As for special-purpose areas like the conference room and the server room, only the general manager and authorized ministers have the right to enter.
The remaining Human Resources, Technical, Logistics, and Business departments are the main divisions under the company manager.
The Human Resources department is responsible for recruiting newcomers and managing archives. The company's salary and treatment levels are divided into five categories: temporary workers, official employees, cadre, ministers, and the general manager. Temporary workers start with a minimum of three years, and upon becoming official employees, in addition to an improved treatment, they also gain the right to long-term storage of a yellow-rated item. Typically, the first item for an official employee is a suit/Guardian.
Once official employees successfully complete a certain number of tasks, they are promoted to cadre, who usually manage one or several numbered warehouses. All sorts of business operations are led by cadre, who also have the authority to apply for artifacts and command the use of temporary workers.
Due to frequently understaffed situations and a high mortality rate among interns, those who survive are essentially the elite who can directly be promoted to cadre. Therefore, whether it's cadre or official employees, most are temporarily transferred among the four departments, taking on various tasks and doing all kinds of work.
When positions for the general manager and the ministers of the four departments are vacant, the most senior, experienced, and oldest cadre are next in line for succession.
Furthermore, when cadre are promoted to the position of minister of one of the four departments, because this will grant them considerable access rights, unlike the general manager who might sometimes randomly draw strangers, they require strict assessment and approval from the board of directors.
And given their experience and abilities gained along the way, they naturally have a certain level of autonomy. At the same time, it could also be the head office's way of preventing the general manager from gaining too much power. These ministers can even directly report to the board and may participate in joint operations across multiple planes within "Celestial".
However, considering the risks and troubles inherent to monsters, rather than saying this is a check and balance measure of office politics, it's more accurate to say that the general manager indeed needs capable hands to manage different aspects, or else they might carelessly cause a significant safety management issue that could lead to world destruction.
Now, Li Pan is quite hoping that the head office will parachute in a few ministers from the Otherworld soon to help him share the miscellaneous duties. Although he has Mr007 to remind him, and he can make a call if he doesn't understand something, the problem is that Mr007 currently only has temporary worker access rights and is identified as a red-rated undead, so he can't enter most places. And sometimes, even phone calls can leave him clueless. So, Li Pan had no choice but to wander from office to office.
Of the four departments, the Human Resources and Logistics departments are relatively the safest areas to work in. Although the Logistics Department is nominally in charge of monster storage management, the monsters are actually in external numbered warehouses, and their work is more about dealing with tax office inspections, conducting some normal transactions, and monitoring the status of each warehouse.
On the contrary, the Technical Department, because it is responsible for researching and identifying new monster characteristics, is quite prone to safety hazards. The employees in the Business Department, who are responsible for fieldwork, might privately conceal some weapons and artifacts. For various purposes, they might even utilize the storeroom's "Pen/Strong Exorcism" or similar functional monsters, which are part of the safety hazards.
As a result, Li Pan had no choice but to go through each department, office by office, and file by file. After working all morning, he finally organized the office area, Human Resources, and Logistics Department, but the bulk of the work in the Technical and Business Departments was still far from done.
"This is just too damn troublesome! Don't you have a thing that goes 'beep' and just sweeps the monsters away?"
The desk phone said,
"Sure, we do."
Li Pan found it unbelievable, "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
The desk phone, "You didn't ask."
Li Pan, "@#￥￥**&XX!"
The desk phone, "Don't swear."
The head office's Ambient Temperature Warehouse is a daily assessed blue-rated safe area, keeping some regular office supplies, or monsters with minimal power, less dangerous to humans than a handgun, or ones that can be kept in a safe area.
In addition, if a monster has been around for a long time, and the employees have sufficient countermeasures and simple yet effective storage measures, or if the function is really handy and frequently needed in daily business processes, and if it's too cumbersome to fill out applications and usage reports for yellow areas, they might be directly moved here. Essentially, these are the kinds of reasons for doing so.
After arguing with the desk phone and clarifying the route, Li Pan directly went from the hall to the Ambient Temperature Warehouse, where the entrance corridor led straight to an elevator bathed in blue light.
There are eight floor-numbered buttons inside the elevator. The lowest is the F0 front desk reception, and the other seven floors span from F43 to F49.
It seems they are sequenced following the 42 external warehouses, and similarly, even for blue-rated items, each floor stores just one item separately.
Li Pan arrived at F48, stepped out of the elevator and found the entire floor to be an open white office area with a desk far off in the distance. On the desk, there was a thick notepad and a desk phone.
Approaching the desk, Li Pan flipped open the notepad to sign in. He could clearly see many signatures, apparently from former employees who had borrowed and returned items from F48, with recorded times. Although he saw the dates, he couldn't recognize the names. It was as if he was seeing unfamiliar foreign text, his brain incapable of processing the information.
Li Pan didn't pay it much mind and, after filling in his information, the desk phone rang.