"Then... Sister Fang, how dare you still go for a spa?" I pointed at the spa robe on Sister Fang and asked with a beaming smile. "Aren't you scared of those red eyes anymore?"
"I... I..." A look of confusion suddenly flashed across Sister Fang's face. She glanced at the logo on her lounge wear, then suddenly jumped up, knocking over the paper cup on the table behind her.
"Hey, are you new here?" Before I could get up, two people wearing employee badges rushed into the office. An older man frowned at the coffee spilled all over the table and said, "You're so clumsy. Don't you even know how to wipe the table?"
"Sorry, I'll clean it up right away." As a newbie in the workplace, I naturally had to keep a proper attitude. I immediately ran to the pantry to look for a rag.
However, when I returned to the executive department's office with the rag, I found the table had been wiped clean. The girl who came with the man was already sitting at her workstation, busily working.
The HR had told me about the employees in the department. This girl was an employee in the executive department named Li Xinrui, and the older man who scolded me before was our boss, Yang Fan.
Seeing me come in with the rag, Li Xinrui curled her lips in a mocking expression. "Do people still use rags these days? Do you think you're a cleaner?"
"The rag is so dirty. Don't you know how to use tissues?" Yang Fan loosened his collar, glanced at me, and said, "Where did the HR find this vase? Can't even do things properly."
Being targeted out of the blue on my first day at work left me utterly confused.
"Do you have Meituan?" Yang Fan sat down at his workstation boldly, flipping through the documents in the folder without even looking up. He asked me, "Order two takeaways. Xiao Li and I haven't had lunch yet."
"Okay." Although I was feeling dejected, I still put the rag back in the pantry, took out my phone, and ordered takeaways from a popular restaurant in the nearby business district.
"Manager Yang, do you think this restaurant is okay?" I handed my phone over.
Yang Fan took a quick look at my phone and said, "Whatever."
"Um..." I had no work experience and didn't know what "whatever" meant. So I had to go to Li Xinrui's workstation.
"Don't bother me." To my surprise, Li Xinrui just glanced at my phone and then buried herself back in her documents. "I'm so busy. I don't have time to deal with such trivial things."
...
Alright! I guessed all workplace rookies had to go through such hardships. I comforted myself and clicked the order button.
During the half - hour wait for the takeaways, I sorted and archived all the document - organizing tasks that Sister Fang had assigned me.
My desk was right next to the office door. When Yang Fan went to get some water, he took a quick look at my work computer, and a look of surprise flashed across his face.
Not long after, my phone rang. The takeaways were here. I fetched the fast food from the takeaway box downstairs and returned to the 29th - floor office.
I waved the takeaway bags at the two people who were still buried in their work and said, "Manager Yang, Miss Li, it's time to eat."
Unexpectedly, Li Xinrui looked up at the logo on the paper bag, sneered, and said, "Fried food is unhealthy. I haven't eaten it since I started working."
Yang Fan also stood up. "Forget it. Xiao Li will go out with me later. We'll just grab something to eat outside."
"You've got to be kidding me!" I was really annoyed. I had clearly asked them just now, and they both said "whatever". Now they were being so picky. Wasn't this deliberately looking for trouble?
The two meals cost nearly a hundred yuan. If they didn't eat them, would I have to pay for them myself?! I didn't mind being bullied, but I wasn't willing to waste money.
"Manager Yang, you said 'whatever'. These two meals cost 96.7 yuan. Please pay for them with Miss Li."
Yang Fan glanced at me as if I were a joke. It was Li Xinrui, who was organizing documents behind him, who took out a hundred - yuan bill from her bag and gave it to me.
"Keep the change. Just throw away those junk foods." With that, she picked up her water cup and left the office.
I stood there with the bag in my hand for a long time, once again confirming that I really wasn't suited for a normal job. In just one morning, I had been targeted twice. This kind of job was simply suffocating for someone like me who was used to a carefree life!!
I walked to the pantry dejectedly, planning to put the takeaways there. Just as I was about to reach the pantry door, I heard several exaggerated female voices inside.
"... Hey, I thought the new girl had some background to fill Wang Fang's vacancy."
"Or maybe she's rich?"
"Haha, how could she be rich? Her phone is a low - end one that's been used for years. She even cares about the dozens of yuan for the takeaway!" I recognized the last voice. It was Li Xinrui, who had just left.
No wonder she and Yang Fan had been staring at my phone just now. It turned out they were judging my social class by the model of my phone. My phone was a second - hand one from my grandfather. It cost less than 500 yuan when he bought it a few years ago. Even watching videos on it was quite a struggle.
This kind of cheap brand naturally didn't meet their standards, so I was classified as a target they could bully.
"Oops..." Just then, a woman walked out of the pantry. I knew she was from the planning department, but I couldn't remember her name for the moment. When she saw me standing at the door, she immediately covered her mouth exaggeratedly and shouted inside, "Stop talking about her. She's eavesdropping!"
"Oh no!!" There was a small burst of laughter inside. Li Xinrui and several other employees from the planning department walked out together. The planning department and the executive department often interacted, so the people from the two departments were very familiar with each other.
Li Xinrui glanced at me standing outside the door and casually said, "Where did you learn such bad habits? Don't bring them to our Hanyu."
I barely managed to hold back the urge to throw the takeaway at her head. I stepped aside to avoid them and walked into the pantry.
"Is the takeaway you ordered for you and General Manager Yang?"
"Really. We all eat light food. That's high - calorie stuff. It's so unhealthy."
"... I guess she's going to eat it herself!"
"Definitely. Xinrui has already paid for it. She must be taking advantage of it."
"You can smell that poor - looking aura from a mile away..." The laughter and chatting outside gradually faded away.
I sighed and silently repeated "Don't be angry" a hundred times in my heart before opening the takeaway box. No matter who paid for it, wasting food was something I hated the most.
I broke open the bamboo chopsticks and opened the lunch box. Inside was a pan - fried lamb chop rice. The golden - brown lamb chops were placed on top of the rice dotted with black sesame seeds, accompanied by sauce and scallions. It looked delicious.
I took a bite. Sure enough, it was one of the top - ranked takeaways in the neighborhood. It really tasted great.
Just as I was wondering whether I should take the remaining meal back for Si Jiangchen, the curtain of the pantry was lifted, and another person walked in.
"Um, it smells good. Which takeaway restaurant did you order from?" I turned around and saw a man in his thirties walking in. I had never seen this man before. Judging from his company suit, he must be a department manager - level leader.
"I just randomly ordered. The taste is quite good." I also smiled at this kind - looking colleague.