Dinner table.
***
After passing the interview, he came to the company main building for the employment contract.
“Oh, Hyung, you’re here?”
“Yeah, it’s been a while.”
SungGyu came in to the conference room in which YongHo was waiting. SuMin and HyeJin came in soon after.
“Hello, sunbae.”
SuMin was as cold as always, and HyeJin greeted with a bright smile on her face.
“Oh yes.”
“It seems like we are working together?”
“Maybe we will, maybe we will separate. We don’t know for sure.”
As soon as SungGyu finished speaking, an employee came in to the conference room.
“Good morning, everyone. We have met in the interview, haven’t we?”
“Yes we have. Good morning.”
“Then we will write the employment contract one by one. First, Mr. Kang SungGyu.”
One by one, they went to a place far away to write the employment contract and came back. YongHo’s turn was last.
“This part here is your annual salary, and below that is the duration of the contract. The duration is from the 1st of September to 1st of March next year. If there is no problem during your intern period, you will become a permanent employee.”
He looked at the contract as he listened to employee from the HR dept(Human Resources department).
1,000,000KRW(≈870USD) per month.
After removing tax, the true amount was around 880,000KRW(≈770USD).
‘I’ll probably earn more from part time jobs than this.’
But he only muttered in his heart.
***
SungGyu and HyeJin were assigned to Delivery Team 1, and SuMin and YongHo were assigned to Delivery Team 2. And they were put into work right away without prior education.
“What the heck. They are putting us to work right away.”
In the subway heading towards Yeoksam station.
SuMin’s complaints were endless.
“Moreover……”
Pausing, SuMin glanced at YongHo for a moment.
“Ahh, I am so annoyed.”
“……”
“Why the hell is this laptop so heavy.?”
YongHo muttered next to her, clearly unable to hold it any longer.
“Then quit.”
“What?”
“Oh, we’re here.”
They arrived at Yeoksam station.
5 or 6 people were sitting in front of desks that were close together. Every single one of them had fatigue written all over their faces. It was unbelievable to think that these were the appearances of programmers.
“We had to stay up all last night because there was a problem. Due to that, as you can see, everyone is… Well, please take a seat here.”
One glance and they could tell that the desk was used for many years, and the chairs were stained all over it.
“Here’s a wet wipe, clean it roughly and you can put your laptop on it first.”
YongHo cleaned the desk with the wet wipe he was handed and set up his laptop. And he sat there with a blank look on his face. He didn’t have a card-key for entering and exiting the office so he couldn’t carelessly go out.
After lunch, the assistant manager in charge called YongHo and SuMin for a cup of coffee. It seemed he managed to make some time.
“Nice to work with you. I am assistant manager Seo(surname) JaeSeok(first name) and I’ll be in charge of both of you.”
After greeting, assistant manager Seo continued speaking.
“As you see, the situation here is not good right now. So I may not be able to look after you two for a while.”
“What happened?”
“A problem occurred in a system we opened a while ago. Let’s get into the details later… Any other questions?”
SuMin and YongHo didn’t even know what they didn’t know yet.
“Then let’s get back.”
Assistant manager Seo set the computer first. JDK(Java Development Kit: The basic environment for program developing using the Java language) for developing, Eclipse, Sql Developer which was a DB access tool and many other free development tools needed to be downloaded.
‘There’s more to download than I thought.’
YongHo downloaded the things on the list given by Assistant manager Seo, one by one. There were a few programs that he saw for the first time, but he didn’t find any difficulties. If the download didn’t work properly, solutions could be found on the internet for most of them. He could finish downloading all the things on the list after about 1 hour.
‘Phew… That’s downloading finished.’
Glancing at SuMin while stretching, she was biting her nails.
‘She’s pretty, alright.’
With thin and thick eyebrows and resilient skin, sharp nose and big eyes, anyone would say she was pretty.
Translator’s note
Regular chapter 4/4. Next one will be released in 24 hours from now.
I read “A.K.A Slave contract” and I’m like that’s so us (the TL’ers on KCDS). Also, I feel like “Why do Koreans only covet free stuff?” I mean my Uni computers don’t even have microsoft office…
I am still working on the glossary!… not. So much stuff to do… Why do the profs want us to have a debate on books… and even write a draft…
Also, the chapter title is kinda a spoiler… guess who YongHo meets?
Translator : Chamber
Proofreader : Maled
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