Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols - Chapter 64
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| Episode 64. How to resolve friction with your boss: Get rid of your boss (2)
After Kim Iwol submitted the plan to the planning team, the frequency of his visits to the management headquarters decreased significantly.
Naturally, Min Joo-kyung, who was part of the management headquarters, also had little opportunity to see Kim I-wol.
That is, until Kim Yi-wol requested an interview through the trainees’ manager, Lim Chan-young.
Interviews with people management teams are generally about the same.
At best, the biggest issue is that they want to change the manager.
When Kim Yi-wol entered the conference room with a tired expression, Min Joo-kyung thought that he must have been busy recently or that his mind was complicated because of his upcoming debut.
However, the issue that this young trainee carefully brought up was an issue that had never existed in UA before.
“PD Yoo hit you?”
Minju Kyung sat up straight and asked about a topic she had never even dared to expect.
It wasn’t because I doubted Kim Il-wol. It was because I couldn’t believe that something that shouldn’t have happened had happened.
Kim Yi-wol, who had been hesitating and speaking with difficulty, nodded slightly.
“when?”
“… … A little while ago.”
He was the type of kid who would always make eye contact and speak honestly when talking to people, but today, Kim Yi-wol could hardly raise his head.
‘Do you really think that it was your fault?’
Minju Kyung’s heart sank.
Even if you are doing something wrong, you shouldn’t hit people, but even if that wasn’t the case, Kim Yi-wol wasn’t the type of person to do something that would get him in trouble.
Doesn’t everyone at UA know how polite and sincere Kim Yi-wol is?
Minju Kyung asked Kim Iwol as calmly as possible so that he wouldn’t get more nervous.
“What happened with you, PD?”
“… … To be honest, I don’t know.”
Kim Yi-wol said with an awkward smile. That fierce smile made Min Joo-kyung even more nervous.
At that moment, something flashed through Minju Kyung’s mind.
This was a conversation that came up during lunch with a colleague from the planning team a while ago.
‘Joo-kyung, be honest with me. Isn’t PD Yoo really a parachute?’
‘Why PD Yoo?’
‘That b*tch is a total piece of shit. He can’t do his job, he talks like a b*tch, and he has no tact. How on earth didn’t he get talked about in the industry?’
It was famous that after PD Yoo Han-soo came in, there was not a single day when the planning team’s expressions brightened.
Even just looking at Minju Kyung’s motivations, the number of complaints has increased to the point where you wonder if this person was originally like this.
And all of those complaints came from Yuhansoo.
‘The team leader doesn’t say it out loud, but I think that guy Yoo Han-soo feels inferior to Lee Wol.’
‘Inferiority complex?’
‘Oh. What is it that makes you pick a fight like that? It’s amazing how he brings up such a beggarly thing and asks about its history.’
‘Hey, what’s the age difference between Lee Wol and PD Yoo?’
‘Really. In this meeting, PD Yoo’s ideas were all thrown out and the ones that were carried over were adopted. Joo-kyung should have seen PD Yoo’s expression at that time.’
The idea of Kim I-wol was adopted over the idea of a limited number of people, Dong-gi clearly said.
I had heard before that this wasn’t the first time something like this had happened. But the news that all of the producer’s opinions were completely denied was so big that it spread all over the company.
“Lee Wol-ah, when did PD-nim put his hand on you?”
Minju Kyung asked cautiously. She hoped that it wasn’t just a grown man hitting a twenty-year-old out of an ugly inferiority complex.
But the answer he got back was not what Minju Kyung expected.
“A few days ago. Is the date important?”
“Not necessarily. I just remember it.”
“If you look at the calendar, you’ll be able to see the date. It was about three days after the meeting with the planning team, and the meeting schedule was written down on the calendar.”
Kim Yi-wol’s appearance, trying to speak calmly, was pitiful.
As Minju Kyung was thinking about what to say, Kim Yi-wol hesitated and took something out of his pocket.
“I thought you might not believe me… … .”
Minju Kyung accepted the package that Kim Iwol handed her without saying anything.
When the wad of paper was unfolded, small pieces of metal came into view.
Minju Kyung wasn’t stupid enough to not know why Kim Iwol had handed this over to her at this point.
It’s also true that electronic devices in our country don’t break like this even if you step on them lightly.
Minju Kyung let out a sigh. It was clear that this wasn’t a problem that could be discussed and resolved on my own.
* * *
Minju Kyung thought about it for a moment, then asked for my understanding and brought in the head of the artist management team.
The expression on the face of the management team leader who came in with a bright expression also turned ashen in 3 minutes.
If the company people had shown a lukewarm response, they would have made a fuss, saying that Yoo Han-soo scared the other trainees. Fortunately, nothing like that happened.
Thanks to that, I only had to explain how difficult my days were under Yoo Han-soo with a worldly-weary expression.
I was happy because I was in a position to vent my frustrations, something I had never done before even at Hanpyeong Industries, but the employees’ expressions were getting worse and worse.
When Yoo Han-soo told the story of how he had been on the phone until 4 in the morning, you could see the faces of the management team leader and Min Joo-kyung turning blue.
The manager of the management team said, ruffling my hair.
“They make the kids see all kinds of dirty things.”
Don’t worry about that. I’m a very social person, so it’s okay.
Minju Kyung sighed deeply and asked next to the management team leader.
“I’ll tell the planning team that PD Yoo needs to separate from Spark, right?”
“That’s obvious. I need to hear what PD Yoo has to say, but I also need to tell the CEO about this.”
It was amazing. The company’s employees were trying to protect me.
No matter how hard I practiced my acting for this day, I never thought he would listen to what I said so sincerely. He even believed what I said.
Even if that appearance is just a show, it won’t change the fact that it’s a sight that has never been seen before in Hanpyeong Industry. It’s something you have to live long to see.
You think of me this much. Really… … .
It’s difficult. There’s still more to talk about!
“Me, and… … .”
I took out the printed materials I had printed out in advance from my bag and handed them over. I was really in a hurry, but I tried to make it look like I was hesitating.
“I don’t know if I should show you this… … but I feel like I have to tell you.”
“what’s this?”
This is a document detailing suspicions of Yoo Han-soo’s corruption, written by former HR team members and current trainees.
* * *
To explain how I came to be a finite number savage, I have to go back a few weeks.
It was at that time that Yoo Han-soo was pushing all kinds of work onto me day and night.
Part of my job involved getting quotes from companies that Yoo Han-soo had contacted.
And in the process, I discovered:
‘The amount is strange?’
I’m talking about the circumstances of the attempted embezzlement of a limited number of funds.
In order to make the most of the budget allocated to Spark, we had to be as frugal as possible.
So I sold everything I could, except the footwork. I asked for estimates here and there, and knocked on the same places two or three times to get all the estimates together.
Then I discovered a singularity.
When I first went to ask for a quote on my own, when I got permission from UA to negotiate the price by mentioning the company name, and when Yoo Han-soo connected me to a company he knew, the unit prices of the companies that overlapped in three cases were too strange.
I knew that personal inquiries were the most expensive, but for some reason, the more I mentioned Yoo Han-soo’s name, the more the price went up.
At first, I thought that Yuhansu was on a blacklist for a certain company, but that wasn’t the case. Several companies showed similar behavior.
‘No way. It’s been a while since I changed jobs.’
I asked the company with a hopeful mind and hoping that Yoo Han-soo wasn’t that hopeless.
‘How should I handle the payment?’
The answer I got back was disappointing.
‘Please tell him that I will deposit the difference into his personal account like last time.’
What is this? It’s a problem that comes before humanity.
As a result, there was no embezzlement issue within UA, because a completely different company was selected as the target.
I thought I was going to die trying to find a place where the breath of a finite number of people had not reached, as long as the conditions were good.
It would have been good to report it immediately, but there were more than one or two things that got in the way.
The planning side is noisy due to the limited number of cases, so Spark’s debut may be delayed.
It would have been difficult to act rashly and end up being the first to get hurt before the deadline.
Considering all the things I had to do at the time, all I could do was somehow make sure that Yoo Han-soo couldn’t find a way to embezzle the money.
But I did record a series of events.
If something like this happens again, or if I reach my KPI and leave UA, then I plan to report it proudly.
And not long after, the day after he was beaten by Yoo Han-soo.
I went to the production team with the intention of suffocating Yuhansu.
I was planning to take a price list with only the estimates I received by mentioning a limited number of names and compare and cross-check with the standard price range that experts would know… … .
‘Producer Yoo Han-soo decided on the company, right? Then we don’t need to look at it. It’s all been discussed.’
What the heck.
The production team is acting suspiciously.
The employee conspired with the company to embezzle the budget.
But the relevant departments pretend not to know about this?
If this is the case, then what else can we say other than that we are in a gang?
Only then did the questions I had for so long come to light. If there was someone I was supposed to share the beans with, how much of a thorn in my side I must have been, always getting in their way.
They probably didn’t work closely together, so it would have been easy to deceive others on the surface.
I hope everyone gets punished and shuts down Spark.
With that in mind, I stayed up all night, transferring the recording to a transcript and attaching a quote until my eyes turned bloodshot.
It didn’t seem like the only people who had a connection with Yoo Han-soo were on the production team, but I decided to cut off the tendons first and think about it. I didn’t want to lose both rabbits while trying to catch two birds with one stone.
The report that I made with so much crying in my heart has now fallen into the hands of the UA people.
My heart was pounding. I wondered how UA would treat the whistleblower.
‘At Hanpyeong Industries, the whistleblower was a person who should be killed.’
Just as I was thinking that, I heard the sound of a chair leg roughly scraping against the floor. It was the sound of someone getting up from their seat.