195: Chapter 195 This isn't an explanation, it's a knife stabbing us in the heart!

"I counted 10 types of gift boxes, and they're all premium goods: beef, donkey meat, cuttlefish, honey..."

"What's going on? Is it the Mid-Autumn Festival?"

"Calm down, calm down. When facing major events, one must remain composed."

"Put down the beef jerky in your hand before you talk so pretentiously."

"..."

Everyone looked at the gift boxes piled high at the front of the conference room, completely confused, circling the pile and looking it over from every angle.

The eight new hires stood to the side, feeling like outsiders, heads bowed and sighing.

"We came too late! My heart aches!"

Suddenly, a cough was heard.

Everyone turned around to see Cheng Wan standing at the door with an excited smile on her face.

Qin Xun and Xia Ning stood behind her.

Everyone scattered and lined up neatly in the conference room.

Cheng Wan went up to the stage and turned on the computer and projector.

On the projection screen at the front of the conference room, "Oak Company Mid-Autumn Festival Benefits" appeared.

After turning on the projector, she stepped down.

Qin Xun slowly walked up, picked up the clicker, and pressed it.

The PPT flipped to the next page.

[Oak Company Mid-Autumn Festival Benefits]

[01. Every employee gets a 1,000-yuan supermarket shopping card.]

[02. One box of branded mooncakes, one box of branded nuts.]

He looked at his colleagues below and said with a smile,

"Tomorrow is the Mid-Autumn Festival."

"I'd like to wish everyone a happy Mid-Autumn Festival in advance."

Enthusiastic applause and cheers erupted from below.

"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival, President Qin!"

"Happy Mid-Autumn Festival to you too, President Qin!"

Qin Xun waited for the noise to subside and continued,

"I believe you have all seen the company's Mid-Autumn Festival benefits through the grapevine."

He used a laser pointer to circle the text on the projection screen.

"Are you happy?"

The crowd replied in unison,

"Happy!"

Everyone looked at the gift boxes piled up in the conference room—there were even more than what was written on the PPT—and felt the joy of stumbling upon a fortune.

Suddenly, Qin Xun changed his tone.

"You are happy too early!"

Everyone was startled, struck by a bad premonition.

Qin Xun continued,

"I believe you have all noticed that the quantity of gifts is not quite the same as the rumors."

"Correspondingly... the amount on the shopping cards will naturally have to change, too."

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of everyone below changed.

They looked at each other, all thinking of one possibility.

They weren't giving out the shopping cards?

Did they use the shopping card money to buy these gift boxes?

This... this...

This was a huge loss!

The value of the goods might be similar, but with a shopping card, you could spend it however you wanted to buy things you actually liked!

At this moment, they heard Qin Xun ask with a smile,

"Do you think it's reasonable or not?"

Everyone felt as uncomfortable as if they had swallowed a fly.

Wasn't this equivalent to an old pervert groping a girl's bottom and then forcing her to say she enjoyed it?

There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and then a few voices rang out.

"Reasonable!"

"It makes sense!"

"That's how it should be done!"

Qin Xun smiled and flipped to the second page.

[01. Vice President shopping card 5,000 yuan, Manager 3,000 yuan, Supervisor 2,000 yuan, Specialist 1,000 yuan]

[02. 10 gift boxes]

The conference room went instantly quiet.

You could even hear a strand of hair drop to the floor.

Some people suspected something was wrong with their eyes and rubbed them.

Others suspected it was a numbers game and widened their eyes, trying to see if there was a decimal point in that string of numbers, thinking it was actually hundreds instead of thousands.

They remained quiet for a full half-minute, unable to recover from the shock.

Qin Xun sighed.

"It seems everyone isn't very happy!"

Suddenly!

"Happy!"

A woman's shriek came from the conference room, startling everyone.

Everyone turned to look and saw Cheng Wan cupping her hands around her mouth like a megaphone and shouting.

She was at the manager level and had a 5,000-yuan shopping card; how could she not be happy?

One stone stirred up a thousand waves.

Immediately, the supervisors of various departments shouted.

"Happy!"

"How could I not be happy?"

"President Qin, I'm so happy I could die!"

"I wasn't this happy when I got married!"

"I wasn't this happy when my son was born!"

...

With the supervisors taking the lead, the specialists also shouted "Happy."

Although their shopping card amounts hadn't changed, at least they hadn't decreased, and there were really so many more gift boxes than expected!

For a moment, the conference room was bustling with noise.

Qin Xun raised a hand, and everyone immediately quieted down.

"Most of you here are older than me. It would be ridiculous for me to feed you empty promises or try to brainwash you."

"I don't feed you empty promises; I only give you meat."

"As long as the company is profitable, I will definitely share a portion of the profits to improve everyone's benefits."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone applauded, cheered, and whistled.

They were as excited as monkeys.

Qin Xun smiled and continued,

"Around 4 PM this afternoon, our salaries for this month will be deposited."

"The reason the pay stubs weren't sent out in advance is that calculating performance bonuses is a bit troublesome."

"Salaries are confidential, but I can reveal this much to you: for half of the people in the company, their performance bonuses are higher than their base salaries."

"For the other half, the performance bonuses and base salaries are about the same."

As soon as these words were spoken, the conference room fell silent again, everyone wearing an expression of disbelief.

Everyone had only been in the company for a little over a month, and in truth, they hadn't done much work; they had basically just been helping Qin Xun out.

They hadn't dared to even think about performance bonuses.

Many people didn't even know how performance bonuses were calculated.

Now, hearing that half the company's performance bonuses were actually higher than their salaries, and the other half's were almost equal to their salaries—didn't that mean they were basically getting double their salaries?

What kind of heavenly company was this?

Qin Xun looked at Xia Ning and asked loudly,

"Little Xia, what is your salary?"

Xia Ning hesitated for a moment and then said loudly,

"3,500!"

Everyone was shocked.

Only 3,500?

Suddenly, they realized that while Xia Ning looked imposing, like a female CEO, she was, after all, just a newly hired assistant.

Even though she had President Qin's favor, it was normal for her salary to be low.

When Qin Xun first joined, he only made 2,000 yuan a month!

Qin Xun's gaze swept over the crowd and landed back on Xia Ning's face.

"Then tell everyone, as a planning assistant,"

"how much in performance bonuses did you get in total for the Dudu Tea pool apple sales, the Xiao Ying Doll viral marketing case, and the Dudu Tea planning project?"

Xia Ning glanced at Qin Xun, then turned her head to see that everyone's gaze was fixed on her.

She felt a bit helpless and said in a very small voice,

"203,400 yuan."

As soon as these words were spoken, you could hear a pin drop in the entire conference room.

Xia Ning saw the shock on her colleagues' faces and, feeling a bit awkward, softly explained,

"I just got lucky."

"According to the company's performance regulations, the Planning Department gets a 3% bonus on turnover. The manager gets 40%, and the remaining amount is distributed among the specialists based on their contributions."

"Because, aside from President Qin, I am the only person left in our department, I took 60%."

"The turnover for those three previous planning projects was 11.3 million."

Her voice became even quieter, and she felt a bit embarrassed.

"I was just lucky..."

Listening to Xia Ning's explanation, everyone felt like they couldn't breathe.

How the hell was this an explanation? This was like stabbing us right in the heart!

The conference room was silent for a moment, and then it exploded like a pressure cooker.