Chapter 1361: Chapter 1360: Team Leader
Ling Zhengwei thought about how yesterday his daughter had brought Ye Qiu to the printing factory to see him. He felt somewhat moved yet embarrassed, at least in front of his coworkers. These colleagues had learned that his daughter was beautiful and attractive and was now a top student at Jinling Normal College, which made him proud.
What made him awkward and self-conscious was his divorce from his ex-wife, Zhou Xiaolan, and the fact that it was in the same factory, plus he’s been doing the dirtiest, lowest income work there for years.
Ling Zhengwei sighed, but felt satisfied because he had such a daughter.
As usual, when he went to the cafeteria to have breakfast, Ling Zhengwei joined a few familiar colleagues from the same production department, found a seat, and sat down. He ordered millet porridge, fried dough sticks, and two steamed buns. For them, the workers doing heavy labor, if breakfast isn’t filling, there’s no energy to do the work, and now Ling Zhengwei was the same.
He spent less than five yuan to buy a portion of millet porridge, two fried dough sticks, two steamed buns, a dish of pickles, and also two tea eggs.
After eating all this, he should be very full, enough to last until lunchtime.
While Ling Zhengwei was eating his fried dough stick, a colleague next to him nudged his shoulder and said, “Zhengwei, look over there?”
Ling Zhengwei wondered what to look at, only to see his ex-wife Zhou Xiaolan, still dressed so fashionably, having breakfast in the distance with female colleagues, and occasionally a few male staff would go over to curry favor and please Zhou Xiaolan.
Zhou Xiaolan had always been his pain, even more so after the divorce, and now she was even more of his pain.
“What are you looking at?”
Ling Zhengwei lowered his head and continued eating his fried dough stick, saying.
“Your wife!”
“Not people from the same world anymore, now that we’re divorced, it’s just as well.”
Ling Zhengwei said.
Of course, that’s what he said on the surface, but what’s in his heart is another matter, and those few male colleagues, upon hearing this, didn’t know what to say to Ling Zhengwei.
After all, they had been colleagues together for twenty or thirty years, and their relationship could be considered relatively good, but their circumstances were all the same, no money, no connections, could only keep muddling along at the bottom.
So their relationship was relatively good.
Of course, they felt better than Ling Zhengwei, at least their family relationship with their wives and children was good, unlike now when Ling Zhengwei was divorced from his ex-wife, now lonely.
“Zhengwei, there are some divorced people in our factory too, want me to set up a date for you?” another male colleague asked.
Seeing now that Ling Zhengwei was only in his forties, the second half of life just starting, they felt Ling Zhengwei shouldn’t live alone like that, at least find someone to accompany him.
Although they knew Ling Zhengwei had a daughter, after all, the daughter would definitely marry in the future, and by then Ling Zhengwei would not be living alone.
“No, no, I’m really troubled by these things right now, being alone is just fine, quietly, one person full, the whole family not hungry.”
The colleagues laughed and said nothing more.
But occasionally, Ling Zhengwei’s gaze would look towards Zhou Xiaolan’s side, only to find that Zhou Xiaolan had never glanced over. Perhaps in her eyes, he was nothing.
Moreover, there’s no more connection now.
Ling Zhengwei, full and satisfied, was ready to rest for a bit before returning to work with his colleagues. Now it was nearing the Spring Festival, so there were still quite a few orders related to printing Spring Festival couplets.
But just at this moment, a colleague from the same production department suddenly came over excitedly and said to Ling Zhengwei, “Zhengwei, you have some great news!”
“What great news?”
Ling Zhengwei asked curiously.
“You don’t know yet?”
The colleague asked, surprised.
“What should I know?”
Ling Zhengwei truly didn’t know because he had just finished breakfast.
The male colleague pulled out a White Sand cigarette, handed it to Ling Zhengwei, and said, “A personnel promotion notice has just been posted on the workshop wall, Zhengwei, you’ve endured for over twenty years, and finally you’ve made it.”
Ling Zhengwei still couldn’t understand, nor could the colleagues around him.
Ling Zhengwei lit the cigarette and said, “If you’re going to say something, just say it, don’t break it up like taking a dump.”
“Ling Zhengwei, Group Leader Ling, you’re starting to speak with stature now, you really are leadership material. I just saw the personnel promotion notice, which mentions how you’ve always worked seriously and responsibly, have excellent skills, haven’t violated the national family planning policy, and have made many contributions to the printing factory. Based on your attendance and suggestions from relevant personnel, you’ve now been promoted to a squad leader under the production department, from now on we’ll all be under your management.”
Squad leader?
Ling Zhengwei was still puzzled; wasn’t Li Yifei the squad leader?
He had always been the squad leader?
Naturally, rising from an ordinary worker, there was another group leader, originally being promoted to team leader, but now Ling Zhengwei was directly promoted to squad leader, which is equivalent to suddenly rising from an ordinary worker to a battalion commander.
Being squad leader has much more authority compared to just an ordinary worker, firstly with enhanced salary and welfare, at least two thousand yuan more than these ordinary personnel’s income, with the year-end bonus counted separately.
And that’s not all, as squad leader, normally you just look after your squad’s situation without having to do the work yourself, can even sit and drink tea, read the newspaper.
So when Ling Zhengwei heard this news, he couldn’t believe it.
How is this possible?
No money, no connections, how could he get promoted? He always thought he might be in the bottom worker position until retirement.
“Impossible.”
Ling Zhengwei did not believe it, nor did the colleagues beside him find it plausible. After all, Ling Zhengwei was in a similar situation as them, but suddenly, Ling Zhengwei was praised so highly and promoted.
Ling Zhengwei and his colleagues rushed to the production department. Sure enough, a personnel promotion notice was posted outside the production workshop, detailing Ling Zhengwei’s name, work credentials, work experience, and the situation of this promotion.
Seeing the personnel department stamp below and signatures from relevant leaders, Ling Zhengwei felt it might not be a joke and was real.
He just didn’t know at this moment, whether Ling Zhengwei was happy or something else, in short, his expression was complicated, as if a pie had suddenly fallen from the sky.
Ling Zhengwei was still feeling a bit dizzy when suddenly other colleagues saw the workshop director Wang Yisheng come over.
“Ling Zhengwei, come to the office with me for a moment.”
Wang Yisheng was the workshop director of Ling Zhengwei’s production department, one of their main leaders, and unexpectedly, now Wang Yisheng directly came over to find Ling Zhengwei.
Ling Zhengwei emerged from the crowd of colleagues and followed Wang Yisheng towards the office.