Chapter 11 Fired on the Spot
"Old hag, open your eyes and look carefully! This dog's collar costs more than your whole year's pay. My Dou Dou dirtying the floor for you to clean is giving you face!"
Zhou Xiao Yan's finger nearly jabbed the cleaning auntie's nose as she shouted.
"You dare yell at a customer? Isn't a cleaner's job to sweep? If we customers never dirtied the place, would the mall hire you? Would you even have a wage?"
Zhou Xu Cheng kept blocking in front of Zhou Xiao Yan, trying to pull her back.
It barely worked.
Chen Lu Lu kept pouring oil on the fire, backing Zhou Xiao Yan up the whole time.
The cleaning auntie was no fool. Seeing Zhou Xiao Yan was a customer, she turned her anger on Chen Lu Lu in her uniform.
"I scrub floors every day till my back won't straighten, and you lot just let customers walk dogs in? Cleaners aren't people? We can be bullied however you like?"
Chen Lu Lu's eyes went round. She raised her phone at the auntie.
"Come on, keep cursing! I'm sending this video to your bosses right now. A cleaner who won't clean and insults sales staff and customers—you've gone too far!"
Just as the scene grew messier, a Floor Manager with a slick, oily back-swept hairstyle walked over without hurry.
Chen Lu Lu blinked at him fast.
The Floor Manager's face did not change. He looked at the cleaning auntie's work badge.
"Zhang Gui Fen, is it? I won't waste words. You're fired. Pack your things and go to HR for your final pay!"
Zhang Gui Fen's face went stiff. Panic filled her voice. "Fired? Manager, I..."
The Floor Manager did not even lift his eyelids. He pulled out his walkie-talkie.
"HR, process Zhang Gui Fen's resignation right now."
A hesitant woman's voice came through. "Manager Zhao, Auntie Zhang's son has been paralyzed for years, and her husband just got uremia. If this isn't a matter of principle, can you give her one more chance?"
"Oh my~ Home that poor and still this arrogant?"
Chen Lu Lu and Zhou Xiao Yan locked eyes and burst out laughing.
"If you didn't know better, you'd think it was the chairman's wife doing grassroots work, living the cleaner life!"
Zhang Gui Fen's knuckles on the mop went from pale to red. She curled in on herself and slowly squatted. The knees of her bulky work pants were worn shiny.
"Don't fire me. I'll clean. This winter is too cold. I still need to buy down jackets for my son and my husband..."
As she spoke, her rag was about to press onto Dou Dou's mess.
I grabbed the auntie's hand hard and fixed my eyes on the Floor Manager standing beside Chen Lu Lu.
"I'd like to see who dares make her clean today!"