LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 851 - 851: Netizens Are Jealous
Chapter 851: Chapter 851: Netizens Are Jealous
The annual meeting kicked off with all sorts of exotic delicacies served.
Each table featured fifteen dishes and two soups.
All kinds of lobster, bird’s nest, abalone, shark fin, and the like were freely available to eat.
There were also top-notch red wines, white wines, and spirits, all very expensive.
The food on each table was worth more than one hundred thousand.
Moreover, after the dishes were served, everyone first received a thick red envelope.
Someone opened it to find a thousand yuan inside, and it was the same for everyone.
What kind of fairy-like company is this?
Many viewers in the live stream room saw these meals and were incredibly jealous.
[Sob sob sob, their annual meeting has exotic delicacies and red envelopes, while my annual meeting only involves my boss drawing pie in the sky]
[You’re quite lucky your boss even draws pie; my company made me work overtime for free on New Year’s Day]
[Right now, my desire to go to Nuomi Group and clean toilets has peaked]
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The number of viewers in the live stream room had surpassed five million and was still rising.
All the viewers were shocked by the grand display of Nuomi Group and could not help but feel intense envy.
A company can make money, even if you earn a trillion in net profit in a year, it doesn’t really move most people.
But if the employee benefits are good, everyone starts feeling envious and aspiring.
Jiang Xu doesn’t like ostentatious displays.
Therefore, he did not give a speech at the annual meeting and let Ally host the whole event instead.
The event started off with a lottery right away.
A thousand ‘8888’ cash red envelopes.
A thousand high-end Mei Zhu smartphones.
Two thousand laptops.
All sorts of cash prizes and gifts were handed out until hands got tired.
One hour into the annual meeting, everyone on site had received at least twenty thousand worth in prizes.
Some lucky ones even pulled in prizes and cash amounting to hundreds of thousands.
Moreover, Jiang Xu had mandated that the likelihood of executives winning be reduced.
The majority of the grand prizes went to the regular staff.
Jiang Xu had always been at the bottom in his previous life, so he could empathize deeply with the lower-level employees.
Moreover, when employee benefits are increased, they will work hard without needing upper management to push them.
Fearing that the company would collapse and such good benefits would vanish.
The number of viewers in the live stream room broke ten million.
It became slightly laggy.
Such a spectacular scene was very rare.
The comments in the live stream room were dripping with jealousy.
Whose boss would spend so much on an annual meeting?
With thousands of employees, just the bonuses and prizes combined might amount to several hundreds of millions, right?
The first half was hosted by Ally, and the second half was hosted by another senior executive from the company.
“Hello, everyone, next, I will announce the top ten colleagues in this year’s group annual bonuses.”
“Ranked tenth, Ma Gebi from the Planning Department, with an after-tax bonus of sixty million!”
Thunderous applause erupted instantly in the venue.
Sixty million, after taxes!
It’s more money than many workers could earn in ten lifetimes.
“Ranked ninth, Bi Haosong from the Marketing Department, with an after-tax total of seventy-six million!”
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While the annual meeting was in full swing here, right next door, Da Bai Cross-border Group was also holding their annual meeting.
They were live streaming as well, but the online viewer count was only a few thousand.
Although it was fancy, with various female stars performing on stage and all of them dressed quite provocatively,
compared to Nuomi Group, it was far less attractive.
Because whether it was the quantity or quality of the prizes or bonuses, it simply wasn’t on the same level as the Nuomi Group.
“This is killing me!”
A gaudily dressed woman, wearing heavy makeup and stunning attire, looked at the data in the live stream, visibly infuriated.
She was the wife of the president of this company, and if Jiang Xu were here, he would have recognized her as Liu Qiang’s wife.
The bonuses and prizes at this year’s event had all been arranged by her.
If it were any other time, it would have been considered quite generous.
But compared to the Nuomi Group next door, it was simply not presentable.
This time, she had purposefully chosen to hold the annual event at the same time and place as the Nuomi Group.
Her primary intent was to crush the Nuomi Group completely.
But now, it seemed she had completely failed.
This made her extremely angry.
She was speechless over the frivolous spending of the Nuomi Group.
“Simply brainless. They’re just a bunch of cow and horse employees, yet they receive so many bonuses and gifts. It’s utterly foolish!”
She was not willing to be defeated by the Nuomi Group just like that.
In frustration, she ordered the performers on stage to strip off their clothes…
The popularity indeed soared quickly, but within two minutes the live stream was shut down.
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“For the third place in year-end awards, Vice President Ms. Avi, after-tax 260 million!”
Avi was still overseas and wouldn’t be able to return this year.
Nonetheless, she received a tremendously warm round of applause on site.
“For the second place in year-end awards, Vice President Ms. Ally, after-tax 380 million!”
The crowd was astounded.
Everyone turned their eyes to Ally, filled with envy.
The bonuses for the company’s two vice presidents were incredibly high.
“For the first place in the year-end awards, our chief anchor Ms. Chu Youwei, after-tax 500 million!”
Pair after pair of envious eyes fell on Chu Youwei.
She was a bit flustered, her cheeks flushing faintly.
Hurriedly, she stood to bow, then sat down, her head bowed.
With so many people looking at her, she felt somewhat embarrassed.
“Isn’t this a bit too high-profile?” Zhou Qingyue whispered to Jiang Xu, “The year-end awards are tens of millions, billions.”
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down is an age-old truth.
“You worry too much,” Jiang Xu laughed, “The money the company makes is all legitimate, and every penny is taxed.”
“Moreover, by distributing some of the profits to the employees, they will go out and spend, which can promote the development of various industries. It’s a good thing.”
Those companies that evade taxes are the ones that should worry about this.
Jiang Xu, a steadfast taxpayer, really had nothing to fear about attracting attention.
This opportunity could also better inform the general public about how excellent the welfare benefits are at the Nuomi Group.
It could attract more talents to join, creating a virtuous cycle.
Zhou Qingyue nodded, saying no more.
Zhou Mengmeng’s fondness for Jiang Xu spiked once again.
Such a practice required a high level of sophistication, something most companies wouldn’t bear to give their employees so much money.
This would make the company’s cohesion remarkably strong, and the energy that could be released was also immense.
Damn!
Zhou Mengmeng’s hands, placed under the table, clenched tightly.
Suddenly, she felt an extremely strong desire towards Jiang Xu—what should she do?
She wanted to bite him hard… to leave her marks all over him, to make him scream, to make him beg for mercy…
As her thoughts wandered, Zhou Mengmeng discovered that she had actually…
Oh, how embarrassing!
“Mengmeng, what’s wrong?” Beside her, Zhou Qingyue noticed Zhou Mengmeng’s unusual behavior and asked.