Ivan’s eyes widened in disbelief, as if he had seen a ghost.
When he heard the first half of the announcement, he thought he was getting promoted! But instead, he was transferred to the group headquarters’ Security Department!
Wasn’t that just a roundabout way of firing him?? “Manager Jett, you must be mistaken!”
“How could there be such a transfer!!”
After a brief moment of shock, Ivan suddenly stood up.
Jett shot him a glance and coldly said, “This is the result of a meeting by the group’s personnel department!”
“I don’t accept it!”
Ivan’s face turned ashen as he shouted.
“If you don’t accept it, you can apply for resignation!” Jett replied indifferently.
“You!!”
Ivan was instantly speechless; applying for resignation meant no compensation whatsoever.
This was their true intention!
At that moment, unable to contain her excitement, Tonia cheerfully said, “Director Ivan doesn’t need to resign; being transferred to the group headquarters is a great opportunity!”
“And Director Ivan has always emphasized the need for a spirit of dedication, right? Now you can go to the group headquarters to contribute!”
“So, congratulations to Director Ivan on his promotion!”
Pfft. As soon as Tonia said this, the conference room burst into laughter.
At this moment, congratulating Ivan on his promotion was truly playing with Kin and Kan!
Amidst the laughter, Ivan gradually calmed down.
As a seasoned veteran in the workplace, he quickly realized that he must have offended someone. And it was someone very powerful within the group.
He glanced at the intern Clare, who had been directly fired, and suddenly understood.
There were two personnel changes: one targeting Clare and the other targeting him.
The common link between the two was the matter of the interns’ formal employment.
In other words, he had offended someone he couldn’t afford to mess with regarding the handling of this intern’s formal employment! Ivan immediately looked at Lara.
If he had offended anyone, it could only be this young girl! Did she have a background I don’t know about??
As he pondered this, Jett’s voice rang out again: “Third, intern Lara has performed excellently during her internship and is being transferred to the New Media Operations Center as the director.”
Wow~!
The meeting room erupted in commotion once more.
All eyes were on Lara.
An intern was directly promoted to lead the New Media Operations Center.
This promotion speed was astonishing! Although the New Media Operations Center hadn’t officially been established and was said to consist of only a few people, it was still the head of an independent department!
At this moment, Lara looked completely bewildered.
This personnel change at the headquarters was practically a revenge script tailored for her! It had directly eliminated two antagonists and then promoted her!
Lara had been prepared to continue as an intern. But then everything took a huge turn!! “Lara, so you have a powerful backer at headquarters!”
“Why didn’t you say so earlier? I was worried about you for a long time!”
Tonia was overjoyed; the earlier decision to fire Clare and transfer Ivan had already made her very happy, but she didn’t expect there was even more to come! It turned out this was a revenge drama directed by the young girl she admired! “Mrs. Tonia, I really don’t know what’s going on.”
Lara replied softly; she genuinely had no idea.
“Alright, let’s wrap up the meeting!”
“Lara, please stay for a moment.”
This meeting was called to announce three personnel changes; such matters could be handled privately, but Jett held a temporary meeting to give this well-connected intern the proper treatment.
Now that the official business was done, the audience lost its significance.
However, the audience, who had just enjoyed the drama, was quite excited and began to whisper as they left the meeting room.
“What kind of background does this young girl have? She’s too impressive!”
“She usually seems so low-key; I didn’t expect her to have such a background!”
“The manager of the HR department personally intervened; her backer must be at the vice president level!”
“I usually have a good relationship with her; I wonder if she can take me to the New Media side!”
“Haha, Ivan deserves it; I heard he was trying to hit on that young girl!”
“This is truly satisfying; how many young girls has that lsp Ivan harmed!”
“But that Clare is pretty pitiful; she just wasted her time.”
At this moment, Clare and Ivan were also in the crowd, and hearing the discussions made their faces even darker.
Clare was even feeling murderous towards Ivan.
Just as others had said, she had been taken advantage of by this old man! She had thought she could smoothly transition to a formal position and have him as a backer at work!
Now, she had been directly fired!
Ivan had been transferred to the headquarters as a security guard!
Although he held the title of deputy director of the security department, which was technically a lateral transfer, Ivan was a top figure in the Coastville Evening News’ reporter department, wielding real power! At the headquarters, he was nothing! Moreover, someone like him, who was clearly being optimized out, would face difficulties there as well.
“Ivan, you old fraud!”
“A two-minute man, go die!!”
The more Clare thought about it, the angrier she became, and she couldn’t help but curse.
Ivan, whose face was already ashen, turned from pale to dark purple upon hearing her insults!
It was already embarrassing enough; he certainly couldn’t continue to argue with a young girl here, so he hurriedly quickened his pace! The onlookers were even more excited! “Wow, he really lasted only two minutes!”
“Haha, I’m stuffed with this gossip today!”
“Young lady, don’t hit the face!”
“Ivan drinks that goji berry water for nothing every day!”
A group of people chatted and laughed; for the onlookers, the bigger the gossip, the better.
At this moment, Tonia was also feeling extremely pleased. She had confronted Ivan in his office, thinking she would still face difficulties afterward, but unexpectedly, he had just rolled away!
What a satisfying turn of events!! “Mrs. Tonia, Lara has always been under your wing; what background does she have? Spill the beans.”
Someone leaned over to Tonia, eager to get the scoop.
“I really don’t know; Lara is quite low-key and has never mentioned having connections at headquarters.”
Tonia shrugged lightly; before this, her impression of Lara was that she was a beautiful young girl who worked hard, was steady in her tasks, and had strong professional abilities.
She had successfully handled several difficult interviews! “Well, that’s truly impressive!”
“Actually, it’s normal; our kind of organization is always full of hidden talents.”
In the meeting room.
Facing the two big leaders alone, Lara felt a bit nervous.
“Lara, sit down and chat; don’t just stand there.”
Barrett smiled and pointed to the chair opposite him.
“Thank you, editor-in-chief.”
“Hey, no need to be so polite; we’re all on the same side.”
Barrett quickly waved his hand, while silently complaining in his heart: Young lady, if you have such a powerful connection, couldn’t you have given me a heads-up? I could have set you up nicely!
This really caught me off guard!
