Chapter 50: Chapter 22.1 Ji Lin, I can!

Bai Duanduan barely hesitated before picking up her bag, and quickly catching up with Ji Lin. She coughed as she approached, “That, Partner Ji, is there a shortage of people at Sheng Lin recently? I ……”

It was a pity that before Bai Duanduan could finish her sentence, Ji Lin interrupted her completely without giving her any face, “There is no shortage of people. No recruitment going on at all. We are just a small office, we don’t need so many people.”

“How can there be no shortage of people? Although Sheng Lin is small in scale, it’s a boutique law firm. 1 A boutique law firm is a collection of attorneys typically organized in a limited liability partnership or professional corporation specializing in a niche area of law practice. Although a general practice law firm includes a variety of unrelated practice areas within a single firm, a boutique firm specializes in one or a select few practice areas. Not to mention that under your leadership, our business at Sheng Lin will definitely flourish and get better and better! The existing manpower is definitely not enough when the business expands in the future, so you must still be short of a few mature lawyers who can start working straight away, right? Don’t you think I ……”

Ji Lin obviously didn’t eat this, he coldly snorted and interrupted Bai Duanduan’s boast, “Don’t you usually call me directly by my first name ‘Ji Lin’? Why have you changed your way of addressing me now? And what do you mean ‘our Sheng Lin’, what does Sheng Lin have to do with you?”

“I ……”

“Don’t call me PartnerJi. It’s useless even if you call me father, I’m not recruiting you. Our current business volume is carried by the on the job lawyers just right.”

“Then you can recruit me to help the rest of your lawyers share the work pressure? Don’t be so heartless, we are all neighbors, you give me a chance to learn from you too!”

Ji Lin smiled, “Is this the first day you know me?”

“Eh?”

“Things that can be done with just one salary for an employee, why would I hire two employees for that job costing me double salary? I would definitely never spend a penny more.” Ji Lin looked to Bai Duanduan, “Unfortunately, no one at our law firm wants to leave at the moment, so there are no openings for you to fill either.” He paused, “Of course you can come and study if you want to.”

Bai Duanduan was delighted. It turns out that it was useless to brag. One just had to lower their status in front of him to curry favour from him. She was just about to say thank you to her boss, when Ji Lin continued –

“But I won’t pay you.”

???

Ji Lin smiled and rightfully said, “It’s not bad to give you a chance to learn without letting you pay me back, do you still expect to ask me for money? With your strength of losing two cases to me in a row?”

“……”

Bai Duanduan said in a desperate struggle, “It is said that when God closes a door, he will open a window, so look, I will lower my salary, I don’t want the usual overtime pay, and my share can also be lowered, so can you open a window for me?”

“Unfortunately, your God not only closed the door for you, but also locked the window.”

“……”

When Ji Lin finished speaking, he turned around and walked out of the bar. Bai Duanduan groaned and muttered behind him, but she also followed Ji Lin out of the bar. The two lived on the same floor in the same building, so they would inevitably have to walk together on the way back.

Bai Duanduan was still undeterred and had a bright idea to come up with a new reason, “Ji Lin! You have to be responsible for me!”

Probably her words were so deafening that even Ji Lin, who was steadily moving forward, couldn’t help but pause in his steps, “Bai Duanduan, you’re going a bit too far with this porcelain, aren’t you?”

“Where am I touching porcelain! Think about it, why was I misunderstood by my client as colluding with you, the opposing lawyer, in private? In the end, not only was I almost stabbed by an angry client, but I was also reported to the Law Society 2 A law society is an association of lawyers with a regulatory role that includes the right to supervise the training, qualifications, and conduct of lawyers which further caused this pile of trouble. Du Xinyi took this opportunity to send emails to all the law firms in the circle to make more rumors. I know it’s not because of you!” Bai Duanduan hated to perform a tearful performance on the spot as she complained, “Ji Lin, if you hadn’t claimed that I was your wife before in front of Du Xinyi, who was having a dinner with me, could I have been slandered as having an affair with you?”

The more Bai Duanduan said, the angrier she got, “You’ve ruined my career by calling me your wife, and my reputation has also been ruined by you. Now everyone in our circle is thinking that I’m having an affair with you. I can’t even find a date partner if I want to fall in love in the future!

“Do I need to remind you? You were the one who brought up the husband wife stunt in the first place.” Ji Lin was unmoved and said, “As for not being able to find a lover in the circle, can’t you go outside the legal circle to find one?”

“……”

You’re too fcking cold and heartless!

“Hey, you wait…”

The two were walking to the entrance of the community, and Bai Duanduan was about to go after him to try to reason with Ji Lin, when she found that someone had already stopped him in advance.

“Mr. Ji! Finally, you are here!”

The person who stopped him was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a business suit and black-rimmed glasses, and his face looked a little embarrassed and anxious.

The fact that he could call Ji Lin as “Mr. Ji” instead of “Lawyer Ji” showed that the other party should not be a client of Ji Lin.

When Ji Lin saw him, he frowned, “What’s the matter?”

“Xiao Chen, the domestic helper who previously served your mother, Ms Meng, had some family matters to attend to recently, so she stopped doing the work ……”

“Then can’t you get your company to replace one? A housekeeping service company of this scale, even for such trivial matters, has to come to the door and bother the customers?”

The middle aged man wiped his sweat and explained with a nervous look on his face, “It’s like this, our company happens to have the rest of the housekeeping on order at the moment, and for the time being there may not be any …… that can come to take over from Xiao Chen.”

This time Ji Lin finally stopped walking towards the apartment building. He turned around and looked at the other party, “Aren’t you the biggest domestic service company in the industry? The advertisement says that you have more than 2,000 domestic staff to ensure that every contracted client receives a full range of quality services, but now you’re telling me that there’s no replacement for Xiao Chen after she left?

“Do you really have more than 2,000 staff? Do you need me to take your company to court, and then apply for your social security payment list to see the number of employees? Does it involve false advertising or failure to pay social security to employees in accordance with regulations?”

“In addition, I signed the contract of housekeeping services for two years at a time. In order to save trouble, I have already paid all the fees at once. Do I need to remind you of the liquidated damages?”

“We can refund you all the money! We’ll pay for the breach of contract too! You can rest assured of this, but there really is no new housekeeper left to replace the rest ……”

Ji Lin pursed her lips, “It really won’t work, if there is no new housekeeper. In that case, it’s okay to use the old ones. The ones that were fired by my mother before can be called back to make a transition. When you have the rest of the new housekeeping staff free, just replace them if they are unwilling to continue.” Ji Lin glanced at the other person, “Otherwise, you can just wait to receive my lawyer’s letter and indictment.”

The middle-aged man obviously had something more to say. He stumbled for half a day before finally giving in, “Mr. Ji, let me be honest with you! It’s not that we don’t have any more staff, it’s just that your mother’s temper is unbearable to anyone! We have more than 300 domestic helpers waiting for orders, but no one is willing to take your family’s orders!”