"Hello, Mr. Zhang Pengsheng, right?" Gao Chongting said with a smile, extending his right hand.
Zhang Pengsheng sized up the well-dressed, refined young man in front of him, assuming he was there to discuss business with his factory.
"Yes, you are...?" He shook Gao Chongting's hand and asked.
"I am Gao Chongting, Wen He's lawyer. He has filed a lawsuit against you. This is a lawyer's letter. Please accept it."
As they spoke, Gao Chongting handed over a lawyer's letter that he had prepared beforehand.
Upon hearing this, Zhang Pengsheng was startled and took the lawyer's letter to examine it carefully.
After reading it, he immediately came up with a solution.
If they refuse to admit it, these things cannot stand.
"This is utter nonsense! I, Zhang Pengsheng, have always been honest and upright, and I have never treated him unfairly in the slightest. The so-called forced overtime and unpaid overtime are all rubbish!"
He retorted loudly, refusing to admit that he had exploited his employees.
"Do you have any attendance records here? If not, we can find out by checking," Gao Chongting said.
"This...this doesn't exist, but it doesn't prove that I exploited him. We all get off work regular hours at our factory."
"Such a big factory, there must be surveillance cameras, right?"
"Yes, it does, but it broke down recently and I haven't gotten it fixed yet."
Zhang Pengsheng intended to play the rogue to the very end, giving Gao Chongting absolutely no chance of finding any evidence.
However……
Upon hearing this, Gao Chongting's lips curled up slightly.
"You mean your factory's surveillance system has been malfunctioning recently, and there are no attendance records?" he asked again to confirm.
"Yes, you can't accuse me of exploiting my employees just because I don't have these things, can you?"
After receiving complete confirmation from the other party, Gao Chongting immediately began to exert his strength.
“My client told me that you made him go to work at the factory at six o’clock every morning and not leave until eleven o’clock at night.”
"Moreover, he has never rested on Saturdays and Sundays. He was hospitalized yesterday due to overwork."
"If you cannot prove that what my client said is false, then please provide evidence."
"You should know that labor laws have always been created to protect working people, not to allow capitalists like you to exploit your employees."
"Your lack of attendance records and the fact that the surveillance cameras happened to be broken cannot be used as an excuse to exonerate you."
Upon hearing Gao Chongting's words, Zhang Pengsheng was stunned and completely dumbfounded.
"Wait a minute? You mean, he was hospitalized yesterday because he overworked himself working overtime here?" he asked, puzzled.
"Yes."
"This is no bullshit! He's been absent from work for several days without a reason! He hasn't come to work at all during this period! How could he have been overworked here by working overtime!"
“Please provide evidence that he hasn’t been working here these past few days,” Gao Chongting said.
Hearing this...
Zhang Pengsheng was stunned. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but it seemed like nothing he said would be right.
Sweating profusely, he then realized...
He fell for it from the very beginning!
Gao Chongting knew that he would try to evade responsibility, so he said there were no attendance records and the surveillance cameras were broken.
This was originally Zhang Pengsheng's means of escaping, but Gao Chongting has now used it to turn the tables on him.
He admitted that he had exploited Wen He, but he absolutely did not make Wen He come to work at six o'clock in the morning, nor did he make him leave work at eleven o'clock.
These are all Gao Chongting's side of the story.
But the key point is...
He couldn't refute these one-sided accounts.
Because he himself shut down all the points of rebuttal.
If he hadn't initially intended to evade the issue, he could have produced surveillance footage to prove that Wen He hadn't come to work these past few days.
His unexcused absence from work for several days was enough to justify his dismissal of Wen He!
But the problem now is...
He blocked this path with his own hands!
"Mr. Zhang Pengsheng, do you wish to proceed privately?"
Seeing Zhang Pengsheng's face turn ashen, Gao Chongting knew it was time to negotiate.
“You name the number, I’ll think about it,” he said.
"Twenty thousand."
"Twenty thousand?! Why don't you just rob me! I admit I made him work a lot of overtime, but even if he worked overtime every day, it's absolutely impossible for him to earn twenty thousand! His salary is only a little over two thousand, there's no way he's asking for such a high price."
Zhang Pengsheng couldn't hold back any longer.
Wen He only worked for him for a month at most, maybe even less.
Twenty thousand yuan is enough for him to pay the salaries of five people.
No matter how hard Wen He tries, the value he creates cannot match that of five people.
After all, these are all assembly line jobs.
"Mr. Zhang Pengsheng, before I came to your office, I walked around your factory a few times and found that there were no fire exits or any fire safety facilities. What do you think I should do if I..."
"Here you go! Twenty thousand it is! Give me the QR code, I'll scan it."
Upon hearing Gao Chongting mention fire safety, Zhang Pengsheng reacted like a cat with its fur standing on end.
If the fire department investigates, their entire factory will be shut down, and the entire factory may even have to undergo major rectification.
The losses involved cannot be measured by a mere 20,000.
[Alipay account received: 20,000 yuan.]
"Thank you for your understanding. See you again sometime," Gao Chongting said with a slight smile.
"Let's go quickly."
Zhang Peng was furious, his face turning green with rage.
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