Li Younan, apart from being a developer of the system in the company, is also an important maintenance personnel for the system.
Anyone who has done development knows, developing a system requires a lot of manpower and resources, but later maintenance doesn't require as many people.
This is also why, once an internet company lacks new innovation, it faces a massive wave of layoffs.
Li Younan is outstanding in his business abilities, thanks to his meticulous and serious work attitude over the years. Every day, he carefully checks the data flow and can keenly detect any anomaly.
Under his operational maintenance, the two systems he is responsible for have never had a single accident over the years.
Usually, as long as it is work time, he arrives at the company early to start daily system maintenance.
But today is different. After waking up, he just lay on the bed, dazing until he was fully awake and completely comfortable, then lazily went to wash up.
The five-star hotel breakfast lasts until 11 o'clock, and Li Younan arrived at the buffet restaurant just in time, grabbing a plate full of food, then choosing a spot near the window to sit down, in a very good mood enjoying the city scenery.
Lazily letting time pass, it was after noon before he slowly checked out, holding a free can of cola taken from the room's fridge, then took a taxi to the company.
In the taxi, Li Younan inserted a straw into the cola can, sipping the chilled drink while finally calling the manager.
The manager's helpless voice came from the other end: "Younan, why didn't you answer the phone?"
Li Younan chuckled lightly, "I'm going to handle my resignation today, no need to get up so early."
The manager said, "There's still a chance for things to turn around, I've tried to fight for it, the brothers and sisters in the project group have gone to the general manager to reflect, you might not be fired, as long as you go soften up, things can turn around."
Li Younan suddenly felt that the cola was not so good anymore, said, "Well that's really bad news."
The manager was obviously taken aback.
Li Younan said, "I'll talk when I get there." Then he hung up the phone.
Li Younan arrived at the company at 1 p.m.
The pace of this company is very fast, with only one hour of lunch break, starting work at 1 o'clock sharp.
Li Younan returned to his workstation and started packing his things.
He packed work-related items into a cardboard box, preparing to throw it into the trash bin downstairs, while some unrelated small items were put into a bag, planning to tidy them up, might use them in the future.
While he was packing, colleagues who returned to work saw him, greeting one after another.
A newbie who had always been guided by Li Younan saw his packing action, came over and said, "Brother Nan, didn't they say you might not get fired?"
Li Younan turned his head, smiled and said, "Don't say that, it's not firing, it's liberation."
The other was taken aback, clearly seeing genuine happiness and ease in Li Younan's smile, unable to speak a word for a moment.
Li Younan gently patted his shoulder, saying, "Cheer up, work well." After speaking, he packed up his things, ready to leave.
As he walked to the door, he took another look at his workstation, which was cleaned up neatly, consistent with Li Younan's usual lifestyle.
Then he walked out without looking back.
At this point, Li Younan's manager was in the project supervisor's office.
Actually, this was unreasonable, logically speaking, the project supervisor should not have the qualification to have their own independent office, but no way, this is the daughter of a major shareholder, naturally having some privileges. So, their department manager specially vacated his office for this project supervisor to use.
Project supervisor named Cai Mingying, with short hair, her gaze always carrying a faint arrogance, at this time she crossed her arms in front of her chest, very dissatisfied saying, "Okay, then I'll give you a face again, but Li Younan's year-end bonus needs to be deducted by 20%."
The manager wiped the sweat on his forehead, saying, "Wouldn't this be too high..."
Cai Mingying slapped the table, "Could it be there is no penalty at all?"
At this moment, Li Younan had just walked to the office door, hearing the conversation inside, he paused for a second, found it somewhat funny, then lightly knocked on the door.
The manager asked, "Who is it?"
Li Younan said, "It's me, manager."
The manager's expression suddenly changed, quickly went to open the door.
But when he opened the door, seeing Li Younan holding his already packed office items, he was dumbstruck.
Before he could say anything, Li Younan directly bypassed the manager, walked to Cai Mingying's desk, placed the dismissal document he had just taken from the HR department on her desk, speaking in a tone neither humble nor arrogant, "Supervisor Cai, as required it needs sequential signing, please sign it, I'm in a hurry."
Cai Mingying froze for a moment, looked down at the document, snorted coldly, said, "Your manager just begged me for leniency, and your department colleagues even went to the general manager for this, I can give you a chance."
"It's unnecessary." Li Younan said while taking a pen and placing it on the document, then pushed the document in front of Cai Mingying.
The manager quickly came to smooth things over, "Younan, it's hard to find a job these days, don't be so impulsive, apologize to Supervisor Cai, there's no need for this to escalate."
Li Younan just calmly shook his head, he just wanted to finish the formalities quickly here, so he looked at Cai Mingying and said, "Please be quick, I'm in a hurry."
Li Younan completely disregarded the face-saving steps, obviously intending to confront head-on, making Cai Mingying unwillingly back down.
It can be said that firing Li Younan was her initiative, but actually, her intention wasn't to fire Li Younan, it was merely to ensure her authority wouldn't be challenged, simply put, it was to establish prestige.
She knew Li Younan had high prestige within the project group, if even Li Younan couldn't be handled, how would she manage the team? Whether it was the previous penalty or the threat of dismissal, it was all to make Li Younan give in.
According to previous plans, today Li Younan should definitely come to apologize, then she would criticize him a few times, her prestige would be established, managing the team would then become easy.
However, Li Younan's response completely exceeded her expectations. Cai Mingying slapped the table, "Li Younan, do you really think I dare not fire you?"
Li Younan shook his head and said, "You surely dare, after all, the company belongs to your family."
Cai Mingying looked at Li Younan's handsome face, actually there was also partly admiration for Li Younan, leading to the deliberate suppression...
Li Younan is very handsome, but he has a girlfriend.
The more so, the more uncontrollable the anger.
Cai Mingying coldly looked at Li Younan and said, "You think just resigning is enough? You also must sign a non-compete agreement, not engaging in related industry for two years!"
Cai Mingying is well aware this is a hard loss for Li Younan, his abilities are demonstrated in industry technology, barring him from this industry means he would no longer find a job with the offered conditions as good.
Yet Li Younan just chuckled lightly, "According to company rules I do need to sign, but if I sign this agreement, the compensation amount will rise to 2n+1. If you're willing, I can accept."
Now Cai Mingying is completely confused, she looked at Li Younan somewhat puzzled, unable to understand why isn't he afraid and determined to go this far with the company?
But at this moment it had reached this point, certainly she couldn't back down, and now with her temper flaring, she said without hesitation, "Fine, then sign it!"
The manager saw this, sighed long, complex expression in looking at Li Younan, after completing all procedures with Cai Mingying, he's also starting to consider alternatives.
Completing all the formalities, it was 4 p.m.
Li Younan didn't say goodbye to company's colleagues, that scene would be too emotional. But he summoned a previously nurtured skilled employee, advised, "Based on my experience, yesterday's update certainly had quite a few bugs, you'd better thoroughly check."
The other just sneered and said, "Brother Nan, I'm not checking, this lousy company even dared to fire you, what am I still doing here, I've already started looking for another company. They probably haven't realized, this is truly hitting the artery, every maintenance update of this system had your involvement, without you, even hiring ten times more programmers would struggle to achieve previous results. Brother Nan, wherever you're going, let me know."
Li Younan paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "I don't want to work for now, planning to rest awhile."
Afterwards, he didn't persuade anything more, walked to the downstairs of the company, and stuffed all work-related items into the trash can.
The weather turned gloomy, rare gusts of light wind blew, he stretched comfortably, from graduation, no day has been as relaxed as today.