America 1982

On Tommy's desk in the garage of No. 9 Liberty Avenue, there lay quietly the indictment sent by Lotus Company to Actor Company.

It states that they have formally submitted a complaint to the Massachusetts state court against Actor Company regarding computer software infringement, and the court has filed the case and issued a subpoena.

Receiving this complaint with a subpoena attached means that Actor must respond within the thirty-day defense period. If the court and L do not receive any response within thirty days, the court and L have the right to issue a default judgment.

"The first time Lotus sent a lawyer's letter, I didn't see you taking it so seriously." Holly came over with two cups of coffee and put one of them in front of Tommy.

Tommy picked up the phone and dialed a number: "Charles, this is Tommy. I received the belated indictment. I need help from the General Assembly. Thank you very much. If you stand in front of me, you will You can feel my sincerity, which is great, California. In the early stage, it was mainly the branches in California, OK."

After hanging up the phone, Tommy took a sip of coffee, still looking at the indictment quietly, and said: "If I take it very seriously and reply seriously the first time, how can the other party sue? If the lawyer Letters can scare people. The United States does not need an exaggerated system like the three-level court system. I am not legally illiterate. When I was in high school, I considered countless times whether I should go to law school in college and become a litigator in the future, but in the end Computers were obviously more attractive and made me give up my dream of becoming a litigator."

"It's a pity that I didn't get to see you look like a gentleman in a suit and tie. I imagined in my mind what you would look like as a lawyer. To be honest, you are quite handsome. At least you are more attractive to women than your current slovenly look. Happy." Holly didn't feel any tension in Tommy's tone and voice at all, and she felt slightly relieved.

What she said just now was to test whether Tommy Hawke, who was so confident as he said before, would be frightened and overwhelmed when the other party actually took action. Obviously, Tommy Hawke was performing very well at this moment. At least better than her, Holly Keener, because when she got the news, she sat nervously in the bathroom for about half an hour, thinking about whether she would be affected if Actor lost the lawsuit.

Susan Curtis walked in from the outside with a women's suit taken from the dry cleaners. She pulled down most of the garage roller blinds to cover her body, and then took off the T-shirt and jeans she was wearing, only wearing Underwear and start changing clothes.

"Didn't I prepare two sets of OL women's clothes for you?" Tommy raised his head and leaned back on the chair, admiring the process of Susan changing clothes, and asked: "I remember you brought back one set yesterday, why? Went to the laundry to get this set again?”

Susan put on her white shirt and tied the buttons one by one. She seemed to be talking about a very ordinary thing: "I met two crazy policemen last night and was forced to serve them for free in the back alley. All of a sudden, those two bastards soiled my clothes."

"Oh my god..." Holly looked at Susan in shock, then turned to look at Tommy, who was unresponsive: "Tommy, did you hear what Holly said? We have to do something, she...she Being intimidated by the police.”

Tommy turned his attention to Holly: "What we can do is help her rent a place nearby. Don't let Susan go back to live in the slums of San Jose. This can help her avoid all the trouble."

California is now called paradise for a reason. The rich call it a vacation paradise, and another title is a drug paradise. Although even a small Cuban cigar cannot be shipped to the United States due to the ban. , but tons of cocaine are being sent from Mexico to California every day, and then pouring into every corner of the United States like coffee to meet the needs of the American people.

It’s not just students from Stanford and other universities who are starting businesses in California. Countless kids from slums aged 12 or 13 are also starting their own businesses. As long as they put down two hundred dollars of principal and have a broken car that can run to the U.S.-Mexico border, congratulations. You, you can open a small cocaine street convenience store and become an entrepreneur.

As long as you don't die because of the gangsters, your business will snowball and grow. From earning a dozen yuan in a single day, it will soon develop to hundreds of yuan, and then to thousands of yuan in a single day.

People from Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and other places even made a special trip to California to purchase goods. They used various methods to purchase goods. The most exaggerated one was that someone even drove a school bus and carried a bunch of poor children on a long trip pretending to be a school. They drove all the way to California and directly sold the goods. The children's schoolbags are filled with drugs and then driven back to the state to sell them at high prices.

The drug business is so prosperous. In addition to the influx of drug addicts and the fact that Americans of all walks of life regard smoking as a fashion, the most important thing is the performance of the California police.

The more responsible the police are in the slums, the richer they are. They can unscrupulously collect black money from every cocaine convenience store and bully the poor poor people. And those drug dealers whose business is getting bigger and bigger will take the initiative to help the police in order to maintain stability. Overcome those who are being bullied.

So Susan said that she encountered two high-ranking police officers last night who forced her to serve for free. This is normal for California.

In the eyes of the police, people in the slums are not human beings. Those poor people don't even know where to go to complain about themselves. Even if they call 911 to call the police, their friends in the police force will notify them in time, and then as long as they find the slums themselves Those local snakes will be happy to silence the other party completely.

"Tommy is right, Holly." After Susan put on her shirt, she walked to the side and opened Jason's seat, raised her legs, took out the stockings and put them on, and said with a smile to Holly: " Don’t worry, Mark is looking for a suitable house nearby, and when the time comes, I’ll share the house with him and move out, which will solve the problem.”

"...But those two policemen..." Holly said in shock.

"They are just like that in the slums. As long as they leave those areas, they are all perfect gentlemen. As long as I don't enter the slums and the police don't know me, they will be very friendly to me, so I don't want to encounter that kind of thing again. You just need to work hard to make yourself rich." After Susan put on her stockings and skirt, she walked up to Tommy, picked up a cigarette and lit one:

"Do you have any plans for today? If there are no flowers, I will go to the training classroom and continue to teach those people some issues that they should pay attention to in formal work, and then call various companies to ask about the work performance of the women."

"The human resources department of AMD headquarters contacted me and said that they also want to arrange five female clerks in the secretariat. The ten clerks we sent before performed very well, at least from the documents and reports, there is no difference between them and college students. It will only be exposed when talking." Holly struggled to break free from the previous shock and said to Susan:

"But they don't care about this, and they won't go out of their way to chat with them anyway. In addition, they hope that in the lobby on the first floor of their headquarters, which looks like the White House, there will be four women with emblems responsible for front desk guidance."

"That's nine in total, four of them are prettier, right?" Susan asked Holly after listening.

Holly nodded: "That's right, but there is another company called ECDA that also needs five clerks. They should be female, and they should also be pretty. It is best to be able to tolerate the taciturnity or nervousness of the nerdy engineers, because ECDA will treat them Send them to the engineering R\u0026D department of their company to make coffee for the engineers and solve various trivial input tasks to ensure that they focus on product R\u0026D and design.”

"Compared with those customers, engineers are the easiest men to deal with. When I was interning at Symantec, I felt like I was in heaven. I was surrounded by polite men. Even if they were interested in you, they would only Walk over to the tea room when you go to the tea room, chat for a few words while making coffee, and then carefully ask the woman to watch a movie on the weekend." Susan skillfully blew out the smoke from her nose and said with a smile:

"I'm curious, do engineers only have the option of going to the movies when dating women?"

"You'd better let those women get used to their boringness. Maybe the man she asked to watch a movie will suddenly become a millionaire and then muster up the courage to officially date her." Tommy smiled at Susan Said something.

"Thank you for your thoughtful reminder, Tommy, I have to go to work." Susan stubbed out the cigarette butt, threw another piece of chewing gum into her mouth, and then walked out of the garage.

After Susan left, only Holly and Tommy were left in the garage. Tommy looked at the complaint again: "How is the small business of our human resources company doing?"

"Currently, seventy-nine women have been sent to nine companies, large and small, doing the most basic computer clerk jobs. There are still forty women being trained in the training classroom. Gary Goode has asked me several times , should you consider increasing the number of classrooms and computers?" Holly sat on the desk in front of Tommy, gently took off her high heels, stepped on Tommy's knee with one foot, and covered the other with She bent up and gently massaged her calves.

Tommy leaned back and pushed his feet on the ground, moving the seat back a little, distanced himself from Holly, and said, "I don't care how many prostitutes are sent to Silicon Valley, I mean how much money is in the account?"

"Including the blank fees that have not been settled to the other party, and the salaries that have not yet been settled to the women, it is about one hundred thousand yuan." Holly stared at Tommy with playful eyes: "You just admired Su with your eyes. Shan changed clothes, I thought you might be interested."

"Contact Sophia and ask her to resolve issues such as terms. In short, use a loan to transfer the money from the human resources company to the Actor company." Tommy ignored Holly's teasing and said to himself. .

Holly couldn't care less about provoking Tommy. After a moment of confusion, she asked, "Loan money?"

"Of course it's a loan, so even if Actor loses the lawsuit and takes out a 100,000 yuan IOU to ensure that there is a debt dispute, the result is that Lotus won't even get a piece of toilet paper." Tommy Hawke said to Holly.

"Didn't you always say that Actor doesn't need much money? Besides, even if it loses, this company has nothing worth taking away from Lotus."

"Although the possibility of losing is not high, we must be fully prepared. In this way, even if Lotus wants to take away our company assets forcibly, it will have to wait until the human resources company has settled the debt first. The human resources company will then lose it. They have several computers to ensure they can’t find any data they want.” Tommy put his fingers on his forehead, lowered his eyelids, and said:

"And the Actor must have at least 20,000 to 30,000 yuan to deal with the court. Sophia wrote a defense letter and sent it to the Massachusetts court. She wrote the defense letter herself. She only needed to borrow the name of a law firm, but the other party charged her 400 yuan. This kind of litigation has multiple stages. The lawyer's letter is the first stage. If we don't respond, we don't have to spend money. Now it's the second stage, filing the case. We also chose the cheapest defense because it only costs a few hundred yuan. Otherwise, filing a motion on issues such as jurisdiction and flaws in the other party's accusations would delay the process and require a professional lawyer to fly to the Massachusetts court to deal with the judges. The fee would probably be at least several thousand dollars, and we would have to cover the round-trip air tickets. "

"You look like a litigant now, Tommy." Holly said with a smile, looking at Tommy's appearance.

Tommy exhaled and drank the coffee in the cup:

"What we need to hold on to is the third stage, evidence disclosure, which is when lawyers on both sides begin to collect evidence and start to accumulate strength, preparing to kill the opponent or force the other party to completely compromise."

"I have another question. You just said you could handle it with 20,000 to 30,000 yuan, so why did you borrow 100,000 yuan? Most of that money is blank income that needs to be settled." Holly continued to ask.

"Stop settling the white paper income of those companies and lend it to the Actor, and then the Actor uses the money to buy a batch of the cheapest computers that can run MS-DOS, support those SSD training courses held in other universities, and donate symbolically to each One or two TV stations at home are enough, remember to ask the school TV station and school newspaper to take photos for you." Tommy looked at Holly and said calmly.

"Aren't you afraid that those companies will cause trouble for you?" Holly stared when she heard that Tommy said that he would stop settling the fees that should have been returned to the accounts of the human resources directors or founders of the employing companies, and that he would use the money to buy computers. With her beautiful eyes widened, her bending motion for massage stopped subconsciously, and her long legs straightened subconsciously.

This bastard is so audacious that he actually wants to stop the settlement of the white paper income that should be returned to some people in those companies and use it for other purposes!

"Be honest and tell them that we are in trouble. They will understand. It is just a temporary suspension of settlement. It is not that we will owe them money. Those companies enjoy the beautiful female clerks I provide them and save so much money. That's it. You should understand that everything has a fucking price. From the day they reached cooperation, they knew that this is the consciousness that adults should have." Tommy rubbed his chin, which was a bit prickly after not taking care of it for two days. Stubble:

"What's more, I'm going to let you stop the salaries of these women who have just had a stable job after the training courses in California schools appear to be functioning. The reason is that the company has been sued and has entered the investigation stage of evidence disclosure by both parties. In order to avoid trouble, I want to Mediation is required. In order to survive and express surrender, a small company like ours needs to hand over accounts, data, etc., including capital flows, for the other party to check, so the salary is suspended. If you are unhappy, you should know where to teach them to greet them. company."

Holly sat motionless on her desk, just looking stupidly at Tommy Hawke who said these words. Seeing her look more shocked than Susan being bullied by the police, Tommy looked like Being interested, he walked towards Holly, spread her legs, put her on the desk, looked down at Holly and said:

"When Lotus first sent the lawyer's letter, I didn't take it as seriously as I do now? I didn't take it seriously, I'm excited now, but don't worry, I will help you pay for the laundry."

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