Time Mansour - Chapter 138



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Episode 138 With a pale face

“Ugh.”

I stretched my arms toward the ceiling. Knock knock. The sound of my bones broke the quiet room.

I spent days just typing on the keyboard, eating ramen and delivery food.

It’s been over two months outside of our time, so it’s impossible to estimate how long it actually took.

“First of all, the fan community app is finished.”

Twelve fan community apps. I finished modifying all the codes while talking to the monitor for two months.

Now all that’s left are the shopping apps that the development team has decided to develop.

“I wonder if they’re doing well.”

To be honest, I didn’t feel confident about it. I felt more comfortable developing it on my own. But I thought it was just a waste of time.

What can I do?

‘The person who gives money is this representative.’

I have no choice but to follow whatever the representative wants.

The moment I sighed and got up from my seat.

dump.

For a moment, the strength left my legs. One of my knees half-bent.

Well, it was natural, since I hadn’t walked much recently.

I guess I should start exercising again soon. I walked out the door, lightly tapping my legs.

I had plans to meet with Manager Chae today. I wanted to find out about the development team’s progress.

That way, we can plan how to deal with the situation going forward.

Of course, there is a way to ask the representative directly, but

‘Then the storm will come again.’

And I also felt more comfortable communicating with Manager Chae than with this representative.

With that thought in mind, I opened the facility’s office door.

“Are you here, sir? I saw the app ad. The ad was good.”

As soon as the door opened, the matrix spread out in the middle of the office caught my eye.

Manager Chae showed me his cell phone while lying down.

“Look at this. Mina is so pretty!”

And So-Hyeon was lying down with her head on Manager Chae’s stomach.

For a moment, I thought it was the living room. I wonder when they brought the bed into the office.

“I don’t think app advertising is important right now?”

I looked at Manager Chae and So-hyeon with a dumbfounded expression.

“Why? What’s important? What’s going on?”

They both just smiled brightly as if it didn’t matter.

“No. Aren’t you busy these days? Isn’t it chaos inside Ive right now?”

“Company? Of course the atmosphere is bad. The small ball that the director launched turned into a satellite.”

Manager Chae answers while looking at his cell phone.

I continued asking questions as I sat down in my chair.

“Is the satellite properly positioned in orbit?”

“No. First launch, second launch, third launch. They all failed.”

If someone saw me, they would think I was developing a real spaceship, while I was just making a few web pages. Every time Manager Chae kicked his feet in the air while lying down, So-Hyeon’s small head shook from side to side.

“Then, is this representative still angry?”

“I’m just an employee and I don’t have a chance to meet the CEO, so I don’t know much about him. All I know is that our team leader was extremely angry.”

Then, he made the shape of horns by attaching both index fingers to his head.

‘Manager Chae must have had a hard time too.’

It’s obvious even without looking.

Because grinding is an action that is greatly affected by gravity.

so.

It would have fallen quickly from above.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to.”

“What could the director have done wrong? If there is a crime, it is that the developers are not able to develop.”

“How is the atmosphere on the development team?”

“I’m struggling. I managed to get the app onto the platform, but I still can’t get it to bind to the in-memory grid.”

In-Memory Grid. Software that improves the speed of applications by using RAM instead of hard disk as storage medium.

Software used for literally extreme performance.

Since the technology itself is somewhat unfamiliar, it is natural for someone trying it for the first time to get lost.

“But I guess the platform and the app are combined. Because there is pressure from above. Those guys are also making progress.”

“Just a little bit. It’s all thanks to you, Director. Since we’re all compared to each other, we can’t help but work hard. Lately, developers have become more venomous.”

It appears that this representative’s extreme prescription is not completely ineffective.

But the poison came too late.

If I had worked hard a few months ago, I would have been able to stick to the schedule.

“But what about you, sir? How far along are you in development?”

“Me? I finished mine.”

“All of them?”

“yes.”

“Really?”

Manager Chae half-raised himself from where he was lying with a surprised expression on his face.

He blinks his eyes with his mouth open.

“You really finished them all? Aren’t there more than ten apps?”

“Yes. Twelve, to be exact.”

How on earth? Manager Chae looks incredulous.

I answered that question as if it was nothing.

“It just happened.”

“Wow… If we try to keep up with the CEO’s pace, our developers will die.”

“Don’t worry. I knew that would happen, so I haven’t reported it to this CEO yet. I was going to check the situation on that side first and slowly throw them out one by one, but I haven’t cleared a single app yet… Oh my.”

“No. Don’t wait. Just throw them all at once.”

Like a bomb. After the bomb explodes, you’ll come to your senses.

As Manager Chae shrugged his shoulders with a smile, So-Hyeon, who was lying on the boat, also started to squirm.

“Will Manager Chae get hurt by that bomb too?”

“Well, I guess I have to avoid it.”

“Does it seem hopeless?”

“For now. I’m looking at the data side, but I’m not an expert.”

It was only after Manager Chae’s answer that I noticed my skin had become flaky.

It looks like you’ve had a hard time.

While worrying about Manager Chae inwardly.

I was thinking for a while about what to do next.

at that time.

“mister!

Sohyun lifted her head slightly.

“why?”

“Sir, are you close with Mina?”

“Why is that?”

“I would like to invite you as a guest on our channel. Please pass it on to me. Okay? Definitely.”

“···”

Then he puts his head back on Manager Chae’s stomach.

I looked at Sohyun, who was saying things that didn’t make sense.

I raised my guard, wondering how to start a fight.

‘no.’

I put my hand down again because I couldn’t think of any good ideas.

**

Manager Chae and Sohyun.

Two people lying down and looking at their phones.

They looked just like sisters with a big age gap, lying face to face.

It looks good.

He smiled and leaned back in his chair.

It seemed like everyone was on their phones, so I turned on my phone and played an app advertisement video.

Soft background music.

Mina walking slowly with her back to the night sky.

As Mina gestures, the stars in the night sky shatter.

-Each little starlight comes together to brighten the world.

If it was childish, it was childish, and if it was boring, it was boring.

The advertising effect was better than we expected.

The messenger is Mina.

What’s the point of the message?

The commercial ends with a close-up of Mina’s brightly lit face.

After the donation app advertisement was introduced in Thailand, the number of users increased significantly.

Traffic literally crashed through the graph. If this were a stock chart, I would have made a fortune.

The response was better than when it opened in Korea.

-Thank you. The commercial came out well.

-I told you I was going to eat it. The donation app is now number one in the Thai market.

-Oh. I checked too. The traffic has increased a lot.

-I’m glad the response was successful. We put a lot of effort into it too.

-Oh, I heard that Mint Market even put out a separate advertisement. Thank you so much.

-If you’re grateful, come back later and play with the kids. The kids are waiting for you.

-Oh. I’ll definitely go back. Tell the kids.

I nodded and replied. Minority village. It’s a place I definitely want to visit again when I have time.

I missed the slow, slow passage of time a little bit.

So I was talking to Siri while fiddling with my phone.

suddenly.

“Hey, mister! Who are you messaging? Is it Mina? What are you talking about?”

Sohyun raises her head again.

‘You’re drinking kimchi stew all alone.’

Sohyun smiles brightly at me.

There was chili powder stuck between my teeth.

“I don’t know. Ask this manager. He’s much closer to Mina than I am.”

“Ah! Why! You, sir!”

Sohyun frowned without getting up and just raised her head.

It seemed like it would be a hassle to get up.

I don’t think Sohyun will grab my collar.

Ignoring Sohyun’s whining, I looked back at my phone and replied to Siriu’s message.

-Thank you so much. The response was much better than I expected.

-I told you, small lights can come together to brighten the world.

If other countries can maintain this level of traffic.

Couldn’t this really make the world a little brighter?

I hope that even a faint light can reach those in the world to whom light cannot reach.

As I thought that to myself, a smile came to my lips without me realizing it.

**

If something good happens.

Bad things tend to follow.

I guess that’s just the way the world works.

“Youngjun said that the development has already been completed. Is that right?”

The representative turned his head and looked at me. I nodded without realizing it at that gaze.

“But you guys can’t even make one app properly. As for me, I keep wondering if this is right.”

Representative Lee tilts his head.

The expression on his face is stiff.

‘It’s a disaster.’

An unexpected situation arose.

I never told the CEO with my own mouth that the development was finished.

‘Because what I said was nothing more than exaggeration.’

No. No. Sohyun heard it too.

Anyway, either Manager Chae or So-Hyeon is the culprit.

Sohyun, you probably didn’t even understand what we were talking about.

Manager Chae probably didn’t tell CEO Lee directly either.

It seems that it probably went through this director once and then reached the representative’s ears.

like that.

In the midst of the tense atmosphere, Manager Kwak opened his mouth cautiously.

“I’m sorry. But we…”

I couldn’t finish speaking.

“No. Really!”

bang.

This was because the representative had started playing the drums. The performance expert seemed to have completely adapted to the rhythm and was nodding his head slightly.

“Sorry. I’m sorry.”

“Manager Kwak, think about it. If Youngjun does the development alone, then there’s no reason for Ive to have hundreds of developers. Right?”

“that is···”

“Okay. I’ll give you exactly two more weeks starting today. Then I’ll look at the situation and consider whether or not to eliminate the department. You all should know that.”

“Huh? What is that? Eliminating the department?”

“They’re disbanding the development department. If that’s the case, there’s no reason for it to exist. The existing employees should be transferred to other departments or something.”

He answered Manager Kwak with a still expressionless face.

‘I told you to get out.’

Telling people to go somewhere else because the department is gone is like telling everyone to join hands and write a letter of resignation.

‘This representative is giving a lecture.’

When you cut dozens or hundreds of employees at once, you blow up the entire department. I’ve heard it said before.

I’ve only heard of it as a legend, but I’ve never actually seen it.

It was certainly not a common case.

The employees’ faces turned pale at the representative’s threats.

But this representative doesn’t care about the employees’ reactions.

After I said what I wanted to say.

“This week. Bring me visible results before then.”

I got up from the chair.

bang.

I stood up so hard that the chair lurched violently.

Then he left us behind and went out of the server room alone.

What should I do now? Should I just leave work right away?

Thinking about that, I glanced at the performance expert.

That was when.

“You··· Youngjun··· I··· have something to ask you.”

An unexpected person spoke to me.

Manager Kwak opens his mouth slowly, observing the situation.

It was the first time since we started full-scale development.

The eyes that had been wary of me softened a bit.

“That… In-Memory Grid. Could you please give us some separate training? There are so many things we don’t know even after reading the manual. Could you please help us?”

A polite change in speech.

Every time he opened his mouth, Manager Kwak’s pale face shook from side to side like a white flag.