Last month, Hongxing Sports Group announced that they were prepared to buy an advertising proposal for 500,000.
It's just a proposal, not including filming and other costs.
So, a price of 500,000 was quite enticing.
Advertising companies from all over the country were scrambling for this piece of the pie.
Zhang Jingyan, of course, was tempted as well and declared at an internal company meeting that whoever could secure this case would directly receive a 20% commission, not calculated at the previous 5% rate.
For a while, everyone at Jingyan Advertising Company worked hard.
In the end, Yang Chen's proposal was adopted by Hongxing Sports.
The two parties signed a contract, and the other party promptly transferred 500,000.
Today, the company was supposed to pay salaries, and yesterday finance had employees check their pay slips. Yang Chen discovered that his commission was not 100,000 but 25,000, so he quarreled with Zhang Jingyan.
Zhang Jingyan stubbornly refused to acknowledge that he had said there would be a 20% commission, and Yang Chen had no way to deal with him, so he resigned and left.
The point of conflict between the two was the 20% commission, not Yang Chen's personal ability.
On the contrary, Yang Chen's personal ability was probably the best in the company.
So, while Zhang Jingyan was angry, he still wanted to persuade Yang Chen to stay.
After all, what boss would be willing to let go of an employee who could make him a lot of money?
"Yang Chen, it's possible if you want a 20% commission. If you come back and work diligently, I'll return it to you over 10 months. As long as you close at least one deal each month, I'll return 10,000 to you. How about it?" Zhang Jingyan shamelessly said.
Yang Chen chuckled and said, "It's your promise that whoever secures the Hongxing Group case gets a 20% commission without any additional conditions. Are you a man or not? Do you stand by your words or not?"
Zhang Jingyan laughed aloud and said, "Where's the evidence? You need evidence for what you're saying. Just because your lips move, you say I said such things. Well, then I also say you promised to work for me for free without any pay. Does that make sense?"
"Everyone in the company heard it; the evidence is in everyone's heart," Yang Chen replied.
Zhang Jingyan chuckled, turned around, and asked, "Everyone, did I ever say there would be a 20% commission?"
These employees were not fools. They still wanted to earn a living here, so how could they undermine the boss?
"Never said it; I never heard it anyway."
"I didn't hear it either."
"Maybe Yang Chen heard wrong. It's impossible that none of us heard it, but only he did."
...
Some unscrupulous employees were already fawning over the boss.
However, there were still some silent employees who didn't speak up.
To them, Yang Chen's present could be their future.
If Zhang Jingyan dared to deny the 20% commission today, he might deny their pay and benefits tomorrow.
Therefore, these smart employees were torn about whether to stand up against Zhang Jingyan.
But in the end, reason prevailed over justice.
Finding a satisfactory job isn't easy now, and they had families to feed, and since it wasn't happening to them, they decided not to act righteous.
Seeing Yang Chen's uncomfortable expression, Li Yuan said smugly, "Alright, stop holding back. According to the plan between me and President Zhang, we didn't even plan to give you the commission. Unless you come back to work, the company will calculate it at a 5% commission. Now President Zhang is especially generous to you, offering to return the 20% commission over ten months. This is a great favor to you. Aren't you quick to thank President Zhang and still want more? Do you think you have the right to resist?"
Zhang Jingyan showed a satisfied smile.
Yang Chen asked sternly, "Zhang Jingyan, is this what Li Yuan implied?"
Zhang Jingyan nodded and said, "That's right! That was our plan initially. However, I value you as a talent and truly don't want to lose you. As long as you come back and close one deal each month, I'll return 10,000 yuan to you each month. Over ten months, you'll get it all back, and neither of us loses. But if any month you don't close a deal, the 10,000 yuan for that month will be forfeited and used to improve company employee benefits. This is your only chance, so don't be ungrateful and quickly return to your seat and work."
"Initially, you proposed a 20% commission to whoever secured the Hongxing Group order, without stating additional conditions. Now you're proposing a phased return. Do you think that's appropriate?" Yang Chen asked.
Zhang Jingyan chuckled and said, "I'm the boss; I decide what is what. Now I'm adding conditions. Is that not acceptable?"
"When asking employees to secure orders, you directly promised a 20% commission without any conditions. Now that payroll is due, you suddenly impose so many conditions. You're quite a boss," Yang Chen continued.
Zhang Jingyan laughed heartily and said, "Not bad. Alright, I'm done talking to you. You sit down and work properly. I have to go downstairs to discuss the lease renewal with the management office. It's just a few days to expiry, and this is all money. You think being a boss, feeding so many employees, is easy?"
Li Yuan quickly praised, "Exactly, exactly... Everyone should be grateful to President Zhang for providing a platform to showcase talents and earn a living. Without President Zhang, do you really think you could find a job? So, everyone should thank President Zhang."
Employees quickly echoed Li Yuan's words with more flattery.
"Indeed, without President Zhang and the company, how could we support our families?"
"Yang Chen, don't be too greedy. You should know gratitude."
"Right! President Zhang is already being generous with you, not refusing you but giving it in installments. Stop being difficult and sit down to work."
...
Zhang Jingyan chuckled, sighed, and said arrogantly, "I'm satisfied that you all understand my hardships and appreciate my goodness. But there's always someone ungrateful, without the heart of gratitude like you all."
Yang Chen smiled, took out his phone, and said, "I work for money. I provide labor, and the boss provides the promised wages. There's no debt between us. What should I be grateful for? You didn't even give me my rightful wages; what should I be grateful for? Did you give me money for nothing? A shameless person is invincible! Damn it! I'm done talking to you. I recorded our conversation just now, and I'm heading over to the arbitration bureau now. I refuse to believe the law won't hold you accountable!"
Upon hearing the word "recording," Zhang Jingyan was shocked.
"Quick, shut the door! Don't let him out!" Zhang Jingyan shouted.
Li Yuan rushed over at the speed of a rabid dog and swiftly locked the door.
In the hallway outside, Chen Zhichao, who was on the phone, was stunned. Why was the door being locked?
Wouldn't it be bad if something happened to the new boss?
Zhang Jingyan pointed at Yang Chen and threatened, "Yang Chen, hand over your phone immediately, delete the recording, and I'll let you leave. However, you can forget about your salary; it will be docked completely."
Then he picked up the computer monitor next to him and smashed it, continuing, "Everyone saw, you smashed our computers. So your 5,000 yuan salary is docked. Oh, isn't it enough? Then I'll smash another one to make it enough! Damn!"
With that, Zhang Jingyan picked up another monitor in anger and smashed it, glaring angrily at Yang Chen.
Yang Chen smiled and said, "I'm still recording, everything you just said is being recorded."
Zhang Jingyan furiously replied, "So what? Unless you hand over your phone today, you won't leave here! As long as there's no recording, with so many of us, we determine the narrative, understand?"
"You're trying to scare me? Nowadays, phones have a feature called cloud backup. Don't you know that? Even if I give you my phone, what can you do?" Yang Chen said with a smile.
Zhang Jingyan was enraged to the extreme, saying, "You really have no decency, secretly recording. You're utterly shameless!"
"Shameless? Can anyone be more shameless than you? Breaking promises you made with your own mouth, isn't there anyone as shameless as you?" Yang Chen retorted.
Li Yuan clenched his fist and said, "President Zhang, why waste time talking to him! Beat him up and destroy his phone, delete his cloud backup, too. We outnumber him, and our word rules. I'll say he came over to smash our computers and we subdued him. A little injury during subduing is unavoidable! Isn't that right, everyone?"
Facing a potential fight, employees didn't dare to respond.
It's one thing to lie on behalf of the boss, but actually getting physical was intimidating.
Standing at 6'1", Yang Chen was strong and well-built. If a fight broke out, there was no guaranteeing who would get hurt.
Just then, Chen Zhichao knocked hard on the door from outside.
Seeing it was the building management manager, Zhang Jingyan hurried out to handle it personally.
"Oh, Manager Chen, you're here in person? I was just about to come downstairs to discuss the lease renewal with you." Zhang Jingyan said with a smile.
"I'm here to see Mr. Yang. Where is he? Why are you locking the door in broad daylight? You aren't doing anything to Mr. Yang, are you?" Chen Zhichao asked, looking inside.
Zhang Jingyan suddenly turned serious, asking, "Mr. Yang? Which Mr. Yang?"
"Which Mr. Yang could it be? Yang Chen! Didn't he just come in?" Chen Zhichao replied.
Zhang Jingyan's eyes suddenly brightened, and he quickly asked, "What does Manager Chen want with him?"
"He's the new owner of our building. Why do you think I'm looking for him?" Chen Zhichao asked impatiently.
"Ah? What? New... new owner..." Zhang Jingyan stammered, frozen in place.