Chapter 242 Sister Yan, something seems to have happened
It was still lunch time when Lin Yan returned to Huasheng from Manzun.
After a busy morning, I finally have some free time.
She leaned on the sofa, took out her cell phone and was about to call Xing Yu.
The screen lit up and the phone rang. After it was connected, Su Xin's clear voice came over.
"Sister Lin Yan! I'm going to tell you something truly bizarre!"
Su Xin was always noisy, so she was not surprised. "Tell me, what's the strange thing?"
"I was just going back to the city and took a ride with Squinty Eyes. Guess what he said to me?"
"What?"
"He actually wants to recruit me to work for the Xing Group! I'm really promising!"
Xing Mo's abacus beads are about to hit people's faces.
Lin Yan: "So what do you think?"
"Of course I refused. One should always remember the person who dug the well. Mr. Zhang may be a bit of a jerk sometimes, but he's still a good person. My master's degree in translation trained me, and I can't just change jobs."
"How did Xing Mo react when you rejected him?"
"Reaction? I didn't notice." Su Xin: "He always has squinted eyes and a sullen face, how else could he react? Besides, I don't care what his reaction is."
"Xiao Su," Lin Yan said in a subtle way, "Can you really tell nothing about those squinty eyes?"
"Should I see something?"
Silly child.
Lin Yan said jokingly, "What if...Mimiyan has some improper thoughts about you?"
Su Xin laughed twice on the other end of the phone: "What are you thinking, Sister Lin Yan! Don't make such a ridiculous joke. If it gets to Mimiyan's ears, she'll think I'm spreading rumors! Besides, Mimiyan has a girlfriend."
"You have a girlfriend?"
"Yes! Okay, Sister Lin Yan, I won't talk to you for now. I'm at the company now and have to report to Mr. Zhang. We'll chat when we have time."
After the call ended, Lin Yan was surprised.
Xing Mo has a girlfriend?
What kind of girlfriend?
Just as I was thinking about it, the glass door of the office was suddenly pushed open.
Xiao Chen from the translation department almost tripped over the doormat when he ran in: "Sister Yan, it seems...something happened..."
Lin Yan stood up and smoothed the wrinkles on her suit skirt. "What's the matter?"
"I just saw Mr. Tan and Mr. Lu from Beijing Chuangdong Technology go to the office. Mr. Tan looked unhappy and was full of anger..." Xiao Chen lowered his voice and continued.
"I also heard... Mr. Tan got mad at Mr. Lu, saying there was a huge mistake in the bidding documents we translated, which led to their failure in the bid and a loss of several billion..."
Error in the tender document?
The bidding document of Beijing Chuangdong Technology went through five revisions of the professional terminology comparison table, from technical parameters to legal clauses. Before submitting it, she and the proofreading team stayed up for two nights to check it word by word. How could there be any mistakes?
"I understand." Lin Yan responded calmly, "Xiao Chen, please go out first. Don't spread this matter in the department first."
"OK."
Just as Xiao Chen was about to leave the office, another colleague knocked on the door and came in.
"Sister Yan, Mr. Lu is looking for you."
"good."
On the way to Lu Linfeng's office, when passing by my colleague's workstation, several pairs of eyes looked at me timidly.
Once there are problems with the bid, every translator involved in the translation will be held accountable.
Billions, I'm sweating just hearing about it.
The door to Lu Linfeng's office was ajar, and the sound of suppressed argument could be heard from inside.
Lin Yan took a deep breath and pushed open the door, and saw the heavy back of a middle-aged man in a suit. He was holding a document in his hand, and his voice seemed to shake the leaves of the green plants in the office.
"Mr. Lu, I entrusted such an important task to Huasheng! But because of a translation error, Mr. Shang directly eliminated our Chuangdong! This time, Chuangdong and Xing were evenly matched in the bidding. If it weren't for the problem with the bid, perhaps our company would have won the bid right now!"
"Mr. Tan, this matter has not been fully investigated yet..."
Before Lu Linfeng could finish his words, Mr. Tan suddenly grabbed the glass on the table and slammed it to the ground. "What are you still investigating? The mistake is right there. Am I making it up?"
The glass exploded on the floor, and the glass fragments flew to Lin Yan's feet, cutting her stockings on her calves.
She stepped back to avoid the debris under her feet.
Lu Linfeng's face changed slightly, and the words on his lips were swallowed by Mr. Tan's furious roar.
"Are you Lin Yan?" Mr. Tan stared at her with piercing eyes. "Are you responsible for translating the bid documents this time?"
Lin Yan clenched her palms lightly and looked up to greet him: "Mr. Tan, I am. Regarding the issue of the bid, I..."
"I heard you're the director of Huasheng?" Mr. Tan interrupted, pointing at her nose, his chest heaving violently. "'Exclusive authorization of core technology', such a crucial clause, and you translated it into 'shared use rights'. I trusted Huasheng so much, and this is how you guys get away with it?"
Shared use rights?
Lin Yan's whole body stiffened.
She clearly remembered that the term "exclusive authorization" was used in the final version of the bid.
"Mr. Tan, this is impossible." Her voice was a little tense. "We have the final version on file, and it definitely doesn't have this translation."
Mr. Tan threw the document in his hand to the ground. "This is the PDF printout your company sent me. It's clearly written in black and white! Now you're talking to me about archiving?"
"Mr. Lu, I'm not in the mood to listen to your explanations. Huasheng, just wait for Chuangdong's lawyer's letter!"
After saying that, he slammed the door and left.
The office fell silent. Lu Linfeng bent down to pick up the document on the ground. His finger ran over the red-marked error, his face darkening slightly.
He looked up at Lin Yan, his tone businesslike but still gentle.
"Lin Yan, you have to give me an explanation about the bid. Both Mr. Tan and the company's board of directors need an explanation."
He paused, his voice lowering.
"It's written in the Chuangdong contract that we're responsible for 70% of any direct losses caused by translation errors. 70% of billions of dollars is no small sum. However, money is a minor issue. The main thing is that the company is about to go public, and nothing can go wrong."
"Boss Lu." Lin Yan felt like a stone was weighing down her heart. "Give me some time. I'll find out what went wrong."
Lu Linfeng stared at her for a while, then shifted his gaze to her scratched calf.
He turned around, took out a Band-Aid from the drawer, squatted down and put it on her.
He then picked up the intercom on his desk and ordered, "Have the technical department immediately check Lin Yan's team's document flow records for the past week. In one hour, call an emergency meeting with everyone involved in the bid review."
…
The air in the conference room seemed to have been sucked out, and no one dared to breathe.
Even Mr. Li, another director who rarely shows up in public, came.
This shows how serious the incident was.
Lu Linfeng placed the documents on the table and swept his aura over everyone in the conference room. "Everyone should have heard about this. There was a problem with the translation of the bid document. This is the first major work mistake since the establishment of Huasheng. Everyone, what do you want to say?"
"Mr. Lu." Lin Yan, as the person in charge, should step up and resolve the issue. Her voice was steady, unhurried, "I need to confirm a few things. The last proofreading record before sending the file, the server backup version, and..."
"Director Lin." Mr. Li, who was sitting next to Lu Linfeng, interrupted her directly: "Now is not the time for you to argue and find evidence. The incident has already happened. Now you should think about it. If Mr. Tan insists on pursuing the matter, who will bear the responsibility?"
Lin Yan: "It's not appropriate to assign blame until the matter is thoroughly investigated."
"Investigate?" Director Li said, "The process isn't important. Mr. Tan only wants the result."
At this moment, Xiao Chen, who was sitting in the corner, suddenly stood up, and the legs of his chair made a harsh sound as they scratched the ground.
Everyone looked towards her.
She was young and usually an honest and dutiful person in the group, but at this moment, she stiffened her neck and her face flushed red: "Boss Lu... I... I have something to say."
Lu Linfeng raised his eyes and said, "Speak."
Xiao Chen's eyes dodged for a moment, and finally fell on Lin Yan. He slowly raised his hand and pointed at her.
"There's an error in the bid... I... I saw that Sister Yan changed it on purpose..."
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