What's wrong with this lawyer?!
Chapter 245: Are you, Tang Fangjing?
Every year, the end of the year is a critical period for maintaining stability.
Issues that have accumulated over the year must be resolved; if they can't be resolved at this time, they would have to be carried over to the next year, and as the years pass, time actually flies by rather quickly.
Issues like unfinished buildings, unpaid debts, unpaid wages, and so on, all kinds of troubles tend to erupt at the end of the year because it is our tradition to resolve issues before the New Year, without leaving them unresolved into the new year.
Consequently, the related departments are very busy during this time, trying to resolve disputes in various ways.
Of course, at times like these, some people start to think of Tang Fangjing.
It's just like how many people don't pay attention to the law in normal times and only turn to it when the need to defend their rights arises.
Old Tang is no exception.
Wang Jing from Magic City has already gone home, having spent the year in a seemingly endless quarrel with her advisor.
But now, upon seeing the variety of disputes frequently exposed online, along with all kinds of pitiful affairs, Wang Jing couldn't help but comment, "If Lawyer Tang were here, I guess he wouldn't stand by and do nothing."
Unfortunately, it seems as though Lawyer Tang had suddenly disappeared; there was no news of him on the internet or even in real life.
In an information society, it is normally impossible to hear absolutely nothing.
Therefore, many people claimed that Tang Fangjing was dead, solely because he was an orphan with no close relatives and that Tengda was deliberately withholding the news.
Sighing, Wang Jing decided to stop thinking about this problem.
Online, Wang Jing's comment quickly reached towering heights.
"Wife, don't look back, I'm your husband": Yeah, it's been a year, how come there's still no news of Lawyer Tang?
"Lawyer Zhang from Jingzhou": It's obviously bad if there has been no news for so long, what else could it be? I'm really curious, why do they have to hold Tang Fangjing in such high regard? He's just a lawyer, after all.
"There are so many distinguished lawyers in the country, none of whom act like him, making a scene over a case, making people think justice relies solely on him."
This comment from Lawyer Zhang immediately triggered dissatisfaction among many, and quarrels began under Wang Jing's comment, bringing Lawyer Zhang a lot of traffic.
In the Xihong District of Jingzhou City, Zhang Shunfeng was delighted to see the increase in private messages in his backend, and there were not a few people on the internet doing what he did.
Some were lawyers, while others were from legal consultancy firms. Zhang Shunfeng belonged to a legal consultancy firm, which in essence, was about selling legal services.
Now many law firms are collaborating with legal consultancy companies. The companies find cases and pass them to law firms to handle, and some legal consultancy firms are even directly owned by the directors of law firms.
With Tang Fangjing out of the picture, everyone wanted a piece of his vast web traffic, so in Jingzhou and even in the larger region of Handong, everyone tried to hitch a ride on any mention of Tang Fangjing's traffic.
Some did so by picking fights like Zhang Shunfeng, while others praised him excessively, elevating him to a status unmatched by anyone on earth or in heaven...
The former were detested by netizens, but the latter also made them uncomfortable; both were marketing tactics.
A single fan holds off ten detractors, anyway, as long as I say I'm a fan, then I am a fan.
The internet was full of chaos, and for Yang Tiezhi, this year was equally tough.
In a construction site in Guangming District of Jingzhou City, Yang Tiezhi was on a phone call.
"Manager Wang, I really have no choice, those were your rules, right? If I call at that time, I definitely have to wake him up!"
A voice from the mobile phone responded, "We can't deal with that, it's a problem between you two. Besides, the public security organs have already handled it; what can you expect the company to do?"
Yang Tiezhi couldn't help but raise his voice, "Manager Wang, how can you say you can't deal with it? The rule you set states that only the captain or the first mate can answer those calls. I was doing it for work, and if you're firing me, you got to provide some compensation... I'm going to sue you!"
On the other side of the phone, inside the Kaisen Logistics Company in Donglan City, Hainan Province, Manager Wang got furious upon hearing the voice from his phone.
"Why the hell are you yelling? Is it the company's fault that you got into a fight with Lin Shuqiang? You're taking it out on me now? Does the company owe you or do I owe you? Get lost, go sue wherever you want, what nonsense!"
After saying that, Manager Wang hung up the phone. For him, an altercation between employees that resulted in detention and dismissal was nothing but troublemaking!
He wasn't worried at all; firing the other party was completely in accordance with the company's regulations and procedures.
On his end, Yang Tiezhi trembled with anger.
He genuinely felt wronged. He was previously a sailor on a shipping vessel in Hainan Province, working the inland water transport routes.
The company rule was that only the captain or the first mate was allowed to answer work calls, and no one else.
One night, about a month ago, at midnight when the ship had docked, and while Yang Tiezhi was on night duty, the work phone rang, so he went to knock on the captain's door to wake him up.
However, perhaps because Captain Lin Shuqiang was roused in the middle of the night, he became irritated upon waking up and felt that Yang's knocking was too loud, disturbing his rest, and began to scold him.
Yang Tiezhi naturally scolded back; it was the company's rule, after all—he couldn't answer the phone without waking Lin up.
Although it was also permissible to call the first mate, the captain's quarters were closer, and in that situation, he didn't think too much and just went straight there.
After a brief argument, the captain went to answer the work call, and Yang Tiezhi returned to his duty watch.
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