Chapter 457: Dividends for Employees

The next day, Shen Qing entered the city as soon as the city gate opened.

The donkey cart first went to Weiluo Cottage.

The shop assistants all lived in the side rooms in the back yard. When the shop was doing well, they would get up before dawn, wash up, and start working.

The kitchen helper is also responsible for everyone's three meals a day. After getting up early, he will first cook a pot of porridge and bake vegetable pancakes. After eating the hot porridge, you will feel full and relieve hunger.

The guys put the tables and chairs in order and cleaned every corner, trying their best to make sure there wasn't even a hair left!

The pastry shop will light the fire and burn the charcoal to complete the preparations first.

Seeing Shen Qing coming in person, they stood in a row in an orderly manner, waiting for instructions.

The boss has been busy preparing for the branch these days and rarely comes over. This time he must be here to check if they are slacking off.

Everyone gathered in the lobby, with their heads down and their eyes focused on their noses, and their noses focused on their hearts. Although there were many people, you could hear a pin drop.

Jiang Xiangbei followed his mother quietly, feeling proud of the performance of all the guys.

He has been in charge of the business since his mother was away for some time. Actually, sometimes he simply cannot take care of everything, but in the areas that he cannot take care of, everyone is silently doing their work according to the rules set by his mother.

Mom is right, it is not the stupid people that we are afraid of, but the stupid people. Stupid people will still do things according to their own ideas no matter how many times you remind them, and make the same mistakes again and again; whereas these people are not only not stupid, but also not dumb, smart people are much easier to communicate with.

Whatever you are told to do will be done very well.

However, although my mother is kind, the rules are extremely strict and everyone must follow them. Once someone violates the rules, they will be sent back after investigation and it is clear that they are not wrongly accused.

They were paid 600 wen a month, which included food, lodging and clothing. Not only could they have enough to eat, but they could also eat well. The clothes were also new cotton-padded clothes to keep them warm. How could they have such a life after returning home?

If they sell information in order to get a reward from others, they have signed a contract to sell themselves. They and their families are in Sumu's house. Once it is confirmed that their lives are in danger, their families will also be implicated!

The reward is either for your own better life or for your family's better life. If you can't get either, what's the point of selling the information?

Thinking of the dividends to be distributed today, Jiang Xiangbei took a deep breath and straightened his back!

With this dividend, who would be willing to pay this salary to poach people!

Shen Qing was very satisfied looking at the neatly organized and spotless shop.

She began, "I'll be taking up a little time today, but not too long. It's mainly because we agreed that in addition to wages, there would be dividends every month. Yesterday was the full month, so I'm here this morning to distribute last month's dividends to everyone."

The shop was doing good business and they were busy from morning till night. She thought that coming in the morning to distribute the goods would make everyone happy.

All those who had been lowering their heads waiting for instructions looked up in surprise after hearing this.

The boss came over early in the morning, not to inspect, but to give them dividends.

Are there really any dividends?

They have wages and are well treated. I originally thought that the dividends mentioned were just talk. After all, even if they were given, only the boss would get them. How could they be given to the employees below as well?

What boss would think that he earns too much money? No matter how much he earns, he never thinks it is too much.

The shop owner happens to be the fourth boss, a family member. What he gives to the shop owner should be kept within the family, but what he says to them... is it true?

It’s only been a month and the boss is here, it’s true!

Shen Qing continued, "The success or failure of our business depends on all of you. The standard for our dividend distribution is very simple. If business is good and we earn more, we will get a higher dividend. If business is bad and we earn less, we will get a lower dividend.

Business was good last month, and you all worked hard. I'm giving you eight cents, but I can only give you six cents today. I'll give you the remaining two cents before you go home for the New Year. This is the same every month. Do you understand?"

"Listen carefully!" a uniform voice sounded,

Shen Qing added: "If you have any questions or don't understand something, you can ask. You can ask anything."

The guys knew Shen Qing's rules, so if they didn't understand something, they could ask. There was no need to worry about her getting angry. She wouldn't be angry if they asked too many questions. She would only be angry if they pretended to know and then did the wrong thing!

An older woman raised her hand. Shen Qing saw it and said, "Go ahead."

The older woman swallowed and said nervously, "Dongdong family, there are forty-six of us. How much can each of us get out of six coins? I don't know arithmetic, so I can't figure it out."

She really didn't understand anything. The shop assistants and the girls in the pastry shop were smart and could learn things quickly. They learned a lot from the shopkeeper, and she also learned from him. She could do the little things, but she couldn't do the much.

Someone else nodded and said timidly, "Too many, I can't even count them all."

A clerk who was good at math said enthusiastically, "I know! It's a little over thirteen, but we can't count it based on six cents. It should be eight cents. The boss said eight cents, so each person can get a little over seventeen. The remaining four or so won't be claimed, but they're still ours."

The employer just helps them save it and give it to them when they go home for the New Year.

Go home for the New Year! The boss means they still have a holiday for the New Year! They can go home!

When they heard the number was more than seventeen, everyone had a silly smile on their face.

They have food and drink, and whether there are thirteen or seventeen of them, they can save enough and buy an extra five or six kilograms of food a month!

That's sixty to seventy kilograms a year! You have to know that during lean times, sixty to seventy kilograms of food is more precious than people. Even if you sell your children, you might not be able to buy that much food.

"Thank you, Boss!"

Shen Qing laughed, and as he laughed he wanted to sigh.

They all came from poor places and worked hard for a whole month. Even if they thought they only earned a dozen cents, they thought it was enough.

She corrected him, "No, I miscalculated. Whether it's six or eight cents, it's not divided among the forty-six of you, but everyone gets the same amount!"

The scene suddenly fell silent, even quieter than when Shen Qing first arrived.

Even the sound of breathing suddenly became much quieter.

After a long moment, someone turned around and looked at the doors and windows of the shop, then asked Jiang Xiangbei blankly, "Are the doors and windows closed tightly?"

This number cannot be heard by outsiders!

Jiang Xiangbei smiled and said, "I closed the door as soon as I came in, don't worry."

The younger guys came forward worriedly, checking the windows and doors, pushing and pulling them all the time for fear that they were not closed tightly.

After confirming this, he burst into a series of deliberately suppressed excited questions: "Boss, is it six cents per person? No, eight cents? Did I hear correctly?"

"That's how much one person makes in a month? Coco, that's even more than our wages."

Their monthly wages were six hundred coins, and their bonus was eight coins? That was two coins more than their wages!

Even if there is still some money left to give before the New Year, it must be because the boss is afraid that they will feel unsafe if they take too much, so he helps them save it first, but it is still theirs.