When Gu Zhiyuan was teaching everyone in the engineering department, Lin Feng and Wan Liujun were the two who studied the most diligently.
Later, Gu Zhiyuan was falsely accused of plagiarism, and everyone kept their distance, but Lin Feng always believed in Gu Zhiyuan.
As for Wan Liujun, he was a nobody and his words were ignored, but he never said a bad word about Gu Zhiyuan.
Therefore, the two of them could barely keep up with Gu Zhiyuan's pace of explanation. As for the others, although they had also listened to Gu Zhiyuan's previous training, Gu Zhiyuan had intentionally taken care of them at that time, which was why they were able to keep up.
Now that we don't take care of them anymore, it's good if they can understand half of what we say.
Those with even weaker foundations seem to understand as if they're listening to gibberish, like picking up a pen that's fallen from under the table.
I recognize and understand each individual word, but when they are put together, I can't understand them at all.
For the first two days, everyone was patient and waited for Gu Zhiyuan to finish speaking. They would exchange ideas and then ask Lin Feng and Wan Liujun questions, and they were still able to keep up.
In the following days, Lin Feng and Wan Liujun struggled to keep up. They had to put in a lot of effort to understand the material on their own after class, so they had no time to explain it to others.
Some people were unhappy about this.
A few days later, rumors spread in the factory that Gu Zhiyuan had been biased when training new employees, giving special attention to one person while leaving the others to their own devices.
Especially after hearing that the person receiving this special care was Raymond Lam, all sorts of rumors started circulating.
Some say that Gu Zhiyuan is repaying kindness. He was able to get into the machinery factory and the provincial heavy industry, and he was exonerated after being falsely accused of plagiarism. Director Lin put in a lot of effort to help him.
Now that he's about to leave, to repay Director Lin's kindness, we should also promote Director Lin's son, shouldn't we?
Some say Gu Zhiyuan is getting revenge on those people from the engineering corps. When he was slandered, why didn't they stand by his side? Now they expect him to carefully cultivate them? Don't dream about it!
Some even say that this was a trap set by Lin Feng and Gu Zhiyuan for Lu Kai.
You have to understand that Lin Feng is the director of the engineering department, and his son is also in the engineering department. Generally speaking, isn't this just waiting for his son to take over?
But then Deputy Factory Director Lu suddenly appeared out of nowhere, not only putting his son Lu Kai into the engineering department, but also making him a candidate for the next director of the engineering design department.
That engineering department is Director Lin's territory. He's painstakingly built it up for half his life, and now it's going to benefit someone else? Nobody would be happy about that.
That's why they brought in Gu Zhiyuan to kick Lu Kai out.
Then let Gu Zhiyuan give him a proper training, and Lin Feng will have the position of the future director of the engineering department firmly in his grasp.
Everyone used to say that they only knew that Deputy Factory Director Lu was good at scheming, but now it seems that Director Lin is a cut above the rest.
There were also those who felt sorry for Lu Kai, thinking he had become a victim.
Some insightful people disagreed, saying that Director Lin was not the kind of person who would scheme, and even if he were, so what?
What's wrong with parents planning ahead for their children?
Wasn't Deputy Factory Director Lu also planning for Lu Kai's future by assigning him to the engineering department?
It's true that Deputy Factory Director Lu was the one who provoked first! If he hadn't set his sights on the position of Director of the Engineering Department first, Director Lin wouldn't have been able to scheme against him and his son, would he?
However, such people are few and far between, and the people only despise Deputy Factory Director Lu in their hearts.
More often than not, people are saying it's unfair.
Originally, everyone in the engineering department had a chance, but Gu Zhiyuan is so biased, giving special attention only to Lin Feng. Isn't that unfair to the others?
Some say that Gu Zhiyuan and Lin's father abused their power for personal gain, while others say that Gu Zhiyuan, who seemed righteous before, was actually a sycophant who knew how to flatter his superiors.
Some say that Gu Zhiyuan is no good either, having suffered unfair treatment himself, yet he wants to inflict that unfairness on others.
It caused quite a stir, with almost everyone in the factory talking about it.
Moreover, not long after, rumors began to circulate in the factory that the factory had decided that after Gu Zhiyuan left, the engineering design department would be divided into two groups, and those who performed well would become the group leaders of the two groups, with their salaries increasing by one level.
Being a small team leader doesn't matter, but getting a raise in salary is a big deal.
A first-level salary is several yuan. For example, most of the designers here are vocational school graduates. Their previous salary was 37 yuan a month, and after becoming a regular employee, it was 42.5 yuan. Those who work longer can earn 48.5 or 55 yuan a month, with various benefits added on top of that.
If salaries are raised by one level, even the lowest salary would be 48.5 yuan a month. An extra five or six yuan a month would cover a family's monthly grocery expenses. Who wouldn't be happy?
Moreover, becoming a team leader is at least a form of official position, which will lead to improved benefits and compensation.
Over the course of a year, the family's income increased by nearly a hundred yuan.
As a result, the restless hearts of the other people in the engineering department became increasingly agitated.
I was already anxious because I couldn't keep up with the pace. I regretted not taking it seriously back then, and I also regretted not standing on Gu Zhiyuan's side.
After hearing this rumor, none of them looked for the cause within themselves; instead, they all blamed Gu Zhiyuan, feeling that he was blocking their path to wealth.
People have a herd mentality; one person thinks this way, and that's how they complain.
Others followed suit and started complaining.
Furthermore, with some people instigating things behind the scenes, within two days, someone launched an attack after Gu Zhiyuan finished another lecture.
"Engineer Gu, could you speak a little slower so we can understand? The leaders have asked you to train everyone in our engineering department. You can't just favor one or two people, can you? In the future, the work of the design department will have to be done by all of us. It can't be done by just one or two people, can it?"
Immediately, someone chimed in: "That's right, Engineer Gu, we all know you have your own selfish motives, but you can't go too far, can you?"
"Exactly! Engineer Gu, you'd better explain to us a little slower! Otherwise, if your reputation for favoritism spreads beyond the provincial heavy industry, it won't be good, will it?"
Someone else muttered under their breath, "He pretended to be so selfless back then, but now it seems he's nothing special! He's not even as good as Lu Kai! Lu Kai wasn't this outrageous!"
"That's right!"
Everyone was already going all out; judging from the current situation, if Gu Zhiyuan didn't slow down, they had no hope.
Lin Feng is one thing, but he's Director Lin's son, so they don't dare to compete with him.
Who is Wan Liujun? Who isn't more senior than him?
If Wan Liujun really puts me in a superior position and makes me the team leader, where will I put my face in the future?
Moreover, they know their own abilities. If Wan Liujun really becomes the team leader, given his relationship with Lin Feng and Gu Zhiyuan, he will probably be able to hold onto that position.
Therefore, they all thought that before doing anything else, they should first use words to provoke Gu Zhiyuan and get rid of Wan Liujun.
As for the remaining group leader position, they can each rely on their own abilities to qualify.
Although Wan Liujun didn't talk much, he wasn't stupid. He knew that everyone was probably coming for him.
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