I sent something to the author with good intentions, but when I accepted the gift in return, it was considered as a bribe, and I was eventually fired from the magazine.
Zheng Zhihe asked Xiao Niu if he blamed the female author, and Xiao Niu shook his head:
“Everyone has their own reasons.”
Han Qin is the editor-in-chief of the magazine and has a strong personality. Many authors who contribute to the magazine have heard about this. If they go against the editor-in-chief Han's wishes, do they still want to work in the magazine in the future?
When the situation is stronger than people, many people will abandon their moral bottom line.
It is a blessing to have a friend with a particularly high moral bottom line, but most people are ordinary people who will compromise for life. Xiao Niu does not hold others to high standards. When they met again in court, she looked calm, but the female author who testified for Han Qin lowered her head and did not dare to look Xiao Niu in the eye.
Zheng Zhihe had already sorted out the evidence and ideas, and attributed Xiao Niu's expulsion to Han Qin's retaliation.
"Bullying in the workplace has caused me, the client, great mental harm."
Zheng Zhihe explained the reasons for workplace bullying clearly. After the failure of the negotiations in Rongcheng, Han Qin took her anger out on Xiao Niu, transferred Xiao Niu to be a proofreader, and gave Xiao Niu all kinds of hints, because she was afraid that her frame-up against Wen Ying would be exposed by Xiao Niu.
In order to cover up one mistake, Han Qin started another one. She falsely accused Xiao Niu of accepting bribes, which led to Xiao Niu being fired!
"Here is the recording as evidence."
When Zheng Zhihe submitted this evidence, Han Qin wanted to swallow the little salamander.
He is indeed an ungrateful person and a traitor. Even his method of secretly recording is as despicable as Wen Ying's!
Xiao Niu could probably guess what Han Qin was thinking. Facing Han Qin's murderous gaze, Xiao Niu remained calm: What's wrong with recording? This is the tacit understanding between her and Xiaoyu.
Han Qin's new lawyer's surname is Bai.
Lawyer Bai signaled Han Qin with his eyes to calm down.
In court, it is not about who has the loudest voice, and you cannot just argue unreasonably. Everything must be based on evidence.
Zheng Zhihe said that Han Qin was a workplace bully and maliciously framed someone. Lawyer Bai also said that Xiao Niu had been a traitor for a long time and leaked the lowest price Han Qin could offer, which led to Han Qin's negotiation failure and also caused significant losses to the magazine.
"After being fired from the magazine, plaintiff Ni Sisi quickly joined the Chengdu Publishing Group. As is well known, some of the group's businesses conflict with the interests of the magazine where my client works. The plaintiff's actions prevented my client from signing a contract with a best-selling author and caused the magazine to suffer huge financial losses."
If Han Qin had successfully signed a contract with Wen Ying at that time, the money that "Teenage Idol" now earns for Rongcheng Literature and Art Publishing House should have belonged to the magazine.
Lawyer Bai obtained the sales data of "Teenage Idol". The second reprint of 400,000 copies of the best-selling book was made just over a month after it was released. This has already involved huge interests, enough to make some people abandon their professional ethics!
Employees like Ni Sisi should be fired even if there is no scandal of accepting bribes, as long as they have committed dereliction of duty.
Selling out the bottom price of the negotiation to the superior is dereliction of duty, and accepting bribes is also a violation of discipline. In the final analysis, Ni Sisi has a bad character.
Lawyer Bai did not underestimate his opponent just because Zheng Zhihe was young. He avoided Zheng Zhihe and kept attacking Xiao Niu.
The little salamander looks quite honest and easier to deal with than Zheng Zhihe.
Lawyer Bai said that Xiao Niu was from Shandong Province, so why didn't he choose to find a job within the province after losing his job, but instead went all the way to Chengdu.
"As far as I know, the plaintiff has no relatives in Chengdu or even Sichuan Province to rely on. A young woman in her early twenties left her hometown to work in Chengdu. How could she be so sure she would be hired? Was there some kind of private deal going on? Was someone promising her something?"
Lawyer Bai's statement was naturally refuted by Zheng Zhihe:
"You can't live without food. My client was fired from the magazine, and they're not even allowed to find another job? She was able to quickly get a job at Chengdu Publishing Group thanks to her professionalism. Just because she single-handedly discovered a best-selling author, no publishing group in the industry would reject her resume!"
Lawyer Bai hopes that Xiao Niu can answer this question himself.
The honest little salamander asked Lawyer Bai in an honest tone, "Have you ever been to Chengdu?"
“I’ve been there a few times on business trips.”
Little Salamander became interested. "So what kind of city do you think Rongcheng is?"
Lawyer Bai thought about it carefully and said honestly, "It's a city with a very slow pace of life."
Xiao Niu glanced at Han Qin. "I worked at Aige Magazine. It was very pleasant at first, but after working with Editor-in-Chief Han for a long time, I felt more and more stressed. After being fired from the magazine, I wanted to change cities and change my life, so I went to Chengdu... Is this illegal?"
There is no law in the country that prohibits citizens from working in other places!
Not to mention going to other provinces, as long as the procedures are legal, you can even go abroad to work.
Xiao Niu said that he felt very stressed working with Han Qin, and that he was really being bullied by Han Qin in the workplace.
Lawyer Bai was tricked by the honest girl, and Zheng Zhihe almost laughed out loud - he couldn't laugh, he was a professional lawyer, professionally trained, he couldn't laugh no matter how funny it was!
Lawyer Bai wanted to ask Xiao Niu another question, but Zheng Zhihe protested.
"These questions have nothing to do with this trial!"
If Han Qin and the magazine suspected that Xiao Niu was derelict in his duty, they should file a separate lawsuit. In today's trial, Xiao Niu is the plaintiff!
The initiative returned to Zheng Zhihe.
Zheng Zhihe submitted the second piece of evidence.
"The bribery allegations are completely false. My client has a habit of keeping receipts."
Zheng Zhihe was so happy that even in court, he couldn't help but look at Xiao Niu with admiration again.
Xiao Niu is a gentle and meticulous person, and she is very organized in her work. She has a habit of keeping various receipts - she sent the donkey-hide gelatin cake to the female author not long after she started working. The salary of a new editor is not high, and buying donkey-hide gelatin cake is a considerable expense. Xiao Niu kept the receipts for such expenses not to wait for someone to reimburse her, but to plan her own living expenses.
"She used her own salary to buy donkey-hide gelatin cakes and sent them to the author out of concern for his health. The author was touched by my concern, and giving me ginseng tea in return is a normal exchange of gifts!"
Donkey-hide gelatin cake and ginseng tea are comparable in value.
Zheng Zhihe submitted the receipt as evidence, but Attorney Bai immediately retorted, "What kind of evidence is this? It's a fabricated story. The plaintiff has the freedom to work in other provinces and the freedom to purchase donkey-hide gelatin cakes. Our witness has never received any donkey-hide gelatin cakes."
Lawyer Bai used what Xiao Niu had just said to block Zheng Zhihe.
You can work wherever you want, and you can buy donkey-hide gelatin cake whenever you want.
As long as the witness says he never received it, who knows whether Xiao Niu bought the donkey-hide gelatin cake and ate it himself.
Zheng Zhihe has physical evidence, and Lawyer Bai has witnesses.
Physical evidence needs to be connected by a logical chain, but human evidence can speak for itself.
Xiao Niu's eyes were still clear, without any condemnation or pleading. The female authors who were called in by Han Qin to testify did not dare to look at Xiao Niu.
——Giving false testimony contrary to the facts caused the female author great pain.
——Xiao Niu cared about her so much and sent her donkey-hide gelatin cake, but she denied it in court.
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