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Chapter 326 - 215: Faking It_2

Chapter 326: Chapter 215: Faking It_2

He didn’t come to clock in for work because he had nothing better to do, but rather Uncle Zhang had called him that morning.

Having not seen Uncle Zhang for a while, he bought some tea leaves on his way and whistled cheerfully as he arrived at the company.

Upon entering the company, he encountered his old colleague Ma Qiao.

Ma Qiao was chatting with a few colleagues and his eyes lit up when he saw Meng Lang come in.

"Yo! Look who we have here!" he said with a laugh as he walked over.

"You’re quite something, you know, if you didn’t show up soon, I’d almost have thought Su City had an extra missing person on their hands!"

He gave Meng Lang a once-over, "Hmm! You seem to be doing pretty well for yourself lately?"

"It’s actually you who’s been doing well," Meng Lang retorted, "Didn’t I hear you’ve become a team leader? You’re really cut out for this job!"

Meng Lang eyed Ma Qiao up and down, noticing that he had changed quite a bit, even wearing a suit now.

In an insurance company, being a team leader means that an ordinary salesperson has recruited subordinates and, once they have enough people, they can apply to form their own team.

Besides developing their own business, team leaders can also increase their income by taking a cut from the commissions of their team members.

In other words, the more people you bring into the company to sell insurance, the more commission you can draw.

Those familiar with the insurance industry know, how much can one make just by doing business themselves?

Building a team to take commissions, that’s the real road to making money!

Does that sound familiar?

Exactly, it’s not too different from CX’s viral growth tactics...

Insurance is sometimes also called the largest legal CX organization in the country.

Of course, unlike those groups that might abscond at any moment, insurance companies have the backing of national credit and cannot go bankrupt, so there is quite a difference between the two.

"Enough of that, let’s not blow each other’s trumpets. Where’s Uncle Zhang?"

"The leaders are in a meeting!" Ma Qiao pointed at the conference room.

"Oh! Then I’ll just sit and wait for a bit."

After sitting down, Meng Lang looked around and noticed that the company was much livelier, with many new faces to boot.

"Speaking of which, I haven’t been here for so long, and the company has hired quite a number of new people, huh?"

"Heh! That’s all because we got a new leader. This leader... very capable, let me tell you!" Ma Qiao snickered.

Meng Lang, sensing the disdain in Ma Qiao’s words, gave him a puzzled look.

"A new leader?"

"That’s right! You might not know yet, but... South Wave King... he got arrested!" Ma Qiao whispered mysteriously.

"Eh... really?"

Wang Zhiping... Hearing this name again, Meng Lang couldn’t help feeling a bit sentimental.

It was a recent event, yet it felt like it had happened a long time ago.

Life’s relentless sequence of events stretched and distorted his sense of time...

"Eh? You don’t seem surprised at all. Did you already know?"

Ma Qiao was puzzled to see Meng Lang showing no sign of surprise.

"Cough! I’ve heard rumours."

"I heard Wang Zhiping’s case had a terrible impact, so the higher-ups kept a lid on it, and few in the company know about it.

I only found out through the friend of a friend of the Wang family’s maid. How did you get the news?"

As for that piece of news, I’m afraid no one knows it better than I do.

After all, I was one of the people involved...

"Given three days, even an honorable man should be looked at with new eyes. We’re all in sales here, who are we to look down on anybody? You’ve got your sources, and my network is rapidly expanding as well!"

Meng Lang joked.

"Ha! Big talker. So tell me, what did he do to get himself arrested?"

"The mistress tried to overthrow the wife and take her place, Wang Zhiping took a desperate risk to silence her, but crashed head-on into the police cordon and was caught red-handed with the evidence!

That’s pretty much how it went down..."

"Eh... my information wasn’t that detailed. Are you for real, did you watch a live broadcast or something?"

A live broadcast?

You might not believe it, but in this script, I was practically the director...

"I have a friend who works at the station."

"Oh, I see..." Ma Qiao realized, then looked at him with a smirk.

"So how about it? You used to be quite dissatisfied with him, right? Now that he’s locked up, must be feeling pretty good, huh? Don’t you want to make a statement or have a laugh?"

Mockery? Me, a scapegoat of 18 years, do I have the right to mock that once victor?

Although I was still young at that time, it’s... such a dark history!

"What are you laughing at? In life, sometimes we laugh at others, and sometimes others laugh at us," Meng Lang said with a sigh.

"Ha-ha! You really are open-minded!

Speaking of Wang Zhiping, actually, looking back now, he was pretty good, aside from his bad temper and tendency to find someone to vent on, he was never late or left early, and diligently enjoyed the overtime blessings.

He wasn’t wrong, he just made a mistake any man could make," Ma Qiao also sounded somewhat melancholic.

"From the sound of it, are you feeling a bit nostalgic? Is it because of the new leader?" Meng Lang asked, puzzled.

Ma Qiao looked around to make sure no one was paying attention to them before speaking in a low voice.

"Indeed! With Wang Zhiping gone, the manager’s position was left vacant.

The acting manager, Elder Liang, was just a transition. The provincial company quickly sent a new leader to take over the manager’s position."

"Mmhm!" Meng Lang nodded.

Insurance companies have a rotation system, so many branch managers change places after one or two years.

The turnover rate of personnel is incredibly fast, so changing leaders is quite commonplace.

"This guy’s surname is Sun. It is said that the branches he was at previously had outstanding performance, and he climbed the ranks very rapidly in recent years.

Rumor has it that even the worst-performing branches, once in his hands, could be revived and shoot up to the top ranks in the province!" Ma Qiao hinted.

"What, is this guy a super hard worker?"

Generally speaking, leaders with good performance are those who implement strict policies, which means passing on performance targets to employees at each level below them.

Could this be the reason for Ma Qiao’s dissatisfaction?

"Far from it!" Ma Qiao sneered dismissively.

"If he really led the performance through sheer hard work, that would be his own merit.

But performance based on deception and fraud... heh!"

"What do you mean? Can performance even be faked?"

"Heh! You haven’t been at the company for long, there’s a lot of murky waters here! Do you know what ’long-term insurance with short-term actions’ means, or what ’falsely increasing members’ implies?"

"Uh... No, tell me about it! I have nothing better to do anyway," Meng Lang asked, his curiosity piqued.

"You know that the company rewards sales agents for new business performance, right? Like commissions, incentives, performance bonuses, and so on."

"I know!"

That’s the main source of income for sales agents.

"So, ’packaging’ a product as a 1-year savings plan, first deceiving clients into getting insured, and then arranging for them to cancel en masse the next year, allows the extraction of various commissions and bonuses from the company, and the company’s performance seems pretty impressive.

But with ’long-term insurance with short-term actions,’ the income can’t cover the expenses of the commissions.

The company isn’t really making money this way. In the long run, it only causes substantial losses to the company, exploiting loopholes in the company’s system!

Where do the extracted commissions and bonuses go? Into certain pockets.

This is a form of embezzlement, get it now!"

"Oh! So that’s how it is!" Meng Lang realized.

He finally understood where all these unfamiliar faces in the company came from.

To extract commissions, sales agents are indispensable, and they are even considered ’disposable.’

So, among these new hires, how many came just to play the part of falsely increasing members... now that was quite intriguing...

"City folks really do play dirty!" Meng Lang couldn’t help but exclaim.

"Bang!" Just then, the conference room door opened, and a bunch of people walked out, Uncle Zhang among them.

Leading the group was a middle-aged man in a suit and glasses, with an air of authority.

"That’s the guy," Ma Qiao spat.

"Oh!" Meng Lang nodded, not paying much attention.

No matter how cunning city people were, it didn’t have much to do with him, since both parties were playing completely different ’levels’...

Unexpectedly, upon exiting, Manager Sun glanced around the office and headed straight toward them.

"Manager Sun!" Ma Qiao promptly stood up smiling.

"Mm! Ma Qiao, your group has good performance this month, but you have to keep up with new policies. Other groups are hot on your heels. You are the backbone of Group 3’s performance, but you’re falling behind a bit.

I’ll arrange for someone to hold an experience-sharing meeting later, presenting new policies and work insights, everyone should come and listen."

"Sure! I will definitely study the new policies and strive not to be a drag on the company!"

Meng Lang: "..."

In this world, everyone is cynical and yet everyone conspires in corruption...