Office Worker Who Hears Memories - Chapter 7

Did really well today

Tring!

I woke up to the sound of my alarm at 5 AM. It is the time when grandmother goes to the market to buy goods.

Elderly people are the kind of people who don’t let go of their ideas until the very end.

That was the case with Mrs. Kim Ok-soon, who always had a lot on her mind. And it was because of the emotional fights she has with herself, I ended up giving her an opportunity to earn a lump sum of money.

I washed my face and went out.

It was a 10-minute drive to the market alley.

The soup house’s door was closed.

A woman in a white short sweatshirt was squatting outside it. It was Ha Yeondu. When she came to the soup house yesterday, I tasked her with the responsibility.

I smiled warmly while hiding between the walls of the alley and watched her.

“Lazy brat… What are you doing here?”

I almost screamed of fright as grandmother suddenly held my shoulder.

“Ho, Can’t you let me know you were coming?”

“Why would I inform you about coming to my store? Why? So you could come along with me to the market?”

“No. Today, Miss Yeondu over there will come with you.”

“Yondu?” (T/N: State of Union)

“Yeondu!”

“Lazy brat… I know Yeondu! I won’t change my mind this time, I’ll work hard, so don’t worry about it.”

“Mom doesn’t have a daughter, right? Just two sons?”

“Why are you asking?”

“Don’t treat her harshly and see Yeondu like a daughter. She came out here at dawn to help my mom out, okay?”

“Daughter, my ass! You just go now.”

“Huh. I have a lot of work at the company.”

“I know. So just go.”

“If Miss Yeondu comes to work with a sad face, I won’t ever come to see you, Mom! Understood?”

“Goodness, look at you! Don’t worry!”

**  *

I arrived at the office early.

A sound kept going around.

And as I walked over to my seat, the sound only got louder.

“Pick me… Pick… me… Pick me up.”

When I got to my seat, I saw an unexpected sight.

Manager Ma Seong-gun.

With his socks off and a coat covering his back, he lied on his desk. The keyboard and various other things on the desk were spread around and messed up. His symbolic red tie was on the floor. I still wondered if I wasn’t hallucinating. He was even humming a song while sleeping.

I took light steps as I headed over to my place and opened the window.

The first thing I wanted to do was get rid of the smell of sweat.

I turned the computer on and looked at my desk.

A neatly organized PPT document was placed on the keyboard.

——

Market Fresh time event product

Proposal #1

Special sales

Business team assistant Manager Kim Kyung-il

—–

A document prepared by assistant manager Kim Kyung-il. First of all, I liked the clean cover. The moment I grabbed the document with my right hand, I heard the thoughts of assistant Kim.

<I need to go and close my eyes for at least an hour.>

Did he stay up all right?

I immediately checked the contents of the documents.

Product specification, consumer price, supply price, lowest internet price, competitiveness, risks, recent issues. It was a neatly organized report. Out of the total of five products he picked, two seemed useful.

They were products from overseas brands, so they seemed worth the try.

At the time of staying in One Small, I had to prepare everything by myself… Without realizing it, I let out a small laugh.

After a while…

“You came early. What… what!”

Kim Daesung, the first one to come to work, saw Manager Ma sleeping in and was shocked.

“Manager Ma slept here?”

“I think so. I just came in.”

Kim Daesung carefully placed a finger in front of Ma’s nose.

“He can’t be dead, right?”

“Yes. He was singing some song in his sleep. What time is it now?”

“8:30.”

“Then, please wake Manager Ma up.”

“Yes.” Kim Daesung carefully tried to wake him up by shaking his shoulders a little.

But like a demon sleeping, Manager Ma didn’t even move. It was like he drank a lot the night before.

Looking at the clock, Kim Daesun sighed. This time he touched the head of Ma.

Thud!

Manager Ma was frightened enough that he dropped to the floor.

“Are you alright?”

Shocked, Daesung helped Ma stand up.

Manager Ma brushed off his clothes and got up and soon looked at me. Immediately tucked his shirt into his pants and tightened his suspenders. He walked towards me and bowed.

“I am sorry. Team Leader.”

“No need. There is still time for work hours to start.”

“Even then…”

“You weren’t able to go back home?”

“Yes. I ended up meeting with my friends after a long time, so…”

I picked up the red tie of Manager Ma from the floor.

<Ah, man… What drawbacks do you get from helping me?> 

<3,000 won’t be enough… Who should I call?>

<Choi Soon-Hyung. After all, you are the only one I have.>

<Lee Jeong-Myung…. You aren’t the person I will come to see again.>

I heard a lot of memories of Manager Ma, just how many meetings had he gone to?

I hand him the tie and smile.

“Any results?”

Manager Ma glanced at assistant Kim’s PPT document on my desk and… “I’ll prepare it in 30 minutes and present it to you.

He was fast. However, to finalize a budget, it is necessary to receive a final confirmation from Mr. Cha in the morning.

“No need. Just tell me.”

“Really?”

“Yes. We don’t have much time.”

“A 3,000 won discount coupon for a delivery app for 5,000 won.”

“It isn’t a paper coupon, right?”

“SMS coupon.”

“Quantities?”

“100,000. Instead…”

The delivery apps were the hot topics these days. Three companies were fiercely competing, and there are multiple users for such apps. Moreover, SMS coupons don’t cost shipping.

I never would have guessed that Manager Ma would bring in such nice results.

“Instead what?”

“After the special sale is done, they are asking the market to officially sell it… Would that be fine?”

“And the fee?”

“6%… Just like the open market.”

“That’s good. I’ll convince the General Manager.”

“Yes! Thank you.”

That was when…

“Good Morning!”

Assistant Kim Kyung-il and Ha Yeondu entered.

I raised my hand and gestured to assistant Kim Kyung-il to come over, “Assistant Kim! Come over here for a second.”

“Yes. Team leader.”

“I saw the PPT. First, prepare an order of Koreco snacks of 300g for 60,000 units, and then 6,000 units of Stipple beans.”

“Yes.”

“And one more thing!”

I took out the company card from my pocket and placed it on the desk.

“Take Manager Ma with you, go to a sauna, wash yourselves, have a glass of banana milk, and come back. No. take a rest and come back after you have lunch.”

“It is fine.”

Assistant Kim refused but Manager Ma, who was behind him, quickly pushed his hand. He picked up the card and bowed.

“Yes! Thank you!”

“Manager!”

“What! Come on already. When higher-ups give you prizes or treats, you are supposed to take them right away. Isn’t that true? Team leader?”

“Yes. Go ahead before I change my mind.”

Ha Yeondu got up early in the morning to help grandmother. Manager Ma was out all night drinking alcohol to please people and get me results. Assistant Kim prepared a neat and careful report

Everyone managed to achieve something.

“Team Leader Won. Did something nice happen?”

I didn’t realize, but Kim Tae-ha who just came in asked from his desk.

“A lot of good things happened.”

“What are those? Tell me too!”

“I’ll tell you later. But you?”

“Ah, look at me now. Among the things I sent over to Mr. Woojin, this one was missing.”

Kim Taeha hands me a file folder.

“What is this?”

“I was going to use it for the event time, our team manager Park brought it. You can drop it if you don’t like it.”

As I sat down, I checked the documents that Kim Tae-ha handed me. A vintage-designed 3.9L air fryer.

An unfamiliar brand that I never heard of. However, the product design went well with the current trend.

I stick my head over the partition and whisper to Kim Tae-ha.

“Where is this product from?”

“Germany… Sleek design right?”

“Yes. But who goes along with just looking at an image? What is the product specification?”

“If I receive the product, I’ll let you know. Have you seen the cost?”

I couldn’t guess the cost with just its design.

“No.”

“You still don’t have an eye for such things.”

“Tch, you– How much?”

“6,300 won. How is that? Awesome right?”

Usually, a domestic air fryer of 3.9L would cost around 30,000 to 50,000 won and the supply price would be around 20,000 to 30,000 won.

I was concerned about such an amazing product.

“Is it really 3.9 L?”

“Yep.”

“Why so cheap?”

“It took six months for customs clearance.”

“six months?”

“Yes. It was a huge problem for the head office in Germany. They gave up all their marketing schedule and rushed over for an advance promotion in Korea the next month. This is why I’m pouring all my marketing skills into this right now. 6,300 isn’t the manufacturing cost, but only the customs clearance and container cost.”

“And for consumers?”

“A little over 100,000?”

Sometimes the customs clearance takes a lot longer than anticipated and such floating objects get created.

Such things happen only once a year…

“And the sample?”

“Tomorrow Team Manager Park will bring it. Buy me a drink on Friday. Me and Manager Park.”

“Tell me all you want to eat. I’ll buy anything.”

As a result, a total of 7 out of 12 products were confirmed.

All in one day…

I thought I did a good job coming here, if it was One Small, it would have taken around a week to get 12 products since I did it all alone– product sourcing, distribution, sales, marketing, and even product designing. I was trusted by team members and friends there.

But it was different now.

Doing it together, gave me a new feeling, something I hadn’t felt before.

I wrote down the product name, consumer price, and the supply price in the excel document, then click print.

**  *

General Manager Cha Ki-young said nothing after he saw my printed document. But his face told me everything I needed to know.

How did he manage to prepare these many things in one day? He looked at the document and gulped.

“Good work. I’ll ask the other teams to get the other 5 products.”

“No. We can finish it.”

“No. The special sales team pays more attention to event planning. The marketing Team is busy preparing for the new opening, so I’m trying to get the other MD Team to share their achievements with us. Got it?”

Selling us out? Or is he trying to spoil the event with some ridiculous product?

I knew Cha Ki-young, the general manager of the Marketing Chain. He 100% cannot be trusted.

“The Budget?”

“1.2 billion as you asked.”

“Understood. Then I’ll prepare products ready for checking.”

“Team Leader Won, don’t you trust me? I have been on this platform for several years.”

“There is nothing which will go perfect in this world. One of the seven could get dropped.”

“Then we’ll just pick something else,” General Manager Cha replied dryly.

When I came back to my seat, I called for Kim Daesung and Lee Wojin.

“Mr. Daesung, all the spots in the freezing warehouse have been secured?”

“Yes, even the existing ones were asked to be stacked on the other side.”

“Did you do it yourself?”

“Yes, there was no one else to do it. Haha.”

“Ah… Next time don’t do that, just talk with the logistics team.”

“Understood.”

“Mr. Woojin.”

“Yes?”

“When talking about the products, were there any products from the other teams that appear useful?”

“Well…”

“I guess we are thinking the same. I’ll get to it.”

I took the coat off the coat hanger and wore it.

Then I called for a person, who was looking at me, “Miss Yeondu, let’s go. We’ll go to the meeting and then have lunch. Daesung and Woojin too, you two have lunch.”

Ha Yeondu quickly held onto her notes as she closely followed me out.