With the conclusion of the third annual fan fishing competition, all the contestants and staff members had to go home.
Bai Yu personally believes that this year's fishing competition was a great success.
After all, the popularity generated by this competition alone is enough to cover the costs incurred by their company.
This can be seen from the recent increase in the number of followers of Yuxue Shipping Company. The company's account now has more than 60 million followers on Douyin, and even more on Kuaishou, exceeding 70 million.
The account on Kuaishou has been established for less than a year, but its number of followers has already surpassed that of Douyin.
Most importantly, their company is a sales platform. Besides posting videos of Baiyu's competitions, information about their seafood processing plant, and occasional live-streaming event announcements,
It's unbelievable that she can gain so many fans just by live-streaming and selling goods.
As for whether their company's live-streaming sales have ever run into trouble, that's definitely unavoidable; there are always some merchants who try to get away with things.
Unfortunately, Bai Yu's company has a legal team, and each partner has signed a contract. In the end, Bai Yu's company assisted the consumer in suing the brand, and the brand refunded the money or paid compensation as required.
So far, their company hasn't had a major mishap in a long time. Not only is their legal team getting a little bored, but their fans are also finding it a bit uninteresting—there's no extra income anymore.
As the time came to 11:59 PM on December 31st, all the employees of Yuxue Shipping Company were still at the company and had not yet left.
In just one minute, it will be 2023, and a new year will begin.
The reason these people haven't left yet is because of Bai Yu's request; he plans to wait until midnight before letting everyone leave together.
At this moment, all the company's employees, whether they worked in the new building or in the old place (Su Shu Hotel), gathered together in twos and threes in the old office area to chat.
Bai Yu, Wang Hai, Li Xue, and Xia Jing each carried a chair and a table and sat at the company entrance. On their table was a large box containing a stack of red envelopes.
As midnight approached, Li Shuang announced the end of the workday in the company and wished everyone a happy new year and a wonderful New Year's Day!
As the workday drew to a close, employees arrived one after another at the company's main gate. When they saw Bai Yu and his group of four, they instinctively paused for a moment.
They had no idea what was going on. Wasn't it supposed to be time to leave work? Why were the company boss, shareholders, general manager, and finance manager—all the big shots—blocking the door?
Those who were company veterans and early employees, and were familiar with Bai Yu and the others, continued walking forward nonchalantly, even greeting Bai Yu and the others along the way.
"Mr. Bai, what are you doing? Do we have to clock in and out before leaving get off work?"
As a veteran in the company and also a graduate of Ocean University, Ni Haitao was very familiar with Bai Yu. He sat down opposite Bai Yu and picked up the pen on the table, ready to sign.
"Ni Haitao, you're a company veteran. You've worked hard this year. Happy New Year and have a wonderful New Year's Day!"
After Ni Haitao finished signing, Bai Yu took a red envelope from a box next to her, handed it to him, and wished him a Happy New Year.
"Mr. Bai, I'll accept the red envelope, but I won't be able to play tomorrow, I'm on duty tomorrow."
Oh, Mr. Bai is as generous as ever. I knew you had something good in keeping us all here today. Look, isn't this 1,000 yuan red envelope a benefit?
Brothers and sisters, Boss Bai is giving out New Year's red envelopes! Everyone line up, there are four lines in total. Everyone has signed in to receive their red envelopes.
After receiving his red envelope, Ni Haitao didn't rush to leave. Instead, he helped the other employees line up.
These are the company's long-time employees, and they take good care of the newer employees.
Moreover, under Ni Haitao's organization, the number of people queuing up with Bai Yu and Wang Hai was not small.
After all, many employees in the company are not very familiar with the two of them. They are always out and about, and sometimes they can't even come to the company more than a few times a year.
Even though they are now queuing up to receive red envelopes and can get money, they would still prefer to queue up with Li Xue and Xia Jing rather than with Bai Yu and Wang Hai.
Especially Wang Hai. Bai Yu is a public figure, with very high national recognition, and he owns more than 90% of the company's shares. There is no one in the company who doesn't know him.
Wang Hai is currently just Bai Yu's assistant and also a shareholder in the company. He doesn't go to the company unless Bai Yu is there, and he doesn't get much attention even when Bai Yu is there.
In this situation, without Ni Haitao's organization, there probably wouldn't be many people receiving red envelopes from him.
In the end, Bai Yu sent out more than 300 red envelopes, totaling more than 300,000 yuan.
This is just an employee of their media company; they usually work in business-related roles and had time to come to the company today.
The other crew members were issued cash by the captain on board the ships.
Those who have already returned to Hong Kong and are currently on rest will receive the money via online transfer, also in cash, amounting to HK$1,000.
The only difference for the employees here is that, in addition to red envelopes, they also receive some New Year's gifts. These are not paid for by the company, but are given to them by various brands, and then the employees simply divide them up.
For a company that specializes in live-streaming e-commerce, especially a leading company like Yuxue Shipping, there is no shortage of various gifts during holidays.
From snacks and drinks to various brand-name clothing, high-end wines and pastries, they have everything.
After seeing off all the employees, Bai Yu and his six colleagues did not leave. Instead, they went to the company's conference room to hold an internal meeting, or rather, to do a year-end summary.
Anyway, they're off for New Year's Day tomorrow. Apart from a few staff members on duty, everyone else in the company is off.
This "others" naturally includes the six of them; they also have a day off tomorrow, so staying up a little later tonight isn't a big deal.
"Brother Yu, I just ordered takeout. Should we start now, or wait for it to arrive?"
Li Shuang fiddled with the red envelope Bai Yu had just given him, asking Bai Yu about the next steps.
"You ordered takeout? Shuangzi is treating tonight, right? Let me make it clear first, the takeout cost for today won't be reimbursed."
"Okay, okay, I'll treat you tonight."
"Okay, then you can tell me first. Just tell me what size our company is now and how many people we have. I don't understand the other financial reports, so you can talk to Xue'er about that."
There's one more thing. Our company seems to have a quarter of taxes to pay this year, so please don't forget to pay them. If we forget, our company might be accused of tax evasion, which wouldn't be good.
Bai Yu originally didn't plan to hold this year-end summary meeting, mainly because he was really not good at managing a company.
Even if Li Xue and Li Shuang explained it to Bai Yu, Bai Yu might not be able to understand it.
This isn't because Bai Yu is giving up, or because he trusts others too much or is too carefree; it's because he genuinely lacks talent in this area.
There was a time when Bai Yu also imagined himself as a domineering CEO, directing and managing all matters in the company, and leading his company to grow bigger and stronger.
But the reality was that Bai Yu had overthought things. These things weren't as easy as he thought. He tried, but ultimately failed.
He struggled to manage his old company, which had only a little over a hundred employees, let alone the much larger company it is now.
The holiday bonus of over 300,000 yuan that was distributed today is less than half of the total number of employees at the company. This is because the company had a holiday for New Year's Day, and some employees went home early.
In addition, some of them are out in other places running business, going to various manufacturers and brand owners to conduct random product inspections.
In this situation, a company of this size is even more beyond Bai Yu's ability to manage.
Li Xue knew this too; her little brother really had no talent in this area.
However, since Bai Yu is the company owner, he may not know other things, but he should at least have a general understanding of the number of employees and the company's scale.
That's why Li Xue arranged this year-end summary, mainly to talk to Bai Yu about the scale of their company.
Then Li Shuang took out various data tables and started talking to Bai Yu.
As usual, Bai Yu owns three companies: Yu Xue Shipping Company, Yu Xue Shipping Media Company, and Yu Xue Seafood Processing Plant.
Among them, Yuxue Seafood Processing Plant operates independently and is not managed by Li Shuang, while the remaining two are collectively referred to as Yuxue Shipping Company.
The employees here are divided into two groups: those working on the fishing boats and those working in the office.
Today, the employees who received holiday bonuses on-site were those working in the office. There were a total of 764 employees in this group (including Bai Yu and Wang Hai).
In addition, there are even more employees on board. Currently, there are more than 1,600 crew members of various types, and we are still recruiting a large number of crew members.
Because of their company, they directly create tens of thousands of jobs, both directly and indirectly.
After listening to Li Shuang's introduction, Bai Yu was stunned. His company had only been around for three years, but it had already grown to more than two thousand people.
And this doesn't even include the employees at the processing plant. If Bai Yu remembers correctly, his processing plant seems to have been expanded several times, and its current area is almost over 100 acres.
From just a few acres at the beginning to over a hundred acres now, their processing plant is already quite large.
After a quick mental calculation, Bai Yu realized that with so many employees in their company, the annual salary payouts alone would amount to several hundred million yuan.
Besides the number of employees, the remaining number is the number of their company's fishing boats. Currently, they have fifty large fishing boats and ten medium-sized fishing boats.
To fully staff all these fishing boats, they would need at least 2,200 crew members of various types.
It's worth mentioning that after this year, Bai Yu's uncle will retire from his position as captain of the Yu Xue.
However, stepping down doesn't mean retirement. Bai Yu plans to have his uncle take charge of all the fishing boats and centrally manage them.
As for the new captain of the Yuxue, it has already been decided that it will be Bai Yu's cousin, Liu Tianyu.
The Yuxue was their company's first fishing boat, so it had a certain symbolic significance. The captain would naturally be someone that Bai Yu and his team trusted.
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