Xu Damao was still afraid that Li Tong would gossip about him to his wife. Right now, she was unattached and had just gone through a low point in her life; who knew what kind of earth-shattering things she might do?

“You should take some time to visit the transportation department recently and learn from their management experience,” Xu Damao said.

"Don't mention the transportation department. The current transportation department is not the same as before. The department head wants to monopolize power, and the deputy department head is completely uncooperative. Anyone who goes there to do business will suffer. I don't want to go there now."

"Besides, you only have two sidecar motorcycles, why should I go and learn how to use them?" Li Tong said, dissatisfied.

"The situation has become so serious? They seemed fine when I went there," Xu Damao said with some doubt.

“You’re a big leader, so of course they’re all very polite to you, but they start giving us attitude,” Li Tong said.

After Xu Damao left, Sun Lan served as acting head of the Transportation Department for a period of time. However, since she had only recently been promoted to deputy head, she lacked the qualifications for a promotion and could only watch helplessly as the head of the department was taken over by Yan Mingjie, the deputy head of the Third Comprehensive Section of the Office.

Sun Lan, as the deputy section chief, was prepared to serve for several years and intended to cooperate well with Section Chief Yan Mingjie. However, Yan Mingjie, perhaps having been suppressed for a long time by the leadership, began to rebel here, treating the transportation section as his own personal fiefdom.

From the moment he arrived, he began to divide the power of Sun Lan and the team leaders below him, meddling in everything and micromanaging everything. Everything required his approval, every document needed his authorization, which caused widespread resentment among the subordinates.

Sun Lan, a veteran in the transportation department, initially tolerated the situation a few times before rising up in rebellion. Relying on her strong grassroots support and familiarity with the business, she constantly opposed Yan Mingjie. Yan Mingjie, on the other hand, relied on his good relationships with higher-ups to relentlessly suppress the rebels.

Now, when people from other units and departments come to the Transportation Department to handle matters, it is absolutely impossible to get things done with just one person; the others will definitely object. As a result, the Transportation Department's work efficiency is extremely low.

The last time Xu Damao went to the transportation department was when he was handing over his work to Yan Mingjie. At that time, he saw Sun Lan's resentment and Yan Mingjie's restless ambition, but he thought it was just normal human nature. He never expected things to have gotten this serious.

"We can't and shouldn't interfere with the transportation department's affairs, but you must ensure that the use of your tricycles is fair and reasonable. My suggestion is that one vehicle can run outside, while the other should remain inside the factory to handle emergencies."

"By the way, if it's inside the factory, the security department can use it. If there's an emergency, just go to the security department to ask for the car. Chief Song of the security department has asked me countless times about this car; I can't refuse again this time," Xu Damao said.

The head of the security department was Song Yucheng, who was recommended by the steel rolling mill's security department. According to Tong Shuai, he wasn't part of the same group as Song Yucheng, and the steel rolling mill didn't select the person he recommended. However, Xu Damao had recently observed that the security department here was doing a decent job, at least on the surface, so he didn't have any other ideas.

"With the security department in our factory like this, they wouldn't even know if they got lost one day, and we girls would have to remind them. We even provide them with a car. We're already being lenient by not punishing them." Li Tong said with a displeased expression.

"What's going on?" Xu Damao sensed something was wrong after hearing Li Tong's words.

"Just go to the meeting..."

As Li Tong recounted his experience, Xu Damao discovered serious loopholes in his management, or rather, problems with his personnel practices.

Li Tong and the other girls lived at the factory every day. After dinner, they would take a walk around the factory to digest their food. One day, one of the girls noticed that some building materials piled up on one side of the factory building seemed to be missing, so she told Li Tong. These building materials were surplus from the factory building construction, which Xu Damao had planned to use for building houses later.

They didn't think much of it at the time, but the next day they discovered that a significant amount of building materials were missing, and they started to panic. Li Tong immediately contacted the security department. According to Li Tong, the next day, Yan Mingjie, the head of the security department, told him that the thief had been caught.

Later, Yan Mingjie suggested that Li Tong arrange for someone to store the building materials in the warehouse, and she didn't pay attention to the matter after that. It wasn't until Xu Damao mentioned the security department today that Li Tong casually mentioned it.

Xu Damao pondered the matter carefully, and the more he thought about it, the more something seemed amiss. But before discussing it, he needed to give Li Tong a good talking-to.

"Li Tong, do you think you've been competent as the deputy director of the office for so long?" Xu Damao asked.

Li Tong was still a little unaccustomed to Xu Damao's suddenly serious expression and slightly formal questions.

"I'm qualified, how could I not be? Are you planning to give me a permanent position?" Li Tong said smugly.

"Qualified? Qualified my foot! Such a big thing happened in the factory, and you didn't even tell me. What use are you as the office director?"

Let me tell you, the office director is the eyes and ears of the factory leaders. Any useful information you hear or see outside needs to be passed on to me for analysis and decision-making. Once we reach the position of factory leaders, our subordinates can't share trivial matters with me every day, so sometimes I need you, the director, to gather information and intelligence for me.

And what do you do? Such a big thing happened, and you acted like nothing happened, without even telling me. Tell me, where is your competence?

Xu Damao became increasingly agitated as he spoke, eventually slamming his hand on the table. This time, Xu Damao was partly angry, but more importantly, he wanted to use this incident to give Li Tong a warning.

This girl never treated Xu Damao as a leader and continued to do things her own way as before. Not only did she not act as a leader, but she also failed to truly integrate into the role of office director.

Li Tong was stunned by Xu Damao's sudden outburst of anger, completely taken aback by the sound of him slamming his fist on the table. From childhood, everyone had treated her like a treasure, spoiling and pampering her; no one had ever dared to yell at him.

Feeling increasingly aggrieved, Li Tong's tears flowed like a broken string of pearls. As she cried, she pointed at Xu Damao, as if trying to say something, but choked up and couldn't utter a word.

"Xu Damao, you bastard!" Li Tong said before running out of Xu Damao's office.

Fortunately, the office door was open when the two were talking, and people outside heard Xu Damao's angry outburst. Otherwise, if a man and a woman were alone in a room, and the other person had called him a bastard and then run out, he would have been in a very difficult situation, unable to clear his name no matter what.

Seeing that Li Tong had run off, Xu Damao was at a loss; this girl was completely unpredictable. Worried that she might run off recklessly and he would be the one to suffer, Xu Damao could only instruct a girl in the office who was on good terms with Li Tong to go and check on her.

Li Tong left, but Xu Damao was still thinking about the missing building materials she had mentioned earlier.