Zhongling has an afternoon tea time every day. Although it is a company benefit, the tea room provides snacks and drinks all year round.
But I don’t know if it’s because I often have to work overtime until late. The juice and nuts prepared by the company are not enough to satisfy me when I stay up late. Each department also collects an extra group payment every month to buy additional department supplies.
Afternoon tea——
Jian Anran lost two hundred yuan on her first day at work.
"Where is the company planning to go for exchange and study this year?" Sister A, who was gossiping in the bathroom just now, asked while biting a pizza.
Mr. Chen next to him immediately replied: "I heard it's still Singapore."
Sister A looked very excited, "Singapore is great. I joined the job late last year and didn't even have time to go and play together."
Another person next to him added, "But this is a benefit for employees who have been employed for more than three years. If we want to go, we have to travel at our own expense. The company only reimburses the round-trip air tickets."
Sister A immediately said: "The round-trip air ticket is not enough? I have been looking forward to it for a long time!"
As they talked, they began to count the number of people who planned to go to Singapore. Basically all employees who could get free travel benefits participated, followed closely by ordinary new employees who could only be reimbursed for round-trip air tickets, and half of them were also willing to participate.
As for people at the "bottom of society" like Jian Anran, or a small number of dispatched employees, they are not regular employees of the company, and in principle do not enjoy the benefits and treatment that only regular employees of the company have——
This is a world with "clear distinction between superiority and inferiority". In her opinion, whether you are a regular employee or a dispatched employee in the workplace is not much different from the caste system in ancient India.
This means that if Jian Anran wants to go, she must travel entirely at her own expense.
Fortunately, no one cared about the whereabouts of her intern. After all, she had just stepped into the company door for less than twenty-four hours. If it weren't for the fact that she was in a company like Valin Group, Jian Anran would have begun to doubt this kind of behavior.
Is a company that offers travel upon joining a job a scam?
She silently drew at her workstation the pdf file she had just imported into her computer today, and opened the projects she had done in Wen Siheng's studio in the past period.
After browsing ArchDaily all morning, every time someone passed by, their eyes would inevitably stay on her computer for two seconds longer. Afraid that she would leave a bad impression on others when she first joined the job, Jane Anran thought: look at the project documents
Doesn’t it look like you’re fishing?
"Where are my little classmates? Do you plan to go?"
Not realizing that the other party was asking herself, Jian Anran was still immersed in her PDF and couldn't extricate herself.
"Classmate Jane?"
When she came to her senses, she looked up and found that everyone in the entire department had turned around and stared at her.
Jian Anran stood up: "What?"
Sister A smiled and shouted: "I just asked you! Do you want to sign up to go to Singapore? We are counting!"
She didn't even need to think too much, she immediately refused, "I'm not going."
"Aren't you going?" Sister A's smile suddenly froze at the corner of her mouth, she frowned and raised her voice a bit, "You're not going?"
Jian Anran was a little confused, "Is there... any problem?"
The other party's attitude even made her have some doubts about herself. Can't she choose not to travel? Isn't this forced consumption?
Sister A's face didn't look good, "Of course there can't be any problems!"
The other party's tone was so sinister that she felt a little uncomfortable, but since she was here to work after all, she knew well not to have any illusions about making friends in the workplace. Jian Anran just smiled politely and then sat back down. Sister A reacted greatly and shouted in the direction of the next door department: "Classmate Edith, are you going to Singapore?"
Although Edith, the intern who joined Jian Anran at the same time, is not in the same department, their two departments belong to the same leader and they often interact with each other, so everyone knows this person.
Everyone doesn’t know much about Jian Anran’s net worth, but everyone knows a little bit about Edith’s family situation. She spent all four years of her undergraduate studies at Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore, so her expenses are more or less, not to mention that her graduate studies go directly to
Go to Sydney, which is also expensive.
Edith just turned her head and looked here with some confusion, "Singapore?"
After thinking for a short time, she said easily: "Why not?"
Then he immediately asked: "When? I should be able to make time recently."
After hearing Edith's answer, she didn't know if it was Jian Anran's misunderstanding. She even seemed to see Sister A glancing here proudly.
Jian Anran's face was expressionless, but in her heart she had actually greeted Sister A's ancestors eighteen times.
Doesn’t she want to go to Singapore? I’m afraid that even if she sells her whole body to the Blood and Tears Factory, she may not be able to afford a trip to Singapore.
On the other hand, the real "eldest lady" Edith, going to Singapore is like going to a shopping mall by the Luojiang River. She leaves as soon as she wants. She is not on the same level as a mortal like her.
She could even hear harsh words like "It's not easy to get along with" and "It's because we don't deserve it" coming from the direction of the department's afternoon tea table from time to time.
She didn't expect to care too much, and Jian Anran also knew that she had no way to care.
Whether it is in a utopian world like school, or in a big dyeing vat like the workplace, there are always some so-called "red", and on the contrary there will be some so-called "black", just like the balance of yin and yang in Tai Chi, in the world
There is no place that is only good or only bad——
From her first impression, Sister A is just the grain of sand here.
There was not much work to do today. Jian Anran kept fishing until get off work, then immediately picked up her bag and left. She was so tired that she almost closed her eyes on the subway even though she had not done anything all day.
"Deng Deng——" The phone vibrated twice.
Jian Anran picked it up and took a look. It was some trivial matters notified by the class group. She wanted to turn off her phone directly, but she suddenly saw a little red dot on the [Address Book] at the bottom of WeChat——
"Hello, classmate Jian, this is Gong Chen. I saw your phone number on corporate WeChat today and wanted to add you to WeChat to chat."
"What are you talking about?" Jian Anran said to herself, but she still obediently agreed and sent the other party a [hi] emoticon.
[Gong Chen: I'm sorry to disturb your rest time. Actually, I'm just curious about how much your internship salary is now?]
【Jane:2500】
[Gong Chen: Really? Why is the price still the same as mine?]
The message box was silent again for a moment, and Jian Anran's phone lit up again:
[Gong Chen: But, can I ask you a personal question? Is the photo in your circle of friends your friend?]