After Jingnan Group's ribbon-cutting and unveiling, everyone had expected the first Party Committee meeting to be convened soon. The group's strategic direction, allocation of benefits, annual plans, and so on all needed to be settled as quickly as possible.
But no one had expected that the first item on the agenda of such an important meeting would be Jia Zhongyue delivering a self-criticism.
Li Ye found that rather surprising. Though Jia Zhongyue was only making an oral self-criticism, a self-criticism was still a self-criticism, wasn't it?
When the banquet had ended on bad terms yesterday, Shang Bin and Jia Zhongyue had both looked ready to fight Li Ye to the bitter end. How had they suddenly caved in after sleeping off the alcohol overnight?
But the moment Jia Zhongyue opened his mouth, Li Ye knew that he was using the deadly move of advancing by retreating.
"I'm sorry, leaders and colleagues. Today is the first formal meeting since our group was established. I'd like to take up a little of everyone's time to make a sincere oral self-criticism.
"During the group's preparations, I was entrusted by several leaders with arranging the offices. However, because my considerations were not comprehensive enough and I failed to communicate thoroughly with Deputy General Manager Li,
"the office arranged for Deputy General Manager Li was unsatisfactory. At this critical juncture when our group has just merged, it caused serious misunderstandings and misconceptions. I blame myself deeply."
Jia Zhongyue spent three minutes recounting his faults with a face full of shame, and everyone present turned to look at Li Ye.
Yesterday, Li Ye's cramped and messy office had already drawn dissatisfaction from Minister Xue and the others. Now Jia Zhongyue had seized the initiative to apologize, smoothly tossing the issue onto Li Ye's side instead and