Chapter 15 Wednesday Morning, December 15th

Wu Bin arrived downstairs at Shenhua Haojing, feeling excited and apprehensive.

He had learned the results on Monday: he had passed the interview!

In that moment, he had nearly cheered.

Having been in the workforce for so many years, he had never been so happy.

According to Tengda's arrangements, new employees could start at any time after being hired. If there were any handover procedures that needed to be completed, there was no need to rush; Tengda wouldn't push them.

They could officially start whenever the procedures were finished.

When Wu Bin returned to Hengtu Games and told his boss that he was resigning, he was naturally asked to stay.

The reasons for staying were substantial.

For example: work needed to be handed over, the annual meeting and year-end bonus were coming up soon, everyone had worked together for so long and had developed feelings, and a salary increase was possible.

But Wu Bin was very determined to leave and didn't delay for even a minute.

The reason was simple: the earlier he joined, the more days of salary he could earn at Tengda.

And while Hengtu Games had promised a salary increase, the salary after the increase was still far less than Tengda's base salary...

The sooner he joined, the sooner he would earn money!

Therefore, Wu Bin didn't delay for even a minute, striving to be one of the first new employees to join.

The only uncertainty was whether he could still get a year-end bonus and annual meeting gifts at Tengda.

He would definitely get them at his original company.

But Wu Bin also knew that even if there were year-end bonuses and annual meeting gifts at Hengtu Games, they definitely wouldn't be very generous.

As for the year-end bonus, it would be a symbolic amount of one month's salary.

And the annual meeting gift, if nothing unexpected happened, would at most be a participation prize, with a two or three hundred yuan red envelope being considered pretty good.

That little bit of temptation was certainly not enough to make Wu Bin stay.

Wu Bin couldn't help but sigh, thinking that whether or not it was easy to poach someone had little to do with the HR department; the key was the company's benefits.

With benefits like Tengda's, there was no need for HR to poach anyone; just revealing a little bit of these benefits would naturally attract job seekers like moths to a flame.

On the other hand, with companies like Hengtu Games, no matter how much they tried to persuade, the other party would retort, "Are you trying to poach people with a pay cut?" and the conversation would immediately stall.

Today, Wu Bin was wearing his most expensive suit. He strode into Shenhua Haojing and took the elevator to the 16th floor.

Currently, Tengda's operations had spread quite a bit.

Flying Fish Studios, Nifeng Logistics, Moyu Internet Cafe, Otto Technologies, and Yuandream Ventures all had offices in separate office buildings, not in Shenhua Haojing.

In Shenhua Haojing, there were only Tengda's game department, Zhongdian Chinese Website, and TPDB, located on the 17th and 18th floors respectively.

However, after this recruitment, Tengda's office space was no longer sufficient.

Previously, Tengda's game department and administrative, finance, and other departments were all crammed onto the 17th floor. At first, this space was more than enough, but as the number of members in the game department increased, all the workstations were occupied.

Some employees were occasionally "promoted," but the pace was too slow to make a difference.

Therefore, after this centralized recruitment, the original office space was completely insufficient, and another floor had to be rented.

So, Tengda rented the 16th floor below and arranged it according to the same layout, just to welcome the new employees.

However, further expansion would be a bit difficult.

Because although the rent at Shenhua Haojing was relatively expensive, it was, after all, a high-end office building, and there weren't many entire floors of office space available.

If they wanted to expand further in the future, they would either have to rent floors that were relatively far apart, or leave this place and move to a larger place, such as a detached office building.

But that was a matter for the future. They could start looking for suitable locations now; in the short term, these workstations should be more than enough.

After this, Tengda's game department and administrative, finance, and other departments were separated.

The game department remained on the 17th floor, while the administrative, finance, legal, and other departments moved to the 16th floor.

Relatively speaking, the 16th floor was more spacious because there were fewer people.

Pei Qian had specifically set up a large conference room on this floor and moved his office there as well.

Large televisions and projectors were installed in both the office and the conference room for easy display and reporting.

Tang Yishu was naturally arranged on this floor as well, so that various departments would be affected to some extent when they came here to report on their work.

But Pei Qian also considered that if Tang Yishu was on the 16th floor all the time, the bugs in Tengda's game department on the 17th floor would be significantly reduced.

Therefore, Pei Qian planned to pick out a few more stray cats that no one had adopted from the pet hospital and distribute them evenly on the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors.

With so many pets, and arranging some pet supplies for them, such as large cat climbing frames, he could spend even more money.

In this way, Tang Yishu could often shovel poop upstairs and downstairs, covering the halo effect across three floors.

Moreover, Pei Qian left the game department on the 17th floor and moved his office to the 16th floor, also hinting to the employees in these game groups: the boss is not on this floor anymore, you can slack off!

...

Wu Bin's workstation was on the 16th floor.

After learning that President Pei's office was also on this floor, Wu Bin felt a little nervous.

After all, he was working under the boss's nose and couldn't afford to be careless.

So far, Tengda was still a mystery to Wu Bin, completely unfathomable.

The information Wu Bin had gathered about Tengda came from hearsay, and many of the claims were quite outrageous, so their credibility was not very high.

He hadn't seen much from the written test and interview either.

But Wu Bin guessed that Tengda, as a company, probably placed a relatively high value on spiritual development.

Otherwise, why would they have created a "Tengda Spirit Compatibility Test"?

Although Wu Bin had successfully passed the written test and interview and officially joined the company, according to the process, he would still have to take the Tengda Spirit Compatibility Test three times within a month.

Only by passing the test could he become a formal employee; if he failed, it would be a pity.

Therefore, Wu Bin had already prepared himself mentally. In his first month at Tengda, in addition to working hard and winning the approval of his colleagues and President Pei, he also had to understand what the so-called Tengda spirit really was.

After arriving at the front desk and explaining his purpose, the pretty receptionist handed Wu Bin a new employee handbook and then led him to the Human Resources Department to report to Hao Yun.

After welcoming Wu Bin, Hao Yun led him to his workstation, and then the administrative staff came over to activate his internal network permissions, arrange a TPDB website account, and so on.

During this time, Wu Bin sat in his office chair and began to flip through the new employee handbook, wanting to find some information related to the "Tengda spirit."

This new employee handbook had also just been customized by the administrative department some time ago and had also been reviewed by President Pei.

Originally, new employees didn't have this thing, because Tengda's scale was relatively small at that time, and the onboarding process was relatively simple, so there was no need for these fancy things.

But now it was different. New employees were joining in batches, and there were many things to pay attention to, so writing them in the new employee handbook in advance and informing them would help these newcomers integrate into the work environment more quickly.

As Wu Bin flipped through the new employee handbook, he found that it was basically divided into several major categories, explaining the things to pay attention to after joining the company.

The first major category was lifestyle, which mainly included suggestions on various aspects of daily life, food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

For example, for daily meals, the company would uniformly order Moyu Takeout, and there were reviews of the dishes inside. In short, they were all quite delicious, and it mainly depended on personal taste to choose.

And there were subsidies for renting a house, daily travel, and so on. The specific amount of the subsidies was also very high, and the specific amount, subsidy method, reimbursement process, and so on were all written very clearly.

Looking at the pictures of the work meals in the handbook, Wu Bin's mouth was watering.

"Such good work meals are completely free?"

"Taxi fares are fully reimbursed, and there's even a mandatory reimbursement quota every month? I can use this money to buy anything related to work?"

"There's also a gym subsidy, and private lessons are arranged for each employee???"

"This... these benefits are too good..."

Wu Bin was mesmerized and quickly flipped down.

The second major category was entertainment, which mainly included various rest and entertainment facilities on the company's side.

For example, the water bar has various coffees and drinks, which can be taken at will, the snack area has various snacks, and the fitness equipment and entertainment room can also be used at will, without any restrictions.

Wu Bin couldn't help but sigh: "Although it's a superficial project, it's very difficult to do a superficial project so well and so carefully."

Wu Bin had always felt that setting up a gym and entertainment room in the company was just a way to attract employees to work overtime.

In short, it was just that it looked better on the surface.

"Our company has prepared a gym and entertainment room for its employees." This kind of bluffing talk is very suitable for deceiving those newcomers who have just joined the company and don't understand anything.

However, the gyms and entertainment rooms of most companies are not allowed to be used during normal working hours and can only be used after work.

Using them after work is tantamount to indirectly inducing overtime, isn't it?

Moreover, when it really comes to overtime, everyone in the entire project team is buried in their work. How could you be embarrassed to run to the entertainment room to play games?

Therefore, most companies prepare these things just as a superficial project, and the symbolic meaning is greater than the actual value.

Wu Bin continued to turn to the next page.

This page was a note about the previous one.

Wu Bin originally thought that there would be a note saying "Please do not go to the entertainment room during work hours" or something like that, but that was not the case at all!

The note clearly stated: "Every employee must accumulate 4 hours of use of fitness facilities or entertainment rooms every week, and strive to combine work and rest."

"Note: Please do not use the gym or entertainment room during non-working hours. Please go home immediately after work."

Wu Bin was a little dizzy.

It was roughly the same as he had expected, but the word "non" was added before the four words "working hours."

This completely changed the meaning!

Other companies all say "Do not use the gym and entertainment room during working hours," but Tengda was completely the opposite!

Does this mean that you can only play during work hours???

Wu Bin almost thought that the new employee handbook was printed incorrectly, but after thinking about it, they shouldn't make such a low-level mistake, right?

He was a little confused.

With confusion, he continued to look down.

The third major category was work.

Other companies often put this category at the front, but Tengda was the opposite, putting it at the end, occupying only the last few pages of the employee handbook, and the description was quite brief.

The previous lifestyle category not only had beautiful color pictures for various work meals, but also described the taste of each dish in detail. It couldn't be more detailed.

The entertainment category was the same, even introducing the various games collected in the entertainment room and attaching simple comments.

But when it came to the work category, the style completely changed.

There were only a few simple things to pay attention to.

"In principle, overtime is prohibited."

"If overtime is required due to work, it must be reported to the department head, who will apply for an overtime quota, and overtime can only be done after approval."

"If you feel a lot of work pressure, immediately report it to the department head, who will recruit new employees to solve it as soon as possible."

"It is strictly forbidden to contact colleagues for work reasons during non-working hours, as this will cause trouble for colleagues."

Things like that.

Wu Bin was a little overwhelmed by what he was reading.

These contents basically all pointed to the same thing, repeated admonitions: no overtime!

On the contrary, those contents that Wu Bin was looking forward to did not appear at all!

For example, the work arranged by the leader must be completed on schedule, and colleagues must not shirk their responsibilities from each other...

There was none of that!

Wu Bin thought it was still behind, but when he flipped the page again, the new employee handbook was over!

What about the explanation of the Tengda spirit that he was looking forward to?

What about the 100 employee rules that he was looking forward to?

There was none of it!

Closing the handbook, Wu Bin only remembered the delicious food and various benefits in front, and didn't remember anything else.

Wu Bin was a little confused, vaguely feeling that something was wrong...