185: Employee benefits

Lu Qingyu arrived at the company and headed straight for the cafeteria.

[Let me see what delicious food the cafeteria has.]

[What's so good about company breakfast? It's bland and tastes terrible, yet they still charge a lot.]

[Qingyu just likes eating light; it's healthy.]

One second everyone was arguing heatedly, the next second the screen was full of "holy shits."

Shrimp dumplings, char siu buns, steamed siu mai, steamed chicken feet, custard buns, seafood congee, and even spare rib sticky rice chicken!

Soy milk, fried dough sticks, rice noodle rolls, hot dry noodles, sandwiches, French hot dogs, burgers, and even scallion pancakes and small wontons.

Where the hell is this a cafeteria? This is a dim sum restaurant, okay?

There were quite a few people in the cafeteria. Lu Qingyu had specially hired chefs, so there were flavors from all over the country.

[If our company breakfast was like this, I'd come to eat every day and definitely wouldn't eat out.]

[Is this food available every day? How much must the meal allowance be?]

[As an employee of Qingcheng Entertainment, let me tell you, it's every day and it's free.]

[Damn, what kind of god-tier benefits are these?]

[Just for this cafeteria alone, employees probably wouldn't want to resign.]

In the blink of an eye, he came back carrying a stack of steamer baskets half as tall as a person.

Lu Qingyu: "These shrimp dumplings are delicious. Do you want some?"

The cameraman knew just from the smell that this breakfast was definitely something else, but he couldn't eat!

He could only shake his head in pain. Lu Qingyu: "You want to eat, right? I'll get some for you."

Cameraman: ? He just shook the camera left and right, didn't he!

[Haha, there's a type of motherly personality called 'I think you want to eat.']

[The cameraman is so lucky to get to eat so much delicious food.]

[The shrimp in those shrimp dumplings are ridiculously large.]

The camera was set up next to Lu Qingyu's table. He brought all the things he liked to eat over to the cameraman. They weren't allowed to ask for food, but since it was offered, it wasn't like they couldn't accept it.

Lu Qingyu: "Bro, just eat right here. No one can see."

The cameraman's face turned bright red. Lu Qingyu had brought over a table full of gourmet food; anyone who didn't know better would think he was a food blogger."

In addition to the camera, there was a detachable bullet chat interaction screen on top of it. The cameraman placed the screen in front of Lu Qingyu so he could easily interact with the fans and audience.

Lu Qingyu answered netizens' questions while eating.

[Little brother, can you finish all of that?]

Lu Qingyu: "If it's not enough, I can get more."

[Can artists eat like this? Don't they need to maintain their figure?]

Lu Qingyu: "I'm still growing, so I need to supplement my nutrition."

[A company breakfast this rich... it's not staged, is it?]

Before Lu Qingyu could reply, an employee suddenly burst into the frame.

He brought a lunch box for Lu Qingyu, opened it, and said with a grin, "Boss, my daughter said yesterday's Buddha Jumps Over the Wall was delicious. These are cherries she grew at her kindergarten; she insisted I bring them to you."

Lu Qingyu took the cherries. "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall? Didn't they say the broth takes two days to simmer? I thought we were eating it today!"

Employee: "The smell from the kitchen was too fragrant. We wanted to have a taste, but ended up accidentally devouring it all."

Lu Qingyu: "..."

[They even have Buddha Jumps Over the Wall? That can be an employee meal?]

[Haha, those questioning if the employee meals were staged weren't wrong—this is actually restrained, because we usually eat better than this.]

[Isn't it inappropriate for the relationship between employees and the boss to be so good? What if the employees start slacking off? I still think Song Yushuo's management style is better.]

[If you like it, you go there. I'm definitely not going.]

After finishing his meal, Lu Qingyu also went to a meeting, though his meeting style was different from Song Yushuo's.

Song Yushuo's image was rigorous and resolute. Employees working under him had to stay sharp at all times; mistakes would result in a scolding and demands for self-reflection and written apologies.

But in Lu Qingyu's meeting room...

Once the employees were all present, starting from the first person, if there was a problem, they asked it directly; if not, they moved on.

Everyone took out their notebooks and stated the issues that needed solving directly, without a single word of nonsense.

Just when everyone thought he would give a long-winded speech like Song Yushuo, expressing his views and lecturing employees, the meeting ended with Lu Qingyu saying "Mhm" twelve times.

The whole process took less than 10 minutes. When the meeting ended, the employees didn't wait for Lu Qingyu to leave first; they just grabbed their things and left on their own.

[Huh? This is called a meeting? No way, in our company, this would just be the warm-up.]

[Can Lu Qingyu say anything other than 'mhm'? Is it okay for a boss to be like this?]

[Who understands how great this meeting style is? All employees get straight to the point—if there's a problem, state it; if there's a solution, state it. If we could have meetings like this, I'd be dying of happiness.]

[To be honest, although my company has three-hour meetings every day, the entire content could be summarized in ten minutes.]

[Is Qingcheng Entertainment still hiring? I want to go.]

[Compared to Song Yushuo's management, I prefer Lu Qingyu's. This is truly a god-tier boss.]

At 10:00 AM, Lu Qingyu's livestream had 3.2 million viewers, while Song Yushuo's had 3.34 million—but only they knew who had bot followers.

This was the time of the lowest traffic because office workers were working and students were in class. In previous livestream sessions, there were only about 1 million people during this time slot.

Lu Qingyu's numbers were triple that, and these were all real traffic. Song Yushuo's aunt was getting a bit anxious; they had hired 2.3 million paid shills, costing over a million. Along with various marketing, screen-spamming, and anti-fans targeting Lu Qingyu, the total costs exceeded five million.

But this was only the first day, and it wasn't even noon yet. The company's budget was 20 million, but now it seemed far from enough.

Song Yushuo hadn't looked at the bullet chat since the meeting started. The first competition for popularity points had given him confidence; he felt he would definitely be better than Lu Qingyu.

After the meeting, Song Yushuo was originally going to the film set, but an employee suddenly knocked on his office door.

It was a veteran employee, Xu Weiming, the manager of the Marketing Department.

He had come at this time on purpose. He knew Song Yushuo was participating in a variety show livestream, and he wanted to discuss a promotion and a raise in front of the public.

He had been there since the company was founded and had always been in charge of the Marketing Group. His base salary was 12,000. When he joined the company, it was agreed that his base salary would be 12,000, but there would be commissions for projects, and his salary would increase by 200 every year.

But after working for two years, not only had his base salary not increased, but his project commissions were also becoming smaller and smaller.

The commission for a large project he negotiated had been set at 1%. Later, because his performance was outstanding and the project amount became larger, the commission was lowered to 0.4%, and then later to 0.1%. Furthermore, the performance requirements were becoming higher and higher; if they weren't met, bonuses would be deducted.