Chapter 165 Overtime Pay

The details of "Sea Fortress" were quickly finalized.

Within a week, the design drafts for all the features were completed as scheduled. Huang Sibuo reviewed them one by one and modified any that differed from Bao Xu's original concepts.

At the same time, this group of designers also began using the editor to create the game's prototype.

Because they were using a large number of generic templates, the initial progress was quite rapid. However, to achieve the effects that Huang Sibuo and Bao Xu wanted, they would need to make gradual adjustments later on.

The art resource requirements had also been handed over to the art team, who were communicating with artists on the resource site for customization.

This included generic zombie and mercenary character models, as well as the customization of the little girl's appearance, all of which were being prepared quickly.

Taking the little girl's image customization as an example, the members of Tengda's art team needed to repeatedly communicate and confirm details with the artist as well as Bao Xu and Huang Sibuo.

There were three artists responsible for the little girl's image: a concept designer/illustrator, a modeler, and an animator, each responsible for different aspects of the work.

After this entire process, the little girl would become the game character with the largest investment in the entire game.

Including some of the little girl's actions and expressions in specific plot segments, which were all custom-made, it could be said that no expense was spared.

Of course, the investment was still within budget.

Because foreign AAA games used this standard for every character, often with seven or eight main characters; while "Sea Fortress" only had the little girl made to this standard, so the budget was naturally well-controlled.

Sometimes, when Huang Sibuo discovered better art resources, he would go directly to Pei Qian.

And Pei Qian would definitely wave his hand generously: "Buy it!"

At first, Huang Sibuo was a little apprehensive, wondering if it was really okay to keep increasing the budget for purchasing resources.

If it were another company, the boss would probably be jumping up and down, cursing him!

From 700,000 to 800,000, then to 1.2 million, and then to 1.5 million...

If it were any other company, Huang Sibuo would definitely be labeled as having "poor planning and cost control abilities."

But at Tengda, not only did President Pei not blame Huang Sibuo, but he was actually quite happy?

Huang Sibuo couldn't help but sigh, this was the difference in vision!

I'm so clumsy, yet President Pei trusts me unconditionally...

I'm willing to give it my all; there's no way to repay him!

If I don't make this game a success, I'll be letting President Pei's cultivation down!

...

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the month.

Today was November 29th, a Friday.

For Huang Sibuo, it was just a normal day.

His work was almost complete. The design work was all finished, the details had been taken care of, and the various resources in the game were all in production.

As the executive main planner, personally fine-tuning the editor was naturally not within Huang Sibuo's scope of work; that was naturally done by his subordinates.

Huang Sibuo's task was to supervise the other members of the design team and push forward the progress of the work.

This work was much easier than creating design drafts, so Huang Sibuo hadn't worked overtime for a while.

There were enough people and a sufficient budget, so the development progress was under control, and there was no need to work overtime.

Huang Sibuo had never felt that work could be so easy and pleasant.

"Ding!"

His phone rang.

Huang Sibuo picked it up and saw that it was a notification SMS from the bank that his salary had been credited to his account!

"Huh? Isn't today the 29th?"

Huang Sibuo was a little confused.

Because according to the usual practice of companies, the salary for the current month was paid in the next month.

Paying wages on the 5th of the month was already considered very conscientious.

Very坑爹 (kēng diē, disappointing or misleading) companies would wait until the middle or even the end of the next month, which was equivalent to indirectly suppressing employees' wages for a month for no reason. When they left, they would pick on all kinds of faults and deduct wages, in short, they would try every means to disgust people.

Companies that paid wages before the 5th of the next month were already considered very conscientious.

This was the first time Huang Sibuo had seen a company that paid wages in the current month!

"Your account xxxx received a salary of RMB 5375.8 on November 29th at 11:09, [xx Bank]"

Huang Sibuo was stunned.

The salary was wrong!

He clearly remembered that he joined the company around November 5th, and his working time was definitely less than a month.

The base salary was set at 4,000 yuan per month, and after deducting the five social insurances and one housing fund and income tax, the salary should be much lower than 4,000!

But how could it be more than 5,000?

Huang Sibuo was a little confused, but this kind of trivial matter was definitely not suitable to ask President Pei about. He could just ask Assistant Xin.

Huang Sibuo found Xin Hailu and expressed his doubts.

Xin Hailu smiled and said, "That's right, that's the correct amount. It includes overtime pay."

"Overtime pay???" Huang Sibuo was even more puzzled.

Xin Hailu nodded: "Yes, not just you, everyone in the company who works overtime gets overtime pay. You should have worked about fifty hours of overtime in the company. The overtime pay is calculated at 1.5 times the hourly wage, and then after deducting the five social insurances and one housing fund, personal income tax, etc., that's the amount."

Huang Sibuo's mouth was slightly open, and he couldn't speak for a moment.

Overtime pay, which only existed in legends!

And it was paid at 1.5 times the individual hourly wage!

Most game companies didn't have such a thing as overtime pay.

Not to mention now, even ten years later, in most industries, companies that paid overtime pay could be said to be few and far between!

Moreover, many companies that gave overtime pay calculated it according to the local minimum wage standard, which was the same as paying the five social insurances and one housing fund according to the minimum standard. It was all a trick!

But Tengda was different; it calculated overtime pay according to each employee's standard hourly wage!

In simpler terms, they paid more for overtime!

Take Huang Sibuo as an example. His base salary was 4,000 per month. Calculated on the basis of 20 working days per month and 8 hours of work per day, his hourly wage was 25 yuan, and his overtime pay was 37.5 yuan per hour.

Then, the overtime pay was calculated according to the number of hours Huang Sibuo worked overtime, added to the salary, and then the five social insurances and one housing fund and taxes were calculated, and that was the amount Huang Sibuo received on his card now!

In a word, it was generous!

Huang Sibuo had never encountered such a conscientious company, no, he hadn't even heard of one!

Back at his workstation, Huang Sibuo's mood remained unsettled for a long time.

So, President Pei knew everything!

He knew that we were working overtime despite his orders, and instead of blaming us, he silently put the overtime pay on our cards.

Huang Sibuo's heart warmed, and his eyes moistened.

He was moved!

He was truly a peerless good boss!

...

As for Pei Qian, he didn't know how grateful the employees who received the overtime pay were to him.

He was still having a headache.

Why couldn't he spend all of this system funds!!!

The reason why employees were paid at the end of the month was mainly because the system settled at the beginning of each month.

Pei Qian had to ensure that the salaries of the employees had been paid out before each system settlement, otherwise, a large amount of salary would accumulate for no reason, which would be very detrimental to the loss of system funds!