Chapter 3799 - 3790: Reversal
Chapter 3799: Chapter 3790: Reversal
"As far as I know, they just want their salaries, it shouldn’t be considered too greedy."
Lin Yi’s attitude is very tactful. Having gone through so many things over the years, he knows very well that one shouldn’t easily draw conclusions until the last moment.
"You only know the surface-level things; you don’t know the deeper reasons."
Yang Guangwei sighed, took out two cigarettes, and handed one to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi waved his hand to refuse, and Yang Guangwei lit one for himself.
"First of all, I admit that the company did have some financial issues, hence the delay of a few months’ salaries. But I’ve promised that after the project is completed, the salaries will definitely be made up. There’s no need to lie about this, and I don’t have the guts to either."
After a pause, Yang Guangwei continued:
"They may look pitiful, but inside they’re full of tricks. While working, they often steal materials to sell, including a lot of copper wires they took away and sold."
"You’ve noticed it, haven’t you mentioned it?"
"After all, owing them salaries, some things are just ignored, but while working, due to improper operation, they’ve damaged equipment worth 200,000 yuan. I don’t earn much from a project, but this incident made me lose money. I didn’t want to make things difficult for them; I intended to deduct 100,000 yuan and call it settled, but they didn’t agree or admit they damaged the equipment. You tell me who I could talk to about my troubles."
After hearing Yang Guangwei’s explanation, the two of them understood the truth.
This matter is more complicated than they imagined, and it’s difficult to quickly conclude who’s right or wrong.
"So you guys are stuck here because of this, right?" Lin Yi asked.
Yang Guangwei nodded in response.
"If they agree to your proposal, do you have money now to pay the salaries?"
"Yes, I’ve already taken a loan from the bank, so as long as they agree, I can settle the salaries," Yang Guangwei showed a bitter melon face, "I don’t make money easily, that equipment was worth 200,000 yuan, that’s no small amount, I can’t be the only one to bear it."
"What was the damaged item? Is there a model? Can you show me?"
"An imported centrifuge, it’s Jiaerkai’s kc508, you can check the price online, I definitely didn’t exaggerate."
Lin Yi pondered for a moment, thinking:
"You just said the equipment was damaged due to their improper operation, when did it break? During working hours? Do you have any evidence in this regard? It’d be best if you could provide it."
"After hours, when things were being packed and they were preparing to leave, a few of them sat on the equipment, leading to its damage."
Yang Guangwei flicked some ash off his cigarette, "Chengzi, come over and show them the surveillance footage."
As he spoke, Yang Guangwei pushed the laptop on the desk over, seeming not too knowledgeable about computers.
Grabbing a chair, the man in black sat next to Lin Yi, operating the computer to find surveillance footage from that day."
"Journalist, take a look here."
The man in black pointed to the computer, "What they’re holding in their hands, that’s a cable they’re putting into their clothes, and this person, he’s holding an iron piece that must be at least twenty pounds; such instances are countless, my brother is too lazy to bother with them."
Lin Yi nodded, gesturing for Zhao Yuhuan to take pictures of all this content.
"Find more similar footage, we need to take more pictures so the materials and evidence are more comprehensive."
"There’s plenty, you won’t be able to finish filming."
One after another, the man named Chengzi found seven or eight more clips like these.
The frequency of the misconduct surprised even Lin Yi and Zhao Yuhuan.
Later on, they didn’t even bother with scrap iron, focusing on taking copper wires, and more each time.
"Let me tell you, they don’t leave after work because they want to wait until others leave to steal some copper away; they sit on the equipment waiting, then the incident happened."
Lin Yi nodded, "Let me see the footage from the day of the incident."
"Don’t hurry, searching for it now."
Chengzi continued flipping the surveillance footage and quickly found the footage from the day of the incident.
The footage content was very clear, with six people sitting on the equipment, two leaning against the side.
Soon, the pipe fittings on the equipment broke, releasing a lot of black liquid, but what it was remained unknown.
"With the equipment like this, it can’t be used anymore, right? If repaired, how much would that cost?"
"Repair costs are about 60,000 yuan, but the problem is the client disagrees, they want new equipment, not repaired, and the delay affected the schedule," Yang Guangwei pointed to the screen saying:
"These things that leaked are corrosive, and during the incident, they also affected other equipment, causing considerable loss. I’m asking for only 100,000 yuan from them, I’ve already shown utmost benevolence."
Lin Yi nodded in agreement with Yang Guangwei’s point.
In today’s society, it’s not whoever is poor has the reason.
"We generally understand the specific process of this matter, so your request is to deduct 100,000 yuan from their salaries and then settle the remaining salaries, correct?"
"That’s right, that’s my bottom line, if they don’t agree, I don’t care anymore, let them take it wherever for justice."
"Alright, leave the rest to us, we’ll strive to give you a satisfactory answer."
"Great, I appreciate your effort."
"It’s what we should do."
"Many thanks, I’ll see you off."
"No need, don’t bother."
After expressing thanks, the two left and returned to the car.
Zhao Yuhuan originally came with anger, but left feeling deflated.
"Lin Bro, the situation seems different from what we thought."
While speaking, Zhao Yuhuan handed over the phone.
"I checked this piece of equipment online, its selling price is 218,000, indeed not cheap; if they really broke it, only having them compensate half the price isn’t expensive."
Thinking for a moment, Zhao Yuhuan continued:
"That Xu Hui is too cunning, he didn’t mention these things when we went, fortunately, you’re the journalist, if it were me, I’d definitely approach it with subjective emotions, I didn’t expect such a turnaround."
"That’s why doing this kind of work, no matter what, requires calmness. Before the final result is out, one shouldn’t jump to conclusions, otherwise it would be unfair."
"Mm-hmm." Zhao Yuhuan nodded and said:
"Indeed needs to be like this, and I think Yang Guangwei’s approach isn’t excessive. Although it can be repaired, the client certainly wouldn’t want to use such equipment, and the delay of the schedule plus other equipment being corroded, just compensating 100,000 isn’t a lot; they should be content."