April 16th, Saturday.
Tang Yishu entered Tenda’s office area carrying several books, swiping her card to unlock the door.
Although most of her salary was transferred home to supplement family expenses, her financial situation was still much better than before.
Perhaps due to her living habits, Tang Yishu still didn’t use any makeup or skincare products, but her youth itself was her greatest asset. With improved nutrition, her entire being radiated a youthful glow.
Tang Yishu placed her books on her desk and began scooping litter and feeding the “encouragement officers.”
“‘Yintang,’ eat a little less. You and ‘Mianzai’ both need to lose weight.”
“Oh, ‘Yintang,’ give your sister ‘Feihuang’ some space. Go eat from your bowl!”
Tang Yishu helplessly grabbed the black cat by the scruff of its neck and lifted it, trying to direct its head toward another cat food bowl, but “Yintang” paid no attention, taking just two bites before squeezing next to the orange cat again.
Currently, the office area has three “encouragement officers.”
The entirely black cat with snow-white paws, “Yintang,” was the first to arrive, named with the meaning “black forehead.”
The other two were also stray cats adopted from the pet hospital—one white cat and one orange cat.
The white cat was round and chubby, very adorable, and many people thought it resembled a money cat.
So Pei Qian named it “Mianzai,” which on the surface had an auspicious meaning, but meant “losing money to avoid disaster,” hoping it would not bring wealth but rather lose it.
As for the orange cat, it was given the same name as Fei Huang Studio. On the surface, this expressed the hope that it would be light as a swallow and agile in movement, but it conveyed the meaning “quickly becoming yellow.”
The three cats quickly finished their canned food.
Tang Yishu threw away the trash, then carefully groomed the three cats and trimmed their nails. Finally, she petted them until they were all purring and rolling around in the sunshine. Today’s task was complete.
She went to her workstation, opened her textbooks, and began studying.
Although the school library and study rooms were also available for studying, they were somewhat noisy. She still preferred to study at the company on weekends.
It was empty, very quiet, and there were coffee and snacks available.
Suddenly, the company door was pushed open.
Tang Yishu was startled for a moment, instantly remembering her special task of recording everyone who came to work overtime and then reporting to Pei Qian!
However, recently, no one had been working overtime, so Tang Yishu had almost forgotten about it.
But now it seemed someone had come to work overtime again. Tang Yishu hurriedly turned her head to see who it was.
After working together for this period, she had recognized everyone on this floor and would no longer be in a situation where she couldn’t recall names.
However, when she turned around, she saw it was Pei Qian.
That was fine then.
Tang Yishu stood up: “Senior, why are you here?”
Pei Qian quickly scanned the entire office area, found that no one had come to secretly work overtime, and nodded with satisfaction.
“I was just passing by and thought I’d drop in,” Pei Qian said casually.
Pei Qian had deliberately come today for a surprise inspection.
It had been a long time since he had received an overtime list from Tang Yishu, and Pei Qian was curious: had everyone stopped working overtime, or had little Tang learned to lie?
Now it seemed that everyone had truly stopped working overtime.
Thinking about it, it made sense. First, the no-overtime competition, then the Cornerstone Award—Pei Qian had gone to great lengths to eliminate overtime work, so there should be some results, right?
Now, the empty office on the weekend was the best harvest of Pei Qian’s efforts.
It seemed that as long as there was effort, there would be rewards!
“Come with me to the reception room,” Pei Qian said to Tang Yishu.
…
Regarding the establishment of “Tenda Imperial Guards,” Pei Qian had been considering it for two days.
The main reason for this need was that Pei Qian found Tenda’s businesses had become too numerous for him to manage.
Most importantly, he wasn’t getting information quickly enough!
Many company founders were much busier than Pei Qian, but they appointed numerous executives to handle various matters. Executives would consult on important issues and handle minor problems themselves.
In this model, those vast business empires could still operate efficiently and in an orderly manner.
Currently, Pei Qian was also using this model, but the biggest problem was that Pei Qian’s goals were exactly opposite to those of other company bosses!
Other company bosses’ attitude was: Executives should develop their departments well, report major problems they couldn’t solve immediately, and receive recognition when the business develops well.
Mr. Pei’s requirements were: Executives must not let their departments develop; report immediately if there were signs of business developing well; and receive recognition when major problems occurred that couldn’t be solved.
These requirements were opposite to those of other company bosses.
Other company bosses needed to understand the current problems in the company and could request departments to report at any time.
While Pei Qian needed to understand the current profit possibilities of the company, which most department heads saw no need to report.
Especially since Pei Qian had long maintained an image of “not liking employees seeking credit,” this problem became even more serious.
Therefore, Pei Qian felt he must establish an information-gathering department to better control information from various departments and identify problems early.