First day at work
The president’s office of a 45-story building.
The beautiful woman put the suit jacket on the man and smiled happily.
“Come down on time.”
“Yeah. Okay.”
The woman gave the man a brief kiss on the cheek and turned around.
The young-looking man nodded and turned his gaze back out the window.
In life, you sometimes think like that.
If I were given another chance, I would have lived a different life.
If I could go back in time for just one day, my life would have changed.
If I were given another life, I wouldn’t live it like this.
It was the same for men.
Although I was born poor and lived hard, the fact that I was leading an unhappy life did not change.
Poverty, death, divorce, separation, layoffs.
At the end of life, you start to think that the only thing left is you.
Luck has arrived.
The man looked down at the world from the building that seemed to be above everything and was lost in thought for a moment.
“Well, when was it…?”
**
“For our team leader, who I will never forget, encouraged his team members with the same heart as Hahae for the past three years!”
“for!”
Kim Cheol-soo raised his beer glass at the farewell party prepared by his teammates.
17 years since joining the company.
I joined the company as a new college graduate and was promoted to assistant manager in 6 years, manager in 6 years, and managed to be promoted to deputy manager in 5 years. However, in the end, he was not promoted to manager and was laid off.
“Before we start this event, I would like to ask for a word from the team leader.”
Jang Hae-seong, who is in his third year as an assistant manager, is not good at working, but he is good at livening up the atmosphere.
Kim Cheol-soo, who received the spoon from Jang Hae-seong, looked at each of the 16 team members sitting together.
At 18:00 today, I became a stranger who had nothing to do with them, and it was a place where I had to feel grateful because it was not easy to create a place like this in today’s society.
Even though layoffs were an unlaughable situation, Kim Cheol-soo naturally laughed.
If I worked at a company for about 17 years, I could make facial expressions as skillfully as an actor.
“I would like to thank everyone for organizing such a meaningful farewell party these days, when the cold winter is giving way to the spirit of spring.”
“Ah! What if you already use an honorific language? Team leader!”
Jang Hae-seong said something.
“Hey! You idiot. I’m talking about the team leader. Why are you interfering?”
At those words, Kim Cheol-soo laughed and made a noise, and everyone burst into laughter.
“That’s why you’re the team leader!”
“Oh, by the way. Even when I go, I don’t let you do what I want. Do you guys want to go into the office like this and work until 10 p.m.?”
Laughter broke out again.
Kim Cheol-soo scratched the back of his head and began speaking again.
“It was so cold last winter, wasn’t it? It was even colder because of the coronavirus. Our company was also cold. How were we meeting and what were our breakups like… I just want to shake off the disease!… Hae-seong, you bastard! Don’t interrupt while your boss is talking. !”
“Yes! Team leader!”
“Let me just say one thing. Don’t live a corporate life like me.”
Manager Lee Jin-su, holding a beer glass, shouted.
“I want to work at a company like my brother.”
“Damn it!”
Laughter erupted again at the dinner party.
Kim Cheol-soo opened his mouth again as he looked at the new employees who were suppressing their laughter.
“Corporate life is a marathon, but if you run only looking ahead, you can get seriously injured. When the moment to choose comes, constantly think about what is best for you. This was my final advice as an old man. Now! Raise your glass.”
Kim Cheol-soo finished like that and raised his beer glass.
“Fighting sales team 5!”
“Go for it!”
**
After finishing the farewell party given by his teammates, Kim Cheol-soo, who was moderately drunk, stopped by the pocha he frequented, ordered soju and seasoned whelk, and was drinking soju alone.
“Are you drinking here alone again?”
“Oh my, brother. You must have had a late meeting.”
Executive Director Lee Jun-hak, with gray hair and wearing gold-rimmed glasses, sat next to Kim Cheol-soo. As Managing Director Lee Jun-hak sat down, the owner of the pocha quickly brought out a glass of soju.
“What are you doing? Pour me a drink.”
“Yes, brother.”
The two clinked their glasses and drank soju in one go.
“Are you okay?”
When Lee Jun-hak asked, Kim Cheol-soo nodded and said.
“Shouldn’t it be okay?”
“설마, 널 정리해고 할 줄은 생각도 못 했다. 박 전무 이 개새끼.”
“Don’t criticize the restructuring team too much, brother. You know that, right? I don’t have a good school, I don’t come from a good family, and I’m not particularly talented.”
“You…dude…don’t you feel unfair?”
“ha ha ha.”
Instead of answering, Kim Cheol-su poured soju.
“I wondered why they had chosen someone who was so stupid in college. I don’t know any foreign languages, and I don’t know anything about trade. I was at a loss as to how I could get a job with this.”
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“Hey, brother, what do you want to talk about old times?”
“I have never seen a poisonous species like you.”
Lee Jun-hak raised his glass, and the two clinked their glasses again and hit one shot.
“I was expecting that guy because he was doing a pretty good job, but he was laid off unexpectedly. And the company.”
“Oh, you too, brother. What kind of work will I not be able to do if I leave? I plan to use my experience to start a small trading company.”
“Wasn’t your dream to be the president of our company?”
“ha ha ha.”
Kim Cheol-soo picked up a soju bottle and filled two glasses.
“It’s an old dream. I realized it when I exaggerated it. I was following the wrong line. Still, like a fool, I didn’t give up and kept running.”
“Yes, you wouldn’t be Kim Cheol-soo if you didn’t attack even when you clearly knew it wouldn’t work. But you back off too much.”
“It’s soft.”
“If you look up, you shouldn’t even look down.”
“How do you get rid of your subordinates?”
“But you’re the one responsible for everything? You idiot. Ugh…”
Lee Jun-hak continued to pound his chest in frustration.
“Because I am greedy! Because I am greedy. I wanted to be respected by my subordinates and recognized by my superiors. I knew how to do everything.”
“It’s okay up to that point. Why did you criticize Executive Director Park?”
Kim Cheol-su smiled sadly and filled his soju glass again.
“Aunt, please give me one more bottle of soju here.”
Lee Jun-hak patted Kim Cheol-soo’s back several times as he was unable to control himself.
“I tried my best, man. I’m sorry that the company couldn’t repay me as much as I did, man.”
At those words, Kim Cheol-soo covered his eyes with his sleeve.
“It’s against the law to let a grown man shed tears.”
“young…”
“I can’t be the CEO of a general trading company, but I can set up a small office somewhere and act as the CEO.”
“Yes, if you give up here, you won’t be Kim Cheol-soo.”
“Let’s have a drink, brother.”
Lee Jun-hak, who was enjoying the cool river breeze after drinking and eating snacks, opened his mouth.
“Are you finished cleaning up?”
“Yes. I got it stamped last week.”
“So, didn’t I tell you not to be a wild goose dad? If you send a woman abroad alone, she’ll cheat.”
Kim Cheol-soo answered while pouring alcohol into an empty glass.
“I should have listened to my brother’s advice back then.”
“What about the child?”
“I’ll be with my mom.”
“Ah, you frustrating bastard. What about alimony?”
“That’s dog hair, bro.”
Lee Jun-hak sighed heavily and fed honey chestnuts to Kim Cheol-su, whose face was half buried on the table.
“I should have caught one thing!”
“You just have to make money, and you just have to meet women again.”
“Even though you say that, I think I know how rotten your insides are.”
At his words, Kim Cheol-soo buried his head in his arms and began to cry.
Lee Jun-hak muttered as he emptied his soju glass alone.
“If there were people like you in the company, I wouldn’t work with a frown on my face.”
**
After breaking up with Lee Jun-hak, Kim Cheol-soo sang a song while stumbling around holding an old briefcase.
Na Hoon-a’s song called Heoya….it was a song with lyrics about a meaningless life.
From the moment his transformation period ended, he devoted his life to singing and guitar with his natural beauty and skills.
Until my father died on the spot in an accident when I was in my third year of college.
At one point, I had to support my mother and my younger brother, who was now entering high school, so I gave up singing and guitar, which I loved, and worked hard to join a general trading company in 2003.
For the next seven years after joining the company, I took care of my younger brother and never even dreamed of getting married.
By the time her younger brother, who was smarter than her, joined a large company, her family’s already broken family situation had improved considerably.
Only then did she quickly get married and have a son and daughter.
His wife wanted to educate their children in the United States for their future, and Kim Cheol-soo, who had a sufficient salary, accepted his wife’s offer.
I thought that if I just looked ahead and worked hard, there would be a sweet future at the end, but that wasn’t the reality.
Since joining the company, I have not had a single day off for 17 years.
I worked, met buyers, managed business associates, and studied.
However, the end of a life lived without missing a single day was nothing but ruins.
“Neither you nor I know what it is to live…”
It was a song that no one knew even after a long time had passed, but it was so heartbreaking and melodious that it made even young couples passing by turn around and watch for a while.
“Is that person a singer?”
“No, I guess I’m an office worker?”
Kim Cheol-soo, who was drunk and stumbling while singing and walking, suddenly fell to the ground.
In the place where he disappeared, the manhole cover was open, as if the construction had not been completed properly.
**
“brother!”
Kim Cheol-soo came to his senses and jumped up when he felt someone shaking him.
However, soon after, I heard a ‘thud’ sound and received a huge impact on my forehead, so I lay down again. He hit his forehead on the bed on the second floor.
“That’s stupid.”
Kim Cheol-su frowned in pain and touched his forehead.
“When did you come from Germany?”
Kim Cheol-soo’s younger brother, Kim Young-su, was assigned to work as an expatriate in Germany after getting a job at a large company and was there.
It was amazing that the guy who only came to celebrate his parents’ death was by his side.
“What dream did you have that you’re talking nonsense? You said you had to go to work starting today?”
“Going to work? I got laid off.”
“What? Was it a lie that you got the job?”
Kim Cheol-su felt that the conversation was going strangely and opened his eyes.
“what……”
Where did my younger brother in his late 30s go, and a black-haired young man with a fluffy beard caught my eye.
“Cheolsu! Wake up quickly! Youngsu, what are you doing? Don’t wake up your brother!”
Somewhere…
A familiar voice was heard.
‘What on earth happened?’
Cheolsu looked at Yeongsu with bewildered eyes.
“Mom. Brother is awake!”
“I left the boiler on, so wash it quickly. It costs a lot of money for gas.”
“What are you doing, bro?”
Youngsu grabbed Cheolsu’s hand, and Cheolsu got up from the bed and looked around blankly.
Youngsu pushed Cheolsu, who was dazed, on the back and came out into the living room.
In Cheolsu’s eyes, he saw Yoon Jin-sook preparing the table in the kitchen.
“uh……?”
She said that she had seen all of her sons’ grandchildren and that it was okay to go now, and went to be with her father. However, at the time, her mother was suffering from lung cancer, so she was speechless.
However, Kim Cheol-soo continued to rub his eyes, as if he could not believe that his young mother was right in front of him.
‘Is it a dream? It must be a dream. ‘How do I wake up from this dream?’
Jin-Suk Yoon hit the back of Kim Cheol-Soo, who was standing blankly and rubbing his eyes.
“Aren’t you going to lose your mind from the first day of work? Son!”
– mate!
Only then did he remember how spicy his mother’s touch was, and Kim Cheol-soo realized that this pain was real.
“ah!!!!!!”
Maybe it’s because of the pain…
Maybe it’s because I’m happy…
A strong exclamation came out of Kim Cheol-soo’s mouth.
