After changing cars in the town government compound, Xiao Lüping drove Pi Kai. He greeted Li Xiuyuan as he got into the car.
Li Xiuyuan remembered Xiao Lüping, smiled and nodded, saying, "Director Xiao, thank you for your trouble."
Li Xiuyuan's words excited Xiao Lüping. He didn't expect Li Xiuyuan to still remember him. He shook his head politely and said, "Not at all, Mayor Li is too kind. It's only right."
The position of office director is quite interesting. Only the leader's confidant can hold it. In most units, the office director is almost always the leader's confidant, especially in department-level units, where this is even more common.
Even if you're not a confidant, you still need to get close to the leader; otherwise, you simply can't stay in your position as office director.
Pang Zhifeng was happy to see Li Xiuyuan off because with Li Xiuyuan around, he and Yun Yanchang couldn't get close, making his job as office director very difficult.
The director of the Party and Government Office in the central town is a bit special because the Party and Government Office is a shared office of the town's Party Committee and government, which allows Zhang Xingdong to maintain a certain degree of independence. However, because of this, neither of the leaders pays attention to Zhang Xingdong or promotes him.
It would be better if Zhang Xingdong could completely side with one of them.
The car stopped in front of the Huangyuan Restaurant in the county. Pi Kai and Li Xiuyuan got out of the car, and Xiao Lüping ran ahead to lead the way, acting as a waiter. Although Li Xiuyuan was treating, Pi Kai had made a reservation in advance.
After they sat down in the private room of the restaurant, the waiter brought hot tea. Xiao Lüping took the initiative to get up and pour tea for the two of them. Li Xiuyuan brought up Wei Ke's matter.
"By the way, you know that teacher surnamed Wei from Meilin Village who's volunteering to teach there wants to go back to the city, right?" Li Xiuyuan asked.
Pi Kai thought for a moment and nodded: "Yes, someone mentioned this to me, I think it was called something..."
"Wei Ke," Xiao Lüping reminded him from the side.
Pi Kai nodded: "Yes, Wei Ke."
"I heard that the county education department is holding things up?" Li Xiuyuan continued to ask.
Pi Kai shook his head upon hearing this: "Township Chief Li, it's not that the county education bureau is holding her back, it's that our town doesn't want to let her go. We're missing a procedure and haven't processed it for her, so we pushed it to the county education bureau. When the county education bureau saw that our town was missing a procedure, they understood what that meant, so they refused to process it for her."
Li Xiuyuan was speechless upon hearing this. So it turned out he was stuck at the town's middle school. There were just too many intricacies within the system. Sometimes, whether to sign horizontally or vertically was an unspoken rule.
Sometimes leaders have personal favors they can't refuse and have to sign off on things, but they don't want to find a way to avoid it. So they have a tacit understanding with their subordinates: if the signature is horizontal, the subordinates can just take the slip and get it done; if the signature is vertical, the subordinates will refuse to do it and make all sorts of excuses.
Like now, the town is missing a procedure, but it turns out that it's stuck at the education bureau. If no one can guide you, you'll be stuck at the county education bureau for a long time, unless you can directly talk to the bureau's main leader. Otherwise, you'll be stuck forever.
"I see. Let them go then," Li Xiuyuan said directly.
Pi Kai immediately nodded: "Okay, Li Zhen."
After finishing speaking, Pi Kai looked at Xiao Lüping beside him and said, "Director Xiao, if Teacher Wei has any trouble with the procedures later, please keep an eye on things and help him out."
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