Upon hearing Cheng Man's words, someone immediately stepped forward enthusiastically: "Yes, He Qinqin, if you feel that you can't handle the current workload, you can resign."
"Yes, yes, health is the foundation of everything."
"If you want to shine as a journalist, you also need to be physically fit."
He Qinqin, who had been pretending to faint, suddenly perked up her dazed eyes: "No, no, no, I can still hold on."
"Cough cough cough—"
He Qinqin quickly calmed herself down. She couldn't lose this job; after all, it offered a salary of over ten thousand yuan and social insurance and housing fund benefits.
Moreover, he's currently on a workplace reality show. If he were to lose his job halfway through, wouldn't he become a laughingstock for the entire internet audience?
The variety show couldn't be filmed, and the actors couldn't get their pay.
"There's nothing seriously wrong, just some aftereffects that will take time to heal."
He Qinqin dared not pretend to be weak anymore, and said pitifully, "I'm already pitiful enough for being kicked out of my home. I haven't done anything wrong. Director, are you still going to kick me out?"
Cheng Man sneered, "No, the competition here is fierce and brutal, I'm afraid you can't handle it."
If He Qinqin fails the quarterly assessment, she will have to leave or be transferred. She wouldn't actually fire someone herself and give people cause for gossip.
"Alright, it's lunchtime, everyone can go home now."
If employees aren't enthusiastic about eating, there's something wrong with their thinking, and soon they'll go to the staff canteen in twos and threes.
He Qinqin breathed a sigh of relief. After the crowd dispersed, Zhao Jiao came forward and took her hand: "Qinqin, you haven't been eating well these past few days, have you? Let's go eat quickly."
"I just went to submit my documents, what happened?"
He Qinqin pointed helplessly to the pile of tasks on the table: "Jiaojiao, I have so much work to do, you'll help me, right?"
Zhao Jiao: "Let's eat first, and then we'll talk."
The live broadcast camera cut to the cafeteria of New Star TV.
The camera pans across the clean and bright food service window, where warm yellow light shines on the dishes: home-style meals, rice noodles, desserts, and snacks...
The cafeteria looks even more luxurious than the food served in a regular hotel, making netizens envious even through the screen.
When He Qinqin and Zhao Jiao arrived at the cafeteria, she glanced around and found that the soulless, mass-produced dishes and meals that she used to look down on looked incredibly tempting.
"Hello, Auntie, I'd like this minced pork and eggplant stir-fry, celery and beef stir-fry, and sweet and sour pork tenderloin!"
The girl in front of He Qinqin handed her plate to the auntie who was buying vegetables. The auntie happily took the plate and served a large spoonful of each vegetable without any trembling.
"That's enough, that's enough." The girl swiped her meal card, picked up her tray, and left happily.
He Qinqin, being robust, handed over the plate. She was completely disoriented and couldn't distinguish between different grains, so she pointed and said, "I want this, and this, and that one over there, and give me one of this too."
Unbeknownst to her, the moment the woman serving the food saw him, the corners of her mouth, hidden beneath her mask, immediately drooped.
Following He Qinqin's instructions, the cafeteria auntie served him a spoonful of each dish he requested. However, while serving the food, he was shaking as if he had Parkinson's disease. The stir-fried pork ribs with green peppers were so shaken that only the green peppers remained. The stir-fried beef with celery was mostly green vegetables, and even the sweet and sour pork looked like it was served in much smaller portions than the previous girl's.
He Qinqin took the plate of food, frowned, and rolled her eyes in dissatisfaction: "Why is the amount you gave me so much less than what that woman just received?"
"Are you deliberately targeting me?"
He Qinqin wanted to continue speaking, but the people in line behind her were already urging her: "He Qinqin, you should eat first. Last time you came to the cafeteria, you ordered all the dishes, but you only touched one bite and threw the rest away."
"Yes, anyway, the meal card is also covered by the company's meal allowance. If you're not full, you can come back later to get more, and it won't deduct any money from your account."
He Qinqin had no choice but to angrily take her plate and leave.
Viewers in the live stream saw through the camera that the auntie serving food at the cafeteria window was the same woman who had a Parkinson's flare-up when He Qinqin arrived, and she was very friendly to everyone else.
How did He Qinqin manage to offend even the auntie serving food at the cafeteria?
[I guess they made too much of a show last time and wasted food.]
[No, no, no, an insider reveals: the cafeteria lady who serves food and the cleaning lady in charge of the office area are best friends. Once, He Qinqin's report was returned by her supervisor for being so poorly written that she tore it up and threw it at the cleaning lady's face in frustration.]
Holy crap, that's so disrespectful!
[He Qinqin often rolls her eyes, which makes me feel like her emotions behind the scenes must be quite extreme...]
He Qinqin and Zhao Jiao found a place to sit down. He Qinqin picked at the chili peppers on her plate with dissatisfaction, and was about to throw them on the ground when Zhao Jiao stopped her chopsticks.
"Qinqin, there's a trash can under the table, just put it in there."
"I can put it however I want, do I need you to teach me?"
He Qinqin's mood was ruined by the cafeteria lady while she was eating, and now she's glaring angrily at Zhao Jiao:
"I've only been on vacation for a few days, and you're already giving me advice?"
Zhao Jiao was about to be driven crazy by this stupid teammate. She frantically gestured with her eyes to the camera that was taking pictures, her eyes almost cramping from blinking so much, before He Qinqin finally realized what was happening.
She quickly stopped picking at the dishes and laughed awkwardly, "I was just joking with you. You weren't really scared, were you?"
Zhao Jiao breathed a sigh of relief and lightly punched He Qinqin's shoulder with her fist: "You brat, why are you pretending to be fierce with me?"
He Qinqin smiled and started eating. She found that although the food in the cafeteria looked delicious, it did not meet her expectations.
Having lived in the Si family for so many years, every meal she had was meticulously prepared by a master chef, and her palate had long been spoiled.
She would only treat the ordinary food that Shi Yao gave her as a treasure and eat it willingly.
He Qinqin was full after a few bites.
"Xiao Zhao, you must have seen the show too. I need to find a partner to help me with this episode of 'City of Light' reporter assignment."
He Qinqin looked at Zhao Jiao expectantly, but Zhao Jiao did not agree immediately as she had expected: "Qinqin, I have a lot of things to do this month, including assessments."
"Let me think about it first."
"Why don't you ask the other people in the station first? They should be interested in appearing on such a popular program as 'City of Light'."
Zhao Jiao gestured to the people around her, and the relaxed expressions of the office workers who were eating and chatting suddenly turned alert.
"Others?"
He Qinqin's suspicious gaze swept over the people around her. The reporters and directors sitting around her, who had been eating and chatting, suddenly pretended to be eating diligently, their heads almost buried in their bowls.
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