Woman In Irish Linen Shirt

Chapter 44:

I took off my mask. She is gone, this caution is no longer necessary.

The pressure marks left on her face, as she said, should be gone after a few hours, but the heat she left behind is still there. I was full of random thoughts. I turned on the computer and wanted to persuade myself to calm down for a while, but I couldn’t sit still.

Inside the “plastic wrap” is a scroll painting of cloth. When I took out the scroll, I immediately had a guess. I spread it out and searched it online. The crude packaging and expensive paintings were all in return for the pen I gave her.

This is a relatively small painting, with strong traces of New York School in style, but the color is very special. When I first opened it, I thought it was a highly abstract gold leaf painting. This painting is very familiar. The gallery that Miss Pan De took me to before had a similar one. I checked it and found that it was the work of the same painter.

Like the setting sun tempered and sprinkled on the canvas, there is a red fire everywhere.

Is this the mystery or the answer? I used that worksheet for my packaging, and what does she want to suggest to me?

The painting is extremely commensurate with the living room, which makes me scared. If it was opened in front of her before, it would be difficult for me to control myself. She is certain that I will accept it. Does she believe that the pen is indeed in my hands? Are you cheating me? Or simply her souvenir?

I throbbed for a while, and I couldn’t tell whether Miss Pan De came early or late in my life.

But now is not the right time.

This tough battle is too critical, and the situation is extremely complicated. Kevin, the boss, and the big boss can’t believe it. As long as I walk steadily and accurately, the future will be limitless. Every previous promotion can be said to be lucky, but now it is a rare opportunity. My position is very challenging, and I really like it. If this juncture applies to avoid suspicion because of a conflict of interest, let alone me, it is estimated that Jocelyn can directly bury me in the ground and frustrate her bones on the spot.

I can not.

Monday afternoon is our routine reporting time to the big boss. I sent a message in the morning, hoping to chat for a while alone. Singapore’s control situation has achieved initial results. The “circuit breaker” initiative will be extended for four weeks until the beginning of June. The big boss is very busy today and will have a meeting with HR in the evening, so I will make a long story short.

“I believe that the newly adopted framework is the skeleton used by BCG to split the company.” I used English because I was talking about daily work. I haven’t changed it at the moment. “But the progress of their work may be difficult to describe. It went smoothly, and there were too many limiting factors. In addition, I also suggest that we make a request for them to break down the deliverables in more detail, creating obstacles for them in terms of workload.”

The big boss nodded: “Yes.” He changed Mandarin again, “have you rested?”

“It’s all done, please worry about it, it’s definitely not a problem at work.” I signed a package, and the big boss smiled and nodded again. When I talk about work again, it’s also in Mandarin. It’s never a bad thing to keep pace with your immediate boss: “By the way, I have a need here. It should not be difficult to implement. Can you consider letting colleagues who do technology do it as soon as possible? I want to create a port for the file viewing and recording backend of the intranet. Now we can only see the number of file viewing and downloading. I hope to be able to implement such a function of viewing the list of people who are viewing it.”

“Yes, I authorize it to you. You can talk to them directly.” The big boss said without even thinking about it. “You don’t need to ask me for this kind of trivial matter. I said it earlier, it’s a special matter.”

Is this still a trivial matter? I mixed my tastes and said, “Thank you for your trust.”

“Why, Sonia takes care of you asking for something?”

“I can only say that there are signs of this.” I lied, “Be prepared for it.”

The big boss nodded, meaningless to ask. The situation is different for people with different statuses. No matter if he is true or false, he values me so much, it still makes me feel so proud. I picked several pieces of data, from three or four years ago to the month when the adjacent department was split, read them separately, and downloaded them to the computer. This thing is hot, and anyone with a brilliant idea will know what’s going on at a glance. Even if it is given to them, I have to deal with it first.

Then I looked for the old Ye from Jocelyn’s list, and he recommended a colleague who was responsible for the maintenance of the intranet to me. Without saying hello first, the manager over there will definitely send a kid over to talk to me. The fewer people who know about this, the better. I don’t want to have any negligence in the process.

In addition to the requirement that I explained to the big boss, I also requested an additional backup. The data changes in the public space are too dynamic, but it is okay to make a fake public space and make changes. This preparation is not to dispense with myself—

Miss Pande is definitely not the only candidate for me. Although I promised her, maybe even the fastest promised, it is hard to guarantee that she has no alternatives.

There are very few people I can trust. How short is the list given by Jocelyn? The founder faction is hardly spared. The COO and the boss are not immune. After all, the location is sensitive; but the support department is also dead, and the head of HR is not on the list. If something really happens, Huilin is the only one I can find.

She manages finances, general affairs, and staff training, and can’t get the neck of the staff to move, and the support she can provide is limited.

In addition, there are only two veterans in the technology department who have long been financially free, the old Ye who helped me today, and Liang Heng, who is in charge of network security. We usually call him Chief Liang: He was the company’s start-up period, and the big boss personally went to Hangzhou to dig back. of. This corner was quite unsuccessful, and Chief Liang was fishing every day in the “Nanyang Fishing Technology Exchange” discussion group.

Of course no one dared to report him on this matter.

Next comes the hardest part…

On Thursday, when it was completely dark, Miss Pande, who attended the daytime meeting, met me again on Skype.

“Good evening.” I said, “Is there anything I can help you with?”

“Good evening.” Miss Pan De did not answer, but instead she stayed quietly for a while and said with some warmth, “I think, today’s network conditions should be pretty good?”

This person is really…

I know she was hinting at flirting that night. She obviously didn’t believe that the network abnormality at the time was just a coincidence, but she didn’t come to prove to me that a simple side-knock can get twice the result with half the effort.

I wanted to pretend that I didn’t understand, but I didn’t feel that everything would be her way. To deal with bad-hearted people, hiding is not enough. I resisted the pressure and smiled and said, “Of course. I have confirmed it beforehand.”

Miss Pan De didn’t show much expression when she listened. She just nodded slightly, as if she had just chosen an insignificant greeting topic, and now she has left it behind: “You said earlier that you are very open to interviews. Would you mind if we just chat tonight?”

“Welcome.” I adjusted my collar.

“Before you talked about the different styles of the two departments. You supported the decision to split the departments at that time. Is this correct understanding?”

“I would say that was the most efficient method at the time. It seems that this plan is not perfect, and it continues to bring us some pains and internal friction-but in any case it is better than doing nothing.” When it comes to business I Still very confident, just need to pay a little attention, don’t be led into the pit by her.

She was noncommittal: “How do you say it?”

“At that time, the resources we could get were too few.” With regard to the division of resources in each department, and the office struggles that came from it, Miss Pan De should have seen more than I saw, so I didn’t say too much. Understand that if you say too much, it’s easier to settle down.

I went on to add: “From the perspective of internal management, the division into two departments has allowed us to get more support. In terms of connecting with third parties and handling external affairs, this division also makes the work a lot more refreshing. For Internet companies In terms of such a’refreshing’ is still very necessary.”

Miss Pan De nodded, her attitude seemed inadvertent: “Is that why you are opposed to the company’s split and reorganization? Do you feel that re-merging is not conducive to the development of work?”

“Indeed, I can’t say that I agree with this plan.” I answered almost subconsciously, without blinking my eyes, covering up my shock.

What’s the matter, she suspected that I still just cheated me?

It’s not right, in the company, my neutral attitude is very obvious. Of course, I will not support BCG’s work with great fanfare. Even if I contact her privately, I am always sloppy when it comes to key questions such as “yes” or “no”. She shouldn’t be suspicious of me because of this, maybe it’s just a test.

But even if it is a temptation, because it comes from Miss Pan De, I dare not underestimate it.

I brought the topic back to the actual business: “When looking at the same problem at different time nodes, the observation results that can be obtained are often different. Now the development of crab shells is very smooth, and cross-regional cooperation is gradually increasing. The European sector has only incurred a lot of communication costs. These are obviously urgently to be optimized…”

Previously, the focus of BCG’s work was on the optimization plan for cross-departmental communication. I deliberately exaggerated the severity of the communication cost, but it stopped there. Miss Pan De doesn’t seem to be someone who can be easily fooled by two flatteries. However, no matter how vigilant she is, she has to relax more or less if she reaches out to not hit the smiley person.

“But these problems didn’t appear for a long time.” I said, “After the third quarter of last year, we faced this challenge more frequently. The original split also went through a long discussion. It cannot be said that it has appeared in the last year. For new problems, simply after a few meetings, we go to the hypothetical department to merge this plan to take away the new problems along with the old ones.

“So I do have some concerns. On the other hand, it’s important to embrace change.”

“It seems that it is necessary to understand the side of the problem from different time points…” Miss Pan De said, using my original words, “We are back to the origin.”

After the conversation, she looked at me through the camera.

My heart is clear.

She wants the data.