Chapter 380 - 139: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel (26)
Chapter 380: Chapter 139: The Green Tea Female Supporting Character in a Period Novel (26)
Chi Yun’er nodded. ’That’s right. A person like me, blessed with both brains and beauty, now has a boyfriend who’s practically a god. I’m a walking target.’
’If I don’t work hard and stand up for myself, I’ll either have to go home and be a full-time housewife, or I’ll face my colleagues sabotaging me, both openly and behind my back.’
"Alright, your onboarding paperwork was all completed last week. Today is your official first day," Gu Nianchi said, cutting to the chase. He instructed her, "You’ll follow Liu for now. Have her show you the ropes. And remember: watch more, do more, talk less, and don’t get involved in the office drama."
"I’ll give you three months. After three months, you’ll report directly to me."
"Alright, you can go. After work, go to the security gate. I’ll leave my work manual there for you to read." Gu Nianchi said the last sentence in almost a whisper.
Chi Yun’er nodded in agreement. After leaving the director’s office, she found Liu sitting by the entrance.
She smiled and said in a bright, clear voice, "Sister Liu, Director Gu told me to learn from you." As she spoke, she discreetly slipped a handful of milk candies into Liu’s hand.
Although everyone was an employee of Kyoto General Hospital with stable, high salaries and benefits unmatched by other workplaces, they all had large families to support!
A small family of three like Chi Yun’er’s was exceedingly rare.
In the Capital City, White Rabbit milk candy was a rarity. Even giving a single piece was enough to build goodwill between two people, let alone the generous handful Chi Yun’er had given!
Surprise flashed in Liu’s eyes. She subconsciously glanced left and right. Seeing that under their "ancient" director’s watch, not a single person dared to look around, everyone was buried in newspapers, spreadsheets, or organizing documents.
To her dismay, she even made eye contact with him. However, he lacked his usual cold sternness and, uncharacteristically, gave her a nod and a slight twitch of his lips.
Liu turned her head back, dazed. She was suddenly much more enthusiastic toward Chi Yun’er, pulling her over to sit in her chair while she grabbed another one for herself.
"Director Gu told me earlier that I’d be training a newcomer, but I didn’t expect Mr. Chi to be so pretty." ’After all,’ she thought, ’who among the employees lucky enough to work here has a simple background?’
Liu’s uncle was a low-level manager in the inpatient department. It sounded like just an office job without a fancy title, but when beds at Kyoto General Hospital were in short supply, having a connection made things much easier.
As a result, Liu’s uncle’s position was quite lucrative!
"Here, your employee badge and meal tickets are all here," Liu said, taking the items from her drawer and pushing them toward Chi Yun’er. She smiled and tugged at the lanyard around her own neck. "We don’t wear white coats like the doctors and nurses. You can still get in if you occasionally forget your badge."
"But you have to wear it at all times to be able to walk around the hospital freely."
"Our meal tickets are for the employee cafeteria, not the same one as the patients. Mr. Chi should be clear on that, right?"
Chi Yun’er nodded. She already knew all of this.
Liu then began to explain her daily tasks. It was the time of year when graduates from various schools were entering the workforce. Many students started looking for jobs six months before graduation, so most had already found positions by now.
The rest either had no family connections or no workplace willing to take them.
Kyoto General Hospital was a major organization with high professional standards and had a stable recruitment pipeline from universities and colleges, like medical schools and nursing colleges.
They never had to worry about a lack of fresh talent. The recruitment season had just ended, and now it was time to archive all the files.
Every time they archived files, they had to sort through the information of every single person in the hospital. The workload was tedious and immense, so it was usually assigned to the newcomers.
"This time, you and I will have to do it together. We’ll have to run to every department and collect current employee information. Every detail has to match up. This is what we call ’keeping information up-to-date’!" Liu said.
"This task might not seem important, and it’s being handled by us two newcomers, but it’s the foundation for the entire hospital’s operations. Without this data, no other work can proceed smoothly..."
"If everything goes smoothly, we can get it all done before September!"
Chi Yun’er blinked, listening obediently and nodding along.
Liu cleared her throat. "Um, so..." She was at the bottom of the office pecking order, and now there was someone new. ’It might be a bit unfair,’ she thought, ’but circumstances are what they are, and I need to survive.’ Her gaze grew shifty as she said,
"Mr. Chi, since you’re new to our Kyoto General Hospital, you should get familiar with the work environment and our colleagues. So, I’ll leave the job of collecting employee information to you!"
"Here, these are the forms you’ll need to photocopy. We have 2,759 employees. That number is from the last audit and includes both permanent and temporary staff."