Chapter 986: Chapter 766: Saying This Makes Me Feel a Little Better
The HR director gently pushed open the office door, her steps somewhat unsteady. It felt as if only half of her was grounded, while the other half of her soul was still floating in the air.
Inside the office, a circle of people was already seated, with almost all department heads who could be named within the company gathered together.
The HR director was relatively late.
She instinctively glanced around and noticed that everyone was subtly maintaining a posture of slightly bowed heads, as if ready to endure a scolding. Among them, the head of the marketing department bowed the lowest.
Before the HR director could process anything.
"You’ve arrived?" Boss Wang took a deep breath and spoke upon seeing the HR director.
"...Boss, I’ve arrived."
This response made the other directors sitting nearby involuntarily tilt their heads slightly.
Such a stiff response?
Under normal circumstances, the HR director might have adopted a more tactful response. However, at this moment, she was truly absent-minded.
This response even made Boss Wang let out a "huh" sound.
"Hmm, and then? Do you not have anything to say to me?"
At this point, the HR director finally realized how inappropriate and out of place her previous words were.
She was about to speak, but Boss Wang had already sneered and said, "Do you want me to praise you for actually gracing my office with your presence?"
"Alright, since you have nothing to say, then let me—"
All the directors from other departments lowered their heads by another degree, and the marketing director seemed to bury his chin into his chest.
"The tasks I assigned to you, have you taken them to heart?" Boss Wang’s voice suddenly raised without warning.
Before the HR director arrived, Boss Wang had evidently already scolded a group of people. Yet, he still demonstrated ample energy at this moment, with the anger in his chest showing no signs of diminishing.
He even began to border on hysteria: "Did I not explicitly instruct you? Did I not say—during the layoffs, you must execute my orders well, stabilize the organization, soothe the employees’ emotions, and not allow any slip-ups?!"
"But look at what it’s become?"
As Boss Wang spoke, he slammed his desk: "Employee!"
—Boom!
"With a knife!"
—Boom!
"Hostage-taking of the supervisor!"
—Boom!
"Threat to the company!"
—Boom!!
With every word Boss Wang uttered, his desk let out a moan.
However, the quality of this desk was exceptionally good, solid wood wrapped in leather, resulting in the only consequence of the successive heavy pounding being the evident redness of Boss Wang’s fist.
But this pain only fueled Boss Wang’s ever-growing anger.
"Now it’s escalated to the hospital, even the police are involved!!!"
Boss Wang stared intensely at the HR director: "The entire company’s on edge, the organizational order is completely disrupted!"
"I gave you just this one task, and you couldn’t even handle that. How are you managing the department, how are you a director!"
In this manner, he was clearly placing all blame for the current issues on the HR director.
From the first moment Boss Wang slammed the desk, the HR director’s body started trembling. It seemed as if the detached part of her soul was finally knocked back into place by the loud noise, at least partially.
"President Wang... I understand the seriousness of this matter. During the layoffs, I’ve been following company procedures to ensure organizational stability and employee appeasement. I developed calming plans and arranged for designated personnel to connect with employees experiencing emotional fluctuations..."
At this moment, the HR director’s verbiage could be said to be the result of years of career experience, almost like muscle memory.
"You mean you’ve done an excellent job?" Boss Wang roared, "Then why did the incident in the cafeteria happen? What’s the issue with that employee named Mo?!"
"That employee... our department connected with him earlier on, and we communicated multiple times regarding the layoff compensation. We also contacted the EAP Project Team to request their intervention for professional psychological counseling."
The truth in her words was mixed and who knew which parts were true or false. But when it came to pacifying the boss in front and showing that there wasn’t a problem with her attitude or work progress, portraying everything purely as an ’accident’—technically, it sufficed.
The other directors in the office took notice, thinking this response was reasonable. The previously dreamlike state she was in didn’t seem like that of a director at all.
"...But that employee’s emotions remained extremely unstable, refusing to cooperate..." the HR director continued to explain.
"Don’t mention that team, that EAP Project Team!" Boss Wang directly interrupted, "If they were effective, there wouldn’t be so many problems! If I had known they’d be like this, then I..."
Thud, thud, thud—
Before he could finish, a gentle knocking came from outside the door.
The HR director let out a barely noticeable sigh of relief.
"Come in!!" Boss Wang shouted almost the same way as when the HR director knocked earlier.
The door opened, and it was the secretary who had hurried out earlier, now standing with her head lowered.
Boss Wang took a deep breath and was about to say something, but beside the tall secretary, emerging from the half-opened door was another person.
Nan Zhubin.
Boss Wang held back the breath he was about to let out and stifled it forcefully.
After a breath, he acted as if he hadn’t seen Nan Zhubin at all and scolded the secretary: "Where are the people I asked you to bring?"
The secretary shuffled into the office carefully, not getting too close to the boss, her voice barely above a whisper: "President Wang, I’ve been to the legal and sales departments, but Director Fu and Director Chen are both absent. No one in their departments can reach them either, just saying Director Fu had a sudden business trip. As for Director Chen... the sales department doesn’t know where he went either..."
