Chapter 217 Paying Wages
Ten days later, when Mike finished training again and took time to come to the factory, the place had changed greatly.
Dozens of wizards were busy scattered in the huge factory. They were in groups of five, staying in their respective positions, responsible for different production steps of Dolphin Magic Drink. Compared with the huge factory, this assembly line and the scattered workers were obviously very small, which also made the factory very empty.
This factory was built as early as 8 days ago. Speaking of this, Mike had to praise the wizard construction team. The efficiency was simply invincible. On
the second day after the factory was built, Mike asked the Weasley brothers to bring the employees they had recruited before to the factory. After signing the magic contract one by one, the production of Dolphin Magic Drink began.
It is worth mentioning that the contract that Mike asked these employees to sign has an additional confidentiality contract in addition to the basic labor contract. The content of the contract is that if the signer leaks any information about the formula of Dolphin Magic Drink, he must compensate the Los Santos Unlimited Magic Company with 100,000 gold galleons.
The huge compensation of 100,000 gold Galleons scared off many people, but more people signed it without hesitation. Because the fundamental reason they came here was just to find a job.
Thanks to this confidentiality agreement, the operation of this factory is not as troublesome as Mike and his friends had in school before, but it was directly made into an open assembly line, which greatly improved the efficiency.
In addition, after discussion, Mike and the Weasley brothers also designed the factory's shifts into three shifts, that is, the remaining more than 100 people were divided into three groups, corresponding to three different time periods to keep the factory working 24 hours a day.
Yes, you heard it right, divided into three groups for three shifts.
In other words, these workers have to work seven days a week without rest days. The workers
had some complaints about this at the beginning, but the complaints disappeared after hearing the basic salary of 30 gold Galleons plus free food and accommodation.
Don't think that these 30 gold Galleons may not be much per month, even these Muggle-born wizards can find it outside, but free food and accommodation are the same. This system will undoubtedly save them a lot of living expenses.
This means that these people can have savings.
And savings are very tempting for a person who has to spend all his salary every month and even cannot make ends meet.
Mike walked in the factory, inspecting the hard work of the employees of Los Santos Unlimited Magic Company. Unlike what Mike expected, the employees did not react much to the arrival of his big boss. Most of them pretended not to see him and just buried their heads in processing raw materials. Even a few employees who were more experienced just nodded to Mike slightly, as a greeting.
Mike did not feel any dissatisfaction about this, but nodded with satisfaction, because this just proved that these employees were working hard.
In fact, these employees had to work hard because their wages were directly linked to the amount of work they completed, which is the so-called piecework.
The piecework means that the more you do, the more you earn. It is because of this rule that these employees work hard like chicken blood.
After calculations by George, who was acting as the finance manager, the employee who worked the hardest and earned the most this week earned 12 gold galleons a week, of which 5 gold galleons were piecework bonuses.
If this hardworking employee can maintain this efficiency in the next few weeks, his monthly salary will reach about 50 gold galleons, which is already on par with the low-level clerks in the Ministry of Magic.
This is something that those wizards who are born as Muggles and have weak strength and are not eligible for good jobs dare not even think about.
However, what they don’t know is that the salary standard set by Mike and the Weasley brothers for them from the beginning is actually 50 gold galleons per month.
This means that the so-called piecework bonus is actually what Mike and the Weasley brothers took out of the original salary of these employees, in order to make these employees become emotionless tools and work hard.
As for what if some employees have a very high work efficiency and their piecework bonuses far exceed the 20 gold galleons level?
Just kidding, the more they work, the more Mike earns as the boss! Mike wished that everyone in the factory could receive a monthly salary far exceeding 50 gold galleons, so that he could make more money!
Of course, Mike was not a devil, and would not dare to do the bad things in the black factory in his previous life.
For example, if your piecework bonus this month is outrageous, then I will lower your unit price next month. Mike would never do such a thing. And he also strictly prohibited the Weasley brothers from doing so, because this is an extremely corrupt behavior.
Mike's purpose of opening this factory is not just to make money, but to gather people's hearts and unite those wizards who are born in Muggles and have a hard life.
Although these people may not be strong individually, they are still a considerable force when united, at least they are good for cannon fodder.
In the environment of a closed factory, Mike can easily brainwash these workers with just a little trick, so that they can have a personal worship of themselves, so that others can listen to him. Some
people may think it is difficult to do this, but in fact, the human brain is simpler and more susceptible to bewitching than you think.
Mike remembered that he had seen a movie called "The Wave" in his previous life. The movie tells the story of a high school teacher who made his students become his fanatical believers through some simple arrangements in just three days.
Even when the teacher finally repented and decided to disband the Wave organization he created, there were still fanatical believers who ran out to stop him and wanted him to continue leading the Wave organization. This is just
in the open campus. Mike is confident that with his own strength and means, coupled with the fully closed environment of the factory, he can also do the same as that teacher.
Although Mike does not want to engage in the "slanting ten thousand characters" spirit, a certain degree of personal worship is still needed, because it will greatly improve the work efficiency of the factory. Even in the future, when Mike needs these people to do other dangerous work, they will do it without hesitation.
At the same time, Mike has also come to the conference room in the factory. The
conference room of the Dolphin factory is magnificently decorated, and a huge conference table is placed in the center of the conference room.
"Busy man, you're finally here!" Mike just entered the meeting room and George, who was sitting on a wooden chair with his legs crossed on the table, said, "You're so cool, leaving the factory to us. Do you know how tired we are during this period?"
"Yeah, Mike, you're not being a good friend by doing this!" George on the side also echoed, "We'll be sad if you don't give us some bonuses!"
Faced with these two funny guys, Mike could only smile and shake his head. He casually threw a bag of Traceless Stretching Spell on the conference table and said, "Sorry, my training has reached a critical time during this period, so I can only ask you for help. As for the bonus you mentioned, I will give each of you 50 more gold Galleons."
George and Fred cheered immediately after these words came out, and they all rushed to the bag of Traceless Stretching Spell on the conference table. After opening it, no one grabbed a handful.
Mike didn't even look at how much money the Weasley brothers got. After sitting down at the top, he crossed his legs and said, "I just saw that the employees are working hard. So how many magic drinks have we produced this week?"
Hearing Mike start to ask serious questions, George and Weasley also became serious. After putting away the gold galleons they got, they said, "During this period, the workers still don't trust our company very much, so many workers' enthusiasm for work has not been mobilized. This has led to our factory's average output. In a week, only about 4,000 bottles of Dolphin Magic Drink were produced."
After listening to the two people's reports, Mike immediately lowered his head to calculate.
If calculated according to the wholesale price of 2 gold coins per bottle, minus 10% tax, workers' wages and material costs, he can earn more than 10,000 gold galleons a month.
In other words, he can basically recover the construction cost of this factory in one month.
Mike nodded with satisfaction. To be honest, he was very satisfied to be able to do this. After all, the monthly income of more than 10,000 gold galleons is already very considerable. He had never considered the Dolphin Magic Drink to be a highly profitable industry from the beginning.
So Mike stood up and said to the two of them, "Very good, for the time being I am already very satisfied with this output. Next you go and notify all the workers to gather in the auditorium, including those who are still sleeping in the evening shift. I will give them their first salary there!"
Hearing this, the Weasley brothers hurriedly stood up and ran out to execute Mike's order.
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Half an hour later, the originally empty factory auditorium was already full of people.
These workers chattered non-stop, looking extremely excited, because they were about to receive their first weekly salary in this Dolphin factory.
After everyone arrived, Mike slowly walked up to the podium from the backstage. Although the original noisy sound in the auditorium did not disappear completely, it was also weakened a lot.
Mike stood on the high podium and looked at the few people who were still talking in the back of the crowd and shook his head.
It was simply self-deception.
They thought that Mike would not be able to see them standing in the back row, but in fact Mike could see them very clearly.
But Mike didn't say anything, and started his prepared speech.
"Everyone, today is the seventh day since you came to our Los Santos company. This is a critical day because you will get your first weekly salary soon."
Mike untied the bag of traceless stretching spell and poured all the gold galleons inside onto the podium, forming a small mountain of gold galleons.
The whole auditorium was completely quiet at this moment, and even the few people who were still chatting in the last row stared at the pile of gold galleons.
Then, a cheer louder than before came from the mouths of each employee. They squeezed forward one by one with their hands and feet dancing, and their faces were filled with greedy smiles.
Mike saw that the situation was about to get out of control and snorted coldly. With a flick of his wand, a wall of fire composed entirely of hot flames stood up, surrounding these employees.
All the employees were dumbfounded. Looking at the flames emitting amazing heat, the greedy smiles on their faces turned into endless fear in an instant. Everyone was retreating, and soon the loose formation was squeezed into an oval.
"I hope everyone here can figure out their position! You have all signed labor contracts with our Los Santos company. Our company is a reputable company. We will never deduct what is yours." Mike paused here, raised his wand and said again, "But if you touch something you shouldn't touch, then don't blame me!" With Mike
's action, the wall of fire surrounding the audience suddenly exploded, and the color changed from red to purple, and the heat it emitted was even more amazing. Seeing
this, the people trapped in it screamed in fear and squeezed in even harder.
Mike smiled when he saw this, waved his wand and removed the fire wall, looked at the audience who were still in doubt and said: "Since everyone has no objection to what I said, then I will announce a good news. Since everyone has done well this week, everyone will receive a bonus of one gold galleon this week."
After Mike announced this good news, the audience did not react much. They had not yet recovered from the shock just now, and Mike did not care. With rich life experience, he understood the thoughts of these people at the bottom of society.
The benefits in hand are the benefits, and the rest of the things you brag to me are useless!
So he continued: "I won't say much nonsense, and those whose names are called will come up to collect their wages!"
George stood up and took out the salary list that he had prepared long ago and began to call out the names. And Shuke and Beta also appeared beside the pile of gold galleons and gave gold coins according to the amount reported by George.
"Harrison Carter, 13 gold Galleons!"
As Percy's loud voice echoed in the auditorium, the audience was still silent. No one came up to collect their salary.
After a long time, a young man timidly walked up to the podium.
Shuke, who had been prepared for a long time, did not say much nonsense. He snapped his fingers and saw 13 shining gold coins flying out of the pile of gold coins and flew into the hands of the young man.
The young man looked at the gold Galleons in his hand in disbelief. Feeling the heavy weight, the expression on his face slowly began to change, from the initial fear to ecstasy. He bowed to Mike several times before running down the podium quickly.
However, at this time, Mike's voice suddenly rang.
"Wait! Come back first! It's not over yet!" Mike frowned and said, "Also, have I seen you somewhere?"