For unmarried girls, men can only touch their fingertips with their foreheads; for married ladies, men should kiss the back of their hands.
Charlotte had heard that Menilman had been engaged but broke off the engagement for some well-known reason. She was still single, with his forehead touching her fingertips without losing the demeanor of a gentleman.
Menilman whispered, "Come to be my subordinate."
Charlotte, whispered, "Is it a demotion?"
His bitter rhetorical question was just a strategy to advance.
Generally, a low-level government employee such as a clerk has a promotion every 3 years, but if he is transferred to a new job, the promotion period must be calculated from scratch.
There has always been a saying in the imperial government that "transfer without promotion is tantamount to demotion.
Menilman snorted coldly and asked, "When is your next promotion?"
Charlotte replied without hesitation, "In a month and a half, I should be promoted to the third level."
It is true that Charlotte graduated from the University of Sheffield. With this degree, he worked as a clerk in the office of the central government, and enjoyed a high salary. However, he came from a merchant's family and had no access to officialdom. He entered the central government office for two years and never got any additional promotion opportunities. He still had to endure the year and wait for promotion step by step.
As a time traveler, Charlotte's courage far exceeds that of the aborigines of this world. He raised his position a little bit and said that he would be promoted again soon. It was simply bold and shocking.
Menilman shook the bell of the room, and soon a middle-aged officer came in. Pointing to Charlotte, she said, "Send this man to Kilmeinham Prison, where he is the head clerk in my office."
After integrating the memory of the original owner, Charlotte was also surprised by the corruption of the imperial officialdom and the darkness of the workplace. However, when corruption fell on his own head and became a beneficiary of the black box operation in the workplace, he was shocked on the surface, excited inside, and had no will to resist.
Charlotte thought that Menilman had promised to give him second-level clerical treatment and promised to be promoted in the future, which was already a big profit. If she was directly given a third-level clerical position, she would be promoted by leaps and bounds. Unexpectedly, Menilman promised the position of clerical chief.
The bureaucracy of the empire was quite complex, divided into fifty-three categories.
As the largest number of government employees, imperial clerks have reached the end of their rank from the lowest 41-level clerks to the highest 37-level clerks. Only when they are transferred can they continue to be promoted. The clerical chief is the most common choice for the transfer of clerk.
The first-level clerical chief was the same as the 5-level clerical chief, both of them were imperial bureaucrats of the thirty-seventh class, but the future of promotion was completely different. The former was bright, while the latter was bleak.
He was promoted from the first level of 41 to the first level of 37. It seems that he has only been promoted to the fourth level, but in fact he has been promoted 5 levels, which also implies a promotion across the hierarchy.
It took 21 years for Mrs. Aldergand, who was in charge of the highest authority in one of the offices, to be promoted from a forty-fifth class assistant to a thirty-seventh level clerk. Because of the delay in changing jobs, Mrs. Aldegande will probably work in this position until retirement.
Charlotte would like to say: "I would like to die for my senior." Or: "Meet the senior master." I also thought about the classic sentence: "A certain person has lived half his life, crossed the two worlds, and has not met the master. If his senior sister does not abandon him, he is willing to be his adopted mother." However, considering the different cultural atmospheres of the two worlds, he can only give up these thoughts. He smiled very gentlemanly: "Please take care of me in the future, senior sister."
Menilman nodded slightly and said, "You are tired today. Go home and rest first. Move to prison tomorrow. You have to work overtime these days. Remember to bring enough daily necessities."
Charlotte didn't care.
Isn't it overtime?
As if he hadn't worked overtime in a previous life.
Senior high school math teachers staying up late to correct homework is a common thing. The intensity of work is the same as others.
Charlotte, seeing no other indication from Menilman, withdrew from the office and hurried out of Kilmainham prison.
There are no public carriages in the Marne district that beckon and stop.