Chapter 360 Theme of the Annual Meeting

Soon, the admin staff helped Wu Bin complete all the intranet procedures, including intranet permissions, TPDB website, and employee accounts for the internal forum.

Wu Bin took the mouse from the admin staff.

Hmm…

This mouse, this keyboard, this screen…

Comfortable!

Having become accustomed to the company's cost-cutting measures regarding office computers, Wu Bin was almost moved to tears to be able to touch such a nice computer.

The thought of being able to type on such a comfortable keyboard filled him with excitement!

He looked at Hao Yun, momentarily hesitating about how to address her.

Based on her position, Hao Yun was now the head of the Human Resources department, so he should call her "Director" if he wanted to be polite.

If he thought that calling her by her position was too stiff and formal, then he should call her "Sister Hao" or "Sister Yun" or something similar.

At the very least, "Senior"?

But Wu Bin was older than Hao Yun, and had worked longer too…

This made things rather awkward.

So, Wu Bin was a little hesitant and decided to observe how others addressed her first.

But it seemed that everyone was calling each other by their names…

Wu Bin was a little lost, and secretly asked the male colleague next to him.

"In our department, do you just call each other by name?"

The guy, who had just returned from the snack area with a bag of potato chips, nodded after taking a sip of coffee: "Yeah."

"To be precise, it's not just our department, other departments are the same."

"At most, people who are closer will call each other 'Brother' or 'Sister'."

"The safest thing to do is to call people by their names. No one will think it's strange. Calling people by their positions would be strange."

Wu Bin was very surprised: "Really? Why is that?"

The guy shook his head while munching on potato chips: "I don't know, I wasn't one of the first employees of Tengda. I only joined three or four months ago. It was already this kind of working environment at that time."

"Oh, right, if you want to eat snacks, you can just go and get them yourself. There's no limit."

The guy didn't forget to wave the bag of potato chips in his hand at Wu Bin, telling him that he could eat as much as he wanted.

Wu Bin thought the potato chips smelled pretty good, but he thought it would be a little inappropriate to do that on his first day of work, especially since he hadn't officially been hired yet, so he shook his head: "It's okay, I'm not hungry."

The guy next to him suddenly thought of another thing: "Oh, right, the only exception is President Pei."

"Out of respect, everyone generally avoids calling him by his name directly."

"Of course, President Pei is very easy-going, so he probably wouldn't be angry if you called him by his name."

"It's just that everyone respects him from the bottom of their hearts, so that's how they address him. He's the only exception in the whole company."

"In short, other than President Pei, you can call anyone by their name without any problem."

Wu Bin nodded silently, it seemed that he really needed to learn these things from the veteran employees.

The two chatted for a bit and introduced themselves to each other.

Wu Bin also asked some questions about the daily work, such as... whether the content written in the employee handbook was actually true.

The guy next to him thought for a while and said, "Not entirely true."

Wu Bin nodded, understanding.

As expected, most companies would more or less hide their shortcomings and exaggerate their advantages when introducing themselves.

Of course, you couldn't say that was wrong, it was just human nature.

The guy next to him continued, "I think a lot of things aren't written in this handbook."

"What about the twice-yearly Best Employee Award? The first prize is a one-million-yuan dream fund, and the second prize is a paid vacation?"

"And the regular medical checkups, and the reimbursement of medical expenses?"

"And…"

The guy listed all of Tengda's other benefits.

He even forgot some of them as he spoke, and had to check again to finally complete the list.

There was no way around it; there were too many benefits to remember clearly.

Wu Bin: "..."

He thought the guy was going to tell him some insider information that wasn't written in the new employee handbook, like how the company had serious overtime or would occasionally deduct wages.

But he was completely wrong!

It turned out that the handbook didn't list all of the employee benefits, and there were many other benefits that couldn't be written down due to space limitations…

Wu Bin was completely speechless and almost thought he had been deceived and mistakenly entered some kind of scam company.

Such good benefits; who are you trying to fool!

But Tengda's reputation was well-known, and the rock-solid reality was right in front of him, so he had to believe it even if he didn't want to!

After calming down his emotions, Wu Bin asked, "Brother, do you know what the Tengda spirit compatibility test mainly tests?"

The guy next to him threw the empty potato chip bag into the trash can and shook his head: "Not sure."

"This test is only being done for the first time after you guys joined, I haven't taken it before."

"As for that, the confidentiality is very good, and I only vaguely know a little bit of information."

"All the questions in this test were created by President Pei, and no one other than President Pei has the authority to modify them."

"Don't worry, I don't think it will be very difficult. It should be like the mental health tests that some schools do, just a formality."

"As long as no major problems are detected, passing should be a piece of cake."

Hearing this, Wu Bin breathed a slight sigh of relief.

As long as it's not difficult!

Okay, then let's start working with anticipation!

Wu Bin got up and went to Hao Yun, hoping that she would arrange some work for him.

Hao Yun looked up: "Work?"

"Uh… you can't arrange work during the internship period."

"And there are basically enough people right now. Your task during this time is to observe and learn more, and strive to pass the Tengda spirit compatibility test in one go, so you can become a full-time employee sooner."

Wu Bin returned to his seat in a daze.

This was the first time he had encountered a situation where he actively looked for work but there was none to do…





In the office.

"President Pei, this is the company's annual meeting plan that the administrative team has prepared. Please take a look."

Pei Qian took a document from Assistant Xin and flipped through it casually.

The content was quite extensive.

At the very front was the cost of the annual meeting, as well as the arrangement of various prizes for the annual meeting.

Consolation Prize: 1000 yuan red envelope * 1000.

799 yuan headphones * 300.

899 yuan mechanical keyboard * 300.

500~1000 yuan random red envelope * 200.

1299 yuan air purifier * 200 units.

2199 yuan robot vacuum cleaner and vacuum cleaner each * 70 units.

3599 yuan game console * 80 units.

4599 yuan tablet Pro * 80 units.

5699 yuan Pineapple and Shenhua flagship mobile phones each * 40 units.

5999 yuan TV * 70 units.

11999 yuan digital camera * 20 units.

18888 cash gift bag * 10.

Five-day double tour to any city in the world * 3 (including first-class air tickets, five-star luxury hotel accommodation, and an additional 30,000 consumption quota).

The total value of these prizes was estimated to be more than four million.

This was already the highest amount allowed by the system.

Nearly a thousand employees participated in the annual meeting. Of course, a large portion of them were Reverse Logistics delivery drivers.

Although the delivery drivers were physical laborers, Pei Qian certainly wouldn't discriminate against them because of this, because these people were also Tengda employees. They diligently delivered goods, and of course they had to participate in the annual meeting on this special occasion.

Pei Qian originally wanted to arrange a more generous consolation prize, such as giving each person a flagship mobile phone, but with the total value of all the prizes for the entire annual meeting already determined, there were fewer other prizes that could be arranged.

The lottery was not as exciting.

Therefore, the consolation prize was just a red envelope of one thousand yuan.

However, considering that most of the prizes were prepared in quantities of two or three hundred, excluding the 1,000 yuan red envelope for the consolation prize, the total number of prizes had reached 1,483.

Moreover, the on-site lottery program had been restricted so that each person would not win the same prize, and could only win up to two prizes.

People who hadn't won a prize yet would have a higher chance of winning as time went on.

In other words, even the unluckiest person would likely be able to win a prize, and there wouldn't be a situation where lucky people went home fully loaded and unlucky people got nothing.

Pei Qian was quite satisfied with these prizes and continued to read on.

The following were the specific activities of the annual meeting, including live performances and meal arrangements.

In terms of meals, the chefs of Mingyun Private Kitchen and Moyu Delivery would be invited to prepare food at the hotel venue of the annual meeting. Ingredients would be purchased in advance, and the menu would be arranged by Lin Canrong.

In short, there was no need to worry about the food.

Pei Qian was concerned about the specific arrangements of the annual meeting activities.

The annual meeting arrangements of most companies now can be summed up in one word: awkward!

There were those who forced male employees to wear ballet costumes and dance Swan Lake, those who awkwardly danced internet songs, and various vulgar game segments that broke new lows…

In short, letting employees perform on stage was already considered quite humane, but it was still very awkward.

It was hard to say whether this was a distortion of human nature or a decline in morality.

The annual meeting activity arrangements prepared by Assistant Xin did not make these mistakes, and overall looked pretty good.

There was also no excessive requirement to have all the heads of departments dress up as women and perform on stage.

Pei Qian was very satisfied with this. As the saying goes, letting others off is also letting yourself off. He didn't want to wear strange costumes and go on stage as a monkey.

This annual meeting arrangement had hired some professionals to perform on stage, singing, dancing, acrobatics, etc. In addition, some interesting small games were also prepared.

Of course, whether it was hiring people to perform or letting employees play small games, an additional budget was prepared, after all, employees also had to be given prizes for playing small games.

Pei Qian looked at it for a long time, but still felt that it was boring.

Singing, dancing, and performing programs were not impossible, but what was so good about these things?

Not to mention annual meetings, how many people still liked to watch those singing and dancing programs at galas?

Letting employees play small games on stage was much better than those vulgar games, but it was still quite awkward.

After all, everyone's purpose was not to play these games, but to win prizes.

Since the employees' purpose was to win prizes and President Pei's purpose was to give out prizes, why not omit these awkward links?

Pei Qian thought for a while and said, "These programs and on-site small games are all unnecessary."

"Arrange gashapon machines and claw machines on-site, and set up some activities similar to ring toss, dart throwing, or air gun shooting."

"At that time, the entire venue will be surrounded by these entertainment facilities, filled with gashapons, plush toys, and various figures."

"Everyone will be given a bunch of tokens when they enter, so they can play as much as they want."

"Oh, right, for those claw machines that are rigged, turn the odds all the way up."

"When everyone comes to the annual meeting, there will be two things to do: eat and play!"

"There will be a lottery throughout the entire event. After everyone is full, they can take their tokens to play gashapon and claw machines until all the prizes have been drawn and everyone has eaten and drunk their fill and spent all their tokens. Then, the annual meeting will officially end."

"We at Tengda don't engage in formalism, don't inject chicken blood, and won't let anyone go on stage and act stupid."

"Eating, drinking, and having fun is the theme of our annual meeting!"