Chapter 86 Jinjiang Debut
Lame Brother wanted to ask for specific numbers, but Wang Zufeng quickly stopped him, saying, "No, salary is a company secret and cannot be disclosed to outsiders. Don't ask! Besides, for young people coming to work, is salary the most important thing? Of course not! The most important thing is the experience you have gained in this company. Don't always ask what the company has given you, but what you can bring to the company. It's so hard to find a job now, having a job is a blessing, young people should know how to cherish it..."
Wang Zufeng kept talking, but Lame Brother had no patience to listen. He frowned and said, "Then I don't understand. The salary is not high, and the boss is a bad person. Why don't you quit?"
Several employees looked at each other and didn't speak.
Bai Mian answered for them: "Because they all signed a non-compete agreement. Once they leave this company, they can no longer work in their original industry, otherwise they will be saddled with a huge penalty. The agreement requires them to keep it confidential, so they dare not say it."
Several employees nodded, and the designer said with a frustrated look: "Since you have said it, I have nothing to hide. It is true. I signed an agreement. Once I leave this company, I will never be able to work in the design industry. However, my major is art design, and this is the only job I can find, so I dare not leave."
Lame Brother had never heard of this before: "There is such an agreement? It completely cuts off your retreat, it's like a contract of sale!"
He looked at Bai Mian: "This is too unfair to them, Little God of Wealth, is there any way to help them?"
Bai Mian nodded: "Of course there is. A real non-compete agreement will have restrictions on both the company and the employees. However, the non-compete agreement they signed was drafted by Wang Zufeng himself. It is a tyrannical contract that only restricts the employees but not the company. It is invalid from a legal point of view. Therefore, these employees have the freedom to resign. Even if Wang Zufeng takes the employees to court after they resign, he has no chance of winning."
Hearing Bai Mian say this, several employees breathed a sigh of relief, and hope rekindled in their eyes. Lame Brother laughed and said, "You guys are just stupid. You've been exploited by Zhou Paopi for a year and you don't even know how to run away. If you had consulted a reliable lawyer, you might have been freed a long time ago."
The designer said embarrassedly: "I know nothing about the law. It was not taught in school. I signed a contract with him after graduation without thinking. He always threatened us with the non-compete agreement, which made us panic. If I had known it was so simple, I would have quit long ago!"
The planner also said: "Yes, I have never been involved in a lawsuit, and I always have a fear of the court. I feel that we are powerless and we, the grassroots employees, cannot win the lawsuit against the bosses. It seems that my concept is too backward..."
Bai Mian said to Que Ge, "See? These people were personally selected by Wang Zufeng. He specifically selected employees who don't understand the law, and then used this non-compete agreement to oppress them. That's why no one leaves his company."
Several employees were excited, but Wang Zufeng's face darkened. He said angrily, "What are you doing! I asked you to tell my fortune, but you are trying to shake my morale? Master, I have to remind you that I am your client today, and you should answer my questions, but you have been going off topic. After talking for a long time, you still haven't told me who is the one who stabbed the villain in my body?!"
Lame Brother slapped his head and said, "Right! After talking for so long, I forgot about the cursed villain. Anyway, whoever stabbed the villain is really stupid! Things like this should be kept at home, but he brought it to the company. Isn't he just waiting to be discovered?"
"He's not stupid," Bai Mian corrected, "The reason this doll was placed in the company is because everyone needs it."
"What?" Wang Zufeng's expression was so ugly that it was beyond description.
"That's right. It wasn't just one person who stabbed you. It was—" Bai Mian pointed to a row of employees behind Wang Zufeng, "all of them."
"This cursed doll is used by all employees in the company. It is placed in the salesperson's cabinet. When your employees are troubled by you, they will stab this little man to vent their anger. The silver needles on the little man's body represent the number of times you have troubled them."
Lame brother pouted: "Huh, huh, huh, how pitiful! You are so unpopular in the company, and everyone hates you. It's a failure for the boss to do this to you. After all, the reason why your employees would poke you is not because of your own evil deeds. Try to do some good deeds for yourself!"
Wang Zufeng was so angry that his face turned blue. He turned around and glared at the row of employees, shouting, "You are a bunch of bastards. You are really rebellious! How dare you disobey the boss? I tell you, no matter how bad I am, I am still your boss and I hold your salary in my hands! If you do something like this, don't even think about getting paid. Listen to me - starting from this month, I will stop paying you for six months!"
The employees' faces immediately fell and everyone started complaining.
"Boss, didn't you say you wouldn't pursue the matter? Why are you changing your mind now?"
"I don't have much money to begin with, and they've stopped paying me. Are you asking me to work for nothing?"
"This is crazy! How can you deduct your salary like this? I want to resign!"
The driver was the first to say he wanted to resign, and the others followed suit. Wang Zufeng's face became uglier and uglier. For the sake of his company, he had to change his tone: "Stop, stop, stop. How about this? I won't stop paying you, but I'll just deduct half a month's salary as a small punishment and a big warning! You guys should also stop talking about resignation all the time. Young people who change jobs all the time will make their resumes look ugly!"
After he finished speaking, he took out his cell phone and called the company's cleaner: "Hey, Aunt Wang, put down your work first. I'll give you a task. Call a few friends and do a thorough cleaning of the company. Throw away all the expired items in the refrigerator. Then see if there are any other strange places. Find them all for me. If you find one, I'll reward you 100 yuan!"
After hanging up the phone, Wang Zufeng said with lingering fear: "I can let bygones be bygones, but this kind of thing can't happen again in the future. I have to dig out all the 'mines' you have hidden around me. If anyone else has done something wrong, you'd better tell me now!"
Several employees lowered their heads to look at their phones. No one wanted to pay attention to Wang Zufeng. Ever since Bai Mian told them that the non-compete agreement was invalid, they were determined to resign and were now browsing recruitment websites.
Wang Zufeng was bored and sat back next to Bai Mian. He said anxiously, "Master Bai, this little creature looks weird. I'm afraid its curse will affect me. Can you help me perform a ritual to kill it?"
Bai Mian picked up the cursed doll, carefully pulled out the silver needles from it, wrapped the needles in newspaper, threw them into the trash can, and then handed the doll to Wang Zufeng.
"Take a good look at it. It's just an ordinary doll sold on Taobao for 9.9 yuan with free shipping. It doesn't have any magical powers at all. Don't be afraid of it. The one you should be afraid of is yourself."
"Myself?" Wang Zufeng was stunned.
Bai Mian: "Your own actions are your biggest safety hazard."
Lame Brother helped translate: "To put it bluntly, you deserve a beating, be careful!"
Wang Zufeng was unhappy after hearing this: "Is this your service attitude? Why are all your words directed at me? I don't think it's right. Watching your live broadcasts, you are obviously very nice to other customers. After those people came to you, they quickly solved their troubles and reached the peak of their lives. But after I came here, I was first criticized by you, and then my employees left. My good company just fell apart. It's really not worth coming here. I've waited for so long, I might as well not come..."
Lame Brother rolled his eyes and said: "This is not our problem. Look for the reason in yourself first. Our attitude is based on who you are."
“Yeah, I got an interview tomorrow!”
The designer cheered quietly, it seemed that she had successfully submitted her resume.
Other colleagues all looked at him with envy. Wang Zufeng was very nervous and tried to persuade him to stay, "Well, can you please not leave? I have always been optimistic about you. When you help me make the company bigger and stronger, I will definitely give you dividends!"
The designer was amused: "Boss, oh no, former boss, do you believe what you said? Now all our employees are leaving at the same time, how can your company continue to develop? It's hard to say whether it can survive this year!"
Wang Zufeng said flatteringly, "Well, let's talk about the present. I will remove the lock of the bathroom when I return. From now on, you can use the bathroom as you like and as long as you want. There will be no charge!"
The designer said unhappily, "Come on, I'm going to work for a big company, why would I care about a toilet? This is such a good opportunity, I'm going to take it, you can go there by yourself with your toilet!"
Everyone laughed. Wang Zufeng stiffened his neck in dissatisfaction and said stubbornly, "Let's go, let's go. It's better for everyone to leave. It also saves me this month's salary! Don't think you are so great. The most abundant thing in this world is people. As long as I have money, I can set up a new team in minutes. I will still be my boss, and you will be low-level workers for the rest of your lives!"
As he was talking, Aunt Wang from the company called him. He picked up the phone and heard the joy in Aunt Wang's voice: "Boss, I found it. There is a fart bomb hidden under your seat and a non-toxic frog in your drawer..."
Wang Zufeng interrupted her impatiently: "Alright, alright, stop talking about these little tricks. Just tell me if you have found anything that can hurt me."
Aunt Wang raised her voice: "Of course! Boss, in addition to some prank stuff, I also found that there is something wrong with our company's water! There is some unmelted white powder at the bottom of the newly replaced barrel of mineral water in the water dispenser. It might be medicine. I couldn't tell what kind of medicine it was, so I called the police. The police have taken it for testing, and I believe the results will be out soon."
Hearing this, Wang Zufeng's face turned green. He angrily cursed: "Asshole! Idiot! Who told you to call the police? I asked you to check privately and then tell me the results. Why did you call the police?"
Aunt Wang felt very aggrieved: "No, boss, someone put drugs in the company, which could be fatal. What's wrong with me calling the police?"
Wang Zufeng yelled, "Don't talk back to me. Anyway, I won't let you call the police! Tell the police now that you are not calling the police anymore, and tell them not to do the test!" Aunt Wang was embarrassed: "What kind of thing is this? How can I withdraw my report to the police..."
Wang Zufeng hung up the phone in anger and sat on a chair sulking. Several employees looked at each other, asking with their eyes who did it.
The driver spoke first. “It wasn’t me. I’ve already taken revenge. There’s no need to do anything unnecessary. Besides, we just wanted to take a small revenge on you. Who would be stupid enough to kill someone?”
The planner also agreed: "Yes, killing people comes at a price, we all understand this truth."
Several other employees were also eager to distance themselves from the incident. Wang Zufeng lowered his head and said nothing. Lame Brother joked to him, "I didn't expect that you are usually so harsh, but you are so kind at the critical moment. Your employees have drugged you, and you are still reluctant to call the police?"
Bai Mian picked up the fan again and fanned himself leisurely: "You are wrong. He didn't want to call the police not to protect his employees, but to protect himself. The person who put drugs in the mineral water was him."
"ah?"
Several employees exclaimed in unison, and then began to discuss:
"Sure enough, I knew he wasn't that kind. This old man actually drugged us behind our backs. How shady!"
"Oh my god, what kind of drug is that? Is it poisonous? OMG, am I going to die?"
"Boss, even though we don't have a good relationship, you wouldn't poison us, right?"
"Wait, we only have one office, and the boss works with us, and he also drinks the water from that bucket. Isn't he afraid of being poisoned?"
"It's not poison. I didn't poison you," Wang Zufeng finally spoke. "It's just a little bit of... medicine that doesn't affect your health."
"What kind of medicine is it? Tell me now!"
Several employees asked together.
"Female contraceptive pills," Bai Mian said for him, "Most of the employees in this company are women. He was afraid that someone would get pregnant and delay the progress of the project, so he used this method."
Several people glared at Wang Zufeng. The driver couldn't understand: "Has the water we drank been filled with birth control pills for the past year? Brother, I'm a man and I can't get pregnant. Why did you force me to drink the pills?!"
Wang Zufeng explained in a low voice: "Well...anyway, contraceptive pills are for women. I think we are grown men, so it's okay to drink it. I mainly want to prevent those women. I'm afraid that after they get pregnant, they will enjoy paid leave in my company, not come to work, and still get paid as usual. My company doesn't want to support such parasites!"
Bai Mian corrected him, "You are wrong. The main ingredient of birth control pills is estrogen. Both men and women will be affected by it after taking it."
The driver looked down at his own body and suddenly realized, "No wonder my breasts have been getting bigger since I came to your company. My wife still complains that I am not good enough. It turns out that it is all your fault. You bastard, I will fight you!"
As the driver said this, he rushed forward and started punching and kicking Wang Zufeng. Several other female employees followed suit and joined the fight.
"I was wondering why I couldn't get pregnant, and the hospital couldn't find out why. It turns out it's all because of you!"
"I was pregnant once when I first came to the company, but the fetus disappeared for unknown reasons. It was all because of you!"
"My uterine fibroids are also because of you! I'm going to beat you to death!"
Several people surrounded Wang Zufeng, and Wang Zufeng was beaten so hard that he held his head and begged for mercy. Lame Brother symbolically tried to stop them a few times and then let them go.
"Usually I don't allow people to fight in the store, but what happened today was really hateful. I even want to kick him a few times!" Lame Brother whispered in Bai Mian's ear.
Bai Mian smiled, fanned himself and said nothing.
A few minutes later, the police arrived at Ci Xin Hall. They had found out that the white powder in the water was contraceptives, and they also found a large number of unopened contraceptives in Wang Zufeng's safe. Now it is confirmed that Wang Zufeng put foreign objects into other people's water and committed intentional injury. The police came to arrest him.
Wang Zufeng had been beaten so badly that he saw stars. When he saw the police coming, he quickly confessed his crime as if he had seen a savior. Before being taken away, he did not forget to make a harsh statement to everyone in the store:
"You're laughing at me? Humph, go ahead and laugh. Don't look at me in such a state now. I will eventually make a comeback! This isn't a serious crime. I'll be sentenced to three to five years at most. When I get out, I'm still young. I have the start-up capital and can start a new business. After a few years, I'll still be a big boss! You guys are just making sarcastic remarks here now, but don't try to curry favor with me when the time comes!"
"Boss Wang, you have no chance."
Bai Mian waved his fan and said leisurely:
"I just said, some money can be earned but not spent."
Wang Zufeng was furious: "You...what do you mean?"
Bai Mian pointed at his chest with his fan: "Have you been experiencing slight chest pain recently?"
Wang Zufeng nodded in fear: "Yes, I thought it was a small matter, so I didn't go to the hospital for a check-up. Master, is this serious?"
Bai Mian sighed softly: "You have breast cancer. If it had been detected earlier, it might have been saved. Unfortunately, now..."
Wang Zufeng blushed: "Breast cancer? What nonsense are you talking about? Breast cancer is a disease that only women get. How could a man like me get it?"
Lame brother whistled at the side: "Huh - being uneducated is terrible. Breast cancer is a disease that both men and women can get. Not only are you uneducated, but you are also very bold. You take birth control pills every day, which increases the estrogen in your body. If you don't get sick, who will?"
"That's impossible. You must have lied to me," Wang Zufeng shook his head desperately. "How can a man like me get breast cancer? What a joke! I can't die. I've made so much money and haven't spent it all. If I die, all the money will be left to others. I can't accept that!"
As he spoke, he began to beg the police officers on both sides: "Please take me to the hospital and let me get checked. I don't believe I have breast cancer. I don't believe it!"
The police took Wang Zufeng away as he wailed.
The remaining few employees also left in a hurry. Now that their boss had gone bankrupt, they had to find new jobs.
Lame Brother picked up the cursed doll on the table, gently threw it into the trash can, and then sighed: "It's really what you deserve!"
Bai Mian said calmly: "Another one who didn't pay. It seems that I will have to charge in advance in the future."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
