Chapter 176 The Lucky Ones

Five minutes later, someone knocked on the door again.

"President Pei, the heads of all departments have arrived, and the Outstanding Employee Award selection is about to begin," Assistant Xin reminded.

Pei Qian nodded, "Okay, I'll be right there!"

It was already August, and it was time for the bi-annual Outstanding Employee Award selection again.

It was originally scheduled for the beginning of the month, but President Pei had been too busy with work during that time. The problems with IOI had left him feeling mentally exhausted, and coupled with the examination week, he didn't have time to deal with it, so it was postponed to the middle of the month.

And wouldn't you know it, postponing it for half a month actually helped.

So many hidden saboteurs had surfaced!

If it had been held half a month earlier, many of the saboteurs would have probably been able to remain hidden for another half a year before being eliminated.

Pei Qian couldn't help but sharpen his knife, wondering which lucky employee would be the first to be eliminated this time?

The heads of many departments of Tengda gathered together, chatting and laughing.

In fact, everyone knew that Tengda was developing so well now, with all departments catching up and making rapid progress, it wouldn't be surprising if anyone won the Outstanding Employee Award.

Some people even didn't want to win the Outstanding Employee Award, especially some department heads.

Because most department heads were very satisfied with their current jobs and didn't want to change careers at all. For example, Zhang Yuan was reluctant when he won the Best Employee Award.

Moreover, the department head was the highest leader of a department, and if the department achieved great success, unless an employee's ability was particularly heaven-defying, the biggest credit would definitely go to the department head.

This also led to the Outstanding Employee almost inevitably being chosen from among the department heads.

Many people wanted to voluntarily give up, but President Pei firmly disagreed.

So everyone had to accept it.

As for that Dream Fund, it used to seem like a lot of money, but now it wasn't so much.

But now President Pei wasn't so fixated on just that, like with DGE club, after getting the Dream Fund, the money wasn't enough, and President Pei still allocated a large sum.

In short, everyone now just regarded the Best Employee selection as a commendation, and they were used to it.

Bao Xu sat in his seat, feeling very calm.

It couldn't be me again this time, right???

Although he had some conditioned reflexes and was instinctively nervous, Bao Xu thought about it and really couldn't see any reason for him to be selected again!

He carefully recalled the previous Best Employee Award selections where he had "unfortunately been shot."

The time with Huang Si Bo, Bao Xu was in charge of the R&D of "Seafort Island" at Tengda Games, worked hard, and won second place for Outstanding Employee, which was normal;

The time with Lu Mingliang, Bao Xu was a lot more low-key, but he debugged the game details during the development of "Game Producer" and was also responsible for optimizing the old games, so he also showed his presence a lot, so he won second place again;

Later, Bao Xu started to shrink as much as possible, and even handed over all the documents to Li Yada to submit. But he never expected that this behavior would lead to Li Yada winning second place for Best Employee.

President Pei felt that it was too dangerous for Li Yada, a girl, to go out alone, so he asked Bao Xu to accompany her!

So, Bao Xu continued to learn his lesson.

After returning from the trip, he retreated to the second line with Li Yada. Except for occasionally giving simple advice, he didn't care about anything else, and tried to reduce his presence to zero!

More importantly, the game department hadn't been particularly outstanding in the past six months.

"Struggle" hadn't been completely developed and hadn't had time to launch yet. Compared with other departments, the Tengda Games department hadn't done very well!

Hu Xianbin couldn't possibly win the Best Employee, and Min Jingchao was unlikely too, because he was only responsible for the updates and maintenance of GOG.

Other departments, on the other hand, had outstanding achievements:

Xiao Peng's Sloth Furnishings Internet Cafe 3.0 was a great success;

Rui Yuchen's Sloth Restaurant delivery turned a profit and was even on TV;

Yu Pingan's Tengda Life App integrated many industries;

Chang You's Otto phone sold very well;

Flying Huang Workshop's movie won both at the box office and won awards...

And these were just some of the achievements!

The performance of these departments was all better than that of the game department.

Even the head of the game department didn't have a chance, so I, a little transparent person hidden in the game department, had even less of a chance!

Thinking of this, Bao Xu felt that he should be safe no matter how he looked at it.

With Bao Xu's gradually calmer mood, the voting officially began.

A bar chart appeared on the big screen, and everyone took out their phones, opened the TPDB section of the Tengda Life App, and cast their precious votes.

Bao Xu stared nervously at his name, his face getting darker and darker.

He found that there were still more than thirty votes cast for him!

Bao Xu clearly remembered that he got more than twenty votes last time, and he always wanted to find out who these twenty people were and have a good talk with them about life.

But unfortunately, the voting was anonymous.

As a result, half a year had passed, and these people were still thinking about it, and the number had even increased!

Bao Xu highly suspected that these people couldn't think of who to vote for, so they voted for themselves, for no other reason than they hoped that the winning streak would not be broken.

Bao Xu began to seriously consider whether he should bribe the programmers of the TPDB website to find out who was voting for him all the time.

But watching the votes of other people rise sharply, Bao Xu gradually relaxed.

In the end, the bar chart jumped slightly a few times before finally freezing.

Outstanding Employee: Ma Yang.

Second Place for Outstanding Employee: Huang Si Bo.

Third Place for Outstanding Employee: Rui Yuchen.

Seeing this list, everyone began to applaud enthusiastically.

Bao Xu also breathed a sigh of relief and applauded along with them.

Everyone felt that this list was well-deserved!

It was a sure thing that Ma Yang would win the Best Employee Award. After all, the investment in Finger Company had turned 20 million into 500 million, more than twenty times over. If he earned so much money and wasn't given an Outstanding Employee Award, it would be really unreasonable.

And Huang Si Bo won second place mainly because the movie "A Better Tomorrow" was a great success in the domestic box office, overseas box office, and online videos, and even won an award at Cannes, gaining both fame and fortune.

As for Rui Yuchen winning third place, on the one hand, it was because he was praised by the TV station, and on the other hand, it was because everyone highly recognized his work ability.

Think about it, Sloth Restaurant Delivery had been losing money for a year!

During this year, Rui Yuchen never gave up and finally turned a profit. What kind of spirit was that!

Of course, the performance of other departments was also remarkable, but these three were the most outstanding.

Pei Qian looked at this list, recalling what these people had done, and felt that eliminating just one person was really not enough.

Could these three people be packaged and sent away???

He didn't want to see any of them!

Ma Yang stared at the big screen in disbelief: "I'm the Outstanding Employee? Is it me? Is it really me?"

Everyone applauded to congratulate him: "That's right, President Ma, of course it's you!"

Ma Yang's eyes sparkled with tears, and he grabbed the trophy from Pei Qian's hand: "Brother Qian! Have I not disappointed you? When you first asked me to start a business together and didn't ask the others in the dormitory, I knew that you had a unique vision!"

"Here, I would first like to thank..."

Pei Qian realized that something was wrong and quickly interrupted: "Ahem, you can talk about thanking later, let's talk about how you want to use this Dream Fund first!"

Ma Yang thought for a while: "Brother Qian, I have decided to put your ideal into practice and take this money to Weibo to help others realize their dreams!"

Pei Qian's eyes lit up.

Huh? Old Ma's idea is not bad!

If Old Ma wasn't still in the observation period, Pei Qian would have almost thought that he was his trusted aide again.

Because of the investment in Finger Company, Pei Qian had neglected Old Ma for a long time, although Old Ma didn't realize it.

But later, Old Ma's series of performances slowly rekindled Pei Qian's trust in him.

Pei Qian sometimes wondered if Old Ma was a reliable trusted aide.

If he was, then the investment in Finger Company made him a profit of 500 million;

If he wasn't, well, no one would believe you if you said that Ma Yang was reliable!

Moreover, Pei Qian carefully reflected on it and felt that he also had a great responsibility for making a profit of 500 million.

It was he who told Old Ma to invest in whatever he wanted, knowing that Old Ma didn't have many hobbies.

It was he who said those two words that led to earning an extra 20 million dollars.

Pei Qian sometimes wondered if Old Ma's actions were unintentional? Was it appropriate to give up this trusted aide just because of this matter?

It was very tangled.

So, he should continue to observe. If the Fully Automatic Argument Machine was successfully losing money this time, and Old Ma perfectly squandered the Dream Fund after getting it, then he could consider giving Old Ma another chance.

After all, Pei Qian believed that others who stabbed him in the back did it intentionally, but only Old Ma, Pei Qian felt that he must have done it unintentionally.

It wasn't because he trusted his character, but mainly because he trusted his IQ.

Facts had proven that character was unreliable, but IQ was often reliable.

Next, it was Huang Si Bo's turn.

Those who had won first place for Outstanding Employee could not win it again, which meant that the Dream Fund could only be taken once.

This rule was mainly to give others a chance. Pei Qian was afraid of encountering those particularly awesome people who could succeed in every industry they changed to. It was meaningless to repeatedly arrange such people.

Second place for Outstanding Employee could be won infinitely, just like Bao Xu.

Therefore, although Huang Si Bo had won the Best Employee Award, it didn't prevent him from traveling.

Huang Si Bo's eyes were full of reluctance: "President Pei, Flying Huang Workshop has been busy with work recently, and I just had a shock for so long some time ago..."

Pei Qian knew what he was going to say, smiled slightly, and raised his hand to interrupt: "Don't explain, the rules are the rules."

Want to escape the paid vacation? No way!

Doesn't Bao Xu want face?

Besides, I know all the bad things you Flying Huang Workshop have done!

Now that I've arranged for you, if the promotional video comes out a few days later, it will be a good thing for me!

So, I'm sorry, you have no choice.