Refraction

In fact, early the next morning, Chen Gong had completely forgotten about the "online rant" that Zheng Yi called him last night.

——Since Zheng Yi joined the job, conflicts, large and small, between the two have occurred frequently day by day.Every day, if Zheng Yi didn't walk in front of him to find a quarrel or something, Chen Gong would feel uncomfortable instead.

So this time Zheng Yi's "drinking madness" is not something that needs to be remembered for Chen Gong.

In this room, Chen Gong had just returned to his desk after the morning meeting, and was revising the ppt of the plan handed in by the department staff, when Zheng Yi suddenly poured a whole bottle of drink over his head.

Chen Gong couldn't figure out what happened in the middle of the matter, and he didn't bother to think about it.

Just three thoughts flashed through my mind at the moment:

1. The day before yesterday, I heard Aunt Cleaning share how to wash clothes if they get wet with drinks, but I didn’t listen carefully at that time, so I can make a special trip to ask today.

2. There is an advertising shirt given by the gym a long time ago in the cabinet under the workstation. You can exchange it to deal with this emergency.

3. Press Ctrl+S to save the half-modified plan first.

After executing the third thought, Chen Gong rubbed his eyes fascinated by the drink, stood up and turned around, with a wet hand of lemon-flavored sports drink, he gave Zheng Yi a sweet and juicy punch.

Zheng Yi, who was punched, fell to the ground, clutching his chin in pain, staring at Chen Gong.

And Chen Gong used a signature indifferent face, silently responding to Zheng Yi's eyes looking at him.

After a moment of silent confrontation, Zheng Yi wiped his chin, a little blood spattered from the corner of his mouth—the mouth seemed to be broken.

Chen Gong frowned imperceptibly for a moment, the hand that just punched unnaturally fell to the side of his leg, and his fingers rubbed a few times uneasily.

Sticky and annoying.

Zheng Yi was the person Chen Gong interviewed to join HALO—afterwards, when Chen Gong recalled, he always felt that this was called "leading the wolf into the house".

Since its establishment, HALO's business performance has not soared in a straight line, but it has been growing steadily.After accumulating capital for many years, the company finally decided to reach out to the Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai markets this year, so it sent several backbones to Hangzhou to establish and operate a branch.

Chen Gongben is also on the dispatch list—it is undoubtedly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be directly promoted from the current position of deputy director of the department to the deputy general manager of the branch.

But the reason why Chen Gong is determined to stay is: "Don't worry about Mr. Wang."

President Wang——Wang Yao is the general manager of HALO, and he can also be regarded as Chen Gong's bole and life mentor.

Back then when Wang Yao first formed HALOstudio, the entire team consisted of only four or five people. Now it has grown to four or 50 people. There are many changes in the middle of the staff. Only Chen Gong is left with Wang Yao, or with HALO every step of the way. came over.

It was a weekend night, and Wang Yao invited Chen Gong to a small bar downstairs of his home to talk with Chen Gong about the dispatch plan for setting up a branch company.After hearing Chen Gong's reasons for refusing to dispatch, the drunk Wang Yao was so moved that he burst into tears. He hugged Chen Gong in the bar and shouted "good brother is loyal enough" and refused to let go. Director) is going to Hangzhou” and must compensate Chen Gong for the position of “Director of the Visual Department”.

After a day or two, Mr. Wang threw a resume to Chen Gong, saying that he asked Chen Gong to "help interview someone in your visual department".

Zheng Yi has a beautiful resume - Bachelor of Visual Design at the University of the Arts London, Master of Mass Communication Studies at the Bauhaus School of Design; he has won the Blue Dot Design Silver Award and the Top Ten Yearbook of the Tokyo Photographic Art Society. (Author ps: It is all edited and not worth studying)

The interview between Chen Gong and Zheng Yi was also very speculative. The topics ranged from the disadvantages of the domestic photography art industry to future development trends, turning an interview into a photography art discussion salon.

After seeing off Zheng Yi, Mr. Wang asked Chen Gong, "How is this kid?"

Chen Gongzhi nodded: "Excellent!"

"Compared to you?"

"It can't compare—his resume beats me by ten blocks."

Mr. Wang patted Chen Gong on the shoulder: "Don't underestimate yourself, he—he was recruited to help you."

A week later, Zheng Yi joined HALO as the "Director of the Visual Department", and Chen Gongcai was dumbfounded.

It was also after that time that Chen Gong fully understood that the old man's drunken words cannot be trusted.

On the night when Zheng Yi joined the company, Mr. Wang called Chen Gong and Zheng Yi together to drink again.

Mr. Wang clasped Zheng Yi's shoulder and gave a thumbs up: "Xiao Zheng, your advantage lies in your broad aesthetic vision - I give you this position because I want you to lead the whole department to become 'foreign style' together! Accurate aesthetic trends Judgment is what this department should have the most—as for Xiao Chen, you have narrow vision but strong business ability, I hope you two complement each other's strengths and join forces to be my right-hand man! Okay?"

As soon as Zheng heard Wang Yao's words, his fighting spirit burned instantly, and he nodded repeatedly: "Old Wang, don't worry!"

Chen Gong sipped his wine indifferently, his dissatisfaction with being robbed of his position hadn't subsided, and he let out a quiet "hmm" after a long time.

Although Chen Gong has a stubborn personality, he can actually understand Lao Wang's difficulties—the company is at a critical juncture, and Lao Wang wants to use preferential treatment to hold onto Zheng Yi's beautiful trump card, so Chen Gong will stay with him after a small grievance.

But this trump card is now making things difficult to run, what's more, this morning he poured himself a drink, and then roared the line "Chen Gong wants to sexually harass a female intern!" in the HR office...

——Chen Gong felt that he was too noisy.

In the surveillance video: From 18:00 to 20:56, there are only two overtime workers left at the workstations in the Visual Department—Chen Gong and a female intern; During the three hours, the two did not have any close interaction, and the few exchanges were only long-distance conversations separated by large tables and chairs.

Qiu Mang, head of the human resources department, took off his glasses, first glanced at the "defendant" Chen Gong who was sitting obliquely on the sofa behind him, then turned his head to look at Zheng Yi: "This is all the surveillance data... at least It can prove that Chen Gong did not sexually harass the interns in action.”

Zheng Yi didn't believe in evil, frowned and turned the video quickly, and the "victim" intern was also summoned into the conference room at this time.

Zheng Bai was puzzled, and turned to the victimized intern and asked: "Can you tell me specifically how Chen Gong sexually harassed you? — If there is no action, is it in words?"

The intern frowned and glanced at Chen Gong, then at Qiu Mang, and turned to Zheng Yi with a look of surprise on his face: "I didn't say that Deputy Supervisor Chen sexually harassed me..."

Hearing the intern's categorical denial, Zheng Yi felt a little hot on his forehead: "Hey, don't deny it—that's not what you said on the phone yesterday!"

The intern shook his head: "That's right, I just said... Deputy Supervisor Chen was a little disrespectful to me in words."

Zheng Yimeng nodded: "Yes, you said so!"

"Deputy Supervisor Chen scolded me yesterday as 'I don't know what to do' and 'I don't know how to make progress'... Isn't that disrespecting me?" I just don't want to work overtime...I didn't say that Deputy Supervisor Chen sexually harassed me, but Supervisor Zheng, you drank too much yesterday and misheard..."

Hearing the intern's pear blossom crying with rain, Zheng Yi almost couldn't recite it in one breath.

Obviously just now, he was still a messenger of justice who accused Chen Gong of "violating his subordinates", but in an instant he became a villain who "slandered others".

The residual hangover made his brain ache, Zheng Yi gasped for breath and thought about it over and over again, and after a while, he raised his head and looked at the intern again: "...so I misunderstood you?"

The intern pouted and nodded, sobbing non-stop.

From the corner of the eye, Chen Gong sat silently on the sofa without saying a word—you don’t need to look at it, just think about it, you can know his signature indifference—the expression like a dead person.

Zheng Yi glanced at Qiu Mang with a bitter face, and Qiu Mang put on an expression of "I can't save you" and carefully sucked the freshly poured hot espresso with his mouth curled up.

Taking a steady breath, Zheng Yi urged himself to turn around and "try to appear as calm as possible" and said to Chen Gong, "Then...why did you detain him for so long?"

Chen Gong didn't raise his eyes: "She hasn't finished a single poster in two weeks—but it will be handed over to the client early this morning."

"Forcing people to ride in your car?"

"Not forced. It's too late, I'm afraid it's not safe for the little girl to go home alone."

The truth has long been revealed, so every question at this moment seems like an unwise stalking.

Zheng Yi finally realized that he had passively sunk into a puddle of mud—this was a pure motive for advocating justice, but at this moment he looked like an idiot who poured dirty water on people.

Due to the reckless personality, no wonder anyone.

Fortunately, Qiumang spoke at the right time, and relieved Zheng Yi who was in an embarrassing situation and had nowhere to go: "So it seems to be just a misunderstanding—as long as everyone is fine!" Qiu Mang turned her eyes from the three parties in turn, and finally stayed on the dodging eyes of the female intern and smiled meaningfully; at the end, she closed the case with the sentence "Is there any man in this world who is not stupid", and then Revealed the rules of the department - "hand in hand and punished to stand".

Chen Gong, who had escaped from the stigma, took a long breath, got up and patted the dust on his body for no reason, and walked out of the meeting room first to stand in the public rest area of ​​the atrium.

Zheng Yi was both embarrassed and embarrassed to put down his body to admit his mistake, so he just raised his chin, endured the pain and followed Chen Gong to the atrium.

Grabbing the hand that Chen Gong had left for him, he gritted his teeth and frowned.

At 11:49, Chen Gong answered the phone.

Although he hung up after only answering three "um" and "thank you" briefly, judging from the faint voice leaking from the side, Zheng Yi knew that the person who called Chen Gong was their common boss—HALO General Manager Wang.

It's not a problem to stand still. After Zheng Yi stared away a few onlookers with his eyes, he asked Chen Gong for nothing, "Old Wang looking for you?"

Chen Gong said "hmm".

Zheng turned around and glanced at Chen Gong: "What's the matter?"

Chen Gong was very frank: "Call me."

Zheng Yi let out an "oh".

Although the two were at odds, Zheng Yi felt somewhat sorry for misunderstood Chen Gong today.

The purpose of talking to Chen Gong was also to lay out a paragraph, but Chen Gong's answer also involved the consequences of the fight just now... I guess he was angry, so it was not a good time to talk to him.

So it fell into a long embarrassment again.

At 12:00, the punishment ends.

Qiumang came out of HALO and walked to the atrium, stood in front of Chen Gong and Zheng Yi, and raised the rules in his hand: "What should be done among peers?"

I got a mixed reply from the two without tacit understanding: "...Unity and friendship, fighting side by side..."

"What should I do if I encounter a conflict?"

"Facing it rationally, communicating actively..." Zheng Yi still forgot the words in this paragraph, and slurred under Chen Gong's decisive voice.

Qiumang didn't make things difficult for him, and after dismissing the lecture session, he raised his mobile phone and "clicked" at the two of them.

Chen Gong was somewhat resistant to Qiu Mang's photo taking: "What are you taking?"

"Hey! It proves that you two have been punished!" Qiu Mang ignored Chen Gong's resistance, put away his phone and said, "Senior Chen, your temper has been like this since you were in college, can you change it? ——If you meet again When it comes to the situation of this procrastinating intern, I suggest that you give priority to communicating with the Human Resources Department—that is, me, and I will handle it professionally.”

Chen Gong sneered: "What will you do with your personnel? Don't you just fire them all?"

"Deputy Supervisor Chen—a person like you really can't survive half an episode in Fang Gong Douju! You have become a 'big pervert' now, and you still have the mind to protect others!"

Chen Gong was so blocked that he couldn't speak, he just turned his head away.

Qiu Mang shook her head helplessly, then turned her head to Zheng Yi's direction and said, "—Of course, what's even more incomprehensible is that there are people who will be fooled into turning around!"

Zheng Yi was so ashamed of being ridiculed, his face turned blue and white, and he couldn't refute anything for a long time, but gave Qiu Mang a "glaring look".

After mocking the two big guys who were a head taller than him, Qiumang sighed leisurely, "I hate iron but not steel": "How do you say that slang? -'Tall, but short-sighted!' I’ve learned it—Old Wang has been struggling with financing recently, and you two, as his most trusted right-hand man, it’s better to avoid causing trouble!”

The one being scolded was reasonable, Chen Gong and Zheng Yi glanced at each other.

Qiu Mang cleared his throat: "It's all over, when are you going to hold your hand—"

Chen Gong let go, and confirmed to Qiu Mang, "Have you bought the ticket for me?", and left first after getting an affirmative answer.

Leaving Zheng Yi in place, he took a few more mouthfuls of the sweet and bloody smell in his mouth, and whispered to Chen Gong's back, "It's hard enough!"

Watching Chen Gong's figure turn back to HALO, Qiu Mang let go of the human resources director's airs, regained his friend's identity, and patted Zheng Yi's head with the document in his hand: "You still talk about him—— You were called a 'pervert who sexually harassed female interns', your outburst should blow up the entire HALO!"

Zheng Yi felt that what Qiumang said was right, and he felt a little annoyed again.

He took a few steps back and sat down on the sofa in the atrium rest area, rubbing his sore calves, turned around after a while, and tried to find Chen Gong's back.

After searching to no avail, he turned around, raised his head and asked Qiu Mang, "I'm going too far this time...?"

Qiu Mang nodded calmly: "You're too aggressive."