Zhao Jinshui slammed his fist on the table and questioned the sales manager:

"The company pays you so much every month to support your whole family, and this is the bullshit response you're giving me?"

"Either give me a workable solution today, or you can just leave."

The sales manager was also surprised that Zhao Jinshui was such a reckless guy, wanting to pack up and leave without even giving a heads-up.

But when you're under someone's roof, you have to bow your head. The sales manager glanced at the marketing staff who dared not utter a sound, knowing that he would have to swallow this bitter pill himself.

After a moment's thought, he braced himself and said:

"I have two ideas."

Zhao Jinshui looked at him and chuckled, saying with utter disdain:

"And what about these elite graduates from prestigious universities? Don't they all have to bow down for a pittance?"

"You didn't have any ideas just now, but after I pressed you, you immediately have two ideas. Hurry up and tell me!"

The sales manager, his face flushed with embarrassment at Zhao Jinshui's provocation, could only suppress his anger.

"That's right. Firstly, we can follow in their footsteps; if they do marketing, we can do marketing too."

"Just tell the supermarkets we're partnering with that they can also do a promotional giveaway of our products."

"I don't think a big, established brand like Shengjing can lose to a newly established small company."

Zhao Jinshui listened with a frown, clearly disliking the suggestion.

It's not that I don't like discounts and promotions.

Instead, it was the sales manager's comment, "Keep up with the other party's pace."

This is truly Zhao Jinshui's Achilles' heel.

Now, everyone in the company, except for the new employees, knows that Zhao Jinshui was too eager for quick success and proposed to acquire Lu's Food Factory, but the proposal was rejected.

This incident has made him a laughing stock in the company to this day. Behind his back, many people say that he only knows how to parrot others, that he got to his position through nepotism, and that he is nothing without his older sister who slept with the president.

Zhao Jinshui had been holding his breath for a long time, so how could he be willing to follow behind Lu's Food Factory and continue to learn how to do things!

Therefore, he glared at the sales manager with considerable impatience:

"Alright, tell me your second idea. Let's put the first one aside for now."

The sales manager, not understanding what was going on, could only continue:

"Well, the second point is to brainstorm ideas."

"As Director Zhao knows, I've only been with the company for less than a month, and I haven't even gotten started with the actual work yet."

"If we really have any good ideas, we'll have to rely on the veterans who have been with our company for a long time."

As he spoke, he glanced at the head of the marketing department.

What I was thinking was, since you all just watched me jump into the fire pit without even trying to pull me out of it.

Fine, even if I can't get up here, I'll still pull you all down.

Let's all stay at the bottom of the pit.

The marketing manager hadn't expected the sales manager to be so stubborn and impulsive. When he finally understood the suggestion, he saw that Zhao Jinshui indeed preferred it.

It was too late to say "no" then.

Zhao Jinshui clapped his hands and made an internal call, instructing all members of the marketing department to come to the meeting.

Then, looking at the heads of the marketing and sales departments, he said:

"It's not that I'm deliberately making things difficult for you. There's more to this story than meets the eye. In short, the other party is not an easy opponent to deal with."

"If you want to make a living by studying others, then you have to be prepared to lose, right?"

"It's not that we can't offer discounts, but how long would it take? If we haven't managed to cripple the other company by the end of the year, have you considered the consequences?"

"At that point, not only will the decline in performance not stop, but we will also have to face impairment of revenue. How will our marketing department explain this to the higher-ups?"

"These are all things to take into account. Don't think about how to lose money before you've even thought about how to make a profit."

The two supervisors neither confirmed nor denied the matter.

Soon, all the marketing staff arrived. They looked at the director and two supervisors, bewildered, not knowing what had happened.

Zhao Jinshui spoke first, because he was anxious to face his older sister's questioning:

"That's the gist of it. I rejected the idea of ​​someone else organizing a discount event."

"Now, let's brainstorm together how to improve our performance."

Not all the department employees are fools.

They knew all about the complicated history between Shengjing Company and Lu's Food Factory; they would gossip about it all in the break room during their 2:05 workday.

But no one expected that the company would actually encounter a tough opponent this time.

Unlike other enterprises and companies that had encountered Shengjing Company before, Lu's Food Factory did not end up in a mess and go bankrupt.

Their performance even continued to rise, putting them in direct opposition to Shengjing Company once again.

This matter has absolutely crossed the line for Director Zhao Jinshui.

But the company's employees are just there to work and earn money, not to be slaves to the company.

Especially working under someone like Zhao Jinshui, any truly ambitious employee would have run away long ago.