Chapter 1 Backtracking

Back at his residence, Pei Qian first sent a message to Assistant Xin, asking her to take some time after starting work on Monday to learn about the old industrial area of Jingzhou City, pick a larger factory building to inquire about the price, and slightly estimate the investment for this haunted house.

After that, Pei Qian looked at the message Tang Yishu had sent him.

Today was Saturday, and many people had gone to work overtime.

Tang Yishu was ostensibly going to shovel poop for Yintang, but in reality, she was also supervising these overtime workers for Pei Qian, to see if they had any transgressive behavior.

Pei Qian looked at the message and then compared it with the overtime list submitted by Li Yada.

"A girl with framed glasses, that should be Li Yada."

"A mole on her face, that should be Little Li."

"A very tall guy with a buzz cut... hmm?"

Pei Qian compared the information sent by Tang Yishu with the list submitted by Li Yada and immediately found a problem.

There was one more person on the overtime list!

The declared number of overtime slots was 5 people, but Tang Yishu recorded that the actual number of design team members who came to work overtime was 6!

The very tall one with the buzz cut should be Chen Kangtuo from the design team, and he was not on the overtime list submitted by Li Yada.

Pei Qian sneered, hmph, I knew it!

Sure enough, there were always people in the design team who hadn't given up on working overtime.

Gotcha.

Pei Qian wondered how to deal with this die-hard who repeatedly refused to be taught and was still secretly working overtime.

Send him to a bigger stage to show his talent on the spot, and kill the chicken to scare the monkey?

Not appropriate.

Because this approach was a temporary solution, not a permanent cure, and would cause endless harm.

Pei Qian didn't ask Tang Yishu who exactly was working overtime on the weekend, nor did he think about installing surveillance cameras in the office, all for the same consideration.

Suppose Pei Qian used the last-place elimination system to transfer Chen Kangtuo to another department, that would undoubtedly be hinting to all employees that as long as they worked overtime, they would be eliminated.

Those who wanted to be promoted would deliberately come to work overtime when they saw this situation, and those who originally wanted to work overtime would become even more excessive, and the scene would become uncontrollable.

Pei Qian would be completely unable to distinguish which people were slackers and which were truly motivated.

Or, Pei Qian could warn Chen Kangtuo not to work overtime and strictly prohibit this behavior?

Then, on the surface, it would make those who wanted to work overtime retreat in the face of difficulty, but they would definitely turn to the dark and secretly work overtime at home.

If everyone was working overtime at home, President Pei would still not be able to distinguish which of his employees were slackers and which were motivated.

So, he couldn't do that!

As the saying goes, clear water has no fish, and a discerning person has no followers.

Whether it was strictly checking attendance or installing surveillance cameras in the office, on the one hand, it would make many employees consciously work harder and reduce the number of times they slacked off, and on the other hand, it would make President Pei unable to see those motivated people hidden in the dark.

Pei Qian's ultimate goal was to create a mixed environment for all employees, while also making them feel that President Pei wouldn't care if they secretly worked overtime.

In this way, the slackers could slack off with peace of mind, and the motivated ones would secretly work overtime, so the two could be distinguished.

After that, Pei Qian could grasp the list of those motivated people and then secretly arrange them without anyone knowing.

Without alarming anyone.

Therefore, Pei Qian was not impatient, but silently wrote down the name Chen Kangtuo, preparing to settle the score in the autumn and secretly knock him out.

By the way, he was also waiting for more fish to enter the net.

…

December 6th, Monday.

Pei Qian still arrived at the company at 10 o'clock and immediately found that there seemed to be a few fewer people in the company today.

After a moment of doubt, he remembered that today was the day of the Tengda entry examination.

Many employees from the human resources department and administration had gone out to maintain order in the examination hall.

Although many graduate students from Handong University came to help, these students could only assist and had to be led by Hao Yun and others.

Pei Qian planned to sit in the office for a while and then go to the examination hall to take a look.

Recruitment was a major event after all, and whether he could screen out more slackers was related to the future development of the company, so Pei Qian did not dare to neglect it.

Not long after he sat down, Assistant Xin came to report on her work.

"President Pei, I've already inquired about the situation on the factory buildings."

"The abandoned factory buildings in the old industrial area are planned to be developed collectively in the name of a cultural and creative industrial park, so they are not for sale. But the good news is that the rent is very cheap because no one wants them."

"The rent for these factory buildings is only eight or nine yuan per square meter per month. This cost can be basically ignored."

"If you plan to turn these factory buildings into haunted houses, then you have to carefully plan what scale you want to achieve and how many factory areas you want to occupy."

"This way, it will be easier to calculate the initial investment."

Pei Qian nodded, this price was much cheaper than he had imagined.

Only eight or nine yuan per square meter per month, so renting a place of 10,000 square meters, several large factory buildings, would only cost more than one million yuan in rent a year, which was completely different from the price of office buildings.

Of course, the key to whether the rent was expensive was the location.

These factory buildings were in remote locations, and if they were rented out and couldn't make money, then the annual cost of more than one million yuan would be pure waste, so most people were unwilling to take over.

Assistant Xin continued, "There is also a second thing, President Pei, are we going to hold an annual meeting this year?"

"If we want to hold one, it's about time to start preparing."

Pei Qian was stunned and then said, "Hold one, of course we have to hold one!"

How could he almost forget about this!

How could he miss such a good opportunity to spend money at the annual meeting?

They didn't hold an annual meeting last year because Tengda's scale was still too small at that time, and they couldn't hold one.

But this year, Tengda already had so many employees, so it was reasonable to hold an annual meeting!

If they had some big prizes at the annual meeting and gave everyone a participation award, wouldn't that be another large sum of money spent?

Thank goodness for Assistant Xin's reminder!

Assistant Xin nodded, "Okay, President Pei, then I'll notify them to prepare. If you have any requirements for the annual meeting, you can bring them up at any time."

Pei Qian said, "There are no other requirements, just make sure it conforms to the Tengda spirit, understand?"

Assistant Xin, "Understood, the prizes will definitely be high-end."

Pei Qian nodded in satisfaction.

After Assistant Xin left, Pei Qian prepared to watch a drama for a while, and then go to the examination site for a walk after lunch.

However, just as he opened the Ailidao website, he received a message on his phone.

It was sent by Lin Wan.

"President Pei, *BeQuiet* already has a very initial demo. On the mobile phone side, the first version of the system has also been made into a large shape."

"If you have time these two days, would you like to take a look?"

Pei Qian thought for a while and typed, "Okay, I'll go to Shangyang Games tomorrow and Otto Technologies the day after..."

However, halfway through typing this line, Pei Qian felt that it was inappropriate and deleted it all.

He shouldn't go there himself, he should have them come over.

At this stage of inspecting the phased research and development results, Tang Yishu, this nuclear weapon, must be put to use.

However, if Pei Qian took Tang Yishu to Shangyang Games or Otto Technologies to inspect the results, it would seem a little strange.

After all, Tang Yishu's current position was only "the poop shoveler for the Encouragement Division," and taking her around felt a bit improper and easy to arouse suspicion.

So, it was best to have everyone come to Tengda Games to be affected by Tang Yishu's aura effect without realizing it.

Thinking of this, Pei Qian retyped, "Then come to Tengda for a demonstration these next two days."

Not long after, Lin Wan replied, "Okay, President Pei."

…

Noon.

Tengda Recruitment Examination Hall.

Wu Bin ate the set meal delivered by Lazy Cat Takeout and praised it incessantly.

He was the HR from Hengtu Games who had previously tried to poach Hao Qiong and was shown up, and had been paying attention to Tengda's recruitment.

He finally waited for the recruitment examination and naturally wouldn't miss this opportunity.

He had already taken one subject in the morning, and now it was lunchtime.

Wu Bin could say that he had many feelings about this recruitment examination.

His first feeling was, strange!

The time was strange, the process was strange, and even the questions on the exam were strange.

In terms of time, it was actually arranged on Monday, which was really quite outrageous.

Because many companies would have meetings on Monday, it was extremely difficult to ask for leave.

Was deliberately arranging the exam on Monday because they were afraid that the employed people taking the exam would be able to ask for leave?

In terms of process, there were many inexplicable and seemingly unnecessary links.

Wu Bin himself was an HR and was very familiar with similar processes.

In his opinion, although Tengda's scale was not small, conducting this kind of large-scale unified examination was completely unnecessary and superfluous, wasting money and effort, and it would be better to use conventional recruitment methods.

The most confusing thing was that one of the recruitment links was actually a Tengda spirit compatibility test, and if he didn't pass, he couldn't be hired, which was also quite outrageous.

Moreover, the questions were really difficult!

Wu Bin had also taken civil service examinations and some similar written tests, and had prepared for this kind of question.

He originally thought that Tengda was just a private enterprise, and the written test questions should be much simpler.

However, he was completely wrong.

The difficulty of the questions was unprecedented!

The morning almost drove Wu Bin crazy. He originally thought he was well-prepared, but he was rubbed on the ground by these highly difficult questions.

However, there was nothing he could do.

Who told Tengda to have such good benefits!

He could see it from this lunch.

There were at least several hundred job seekers in this hotel's venue, and Tengda directly provided meals, which would cost at least tens of thousands of yuan.

And this was not the only examination hall.

Hiring these university graduate students to proctor and grade the papers would probably cost another large sum of money.

Alas, it was good to be rich!

Wu Bin ate the Lazy Cat Takeout set meal while fantasizing about how wonderful it would be if he could one day work at Tengda.

After eating lunch, Wu Bin saw that many people had left the venue.

Tengda had arranged accommodation for those job seekers who came from other cities, so they could go back to their rooms to rest a little now and return before the afternoon exam started.

But Wu Bin lived in Jingzhou locally, so he didn't have this kind of treatment.

He could go home to rest, but it was a bit of trouble to go back and forth, so there was no need to bother.

With nothing to do, Wu Bin's eyes swept across the hall, observing these candidates, who were also his competitors.

Young people accounted for the vast majority, and many of them should be local Jingzhou university students.

This was very normal, after all, senior students were in the stage of frantically looking for jobs and would definitely not miss this kind of exam.

And employed people of Wu Bin's age either couldn't bear to part with their year-end bonuses or couldn't easily ask for leave on Monday, so many of them gave up.

"It feels like Tengda prefers young employees."

"I also don't know if an old slacker like me can pass the exam."

Wu Bin was a little melancholy.