Chapter 862: You can’t avoid seeing today even if you want to
Translator: Legge Editor: Legge
At the entrance of the party venue.
Many people were stunned!
Yan Tianfei's face sank. "What did you say?"
That staff mber repeated, "Teacher Zhang Ye will not be allowed to attend the annual staff party."
Ha Qiqi was extrely irritated by this. "Why not!"
Zhang Zuo was also infuriated. "Why can't our Director Zhang attend?"
"It's just sothing that the station heads have instructed." That staff mber said, "We're just following orders, so we don't know the reasons. Sorry about it, Teacher Zhang, but we'll be taking back your pass."
Zhang Ye was amused by this. "And if I were to insist on going in?"
Several of the staff mbers were startled.
One of them said, "About that…"
Zhang Ye calmly said, "Are you guys going to attempt to drag or carry out?"
One of the other staff mbers had already subconsciously taken a step backwards. Who hadn't heard of the notorious Zhang Ye before!
Yan Tianfei said loudly, "Get your manager out here!"
Actually, one of the managers of the venue this year was watching them all this ti from not too far away. He knew that this issue would be tricky to handle, so he had chosen to hide away for the mont. But seeing that an argunt was about to break out over here, he couldn't ignore it anymore and ca over quickly. "Old Yan, what's the matter? Why are you in such a bad mood?"
Yan Tianfei replied, "What do you think!"
That manager said, "I was also just notified a mont ago."
Yan Tianfei's temper was very well-known in Central TV. He did not intend to tone it down and was shouting loudly so that everyone around them could hear. "You could've inford us at any ti, but chose to do so when we were just about to enter the venue? Who are you guys trying to impress? Who are you trying to repress?"
That manager said, "The instructions are from the station heads!"
"I don't give a damn whose instructions those are!" Yan Tianfei directly scolded, "What is the aning of doing sothing like this on such an occasion? Who are you trying to sha here? Is this how things should be handled?"
The manager said, "Old Yan, why are you shouting at ?!"
Yan Tianfei pointed at him. "I will just shout at you as I like, so what!"
That manager was getting angry too and started arguing with Yan Tianfei at the entrance!
With their shouting, everyone's attention was diverted to the incident. Many of the other departnt heads and staff had not entered the venue yet and were still gathered outside. They could see everything right in front of them. Even those Central TV staff who already went in had stuck their heads out to have a look when they heard the ruckus from inside.
More and more people gathered to see the commotion.
Director Jiang Naixiong from Central TV Departnt 1.
A deputy director from Central TV Departnt 5.
Zhang Huo from Central TV's Variety Channel.
Everyone's attention turned to this incident at once.
"What happened?"
"What is happening?"
"Zhang Ye has been stopped outside the entrance."
"Ah?"
"I heard that the station has instructed that he's not allowed to attend the event!"
"It's the staff party today, and takes place only once a year. Surely they won't do that, right?"
"Why not? Can't you see that they are almost fighting out there because of this!?"
"Aiyo, looks like they really are!"
"They're really not allowing Zhang Ye to attend the party?"
The staff were all whispering.
Yan Tianfei roared, "Old He, don't you play for a fool. Little Zhang is the executive director and supervisor of Departnt 14's only program team, so why can't he go in? Ah?"
That manager said, "Are you saying that I'm making this up?"
But at this mont, Zhang Ye surprisingly removed the pass around his neck and threw it with a grin to one of the staff. Then, he turned to Yan Tianfei and told him, "Director Yan, forget it. I'm not attending the party if they don't want there. I can always go ho and catch up on so sleep instead."
However, Yan Tianfei exclaid "This is not going to be an issue!"
"Director Zhang, don't go!" Ha Qiqi was also getting impatient.
"Right, Director Zhang!"
"If you leave, we're leaving too!"
"We'll just not attend the party together!"
"Fuck! Aren't you guys oppressing us like this?!"
The people from Departnt 14 were shouting and yelling!
It wasn't that Zhang Ye was in a good mood today. With his character, if he t with such matters, he would have already taken it head on by now. Zhang Ye wasn't afraid to tear a hole in the sky and take all responsibility for any fallout if it only affected himself. But as this incident was specifically targeted at Zhang Ye, and since his own program team along with Yan Tianfei also stood up for him, he knew that he shouldn't give them more trouble.
However, Yan Tianfei grabbed Zhang Ye by his shoulder and stopped him from leaving.
Seeing this, Zhang Ye was truly touched. With so many people standing up for him, there was no reason for Zhang Ye to take a step back anymore!
Suddenly, a person appeared.
An assistant of a deputy station head.
That assistant also behaved rather self-importantly, talking loudly to the people around him as soon as he appeared. "Why are you all standing here and watching?! The event is about to start soon! Hurry up and go inside!"
Only then did so of the staff start moving inside, though they walked in very slowly, turning back to look with every step they took as they were still curious about what would happen here.
The assistant went up to the people of Departnt 14. "Director Yan, don't you know what occasion it is today? With so many people around, don't you think we should save so face for ourselves?"
Yan Tianfei looked at him coldly and said, "If I save face for you, then who would save face for ?"
The assistant said, "This decision was made by the heads during a eting. The reasons for it were simple. First, Zhang Ye did not get consent from the station and participated in the Spring Festival Gala rehearsal at Beijing TV, which is against regulation. Second, as one of Central TV's staff, Zhang Ye insulted the production team of Central TV's Spring Festival Gala and its performances, which is also against regulation. Considering that these two regulations were flouted, the station has ted out their punishnt to Zhang Ye. His bonus for this month and last year's end-of-year bonus will be forfeited, as well as having his basic salary reduced by one grade. He will also be internally disciplined and barred from attending this end-of-year party. That's all!"
Salary reduction?
Bonuses forfeited?
This punishnt was considerably harsh!
Moreover, a lot of the people around also understood quite well that due to A Bite of China, Zhang Ye's bonuses were definitely of a different grade than a normal staffer's bonuses. It was surely in the range of a six-figure or even seven-figure sum. To anyone in any departnt, this was surely a sizable sum of money.
Yan Tianfei was just about to say sothing.
But Zhang Ye was already responding, "I have three points to raise too."
The assistant looked at him. "What?"
"First off," Zhang Ye asked him, "Who are you?"
Soone in the crowd couldn't hold it in and laughed.
That assistant's expression suddenly changed!
Who am I?
You don't know who I am?
That assistant felt intentionally slighted by Zhang Ye, but actually, Zhang Ye really did not know who he was. He could not even recognize most of the deputy station heads, much less an assistant of theirs.
Zhang Ye said, "Second, my contract gives the freedom to do whatever I want. I can participate in any performances at a provincial TV station's Spring Festival Gala without needing consent from anyone. No one has the right to interfere with that. Third, all crosstalk routines are fictitious, so if you wish to say that I was pointing out our organization, then I can't do anything about that either. But in the event that you insist that I was really insulting Central TV's Spring Festival Gala and so of its performances, then that would just be my way and technique to present my routine. If you think that those are problems, I would like to pose the question back at you. The production team of Central TV's Spring Festival Gala and so of the performances along with the perforrs have slandered on Weibo and other public, online channels before, so would those be considered as going against regulation as well? Should they be punished too? There's no reason that other people can't sar my na by making unfounded accusations against , but I can't casually make so remarks during a fake performance, right?! Isn't this what we call a double standard?"
Before he had perford the routine called "I Want to Get on the Spring Festival Gala," Zhang Ye did not actually plan to use it for his fake performance at all. But with the continued scolding from the crosstalk world, and faced with criticism from so people at Central TV as well as their Spring Festival Gala production team's "accidental leak" that their event would never, ever invite Zhang Ye to perform at it, he finally decided to do that crosstalk performance. Having been trampled on publicly by all these people, he had no reason not to strike back!
You can scold , but I can't say anything about you?
Do you think you are kings or sothing?!
That assistant said, "I will repeat it again: This is the station's decision and whatever you say now does not matter to us. You are barred from attending the annual staff party!"
Yan Tianfei confronted, "Why was I not inford about the station's decision first?"
The assistant said stiffly, "They might not have managed to inform you in ti, but we're informing you of it now!"
Yan Tianfei replied, "I am Zhang Ye's direct superior. You want to forfeit his bonuses? And discipline him too? Did you all even let know about this beforehand? Did I agree to it? If I don't agree, then no one shall be allowed to forfeit Little Zhang's bonuses! None of you have the authority to prohibit an exemplary employee from attending the annual staff party!" He repeated loudly again, "It doesn't matter whose instruction it is!"
If Zhang Ye was known to have the worst reputation in Central TV, then Yan Tianfei's was undoubtedly the second worst. A lot of the old-tirs of Central TV knew about Yan Tianfei's temper and were not surprised by what he had just said. After all, it wasn't as if Old Yan had never taken shots at the station heads before!
In the crowd, there was a deputy director from Departnt 11 who was on rather good terms with Yan Tianfei. He was also the director who had allowed his departnt's HD video caras to be loaned to them for the filming of A Bite of China.
After listening for a while, Deputy Director Cha also spoke up, "Assistant Hao, you shouldn't bla those from Departnt 14 for being so agitated. After all, this matter was indeed handled improperly. A Bite of China is currently the highest viewership rated show in the country and has broken so many records, even winning the most prestigious award for docuntaries. Director Zhang has to be credited for all that no matter what. On the issue of disciplinary actions, getting criticized in a circulation is fine, but those things must be kept separate and his contributions must still be rewarded, right? The Spring Festival is coming soon. Surely there's no need to bar Director Zhang from attending the annual staff party, is there? That would be too cold and unfeeling."
Another departnt's supervisor at the back agreed, "Right, just how bad is this enmity that you're denying him from attending the annual staff party? You even resorted to chasing him away here, in front of everyone?"
Yan Tianfei did not have many friends, and Zhang Ye had even fewer. Therefore, only a few people from the middle and higher managent who were in the crowd ca forward to speak up for them, while the majority of the others tried to diate the situation.
A supervisor at Central TV Departnt 3 said, "Cut down on the arguing. This is difficult for everyone to witness."
A head of the International Channel said, "Old Yan, Teacher Little Zhang, calm down, both of you. The heads are all in there. This argunt won't lead to anything good either."
Central TV Departnt 1's Director Jiang Naixiong and Deputy Director Jiang Yuan also erged from the venue.
Jiang Naixiong questioned, "Old Yan, are you making light of the punishnts ted out by the station?"
Yan Tianfei looked at him and said, "What does it have to do with you?"
Even though Central TV's Spring Festival Gala was broadcast on Central TV Departnt 1, it had nothing much to do with Departnt 1. Each year, the Spring Festival Gala would have it's own independent program team made up of staff from the different departnts of Central TV. There were even so staff who were contracted from external agencies.
With those words, Jiang Naixiong was provoked. "How can you speak in that manner! The punishnts were already ted out, but you're all still arguing over it out here!"
They gradually started to argue again!
The situation outside the venue of the annual staff party was getting out of control!
At this mont, Deputy Station Head Zhou got wind of the situation and ca out with a dark look on his face. "What's going on? What are you all arguing for? Look at the ti now! Why aren't you all going inside yet?"
Yan Tianfei said, "It's not that we don't want to go in, it's just that we're not being allowed in!"
Deputy Station Head Zhou frowned. "Who's not letting you in?"
Yan Tianfei declared, "By not allowing Little Zhang to attend the annual staff party, it's as good as not allowing all of us from Departnt 14 to attend the party!"
Ha Qiqi said, "Right, we won't participate!"
Zhang Zuo shouted, "Wherever Director Zhang goes, we go!"
"How unreasonable!"
"We'll stick together with Director Zhang!"
"Director Yan is right!"
"By not letting Director Zhang enter, it's as good as not allowing us to enter!"
With those words from Yan Tianfei, everyone from Departnt 14 had a common enemy to stand up to. Everyone also felt very aggrieved about the situation. This was really oppressing them!
From behind, another deputy station head ca out and said expressionlessly, "What are you all doing? What the hell are you all doing? Old Yan, you're a veteran of the station, but why is your thinking and awareness so lacking?"
Yan Tianfei said, "Indeed, my awareness is really lacking! Little Zhang has already been with Central TV for half a year now. I don't think I need to ntion how well his shows like The Voice and A Bite of China have done, but look at what happened. He still keeps getting plotted against by people internally at the station! Getting suppressed from everywhere! He has credit but no rewards, and he's even getting punished in the end? When Teacher Little Zhang was still with Central TV Departnt 1, I couldn't interfere. But now that Little Zhang is part of Departnt 14, I must definitely do sothing about it!"
Everyone could see that Yan Tianfei was totally infuriated today. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said all that during such an occasion!
Zhang Ye looked at them and said, "Actually, I'm fine with not attending this annual staff party. But it should not be handled this way. You are barring from attending the event just because I made so satirical remarks about Central TV's Spring Festival Gala in my crosstalk routine? Alright then! It's fine that I get barred, but since that's how it is, then we have to apply the sa standards to everyone. There should be a lot of people from the station who have discredited before, or doubted and criticized A Bite of China and our staff from Departnt 14. A lot of those people are also attending the annual party, right? Then I want all of them to co out right now! Every one of them should not be attending the party! Only then would it be fair, right? So get them out here now!"
"That's right!"
"Why is it that others can scold us and get away with it?"
"If there's a punishnt, then everyone should get punished together!"
"Why are you guys only targeting us from Departnt 14?"
"What did we do? We've done our jobs well but we're still in the wrong?"
"Weren't there a lot of people who criticized us back then? I saw quite a few of them swaggering into the venue just now! But why are you excluding Director Zhang when it's his turn to enter!"
The people of Departnt 14 were raging.
Zhang Ye looked at that deputy station head and the others who were blocking him from entering the venue. "Don't stare at that way. It was you who ntioned discrediting colleagues and sister channels first, so I just brought it up by the by." Saying this, he took out his cell phone and browsed through the Weibo archives one by one, naming people as he did. "Chen Hefei, employee of Central TV Departnt 1, publicly insulted the works of Departnt 14 last December. Xu Dong, employee of Central TV Departnt 1, comprehensively dismissed all works of Departnt 14 and verbally attacked them. Wu Xia…"
Everyone look at one another not knowing how to react.
So of those whose nas were ntioned by Zhang Ye were standing in the crowd with ghastly expressions.
When he finished naming people, Zhang Ye said, "So how would you guys deal with those employees?"
No one answered him, no one could answer him at all. When it ca to arguing, clearly none of those present were a match for Zhang Ye!
The incident was getting blown up. Many of the station heads could no longer pretend like nothing was happening. At this mont, the venue entrance was full of people watching and not going inside the venue! With the situation playing out this way, soone had to step in for sure. If it was not properly handled, it might incur the collective dissatisfaction of Departnt 14. On such a grand occasion like the annual staff party, what would it look like if the director of the hottest performing Departnt 14 led his people to boycott? Refusal to enter the venue? This internal conflict was undoubtedly too big, and ignoring how the dia would report it, the matter of who would take responsibility for this was the bigger question! Importantly, the current Departnt 14 was no longer the vulnerable Departnt 14 of the past. They were the departnt with the highest viewership rated show in the entire country now!
Shortly, another station head appeared. He pulled Yan Tianfei to the side and spoke with him. This station head was on closer terms with Yan Tianfei and had a better relationship with him than the others. Yan Tianfei did not speak to him impatiently, although his emotions still ran high!
Deputy Station Head Zhou took this opportunity to head back into the venue.
Inside, several of the heads held an impromptu eting.
"How should we handle this?"
"Just chase Zhang Ye away! Who cares what he says!"
"Do you think we can chase him off? The people at Departnt 14 are protesting very strongly against this, especially Old Yan!"
"That Old Yan is getting too out of hand!"
"The one who's most out of hand is Zhang Ye. He's even arguing against the decisions of the station? So what if we are punishing him? Do we still have to give him a reason? And still explain it to him?"
"We should just ignore him. The production team of the Spring Festival Gala are discriminating against Zhang Ye because of that crosstalk. A few of the directors and planners have all co to complain about him! We have to appease those people's feelings too! Why are we barring him from attending the annual staff party? It's simply because there are many who do not want to see him! Even though the Station Head did not say it explicitly, his impression of Zhang Ye shouldn't be good either. No one wishes to spend the New Year with this person giving off such an unsettling feeling."
"But what would happen if we don't allow him into the venue? Old Yan and the others from Departnt 14 are having none of it! This affair will get blown up and it'll no longer just be a problem of being unsettled anymore!"
"Forget it, let's just allow Zhang Ye to attend the party."
"He won't be performing anyway, so long as he doesn't make trouble, it'll be fine!"
"I suppose that's the only way for now."
After about five minutes of discussion, the station finally relented and allowed Zhang Ye to attend the staff party.
The atmosphere outside cald down a little.
And Yan Tianfei led his people in.
Around them, many people were whispering.
"They still relented in the end."
"Fuck, I thought they would start a real fight."
"The station barred Zhang Ye from attending because they did not wish to see him on this joyous occasion. But that Zhang Ye doesn't seem to get it and still insists on attending? If I were him, I would have turned around and left. I wouldn't want to get hated on in such a way."
"That's why you can't be a celebrity."
"Zhang Ye is terrible too. He has the skill and talent, yet his relationships are so poor! They barred him from attending just so that they did not need to see him. This is a never-before-seen situation and a first-of-its-kind punishnt ted out by Central TV. Only sothing like that can happen on Zhang Ye!"
As he passed by them, Zhang Ye's ears pricked up and he heard their whisperings.
A lot of people do not wish to see ?
Heh, Zhang Ye's eyes narrowed to a slit.
You can't avoid seeing even if you want to!
This bro is definitely not going to let you all have any peace today!
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