Chapter 12.1 You and I are not meant to be, it’s all about me spending money on you

Although he called the phone number of the engineering maintenance provided in the elevator, it didn’t go through. Bai Duanduan tried to use her mobile phone to dial 110, but found that the evil door of the broken elevator not only blocked the signal, but also failed to get through the emergency call number. Ji Lin’s connectivity was obviously the same, but compared to Bai Duanduan’s anxiety, he was calm. [T/n: 110 is China’ emergency number that should be called at the time of emergency to avail help shortly.]

He glanced at Bai Duanduan lightly. Although he didn’t say anything, he had a gesture of “I didn’t make any complaint about staying with you in this elevator. What are you fretting about?”

Bai Duanduan tried the phone several more times, but was unsuccessful in each of her attempts. She couldn’t help but glare at Ji Lin who was standing there in a calm and composed manner “Aren’t you going to come over and help me? Why aren’t you in a hurry to leave?”

Ji Lin obviously still didn’t want to be bothered to lift even a finger, “Why should I be in a hurry? Important people will always be discovered soon after they have been out of contact for long.” He glanced at his watch, “There is still twenty minutes to go. One of my clients had previously booked an appointment to call me for a consultation during this time, and my assistant will be called if my client can’t reach me.” Ji Lin said calmly, “Eventually my assistant will come to find me.”

Twenty minutes? !

Bai Duanduan’s mental power completely collapsed at that time.

She had experienced an elevator accident when she was a child and left a bad shadow on her. Although it was fine to take the elevator normally as she grew up, if she stayed in a closed and confined environment for a long time, she would start to panic and become anxious. In severe cases, she would have difficulty breathing and even pass out.

Now she has to stay in this elevator for twenty minutes with a man like Ji Lin. Bai Duanduan could only feel that she can really live broadcast her death for him on the spot.

However, she still had to save herself anyhow, and the only way to help herself at a time like this was to constantly divert her attention.

“Ji Lin, we’re all neighbours, or peers, so let’s have a chat.”

“No money, no talk.”

Fine! It’s just money! I’ll buy it! Can’t I buy it!

Bai Duanduan gritted her teeth, “8000 an hour, isn’t it? OK, I’ll spend 2667 yuan and buy you for 20 minutes! “Bai Duanduan finished and took out her mobile phone. “Allow me to find your wechat through your mobile phone number, I’ll apply to add you as friends later. As long as you pass, I’ll transfer it to you immediately! I have plenty of money!”

“……” ;

Ji Lin looked at Bai Duanduan with an idiotic look, “The signal is blocked here, how can you add friends?”

Who knows if it was extreme luck or extreme misfortune, but as if fate was joking with her, the phone that had no signal just a moment ago, surprisingly regained a very weak signal when Bai Duanduan was searching for friends. Bai Duanduan didn’t bother to add him as friends, and rushed to dial 110, which connected her call to a help and informed her that it would notify the relevant departments and solve the problem as soon as possible. It didn’t take long for 110 to call Bai Duanduan back, saying that they would take about 20 minutes for the experts from the engineering department to arrive at the location and repair the broken elevator.

In the end, it doesn’t matter whether she should have made a phone call for help or not.  She still has to stay there in a confined place with Ji Lin for the next twenty minutes.

Looking at the closed elevator door, Bai Duanduan was beginning to feel a little scared and irritable at the same time. She simply operated her friend’s application, and then grabbed Ji Lin’s mobile phone. After helping him pass the friend application quickly, she took the bait by swiftly transferring the money and helping Ji Lin to collect the money.

Bai Duanduan said in a wicked voice, “All right, you’ve taken my money and now you’re going to work for me. Come on, let’s chat.”

Just what to talk about? What could she and Ji Lin talk about in that situation? There really doesn’t seem to be anything to talk about ah……

“How about I give you questions and you answer them.”

Bai Duanduan had a bright idea and began to prepare to dig a hole for Ji Lin. She was still heartbroken about her more than 2000 yuan, so she very deftly schemed a plan to get it back from Ji Lin.

“The questions I will give you will be all practical and within the scope of the labor law which falls in our field of practice. You must give the answer and make a simple analysis within one minute. If you answer wrong then you have to return 300 yuan for each wrong answer.”

Bai Duanduan didn’t wait for Ji Lin to refuse and added, “Think about it, I spent more than two thousand yuan to buy your twenty minutes because I believed in your professionalism and accepted the high price without any bargain. If you can’t even answer these questions correctly, it will prove that you’re not providing the right service, and you’re not good enough. Not to mention paying for it, it’s reasonable for me to ask you for a refund, right? Besides, I paid for it, so I should have a say in how I want to dominate the next 20 minutes of your life.”

Ji Lin gave a cold laugh, “I refuse.”

“Don’t refuse! I haven’t finished.” Bai Duanduan cleared her throat and threw out her another bait, “If you get the answers right, I’ll give you an extra 300 yuan for each correct answer!”

Ji Lin gave Bai Duanduan a calm and cold look, “Then you are going to go bankrupt. Just wait and cry later.”

Does he want her to cry? Bai Duanduan thought to herself. She was  afraid that he would be the one crying like a two-hundred pound dog at the end of twenty minutes.

Bai Duanduan has done a rough calculation in her mind. Twenty minutes is enough for her to ask ten questions. She has accumulated a whole bunch of cases with tricky angles from her years of  practical experiences. Not to mention her own more than two thousand yuan, she was afraid she could also gouge a fortune out of Ji Lin at the end.

“An employee takes leave during working hours and goes back to the employee dormitory to rest. If he dies in the dormitory, is it considered a work-related injury?”

This topic was distilled from a case of the Supreme People’s Court of Labor Law, which went through the first trial and second trial, and was quite controversial, with lawyers alone split into different factions……

“(2018) Supreme Law Action Application No. 10600.”

“Huh?”

“The judgment number of the prototype of the case you mentioned.” Ji Lin smiled, “It is a work related injury, because the employee dormitory should be recognized as a part of the job. It is a reasonable extension of the deceased employee who asked the company for leave to rest in the dormitory due to a sudden illness during work, and the death time was within 48 hours, which fully meets the standards for the determination of work injury related cases.”

“……”

He even has the relevant case number memorized. He is a fcking demon, isn’t he?……

“In a unit with more than 100 employees, one of the employees was detained administratively because of gambling. The rules and regulations of the company clearly state that administrative detention for its own reasons is a serious breach of discipline and is a situation in which the employment contract can be legally terminated, and hence the company issued a written notice of termination to the worker……”

“It is an illegal termination.”

???

“I haven’t finished the question yet!”

Ji Lin glanced at Bai Duanduan and said with a blank expression, “Although the employee did commit a serious breach of discipline causing the administration to exercise detention, but since the unit did not notify the labour union of the process of termination in advance and directly issued a notice of termination to the employee, so it is still an illegal termination.” He glanced at Bai Duanduan, “The test point here is the labour union. A union must be formed when an enterprise employs just over 25 people, and the dismissal of each and every employee must go through the union process.”

Ji Lin smiled, “Do you have any more questions?”

“……”

“600 yuan, remember to transfer me.”

“……”