With the Lunar New Year just around the corner, Mandarin Cosmetics' financial report for the year was exceptionally good at the end of December. The company's annual revenue exceeded 20 million, and after the launch of its reality show in the middle of the year, the company experienced rapid growth. At this rate, it will have at least 50 million next year, and the year after that, it might even reach 100 million.
Xiao Gao also received a raise as a matter of course. The boss instructed her to prepare employee benefits, and Xiao Gao happily prepared New Year's gifts for the employees.
Xiao Qiao from the marketing department, who gets along well with Xiao Gao, came over to inquire:
"Xiao Gao, does our company give out New Year's gifts?"
"Of course there are! What are you thinking? Our boss isn't stingy. Last year, when the company didn't do well, everyone received generous gifts. Not to mention this year's performance is so good!"
Xiao Gao smiled, tidying up her desk and putting the files into the safe. Xiao Qiao stared at her and asked with a smile:
"Is our company's performance exceptionally good this year?"
"Yes, didn't the boss say during the big meeting? Oh, you're new here and didn't attend the year-end meeting, but it's okay if I tell you, our company made over 20 million in revenue this year. Judging from the recent growth rate, it will at least double next year, and it might even multiply several times."
With the company doing well, employee benefits are naturally good as well. Chu Yu instructed that each employee would receive a year-end bonus equivalent to three months' salary, in addition to annual leave, as well as gifts such as rice, flour, cooking oil, sugar, and pastries, and food vouchers from Chu Jiali.
Xiao Qiao was overjoyed, "I have one too?"
Xiao Qiao has been with the company for less than half a year. In other companies, she wouldn't get a year-end bonus, but at Mandarin, she can enjoy the same benefits as long-term employees after only two months.
"Of course there is. Don't overthink it. Just wait patiently for the gifts to be sent out."
When Fu Yaning heard that Mandarin's annual revenue was over 20 million, she almost went crazy. "How long has Mandarin been on the market? How can it make so much money? That little bitch Zhou Chuyu is too shameless. All she knows is to use reality shows and celebrities to make money. She only knows how to take crooked paths!"
Fu Yaning's assistant curled his lip, thinking to himself that no matter how crooked the methods were, they were not as crooked as Yaning's.
In the past six months alone, how many people have filed lawsuits against whitening creams?
If it weren't for Fu Yaning's powerful backing, which allowed her to suppress the issues from various departments, this matter would have blown up long ago.
So many girls have suffered kidney failure, ruined their bodies and faces, and many have even lost their lives because of whitening creams.
But Fu Yaning ignored them, thinking they were making trouble for no reason. She believed it was because they were unwell and couldn't withstand the effects of mercury, not because the whitening cream was the problem! Despite her husband's warnings, she continued to secretly sell the whitening cream to make money.
Although the counters don't display whitening cream, the sales assistants will secretly take it out and sell it whenever someone asks.
Whitening creams are expensive, and so are the commissions. Even if the sales assistants know the dangers of whitening creams, they will lower their standards to sell them for money.
This year, Ya Ning Beauty's revenue exceeded five million yuan, half of which came from whitening cream.
The assistant felt extremely uncomfortable at the thought of Fu Yaning aiding and abetting evil with whitening cream, and felt a sense of guilt that she herself was an accomplice.
"By the way, boss, with the end of the year approaching, my colleagues have been asking me if we'll get red envelopes or holiday gifts this year. Since you haven't said anything, I don't know how to answer," the assistant said.
Fu Yaning frowned, feeling that these employees were really greedy. She had given them a job, but jobs were so hard to find these days. They were not well-educated and were not satisfied with earning thirty or forty yuan a month.
It's just the New Year, but she's had a terrible year. With a revenue of five million, the profit is less than half. That little bit of money isn't even enough to fill a tooth gap. Not only do her employees not appreciate how hard she works, but they also want her to give them holiday gifts.
"Red envelopes and holiday gifts? Why do we have so many rules in our Chinese company?"
"But the company has made a lot of money throughout the year, so it's normal for everyone to want New Year's gifts," the assistant explained quietly.
"Normal? As a company employee, instead of thinking about contributing to the company and doing a good job in R&D and sales, you're always thinking about taking advantage of the company. Don't you realize that our company is so big with such high expenses that we can't make much money at all?"
Fu Yaning's cold words made the assistant very uncomfortable, but she had just graduated from junior college and couldn't get into a state-owned enterprise. Her family didn't have any connections in Beijing, so she was lucky to have a job at all.
The assistant had arranged to have drinks with a friend that evening. The friend was none other than Xiao Qiao from Mandarin. Xiao Qiao and the assistant graduated around the same time. Both of them started their internships at the company at the beginning of the year and were officially hired as full-time employees in the second half of the year.
The assistant sighed and mentioned that Ya Ning hadn't received any red envelopes or holiday gifts at the end of the year.
"Is your company really that stingy?" Xiao Qiao blinked.
The assistant was taken aback. He assumed that all companies in the industry did the same thing, and if Ya Ning didn't provide employee benefits, Mandarin probably wouldn't either.
She could understand her boss's approach. There are so many people in China; if you don't do the work, someone else will. Bosses have an endless supply of people, but employees never have an endless supply of jobs!
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