At Ocean Engine, all official employees undergo performance evaluations.
The grades are divided into six levels: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Grade A is the highest, while Grade F is the lowest.
Employees who receive an A evaluation will be promoted in the second year.
As for those who receive an F, they will be directly terminated due to failing to meet work standards.
Lin Wanwan was still planning to make a name for herself at Ocean Engine, and even use it as a springboard to jump directly to ByteDance.
Therefore, this was absolutely unacceptable to her!
She had just prepared to roll up her sleeves and showcase her skills, only to be fired directly due to a low performance rating!
On the second day, Lin Wanwan appeared at the company right on time.
Just as she put down her backpack, Zhang Jingru walked out of the office, her eyes falling straight onto her.
Thinking of Lin Wanwan’s recent performance, Zhang Jingru walked over to Lin Wanwan with a smile.
“Wanwan, I’m giving you an important task!!”
Lin Wanwan’s heart skipped a beat.
*Could… could this important task Sister Zhang mentioned be the document mentioned in the email?*
Lin Wanwan was already on high alert, but her face remained composure:
“Sister Zhang, what important task is it?”
Zhang Jingru explained with a smile:
“Isn’t National Day approaching soon?”
“The other departments have already submitted the details such as headcount, specifications, and budget.”
“In addition, some client partners with fixed long-term cooperation with the company are also on the list.”
“We need to input and calculate the data here, and once we confirm there are no issues, we’ll send it to the Procurement Department for purchasing.”
“There are only a few days left before National Day, so this document needs to be finalized before getting off work this afternoon.”
“Once you confirm there’s no problem, just send it directly to the Procurement Department!”
Lin Wanwan thought to herself that as expected, it was indeed so.
This task was truly important.
The company had a total of over 10,000 employees, plus fixed clients both large and small, numbering in the thousands.
Sending gifts to so many employees and clients was a very important matter.
Although there were many rules and restrictions when working in a large company, correspondingly, the room for promotion in a large company was more transparent and fair compared to a small one.
If she could do a good job on this National Day welfare calculation document, it would definitely boost her score during the year-end performance evaluation.
Of course, if something went wrong with such a critical task, the glaring “Grade F” in the email would become reality.
This was the so-called higher risk, higher reward.
However, the difficulty of this job was not high. As long as she handled it carefully, the evaluation score was almost free for the taking.
It was likely because her recent performance was relatively good that Sister Zhang assigned such an important task to her.
With the reminder from the email, Lin Wanwan naturally could not reject such a practically free credit.
“Don’t worry, Sister Zhang. I will definitely check it carefully and send it over to the Procurement Department before getting off work.”
Inside the USB flash drive were several files submitted by different departments.
The moment she opened them, dense rows of names, departments, welfare specifications, and budget amounts flooded her sight.
The rank classifications from S3 to S11 were clear, and the corresponding Mid-Autumn Festival mooncake gift boxes and shopping card allowances for each person were marked unmistakably.
Besides the employee files, there was also the welfare list for partner clients.
Evans from Boyu Cosmetics and the heads of several advertising companies with long-term cooperation were all listed.
This work was not difficult.
It only required compiling the data from all departments into a single entry and cross-checking the numbers.
In total, it only took two hours for Lin Wanwan to finish all the work.
However, considering the warning in the email, she specially checked it twice more.
Only after confirming there were no issues did her hanging heart ease slightly.
Lin Wanwan rubbed her sore eyes, picked up the thermal cup beside her desk, and took a sip of warm water.
At this time, the sound of chairs moving rang out in the office. Colleagues got up one after another to go to the cafeteria for lunch. When Liu Xiaoli passed by her workstation, she smiled and asked:
“Wanwan, are you done? Want to go downstairs together to eat at the newly opened Malatang restaurant?”
Having resolved the matter mentioned in the email, Lin Wanwan was in a quite pleasant mood and naturally would not reject Liu Xiaoli’s invitation.
“No problem, wait for me for 1 minute!”
Lin Wanwan nimbly closed the file, then casually placed the USB flash drive into her desk drawer.
Afterward, she picked up her bag and left the company together with Liu Xiaoli.
She didn’t notice that less than two minutes after she left, a figure turned out from the pantry.
That person held an unfinished milk tea cup in hand, fingers applying slight force, squeezing the wall of the cup out of shape.
The brown milk tea dripped along the cracks of the fingers onto the gray carpet, leaving a small dark stain.
“She’s just an S3 who barely passed probation. What right does she have to take such an important job?”
Unwillingness and jealousy surged deep within her eyes.
She herself had slaved away in the company for four years just to climb to S4, cautiously handling all kinds of trivial matters every day, even fighting to take charge of client negotiations.
But what about Lin Wanwan? Just an S3 who recently passed probation, relying on the luck of saving Evans to get promoted ahead of schedule.
And now she got her hands on the National Day welfare calculation—a job that was both simple and gave great exposure.
If this job was done well, the year-end rating would be at least a C, or even a B.
According to company regulations, obtaining just two B-level ratings allowed a smooth promotion.
Thinking about how her rating last year was only a D, if there was no improvement this year, let alone a promotion, whether she could even keep her current job rank would be hard to say.
At this thought, the figure’s gaze grew increasingly venomous.
“Why do all the good things fall on her?”
The office was quiet, with only the occasional faint sound of air blowing from the air conditioner vents. Colleagues had either gone to the cafeteria or taken advantage of the lunch break to walk outside.
She glanced guardedly toward the office entrance. The corridor was silent, save for the subtle sound of the air conditioner running.
After confirming no one was around, the figure walked briskly to Lin Wanwan’s workstation.
With a gentle pull of a finger, the half-closed drawer was opened.
The USB flash drive lay in the most conspicuous spot in the drawer.
The figure swiftly grabbed the USB flash drive, stuffed it into her pocket, restored the drawer to its original state, and only then returned to her workstation as if nothing had happened.
She took out a laptop from her drawer. The moment she plugged in the USB flash drive, her heavy heartbeat echoed in her ears.
As the file opened, dense data met her eyes—employee names, departments, job ranks, welfare specifications, and budget amounts were clear at a glance.
The figure moved very nimbly; in just a short moment, several key pieces of data in the file were altered.
After finishing all this, the figure quickly saved the file.
Two minutes later, the USB flash drive was back in Lin Wanwan’s drawer.
On the other side, Lin Wanwan and Liu Xiaoli were sitting inside the Malatang restaurant downstairs. The piping hot soup base bubbled away, with various ingredients tumbling in the pot.
As Liu Xiaoli picked up beef rolls into her bowl, she said with a smile:
“Wanwan, you’re really amazing this time. You just passed probation and already got such an important task. Sister Zhang really values you.”
Lin Wanwan picked up a piece of fish tofu, put it in her mouth, and replied with a smile:
“Where am I amazing? Sister Zhang saw that I just passed probation and don’t understand anything, so she intentionally picked the simplest job for me…”
Though she said this out loud, in her heart, she was constantly thinking about that calculation table, always feeling a bit uneasy.