woman wearing irish linen shirt

I nodded, looked away, and went downstairs.After a few seconds, I said, "Is she famous?"

"she is pretty."

"You didn't answer my question - and you will be complained, our HR is not as understanding as I am." I was about to reach the place, and I stopped at the corner of the stairs.

Lao Huang put on the mask again with a smile, apparently not taking my words seriously.Tucking the top of his mask, he said, "I have a buddy who works at BCG. He's obviously well-trained, but a few vague keywords are enough. I have my secret channel after all."

The consulting company has a very strict service confidentiality agreement. I don't really believe that Lao Huang is playing tricks here. He just said: "What channel, LinkedIn?"

He was obviously stunned for a moment, and said, "Yes. I checked all the possible executives, and of course several other companies, but I didn't expect to win the prize. How did you guess it?"

"Blindness." I spoke Chinese.I knew he didn't understand, so I immediately added: "I also have my secret channel."

Sure enough, he didn't understand, and seemed to want to win back, he paused and said, "Then do you know what level she is?"

Lao Huang is so proud, this must be a big fish.But she is really young, so I guessed the rank in my mind one level higher, and asked him: "Does it start with D?"

Lao Huang shook his head: "It starts with P."

It's hard to hide my surprise, partner, I'm afraid the company really lost its money this time.I patted Lao Huang: "This information is very valuable, and your fishing on LinkedIn was not in vain."

Lao Huang made a gesture to slap my hand away from my shoulder: "Hey, I didn't allow you to have physical contact with me! I might sue you."

A few seconds after the gag, we all changed our faces as soon as we got out of the stairwell.The [-]th floor was simply decorated, and there were many lights on the stage at the end, which made people almost think it was a small indoor concert venue.The gaffer is wearing a black T-shirt and is doing the final communication on the side of the stage. Besides, there are all orange crowds - I saw the boss at a glance. He is standing with the big boss and Kevin, all three of them are outside the T-shirt Wearing a dark suit jacket, if I had to describe it, it would be ugly.

I took an involuntary breath and let it out as softly and slowly as possible so it wouldn't sound like a sigh.On the bright side, at least there should be no light show this year, and the wave of people can't be displayed in such a narrow space. An orange T-shirt with a suit is completely forgivable.Yes, totally forgivable.

I don't wear them anyway.

"Oh, the boss is there!" Lao Huang also saw them, "Shall we go there?"

"I'll chat with the kids in the group for a while, you go first." I won't be fooled by the treacherous old Huang, just seeing the three-person group makes me dizzy, isn't it going to hit the muzzle now?But this matter really needs to be communicated with the boss first. Whether it is useful or not is another matter. If I don't report it as soon as possible, I will be the one who suffers.Today may be related to the conference, the conference room is not difficult to book, after finishing this, I quietly stood next to An Ning.

An Ning is actually doing data, but was temporarily seconded to Kevin's project team. The office area is adjacent to our department, and he often eats with the Chinese in the department.She is the younger sister of one of my undergraduate classmates. She also studied in the United States. We have known each other before, but no one in the company knows about it.Seeing me coming, she greeted me warmly: "Li Yao, I haven't seen you for a long time!"

I smiled: "Before you said that you should go back to China for the New Year and eat and drink well, right?"

"Ah." She also laughed, "It's just that the isolation after coming back is exhausting, and it's too uncomfortable to take a throat swab sample."

I nodded in agreement and said, "By the way, I ordered some food for lunch, please remember to come here."

"Wow, it must be a good thing for you to treat guests? Is it so interesting?"

"I just ordered internet celebrity egg tarts, nothing good to talk about." I lowered my voice, "Just now I passed by the [-]th floor and saw a dozen takeaways from the nearby coffee shop in the meeting room, that's true It's very interesting. It must be paid for by the big boss."

An Ning regained consciousness in an instant: "Who is it?"

"I don't know. It doesn't look like our company."

"Hey, don't tell others," she touched my elbow and lowered her voice, "We seem to have hired a consulting company to help with optimization this year."

I frowned: "We don't have this practice?"

She looked up: "It seems to be the meaning of coming down from the group. I found out by chance. There seemed to be a post on the intranet before, but it was quickly deleted--our group has spread! I heard from them of."

I exchanged glances with An Ning.Her rank is not high, and she was seconded by an external department. Obviously, she is not Kevin's confidant. If she knows about this, then the "gossip" from Lao Huang must be a false shot, and I don't know where he came from. heard.I was hesitating how to bring this matter up to the boss, when An Ning suddenly said: "There is a new restaurant in Chinatown that sells local dishes, Xiao Ding and the others have been there and said it is delicious, do you want to eat it? "

I was a little taken aback. I didn't expect her to invite me, so I said, "I just came back recently, and I'm too busy. Unfortunately, I'm going to be busy with house decoration. I want to have a housewarming party later. Would you like to come to my house?"

"Good!" She looked happy.After a while, the activity started, and I heard her whisper again: "You look good dressed like this."

"Thank you." I took off my mask and smiled at her, ready to speak on stage.

The plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the conference room I booked was canceled in advance before the conference ended.There was no time to report this matter to the boss. The boss was still full of energy. As soon as the event was over, he led several people wearing company T-shirts up to the [-]th floor.

Those people really belonged to BCG.

We exchanged pleasantries, perhaps three—or five? ——Then immediately got to the point, the boss didn't see anything on his face, but Kevin and the others definitely knew about it beforehand.I was asked to introduce the situation without any preparation, not to mention slides, and even the computer was not brought up, which made me regain the feeling of being a party B after a long absence.With my back to the real Party B and several superiors, I could only bite the bullet and pull out the whiteboard, and took an oil-based pen to draw a few times on the white edge, organizing my words.

At any rate, I was trained by the elevator theory system of my former employer, so I wouldn’t be in a mess—it’s better to say that it’s funny to see Kevin slumped—the boss would occasionally add a few words for me, and voted. Come to appreciative gaze.Maybe it was a look of admiration-to be honest, I've only seen him look at their dog that much.

Then there is Sanjay, the general under Kevin.He was clearly prepared for this presentation, not only in his slides, but also in his attire: I don't know where this time-management master came from, but he went upstairs In this gap, the T-shirt was replaced. Although jeans and a shirt are not very formal, they still look much more professional than me, a person wearing an orange shopping bag.

Miss Pender did not show much inclination.I know they must be happy in their hearts, the snobs in the consulting company have probably never seen me fight like this.She hardly spoke, and she seemed very focused when listening to the introduction, taking notes on the computer from time to time, and asking questions was mostly completed by two subordinates.Compared to a quick glimpse in the morning, her long vacation hair pulled up, her linen shirt hidden by a collarless suit the same color as the trousers, is more Big Boss than our orange T-shirt and black suit Big Boss up.

Surprisingly, she speaks with an American accent.I thought that a young partner like her should have grown up in England.

The reason why she impressed Lao Huang was obviously for a reason.Miss Pender was very beautiful indeed.Don't get me wrong, due to the special circumstances, compared with the average person, I have come into contact with too many high-caste Indians from school to work, so I definitely don't say she is good-looking out of any inter-racial appearance filter—she She is the kind of beauty who can really make human beings reach a consensus.

It didn't improve my mood.Instead, I felt worse precisely because she was beautiful.No one would like to appear in such a funny manner in front of any outstanding peers. Everyone has a heart for comparison, not to mention that I feel that the people from BCG are not kind.

Even if it was Kevin who deliberately tripped us up—how ​​could a client give a presentation to a consultant like this first?Even if, as An Ning said, the consulting company was invited by the group, if they are invited to do optimization, they will not directly help the company decide what needs to be optimized. A lot of internal pre-work and meetings must be indispensable. From my level, It's not like I can't hear the wind at all.

Sanjay is still talking.Some of the content is so detailed that it is obviously not something that should be brought up in the first meeting.The more I listened to him, the more confused I became.An ominous premonition gradually spread, and I don't know how Lao Huang and Boss feel. We are sitting on the same side, and it is difficult to exchange ideas through eyes naturally.It's just that this premonition is getting clearer and stronger. I can't believe it, but things seem to be going in that direction——

Why do they seem to come to buy us?