152: Chapter 152 Working overtime with a 50% off home purchase discount card is problematic!

Chapter 152: 50% Real Estate Discount Card; Overtime is the Problem!

"Look!"

On the dance floor, Mao Haixia pointed at Su Yang and Chang Yiting.

Hao Yue took a glance but said nothing.

Mao Haixia whispered in Hao Yue's ear, "I suspect Chang Yiting has feelings for Su Yang!"

Hao Yue replied, "I know!"

Anyone with eyes could see it.

She actually had some feelings for Su Yang herself, but she would never be as obvious about it as Chang Yiting.

After dancing for twenty minutes, Su Yang was finally called off the floor by Chang Yiting and the others.

By the time he returned to the booth, Li Hongrong had already arrived with his girlfriend.

Ou Xiaoning hadn't gone to dance earlier; she had stayed behind to watch the booth.

Chang Yiting asked with a smile, "Are you having fun?"

Upon returning to the booth, she sat down right next to Su Yang.

Su Yang smiled and nodded. "I'm having a great time!"

"Let's have a drink!"

"Okay!"

Su Yang clinked glasses with Chang Yiting.

For the rest of the time, everyone ate, drank, and went back to the dance floor twice more.

Visiting a bar for only the second time, Su Yang enjoyed himself thoroughly!

At ten-thirty, Hao Yue, Chang Yiting, and Mao Haixia suggested it was time to leave.

Ou Xiaoning and the others were also about done, so they settled the bill and left the bar together.

Watching the three women board a bus, Ou Xiaoning chuckled softly and said, "Brother Su, you should ask that Chang Yiting out a few more times. You definitely have a chance to win her over!"

Su Yang just smiled and didn't say anything.

He could only say that his impression of Chang Yiting was quite good.

But he wasn't desperate to pursue anyone!

Zhan Qingfei chimed in from the side, "Maybe President Su prefers Hao Yue!"

Li Hongrong suddenly interjected, "It seems none of you have asked President Su if he already has a girlfriend!"

At Li Hongrong's reminder, Ou Xiaoning and Zhan Qingfei looked at each other blankly.

They really seemed to have forgotten about that!

Zhan Qingfei's girlfriend also laughed. "I get the feeling President Su isn't the type to lack a girlfriend!"

After a night of relaxed fun, Su Yang woke up the next day feeling energetic and in high spirits!

He went to Jiuxiang Food and looked over the sales data for February.

The sales of beef snacks from Jiuxiang Food in February were quite impressive.

Combining all online and offline channels, sales reached nine million!

After deducting raw material and labor costs, there was still a profit of over one million.

A 20% profit margin is relatively normal for a snack enterprise.

The more formidable ones can reach a profit margin of 30%.

However, Su Yang wasn't ruthless enough, nor did he make his employees work overtime!

Consequently, Jiuxiang Food's profit margin was on the lower side.

The sales figures for the other factories—dried fruits, preserved fruits, and pickled chicken feet—were slightly lower.

Their combined sales totaled around two million.

Su Yang did a quick calculation; if he set aside that one million in advertising fees...

Jiuxiang Food, with its more than three hundred employees, actually made a net profit of over two hundred thousand in February!

"Not bad!"

Su Yang was already very satisfied with this!

However, he also knew that the leisurely days for Jiuxiang Food's employees were about to end.

Customer feedback for Jiuxiang Food's snacks, whether from online or offline channels, was exceptionally good.

Distributors, supermarkets, and snack chains were all very satisfied with the snacks produced by Jiuxiang Food!

Therefore, the employees would only get busier and busier!

Of course, as long as the company's profits were good, Su Yang wouldn't mistreat his employees!

On March 8th, Su Yang finally reached payday.

Payday should have been on the 7th, but the 7th was a weekend.

Su Yang was too embarrassed to make the finance department issue salaries on a weekend!

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate of 1.86 million for Spark Fitness employees in February.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate of 6.21 million for Jiuxiang Catering employees in February.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate of 3.69 million for Spark Media employees in February.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate of 2.07 million for Jiuxiang Food employees in February.]

[Ding~ You have received a salary and benefits rebate of 580,000 for Fengyuan Ingredients employees in February.]

[Ding~ The loyalty of employees across Spark Fitness, Spark Media, Jiuxiang Catering, Jiuxiang Food, and Fengyuan Ingredients—including Lan Yushan, Jiang Zhiwei, Tang Sigang, and others—has increased to 90. You receive a 370,000 cash reward and 1 Strength point.]

[Ding~ Spark Media employee Xu Hao's loyalty has reached 90. You have received a 50% Real Estate Discount Card.]

Su Yang was stunned for a moment upon seeing this reward.

He hadn't expected an employee to trigger a special reward!

[50% Real Estate Discount Card: Grants a 50% discount on the purchase of any real estate.]

[Note: Xu Hao believes current housing prices are artificially high and should be at least 50% off!]

Looking at this 50% Real Estate Discount Card, Su Yang felt slightly helpless.

He used to think that Zhou Zichuan was the one without big dreams, given that domestic cars only got a 90% discount!

Now he realized that Xu Hao had even smaller dreams than Zhou Zichuan.

What a waste of a highly educated intellectual!

Couldn't he have used his imagination a bit more and dreamed of a 99.9% discount on housing prices?

That would have let the boss live in a luxury mansion with ease.

However, he had to admit that this discount card was quite practical!

He was now a man with a monthly income exceeding ten million, yet he didn't own a single property.

He was still renting Qin Shuang's place and hadn't even paid rent for several months...

With this 50% Real Estate Discount Card, he could definitely buy a luxury mansion in the future!

And the mansion had to be as expensive as possible—it should be worth at least a hundred million!

After all, these kinds of special rewards were incredibly rare!

Who knew when he would encounter another real estate discount card like this?

Using it to buy a house worth two or three million would be a total waste of a precious resource!

Stowing away the 50% Real Estate Discount Card, Su Yang looked at his income for the month.

The system had rebated 14.78 million this month, and the balance in his account had now exceeded fifteen million!

This was entirely within Su Yang's expectations.

Except for Spark Fitness, the employee counts of the other four companies had been growing rapidly in February.

Fengyuan goes without saying; it was acquired in February and was currently still hiring!

Jiuxiang Catering had added four branches and a hotpot base processing plant, so its employee count was also steadily rising.

At the end of January, Spark Media had hired an additional hundred employees, who only received their full salaries in February.

Combined with the increase in income from signed influencers, the salary rebate for Spark Media had increased by over a million!

Jiuxiang Food was in a similar situation, with the number of employees approaching three hundred!

Three hundred employees only resulted in 2.07 million in salaries being paid out.

Su Yang felt that the wages for the ordinary workers were indeed a bit low.

He would wait a bit longer; once the food company became more profitable, he would certainly find reasons to give them raises!

He casually assigned the Strength point. Just as he was about to leave Jiuxiang Catering for the day, his secretary Jiang Yuzhen told him that someone from Shengfeng Investment had called to make an appointment, hoping to meet him tomorrow.

"Shengfeng Investment?" Su Yang frowned slightly. "Venture capital?"

"It is venture capital," Jiang Yuzhen nodded. "I've checked the records; Shengfeng Investment is quite well-known in Rongcheng!"

"Who would have thought!"

Su Yang hadn't expected to be noticed by a venture capital firm.

Generally speaking, catering companies aren't very popular with VCs!

"Well, let's meet then!"

Su Yang didn't actually intend to bring in venture capital; his current funds were quite sufficient.

Unless the other party could provide something else of greater value!

But since they had called, Su Yang had to at least meet them.

"Understood, Boss!" Jiang Yuzhen nodded. "Shall I schedule it for ten o'clock tomorrow morning?"

"That works!"

With the time set, Su Yang let Jiang Yuzhen go home.

When he walked out of his office, it was exactly six in the evening.

As he passed through the main office area, many employees greeted him.

Su Yang looked back at them and said, "Anyone who's finished their work can head home!"

"Yes, Boss!"

Su Yang didn't believe in overtime culture or 'wolf culture'!

It wasn't like he couldn't afford to hire more staff!

Spark Media employees sometimes needed to coordinate with streamers for nighttime work, and there was occasional urgent work.

But for the staff at Jiuxiang Catering's headquarters, there was absolutely no need for it!

Many people who worked overtime didn't necessarily have work to do; some were just putting on a show.

Others slacked off all day and only started working seriously two hours before they were supposed to leave.

In Su Yang's view, for Jiuxiang Catering employees—excluding those in special departments—anyone working overtime was a problem!

Either the supervisor was the problem for piling on too many tasks,

Or the employee's competence was the problem!

Regardless, except for special departments and temporary emergencies, overtime was a red flag!

After all, under Su Yang's leadership, the company's manpower was always 'abundant'!

Precisely because they knew Su Yang's preferences, the executives of all five companies did not encourage unnecessary overtime.

There had to be a very compelling reason to work late!

As soon as Su Yang left, the other employees stood up from their desks with grins.

"Brothers and sisters, we're off!"

"Woohoo~ Quitting time!"

"The boss is gone, let's head out too!"

"Alright!"

A crowd from Jiuxiang Catering began to leave, quickly filling the elevator.

Jiuxiang Catering employee Zhou Xuebing said, "Zou Hucheng, want to play some games today? I'm about to hit Diamond rank!"

Zou Hucheng replied, "Nine o'clock works!"

Chen Xuebing asked, "What about seven? Isn't seven better?"

Zou Hucheng said, "I'm going to Spark Fitness."

Chen Xuebing was surprised. "You have a hobby like that?"

Zou Hucheng explained, "Didn't the boss give us a gym monthly pass at the beginning of the month? I activated it the day before yesterday and joined Spark Fitness's fifth-anniversary challenge. I've already checked in for two days straight!"

Chen Xuebing couldn't understand. "Working out? Isn't that just looking for suffering?"

Zou Hucheng noted, "A lot of people in the company are participating in this event!"

Chen Xuebing looked at the other employees packed into the elevator.

A cute female employee said, "Shanshan, Sister Bai, and I are all doing the challenge. Even General Manager Mei goes there to work out often!"

Several employees nearby chimed in, "We're doing the challenge too!"

One male employee said helplessly, "But it's been seven days and I've only gone twice. I doubt I can stick it out for twenty-one days!"

"Me too, I'm too lazy!"

"..."

Chen Xuebing hesitated, then said to Zou Hucheng, "Then I'll go take a look too!"

The work intensity at Jiuxiang Catering's headquarters wasn't high.

Chen Xuebing often felt bored after going home and eating dinner every day.

He usually just lay in bed scrolling through short videos, reading novels, or playing games to kill time!

Thinking about the gym card in his hand, he thought it might be nice to experience the gym.

After all, it was the boss's business!

Hearing that Chen Xuebing was going, Zou Hucheng put an arm around his shoulder and said happily, "Great, let's go together!"