Chapter 4: Resign and Leave. I don't want to work even one more day of this job.
Shi Wan calmly paid the bill first, and only on her way home did she open the long string of red notifications on WeChat.
A barrage of messages, some with voice messages and some with text, popped up all at once, and Shi Wan suddenly felt an urge to delete them without even opening them.
However, after thinking about the deep friendship she had formed with her dining companions over the past few years, she still listened to Wang Zhizhi's voice messages one by one.
"Sesame Ball: Shi Xiaowan, are you home? Check the company group chat, Old Li Baldy tagged you."
Sesame Ball: ?? Shi Xiaowan? You're not still sleeping, are you?? Something terrible has happened!
"Sesame Ball: Oh my god, Shi Xiaowan, wake up, you big pig! You're going to lose your job!!!"
"Sesame Ball: If you don't wake up, I'm really going to come to your house!"
"Sesame Ball: Holy crap, you're not asleep? What were you doing? Old Li Baldy was throwing such a tantrum in the group chat, I was thinking he was going to become a Taoist priest, how come he's so knowledgeable about Yin and Yang???"
"Sesame Ball: I give up!!! I saw a reply! Ah!!"
...
Shi Wan sighed and checked the company group chat again.
"Huanyu - Li Cheng: As a member of the company, I believe everyone should treat the company as their own home and have more dedication."
"Huanyu - Li Cheng: When faced with difficulties, we must find ways to solve and overcome them ourselves. If everyone harbors such selfish thoughts, what good will that do for our company?"
"Huanyu-Li Cheng: Some individual comrades still have a sense of remorse and should immediately complete the tasks assigned by the leaders, which will be beneficial to the company's development."
Shi Wan rolled her eyes at the sight.
It's a bit of a pity that I didn't see these messages back then, leaving Li Cheng to put on a one-man show.
Otherwise, she would definitely have to go on stage immediately, so that Li Cheng wouldn't waste his efforts on singing, reciting, acting, and fighting.
And some individuals
Shi Wan couldn't help but smile.
However, even on a weekend, the company group remained silent, with no one responding to Li Cheng. Shi Wan figured they were all probably just waiting to see what would happen next.
Sure enough, after thirty minutes, Li Cheng couldn't sit still anymore. He probably didn't expect that Shi Wan would actually disobey his orders and complete the work.
He was so angry he couldn't save face, but he couldn't get in touch with Shi Wan, so he broke down and tagged her three times in the group chat.
"Huanyu - Li Cheng: @Legal Department Shi Wan, please contact me immediately and send the completed contract to my email address! Do not disrupt my normal work!"
He tagged the account three or four times in a fit of anger, but remained calm and collected.
Shi Wan ignored him, and no one else paid any attention to him either.
About ten minutes later, Shi Wan guessed that he had been frantically calling her but still no one answered, so he went back to the group chat and tagged Shi Wan again.
"Huanyu—Li Cheng: @Legal Department Shi Wan, I seriously question your work attitude! Why is no one answering your phone?! Please take your work seriously! If this continues, I will reassess your work capabilities!"
The group chat ended there. Li Cheng didn't send any more messages, and no one else spoke up. The atmosphere remained awkwardly silent.
Shi Wan glanced at it, but still didn't intend to reply.
She felt that she was already at a disadvantage by looking at work-related matters during her rest time.
So he turned back to reply to Wang Zhizhi's message.
"Wanwan is not too late: Baby~"
"Sesame Ball: Oh, you're finally done with your busy schedule? You've finally decided to reply? You've finally remembered me?"
"Wanwan is not too late: Hehe~ How could I forget you? Sigh, let me tell you..."
She sent several voice messages, vividly describing the reason for her loss of contact.
"Sesame Ball: Oh my god, girl, you've got guts! You'd better wait until tomorrow at work when Old Li the Bald is looking for trouble with you. I'll try my best to tip you off."
"Wanwan is not too late: Hehe~ He won't be able to control me anymore in the future."
Sesame Ball: ...What do you mean! What do you mean?!
"Wanwan is not too late: I'm preparing to resign."
Sesame Balls: ???? You heartless food buddy, leaving me all alone to eat in the cold and lonely atmosphere?
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Just as they arrived at the door of the small rented room, Shi Wan went inside, settled Dou Dou in, changed her clothes, and then, clutching her phone, collapsed onto the soft bed.
"I'm so tired, so tired..."
Shi Wan mumbled twice, feeling as if she had finally come back to life.
A moment later, Wang Zhizhi called.
"Shi Xiaowan, don't be impulsive! The job market is so bad right now, how dare you quit without a backup plan? You should at least find another job before you quit!"
Wang Zhizhi sounded even more anxious than Shi Wan herself.
"Okay, Zhizhi, I didn't quit without a job lined up. I have a place to work," Shi Wan reassured her. She felt that this job not only brought her some work experience and resilience, but most importantly, it gave her a very good friend.
"Oh, that's alright," Wang Zhizhi immediately calmed down, and then urged readily, "Okay, then hurry up and quit. Although I don't want to be separated from you, I will run away as soon as I have the chance."
Their department had a particularly serious problem with overtime work. Under Li Cheng's leadership, receiving and completing sudden tasks anytime and anywhere was almost a daily routine.
What's most disgusting is that this kind of hidden overtime work doesn't even pay overtime wages.
Li Cheng euphemistically called it "contributing to the company."
He was keen on manipulating every employee to work overtime for free and beyond the allotted time, while at the same time, he was a performative personality who fawned over the company's senior management.
Therefore, their department had a fairly high turnover rate. Shi Wan always felt that at least 70% of the people couldn't stand Li Cheng's manipulative tactics.
But Li Cheng didn't think so; he thought it was because these people had poor stress tolerance.
At this point, Wan just wanted to roll her eyes and spit twice.
"By the way, which company are you switching to? You've been keeping quiet these past few days, I haven't heard a word about it," Wang Zhizhi asked curiously. "You go first, and if the conditions are right and they're short-staffed, I'll see if any headhunters will try to poach me. Then we can even have meals together."
Shi Wan rolled over, shifting to a more comfortable position to slump down. "Looks like that's unlikely. I'm not changing jobs; I'm going home to work for my relatives."
"Oh, you've inherited the family business," Wang Zhizhi hadn't expected this, and her hand holding the potato chips paused for a second. "That's great, Shi Xiaowan."
“Oh, it’s not a business, I just go back to farming,” Shi Wan pondered how to explain. “My relatives have a farm, it’s not big, but the products are pretty good, and they also have a pet food processing plant, the kind with all the necessary licenses.”
She was thinking that in the future, the farm's agricultural products and processed pet food would need to find a market, and Wang Zhizhi herself had three or four cats and was also in a group chat with many local pet lovers.
When the finished product is ready, we can send a few copies to Wang Zhizhi.
Wang Zhizhi sat up abruptly. "What? There's a factory like this around here? I'll look up what brand they make. If our quality is up to standard, I'll definitely support them. The consumption of our four pigs is no joke."
When Shi Wan heard her describe her fat cat as a pig, she couldn't help but laugh. Indeed, she had seen them a few times, and each one was very robust, like a small mountain.
Wang Zhizhi was extremely worried. Ever since she was spayed/neutered, every single one of her cats had inflated like balloons.
She racked her brains every day trying to figure out how to help her child lose weight, but not a single cat listened to her.
She was so anxious that she kept screaming and yelling at home every day.
"We used to be an OEM manufacturer for overseas companies, but now we're planning to take it back and create our own brand. The production lines and machines are very high-end, and we also have over forty furry friends on the farm," Shi Wan briefly explained. "I went to take a look, and they said the finished products would be sent for quality inspection. I thought it was okay, and since we're all on the same side, the pay is good, so I decided to go there."
"The best part is that although it was a bit busy at the beginning, there was no overtime, and there was triple pay for overtime."
"That's really good, hurry up and jump ship," Wang Zhizhi exclaimed. "Write your resignation letter quickly, and when you go tomorrow, dump it on Old Li the Bald. He's always being sarcastic and annoying!"
The two chatted about gossip for a while before reluctantly hanging up the phone.
DouDou nestled in its cat carrier, obediently staring at Shi Wan with its bright yellow eyes.
Shi Wan patted him. "The food and water bowls are right next to you, and the litter box is by the bathroom door. Tell me if you feel unwell, okay?"
DouDou meowed listlessly; he was still feeling unwell and didn't even want to talk.
Shi Wan touched him tenderly, and only after hearing him snore softly did she reluctantly return to the beanbag chair next to the coffee table.
The next morning, Shi Wan changed Dou Dou's food and water, gave her a few more instructions, and then went to the company with high spirits.
Damn it, I still have to squeeze onto the subway and buses for another month.
After a chaotic and disorganized journey, Shi Wan ate two steamed buns and an egg, and drank a cup of soy milk to replenish her energy.
As she walked into the company building, she wondered if it was just her imagination, but she felt like her colleagues were all secretly pointing at her back and whispering to each other.
"She's Shi Wan from the group chat yesterday..."
Even she didn't care anymore; she was going to resign anyway, and she wouldn't stay for long.
Thinking this, Shi Wan went up to the sixth floor.
Upon entering the department office, the previously noisy room immediately fell silent.
Wang Zhizhi had arrived. She winked at Shi Wan, pointed to Li Cheng's office, pursed her lips, and finally gave her a thumbs-up.
Shi Wan returned a determined look and went back to her workstation to wait for work to start.
During this time, I received admiring glances and gestures from several colleagues.
As soon as it was time for work, Shi Wan immediately printed out her resignation letter and strode confidently toward Li Cheng's office.
The door to his office was ajar, and through the crack, one could see him sitting on the sofa brewing tea, appreciating his art of tea ceremony with great satisfaction.
Shi Wan knocked on the door, and after hearing a "come in," she pushed the door open and went in, closing it behind her.
A group of people who seemed to be working diligently but had actually been secretly listening to this side regretfully bent their straight backs.
When Li Cheng saw her, he surprisingly didn't seem angry at all; he even looked quite gentle. "You've arrived? What brings you here?"
Before Shi Wan could speak, he picked up his cup, took a sip of tea, and said in a pretentious tone, "Alright, you don't need to apologize anymore. Here's what you'll do: go back and write a self-criticism, and hand it in to me before you leave work. Also, make a statement in the group chat saying that I've already criticized and educated you, and that you'll voluntarily work overtime in the future, so I won't pursue the matter further, and you can still continue working."
Shi Wan laughed in exasperation, "That won't do! How can that be? I can't possibly have such a good thing happen to me!"
"You should keep this good thing for yourself. I'm not worthy of it. I'm here today to submit my resignation."
Shi Wan placed the resignation letter on the table, smiled, and said, "I want to resign."
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