Chapter 161: Want to Make Money
To be honest, many people at the Pet Beast Center didn’t truly consider Song Tiantian the owner.
Dr. Bai was still here, and he also lived at the Pet Beast Center.
However, today, many people had to face Song Tiantian.
She stood in the center at the highest point, as if the entire Pet Beast Center was her territory. The majestic aura she exuded made everyone feel afraid and dare not look directly at Song Tiantian.
This powerful aura made everyone understand that Song Tiantian was very powerful.
And in this meeting, Song Tiantian rearranged the work model.
Actually, Song Tiantian hoped her employees could go to work happily and joyfully.
But the current management was not good.
It wasn’t that they were bad, but their abilities were mediocre.
Song Tiantian actually hoped to delegate power to a few more capable and competent individuals to manage.
Talent still needs to be observed slowly.
Shen Qing’s work was the type that achieved neither merit nor demerit. He was usually quite smooth, didn’t offend anyone, and handled many matters with ease. Song Tiantian used to think he was very good.
But Song Tiantian now realized that she had increased Shen Qing’s power.
Shen Qing’s previous power was not that great; otherwise, his salary wouldn’t have been so low, making it difficult even to feed a Pet Beast.
Shen Qing was merely a nominal manager. Song Tiantian had now handed over the entire Pet Beast Center to Shen Qing and had also increased Shen Qing’s salary three times.
But even so, Shen Qing would still accept bribes in private.
Ambition and desire were being awakened bit by bit.
Someone sent evidence to Song Tiantian’s email.
Song Tiantian was deeply disappointed.
Many people wanted to rise to power at the Pet Beast Center, and many were eyeing Shen Qing’s position.
Song Tiantian didn’t even need to investigate to guess who had likely sent it.
However, Song Tiantian kept this matter confidential, telling no one and not reducing Shen Qing’s salary. She simply decentralized Shen Qing’s power and significantly weakened it.
At the same time, she added several competitors for Shen Qing.
Song Tiantian also created the position of General Manager, with Shen Qing holding the rank of Manager.
This General Manager position was currently vacant, with a rank and treatment two levels higher than that of a Manager-level employee.
If you want the horse to run, you must feed it grass.
If you want to foster a wolf-like culture, you must feed the wolves meat.
Otherwise, feeding grass to wolves and then blaming them for not being wolf-like is unreasonable.
This was also the reason for the increased expenses at the Pet Beast Center. Song Tiantian didn’t know how Dr. Bai managed to persevere.
Because the salaries and benefits of the group that left previously were not bad.
The expenses were actually higher because there were quite a few Five-star Beast Tamers among them.
The strongest individuals here now were only Three-star Beast Tamers.
The new people from the Law Enforcement Office did not require Song Tiantian to pay their salaries.
Although the management’s salaries had increased, the overall expenses had not.
However, the Pet Beast Center had been operating at a loss under Song Tiantian’s management.
Song Tiantian initially thought it was due to the addition of so many employees. After carefully reviewing the accounts, she realized that although the expenses were high, each grassroots employee was actually working. They were all trying to make money, just without much efficiency.
And the Pet Beast Medical Department had always been a loss-making department.
This was because there weren’t many pets coming in for treatment.
Pet Beasts had strong physiques and rarely fell ill. Even if injured, they could heal themselves.
Therefore, not many people came for treatment. Additionally, the population at the Pet Beast Center was very small. Most people were in Qingshan City. Traveling here was a bit far. Moreover, Qingshan City also had a Pet Beast Center, so for common ailments, people would simply go to the Pet Beast Center in Qingshan City for treatment; there was no need to travel this far.
Unless it was for some special, difficult-to-treat illnesses.
However, Song Tiantian would definitely not give up on the Pet Beast Medical Department; this was arguably the only department she was proud of.
Just based on their attitude of not leaving and staying here, Song Tiantian would not abandon them.
After this meeting, Song Tiantian noticed that the atmosphere at the Pet Beast Center had slightly changed.
Coupled with the launch of the new Beast Food, the Pet Beast Center’s business had improved somewhat.
The factory’s daily output had doubled.
With the same number of people and the same production line, the efficiency now was far greater than before.
These newly promoted individuals were eagerly proving their capabilities to Song Tiantian, showing that she had not misjudged them.
Song Tiantian finally breathed a sigh of relief, only for Qingshan City to directly send over twenty thousand people.
With so many people and so many job positions, she truly couldn’t handle it.
If these people came and were assigned very low salaries, Song Tiantian’s conscience would be troubled; wouldn’t that be exploiting and oppressing their labor?
Moreover, the treatment was not good; they couldn’t even have single rooms and had to share rooms with ten people to squeeze by.
Song Tiantian had worked part-time before; she knew the hardships of laborers.
Perhaps dragon slayers would eventually become dragons themselves.
But Song Tiantian was unwilling to do so at this moment. She hoped that the people working under her would have dignity and the basic welfare that other employees enjoyed.
Song Tiantian was unwilling to reduce the salaries and benefits of the previous employees.
Although the Pet Beast Center was operating at a loss, Song Tiantian had money; her Space contained many, many valuable items.
“Tiantian, these people are in a terrible state in Qingshan City. They are all from rural areas. They were very well-off before, but Fierce Beasts destroyed their homes. Now they have nowhere to live and can only stay in Qingshan City. Do you know? Even a sewage cleaning job in Qingshan City has hundreds of people fighting for it, and the salary is less than three thousand.
If it weren’t for the absolute lack of options, Qingshan City wouldn’t have sent all these people here so quickly.”
Leng Qing understood exactly what Song Tiantian was thinking.
But in reality, what Leng Qing said was not an exaggeration at all.
The situation in Qingshan City was dire.
The country couldn’t support this group of people indefinitely.
And with so many people without jobs, they could only eat relief food every day.
They themselves felt uncomfortable, lacked a sense of value, and were prone to depression.
“Leng Qing, right now I just want to make money. I hate myself for not being capable enough to earn that much.”
“Tiantian, I actually understand you very well. Perhaps acquiring this Pet Beast Center wasn’t a very fortunate thing. But how about this! A successful superior rarely empathizes with the underprivileged. You are too kind; the lowest-earning ordinary employees here make at least ten thousand.
With such high incomes, your burden must be immense.”
“The prices are rising too much now. If you pay too little, how can people save money to buy a house? Commercial housing is almost ready to be built. I’m also thinking about whether to offer interest-free loans for houses, as long as they repay on time each month.”
