Chapter 10

Is this something a normal person would say? Roger suspected he was kidding himself.

But Alvis didn't look like he was joking. He said to Roger like a real workaholic, "When others are resting, we work overtime, so we can seize the opportunity when others give up."

"Haha." Roger smiled and politely refused, "If you want to work overtime, I won't go. You can do it yourself."

"Oh." Alvis said, he was not full yet, lowered his head and continued to eat.

Roger picked up the watch on the table and slowly put it on his wrist.

"You don't work overtime every weekend?" he asked Alvis.

"Almost."

Roger wanted to tease him, and finally did so: "How many orders did you make? How much money did you make?"

"No comment."

"Tsk. I was just asking casually."

"Have you finished eating?" Alvis put away the plate and asked Roger.

"Okay."

"Then let's go."

It seems that they became friends just like that?

Roger couldn't be sure, anyway, they had lunch together every day at noon, to be precise, on weekdays. Alvis disappeared on weekends and was indifferent to messages.

Roger asked him if he played games on weekdays, and Alvis said no. When asked what his hobbies were, he said work. As for his leisure hobbies, Alvis finally named one, archery. Roger said, "I don't know how to do it. Can you teach me?"

Alvis said, "Give up."

"Why give up?"

Roger liked to dig deep, so Alvis later learned to be smart and would never answer Roger's questions that he could ask in return.

Later their conversation became like this:

Roger: "Go hiking on the weekend?"

Alvis: "No, I'm working overtime."

Roger: "Let's go to the hot springs on the weekend, will you go?"

Alvis: "No, I'm working overtime."

Roger: "I found a delicious restaurant."

Alvis: "Oh."

Roger: "Don't you want to know which restaurant it is? We can come together next time."

Alvis: "I only eat food cooked by the nanny."

Roger: "So you are afraid that the food outside is poisonous? Are you afraid that someone will assassinate you?"

Alvis: "..."

Roger: "How much assets does your family have? You are so afraid of being targeted."

Alvis: "I went to work."

So it's useless to say anything, Roger can always find various angles to get to the bottom of it. The only time Roger will not respond when you are asked about working overtime. It seems that he really hates working overtime.

This trick doesn't always work. One day when Alvis said this, Roger suddenly asked, "Working overtime at the company?"

Alvis: "What's wrong?"

"I'm going too."

Alvis: "?"

Roger said worriedly, "I'm about to miss a delivery date for an order. I'm so anxious. I have to communicate with the factory about the progress."

"I'm at home."

"Oh, then let's work overtime together." Roger said affectionately, "Let's call and chat while working overtime."

Alvis: "."

"Why."

"Can you be more independent?"

"I'm quite independent. I haven't called home in two weeks."

"I mean, don't be so clingy."

"Hehe." Roger sent him a voice message, "Good brothers should love each other. When I was in school, my brother and I were always together 24 hours a day and we didn't get tired of it. You are not considered my good brother. I've already been very restrained."

Alvis: "Oh."

"Oh, what do you mean?"

"I went to work."

"Go ahead."

Roger was just teasing him. In fact, the deadline was not that urgent. It could be dealt with on Monday. He just wanted to see Alvis being caught off guard, haha.

It was not as fun as he imagined.

After a while, Roger learned a shocking piece of bad news. Alvis was suddenly promoted to a team leader. The director said that Alvis had made a monthly sales of 1 million US dollars, which was a miracle for a newcomer who had just joined the company for three months. He was fully capable of leading his own small team.

The director left after notifying him of the news. Roger felt so sour in his heart. He patted Alvis on the shoulder and looked like he was going to ask a question: "When did you take such a big order? Why didn't you tell me?"

"Why should I tell you?" Alvis asked back.

"Aren't we friends?"

"You don't have to tell me."

Roger frowned and said in a low voice, "How much did you get paid this month?"

Alvis gave him a cold look and said, "Company rules don't allow discussing salaries privately."

"This salary is nothing to you." The sour taste in Roger's mouth hit Alvis' face.

Alvis was too lazy to talk to him more and turned his head to look at the computer screen in silence.

Roger looked around and leaned close to him and whispered, "You are the team leader. Have you decided on the team members?"

"What do you want to do?"

Roger said, "Can I be your team member?"

"No." Alvis refused without even thinking about it.

"Why?" Roger was very sad.

"You are not suitable."

"Why not?" Roger was dissatisfied.

"Work at least 12 hours a day, work overtime at irregular times, and be on call at all times on weekends. Can you accept this?"

Roger hesitated: "This... I have to think about it, will there be a salary increase?"

Alvis turned around and said in a manner Roger had never seen before: "You don't ask yourself how much value you can provide to the company, but instead ask how much you are worth without any reward. What basis should I answer you?"

Roger was stunned for a few seconds: "Of course I am valuable... No, why do you have a capitalist face now? It's so ugly! I'm here to work, not to die. Don't you know that working overtime will cause sudden death?!"

Both of them felt that the other was unreasonable, Alv is was silent for half a minute, probably thinking that this issue was not worth arguing about, so he unilaterally ended the topic: "Let's get off work and have dinner."

While eating, Roger was still angry and brought up the old matter again. He poked Mifan angrily and accused Alvis: "It's too much. You are just a small team leader now, but you are exploiting your employees like this. It's hard to imagine what it will be like when you become a manager, director, or even your own boss in the future. People will definitely give you the nickname Zhou Paopi in the future."

Alvis said with a cold face, "It's very simple. I will pay you double the overtime wages. If you don't want to come, don't come. We are both willing. Is there any problem?"

"Double overtime wages?" Roger was a little tempted. In this way, he could get the wages for free even if he dragged his time. How much more wages can he get in a month? A man of his age is in the period of struggle. How can he indulge in pleasure without thinking about his future? !

Alvis had seen through his thoughts. He smiled sarcastically and said, "My team doesn't support people who just want to get by. There are performance appraisals every month, and those who fail will be kicked out. The more you earn, the more rewards you get. There are not only company rewards, but also personal rewards. There is no upper limit."

Roger's face was a little distorted. After a moment, he put on a flattering face and asked Alvis, "Will you give me special care?"

Alvis looked him up and down, as if judging him, "What kind of care do you want?"

"Resources, assign me high-quality inquiries. Guide my work, and," Roger himself felt that it was a bit too much, so he paused for a moment before saying, "Can you not work overtime too often? I'm not in good health and I get sick easily if I don't sleep well." "

Who said a few days ago that he was as strong as a bull?"

"Haha," Roger said awkwardly, "It's just bragging, it's not that good."

Alvis looked at his watch and began to clean up the dishes: "I'll give you a day to think about it. You can come to my place, but you have to listen to my arrangements, don't make decisions on your own, and don't be passive. Tell me when you've

made up your mind." In fact, Roger hadn't even thought about it for an hour before he told Alvis that he wanted to join his team. Alvis agreed and gave him his first job task on the spot: recruiting new business.

Roger said, "Aren't there any colleagues in the office that you like?"

"I'm not familiar with them, I don't understand them, it's better to train them again."

Roger forwarded the task email sent by Alvis to the human resources department, asking them to give him the authority to open a recruitment website, and then he plunged into the tense preliminary preparations.

The workstations were also re-divided. Alvis' team was tentatively set at six people, one team leader and five team members. In addition to Alvis and Roger, four new sales people were needed.

Roger was very active in this matter. In addition to the resumes recommended by HR, he would also screen them on the website himself. After a month, Alvis found something wrong and asked Roger: "Why do you only pick women? Can't men do sales?" And they were all beautiful women.

Roger felt a little guilty. For the same resume, he would of course give priority to girls, especially beautiful girls. The working environment is very important. It is more energetic to have beautiful women. But of course he couldn't admit this idea, Alvis would despise him, so he immediately retorted: "Ah? If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have noticed. Are they all girls? Maybe there are more girls in the English major, haha."

Alvis was too lazy to expose him, and directly ordered: "Recruit men, not women."

"You are being sexist." Roger pointed out.

"No, it's just a personal preference."

"Then how about half and half?"

"No." Alvis was firm.

Roger relied on his close relationship with Alvis and became a little arrogant. He complained in front of Alvis: "No, what's the point of having all men? A few more flowers in the office will make people happy, not to mention creatures that are more beautiful than flowers. I don't believe you don't like beautiful women."

Alvis had that cold expression again, staring at Roger without saying a word.

Roger felt a little guilty. Did he complain about the new team leader just now? Well, forget it. He is the leader, so I should be more cautious. He compromised and said, "Okay, then I will pay more attention to men's resumes."

Two weeks later, all the team members arrived, including three men and one woman. The woman's English name is Freya. She has an excellent resume. She is a master's student from a 985 university, with a matching major and overseas study experience. Roger took Freya's resume to Alvis to plead for her. He said that although Freya was a woman, she was no worse than a man. Not only did she have an excellent resume, but her emotional intelligence was also top-notch. Such a woman with high IQ would only add luster to the team, and would not be a drag. In the end, he even used moral kidnapping: "I believe that our great team leader will not look down on the other half of our team, right?"

Alvis looked very speechless, but he didn't say anything. He just said: "Let her come to register for the job tomorrow."

In this way, the team was all together. Alvis was very efficient. On the first day of the meeting, he formulated a sales plan for the next year and distributed it to everyone. Among them, Roger came the earliest and was assigned the most tasks (except Alvis). Moreover, Alvis meant to let Roger be his assistant. In the future, the newcomers would not have to report to him, but only to Roger. Finally, Alvis called a meeting with Roger alone. In addition to his own business, Roger inexplicably had a lot of extra work. He interrupted Alvis and said bewilderedly: "You didn't tell me all this in advance?"

"I'm telling you now."

"Then you have to be mentally prepared." Roger couldn't accept it, "I have my own business, and then I have to help you manage the team. I can't handle it!"

"I can handle it." Alvis said impatiently, "Let's talk about it when you can't handle it."

Roger said: "Give me a raise?"

"How much do you want to raise?"

"Two...one thousand and five?" Roger was very conflicted, and it was not easy to ask for a high salary.

Alvis: "...That's all you can do."

Roger was no longer afraid of him and felt that he was being looked down upon again. He said angrily, "Then how much will you increase my salary?"

"It's not up to me to decide how much. I can promise that the bonus I'll give you in half a year will not be less than what I just said in the meeting."

"Are you sure I won't leave within the next six months?"

Alvis looked at him calmly, turning the pen in his hand: "That's your loss."