Chapter 31.3 You want me to cook breakfast for you for a month?

Name:You're Fired! Author:酒煮核弹头
The cafe was actually quite niche, selling cat poop coffee. 1 Kopi Luwak is a coffee that consists of partially digested coffee cherries, which have been eaten and defecated by the Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). It is also called civet coffee. The cherries are fermented as they pass through a civet’s intestines, and after being defecated with other fecal matter, they are collected.Asian palm civets are increasingly caught in the wild and traded for this purpose.

Instead of calling it “kopi luwak” or “civet coffee”, the author has called it “cat poop coffee” because she wants to pull this joke of calling normal bean coffee as “dog poop coffee”. In the raws as well, the term 猫屎咖啡 (māo shǐ kā fēi) and 狗屎咖啡 (gǒu shǐ kā fēi) are used. Although Bai Duanduan doesn’t think there is any difference between cat poop coffee and dog poop coffee, all in all, it was just expensive. A cup of coffee cost her two hundred yuan. But it can’t be helped as there was not enough competition in the market and it was the only one cafe in this office building area. Bai Duanduan doesn’t really want to drink instant coffee that day, so she decided to come in and order a cup.

It was a coincidence that when Bai Duanduan pushed the door in and sat down after ordering a coffee, she bumped into Ji Lin. He was sitting across from her and after having just finished meeting with a client, he gave her an unkind look when he saw her.

Bai Duanduan smiled and walked over to sit at his table, “Ji Lin, what a coincidence!”

Ji Lin said with a smile, “It’s quite a coincidence. You just earned money from me and came over to spend it. Two hundred yuan for a cup of coffee. It looks like after earning money from me, it does make you feel quite good and you spend it without any pain.”

“……”

Ji Lin was naturally referring to the domestic service fee that had been paid in advance previously. However, Bai Duanduan had just signed a case that day, so she unconsciously straightened her backbone and said righteously, “Ji Lin, don’t spit on me, I earned this money myself. Remember the case source I told you about before that acquaintance introduced me to it? The client has already come over and signed with me, and I got my first business on my first day at work.”

Ji Lin shook the coffee cup in his hand and asked with interest, “Oh, what is the subject matter of this case?”

“Representing a pregnant woman who works at Guifeng Communications. The company wants to declare her employment contract invalid on grounds that she hid her pregnancy at the time of joining ….”

Ji Lin obviously did not have the patience to listen to Bai Duanduan and just interrupted her to ask, “How long has she been at work?”

Bai Duanduan was taken aback and just realized, “My client? She has been on the job for over a month, and she has just finished her probation period.”

“A senior executive?”

Bai Duanduan shook her head, “No.”

Ji Lin glanced coldly at the two hundred yuan cat poop coffee in her hand, “Then what’s the need to take on such a case? How many cups of coffee can you drink from a case like this?”

Bai Duanduan froze, “What?”

“Having only worked for a month and not being an executive means that the salary will not be much higher, even if you help people negotiate for a termination settlement, how much can it be? How much could be the target amount of this case? How much would your legal fees be? In your haste to come in, I forgot to tell you about our Sheng Lin’s principle of accepting cases. We don’t take on cases that don’t generate income but only consume energy. It is not cost effective in terms of time. We don’t take on personal representation from employees unless they are very high earning executives. We do corporate business cases only which have continuity, fast payment and large bid amount.”

“Don’t you think it’s too monotonous to only accept corporate customers? What’s more, I am an independent lawyer myself. If I want to take any case, I can self-finance it!”

Ji Lin took a sip of his coffee, “It’s OK for you to pay for your own profits and losses, but not if you lose Sheng Lin’s reputation. You just mentioned Guifeng Communications, which has just recently been in the hot search for a pregnant employee, so that’s the employee you signed the contract with?”

Bai Duanduan nodded and said dismissively, “But what does this case have to do with Sheng Lin’s reputation? This case is getting a lot of attention, but I can’t agree with you when you say that it’s like I’ll definitely lose.”

“I know you can win. The labor laws are inherently biased in favor of pregnant female employees, but if you win the case, can you win public opinion? Now the whole internet does not support this kind of ‘love the ease and comfort and hate to work’ female employees who treat the company as a pick-up man. What is the point of taking this kind of case? Sheng Lin as the agent will only be scorned along with it.” Ji Lin sneered, “Not to mention that it is this kind of employee that I hate the most.”

“Selfish and self-interested, who wants to get paid for cheating on the company after she has finished her probation period. Someone who treats the company like a clubhouse for giving birth to children, who thinks that because she’s a woman and she’s pregnant, the world should hold her up and feed her? A person who has cheated the company by getting pregnant is not qualified to receive legal services from my law firm.”

Ji Lin glanced at Bai Duanduan and said with an unkind expression, “Do you think you, as a female lawyer, stand in the same job market as men, working hard and putting your best foot forward, just to end up defending someone who doesn’t want to rely on her own efforts at all, and who is lying to win by virtue of the fact that she will have a big belly?”

Bai Duanduan frowned, her expression serious and earnest as she looked at Ji Lin and said word for word, “As a female lawyer, I have worked hard and put in all my efforts to compete with men on the same stage in the workplace, so that at times like this, when you men are all looking at the vulnerable pregnant female employee with arrogant prejudice and cannot spare a bit of calm to examine whether the video trending online is one-sided or not, and whether it is too leading, I can stand up to defend her and have the courage to make my own choice against public opinion. I strive to stand up for her and have the courage to go against the tide of public opinion, to make my own choice as an independent lawyer, to follow my own heart and do what I want to do without being pressured by my boss. Ji Lin, this is what I struggle and work for in the workplace.”

Ji Lin had always known that Bai Duanduan had a beautiful face, yet for the first time he realized that her eyes were even more striking than her looks. With those round, bright and dark eyes, she stares at you so earnestly, persistent and determined. Even when refuting himself, Bai Duanduan’s tone was not intense. On the contrary, she was calm, yet had an aura of her own that made her completely dazzling in the crowd, making people unable to look away and not wanting to look away.

“There’s something else going on in this case. It’s not as simple as it seems.” Bai Duanduan didn’t fear Ji Lin’s gaze at all. She met his gaze and calmly said, “In this video, there are only one-sided words from the business owner. It is a completely guided filming. It is a public opinion siege on this female employee. The company feels that Dai Qin is not doing the right thing, so they want to invite Dai Qin for an interview in the hope that she will leave of her own accord, or just go through the legal process. That’s why they opted for this method to use public opinion to guide the pressure on Dai Qin. Given how advanced the internet is today, and how much personal information was given in the interview about Dai Qin, one should have foreseen this outcome of good netizens fleshing her out in person.”

“So in that sense, how is it not bullying of a weaker individual by a company as the stronger party? Individual workers don’t always have as strong a voice and control over the media as corporations do. Yet you don’t even want to think deeply about it. You have to be sensible, objective and neutral in handling cases, but Ji Lin, why do you always have such natural discrimination and prejudice against employees?”

Bai Duanduan looked bravely and directly at her new boss, “Ji Lin, from the very beginning of my contact with you on the case, you seem to have carried a natural dislike for the employees? Why?”

Ji Lin’s disgust for the employees was actually very well hidden. He was aloof and had an overbearing presence. If you first met him, you would have thought that his natural resistance to employees came from undifferentiated arrogance.

However, after more contact, Bai Duanduan was sensitive to the fact that Ji Lin was naturally very, very hateful of these controversial employees. He hated employees who were flawed, for example, Xu Zhixin who cheated on his sick leave, and Dai Qin who got pregnant right after she joined the company, and employees who were not flawed, such as Song Lianjun.

He always gave Bai Duanduan a feeling that he naturally drew the line with those employees who defended their rights. It was amazing that he was obviously a lawyer and did his duty as a lawyer, and did it so well that she couldn’t pick a single fault at all. Yet unconsciously, Ji Lin always seemed to subconsciously take the place of the business owner, with a vague hostility towards the employees, and a faint resentment and anger ……

Why was that?

Ji Lin was taken aback. He thought he was hiding it well, yet he didn’t expect to be bluntly pointed out by Bai Duanduan.

However, it was clear that he did not want to continue this conversation at all and just looked away, “The employee you are talking about may indeed have some unavoidable internal circumstances, but it is an indisputable fact that she became pregnant and took a leave of absence after joining the company and dragged down the company after she became a regular employee. I don’t care if you want to represent her, but I will never represent a client like that in my life.”

Bai Duanduan laughed, “You can’t be so categorical, Ji Lin, life is so long and career paths are so diverse, what if you do represent this type of case in the future?”

Ji Lin drank his coffee in one go, hiding the excessive attention he had just paid to Bai Duanduan. He collected his emotions and returned to his usual cold and unapproachable self, “If I were to ever get out of my head to represent a case like this, I would cover all your future coffee money and write my name upside down.”

This was just a casual remark by Ji Lin, but Bai Duanduan took it seriously, “Forget about paying for my coffee, I don’t drink coffee every day. We’re neighbors anyway, so if you’re going to represent this kind of case one day, why don’t you cook breakfast for me for a month?”

Ji Lin didn’t take these words seriously at all, as he was sure that he would never have enough time to waste on such type of case, and didn’t bother to argue with Bai Duanduan, only nodding, “As you wish, after all, I can’t interfere with your right to dream.” He grunted, “Bai Duanduan, you’re quite ambitious, do you know how much my per minute rate is? How dare you have it in your mind that you want me to cook breakfast for you for a month?”

“……”

Damn, it’s illegal to think about it, yet not guilty to think about it.

[Small Theater]

Readers @ Dansheng G ‘

Ji Lin: When you are my wife, I will reimburse you for everything (cold on the surface, chuckling in his heart)

From Little polo bear’s

Ji Lin: Doctor, I may have been poisoned, my new employee is highly toxic, can you prescribe me an anti-virus flush to counteract it?

Doctor: Sir, you can’t be saved from this poison, it has already entered the bone marrow and reached an ecological balance with you.

Ji Lin: What can I do then?

Doctor: The toxicity is too strong, it is recommended to take it for a long time.

—–From next episode Ji Lin will cook appetizing meals—–

Virtuous Ji Dog, coming online soon ~

Translator’s corner:

A very happy and prosperous new year to everyone. Thank you so much for being such an amazing reader during this mass update month. Love and gratitude. ❤️