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"This is impossible! Absolutely impossible, I don’t believe it!"
With five minutes left before the afternoon shift, Zhou Yaqing was stopped at the laboratory door by two rades from the security department. She was told that she was no longer a researcher at the institute, which she refused to believe, shaking her head and attempting to push past the two security rades to enter the laboratory:
"Get out of the way, let me through. My surname is Zhou, I work in this lab. If you stop me from going in, do you believe I won’t call Academician Luo to stand up for me?"
Upon hearing her words, one of the security rades said with a stern face, "rade Zhou, we’re not trying to block you, it’s just that your job has been reassigned. We’re simply doing our job, and we ask you not to cause a scene here and disrupt everyone’s work!"
"You’re lying to me! I’ve been working here without issues, so why would my job suddenly be reassigned?"
This can’t be real. Zhou Yaqing’s eyes reddened, and she shouted at the closed laboratory door, "Academician Luo! Academician Luo, e out. They won’t let me in. Academician Luo, e out quickly, I’m Zhou Yaqing. Academician Luo, e out and tell them to let me in!"
However, there was no response from within the laboratory.
Zhou Yaqing was undeterred and continued to shout at the laboratory door, "Luo Yanqing! I’m Zhou Yaqing, tell me why the institute suddenly reassigned my job. Luo Yanqing, e out!"
"rade Zhou, if you continue to make a scene, we’ll have to ask you to visit the security department!" The speaking rade from before maintained a grim expression and stared at Zhou Yaqing, "We need you to leave here immediately!"
"Why should I leave? This is my workplace. I must go in today!" Zhou Yaqing shouted, using all her strength to storm into the laboratory. Seeing the two security rades block her, she threatened, "If you dare touch me, I’ll accuse you of harassment!"
At this moment, Director Song walked over, "rade Zhou Yaqing, what are you doing?"
"...Director!"
Hearing Director Song’s voice, Zhou Yaqing almost instantly softened her unreasonable behavior. Tears welled up in her eyes as she turned to look at Director Song, "These two rades say my job has been reassigned. Director, can you tell me what’s going on? Since working here, I’ve never made any mistakes or applied to transfer jobs. Why am I suddenly being told I can’t work here anymore?"
"e with me to the office." Director Song didn’t answer directly but said lightly, then turned to leave.
Seeing this, Zhou Yaqing stood bewildered for a moment, then glanced at the tightly closed laboratory door before following Director Song.
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"Your job reassignment is an arrangement made by the higher-ups."
Upon entering the office, Director Song waited for Zhou Yaqing to appear and then spoke.
"Why?"
Zhou Yaqing’s eyes were filled with tears.
"Perhaps the new position is more suitable for rade Zhou Yaqing." Director Song’s response was quite perfunctory.
"No! That’s not true, Director, you’re lying to me!"
Getting into this organization was a choice made by her family after careful consideration. Her grandma had repeatedly asked her uncle to help, and it was hard enough to get her in.
How could there be a better-suited position elsewhere now?
Zhou Yaqing didn’t believe Director Song’s words. She recalled recent events in her life, wondering if she had offended someone and was therefore sabotaged out of her current job.
But after thinking over and over, except for the lunch argument today in the cafeteria with that old woman Shen Yun, she hadn’t done anything out of line recently.
Could it be... could it be that old woman Shen Yun playing dirty with her?
Her thoughts spun to this point, and Zhou Yaqing asked Director Song, "Director, is my job reassignment related to Teacher Shen?"
"rade Zhou Yaqing, I said your job reassignment was a decision made by the higher-ups, please do not speculate wildly."
Director Song’s face was stern, "The procedures are all plete, you’d better take your documents and report to the HR department of your new unit by tomorrow noon."
"I don’t want to report to the new unit!" Zhou Yaqing’s emotions became agitated again, "I’m going to call my family right now!"
"Go ahead."
Director Song didn’t stop Zhou Yaqing from using the landline.
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