After recuperating at ho for another day, Vera Wave finally got Kris Cooper’s permission to return to work at Ashton.
Due to Kate Palr’s instructions, rlin Bradley did not make a fuss about Vera Wave’s resignation. Everyone just assud she took a few days off due to feeling unwell, and nobody paid much attention.
Additionally, with the new project entering a critical phase, everyone was extrely busy and naturally had no ti for gossip.
Once Vera Wave returned to work, she quickly got back into the groove, working overti with everyone, rushing work, and taking practical considerations... After a week of hard work, on Friday morning, they finally ca up with a plan that satisfied Kate Palr.
In the afternoon, Kate Palr, Vera Wave, and Archie Perkin attended the board eting together, where the plan received unanimous approval from all the directors, including Kris Cooper.
The news reached the Planning Departnt, and everyone cheered out loud.
A week of hard work was finally recognized. Everyone was part of the effort, and now that the project was approved, it was naturally a credit to every single person in the departnt.
While everyone was still cheering and inspired, Kate Palr walked in.
"Ahem, is everyone so idle here?"
Seeing her, the crowd imdiately restrained their excitent, afraid of being scolded. Wang Xiaya and the others hurriedly rushed back to their seats.
"Since all of you seem to be so free..." Kate Palr glanced around at everyone, "How about we have a secret ballot election?"
"Elect for what?" Wang Xiaya asked.
"It’s definitely for the manager!" rlin Bradley said.
"Exactly!" Kate Palr nodded, smiling. "Just as a country cannot be without its leader, neither can the Planning Departnt. Let’s practice so democracy and hold a big election today to elect the Planning Departnt Manager you all respect the most."
"Who are the candidates?!"
"Everyone present here is a candidate."
"So can we vote for ourselves?" a staff mber joked, smiling.
"Of course you can." Kate Palr said in a rarely gentle tone, "If you think you have the ability, you can campaign for votes too."
She took a pen holder off a staff mber’s desk, shook the pens out of it, and placed it on the table for everyone to see.
"Alright, everyone think it over, then write down the na of the person you respect most on a slip of paper and put it in here. In half an hour, I’ll check the votes."
Kate Palr turned to leave, and everyone looked at the pen holder, a bit surprised.
"Seriously?!"
"Seems like it!"
"What are we waiting for, let’s vote!"
...
So everyone returned to their seats, took out slips of paper, and began writing nas.
Seeing this, Vera Wave borrowed paper and pen from rlin Bradley, wrote a na, and dropped it into the pen holder.
Archie Perkin also returned to the office and shortly ca over with a folded slip of paper, which he placed into the pen holder.
Half an hour later, Kate Palr arrived on ti.
"Xiaya, you read the votes, rlin, you tally them!"
The two imdiately started, one reading, the other recording.
"Archie Perkin!"
"Vera Wave!"
...
The slips were nothing more than these two nas. Although Kate Palr didn’t specify selecting between them, everyone genuinely acknowledged the capabilities of these two.
"Archie Perkin, twelve votes. Vera Wave, twelve votes!" rlin Bradley looked at the tally on the notebook, "Director Lin, what do we do about the tie?"
"That’s not right!" Ruben Campbell walked over, "Our Planning Departnt should have twenty-five people, there should be twenty-five votes in total."
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