a moment, I carefully brought up the words I wanted to say.

“But what happened···”

“Oh. It’s nothing. It’s about that advertisement I told you about last time. In which country did you say it was done?”

“Yes. We plan to start the service in Thailand first, and then expand globally after testing it out.”

“If it’s Thailand, then it’s great.”

match.

The representative clapped his hands with both hands that he had been holding.

And then he continued talking.

“Red Blue in Thailand…”

At that moment.

-Jiying.

The phone started crying again without even noticing.

“Please check at your convenience.”

“Yes. It’s a message. Just a moment. I just got a call from my Thai friend.”

He nodded slightly and immediately pressed the screen of his phone.

-Hey, later. I’m busy right now. I’m meeting with the CEO of Ive to promote the donation app.

-Huh? Really? Are you close with the manager there?

-It’s complicated to explain, and we’re talking about it because Mina said she’d help us film an advertisement for our app.

-That… Mina? The Mina from Red Blue that I know?

-Oh. Right.

-Why is that person helping you?

If I were to tell the story of how I helped Mina in the past, from beginning to end, in detail.

I’m afraid the message will be too long.

-It’s me.

I compressed it into a few words.

-Who are you···

-I’m Naji. What is it? But what’s going on..

-I contacted an advertising agency because I was curious about how it works in Korea.

-Oh really? Thank you. I think the schedule will be set within this week. I’ll share it with you then.

-Okay. Let’s talk again later.

After finishing the conversation with Siriu, I raised my head and looked at the representative.

“Are you done? You can contact me slowly.”

“No. I heard they hired an advertising agency in Thailand.”

“That’s great. But did you think Mina would help you when you first started serving in Thailand?”

“No way. It just so happened that the two of them fit together well.”

Red Blue’s popularity in Thailand was enormous.

Because Red Blue had a member of Thai nationality.

Of course, Mina is less popular than that member.

Still, he was a famous idol that everyone in Thailand knew.

“But really, I can do the development by myself. No. I’m saying this because I think developers might be less capable than others.”

“If developers can’t develop, we have to throw everything away.”

“All of them? Is mass layoffs of that scale possible? There’s a Labor Standards Act, isn’t there?”

“There is a way for everything.”

The moment when the representative answered my question with a big smile.

at that time.

Thunder is crashing outside the window.

Then lightning flashed.

A storm will hit Ive soon.

I think it would be better if I just did it alone.

I guess the representative would rather not see that sight than die.

If it doesn’t work out, I’ll have to adjust the speed a bit while watching the developers work.

If you tried to keep up with my development speed, you could have ended up in the hospital.