flstandardbreds Chapter 1812 Prepared
Chapter 1812 Prepared
The air seemed to freeze at that moment.
All that remained was the soft rustling sound of Li Xiangnan flipping through the notebook, each sound like a tap on Wen Da's heart.
"What is that...?"
Wen Da Nao didn't know what Li Xiangnan was holding, but he could sense that the atmosphere around him was somewhat serious and tense.
"Heh!" Li Xiangnan sneered, waving the open work hour record book at him. "Isn't Foreman Wen familiar with it? You have to report your group's work hours to Boss Jiang every week!"
"Work hour record book?"
Upon hearing this, Wen Da Nao instinctively shrank his neck.
His appearance clearly suggests something is amiss!
Li Xiangnan raised his eyes, his sharp gaze sweeping across Wang Laosi's face before quickly and precisely landing on Wang Laosi standing beside him.
"Wang Laosi! You don't know until you see it, and you'll be shocked! Last month, you worked eight hours a day, and you didn't have a single red circle on your attendance record. You were really quite diligent!" His voice wasn't loud, but it carried an undeniable penetrating power.
Upon hearing this, Wang Laosi stiffened his neck and retorted, "Hehe, boss, of course! I'm the most honest worker, so attendance records definitely reflect the real situation!"
"Real? Diligent?" Upon hearing this, Li Xiangnan almost laughed out of anger, glaring at him and saying angrily, "I won't even mention other times, I saw it clearly from the work shed at 8:37 yesterday morning!"
Then he pointed to the workers standing on the other side, "Old Wu, the bricklayer, called for mortar several times from the scaffolding, and you were underneath, puffing away with a cigarette, smoking for a full ten minutes, and you still couldn't get the mortar up there! Old Wu had no choice but to climb down and carry half a bucket of cement up yourself! What did you do in that half hour? How many half-hour shifts do you work a day? The master craftsman has to wait for you to finish your work before he can cooperate?"
Wang Laosi's face instantly turned a deep liver color. He opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word in his defense.
The workers around him, especially Old Wu, the bricklayer who was usually bullied by him, couldn't help but cast contemptuous and angry glances at him.
"Luckily, Boss Jiang had you three groups working together. If you had all worked as one group, I doubt you could have even managed to plaster a bucket of ash on the wall in a whole day!"
Li Xiangnan's words were ruthless and realistic, immediately making Wen Laoda's workers blush with embarrassment.
Before they could react, he immediately turned to the gaunt bricklayer standing to the side, whose eyes were darting around.
"Old dog Zhao! Stop looking around! Your work hours are usually impressive, haha, but I observed you yesterday. Look at the west wall you were in charge of building! It's been three days, and it's not even 1.5 meters high! People build seven or eight square meters a day, and you're barely managing two! What? Is your brick trowel too hot to handle? And the cement you applied is a bit short, just a thin layer. How can those bricks hold up? Are you setting a time bomb for me?"
Speaking of him, Li Xiangnan was furious and couldn't help but swear.
To deal with these uncultured but cunning bastards, you have to be even more ruthless than them. If you can also reason with them, you can easily control them!
Moreover, everything he said made sense. He spoke about the quality of the project and the work attitude, and he also subtly pointed to potential material problems. Zhao Laogou shrank back, not daring to say a word, and he didn't dare to look Li Xiangnan in the eye.
At this point, Li Xiangnan kicked a cement bucket placed to the side and pointed to a burly man next to the mixer who was dressed cleanly and whose hands were hardly covered in mud.
"And you, Sun Tieniu! You're in charge of the cement and sand mix ratio, but I've been watching you for hours on end. What have you been doing there? You've spent less time by the machine than smoking in the sun. Most of the time, the contractors are operating the equipment, and you're acting like a supervisor! How do you keep up with the operating schedule and working hours for the mixer? Did I hire you to be a big shot? Are you just trying to slack off?"
With a single sentence, "dawdling," Sun Tieniu's actions were laid bare. The man's face twitched, but he dared not utter a word in rebuttal.
Because what Li Xiangnan said was true, and he revealed what he had done in front of everyone without reservation.
Everyone knows about this, but for the boss to bring it up in front of everyone is extremely embarrassing!
Sun Tieniu didn't dare to respond, but Li Xiangnan didn't care what he was thinking and turned his gaze to Wen Da Nao.
"Boss Wen, you've got some good soldiers! I've only been observing you guys for one day, and what I've seen is astounding! Yesterday I couldn't even recognize all your men, but today, as soon as you took them away, wow, now that I think about it, they're all incredibly quick and efficient!"
"..." Boss Wen opened his mouth, glanced to the left, and was clearly about to lie.
But Li Xiangnan didn't give him a chance, going straight to the point: "What, trying to find an excuse? Fine, then I'll talk to you. You say your records show you're on duty all day, but I only saw you once yesterday. And that was because you didn't recognize me, you came over to give me a hard time, making me pay you my salary. What, are you a thug collecting protection money?"
"Mr. Li, this...this is a misunderstanding!"
Upon hearing that Li Xiangnan hadn't forgotten about it at all, and remembered it clearly, Wen Da's head immediately deflated.
"Misunderstanding? I doubt it." Li Xiangnan didn't want to listen to his nonsense about misunderstandings and continued, "You were either drinking tea and reading the newspaper in the work shed, or you went out for a stroll and disappeared, or you borrowed a car to make a phone call. What? Is that a misunderstanding?"
Sweat rolled down Wen Laoda's face. He never imagined that in just one day, Li Xiangnan knew everything about how he had been slacking off, and even what he had been doing. He wanted to refute it, but found that his own slacking off was so pale in comparison to the other party's detailed revelation.
His face flushed, and after a long pause, he finally managed to utter a sentence with a dark expression: "Boss, you can't just rely on looking..."
"Just by looking?" Li Xiangnan scoffed, flicking his notebook and pointing to the teams of the other two contractors. "What kind of people are you? Do you work hard? Have you been slacking off? I think your coworkers, who you work with day and night, can tell you all about it, right?"
After Li Xiangnan said this, Boss Wen and his men felt their heads droop a bit, their faces turning red, wishing they could disappear into the ground.
Many of the workers around were whispering and pointing at Wen Laoda's men.
"Boss, well..." Seeing the messy situation, Boss Wen's eyes darted around and he said, "Don't worry, we will definitely correct it. We guarantee that these problems won't happen again when we get to the hotel construction site!"
Li Xiangnan glanced at Gong Kaijiang, who immediately understood and said coldly, "My team doesn't welcome people who are lazy, dishonest, or lack professional ethics. The hotel construction site won't hire you! Do as you please!"
"what?"
Upon hearing this, Boss Wen and his men all froze, and exclaimed urgently, "But we signed an agreement! You can't..."
"Take a close look at what agreement you signed!" Gong Kaijiang picked up the agreement from the side and slapped it on his chest.
Boss Wen took a look at it, froze on the spot, his face turned pale, and said, "How could this be... I didn't see it clearly just now..."
What he was holding was none other than the resignation application he had just signed. He had hurriedly gotten everyone to sign it so he could quickly start working at the hotel construction site.
The problem lies in this haste!
"You lied to me!" Wen Da Nao was struck dumb, realizing that he had unintentionally helped Li Xiangnan.
"I lie to you?"
Li Xiangnan, as if he had heard a big joke, took another document from Jiang Qitao's hand.
"I don't know if I'm lying to you or you're lying to me! Boss Wen, these documents I have are our material purchase accounts, as well as the daily losses at the construction site. Your people use twice as many materials as the other two groups combined every day. You've been extorting money, extorting money, falsifying losses, embezzling materials, slacking off, and skimming off the top, and you've put it all on me? Do you really think I'm young and easy to bully?"
Li Xiangnan squinted at him, his gaze sharp.
"Boss Wen, we need to go to the police station and have a serious talk with them. This is a crime!"
"..."
The moment the word "crime" was uttered, Boss Wen froze, his face turning deathly pale. He collapsed to the ground with a thud. His fellow workers around him also turned ashen-faced, too afraid to even flee...