"Good morning!"
Shi Jincheng's young salesman walked into the office with a briefcase. He kept greeting the others with a positive and happy glow on his face.
Once the matters at hand were settled, he might get a promotion and a raise. He would climb up from the bottom and be in charge of three to five people.
He was going to build the first team of his life and he would be the absolute core of the team.
They wouldn't be crammed here with everyone and couldn't even straighten their legs.
They would be in a separate office, enjoying better treatment and free coffee.
It was a great process. If his team could continue to be successful, he might become a partner of the branch here, then a senior partner, a partner of the head office, and even a shareholder.
All of this was thanks to the trouble he encountered every moment. If it weren't for the trouble they encountered, Shi Jincheng wouldn't have wanted to expand his business so quickly and savagely. He wouldn't have had such an opportunity to get a large number of contracts.
Every contract was a certificate of merit to him.
As soon as he sat down, a young woman next to him turned to look at him. "The phone kept ringing when you weren't here …"
"Is that so?"
The young salesman smiled, revealing his white teeth. "I know. Thank you for reminding me."
"You're welcome!"
The female colleague replied nonchalantly. "I heard you were called to the general manager's office yesterday?"
The young man nodded reservedly. "We talked about the promotion."
The girl's eyes lit up. "What did you talk about?"
The young salesman didn't intend to share these things. Just as he was thinking about how to refuse, the phone rang.
He smiled apologetically, then went into his workspace and stopped talking to the b * tch.
She had slept with at least ten employees in this office. Some people even said that she often fooled around with the big clients.
Some of the rumors might be because some people didn't like her, but it was impossible that every malicious rumor was fabricated.
The young salesman had no interest in the b * tch at all.
He adjusted his attitude the moment he picked up the phone. "Hello, how can I help you?"
Using honorifics was something he learned from Every Moment. Every Moment's service made all the companies in the Federation see the huge gap between each other, but only Every Moment and their employees could do this.
As long as Every Moment's spending record could prove that you were a loyal customer, you could ask your manager to go on a journey with you to explore the deeper meaning of human beings.
Those people in other companies couldn't do this, but it was fine if they didn't go overboard. For example, using honorifics.
He could take the other party's money out of their pockets and put it into the capitalist's pocket, and then the capitalist would leak some to himself. Using honorifics did not make him feel inferior at all.
"Hello, I'm … the shop owner of No. 72 Main Street, if you still remember me."
The young salesman immediately remembered the shop owner, a middle-aged man in his forties, who was also a part of his success. "Yes, I remember you. What can I do for you?"
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. "The young salesman didn't react immediately." What counter? "
He seemed to realize something as he spoke. "Are you talking about our counter? That will have to wait for the court's verdict. We will have a unified action plan, so you don't have to worry too much."
At this moment, the young salesman didn't realize what had happened. He only thought that the other party was suffering losses because they didn't have Every Moment's cigarettes in their hands. So, he wanted to change the current situation. That was all.
But the next words made the young salesman's scalp tingle, and he couldn't sit still anymore.
"Didn't I win the lawsuit? Do I have to wait for everyone to win before you can send the counter here?"
The shopkeeper's tone was a little dissatisfied.
A minty chill rushed from his spine to the top of his head. He shivered, and his voice was a little out of tune. "Who said we won the lawsuit?"
Every Moment's legal department asked the court to postpone the trial on the grounds that the company's equity structure had not been re-determined and the acquisition war was not completely over.
The courts all over the country agreed to their request because it wasn't an excuse to postpone the trial. They were indeed facing the problem of frequent changes in their equity structure.
It was most appropriate to wait for the changes in their equity structure to end or stabilize before starting the trial.
In other words, even if Every Moment was losing, the earliest news should have come out at the end of April, not now!
The young salesman looked at the desk calendar on the table. It was only April 11th now. The timing didn't match at all.
The shop owner on the other end of the phone didn't seem to realize that this was a problem. He continued, "The people from the court came the day before yesterday. They took away all their counters with their employees. I left those places for you."
"I hope you can send my counter here as soon as possible. You know, I can't leave them empty all the time. It's very dangerous for me!"
The counter was sometimes an important measure to protect the shop owner from harm. It could prevent intruders from coming into contact with the shop owner so easily. It was indeed not good to leave it empty all the time.
The young salesman quickly stood up. "There was no trial at all. What else did those people say..."
He paused. "Listen, I'm coming over now. Wait for me in the shop."
After that, he hung up the phone and left the coffee he had just bought on the table. He ran out of the office like he was flying.
The girl next to him pursed her lips. She wanted to get close to her "neighbor" so that she could join him when he formed a team.
However, she could feel that the other party was not interested in her, which made her very embarrassed.
Whores never thought of themselves as whores. They would think that the person who called them whores made such ridiculous remarks because he couldn't get a "whores" like them.
The young salesman rushed out of the office and called a taxi. Soon, he arrived at … No. 72 Main Street. Looking at the empty counter, he suddenly realized that it wasn't as if nothing had been done at all. They had counterattacked.
The young salesman didn't enter the shop. The shop owner took the initiative to welcome him, but he didn't communicate with the shop owner at all. Instead, he rushed to another shop more than 100 meters away.
When he stood at the door, he looked at the readjusted counter. The counter was also gone.
Oh no!
He rushed into the roadside phone booth, dialed the general manager's phone with trembling hands, and passed the news.
An hour later, the branch companies from all over the Federation gathered the same news to the head office. The counters were disappearing at every moment. Someone claimed to have won the lawsuit and moved the counters away.
"Do you know who came up with this idea?"
Not only were there people from Sometimes Lucky in the legal department, but even the colorful people were there.
The headquarters of the three major tobacco companies were all in Boston. They were even on the same street. Standing in the president's office and looking to the east, one could see the iconic building — an office building that looked like a spindle, thin at the two ends and thick in the middle.
The head of Sometimes Lucky's legal department shook his head. "This doesn't look like …'s style. This is someone else's style. He's not like this."
The "Mr. …" he was referring to was the head of the legal department at all times.
Although he was said to be the head, in fact, the head of the legal department had his own law firm and was often active in various lawsuits.
In the Federation, even the six major banks did not have their own legal team. Most of the companies' legal departments were outsourced.
The high cost of lawyers was not something that ordinary people could afford. They would only come to the company to perform their duties when needed.
Most of the time, they were busy with their own affairs.
Of course, they would also arrange for some young lawyers to provide 24-hour service in the company, but not all of them, and not all of them would be stationed by the big lawyers of the law firm all year round.
For these big lawyers, who could earn hundreds or even thousands of yuan per hour, the monthly resident fee for one person was at least 100,000 yuan. If a complete team was hired, the monthly fee for these people would be about 500,000 to 800,000 yuan!
This did not include the cost of specific things that they needed to do. It was just the cost of letting them sit in the office and answer any questions that were asked.
If they were asked to collect evidence, investigate, and do anything outside of the office, the cost would increase exponentially.
It was not impossible for it to reach millions of yuan per month.
Therefore, most companies would outsource their legal department to a law firm, or hire a top lawyer as a consultant to manage the legal department.
The top circle in this industry was not large, so the lawyers in this room could see at a glance that this was not the method of the legal department all the time.
They were more likely to find a way to crack the law or even fight back through various legal loopholes, but they would not use underhanded tactics. It would be easy to get themselves into trouble.
Sometimes Lucky's CEO rolled up his sleeves, not caring about his image. He held a cigarette produced by his own company in his mouth and asked irritably, "So what's next?"
"What will they do next? Who can tell me this, at least let me know what we will encounter?"