United States, NASA

At the beginning of a new day, the employees began to work normally, on the second basement floor, the confidential file management room, the old Charlie is sixty years old this year, and he will be completely retired in a few months.

According to the agreement, you will get a large pension, enough to maintain financial freedom, you can walk around and spend the rest of your life in style.

Today, I am in a very good mood, I came to the desk where I was on duty, tidied it up, it was clean and neat, this table has accompanied me to work in the Space Administration for more than 20 years, and I already have feelings.

Sit down, slowly compensate yourself for the coffee you bought at a high price, anyway, I'm going to retire, it's normal to enjoy it in advance, what about the integrated coffee, a staff member of the personnel department came.

"Hello Charlie, the coffee smells strong," the staff said with a smile.

"It's not bad, I'm going to retire in a few months, and it's time to be kind to myself," said old Charlie with a smile on his face, and the one smiled as well.

"I'm Timhagen from HR," Timhagen introduced himself and shook hands with Charlie Sr.

"What files do you need?" asked Old Harry politely.

"No, Harry, I'm not here for the files, I'm here for you, I need to talk to you about retirement," Timhagen said, looking at Charlie.

Timhagen's heart is also very helpless, there is no way, the superiors will overwhelm his head, so he can only handle this matter himself.

If you handle Charlie's affairs, your reputation will be ruined, but if you don't handle it, it will be difficult to preserve your job, and you still have loans to repay, and once you lose your job, you will go bankrupt.

Old Charlie paused for a moment, looked at Timhagen's face, had a bad premonition in his heart, and asked "what's the matter".

"Charlie, I'm here on behalf of the General Administration, you will retire in five months, but your contract with the company will end in another month and a half"

"I'd like to ask you, will you renew until you retire," Timhagen asked, looking at old Charlie.

"You can say it directly, at my age, there is no need to beat around the bush" Old Charlie looked at Timhagen and read directly.

Timhagen hesitated for a moment, and the expression on his face became firm: "Charlie, the General Administration can renew your contract, but your salary package must be paid at 30 percent"

"If you don't agree to this condition, you won't renew the contract."

"You're not afraid that I'll go to the labor department to sue you, I think, those bigwigs in the General Administration don't want to be burdened with this kind of scandal," Charlie said very politely.

Charlie didn't give it for nothing, I've seen this kind of thing more than once, it usually just happened to my colleagues, but I didn't expect it to happen to me.

I was very angry that those people were being treated like this because they had only been with NASA for a few years, and they had been working for twenty-eight years.

Timhagen understands the anger of old Charlie, which is the fundamental reason why the superiors are unwilling to come over and do this, pressing on themselves.

In the United States, if you don't renew the contract of an elderly person who has worked for decades and is about to retire, you are challenging the moral bottom line of the public, and it will definitely arouse the sympathy of the media and criticize you.

The personnel commissioner who handled this matter was definitely a god-hating existence, and his reputation was stinky throughout the unit, and Timhagen knew the consequences and was unwilling to take over this matter.

But who made Timhagen just arrived, and he has only been officially employed for just two months, and he is a qualified backstabber.

Moreover, 70% of Old Charlie's salary and benefits are not really left, but they have entered the small treasury of the unit according to the unspoken rules, and they will be converted into internal benefits.

Reasonable and legal, you can't find fault with anyone, as for how to use the welfare money, it depends on the meaning of the leader, even if the leader uses the money to support the secretary, you are helpless.

The leader eats meat, is responsible for managing the soup of this welfare fund, and everyone tacitly makes their own money, which is an unspoken rule that many people know.

"Charlie, let's settle this matter calmly, you think about your pension, and medical benefits, etc., these add up to a lot of money."

"Now the employer has to pay you up to $5,000 a month for various insurance costs, and at the same time bear your salary of $7,000 a month and a subsidy of more than $2,000."

"If you agree to halve the expenses and benefits for these months, you can get the full pension smoothly."

"It doesn't break any law if the contract expires and it doesn't renew it, at most it's me as a little person who loses my job, and it's not good for us"

"If I had a choice, I definitely wouldn't have come to you to talk about it, who made me fucking only two months on the job, and this dirty thing fell on my head" Tim Hagen looked at Charlie and burst into foul mouth.

Old Charlie was very angry in his heart, if he didn't have a job, he would have to pay for more than 5,000 dollars in insurance premiums, and he had to pay for more than three months according to four months.

This requires more than $20,000 in fees, and you need to hire a lawyer to go through the complicated procedures for retirement personally, not to mention the delay in time, and all kinds of expenses add up to at least $50,000 in expenses.

Both of them stopped talking, the atmosphere was very heavy, and after a while, old Charlie's expression became firm, and he looked at Tim Hagen.

"Okay, I promise, come with your contract, I'll sign it," said old Charlie very cheerfully.

Timhagen was stunned, he really didn't expect that the original plan was to force Old Charlie to hit himself directly, so that he could not sue Old Charlie in exchange for Old Charlie's signature.

Unexpectedly, Old Charlie agreed directly, Timhagen reacted quickly, took out the relevant contract directly from the briefcase next to him, and completed the formalities with Old Charlie.

Before leaving, he turned his head to look at old Charlie, bowed deeply, and then turned to get on the elevator and left.

Old Charlie had a black face all day today, and he didn't go to the cafeteria for lunch, so he drove home directly after work in the afternoon, and had a big meal when he got home.

Without any scruples, he ate even the food that the doctor forbidden, and went straight to sleep drunk.

The next day, I got up, took a shower, changed my clothes, went to my study, and took out a small cube from the drawer, which was made entirely of ivory.

It's a small camera that can evade all known electronic checks, and goes through strict security checks when working at NASA.

This small camera made of ivory will not be examined at all, and the value is very high, more than 200,000 dollars a piece, and the average person simply cannot buy such a product.

The expression on his face struggled for a while, and finally, the expression on his face became firm, and he picked it up and put it directly into his bag, and left home with his bag to drive to work.

I passed the various inspections smoothly, went to the locker room to change clothes, put a small camera in my pocket, made a cup of coffee and sat down at my desk.

Soon, someone came to find the file with the formalities, and after the old Charlie had completed the formalities, he asked the man to wait, and he entered the file room and began to take the file.

As a veteran who has worked for 28 years, it only takes less than a minute to find the file accurately, but this time, it took four minutes for old Charlie to take the file out and hand it over to the visitor.

In the extra four minutes, old Charlie took pictures of some archives, and in order not to arouse suspicion, he took not many pictures at a time, and took his time.

The days passed, and it took a whole month for the old Charlie to finish taking pictures, and when he returned home, he began to sort out the materials.

Use a newly purchased laptop to organize without any network connection, and organize the photos into a single file.

After preserving it, I dismantled the laptop directly, and then cleaned up some of the laptop debris every day, which was pulled away by the garbage truck.

Only the hard disk of the computer was left behind, and after it was preserved, the elder Charlie began to work on his second plan.

I took a cold shower directly, made myself sick, and asked for sick leave directly, anyway, the insurance company is responsible for the cost of seeing a doctor, so I don't worry at all.

After about a month of intermittent work, he went directly to the personnel department of the space administration with the certificate of the hospital to handle early retirement, according to the law, those who are close to retirement are unable to work due to illness, and can apply for retirement in advance within a certain period of time.

This time the old Charlie's attitude is very resolute, he is sick, he is old, he doesn't know if he can pass this level, he must retire, even if it is a part of the reduction of the pension, it is acceptable.

The people in the personnel department kept persuading that old Charlie was gone, and the new person needed to pay the full salary and benefits, but unfortunately, this time the old Charlie did not give in.

The day after the resignation of the Ministry of Personnel, Old Charlie found a lawyer to deal with the matter, and this time, the National Space Administration had no choice but to go through the retirement procedures for Old Charlie in accordance with the regulations.

In just one week, the pension belonging to the elder Charlie arrived, but the pension was reduced by 8%.

Old Charlie sneered, the unit he has worked for for twenty-eight years treats himself like this, don't blame me for being unjust if you are unkind.

Soon, in just three days, old Charlie sold all his properties, and the excuse was that he was going to a nursing home for recuperation, and his health was not good.

No one doubted it, so the various formalities were completed smoothly, and after the money arrived, the old Charlie left the United States, went straight to Mexico, and then changed his identity and went to Brazil.

In Brazil, I changed my identity and went to Argentina, and in Argentina I spent money again to apply for an identity to go to Africa, and finally I spent money in Africa to return an identity and immigrated to Portugal.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Ping'an's 50 million euro mission to acquire manned space data on the dark web was accepted, and the dark web account used was the account of the United States.