Moreover, the group headquarters' rules for penalizing salespeople who poached deals required customers to use the same phone number when contacting the sales office. If a customer called from a different number, there was no way for the sales office to know who was on the other end. In that case, everyone could only rely on their own abilities.
Rules were rigid, but people were flexible. If someone truly wanted to steal a deal, there would always be a way. It was just that the salespeople at Great Zhou World's sales office were all seasoned veterans. If anyone broke the unspoken rules, it would inevitably provoke retaliatory deal-poaching. To avoid trouble, everyone maintained a tacit understanding and did their best not to interfere with one another.
Cao Yan understood this well. He had counted on Gu Chen having only recently joined the sales office and surely not understanding these unspoken methods of competing for deals. The others would protect themselves and might not necessarily step forward to confront him, the sales manager, for Gu Chen's sake. That was why he had boldly stolen Gu Chen's customer. To make absolutely sure nothing went wrong, he had even specifically instructed Zhai Xingguo on how to avoid leaving any evidence behind.
Who could have expected that the deal did not belong to Gu Chen at all, but to Liu Mei? Everyone in Sales Department One at Great Zhou World knew how difficult Liu Mei was to deal with. Cao Yan was also afraid that Liu Mei would tear all pretense aside and make a huge scene, so he could only return the deal to her, swallowing his pride and accepting his bad luck.
But while the deal had been returned, the 100,000-yuan discount could not simply be treated as though nothing had happened.