On a weekday like this, migratory birds spend almost all of their time at work. Li Feng usually arrives at the company at 8 o'clock in the morning and consciously works overtime until after 9 o'clock in the evening. The apartment was just a place to stay for them, while home was far away.

Left-behind families like Feng Nan spend most of their time outside of work with their children. Originally, Feng Nan was a person with many personal hobbies, but after adding Li Xiaoman, the gold of time forced her to make a lot of trade-offs. Now, the night after Li Xiaoman fell asleep and the early morning after waking up, Feng Nan only retained two habits - learning English and reading. The reason why it is said to be a habit rather than a hobby is because Feng Nan feels that it is too utilitarian, learning English is for work, and the choice of reading is limited to bestsellers in economics and management, in the final analysis, it is also for work. She felt that the joy in this was much paler than studying the mental journey of Francisco Coppola to photograph the godfather.

For Feng Nan now, perhaps the most relaxing time is to count the half hour before going to bed, brushing the circle of friends, adding shopping carts, and sleeping when sleepiness comes, which is quite a bit of the charm of the quiet years.

But tonight, the chat content in the "Threesome" WeChat group made Feng Nan's sleepiness disappear without a trace.

The "Threesome" WeChat group is her private group with York and Claire. Since all three of them have children, this base often exchanges some parenting experience and sends links such as group buying. Of course, gossip at work will inevitably be discussed. York and Claire are both in provincial capitals, and the information channel is relatively fast, and in this group, Feng Nan also got a lot of first-hand work information.

When he went home today, Li Xiaoman was in very good spirits, and he didn't fall asleep until more than ten o'clock in the evening. When Feng Nan turned on his phone, there were already hundreds of unread messages in the "Threesome" group. Seeing that the chat was so happy, Feng Nan clicked on the dialog box with great interest to check them one by one.

The first shocking news came from Claire, who left a message:

"Explosive trail! Listening to our OA, it seems that the company is going to start laying off employees recently. ”

Feng Nan's eyes were round, but they were not too shocked, after nearly two years of rapid expansion, the company's burden is indeed greater. In addition, the sales situation in the country has not been very good recently, and Feng Nan also feels that it is expected.

Looking further down, York replied with a significantly more certain, but more shocking message:

"Hmm. I have an even more exciting one, which comes from the sales side. It is said that this layoff is large-scale and widespread, not only in sales, but also in the back-end support department. ”

Feng Nan, who had already turned off the light and was lying down, groped to sit up, turned on the light, put up a pillow and leaned on it, and carefully read it carefully and turned it up one by one.

What follows is that York and Claire argue these rumors word by word. About half an hour ago, Claire posted: "Why hasn't Nancy shown up yet?" Call Nancy. ”

Feng Nan hurriedly gave a late response: "I'm going to die, my son is too grinding today." I just fell asleep when I saw your message. ”

After 30 seconds, York replied, "It's finally here." ”

Then Claire said, "Nancy, take a look at our message and tell us what you think." ”

Feng Nan bent his knees, put his wrists on his legs, touched his thumbs quickly, and responded: "After reading it, it's hard enough." I agree with York. If there is a large layoff, it is normal for it to affect the back-end support department. After all, we are all tied to sales, and the sales are gone, so why do we need so many support staff. ”

Claire followed a set of frightened + trembling + tearful WeChat emojis

Seeing this, Feng Nan comforted: "You don't have to worry, it's not a pot yet." You are all in the core city, you can rest assured. ”

York then returned: "Don't worry about it, Heidi hasn't gotten a little bit of a breath yet, let's wait and see." ”

Feng Nan and Claire gave a few thumbs up, said goodnight to each other, and were silent for the time being.

But Feng Nan didn't feel sleepy, thinking of Donald's predicament, he had a sense of crisis. She frantically annoyed the WeChat interface, caught a glimpse of Zoe's avatar, and thought that all the major regions were holding a meeting in the provincial capital this morning, Claire and York were aware of the movement, and Zoe must have known about it too. But when she called herself, she didn't reveal anything to her, and she actually talked about something that she didn't have, which was really "interesting". The woman's nature of confiding began to move, and she hurriedly sent a message to Li Feng's WeChat:

"Did you sleep?"

After waiting for three minutes and no response, Feng Nan saw that the time was close to the early hours of the morning, and she knew that Li Feng must have slept. I was about to leave a message for Lin Cen again, and I was just about to type, thinking that Lin Cen was working hard now, so I better not bother her. After going back and forth, he couldn't find a suitable person to talk to, so he lay down bored and depressed, counted three hundred sheep before suppressing the excitement wave in his head, turned off the light and fell asleep.

Because he had to organize a business charging class the next morning, Feng Nan went to the company earlier than usual. As soon as she entered the company, she found that Wendy, who likes to step on the dots to go to work, arrived earlier than her, and was surprised: "Hey, you're so early today!" ”

Wendy didn't look like she was awake, her long hair was curled looser than usual, she rolled her black and white eyes, and muttered, "I was in LOL last night, and Jason called me to say that John came to the company for a meeting this morning, so let's come and set up the conference room early in the morning." ”

"Oh, a sudden trip?" Feng Nan asked.

"Yes," Wendy put on her lipstick, tilted her head and said to Feng Nan, "Do you think my dark circles are very heavy?" ”

Feng Nan hurriedly praised her as the most beautiful girl in the entire office building, which made Wendy's appearance more and more amazing.

Her training class started at half past nine in the morning, and soon after the class started, she heard the sound of everyone greeting Lao Qiang. The entire office is a glass partition, and the conference room where Lao Qiang held a meeting was next door to Donald's office, Lao Qiang, who greeted everyone, suddenly poked his head into Feng Nan's training classroom when he passed by, Feng Nan nodded to Lao Qiang while lecturing, and said hello.

After the class ended, Feng Nan came out of the classroom to drink water and heard Wendy calling her.

"Nancy, John told you to go to the conference room while you take a break."

Feng Nan puffed out water in her cheeks, pointing at herself suspiciously, she had never had much contact with Lao Qiang, and she couldn't understand what Lao Qiang was looking for her. I checked it again with my eyes.

After receiving Wendy's affirmative nod, she frowned and went over to knock on the door of the conference room.

I was going to sit quietly in the back row and wait for the opportunity for Lao Qiang's instructions, but I didn't expect my butt to be on the bench, so I heard Lao Qiang call her:

"Nancy, huh?"

"Well, yes." Feng Nan sat up straight and gave a trademark smile.

Lao Qiang raised his chin and said, "Trainers play a great role in our sales." There is a positive correlation between the quality of business results and professional competence. Right?"

Feng Nan sensed an aura of unkindness, but he was still completely in the state of the second monk, so he had to keep smiling.

Lao Qiang asked again, what class was she taking just now?

Feng Nan gave a brief introduction to the purpose and objectives of today's training.

Lao Qiang nodded and said, "Everyone knows that I am the first person in the business, and I rarely deal with the partners of the training and development team. Zoe is a little bit more, she's still very good, I look at the email she sent yesterday, it's very patterned. Trainers must first ensure their professional competence, and Zoe understands this very well. Feng Nan was about to give in, when suddenly Lao Qiang's words changed: "What do you think of the contract error rate here?" ”

Until now, Feng Nan's bewilderment began to sober up.

Lao Qiangpi looked at her with a smile, and the cunning appearance of the old treacherous made Feng Nan as pure as a blank piece of paper.