"Who are you? What are you doing here?" Pichai asked with a frown as he looked at An Shunwang, who had entered the office.
Actually, he had wanted to ask earlier, when they were outside in the office hall: Who was this guy sitting in An Shunwang's seat?
He didn't remember having anyone like this in his project team. Although he suffered from a certain degree of facial blindness when it came to Asians, there was no way he could have forgotten someone with this kind of presence.
Could he be a new hire arranged by the human resources department? Why hadn't they informed him, the supervisor? Or perhaps he wasn't a new hire but someone from another department?
An Shunwang was also incredibly depressed. Wasn't it you who told me to come in? Now you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you itching for a beating?
But he still didn't dare say that. After all, he was under someone else's roof...
"Well... didn't you just call for An Shunwang?"
Pichai sized him up when he heard that. Could this guy know that An Shunwang had caused trouble and have gone to find a Chinese executive from another department to plead his case and back him up?
Come to think of it, this guy's tough bearing did have the air of a leader... though he didn't look like a business leader so much as a military officer...
At that thought, a cold smile appeared on Pichai's face. Although he didn't know which department this guy belonged to, even if he was an executive from another department, Pichai wasn't going to show him any respect.
So what if he was an executive of a higher rank than Pichai? The company's previous two CEOs had both been Indians, three of its nine