Blazing Sunlight I (骄阳似我 上) – Chapter 17
June 4, 2015 by peanuts 26 Comments
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Nothing much happened in this chapter except VP Lin obviously knew who Xie Guang is. Some will complain he is bullying her again but this is pretty harmless :P In view of the hatred for VP Lin, I need to say don’t be too judgmental and there are reasons for everything.
Chapter 17
Without doubt, it was impossible to request leave immediately. Hence I worked overtime to finish preparing the budget report. Early in the next morning, I put the written request for leave and report together on Lin Yu Sen’s desk.
I thought my request for leave will be approved like other people, but I was too naive after all ……
When Lin Yu Sen arrived, I was called into his office.
“Why are you requesting leave?”
“Uh, I am feeling a little unwell.”
Lin Yu Sen lifted up his head.
His gaze fell on me and looked closely and slowly at me from top to bottom: “I regret to inform you that I was a doctor. I really cannot see which part of your body is unwell.”
I reflexively asked: “Are you a doctor trained in Chinese medicine?”
Otherwise, how will you know the four ways of diagnosis — look, listen, question and feel the pulse?
Unexpectedly, after I said that, his facial expression actually changed abruptly. Suddenly the gaze that fell on me was as horrifying as cold ice. I was stumped for words. He turned his gaze and said in a restrained voice: “I am not going to approve your leave application. You can go out now.”
Holding the leave application, I gloomily walked out of his office. Yin Jie approached me: “Your leave application has been approved?”
I looked at her seriously and asked: “Are you a doctor trained in Chinese medicine?”
Yin Jie was at a loss when she replied: “No, have you gone crazy ah?”
“After hearing this sentence, will you be angry?”
“What is there to be angry about? At most, I will only think that you are mentally ill.”
Exactly ah, but why did I feel Lin Yu Sen’s reaction was just like I’ve stepped on a minefield? I sighed once, tore the leave application form to shreds and threw them into the rubbish bin. I’ve decided to behave myself in the next few days by tucking my tail between my legs (stay out of trouble).
However, although the trees long for peace, the wind will never cease (a Chinese idiom meaning the world changes, whether you want it or not). Instead the next few days were even more eventful.
The cause was Yin Jie found out that we were discriminated against.
“This is too much. It is obvious that this person has just joined the company, but was arranged to stay in Building A. Even if the room happened to be vacated because someone resigned, we should be given priority ah since we joined the company first. Must have relied on the family background, since that person is the relative of the head of department. I am so furious now. The people in the Logistics Department are just too much.”
The condition of the company’s two dormitories, Buildings A and B is different. Building A is better as two people stay in each room, with private toilet, washing machine and so on. Four people or possibly 8 people stay in each room in Building B, with shared toilet and bathroom. When we joined the company, the people in the Logistics Department said Building A was fully occupied, so we were arranged to stay in Building B. Who knows Yin Jie recently found out that a staff from the Personnel Department who joined the company later than us but got to stay in Building A.
As a result, they were discussing their accusation in the dormitory now.
“What do you think we should do? No, we absolutely cannot just forget about it. I want to go to the Logistics Department to protest!”
Although Yu Hua is honest, she also did not want to lose out. Having heard what was said, she nodded and said: “Yes, we’ll write a letter of complaint.”
Yin Jie said in a distressed voice: “I am afraid it is useless to complain. They may deliberately stall for time until that person lives there for a while. Then it will be very hard to get that person to move out ah.”
I thought for a moment, “Why don’t we go directly to Vice President Lin? When I started work in the Finance Department, the department head particularly told the new staff if there is any problem in work or life, they also can talk to him ah.”
Yu Hua nodded: “My head of department also said that, but …… go to the Vice President?”
“Of course! Yin Jie and I are from the Management Department whereas Yu Hua is from the Marketing Department. Both departments are also led directly by him, so if we don’t go to him, who can we go to?”
Remembering he always mildly and lightly instructed me to do this and that, work overtime and run errands, I immediately felt my way of thinking was perfectly justified!
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