"Sonorous Rose."

Tao Ting pushed his arm and laughed angrily.

The grand excitement on the opening day was a good start for the upgrading and transformation of the company, and together with the sales of offline stores, the performance of the company hit a new high in the fourth quarter.

At the end of the year, Xu Linyue held a year-end summary meeting in the company, saying that the number of performance bonuses for everyone this year will be very considerable.

Tao Ting sat at the bottom, looking at him talking in high spirits, clapping her hands and cheering with her colleagues.

However, at about the same time, a major epidemic swept across the country with rapid momentum.

The winter sky is always dark, mist hangs over the city, and people are panicked.

The sudden change disrupted all of Qianque's development plans, and several offline stores, including the capital, had to suspend work.

The worst thing is that due to the lockdown measures after the year, only one of the three stores in Shencheng is still open, and the daily turnover is bleak.

Tao Ting could often see Xu Linyue holding her chin in a daze at the computer screen, and she knew that he was thinking of countermeasures, thinking of a way out of danger, so she didn't bother, and only put her arms around his waist and got into his arms when she found out that he was not asleep late at night.

"Sleep." She whispered.

Xu Linyue stroked her hair and sniffed the faint sweet fragrance of roses on her body.

After a while, Tao Ting heard him ask in a hoarse voice, "Do you think I'm always a little unlucky?" ”

She didn't know how to answer.

"It's going to be fine."

Offline stores were blocked, and almost overnight, all businesses targeted e-commerce platforms.

In March, under the leadership of Han Jianing, Qianque temporarily set up an e-commerce department, but this is far from enough, they need professional people to do professional things.

After work today, Tao Ting went to the school to send some medicine and snacks to Tao Yingnan, but now that the school is closed, the students can't get out.

When she got home, Xu Linyue was sitting on the edge of the bar, holding a stack of paper in her hand.

"Have you eaten?" Tao Ting asked while changing her shoes.

Xu Linyue closed the laptop, flipped the documents in his hand on the table, and replied, "No." ”

Tao Ting saw his movements, put down the bag, smiled and said, "What are you doing?" What other trade secrets I can't know? ”

"It's not a secret." Xu Linyue's face was a little bad, he had basically not slept recently.

- "It's a list of layoffs." ”

Tao Ting opened the refrigerator door, but suddenly forgot what she wanted to take.

"What do you mean?" She turned her head, her eyelashes fluttering, "With me?" ”

"Of course not." Xu Linyue sighed, "There are your subordinates." ”

"Who?"

Xu Linyue said: "It has not been determined yet, the last five in performance, go to three and stay two." ”

The news came too suddenly, Tao Ting's chest was clogged, and she asked puzzledly: "Why are we going to lay off our marketing department?" ”

"New product sales fell like this."

Before Xu Linyue finished speaking, Tao Ting spoke again: "Is that our problem?" ”

"The texture is not good, the quality control is poor, the color overlap is too high, and the embossing is uneven......" Tao Ting counted the bad reviews and asked Xu Linyue, "Isn't that a problem with the R&D department and the factory?" ”

Xu Linyue took a deep breath, endured the swelling pain in his temples and said, "The R&D department can't move now, it's good to keep them." ”

Tao Ting felt ridiculous: "Then you will come to touch my people?" Let's take the blame? ”

"They can also choose to go to the e-commerce department to do operations." Xu Linyue said, "If you leave, the compensation will not be less." ”

Tao Ting sneered: "I thank you." ”

"Tao Ting." Xu Linyue raised his eyelids and looked at her, "We are losing money every day, do you know how many complaints I have heard today?" ”

Tao Ting couldn't speak, she couldn't breathe, she just knew that she couldn't share a room with the person in front of her now, and this topic couldn't be talked about anymore.

"My mom said she wasn't feeling well today." Tao Ting put on her coat again, picked up the car keys and said, "I'll go see her, you remember to eat." ”

When she reached the door, she stopped again and asked, "Can I decide who will go and who will stay?" ”

"It's okay, I'll send you the list."

There was a thud, and the door locked.

Xu Linyue propped his elbows on the table, bowed his head with his back bowed.

He closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows vigorously, his head hurt, there were too many things to worry about.

In the dead of night, he suddenly remembered a spring afternoon in Munich, where the sun was particularly dazzling.

At that time, Xu Linyue was still a hairy boy, and with a sense of grievance and resentment in his heart, he gritted his teeth and threw a punch at August.

Now the punch landed firmly in his face.

He thought to himself that this was how it felt to be sitting in this position.

Tao Ting didn't go to her parents' house, and went back to the other side of the spring.

She had no appetite and took the computer out of her tote bag as soon as she sat down.

Xu Linyue had already sent the list, and Tao Ting looked at the names, and her heart hurt as if she was being pinched.

This is her fifth year in Qianque, people around her come and go, and now the people in this team are almost all formed by her, and she is reluctant to let anyone go, but she can only let herself choose who to give up.

Tao Ting got up and found a few blank pieces of paper and pens, she needed to sort out her thinking and remain objective.

Writing down the assessment criteria and the important projects of the marketing department in the past two years on a blank piece of paper, Tao Ting recalled their performance while scoring everyone.

When she sent her name back to Xu Linyue, she couldn't breathe a sigh of relief.

It turns out that one day, she will also "measure the judgment indifferently, abandon all personal feelings, and see only the so-called "value".

Chapter 77

After the review meeting with the team members on Monday, Tao Ting originally wanted to say something more, but after hesitating, she dispelled the idea, and the personnel would call them to talk in about two days.

She wanted to go to the pantry and pour another cup of coffee, but pushed the door open and went in just in time to bump into Owen.

"Hey."

"Hey." He has always been the most energetic person, but today he looks a little haggard, Tao Ting asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"Hey......" Owen sighed, there were other colleagues in the room, and he lowered his voice and said, "I was just called over by my boss to talk about layoffs, and our group is going to leave five, let me make a list." ”

Tao Ting's eyes widened: "So much? ”

"That's right." Owen shook his head helplessly, "The economy is down, and it is difficult for all walks of life to do, there is no way. ”

Tao Ting lowered her eyelashes and tightened her fingers on the wall of the cup.

Owen said to her, "I guess I'm going to talk to you soon, come on." ”

Tao Ting pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled bitterly, she had already talked, or quarreled.

Qianque's top priority is to adjust the direction of development, the money smashed in the offline direct stores can not be recovered, and the increase in promotional efforts and the promotion of the whole platform can only stop losses as much as possible, and there is no way to turn the tide, let alone complete the bet of doubling the performance at the end of the year.

Xu Linyue convened a meeting of all the department heads, and next to him sat the company's top executives, and Tao Ting's position was far away from him.

The two hadn't seen each other in days, and the chat interface was stuck at that day's "Are you home?" "Hmm." "Go to bed early." Above.

At this juncture, it is also a good thing for them to distance themselves a little and avoid suspicion.

Tao Ting won't really blow the wind on the pillow, and Xu Linyue is not a faint gentleman.

They all know this in their hearts, the Cold War is too naïve, and they just need to keep their distance now.

After being together for so long, there are always these tacit understandings, but the existing suspicions are temporarily unresolved.

The meeting lasted nearly three hours, and everyone had their own opinions, and there were endless arguments, which caused Xu Linyue a headache.

He picked up the glass of water at hand and said, "Rest for a while." ”

By raising his head to drink water, he glanced in the direction of Tao Ting.

Today she wears a pair of black-framed glasses on the bridge of her nose, and Xu Linyue knows that she only wore them when she didn't sleep well the night before, and when she woke up the next morning when her eyes were swollen.

He picked up his phone, saw the chat history, turned off the screen and put it back.

Fortunately, around May Day, offline stores in Shencheng resumed normal operations, and everyone seemed to have been suppressed at home for too long, and there was a trend of revenge consumption, and the turnover in the first two weeks of May was higher than their expectations.

This year, there is only one fresh graduate in the school's recruitment department, and he will graduate with a master's degree soon.

Tao Ting's office has a transparent glass window, and occasionally when she looks up from the screen to rest, she will see the empty desks, and then send a few minutes of stasm.

She had never been surprised before, and now she wondered if Leon would have had such moments since she left Norbert.

- I don't have the coffee that the little intern bought today. Is she doing well now?

One of the three people who left went to the e-commerce department, and the other two were not yet twenty-five years old, and they were quite happy to know that they were laid off.

"The compensation paid by the company is quite high, and I can lie flat for several months, just to rest, which is good."

Tao Ting thought a lot, but in the end she only said one sentence: "Happy resignation." ”

"Happy, they still envy me."

May already has the feeling of early summer, and the sky is still bright at six o'clock in the evening, and the sky is like a fire.

In the past two days, Tao Ting has sent the car for maintenance, and she takes a taxi to and from work.

A white SUV pulled up on the side of the road and honked its horn.

Tao Ting raised her head and recognized that it was Han Jianing's car, she took two steps forward and bent down, shouting, "Mr. Han." ”

Han Jianing asked her, "Are you waiting for someone?" ”

"Wait for a taxi."

Han Jianing said: "You cancel, I'll send you back." ”

Tao Ting looked down at the estimated waiting time on the screen, nodded and said, "Okay." ”