Chapter 8: Don’t Want to Work Overtime
Chapter 8: Don’t Want to Work Overtime (Part )
Ding-a-ling, Liu Sheng drowsily touched the vibrating and noisy phone and turned off the alarm.
The sunlight came in through the blinds, which was a bit dazzling.
She scratched her messy hair, sat up, and the suit jacket covering her body fell to the ground. She opened her eyes and saw the cold conference room, feeling a little dazed for a moment.
Yes, after she returned to the warehouse and finished the things at hand, she took out the [３４５７６] monster again for high-dimensional analysis. This time her memory was not lost like last time, so she learned her lesson and went back to the company to work overtime all night, and only took a good sleep in the conference room at dawn.
Now it's time to go to work again.
Because she didn't get enough rest, she felt a little palpitation, and there was an inexplicable irritation deep in her heart, and she was very annoyed with everything.
The warm sunlight was annoying. The suit that fell on the ground was the one she bought for a job interview right after graduation. It was a little old and the potato chip crumbs on the ground were annoying. The taste of her mouth without brushing her teeth was annoying. Not to mention this conference room. She had been scolded so many times here and had even had a folder thrown in her face by her boss. It was annoying.
Of course, what she hated the most was the cell phone in her hand. As soon as the alarm went off, all kinds of messages popped up noisily.
【@Everyone, we will have a group meeting in 30 minutes! 】
[Xiao Yu, you must work hard today. While you are still young, try your best. Mom supports you! ]
[Xiao Yu, I’m your aunt. Your brother wants to buy a set of “100,000 Whys”. I don’t know how to place an order. Please buy it for him as a birthday present for him^_^]
[You need to apologize to your mother when you go home tonight. Don't look so grumpy. It's just overtime. You didn't even send a message to let her know you were safe when you got back to the company. Your mother was worried all night.]
[Xiao Yu, have you finished the plan I asked you to do last time? My boss is urging me to do it. As a friend, you wouldn't refuse to help me with this small favor, right?]
Liu Sheng stood up, picked up his suit jacket, threw it into the trash can in the corner, and walked out of the meeting room.
……
Liu Sheng was in the ladies' room, preparing to tidy herself up before going to work.
In this world, "Yi Yu" is already 28 years old, but the girl in the mirror has none of the youthfulness of a young person and looks like she is about to die.
Dull eyes, sallow and dry skin, fine lines at the corners of the eyes, sparse and dry hair, pale and colorless lips, thin body, and blue blood vessels under the thin skin.
She had only been working for three years after graduating from graduate school, but she had already tortured herself into a lifeless zombie.
But it wasn't all her own torture. Liu Sheng smiled bitterly and splashed some water on her face to wash it. She felt a little more sober, and then she picked up a rough piece of hand towel to wipe the water stains on her face and gathered her hair into a messy ponytail.
When she walked out of the bathroom, another female colleague also walked into the bathroom with a gloomy face. The two passed each other but did not say hello because they were too tired to pretend to be sociable anymore.
Then I listened on an empty stomach as my leader spoke for 30 minutes in a meeting about how he got up early to exercise, meditated at night, often drank various health teas, and read classic autobiographies of famous people, and finally achieved the wealth and status he has today. I hope everyone will study hard and work hard.
Liu Sheng, who was yawning continuously, had just sat back at his workstation, preparing to make a cup of instant coffee to prolong his life, when his cell phone vibrated wildly, indicating an incoming call.
I picked up the phone and heard a roaring male voice: "Yi Yu! Yi Yu! Yi Yu! Come over here!"
Liu Sheng's heart tightened. This was Yi Yu's boss, a middle-aged man known for his strictness. He liked to call people directly without saying anything and insisted on explaining things face to face.
It's really noisy and annoying.
But there is no way, because the wife’s uncle is the company’s boss.
She put down the cup in her hand expressionlessly, exhaled lightly, and walked slowly towards her boss's office.
"What is the content of your plan?!" Without any politeness, he threw a document in front of Liu Sheng.
Liu Sheng looked down and saw that it was the project plan that she had completed after working overtime until late at night yesterday. In order to cater to his preference for paper-based office work, she even printed it out in color and placed it on his desk.
"I have done as required..." Liu Sheng tried to explain, but she was interrupted before she could finish her words.
"As required? You call this as required? Your logic is confusing. How can I explain this to the client?!" The boss' voice was getting louder and louder, and the whole office seemed to be shaking with his anger.
Liu Sheng didn't like to argue with him, but he still had to say what he had to say: "I discussed this logical framework with the client's sister Sunny over the phone last night, and I also sent her an electronic version to her email last night..."
"Did she reply?"
Liu Sheng shook his head. He just got to work so early in the morning. How could the other person have time to reply to him? He must be opening the email and reading it.
The boss immediately became relentless: "I am your boss now. Don't you let me review the product before sending it to the client? I see a lot of problems now."
Liu Sheng wanted to say that when "Yi Yu" gave the materials to her boss for review, her boss said that he was too lazy to look at them and believed in her abilities, so he asked her to directly meet customer needs, but she knew that any explanation would be futile.
"How do I change it?" Liu Sheng's tone was calm.
"You should refer to Xiaowan from the next group. She writes very well." The boss said unhappily. Xiaowan joined the company a year later than her. She is very hardworking and often asks her questions.
However, Xiaowan had been hospitalized two weeks ago.
However, Liu Sheng didn't say anything extra. He nodded slightly, picked up the documents and turned to leave.
Returning to her workstation, she took a deep breath, trying to suppress her emotions and work on her plan.
It was not until she received a message on her phone that she felt her stomach aching slightly, protesting against not eating for so long.
Now she gets stomachache easily, probably because of irregular eating habits.
She sometimes thought, what if the stomach pain was so severe that she couldn't go to work.
But, her parents had worked hard to give her gifts and ask for help in order to get her this job, so how could she not be grateful and work hard until she died?
[Xiao Yu, hard work and perseverance are traditional virtues. You still need to cultivate yourself more.]
Liu Sheng looked at the message his mother had just sent and smiled sarcastically. The message was followed by a forwarded short video with the title "Why young people today can't endure hardship". He clicked on it and watched it for a few seconds. It showed a woman in a bright pink suit and big wavy hair saying in an exaggerated expression that her nephew had changed five jobs in three years since graduation.
During working hours, turn it off immediately.
[Have you bought the book your aunt asked you to buy? It's a good thing for boys to be diligent and studious. A set of books is not worth much. You are working now, don't be so stingy.] This is her father reminding her.
She remembered that she had bought quite a few things for this cousin. He was naughty and cunning, asking for this today and that tomorrow.
A self-deprecating sneer appeared on her lips, but she still opened her phone and ordered a set of "100,000 Whys".
Several messages popped up.
[Is the plan ready? My boss is really pushing for it. Please, honey.]
[Xiao Yu, this is your sister's resume. Please help me edit it and send it to me tonight. I heard from your mother that you go to a good school and work for a big company. With your help, your sister will definitely be able to find a job.]
[Yi Yu, old classmate, I haven't contacted you for a long time. How are you doing recently? I would like to ask if you can help me with my sales. Please transfer 100000 federal coins to this account. Thank you. ]
[I'm getting married, please stop bothering me. ]
Liu Sheng saw the last one and scrolled up. Most of them were short essays sent by "Yi Yu". The other party either did not reply or only sent one or two words.
As soon as I put down the phone, there was another new message from Sister Sunny.
[What's going on? The boss was quite satisfied with the proposal you sent yesterday, but I heard that you are going to change the contact person? Is there anything you want to talk about? ]
"Yi Yu" has had a lot of contact with Sister Sunny, and their relationship has become pretty good. He asked this in private.
Although Liu Sheng did not receive any notice, it was obvious that her boss was causing trouble and wanted to suddenly replace her.
[It’s okay, the company just has other arrangements.] Liu Sheng replied.
[Oh, I see.] The other party ended the conversation indifferently.
At this time, a male colleague came over and asked her for the plan she had shown to her boss today, saying that he was going to revise the plan and coordinate it.
There was neither pride nor shame on his face, just a haggard look, with deep dark circles and bags under his eyes that almost drooped to the corners of his mouth.
That’s good, it’s one less thing for her to do, Liu Sheng sneered optimistically.
She had just sent the plan to this colleague when she received a message from her boss.
[Our group is planning to hold a social gathering. Please write a plan and show it to me at 2 pm. I will report it to the leader.]
Her boss directly assigned her a new task.
[But I majored in computer science and had never planned an event before, and I had several projects to plan.]
[Just do it if you are asked to do it! You should also do other plans. If you can't finish them, you will have to work overtime! ]
[You haven't finished it in so many days, and you still say you are a graduate student of Qingdao University. You have so many excuses for your lack of ability. ]
The string of words was like a cold knife.
Days like this, day after day, feel like I'm trapped in a never-ending cycle with no escape.
She sat at her cramped workstation, her thoughts shrouded in thick despair, as twisted black tentacles extended into her world from all directions.
This time, Liu Sheng is still awake and has his own self, so the perspective will still be "Liu Sheng".
(End of this chapter)