Chapter 18.2 Ji Lin, did I eat your rice ? ? ?

Chapter 18.2 Ji Lin, did I eat your rice ? ? ? 1 eating rice can refer to eating without paying, or living off others.

Song Lianjun’s violent attack just now was also a crime of passion under extreme emotions. But now that his wrist was twisted and the knife was confiscated, he was immediately deflated, and with red eyes he cursed angrily, “Bai Duanduan, you know clearly in your heart what you have done with this lawyer Ji. The compensation plan that could have been negotiated and won suddenly turned into a work shutdown! You are shameless! You even took my shopping card! You took the money but didn’t do your job properly!”

Bai Duanduan frowned, “What are you talking about? If  you can’t accept Simon Paper’s proposal then why are you stabbing me with a knife? As your lawyer, don’t I want to win? Wouldn’t my fee be higher if you get the financial compensation? Also, when did I ever receive any of your shopping cards? The few times you tried to offer it to me, didn’t I refuse clearly?”

Song Lianjun was not moved at all, instead he angrily confronted Bai Duanduan face to face.

“Lawyer Du Xinyi told me earlier! She passed the shopping card to you, who was the host lawyer earlier. As for you and this male lawyer, haven’t you been calling each other husband and wife for a long time? And this time, I even bumped into you two living together? What else do you have to say?” Song Lianjun said, while spitting a mouthful of spit towards Bai Duanduan, “Bah, shameless cheap thing, even if you didn’t get the agency fee, your man won and he took away a lot. Money flew out from the left pocket and went into the right pocket, isn’t it still the same for you two?”

“And that boyfriend of yours, are you a human being? We’re 111 old employees, almost every one of us has worked for Simon Paper for almost ten years! And in the end, the company didn’t even pay us the compensation we were entitled to in order to save money! The company used a loophole in the law to screw us! There was no gratitude at all for us old employees!”

Song Lianjun’s teary eyes were wide with anger and he said, “You rubbish being, you never put yourselves in the shoes of us old employees! You have never considered our difficulties!”

“I have never received a gift card or cash from any of my clients and I do not accept you to convict me by paraphrasing other people’s words. From the beginning to the end of this case, the host lawyer was me, and I never made any promises that my client would win…”

Bai Duanduan wanted to continue organizing her words to explain, but to her surprise, Ji Lin, who had always been indifferent to her, suddenly spoke out and interrupted herself –

“Never put ourselves in your shoes?” His expression was sarcastic and his voice was cold, “How much face do you have? You think you’re the centre of the universe and the epitome of justice in the world? You always ask companies to put themselves in your shoes, but have you ever put yourself in their shoes? The whole world has to consider the difficulties of only your employees, so it’s only right that no one appreciates the hardships a business has to go through?”

Ji Lin looked at Song Lianjun condescendingly and his expression was cold to the point of cruelty, “Yes, you have been an employee of Simon Paper for more than ten years, but does it mean that the company should have feelings for you, that the company should be grateful to you? Yes, it is true that the work of each and every one of you has supported the operation of the company, but the company has also provided you with jobs for more than ten years and paid you a salary. This was originally a business contract with a mutual consent between you and company, but in the end the company should pay you and be grateful to you? Have you ever been grateful to the company? Are you grateful to the company for hiring you over ten years ago?”

“Does Simon Paper want to cut back on production or even shut down production because of poor performance? No company ever wishes to have this kind of problem with its operations, and no company wants to have to think about how to go about laying off a lot of people. Simon Paper also made this decision because the company’s operation has been really bad in recent times and it has reached a critical moment of life and death. If you don’t hurt yourself like a gecko docking it’s tail, the company will drastically have to lay off employees to control costs, and the entire company will fall.”

Song Lianjun roared, “But if you shut down the factory, even if it is legal in law, it is simply immoral for us! As such a large company, Simon Paper has no sense of social responsibility for this kind of behavior!”

“Yes, there are indeed moral flaws in the method of shutting down production, but if the company does not save the cost of compensation of 10 million, Simon Paper will be facing a complete bankruptcy! Shut down! It is also a social responsibility of companies to operate well, to withstand the impact of the industry, to not collapse under market pressure, and to provide maximum jobs to workers.”

Song Lianjun obviously didn’t listen at all, he stammered and completely avoided the topic of Ji Lin, and just kept on retorting to himself, “When you do this, you are simply trampling on the dignity of workers and damaging their interests!” At this point, he didn’t care anymore and even threatened, “There are 111 of us, that’s a lot of people. We can’t support our families, you’re destroying social stability. You are helping these foreign companies to cheat the Chinese people out of their money. You are a traitor!”

“By providing all 111 of you your financial compensation and then closing down Simon Paper, would that be called maintaining social stability? That’s respecting the interests of the workers?” Ji Lin laughed coldly, “Apart from the 300 people involved this time, Simon Paper has another five remaining production lines that are still barely functioning at the moment, which means that there are still nearly another 500 employees who are still getting normal jobs and wages. If sacrificing 111 people can protect the jobs of another 500 employees and survive this market shock. Then in any scenario, this is the kind of decision a good business should make.”

Ji Lin coldly glanced at Song Lianjun, “The shutdown is legal and compliant. Even if from the standpoint of your 111 employees, Simon Paper’s shutdown of production to save the company was immoral, but from the standpoint of the remaining 500 employees, Simon Paper’s action was moral because the company was able to decisively shut down its indebted production lines, saving the entire company from going bankrupt. It would allow the company to take a breather, and eventually work together to get through the difficult times so that the 500 employees still had jobs, rather than just all dying together and being laid off at the same time. You only think you are moral from your own standpoint, but everyone in the world has different interests from different standpoints, and there is no such thing as absolute morality. Morality can’t give everyone the solution that makes them happy, that’s why this society needs laws.”

“What’s more, as long as the business is not dead and only the business operation slows down till the shutdown ends. You all, the ten-year old employees, who have long been familiar with the business and the operation of the production line, are also the first people who will immediately be hired again with all the benefits.”

Ji Lin’s voice was calm and indifferent, but his words really pointed to the acrimonious ness of his heart, “I am a lawyer, representing Simon Paper, making this proposal within the limits of the law. This is what I should do. Is serving a foreign-funded enterprise betraying the country? If you have such a backbone, why didn’t you go to work for a domestic enterprise instead of going to a foreign-funded enterprise like Simon Paper?”

“It’s just because foreign-funded enterprises have good benefits and less overtime.” Ji Lin said sarcastically, “Talking in a moralistic manner, feeling great about yourself, What about the incentive you earned? It’s not humiliating enough?”

“Aren’t you a traitor like me, working for a foreign company? You earn less than I do, so you are less of a traitor than I am? Fine, then I admit it. Whoever calls me a traitor is also a traitor elite.”

“……”

Song Lianjun was almost sprayed by Ji Lin to the point where he was completely unable to parry. Facing a lawyer of Ji Lin’s level was probably the most wrong decision he had made in his life.

Not to mention Song Lianjun, even Bai Duanduan, who was standing on the other side, felt a chill down her back and an instant sense of respect for Ji Lin.

Whether it was the logic behind the explanation, or the venom in the sarcasm, or the mockery of the words, or the contempt in his eyes, or the coldness of his expression. 10 out of 10, 10 out of 10,  10 out of 10, all were 10 points!