Chapter 16 Saturday, April 16th

Tang Yishu, carrying a few books, swiped her card to open the door and entered Tengda's office area.

Although most of her hard-earned salary was transferred to her family to supplement their household expenses, her own financial situation was much better than before.

Perhaps due to her lifestyle habits, Tang Yishu still didn't use any cosmetics or skincare products, but after all, youth was her greatest asset. With better nutrition, her whole person radiated youthful radiance.

Tang Yishu placed the books on her desk and began scooping cat litter and feeding the encouragement staff.

"'Yintang', eat a little less. You and 'Mianzai' both need to lose weight."

"Hey, 'Yintang', let your sister 'Feihuang' have some, go eat your own canned food!"

Tang Yishu helplessly grabbed the black cat by the scruff of its neck and lifted it up, pointing its head towards another cat food bowl, but "Yintang" ignored it completely, took two bites, and then squeezed back together with the orange cat next to it.

Now, the office area already had three "encouragement staff."

The all-black "Yintang" with snow-white paws was the first to arrive, named after the saying "Yintang fahei" (a dark Yintang means misfortune).

The other two were stray cats adopted from the pet hospital, one white and one orange.

The white cat was round and chubby, very lovable. Many people thought it looked like a lucky cat.

So Pei Qian named it "Mianzai," ostensibly a lucky name, but in reality, it should mean "spending money to avoid disaster," hoping that it wouldn't attract wealth but rather lose it.

As for the orange cat, it was given the same name as Feihuang Studio, ostensibly hoping that it would be as light as a swallow and move nimbly, but in reality, also hoping to express the meaning of "quickly turning yellow" (going bankrupt).

The three cats quickly finished their canned food.

Tang Yishu threw out the garbage and then carefully combed and trimmed the nails of the three cats, finally petting them until they were all purring and rolling in the sunlight. Today's task was completed.

She came to her workstation and opened her textbook to start studying.

Although the school's library and study room were also suitable for studying, they were a bit noisy, so she preferred to study at the company on weekends.

It was empty, very quiet, and there was coffee and snacks.

Suddenly, the company door was pushed open.

Tang Yishu was stunned for a moment and instantly remembered that she had a special task, which was to record everyone who came to work overtime and then report to Pei Qian!

However, no one had come to work overtime recently, so Tang Yishu had almost forgotten about it.

But this time it seemed someone was coming to work overtime again. Tang Yishu quickly turned her head to see who it was.

After working together for this period, she had already recognized everyone on this floor, so there wouldn't be a situation where she couldn't say their name.

However, when she turned her head to look, it was Pei Qian who had come.

Then it was okay.

Tang Yishu stood up: "Senior, why are you here?"

Pei Qian's eyes quickly swept across the entire office area, and he nodded in satisfaction when he found that no one had come to secretly work overtime.

"Just passing by, came over to take a look." Pei Qian said casually.

In fact, Pei Qian came today specifically for a surprise inspection.

It had been a long time since he had received an overtime list from Tang Yishu. Pei Qian was very curious whether everyone really wasn't working overtime, or had Little Tang learned to lie too?

Now it seemed that everyone really wasn't working overtime.

It made sense. First there was the No Overtime Competition, then the Cornerstone Award. Pei Qian had put in a lot of effort to get everyone to stop working overtime, so there had to be some results, right?

Now, the empty office on weekends was the best harvest of President Pei's efforts.

It seemed that as long as there was effort, there would be rewards!

"Come with me to the reception room." Pei Qian said to Tang Yishu.

...

Pei Qian had been considering the establishment of the "Tengda Secret Service" for two days.

The reason for this need was mainly because Pei Qian had discovered that Tengda's industries were already too many, and he really couldn't manage them all.

Most importantly, his information wasn't up to date enough!

In fact, many founders of large companies were much busier than Pei Qian, but they appointed many senior executives to be responsible for various affairs. Senior executives would request instructions for important issues and handle minor issues themselves.

Under this model, those vast business empires could still operate efficiently and orderly.

Pei Qian was currently using this model as well, but the biggest problem was that Pei Qian's goals were the exact opposite of those of other company bosses!

The attitude of other company bosses was: Senior executives must develop their departments well, report any major problems that cannot be solved as soon as possible, and receive commendations if their business develops well.

President Pei's needs were: Senior executives must not let their departments develop, report any signs of business development as soon as possible, and receive commendations for any major problems that cannot be solved.

This demand was completely the opposite of that of other company bosses.

Other company bosses needed to know about the current problems of the company, and could require each department to report them at any time.

Pei Qian needed to know about the company's current profit potential. In the opinion of most heads of departments, there was no need to report this at all.

Especially since Pei Qian had long given everyone the impression that he "doesn't like employees asking for credit," this problem was even more serious.

Therefore, Pei Qian felt that he had to establish an information-gathering department so that he could better control the information of each department and discover problems as soon as possible.

The members of this department would be called management trainees.

The full name of management trainee should be management trainee. It was originally a special project in foreign companies with the main goal of "cultivating future leaders of the company." It could be regarded as a talent reserve plan for cultivating middle and senior managers.

Management trainees usually have to intern in different departments of the company to understand the operation process of the entire company, and then arrange work according to their personal expertise.

Generally speaking, foreign companies have stricter screening for management trainees, who are more capable and can usually be competent as heads of departments or branches.

Of course, this approach has now been overused. All kinds of companies, both good and bad, want to recruit a few management trainees, but in the end, they become "firefighters who are moved wherever needed," completely losing their prestige.

Leaving these aside, the management trainee system is very suitable for Pei Qian's current needs.

Through the management trainee program, all these people can be placed in different departments of the company in a logical manner.

As long as the control of the management trainees is ensured, then if the management trainees know the situation of the department, wouldn't it be equivalent to President Pei knowing it too?

Moreover, Pei Qian especially liked the job title of "management trainee."

Guan Peisheng (management trainee), Guan Peisheng (manage losing).

It would be great if these people could be recruited to manage the losses!

However, it was still a bit difficult to determine how to select these management trainees and who would be the head of the department, which made Pei Qian rack his brains.

Assistant Xin was very capable and handled things cleanly and neatly, without asking too many questions. She seemed like a good candidate.

But the problem was that she was a bit too capable, and all the departments were too familiar with her.

Pei Qian established this department just to be his eyes and ears. It would be overkill to let Assistant Xin be responsible for it. Moreover, Pei Qian himself had a lot of work for Assistant Xin to do.

Moreover, the heads of each department knew Assistant Xin, so they might subconsciously be on guard, which wouldn't be discreet enough.

After thinking about it, Pei Qian still felt that Little Tang was the most suitable.

On the one hand, she was just a cat-scooper on the surface, looking completely harmless. Her gentle and soft aura was a natural protective color, and everyone wouldn't be too wary of her.

On the other hand, Little Tang's brain structure was relatively simple, or rather, single-minded. She would try her best to do what she promised others. She had been reporting the overtime list to Pei Qian before, and the task was completed very well.

The only problem might be the occasional halo effect, which would bring many hidden bugs to the surface, but everyone seemed to be used to it.

Who would have thought that the girl who scoops cat poop every day was actually a hidden commander of the secret service?

Yes, the more he thought about it, the more suitable it seemed!

Of course, one Tang girl was not enough. There had to be many management trainees.

If it were other companies, management trainees would be recruited from outstanding fresh graduates from schools or selected and trained from their own companies.

But the management trainees that Pei Qian wanted definitely couldn't be selected from the company.

If these employees were to shuttle back and forth between the various departments, who knew how much trouble they would cause!

In case a few employees who were proficient in the business of multiple departments were really cultivated, President Pei would probably have a few more knives stabbed in his back.

Therefore, after considering it, Pei Qian decided that these management trainees must not have worked at Tengda before. They would directly skip Tengda's twice-yearly recruitment and be directly selected by Little Tang.

The people selected would only listen to Pei Qian's command, ensuring that President Pei's orders were above everything else.

...

In the reception room, Pei Qian drank tea while briefly explaining the part of his thoughts that could be made public.

"In short, I want you to go to the university and find some freshmen and sophomores with plenty of time and not many classes to intern at the company and arrange them in various departments."

"You will be responsible for the management trainee program, and report any progress to me at any time."

"These management trainees must be strictly screened to ensure that everyone is honest and reliable."

"After being assigned to various departments, they can adjust the time of their internship according to their course arrangements. They should focus on learning in their daily lives, and basically not participate in departmental work, but they must grasp the details of each department."

"Every once in a while, they have to come to the company for a meeting and report to me directly on what they have seen and heard during this period. I will also randomly check some information at any time, and I don't want anyone to be unable to answer at that time."

"Also, this project is temporarily confidential. Don't deliberately promote it. But it's not a top secret either."

"No problem?"

Tang Yishu was a little bewildered and carefully fiddled with her fingers: "Senior, I, I'm afraid I won't be able to handle it. I've never even been a class monitor..."

Pei Qian smiled slightly: "It's okay, this is a very simple job. I believe that with your patience and carefulness, you will definitely be able to do it well."

"Usually, you just feed the cats in the company, but when it's time for a meeting, you come over to host the meeting. By the way, you have to keep track of the movements of each management trainee, and report any problems to me as soon as possible."

"That's it, isn't it very simple?"

Tang Yishu pursed her lips: "Okay, Senior, then, then I'll try."