Chapter 1
The decoration of the new store was completely completed on December 24, just before Christmas Eve.
As long as it is a holiday, the business of script-killing stores will be more prosperous than usual, whether it is a holiday or not.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are well-known holidays where there are no holidays but shopping malls have discounts, and they are bundled with New Year's Day to celebrate both holidays, trying to take advantage of the popularity of other people's holidays. Naturally, the Galaxy Script Club is full.
The all-night shows were fully booked, and the all-day shows on Christmas Day, the 25th, had also been booked in advance. The king of scores, Liu Lan, was already prepared to work overtime in the next two days, stay up late, and make a fortune.
The new store is about to open and the employees of the new store are already in place.
When it comes to employee recruitment, Jiang Qi couldn't help but sigh that this store has some recruitment mysteries.
Jiang Qi’s previous attempts at recruiting online and through WeChat Moments were not very successful. He ended up using the braised food shop’s signboard advertisement to post a copycat version next door, and was able to recruit two outstanding full-time employees—Beru and Cai Min.
Both of them originally applied for the job with the mentality of just giving it a try and quitting if it didn't work out. As a result, after joining, they found that the company atmosphere was excellent (mainly because they could play with their phones as long as it didn't affect their work), the working hours were flexible (you could choose between the morning and evening shifts), the company meals were good (you could eat as much as you wanted for free), and the salary was quite high (as long as you were willing to work hard, earning over 10,000 yuan a month was not a dream).
As a result, the two of them have been working until now and have no intention of resigning.
Last time, the recruitment advertisement was borrowed and the effect was so good. This time, Jiang Qi directly borrowed the glass window to post the recruitment poster, and the effect was maximized.
Those who come to apply for the job are all professionals, have work experience, have read and taught many books, can start work directly without pre-employment training, and have a good image.
Where do these talents come from?
Of course, they came from those script-killing stores that closed down this month.
Boss Zhen organized a competition that started off well but ended badly, and not only did he lose his own store, he also snuffed out the last breath of those stores that had participated in the competition but were still alive and could have tried harder and harder to survive.
December can be said to be the month when script-killing stores in Xuncheng go bankrupt.
According to Jiang Jun's incomplete statistics, as of December 24, a total of 9 script-killing stores had closed down in Xuncheng, which is basically the same as the number of script-killing stores that closed down in the previous 11 months.
Nine stores closed down in one month, both large and small. For a small script-killing store like Wu Meng, which has only three script-killing rooms in a residential area, there may be only one full-time DM, but for a script-killing store like Boss Zhen, which is of a decent size and can compete with JC for business at exhibitions, there are usually 4-5 full-time DMs, and even more part-time ones.
Once these stores closed down, especially some of them closed down suddenly without giving their employees the chance to find new jobs, Xuncheng was left with more than a dozen unemployed full-time DMs and countless part-time DMs.
What's even more embarrassing is that no new stores opened in December, and other stores in Xuncheng had no plans to accept these full-time DMs, not even the stores participating in the blind box activities.
Rather than hiring full-time DMs, most stores prefer to hire part-time DMs who have suddenly lost their jobs. After all, part-time workers don't need a basic salary, so they can control costs very well to avoid having too much salary expenditure to make it through the off-season, and then they would become the next store to go bankrupt.
Then, the Galaxy Script Society gathered together these unemployed DMs and those who applied for the job through recruitment posters, and held a job fair for unemployed DMs and laid-off workers on the 22nd.
Huang Fugui, Manager Xu, Jiang Jun and the owners of two other stores spent an afternoon recruiting on borrowed land. Each of them picked the full-time/part-time employee they wanted. When they left, everyone couldn't help but praise Boss Zhen for being a good person.
It's so thoughtful. Not only did his own store go bankrupt, but he also gave away the DMs in the store for everyone to receive, and the DMs also brought their customers over.
If conditions permit, everyone would like to give Boss Zhen a prize.
Sorry for going off topic.
Let’s get back to the point.
At 9:12 pm on December 24, the renovation of the second branch of Galaxy Script Studio was officially completed.
In the last few days of the renovation, the soft furnishings had already been put in. The masters of the decoration team were all enthusiastic people. Even though the work had been completed, they still insisted on staying to help and complete the soft furnishings.
Now the decoration of the entire store has been completed, all the tables, chairs, benches and decorative props have been put in place, and the secret passages have been debugged to be free of problems. In theory, the store can officially open for business on the 25th.
Jiang Qi was not in a hurry for the next few days. He planned to let the new store open for a few days, give the newly hired full-time/part-time employees the last few days to read the script, and then wait until New Year's Day to open the store.
New year, new beginning, wish you good luck.
Moreover, the store has a lot of scripts now. If we don’t give everyone more time to read them, I’m afraid that when the store opens, the twenty full-time and part-time staff will be busy as hell. When he saw the takeover some time ago, he couldn’t help but pack and accept more than 200 boxed books, 17 city-limited and 4 exclusive.
Although some of these scripts are repeated, the number of new ones is also over 100. Such a huge number of new scripts made Liu Lan give up her dream of reading all the scripts in the store and becoming the most versatile DM of Xinghe Script Club.
Her dream is to make money with her life, not to risk her life for profit.
Now the Xinghe Script Society's script reserve should be the largest in Xuncheng, with seven or eight script shelves alone, which Jiang Qi distributed in various places in the new and old stores.
"I've already finished allocating the books. The new books you bought tend to be mostly emotional books. Although I really don't like a large part of them, this is the case with all emotional books these days. Da Zhang, Xiao Chu, and Xiao Huang are in charge of the emotional books."
"Xiao Xia, Da Zhou, Miao Miao and Xiao Ma are responsible for the reasoning book."
"Xiao Wang, Da Wang, Xiao Zhang, and Xiao Cao are responsible for the fun book and the mechanism book."
"The rest of you are responsible for the Terror Ben."
"Then the newly purchased city-limited books will be exclusively in the charge of Lanlan, Beiru, Uncle Huang, Xinghua, and Cai Min. Oh, and Teacher John said he didn't want to teach "Kill the Script Killing Shop Owner" anymore, and Lanlan and the others didn't want to teach this book either."
"Xiao Ma said he was willing to take over, but didn't you, Jiang Qi, tell me before that these newcomers should not take the city-limited and exclusive books first? First see their level and work attitude, and then consider whether to assign these books to them. But this book situation is indeed a bit special, and I have played the reasoning books led by Xiao Ma before, and he is actually quite good at teaching reasoning books." Orange gave Jiang Qi a work summary while sitting in the barbecue restaurant.
"Then let him be responsible for this book." Jiang Qi nodded.
"Then I have already edited the copy for the New Year's Day recharge event in Xindian. I will post it on WeChat Moments through the customer service number at 12 noon tomorrow. I will also post an announcement to all members in this group." Orange took out his phone and opened the memo. "The New Year's Day recharge discount is 188 for recharging 1,000, 488 for recharging 2,000, 888 for recharging 3,000, and 1,888 for recharging 5,000, right?"
"right."
"Jiang Qi, can I ask you something? Why did our store suddenly think of organizing a recharge activity? I haven't had any recharge activities before. Many customers asked me if I have any recharge activities or membership cards, and I always said no." Orange was a little curious.
"Since we're opening a new store, of course we have to organize some recharge activities to adapt to local customs." Jiang Qi said with a smile.
Of course, this is just a superficial statement. The actual reason is of course that the recent expenses are a bit too high.
Jiang Qi's wallet was empty after he spent more than 200,000 yuan on the renovation of the new store. He participated in the recharge activities to make up for the loss quickly, so that he didn't have to spend money according to the calculator during this period.
He is also planning to open a toy store next!
Unconsciously, Jiang Qi has become like Jiang Bing.
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. Didn't the blind box event end after New Year's Day? Many customers couldn't get the limited edition and are waiting to buy. During this period, many people sent private messages to the customer service number asking when the strings in the blind box will be put on the shelves. Many of them are from other places. Will these strings be put on the shelves after the event ends?"
"We won't put them on the shelves yet. What will the blind box event mean if we put them on the shelves right after the event? I have already discussed this with Uncle Huang. We can start putting the basic silk nets on the shelves half a month after the event ends. The silk nets in the blind box are all holiday and solar term styles. We will put them on the shelves when the holidays and solar terms come. Limited editions have their own limited edition styles."
"Okay, then I'll quietly send out a preview after New Year's Day. That..."
"Have some lamb skewers. They are cold." Jiang Qi thoughtfully handed the lamb skewers to Chengzi, who still did not forget to work after work. "These things are not urgent. We can talk about them tomorrow. Today is a barbecue dinner to celebrate the completion of the renovation of the new store. Let's eat barbecue, eat barbecue."
To celebrate the completion of the renovation, Jiang Qi treated everyone on the renovation team to a barbecue tonight. He booked a few large tables at the most popular barbecue restaurant in the alley and invited the masters from the renovation team to have a barbecue.
Everyone in the store ate together when they had nothing to do, and Jiang Qi, who was going to open a business tonight, also thoughtfully ordered takeout for them.
The new employees who haven't officially joined the company were all at home reading books and didn't come. The only people from the store who attended today's dinner were Jiang Bing, Chengzi, Wang Erya, Wang Xinghua and Jiang Wanwan.
The decoration team is already drinking cold beer.
Although drinking ice beer in the middle of winter may be a bit too stimulating, this is how barbecue is. No matter how high the temperature is outside, you must drink a bottle of beer.
"Hey, where are the grilled wings I ordered? Why can't I see a single skewer? Weren't they just served?" Jiang Qi didn't expect that while he was discussing work with Chengzi, such a big plate of grilled wings was gone.
"The grilled wings seem to be at the boss's table." said an unknown worker from the decoration team.
Jiang Qi hurried over to look for grilled wings.
At Boss Shen's table, Boss Shen, who was known for his good drinking habits, was already drunk.
The drunk Boss Shen had grilled chicken wings in his left hand and squid in his right hand, with a large bottle of beer and a small glass of white wine in front of him. His face was flushed red and he looked very excited. With Wang Xinghua and Wang Erya at the next table eating barbecue and reciting words in the background, he was bragging loudly to the people from the decoration team and Jiang Bing.
"Qinghe, how do you say drink?"
"Drink?"
"What about drinking?" Wang Xinghua turned her head and glanced at Boss Shen. "Let's drink beer."
“Dr…Dr…” Wang Erya tried for a long time but still couldn’t come up with a solution. “I don’t know.”
"Yes... Oh, it's 10 o'clock. Let's take a 15-minute break. Come on, Qinghe, have some grilled wings. These are the last two skewers. One for you and one for me. I just brought them from the boss's table. They're still hot!"
Jiang Qi passing by: ...
OK, so it was you who took my grilled wings.
Jiang Qi was just about to take back his grilled wings when Boss Shen pulled him over.
“Xiao Qi!” Boss Shen looked at Jiang Qi, his face filled with the excitement and joy of a drunkard, “Uncle Shen is happy!”
"Uncle Shen is so happy to see that you have made money from running a shop!" Boss Shen started to cry while laughing, "Xiaoqi, you don't know, Uncle Shen feels guilty. Uncle Shen feels sorry for you and your sister, and Uncle Shen feels sorry for your father too."
As he spoke, Boss Shen, a seven-foot-tall man, burst into tears: "Uncle Shen has a secret that I have kept in my heart for many years and have never dared to tell you. Your parents may not have told you that when the timber factory just went bankrupt, I..."
Boss Shen began to tell the story that Jiang Bing had told him before.
Jiang Bing looked at Jiang Qi, the expression on his face was:
See, I didn’t lie to you, Boss Shen said all that when he was drunk.
Jiang Qi turned his head and found that the decoration team was quite experienced. Several masters, including the carpenters and plasterers, who had been following Boss Shen since he started his business, all picked up their phones and started recording videos for Boss Shen.
The carpenter said excitedly, "See, see, I told you that Old Shen would cry and say this when he got drunk today. He would hold our hands and cry when Xiao Jiang and the others were not around before. Now that the real owner is sitting next to him, he will definitely say it."
Plasterer: "When do you think we should let Old Shen know that he likes to talk nonsense when he's drunk?"
"Let him know what to do, and we will know it."
Jiang Qi: ...
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