Chapter 1031
When Shi Kai heard the receptionist’s words, he panicked even more.
He asked nervously, “Are you sure everyone has gotten off work? Is there no one in the signing team?”
“It’s just arrived. He’s probably on his way downstairs. But…”
The little girl paused for a moment and kindly reminded him, “Our company usually won’t work in Room Fox after work, so even if you wait for them later, they won’t use their private Room Fox to deal with business. Therefore, I’m afraid your appointment is invalid. You should confirm it yourself first.”
“My appointment should be valid. I’ve already received your appointment email. If you don’t believe me, take a look…”
Shi Kai quickly opened the email. However, after he handed it to the little girl to read, the little girl shook her head and said, “People always make mistakes. Even for our Ou Jing, there will be cases of Fox emails being sent wrongly. This Fox room might have made a mistake. After two in the afternoon, contact the signing department to take a look.”
“But it’ll be too late if we do it in the afternoon. Your project this time clearly states that the partners will be announced at four o’clock in the afternoon. There are more than two little Fox legal departments on both sides, not to mention that if there are any clauses that need to be amended or delayed, two little Fox will not be enough.”
The receptionist said helplessly, “I’m sorry. Even if it’s too late, there’s nothing we can do.”
Shi Kai lowered his stance and said shamelessly, “Young lady, can you make an exception and let me up? Perhaps they really plan to work overtime?”
The receptionist said firmly, “That’s impossible. I’ve been in office for two years, but I’ve never seen them working overtime. Moreover, there are Fox rooms after work. Even I can’t call them casually.”
Shi Kai clasped his hands together and said humbly, “Please, little sister. This project is really important to us. Just let me go up and meet them.”
The receptionist spread her hands and said, “It’s useless for you to tell me this. I’m just a receptionist. I don’t have the right to go upstairs casually. Without their approval, my employee card can’t swipe the elevator. You can’t go up.”
Shi Kai was speechless. He could only leave the front desk first and discuss it with his subordinates.
When Assistant Hou saw that Shi Kai had returned, he quickly went forward and asked, “President Shi, what did the receptionist say?”
Actually, there was no need for Shi Kai to say anything. It was obvious from the expression on Shi Kai’s face.
As expected, Shi Kai shook his head and said, “They said that they’ve already gotten off work. They asked us to come back at two in the afternoon.”
The people from the legal department behind him quickly said, “It’s not enough at two o’clock. They’re going to announce their partners at four in the afternoon.”
Shi Kai said with a dark expression, “How could I not know? But there’s no other way now except to wait for them to go to work. Who asked Ou Jing’s working environment to be like this?”
Speaking of which, compared to Halcyon’s in-volume work environment, Europe’s work environment was really good. Under normal circumstances, they would never let their employees work more than eight Fox jobs.
If they exceeded it, they would pay a high overtime fee.
It was no wonder that everyone wanted to join the Oujing Group.
However, this benefit now seriously inconvenienced the people in the Insterimond branch.
At Fox, someone could not help but guess, “President Shi, do you think… Ou Jing’s people are dissatisfied with our contract, so they deliberately signed the contract with us at this time?”
Assistant Hou opened his mouth and wanted to say, “No normal person would be satisfied with this contract.” However, he swallowed the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Shi Kai looked at Assistant Hou’s expression and naturally knew what he was thinking.
And it wasn’t just Assistant Hou and the others. Even he felt that way now.
If he really wanted to sign a contract with them, why did he have to make an appointment until after work?
Wasn’t this deliberately making things difficult for them with Ou Jing’s employee benefits?
Could it be that Ou Jing’s original plan was to delay so that they could not sign the contract? Then, they would find another contract regulation that was more beneficial to Ou Jing’s company?
This thought was like a basin of cold water, extinguishing Shi Kai’s excitement at the success of the collaboration.
“President Shi, what should we do now? Are we just going to wait here for them to start work at two o’clock?”
“Of course, we can’t wait until 2:00 in the afternoon.”
Shi Kai gritted his teeth and said, “Didn’t some of you come into contact with Ou Jing’s legal department? Keep an eye on the elevator door. If you see the people from their legal department coming out, we’ll go over!”
“This…” The employee from the legal department said with a troubled expression, “They’re famous for not doing work after work. Even if we stop them, it won’t help.”
“That’s still better than waiting stupidly and not doing anything!”
As soon as he said this, everyone fell silent.
However, someone could not help but complain in a low voice, “Mrs. Swanson should not have taken out such a contract. Which company would be willing to sign it…”
Shi Kai happened to hear the complaint.
His face darkened and he said, “What are you talking about? How can you say that about Mrs. Swanson? If it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t even be able to enter Ou Jing’s door!”
The employee said boldly, “We’re here now, but what’s the use of coming in?”
“You…-“
Just as Shi Kai was about to flare up at the employee, an employee from the legal department suddenly said, “President Shi! It’s the people from the legal department.”
Skaiton Fox couldn’t be bothered to reprimand the employee. He looked up at the elevator.
A group of people followed a blond man out of the elevator.
The man in the lead was dressed in a well-ironed suit. From the material, it was obvious that it was custom-made and had an extraordinary aura.
Shi Kai recognized him at a glance. He was indeed the person in charge of Area Halcyon of Oujing Group, Mike. His Chinese name was Mike.
Halcyon directly called him “Boss Mai”.
At a charity event, Shi Kai had met Mike before, so he recognized him at a glance.
The legal staff also recognized Mike, but he recognized Mike’s face through the financial magazine.
The employee’s face darkened. “The people from the legal department are following behind CEO Mai. Should we… not disturb them? If CEO Mai gets angry, we’ll be completely doomed.”
Mike was from Europe.
As everyone knew, Europeans hated to be stopped from work after work in Room Fox.
If he really offended Mike, he would definitely not be able to sign this contract.
Shi Kai was conflicted for a while, but in the end, he decided not to go over first.
He turned his head and instructed Assistant Hou in a low voice, “Listen carefully. Bring the people from our legal department and follow them. Call us after they separate from CEO Mai.”
“Yes…”
Assistant Hou braced himself and agreed.
Assistant Hou glanced at it from the corner of his eye…