This is a very serious crisis for the narrator since starting work, directly affecting the narrator's future in the company. Ironically, the problem caused by the narrator's subordinate is not the employee fraud in the Joint Credit Department, which is not within the narrator's direct scope of work. However, the person in charge of the fraud is the narrator's subordinate. The company requires the narrator to handle the aftermath and minimize the losses. As a result, the narrator and the vice president who signed the documents with the Credit Department at that time became like ants on a hot pan.
After many discussions with the company's legal advisors, the advantage is that the loaned company is only a branch, and fortunately, there is a head office, from which the company can recover the losses. The disadvantage is that this matter must be filed in the "Pearl" city where the company's headquarters is located. Only in this way can the company recover the losses after winning the lawsuit. If the lawsuit is filed locally, even if the lawsuit is won, as the location of the branch of the company, it is basically difficult to recover any valuable compensation.
When the narrator's subordinate and the two employees in the Credit Department who committed fraud were fired and questioned by the procuratorate, the narrator took over this mess. Both the narrator and the credit vice president are very aggrieved, but there is no choice. The company's losses must be recovered. Otherwise, the narrator and the credit vice president may be fired. The narrator and several legal advisors of the company came to the headquarters of the company in the "Pearl" city to start the lawsuit. During this period, the narrator and several legal advisors studied the documents every day, established evidentiary materials, and sent faxes back and forth between the company and the "Pearl" city.
After a two-week trial, the narrator and several legal advisors, exhausted and worn out, finally received the verdict in our favor. But at that time, the narrator realized that winning the lawsuit is just a few pieces of paper, and it is still a long way from actually recovering the compensation. At that time, the narrator and the vice president ran to the enforcement court every day, asked for help from colleagues of our branch in the "Pearl" city, looked for connections, and tried every possible way, but the effect was minimal. Even several bank presidents of the narrator's company used their personal relationships, but it was still of no use. This is not our territory, and the several enforcement attempts had no effect at all. The narrator and the vice president even discussed at night that if the compensation could not be recovered, what would they do in the future, whether they would have to find new jobs. Sighs and cigarettes became the greatest comfort for the two of them at that time, but the problem cannot be solved by sighing or taking drugs.
Later, the company sent a vice president to mainly handle this matter. The result made the narrator understand that although he is an important figure in our local area, in this "Pearl" city, he is just like us, just as helpless and useless. At that time, the narrator even started to prepare to leave the company. Haha, now the three of them were smoking, sighing, and running around all day long.
Just when the narrator was extremely helpless, the narrator called Baobao. Briefly narrating the entire process on the phone, Baobao said: It's a bit difficult, but it's not impossible to handle. So we were asked to wait in the hotel, and a car was sent to pick us up to go to his law firm for a detailed discussion. Whether the matter can be handled or not is unknown. At least we have found a lifeline. Under Baobao's arrangement, we came to Baobao's law firm. We no longer had the mood to exchange pleasantries with Baobao about how we have been over the years. We directly took out several packages of materials and the trial results to tell Baobao the complete course of the event. After Baobao carefully understood the process, he told me that he would try to handle it and try to recover the losses as much as possible. It was Baobao's words that finally made the frown of our old vice president, who had been frowning for more than half a month, slightly relax.
That night, with Baobao's introduction, we met a high-level leader of the court in this "Pearl" city. After narrating the process, we pleaded with him, described our situation, and only shut up after making him impatient. Some things may be extremely difficult for you, but for others, it may be extremely simple. With the help of this leader introduced by Baobao, our lawsuit and recovery were upgraded to a case supervised by the High Court. Naturally, within a week, the head office fully repaid our losses and gave a part of the compensation. This result is even better than we expected!
On that day, accompanied by Baobao, the narrator, the vice president of the Credit Department, and our vice president, like three children respecting their elders, said countless grateful and flattering words. We could only use "bottoms up" (drinking alcohol) one after another to express our gratitude. That day, we got drunk. Three of the four people passed out, and we didn't even know how we got back to the hotel. Baobao saved the narrator, also saved the credit vice president, and made the vice president very proud. Through this incident, the narrator fully understands the famous saying that a crisis is a dangerous opportunity. The narrator was not punished for the subordinate's violation, but instead, by helping the company resolve this crisis, the narrator drew closer to the personal relationship with the vice president, and even the bank president looked at the narrator differently. Later, when the company had several smaller lawsuits in the "Pearl" city, Baobao helped. Because of this relationship, the narrator became a person with connections in the "Pearl" city in the eyes of the bank president, which benefited the narrator a lot.
After this crisis was resolved, the bank specially approved several tens of thousands of yuan and gave the narrator three days off to go to the "Pearl" city to thank Baobao and that leader. When I went to the "Pearl" city, I failed to thank that leader. He only agreed to have a meal. I said countless words of thanks and even thought that he was really an "honest and upright official". Maybe this leader's small effort saved the narrator. He thought it was insignificant, but the narrator thought he was a good person, a good leader, and an honest and upright leader. Consider me lucky!
During the three days in the "Pearl" city, I went to Baobao's house, saw Baobao's wife and a pair of twins. It was in that chat between the two old classmates and friends that the narrator gradually began to understand and be enlightened.
The Story of Brother Baobao 2
When I went to the "Pearl" city specifically to thank Baobao, Baobao drove me into a very distinctive Jiangsu and Zhejiang cuisine hotel. We started to drink heavily like we did in our college days, to the point that Baobao's wife had to come and drive. We drank a lot, but we didn't feel very drunk. We were still in a state of having endless things to talk about. Until we really couldn't drink anymore, we settled the bill and left. Then we went to a very luxurious teahouse. When Baobao's wife sent us to the teahouse and saw that we weren't that drunk, but just classmates and brothers who wanted to talk, she tactfully told us: She was going home to take care of the children, and let us drink some tea to sober up and then take a taxi back. Then she left the teahouse and went home. This made me feel that Baobao's wife is very nice, really very nice.
I don't know how others feel about this kind of feeling of drinking heavily but not getting drunk, but for me, I only have this feeling with classmates and friends I knew since childhood. I have never had this feeling with colleagues after working. In this very luxurious teahouse in the "Pearl" city, while the narrator and Baobao were drinking the best Da Hong Pao, we talked about the school days, the people we met, and the things we experienced over the years. Until this time, I finally found out what kind of life Baobao has experienced in this city over the years. It was also in the conversation with Baobao that this senior of mine enlightened me.
Back then, after Baobao graduated, he and Lili came to the "Pearl" city. For Baobao, this is a big metropolis, so big that it made him dizzy. Baobao had no connections or interpersonal relationships here. Even except for Lili, he didn't have a classmate or friend. Just like this, Baobao started his first job. When Baobao came here, he found out how difficult it is to find a job with only a master's degree and a judicial certificate in his arms. After three months of struggling as a resume courier, Baobao found a job as an intern lawyer in a law firm. Baobao and Lili had a good drink, thinking that the happy life had begun like this.
But the reality is not what Baobao could understand at that time. In a small law firm, as an even smaller intern lawyer, the basic salary is only 800 yuan, and the rest depends on the commission income. This completely stunned Baobao. In this city where people from all over China gather, Baobao realized his own insignificance, his own powerlessness. The legal profession is a purely competitive industry. 10% of lawyers or law firms earn 90% of the industry's income. Then the remaining 90% of lawyers only have 10% of the income. Unfortunately, Baobao's law firm is a small one, and Baobao is the smallest intern lawyer in it. One can imagine his development prospects. Baobao's rent and meals are definitely not enough with only 800 yuan. Baobao had to be frugal and save more. He lived in the worst Tube Building and ate the cheapest food in the alley. Fortunately, Baobao still had Lili, and Baobao still had love. Occasionally, a very small case would increase Baobao's income by a few hundred yuan. Buying a very cheap piece of clothing for Lili, having a meal with Lili, or going to watch a movie with Lili was the happiest thing for Baobao at that time.
But as they got older, Baobao and Lili graduated with a master's degree, and they were already older. Marriage was put on the agenda. Lili's mother talked to Baobao again and again. Every time Baobao said: He wished he could find a crack in the ground to hide in. Lili's mother is an elementary school teacher, and Lili's father is a middle school teacher. They don't have much savings or social ability. Lili's job is to work as an administrative staff in a small company. As a graduate student majoring in English with a TEM-8 certificate, she can only earn three thousand yuan a month. It's a bit better than Baobao, but this salary is still very pitiful in the "Pearl" city eight or nine years ago. This is the real situation of the two at that time. The ideal is very full, but the reality is terrifyingly skinny.
Facing the cruel reality, facing the increasing age of himself and Lili, and facing Lili's mother's questioning again and again, Baobao has lost the arrogance he had when he held Lili's hand and came to the "Pearl" city. In his hand is a monthly salary of two thousand yuan or even less than two thousand yuan, and then he is facing the largest city in the country. Baobao once wanted to get help from his parents, but when his parents came to the "Pearl" city and saw the house Baobao rented and his situation at that time, they were naturally heartbroken and frustrated. When they met with Lili's parents and faced the demands for a house and everything else from Lili's parents, Baobao's parents were also helpless. They had saved for a lifetime, but it was not enough for the down payment for Baobao in the "Pearl" city. Baobao had been working for two years without any savings, and in Lili's family, it is reasonable that the boy should buy a house when getting married. Baobao said: That parents' meeting was the most ashamed moment in his life.
Baobao said: First, he felt that he had read a graduate degree and worked for two years, but he had to ask his parents to come to the "Pearl" city from a long distance to be questioned by Lili's parents. He really felt too ashamed. Second, even if his parents took out all their money, but according to Lili's mother's logic.