Chapter 46
Shangguan Jinliang frowned. Just as he pressed the answer button on his mobile phone and the word "Mr. Lian" came to his throat, Lian Yijian's hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone, and the fatigue in his voice was very obvious.
"Jinliang, you've already completed the handover of this century-long project to Zhong Qin at the Suzhou Metro, right? Next Monday, please accompany her to sign the project acceptance report and complete the on-site handover..."
But before Lian Yijian could finish his words, Yan Pingping, who had been waiting impatiently, interrupted him, "Our President Lian is really a busy man. Is he no longer interested in our Guofa project? I think we should consider whether there is still a need for cooperation on the third phase."
There was a distinct coquettish tone in Yan Pingping's voice. Shangguan Jinliang and Ding Jintao looked at each other, and both of them showed an expression of "you know" on their faces.
"Director Yan, if you have any business issues, please contact our sales champion Wang Li. Currently, the overall operation of the first and second phases of the Guofa project is stable. As for the problem of missing attachments in official document management, Jinliang is here today to solve this problem." Lian Yijian responded calmly.
She didn't get the answer she wanted, but there were some things Yan Pingping couldn't say too bluntly in front of the other two people, so she said, "We know our President Lian is a very busy man. How could he be so busy that he doesn't even have time to answer my calls or reply to my WeChat messages? President Lian, do you have any complaints about me?"
"Yi Jian, are you done? It's a rare trip for me to Sunan, so let's go over the projects currently under construction in person." A strange man's voice came from the other end of the phone, followed closely by Lian Yijian's voice: "Director Yan, I'm busy here. If there are any issues that Jin Tao and Jin Liang can't solve later in the project, or if there's a kick-off meeting for the third phase project, I'll come over."
As soon as Yan Pingping uttered the word "Lian", the call was disconnected, and Yan Pingping's face became extremely ugly.
After Lian Yijian hung up the phone, Yan Pingping didn't stay in the Guofa Project Office for even half a minute. Before leaving, she angrily shouted at Shangguan Jinliang and Ding Jintao, "The issue of missing attachments in the official document management system must be resolved before the end of today. Otherwise, I'll send a letter of criticism to your company tomorrow."
The so-called "notice of criticism" is equivalent to a complaint call. At Beijing Smart Internet Company, if a customer complains directly to the headquarters, the headquarters will impose severe penalties, and the performance of the district total and delivery manager for that month will be deducted.
With the sound of the door closing, the atmosphere in the National Development Project Office returned to normal.
Ding Jintao, who had been feeling aggrieved for a long time, immediately complained, "Jinliang, this female devil's feelings for our Lian Zong are now obvious. Fortunately, our boss is smart and not attracted to her. Otherwise, he would have suffered in the future."
"Jintao, I'm sorry you have to live under this female devil." Shangguan Jinliang looked at Ding Jintao, who had been stationed on the Guofa project since the first phase of the project two years ago, with sympathy. "I admire you too. You didn't ask General Lian to change the project manager, and you worked from the first phase to the third phase that is about to be done." After saying that, Shangguan Jinliang gave Ding Jintao a big thumbs up.
Ding Jintao is the project manager in Suzhou, Southern Jiangsu District, who is responsible for state-owned asset projects. He has been engaged in the delivery of state-owned asset projects for five years. Among the company's project managers, he is the second project manager with extensive delivery experience besides Liu Jijun.
Ding Jintao rolled his eyes at Shangguan Jinliang and said speechlessly, "Jinliang, you know the situation in our delivery department. It's just that there are too many people for too few people. There are only twelve people, including the project manager, implementation consultant, and General Manager Lian, but there are over fifty projects to deliver. That's an average of four per person. There's only one person for every job. Even calling General Manager Lian is useless."
"Yes, it's not easy for President Lian either. He's responsible for delivering 20 million yuan a year for the entire Southern Jiangsu region." As if suddenly remembering something, Shangguan Jinliang asked, "Jin Tao, did the company give you any gift money for the birth of your child this year?"
"I went to see Ms. Liu, the company's HR manager, and she told me they didn't have any. Then I went to see Mr. Lian, and he helped me get it. One thousand yuan was deposited into my salary card last month," Ding Jintao replied truthfully. "Jinliang, did your daughter get it that year?"
The two of them came to Beijing Smart Internet Company together five years ago. In the second year after joining the company, Shangguan Jinliang's daughter was born.
"I applied in the system at that time, but there was no movement after a week. Later, I found Guan Baoyu, the person in charge of delivery in Sucheng District at that time. He said he would help, but in the end it was nothing. You know Jin Tao, so, it was still our General Lian who was awesome." After saying that, Shangguan Jinliang opened his mobile phone and quickly replied to Lian Yijian on WeChat: OK, General Lian.
"Isn't Xia Zhongqin in charge of the Centennial Project? I just heard from President Lian on the phone that you're going to be in charge?"
Shangguan Jinliang briefly discussed the Centennial Project with Ding Jintao, then said, "Jintao, us brothers and sisters in the delivery department have always followed our boss's instructions. After all, he's our best general manager."
"I know that, but I'm just confused. President Lian has never been so concerned about a project with a contract value of less than 500,000 yuan. And then there's that photo Xiaoshan posted on WeChat Moments a while ago of President Lian and Xia Zhongqin having dinner together. The key is that both President Lian and Teacher Xia commented on it. Something must be wrong. Could it be President Lian?" Ding Jintao muttered to himself, then immediately denied it. "With our boss's aloof demeanor, there's no way he'd be interested in Xia Zhongqin."
"Jin Tao, if you don't want to work overtime tonight, let's get started." Shangguan Jinliang took his computer out of his bag and placed the cup of Suzhou-style mung bean soup, which Yan Pingping hadn't even glanced at, on Ding Jintao's workstation. "Jin Tao gives you this cup of mung bean soup. Drink something sweet, and you'll feel better."
Ding Jintao said "thank you" without any hesitation, opened the Suzhou-style mung bean soup with a straw, and took a big sip. He and Shangguan Jinliang began to check the documents that were lost in the document management attachments in the system one by one.
Room 1005, 10th Floor, Building 5, Wenfeng City Plaza, No. 1 Hongqiao Road, Chongchuan District, Tongzhou, is the location of the Tongzhou branch of Beijing Smart Internet Suzhou District.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, two people, one fat and one thin, were sitting on the sofa in the small conference room in Room 1005. The fat one was Dong Dawei, who was in charge of delivery business at the headquarters of Beijing Smart Internet Company, and the other one was Lian Yijian.
The two had just finished reviewing more than 100 projects under construction in Southern Jiangsu in the project inventory table in the project management function module of the company's office system, and were now talking about the current situation of the H1 sprint finale in Southern Jiangsu.
"Yi Jian, judging by the project results just reviewed, your Southern Jiangsu District is expected to exceed its H1 sprint targets. During lunch, I heard from Daewoo that the H1 new contract signing rate target set for the first half of the year has been met. It looks like your Southern Jiangsu District will receive the only Super A-Class award from headquarters this time."
The sprint for the headquarters of Beijing Smart Internet Company is divided into H1 in the first half of the year and H2 in the second half of the year, but for the following areas it is H1, Q3 and Q4, and the most critical of these three are H1 and Q4.
Beijing Smart Interconnection Company will reward the following regions that have achieved outstanding results in the sprint season according to Super A Class (1), A++ (5), and A (10), with bonuses of 200,000, 100,000, and 50,000 respectively. Southern Jiangsu District has won the Super A Class for two consecutive years.
The reason why the delivery department in Southern Jiangsu District was able to fulfill the responsibilities assigned by the headquarters was the result of the concerted efforts of the delivery department, although the issue of project manager's treatment had been mentioned in front of Wang Dayu last time.
But a week passed without further news, so Lian Yijian asked directly in front of Dong Dawei: "Dawei, has Mr. Wang mentioned the salary of the project manager in the Southern Jiangsu District to you?"
"Yi Jian, I was about to tell you this even if you hadn't asked me. Dayu sent me an email last week, and I reported it to President Xu. President Xu agreed and has already notified the Human Resources Department. It will be implemented starting next month. This special treatment for the Delivery Department is unique to the Southern Jiangsu region and isn't offered in other regions nationwide."
Dong Dawei paused and continued, "For a delivery expert like you, Yi Jian, staying in the regional office is a waste of talent. Last month, President Xu asked me about you and wanted to transfer you to headquarters as Deputy General Manager of the Delivery Department, responsible for supervising the delivery of large-scale projects worth tens of millions of yuan nationwide."
Last year, Dong Dawei also mentioned to Wang Dayu and Lian Yijian the idea of ​​transferring Lian Yijian to the headquarters, but both of them were unwilling, so the matter was left unresolved.
Lian Yijian did not reply to Dong Dawei.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Dong Dawei thought it was about salary and accommodation, and quickly said, "Mr. Xu said that the salary will increase by 5,000 on top of the original basic salary. There will also be additional equity incentives and a year-end bonus of five months' salary. Accommodation headquarters will rent you a house."
"Dawei, we're from the same hometown and have known each other for many years. Don't you know my personality?" Lian Yijian said sincerely with a faint smile on his face, "Thank you, Dawei, for the platform and opportunity you've provided me. Now I just want to take care of the affairs of the Southern Jiangsu Delivery Department. I want to complete the full launch of the Sucheng Metro project by the end of this year and obtain the acceptance report for our company's first office project in the rail transit industry next year."
Dong Dawei naturally knew the personality of the top delivery executive at Beijing Smart Internet Company, and knowing full well that further comment was pointless, he said, "Over the years, I've also seen how difficult it has been for you. If the company had a few more delivery experts like you, we wouldn't have so many shocking unfinished projects in other regions that haven't been delivered."
"So, Yijian, half a month after the H1 sprint ends, which will be mid-August, Mr. Xu and I have already reported it to headquarters, and Mr. Xu has approved it. Headquarters plans to hold a three-day offline PMO exchange meeting for Beijing Smart Internet companies in Wuhan. Mr. Xu wants to hire an external lecturer. Instead of paying a high price to hire someone from outside, why not hire someone like Yijian, who is a living signboard? You are not allowed to refuse this time."
"Do all regional PMOs need to attend the meeting?"
"Yes, all PMOs, PMO managers, PMO directors, implementation directors, delivery directors, and customer development directors nationwide, including the PMO at headquarters, must go to Wuhan. I'll send out this notice by next Tuesday at the latest, so you need to send me the course schedule before the end of next Monday."
When he was in the Shanghai Legion, he conducted many training sessions for internal delivery personnel and outsourcing partners of Beijing Smart Internet Company. After coming to Southern Jiangsu District, there were fewer training sessions than before, but there were still two to three sessions every year.
This was the first time Lian Yijian was training colleagues nationwide. Seeing that he couldn't refuse, he replied "OK". Thinking of the new PMO that was about to be appointed in the Southern Jiangsu region, Lian Yijian said, "Dawei, our region is planning to promote a PMO. Can you help me share the responsibility? Do I need to send you a cooperation letter?"
"PMO?" A hint of surprise flashed in Dong Dawei's eyes. "Which fellow caught the eye of our delivery expert? I previously recommended our fellow villager Dong Hui to you, but you didn't even give me the slightest bit of respect and simply said 'unsuitable'."
Dong Hui has been working at Beijing Smart Internet Company for seven years and can be considered a veteran of the company. Dong Dawei and Lian Yijian are from the same hometown as her, and the three of them know each other. Dong Hui is more familiar with Dong Dawei.
Dong Hui currently works as a PMO in the project management department of Beijing Smart Internet Hangzhou Branch. Since her home is in Shanghai, she has always wanted to return to her company in Hangzhou. When she heard that Southern Jiangsu District needed a PMO, she took the initiative to find Dong Dawei and asked him for help, but was rejected by Lian Yijian in the end.
"A girl who just joined the company last February."
"Can you tell me why you chose this girl instead of Dong Hui?" Dong Dawei continued to ask.
"Attractive." Lian Yijian uttered the two words uncontrollably and regretted it right after he said them.
Sure enough, he saw Dong Dawei looking at him with a smirk on his face. He said, "We're running out of time this time. After dinner tonight, President Xiang and I will rush back to Beijing. Next time I come to Southern Jiangsu, I'll definitely see what kind of girl could catch the eye of our famously aloof President Lian. Um, please send me a message about this PMO collaboration later."
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