Chapter 938: Chapter 938: The Position of Jealousy
Elijah Walker turned his head and saw Justin Battleson and Charlotte Thompson standing beside him, which made him stand up immediately.
"Miss Thompson, Mr. Battleson."
Although Elijah Walker was a design team leader, the only leaders he could meet were their department head and Charlotte Thompson.
As for Justin Battleson, he had only seen him from a distance a handful of times.
After all, this was the major BOSS of their company.
"This draft isn’t yours, is it?" Charlotte Thompson glanced at the draft next to Elijah Walker’s hand and asked.
Elijah Walker’s complexion turned sour, and his gaze shifted away awkwardly before he finally nodded, "This is Florienna Ellis’s draft."
"Florienna Ellis?"
Charlotte Thompson thought the name sounded familiar, and then she remembered that was the young woman she had always been asking to revise her drafts.
How did her draft end up in Elijah Walker’s hands now?
"Did you help design her draft?" A hint of displeasure appeared on Charlotte Thompson’s face.
The design department of Riley Group was divided into three teams, and each team consisted of independent designers whose finished products belonged to the individual designers themselves; such cases of substitution had never happened.
After all, each designer’s style was different, and the things they designed were also vastly dissimilar.
"No..." Elijah Walker shook his head, hesitating and eventually unable to say anything more.
In the company, activities like substituting and buying designs were strictly prohibited.
Charlotte Thompson took a glance and already had a guess.
Seeing that Charlotte Thompson did not speak, Elijah Walker naturally felt tense and uneasy.
"Miss Thompson, I only helped her revise it because we really couldn’t keep up with the progress."
"This is her design draft, whether it is rejected or approved, what does it have to do with you? Why would you help her?"
Charlotte Thompson asked, "Her work needs a complete overhaul. If you really count carefully, this draft is almost no different from designing a new one, but the end product is not credited to you, and you have no relation to it at all, do you understand?"
To have your own painstakingly redesigned work credited to someone else, who would accept that?
Moreover, Charlotte Thompson had noticed at a glance that Elijah Walker’s design style was completely different from that of Florienna Ellis. He was now merely able to imitate, and such a draft would still not pass when given to her.
"I know, but if Florienna Ellis fails to complete it, it will affect the others in our team."
Elijah Walker sighed deeply, as no one would like to be involved in such a thankless job.
Charlotte Thompson furrowed her brow, "Why can’t she complete her own work?"
This was the first time Charlotte Thompson had heard of a designer in the company like this.
To pass on her own unfinished work to someone else.
Although these designers were a team, at the end of the day, these design drafts were not collaborative tasks; they needed to be completed individually.
Ultimately, it was still the team leader who would compile them, but the actual assessment was still on an individual basis.
Elijah Walker hesitated, holding back his words. After all, he had heard that Florienna Ellis was backed by a senior executive in the company—what if he carelessly said something and ended up being fired?
The position of a designer at Riley Group was coveted by many.
Seeing Elijah Walker’s hesitant manner, Charlotte Thompson felt displeased.
Although she held the position of design director at Riley Group, ultimately, she did not manage the affairs of the design department. It was only because this autumn series had a huge design workload that part of the department was divided and assigned to her.