Twenty-eight-year-old Bian Senlin (Part 1)

Although the 28-year-old fat man's figure and appearance are almost the same as the 29-year-old Bian Senlin that Bian Senlin is familiar with.

But the gloomy feeling emanating from him almost made Bian Senlin think that he had recognized the wrong person.

The man in front of him made Bian Senlin feel like a walking corpse, completely different from the cheerful fat man that Bian Senlin was familiar with.

"What's up?"

28 The look he gave Bian Senlin reminded him of the word "wooden fish eyes".

Seeing that 28 didn't recognize him, Bian Senlin introduced himself: "I'm Bian Senlin... Let's find a place to talk?"

28 He frowned and stared at Bian Senlin intently.

Bian Senlin felt his scalp tingling. He always felt that the gloomy and scary person in front of him was a little scary.

But after a while, 28 turned around and walked towards the heavy fire safety door.

Bian Senlin followed 28 into the security passage and walked down two floors. It was quiet and soundproofed here, making it convenient for conversation.

28 stopped, turned around and looked at the forest beside him without saying a word.

28's eyes put a lot of pressure on Bian Senlin, and he stammered:

"I, I'm from 2014, and I'm the 20-year-old you. Due to...some accidents, I went to 2023 and met you a year later...and then..."

Bian Senlin always felt that his opening remarks sounded like a lie.

But I still gritted my teeth and explained my experience and purpose as simply and clearly as possible.

"...This is the situation. The captain and the others are going to fix the problem in this space and time. I came here to find you."

Bian Senlin was afraid that 28 wouldn't believe him, so just like when he and Fatty verified their identities, he told them some things that only he knew before.

After saying that, Bian Senlin looked at 28 eagerly.

28 There was silence for several minutes. This dead silence made Bian Senlin feel very uncomfortable.

Just when he was about to lose his temper and wanted 28 to at least say something, whether he believed it or not.

28 finally spoke: "I'm not interested in what you want to do, and you don't need to come to me."

After saying this, 28 ignored Bian Senlin and turned around to walk back.

Bian Senlin felt a little depressed. Neither the 29-year-old fat man nor the 40-year-old Dr. Bian had ever made him feel so difficult to get along with.

Bian Senlin wanted to catch up, but after a few steps he found that 28 had stopped.

Someone entered the fire escape!

There were two people, and from the noise it sounded like they were coming to the fire escape to smoke and relax.

Bian Senlin looked at 28 strangely. Even if they were colleagues he knew, everyone was slacking off and no one should say anything about anyone else.

Why does it look like 28 doesn't want to meet the two people above?

28 Ignoring Bian Senlin’s doubts, he leaned against the handrail of the stairs, closed his eyes and rested, ready to wait until the two men left before going out.

Because he heard that these two people were his immediate superior and his immediate superior's superior.

Unless he was out of his mind, he would not run to these two great gods at this time.

That's tantamount to saying: Hi~ You are also slacking off, what a coincidence, me too.

Isn't this just making yourself uncomfortable?

For Bian Senlin, he didn't know who the two people were. He could only mark the voice of the person who spoke first as Colleague A and the voice of the person who spoke later as Colleague B.

I only heard colleague A say, "What's going on? You want to drink with me again? I can't drink as much as you."

Colleague B started complaining: "Boss, the pressure is so great!

Nowadays, all the requirements from different departments are urgent. Everyone in our department has been working overtime for almost three months.

Look at the fresh graduate in our department. He was so sunny and energetic when he first came.

Now he's as listless as a piece of dry grass that's been drained of nutrients. I'm afraid he'll run away one day."

"Are you planning to recruit more people?"

“What else?

If you look at the system records, no one in our department can leave work before 10 o'clock;

More than half of them were in the early morning, and there were several records of staying up all night!

Leader, human energy is limited. This won’t work!

The quality of what you deliver when you are extremely tired will definitely decline.

Mr. K from the testing department has come to me several times, saying that the quality of our recent deliveries has declined, the number of bugs has increased, and that I am increasing their workload!

Now the people below are complaining bitterly, the product department is still throwing demands at us, and the marketing department is still urging us.

Am I easy?

I don't care, either you give me the people or you cut off my demand!"

Bian Senlin heard colleague A sigh deeply, and after a moment of silence, he said firmly, "No one is needed!

Wait, stop messing around and listen to what I have to say.

The boss has already said that there will be no more HC quotas for the entire year, and this is non-negotiable.

Hey! Don’t blame the boss, it’s not easy for him either, he’s still soliciting investments from all over the world.

Last time I went on a business trip with my boss, wow, what a guy.

We put on a smile and acted like grandsons, but those investors just turned their backs on us.

Didn’t you and Lao K come to question me last time, asking whether we were seriously working on the product or developing for investors?

I’m telling you now, without money, everything is bullshit!

I'm not afraid to tell you the truth. This year we're only locking in HC. If the situation doesn't improve next year, I'm afraid we'll have to lay off employees, not even think about hiring."

Colleague B was shocked: "Layoffs?!"

"Yes, if the situation continues to deteriorate, the company will initiate a round of layoffs every six months starting next year.

Until the company's revenue can cover its costs, or we are completely dissolved.

You should be mentally prepared for this matter. From now on, you should do a good job of investigation within the department;

If it comes to that, you have to decide who stays and who goes."

Deathly silence.

After a while, Colleague B stopped making jokes and said in a much deeper voice, "Leader, you are making things difficult for me.

No one in our department is redundant. We have technical experts who specialize in solving difficult problems, the backbone who undertake 80% of the development tasks, and fresh graduates who are trained for the future.

These people are either the ones we dug up with great effort, or the old people who have been with us all these years.

Even the new graduates are carefully selected talents.

Who do you want me to give it to? Who can I give it to? "

"I know it's hard for you, and it's hard for me too, but there's nothing I can do..."

As if to ease the depressing atmosphere, Colleague A and Colleague B chatted about all sorts of things, and finally returned to talking about work.

"You always tell me that you're too busy to handle both management and technical tasks.

Doing everything by yourself will only tire you out. You can promote some people in your department.

Put them in charge of people who are accountable to you;

Let's talk about Xiao Bian in your department, if I remember correctly, you were the first employee in your department, and he was the second, right?"

"Sen Lin...is a hard-working and meticulous person. The overall delivery quality of the department has been declining recently, and he's the one who can stabilize it.

But his personality is not suitable for management. He cannot control the people below him, nor can he deal with the disputes with other departments.

As for the expert position, he is still some distance away. Last time, there was a very difficult project that tortured him a lot.

I could see that Senlin wanted to do well. He persevered for a month, but in the end he was not as good as expected.

When it comes to technology, once you hit a bottleneck, you have to rely on accumulation. It’s hard to say when you’ll be able to break through, and you can’t force it.”

Colleague B smiled dejectedly: "He has been here since the company was just a few people, and has been with us till now.

Before our product was launched, we often stayed up until two or three in the morning eating barbecue and drinking. Was he ever not there?

But if it’s really like you said, a group of people will leave every six months, even though he’s not in the first group, I’ll have to hand him over in the second round…”

At this point, the breathing in the passage became heavier.

When Bian Senlin heard this, he looked at 28 in surprise.

28 With his eyes closed, his temperament was naturally gloomy. Bian Senlin could not see any changes in him, and no one knew what he was thinking.

I only heard the voice of colleague A coming from afar: "It's okay, there's still at least a year left, we'll see then.

As for the issues you mentioned before, if the marketing department comes to you again, please ask them to come to me.

Product Department...In this way, your department will come up with a reasonable workload that can be undertaken.

I will personally oversee the product department and provide requirements based on your workload.

Since resources are limited, we can force the product side to produce high-quality products;

The best demands are first screened out internally and then handed over to downstream departments.

Of course, the workload you assign must be reasonable. Don't cut it all off at once.

At the same time, since you are in control of the demand, you must also ensure the quality of the output..."

"OK!"

As the words fell, the conversation between the two came to an end and the voice gradually faded away.

With the heavy sound of the door closing, the corridor became quiet again.

28 opened his eyes and looked at Bian Senlin who was about to say something. He interrupted, "You heard it too. I'm very busy at work. Don't bother me!"

After saying that, 28 also left.

Bian Senlin hit a snag here at 28, staring blankly at his departing back, at a loss as to what to do.

Soon, he saw Su Qingzhu and 28 passing each other at the corner.

Bian Senlin noticed that Su Qingzhu seemed to have quietly placed something on 28.

After 28 walked away, Su Qingzhu came to his side.

Bian Senlin asked doubtfully, "Sister Qingzhu, what did you put on 28?"

"Data collector, he doesn't seem to be in good health."

"ah?"

In order to learn traditional martial arts well, Su Qingzhu also studied some traditional medicine.

Based on her understanding of the human body and her observation of Bian 28's body, complexion, smell and breathing, she intuitively felt that something was not right with him.

In order to verify her guess, when Bian Senlin was talking to 28, she went to the bathroom where 28 had just come out and found that 28 had symptoms of bloody stool.

Problems with blood in the stool can be serious or minor, ranging from hemorrhoids to the digestive tract, liver, or even more serious.

But she was not a professional doctor after all, and could not make an accurate judgment, so she placed a body data collector on 28 for observation.

Of course, even if they knew, they couldn't do anything.

After all, it seems that 28's attitude towards them is not very welcoming now.