Chapter 12 The Midday Annual Meeting

At 12 noon, Tengda's employees all put down their work and prepared to go to the annual meeting.

The venue for the annual meeting was a luxury hotel nearby, not too far away.

Two buses were responsible for transporting the employees from the Shenhua Haojing office, while other employees scattered throughout Jingzhou, such as the delivery guys from Upwind Logistics and the internet cafe attendants from Moyu Internet Cafe, took taxis at the company's expense.

Wu Bin arrived at the annual meeting venue by bus, still feeling a little dazed.

He hadn't yet emerged from the shadow of the morning and was still dwelling on why he hadn't passed the Tengda Spirit Compatibility Test.

"Why, exactly...?"

"My answers should have been fine..."

On the way, he kept searching for similar tests on his phone, but he couldn't even find similar questions, let alone the answers.

It was embarrassing to admit that as an HR professional, Wu Bin was being tormented by this kind of test to the point of seeking help from Qiandu. It was a disgrace...

But he had no choice. To pass the test and become a full-time employee, he was willing to disgrace himself by asking Qiandu! As long as he could find the answer!

Following the crowd into the annual meeting venue, Wu Bin, who had been deep in thought, suddenly realized that the layout of the venue was different from the annual meetings he had seen before.

Very simple!

The hotel was very spacious, with tables for ten people, about a hundred tables in total, indicating that the total number of people at the annual meeting was close to a thousand.

The arrangement of these tables was just right, neither too crowded nor too sparse.

Unlike other companies' annual meetings, there were no fancy decorations here. There were no display boards, banners, or posters of any kind. They didn't even plan to use a stage, because it was already filled with various gashapon machines and claw machines.

Moreover, it wasn't just the stage that was filled with these things.

Looking around, you could see that the entire venue was surrounded by similar machines, in a wide variety.

There were claw machines, gashapon machines, air guns, ring toss...

In short, it felt like accidentally wandering into an arcade.

There were projectors and large screens, but at this time, they only displayed a simple and elegant annual meeting theme background, which looked concise and generous, without giving people any sense of cheapness or gaudiness.

Wu Bin wasn't very interested in gashapon and claw machines, because he always felt that they were scams.

He had seen an educational video online that explained how these machines were rigged to make sure the arcade made more money.

For example, claw machines could be set to have a certain probability of catching a doll.

Some unscrupulous businesses would directly set this probability to 1%. Then, during the process of the mechanical claw lifting the doll, the current would gradually decrease, the strength of the claw would weaken, and the doll would naturally fall down, giving the customer the illusion that they "didn't grab it tightly enough."

But after 99 tries, the 100th time you tried, the claw's current wouldn't weaken. As long as you aimed at the doll, you could successfully grab it.

Of course, some businesses would be more conscientious and set the probability to 120% or 110%.

But no matter what, you would never win, and the business would never lose. It was all a trick.

Many customers thought that they caught the doll because they were lucky or skilled, but in reality, it wasn't. It was all pre-programmed by the machine.

Therefore, Wu Bin had never been interested in arcades.

But this time, the situation was clearly different from what he had imagined.

Arcades were a rip-off because you had to spend your own money.

But what if someone else paid for you to play for free? It suddenly became interesting!

Next to the entrance of the hall was a table where the administration department was handing out tokens.

These were the arcade game coins. Everyone received a whole bag, with at least fifty or sixty tokens inside.

Take the gashapon machine, for example. Each gashapon cost about 10 to 15 yuan, but now, you could experience it once by inserting a game token.

In other words, one game token represented 10 yuan.

And the game tokens that Wu Bin received were worth at least five or six hundred yuan.

These tokens were given away for free, and you could play as much as you wanted in the venue. There were definitely not as many tricks as in an arcade.

Of course, the colleagues in the administration department also explained to everyone that the entertainment activities would take place after the meal. Everyone should eat first and then go play.

Wu Bin was already very happy to receive these game tokens, but it wasn't over yet.

The colleague from the administration department then put a thick red envelope in his hand.

"This is the Sunshine Award," the colleague from the administration department said with a smile.

Wu Bin was a little surprised, "I just joined the company and haven't become a full-time employee yet. Do I still get one?"

The colleague from the administration department nodded with a smile, "Of course. Since it's called the Sunshine Award, everyone gets one."

Wu Bin couldn't help but feel a warmth in his heart.

That was so well said!

The Sunshine Award, of course everyone gets one!

Before, at Hengtu Games, not to mention interns, even full-time employees who hadn't been with the company for three months were not allowed to participate in the annual meeting lottery.

Because a company had once experienced a very awkward situation where an intern had just joined the company and directly won the first prize, a laptop worth more than 10,000 yuan, and then resigned the next day...

Therefore, many companies did not allow interns to participate in the annual meeting lottery.

Wu Bin had originally thought that he probably wouldn't be eligible for the Sunshine Award and the annual meeting lottery, but now he realized that he was wrong.

Tengda didn't treat him like an outsider at all, and didn't try to guard against him in every possible way!

Thinking about it this way, Wu Bin felt even worse, because he hadn't passed the Tengda Spirit Compatibility Test in the morning.

The company is so good to me, but I'm not even worthy of being a part of the company.

So sad!

He must seize the time to understand the Tengda spirit and make his own contribution to the company as soon as possible!

Wu Bin followed his colleagues from the human resources department to his seat and immediately took out the money in the red envelope to count it.

Ten red bills!

This was already a lot for Wu Bin. After all, the Sunshine Award at Hengtu Games was just a set of shampoo...

And it was the anti-hair loss kind.

Although this was quite useful for most employees, it really wasn't worth much money...

On the other hand, Tengda was so generous even with the Sunshine Award, so how generous would the prizes drawn later be?

Wu Bin played with the brand new game tokens in his hand while observing the situation in the venue.

There was a long table on the stage, covered with a red cloth. It looked like there were many things piled up under the red cloth, probably the prizes for this annual meeting.

It wasn't clear what the specific prizes were yet, but it looked like there were a lot of them, piled up like a mountain.

Soon, the seats were almost full.

It was impossible for anyone to not attend Tengda's annual meeting, because Boss Pei had repeatedly emphasized that no one could be absent unless they were sick and unable to get out of bed.

Wu Bin had heard before that at an annual meeting of a certain company, an employee missed the special prize because of overtime, and as a result, he didn't receive the prize.

This kind of thing could never happen at Tengda.

If it really happened... the consequences would be unimaginable.

I'm afraid that not only the employee working overtime, but even his direct leader and department head would be implicated.

Wu Bin looked at his watch. It was already 11:30.

He was still wondering when the annual meeting would start, but he found that the waiters had already started serving the dishes.

Wu Bin: "???"

Wait, was the order wrong?

Shouldn't a normal annual meeting start with an opening, a bit of awkward dancing, the leader giving a speech, summarizing the achievements of the past year, and looking forward to the future, and then start serving the dishes after a few segments?

But here, the awkward dancing was skipped, and even the leader's speech was skipped!

Wu Bin tried his best to look at the first few tables and found that Boss Pei really had no intention of giving a speech on stage. It seemed that he was considering which dish in front of him to eat first.

Wu Bin was a little dizzy. This annual meeting was too real!

Everyone arrived and started eating directly, without wasting a minute!

At this time, a lottery countdown appeared on the big screen.

"Holy sh*t! So direct?"

Wu Bin was completely dizzy.

It was fine if there was no leader's speech, but before starting the lottery, shouldn't there be a host to liven up the atmosphere?

But even that was skipped!

It was a pre-set lottery program that drew a prize every once in a while!

It was clear that all the employees' information and photos had already been entered into the database, and they were directly drawn from the entire database.

The prizes for the first lottery were already out: 799 yuan Bluetooth headphones, a total of 300 of them!

From the perspective of sound quality, 799 headphones were just for hearing a sound, but Bluetooth headphones in this price range were very good in terms of portability and ease of use.

Many people couldn't hear very good sound quality, but having a portable Bluetooth headphone was never a bad thing. It was very practical for commuting to and from work.

Therefore, everyone's eyes were fixed on the big screen, with an expression of "wanting" on their faces.

A very cool special effect appeared on the big screen. The photos in the center rolled rapidly and froze on a colleague's photo that Wu Bin didn't recognize.

At the same time, a cry of surprise came from a corner of the venue, followed by a burst of applause.

Obviously, the people in the same department were congratulating this lucky person.

Then, the photo quickly shrank and flew to the upper left corner of the big screen. The photos in the center rolled again, drawing the next winning employee.

These photos quickly stacked on top of each other on the big screen, and various sounds began to erupt in the venue: cheers and regrets.

"I won!"

"Oh my god, Bluetooth headphones, good stuff!"

"A good start?"

"Not me... oh well, it's okay, the prizes will get better later!"

At the beginning, the applause was more frequent, but the lottery was too fast. Three hundred headphones were drawn, and everyone was tired of clapping.

However, although the applause became less, the atmosphere at the scene became more and more heated!

Later on, everyone was basically doing two things.

Eating and staring at the big screen.

Although the annual meeting had no host and no programs, no one felt that it was inappropriate. On the contrary, they felt very cool.

Who wanted to watch those programs!

Everyone was just looking forward to the lottery!

Now, the first prize had been drawn by a full 300 people. One-third of the employees present had won a prize, and the cheers in the hall rose and fell.

Soon, more and more prizes appeared on the big screen one by one.

899 yuan mechanical keyboard, 1299 yuan air purifier, 2199 yuan robot vacuum cleaner, vacuum cleaner, 3599 yuan game console...

The higher the value of the prizes, the more enthusiastic the atmosphere at the scene!

Wu Bin looked at the prizes constantly being drawn on the big screen and became more and more shocked.

How many prizes did they prepare?

The annual meeting of Hengtu Games basically only prepared four or five types of prizes: Sunshine Award, third prize, second prize, first prize, special prize, and so on.

And the number of these prizes wouldn't be too many either. Ten or so prizes would already be considered a lot.

But Tengda was giving out prizes as if they were free!

The initial Bluetooth headphones and mechanical keyboards were 300 each, and the number of these prizes that were obviously much more valuable was also between one and two hundred!

Was it okay to directly exceed the number of prizes of many other companies by an order of magnitude?

After a little calculation, they had only given out vacuum cleaners, but the number of prizes had already exceeded 1000...

Judging from the number of prizes, most people present should have already received a prize!

Wu Bin's luck was neither good nor bad. He hadn't won a prize before, but just now, he won a 2199 yuan handheld vacuum cleaner.

Wu Bin had been paying attention to this vacuum cleaner for a long time, not because he wanted it, but because his wife wanted it very much.

It was a very well-known brand abroad, not only with a high appearance but also especially easy to use. The only disadvantage was that it was too expensive.

Wu Bin had also thought about whether to buy it, but after repeated consideration, he gave up because the price was too high.

But now, he actually won it at the annual meeting!

Moreover, it wasn't over yet.

Based on the generosity of these prizes, there would definitely be even bigger prizes later!

Wu Bin quickly couldn't wait to share the good news with his wife.

Looking at it this way, this job change was really worth it!

At this annual meeting, he had already received more than 500 yuan worth of game tokens, a 1000 yuan red envelope, and a vacuum cleaner worth 2199 yuan. This had completely crushed the rewards he could have received at the Hengtu Games annual meeting!

Prizes in the 2000 range were already the price range of the second prize at many companies' annual meetings, and considering the number of prizes, Wu Bin didn't think he would be able to win them at Hengtu Games.

It was really a big win!

In addition to being happy, Wu Bin also thought of the Tengda Spirit Compatibility Test in the morning.

He was even more eager to pass this test and become a member of Tengda.

...

Pei Qian ate while observing everyone's reactions.

Well, everyone is very happy!

That's good.

Everyone happily ate and happily drew prizes. Boss Pei also happily gave out the money. It was perfect.

Anyway, everyone's goals were the same, so there was no need for so many routines at the annual meeting. Eat, get the money, and leave, without wasting time.

Pei Qian didn't add himself to the lottery list, because he didn't think it was necessary.

He could reimburse most of the prizes through the system, so he didn't care at all. He might as well squeeze out one more spot for his employees.

Pei Qian thought that by now, most of the people present should have received a prize, right?

Because this lottery was not a completely random probability, but a pseudo-probability like a game card draw.

Each person could win a maximum of two prizes, and the probability of winning was higher for those who hadn't won a prize.