Chapter 421:

Chapter 421:

The people who were excitedly planning the picnic just a moment ago had put down their pens for now.

“...”

Yoo-hyun was silent for a while as he organized his thoughts.

Why did these simultaneous incidents happen all of a sudden at this point?

One could be a coincidence, but not three.

Pressure from competitors, audit for nitpicking, leakage of client information.

The only department that could make these things happen at the same time?

The Group Strategy Office.

Then, it was highly likely that they were not aiming for the LCD Business Division.

Yoo-hyun picked up his phone right away.

On the screen was the name of Park Doo Sik, a senior manager in charge of LCD strategy at the Innovation Strategy Office and his close senior.

A moment later, he hung up the phone and came back to Kwon Se-jung, an assistant manager who asked him.

“What’s going on? The office atmosphere is not good.”

“It seems like something has gone wrong, Se-jung. Can you check if we can cancel the picnic reservation?”

“What? It’s hard to do that the day before. There are too many things involved.”

“I know. That’s why we have to move quickly. Check it out first, and gather the people in charge of preparation. I’ll go see the director and come back.”

As Yoo-hyun was about to turn around, Kwon Se-jung asked him.

“Is it irreversible?”

“Yes.”

Kwon Se-jung nodded his head at Yoo-hyun’s serious answer.

“Okay. I’ll get on it right away.”

“Thanks.”

Yoo-hyun got up from his seat and walked toward the TF director’s seat.

His face, which was always bright, was stiff for once.

At the TF director’s seat, the team leaders were already gathered and making a fuss.

Especially for Lee Bon-seok, the team leader who heard the news of the audit, it was like a fire on his feet.

He took this opportunity to pressure Kim Hyun-min, the director, strongly.

“Director, you know that the Group Strategy Office is sending an audit team, right?”

“I heard.”

“We have to respond to the data as well because there is a panel supply issue with the Home Appliances Business Division. It’s not enough even if we work all night.”

Jang Joon Hong, another team leader, was in the same boat.

He protested to Kim Hyun-min as if everything was wrong because of the picnic.

“If we lose Dell, IT is over.”

“I know that too.”

“There’s no time for logo marketing or anything else. We have to go out and clear up the misunderstanding right now. We don’t have time to be distracted by a picnic or something.”

Choi Min-hee, a female team leader, also looked very troubled.

It was unrealistic to have a picnic if they wanted to deal with Il Sung’s attack.

But she knew that Kim Hyun-min was the one who would have the most headache here, so she didn’t say anything.

“...”

Kim Hyun-min thought for a moment without answering.

The exact scale of the problem had not been revealed yet.

It was unreasonable to cancel the picnic that was coming up tomorrow.

Besides, he cared very much about the morale of his employees.

‘He’s like Kim Hyun-min.’

Yoo-hyun, who was watching him from behind, empathized with his heart that put his members first.

But now was the time to move quickly.

There would be some bleeding, but that was how they could turn crisis into opportunity.

He made up his mind and approached him.

“Director.”

As soon as he called Kim Hyun-min, Lee Bon-seok turned his head with a scowl on his face.

It was obvious that he would say something about interfering, so Yoo-hyun spoke first before he opened his mouth.

“I canceled the picnic as you instructed.”

“What?”

Lee Bon-seok’s eyes widened and Yoo-hyun added another word.

“I’ll notify the people who prepared for the picnic again and put them right into work.”

Yoo-hyun had burned away the option of having a picnic himself.

Then Kim Hyun-min’s mind became free as well.

He understood Yoo-hyun’s intention with their long rapport and quickly matched his pace.

Bang.

He slapped his hand on the desk and stood up with a fierce look in his eyes. He scanned around him.

“Do you have a way this time too?”

“Of course. I’ll tell you what’s the easiest and most effective way to do this.”

Kwon Se-jung blinked his eyes at Yoo-hyun’s confident words.

A moment later, in the 13th floor conference room.

At the place where all TF members below the assistant manager level were gathered, Yoo-hyun uttered a shocking word.

But the answer that came back was completely different from what Kwon Se-jung had worried about.

“What? The director ordered the picnic to be canceled?”

“It must be a very serious matter. The director was smiling and even prepared liquor for us yesterday, but he canceled it.”

“What on earth is going on that made the director step in?”

The people were more worried than disappointed.

How could the result be so different?

Thanks to one word added by the director.

There was no resentment.

Who would resent whom when the director said not to go?

Seeing that scene, Kwon Se-jung chuckled.

-When you have to say something difficult, you have to sell your superior. Preferably someone who can’t be touched by anyone.

Yoo-hyun did exactly what he said earlier and turned the situation around as promised.

Thanks to that, people easily accepted the cancellation of the picnic.

Kwon Se-jung had been working at the company for quite a while, but he had never seen such a situation before.

He was not saying this because he was his colleague, but he was really amazing.

-It’s not a lie. The director wants TF to succeed, and for that we have to cancel the picnic in this situation.

‘He’s so shameless.’

Kwon Se-jung looked at Yoo-hyun with admiration.

He knew that Yoo-hyun wouldn’t stop here by watching his moves so far.

What kind of magic would he perform next?

Kwon Se-jung waited for Yoo-hyun’s next words with a pounding heart.

He would see and learn whatever miracle he would create.

As expected by Kwon Se-jung, Yoo-hyun didn’t come up on stage just to announce the cancellation of the picnic.

It was to turn this situation, which was obviously a crisis, into an opportunity for reversal.

To do that, he needed to gather the power of everyone here as one.

Jang Jun Sik displayed a report on the screen and Yoo-hyun added an explanation.

“I’ll tell you why the director ordered that. First of all, the current situation of mobile is...”

The report had only a few lines of text, but it detailed each team’s crisis situation.

It was obvious that it would take a few nights to finish, let alone having a picnic.

The picnic was completely erased from everyone’s minds.

Instead, another question arose.

‘I haven’t heard that from the team?’

‘Why is he telling us this here?’

Buzzing.

The atmosphere became more and more noisy.

Yoo-hyun answered their curiosity before the questions came out.

“Most of you here probably haven’t received this information yet. You must be wondering why I’m telling you this here. There’s a reason.”

“...”

Yoo-hyun cut off his words decisively and the attention went up.

He caught the flow and raised his hand to point at the screen.

“These cases will take a long time to solve within the team. We need to help each other to solve this problem quickly.”

As Yoo-hyun said something that a TF leader would say, a man raised his hand.

It was Yu Seok-won, an assistant manager who was in charge of the picnic food preparation.

“But why are you telling us that?”

“It’s the director’s order.”

“Order?”

“It means that this is not a team matter but a TF-wide matter, and that the staff below the assistant manager level need to step up to deal with this in a short period of time.”

“So what? I’m not arguing, I just don’t understand.”

Yu Seok-won looked serious as he asked and Yoo-hyun pointed at his surroundings and answered.

“Assistant Manager, you’re sitting with the food preparation members right now. It seems like mobile team, IT team, and TV team are all included in there.”

“That’s true. So what? Oh...”

“You’re probably thinking what I’m thinking. The upper levels may not have communication between teams yet, but we’re too well connected. We also know very well that there are 300 skewers in the fridge.”

“Hahaha.”

People laughed at Yoo-hyun’s joke.