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How luxurious can an office be?

This question is nonsense. People have different understandings of luxury, and there are many different kinds of luxury, but this is indeed a luxurious room.

The gold-pasted ceiling and natural crystal chandeliers, together with the bear's head and lion's head on the wall, and two ivory tusks taller than a person on the display case, such a "simple" arrangement is enough to show how luxurious the decoration of this room is.

However, the things in this office, like most offices, are the property of the company, and only a very small number of personal items belong to the company employees who use this room.

His name is Joe Griman, and he is the Credit Manager of the Sabine Branch of Goldway Bank.

This kind of administrative manager is completely different from those account managers outside. He is still one step away from being promoted to the level of bank branch president, but this step is difficult to cross.

Unlike most official organizations, the second-ranked official in the local area will be promoted to the first-ranked position in the local area. In Jinhui Bank, if Joe Griman wants to be promoted, he may Transfer from the branch to the regional branch or headquarters, and work hard from the middle and lower levels.

The meaning of the president is not just a difference in title. Of course, Joe Griman never thought that he could become a president. Basically, such a thing will not happen with a high probability.

He lacks a lot of capital, he has no backer in the board of directors of the head office, and those people look down on the general manager of the credit department of a branch in a second-tier city, which makes his promotion road long. Fortunately, he is easy to be satisfied, satisfied status quo.

He is just forty-two years old, has a successful career, his wife is young and beautiful, and his three children are also very lively and lovely. If there are not too many problems, he may be 48 years old in Sabine City, and then transferred to the division Make way for others.

The bank's generous treatment made him never consider some problems after he was removed from an important position. The high benefits and high treatment were enough for him to spend his life happily.

Of course, everyone will have small troubles of one kind or another, and this has nothing to do with their reputation. Even the President of the Baylor Federation, with a reputation like His Excellency, cannot be free from worries.

What worries Joe Griman now is that the loan business volume in Sabine City has been declining, and the amount of business volume has no direct relationship with managers of his level.

If he has done a lot, he may be mentioned in a meeting by the branch superiors.

Few of them have been completed, and the unlucky ones are those front-line lending account managers, although everyone is a manager.

But after all, this is a bit unpleasant. Jinhui Bank will have a paid public trip at the end of each year. Everyone works in the same group company, but they belong to different regions. It is inevitable that they will talk about their work situations together.

If they do well, they will definitely be praised by others, and if they complete their tasks well, they will have more opportunities to be promoted, and they may become their own superiors in the future.

If you do not do well, although people will not be ridiculed, but in the process of various comparisons, you will become a green leaf that sets off others, and that taste is not pleasant at all.

He wanted to solve these problems, but there was nothing he could do. As one of the six largest banks in the Baylor Federation, Jinhui Bank had an understanding of the financial market and international economic trends, which had become their daily homework.

Since the end of the explosive economic development of Baylor Federation in the past few years, the economy has been a bit sluggish in recent years.

The financial market is still very active, and there is no obvious downward trend. This also makes people always say that this is a "short-term" silence after the outbreak. After the rising "rebound period" passes, the Federation's economy will have another significant growth. .

People believe these words, but the question is whether this rebound period is too long. It has been almost three years. The weak market and declining economy have begun to sting people’s nerves, especially the period of explosive growth dividends Gradually, people began to come out from the blind audience, and there was an undercurrent surging under the seemingly thriving surface of the entire Baylor Federation.

In the past seven months of this year, Sabine City has registered more than 2,000 enterprises, and at the same time, more than 600 small, medium and micro enterprises have gone bankrupt.

If it is released and cannot be collected back, it will be a big trouble. The above sounds good, and each branch will be given a part of the bad debt indicator every year, but if you really try to fill up this indicator, one phone call can change the personnel structure of the entire branch.

As the final approver, Joe Griman has always been very cautious. He would rather not release a penny than be kicked out. He will stay in this position for a few more years until his three children are born. When you are an adult, put them all in the bank.

When a person reaches his age, when he doesn't have too many pursuits, he starts to think about children's affairs, which is the case for most people.

While reading some obscene magazines at his desk to pass the time, one of the four phones in front of his desk rang. It was a private phone. Only those who had a good relationship with him knew this number. After adjusting his mood a little, he Only then did he answer the phone, "This is Joe Griman..."

"It's me, Johnson, are you free at noon?" On the other end of the phone came a call from the head of the local tax bureau.

The number of times the bank deals with the tax bureau is far more than the number of times they greet the investigation bureau. Although they often deal with the investigation bureau, they don't like those people in the investigation bureau.

On the contrary, the tax bureau is easier to get in touch with, which is mutually beneficial, especially the middle and high-level managers of the bank. Their income is more than ten times or even dozens of times that of other people. How to legally avoid taxes has become a headache for them. With people from the tax bureau to help them sort out the materials, everything will be much simpler.

In return, they will also give the tax bureau a very active cooperation, and occasionally push some inside information, such as a certain fund's recent performance, changes in the board of directors of a listed company, and so on.

Joe Griman mostly came into contact with middle-level personnel like Michael. He knew Johnson and had contact with him a few times, but the number and frequency of contact were very low.

In Johnson's position, Baylor's Federal Supervision Department will check him from time to time to see if he has been involved in job crimes.

The Federation doesn't pay much attention to grassroots and front-line staff. Even if these people use their powers to commit crimes, the harm to the entire Federation and society is extremely limited. However, the main responsible persons at the local level are different. The damage caused is incalculable.

Even if Joe Griman had the opportunity to sit down and make friends with Johnson, he would try his best to avoid suspicion.

This time it was the other party who came to find him, and he couldn't avoid it, so he could only say that he was free.

Johnson invited him to lunch, which was frankly a strange request, since there was no friendship between them, and it was obvious that the other party was looking for him on business.

After hanging up the phone, he thought for a long time but couldn't find the reason why Director Johnson suddenly invited him, so he could only make preparations in advance full of doubts.

On the other side, Lynch and Johnson had already arrived at the appointment place 20 minutes before their appointment time.

Joe Griman took out his brains and ate them up, but he couldn't figure out that Johnson was just a medium, and it was Lynch, an ordinary little guy, who really wanted to meet him.