woman wearing irish linen shirt

"I want to apologize for my curiosity first." I had already prepared, and my purpose tonight was to lure her into biting the bait and make another request for that data.It's just that I have suffered too many losses from her before, so I can't be too vigilant at this moment.

I counted the seconds, and I was silent for two seconds just right, as if I just swam back to the shore from the middle of my thoughts, and asked: "About what I mentioned earlier, you are interested in the data of our company in the Philippines three years ago-actually The focus is not on which year, or which region?"

Miss Pender was a little surprised, but she immediately diluted it with a gentle smile: "This is an amazing and inspiring hypothesis."

I raised my eyebrows.She seldom used this kind of phraseology, it seems that I caught her off guard.

As soon as her voice fell, no one spoke again.Silence is always much more powerful than people imagine, and almost no one can escape this curse.Miss Pan De was the first to lose the battle, and said with a smile, "Seriously, when will you come to our BCG interview?"

This is my default guess.

She may also intend to give me a step down.Although it is extremely fragile, we still have a verbal cooperative relationship after all. Miss Pan De will not be too embarrassing to me if it is not a matter of principle.I didn't expose it, and said modestly: "I will take it as a compliment. Thank you."

"But I still want to get what I named." Her tone became cold all of a sudden, she looked at me as if hinting, and then said, "When you go shopping, you don't want a sales consultant holding a size 2 Pants come over and you're wearing a size 0, right?"

She is so tall and only wears a size 0?How thin is this waist?My focus was completely in the wrong direction, and it was only later that I realized that I actually laughed.This smile is really out of place, Miss Pan De is putting pressure on me, she will not think it is provocative, right?

Unexpectedly, she was startled for a moment, showing a vivid expression that could only be seen in private.But she restrained herself immediately, cleared her throat, and said, "Do you understand what I'm talking about?"

"Of course," I said, "I'm sorry to disappoint you. I don't do anything illegal."

"You don't need to break the regulations." Miss Pande said, "I only need data that is not unique but can illustrate the development trend. You have been working on the front line for a long time, so you should be able to grasp this scale well."

I paused.It seems that she has considered this issue.

Today we are all prepared.

I thought about it, but my speaking speed was even faster than before, and I refused to show the slightest flaw: "It sounds reasonable. After all, it is one of my jobs to cooperate with you to implement the optimization plan as soon as possible, and I have no reason to refuse."

Her alienation softens: "When will I get your new email?"

She wants to solidify the evidence?I originally planned to pass it on in other ways. After hearing what she said, I postponed the time: "How about before the next meeting? I still need to do some basic processing on the data."

"I'll check my schedule." She didn't say yes.I heard the click of the mouse button now and then, and later, she said, "Is next Tuesday night okay? May [-]th."

"Of course." There's no need to pile up rejections on trivial things like meeting times, and I say yes without checking.After closing a few documents, I squinted my eyes and prepared to close the line.

She didn't seem to intend to hang up right away.Miss Pender looked at the screen for a while, and it was hard to tell where her attention was.I just noticed her eyes, which occasionally slid from up to down, and sometimes from left to right.Maybe you are looking at some documents?She should be in charge of several projects at the same time, and it may not be that she is preparing to kill other companies at the moment.I was a little hesitant to open my mouth to remind her.

Miss Pender's eyes did not move.It’s not that she hasn’t changed at all: her hair and the posture of sitting on the office chair have not changed, but I just know that she is still in communication with me, and if I speak, she will give feedback in a delay; If I don't move, she will come and ask me.

Did I really flirt with her?

My heart fluttered, I don't know where the wind came from.Her angle didn't change much, but I just knew she was looking at me.

"It seems that your eyes are tired recently." Miss Pender closed her eyes and made a movement between her brows, "Or are you just more relaxed when you see me?"

She started misusing words again, "see me", this is a meeting, a meeting!

I wouldn't allow any room for ambiguity between us, and immediately said, "Sorry, I lost my composure. I'll make sure I don't make that mistake again in a meeting."

Miss Pender looked at me.It's hard to say what the actual meaning of her smile is, maybe it's just a habitual disguise: "So... is this your strategy from now on? Do it business-like?"

"I thought you didn't want to be friends with me." I said calmly.

"I thought that sentence was aimed at my clients..." She smiled half-smile, unable to tell whether she was happy or unhappy, "And you, Yao, aren't you working for me? Or 'working' with me, In your words."

I'm still watching: "I'm just trying to do my job."

"Okay." She answered quickly, with a hint of anger.As soon as the words fell, maybe because she felt something was wrong, Miss Pan De immediately turned her back and said alienatedly: "That's it for today."

It is very simple to change the data, but it is difficult to work hard in which direction.

Unless it is a report at the end of the year, or the current project encounters similar obstacles, our department generally seldom reads the documents forward.Specific to the data from three or four years ago, the number of daily references to the core documents did not exceed double digits.

This document is undoubtedly the nomination certificate I handed over to BCG. Only when we really join the team can our cooperation be truly established. As for whether people will kick me after the fact, I still have two opinions. A gentleman’s agreement. Turn black and white.

But I'm really afraid that Miss Pande will sign the contract for me.

Now that I have this layer of scruples about verbal agreements, it is only natural for me to have reservations. Even if she has doubts, she can only stay at the level of suspicion in the absence of real evidence.Fortunately, this kind of cooperation is not possible to be written in black and white. I wandered in the cracks, terrified and excited.

What would happen if she was caught one day?

Wouldn't she be very angry if we won and she didn't find out afterward?Without warning, I thought of how she looked on the sofa that day.And that hug...

It's oxytocin, it's science, it's not me.At least it's just my body, not me.

I forced myself to ignore all reactions that shouldn't appear.

If obfuscated data was all that BCG wanted, Miss Pender should have softened the first time we talked about it.She must have prepared otherwise, but what this preparation is, whether it is a person or an information channel outside the company, it is hard to say.I had to hold on to her leads to be at ease, the pieces that were worthless combined into something priceless, stories like this are all too common in information warfare.

The background port that Lao Ye opened for me requires two authorizations before I can access it. It is very troublesome to operate, and I don’t check it every day.However, I have been preparing for this battle for a long time, and the tracking range has already been roughly circled. Miss Pan De accidentally helped me a little favor-of course, people with a size 0 waist must wear size 0 pants, otherwise the waist is not a waist, and the legs If it's not the legs, the designer's tailoring would be in vain.

The model in the Philippines is relatively independent, and this mouse hidden in the sewer can only show up in the corresponding file libraries.

who can that be?

In Friday's departmental meeting with managers, I re-emphasized the importance of the virtual debriefing process.Now I am a typical "company's enemy" in the department, practicing Tai Chi every day, and I have a big fight with Lao Huang on the surface.But after all, this is what the junior employees see. At the manager level, even if they can control their eyes and mouth, they still have guesses in their hearts.

In the meetings within the department, Lao Huang's performances are usually quite perfunctory, and today he is even more disrespectful, typing with me while having a meeting, and he almost announced that we were chatting privately.

Recently, my sneaky typing skills in video conferences have become more and more proficient. Just as the key things have been finished, I talked to Lao Huang about next week's training.This is my first online lecture. He has previous experience and gave me some pointers.

"Yao." I was called out suddenly.Quietly maximized the interface of the video conference, I listened to the boss's teachings with an expression of concentration from beginning to end.

"The overall problem of the third party in the Philippines is still relatively serious. Do you think it is possible to sort out a context as soon as possible? We can do a brainstorming and tell the detailed functional requirements to colleagues in the technical department before mid-May." The boss said in a tone. very calm.

His attitude towards people has not changed much since we met him.After listening to his words, I was still in a daze, thinking that I was still just a manager, and the time was turned back to the time when I was reporting to him.I froze for a second, then said, "Of course. I will make sure the work goes smoothly."

He hasn't asked about this kind of thing for a long time, what's going on?

The boss nodded, and asked about other people's situation, and the attention of colleagues turned to other parties along with the meeting process.I was the only one who didn't move.

I was more than motionless.I was frozen in place by the sudden shock and suspicion.

In theory, I am fully responsible for the business in such places. Considering a certain balance of power, although it is not necessary, I still write a briefing to the boss every week, which is also my own review and summary.This is just a formality, he and I both know it well, so the boss never mentioned related things.For a while I thought he didn't even watch it.

Why do you ask today?

And, why the Philippines?