Wednesday morning, December 15th.

Wu Bin arrived at the entrance of Shenhua Luxury View with excitement and nervousness.

On Monday, he had already learned the result—he passed the interview!

At that moment, he was elated.

After so many years in the workplace, he had never been this happy before.

According to Tenda’s arrangement, new employees could start work anytime after being hired. If there were handover procedures to complete, there was no rush—Tenda wouldn’t pressure them.

Whenever the procedures were completed, that’s when they could officially start.

Wu Bin returned to Hengtu Games, told his boss about his resignation, and was naturally asked to stay.

The reasons for keeping him were quite substantial.

For instance, work needed to be handed over, the annual meeting and year-end bonus were coming up, they had worked together for so long and had emotional bonds, they could increase his salary, and so on.

But Wu Bin still firmly resigned, without delaying for a minute.

The reason was simple: starting one day earlier meant earning Tenda’s salary one day sooner.

Although Hengtu Games promised to raise his salary, even after the raise, it was still far below Tenda’s base salary…

Starting one day earlier meant earning money one day sooner!

So, Wu Bin didn’t waste a minute, striving to be among the first batch of new employees to start work.

The only uncertainty was whether he could still get a year-end bonus and annual meeting gifts at Tenda.

At his original company, these were available.

But Wu Bin also knew clearly that at Hengtu Games, even if there were year-end bonuses and annual meeting gifts, they definitely wouldn’t be generous.

The year-end bonus would symbolically be just over a month’s salary.

The annual meeting gift, predictably, would at most be a general participation award, a red envelope of 200-300 yuan would be quite decent.

This little temptation was certainly not enough to make Wu Bin stay.

Wu Bin himself was also reflecting that whether recruiting people was easy or not had little to do with HR; the key was the company’s benefits.

For a company like Tenda with such benefits, there was no need for HR to poach people. Just slightly revealing these welfare benefits would naturally attract job seekers in droves.

In contrast, for a company like Hengtu Games, despite talking at length, when someone asked, “Do you always reduce salaries when recruiting?” the conversation would immediately come to an end.

Today, Wu Bin specially wore his most expensive suit, walking confidently into Shenhua Luxury View, then taking the elevator to the 16th floor.

Currently, Tenda’s operations have expanded considerably.

Fei Huang Studio, Headwind Logistics, Slackin’ Internet Café, OTTO Technology, Dream Realization Investment, and other industries were not located in Shenhua Luxury View; they all had their own office buildings.

What remained in Shenhua Luxury View were just Tenda’s gaming department, and the Terminus Chinese Network and TPDb websites, on the 17th and 18th floors, respectively.

However, after this recruitment drive, Tenda’s office space was no longer sufficient.

Previously, Tenda’s gaming department, along with administrative, financial, and other departments, were all crammed onto the 17th floor. At the beginning, this space was quite adequate, but as the gaming department grew, all workstations were occupied.

Sometimes employees were “promoted,” but this happened too slowly, like a drop in the bucket.

So, after this concentrated recruitment, the original office space was completely insufficient, and another floor had to be rented.

As a result, Tenda also rented the 16th floor below, arranging it with the same layout, just to welcome the arrival of new employees.

However, further expansion would be difficult.

Although the rent at Shenhua Luxury View was somewhat expensive, it was still a high-end office building, and there weren’t many entire floors of office space sitting empty.

For future expansion, they would either have to rent floors that were quite far apart or leave this place and move to a larger location, such as a standalone office building.

But that was a matter for later; they could start looking for suitable locations now. In the short term, these office workstations should be completely sufficient.

After this, Tenda’s gaming department and administrative, financial departments were separated.

The gaming department remained on the 17th floor, while the administrative, financial, legal, and other departments moved to the 16th floor.

Comparatively, the 16th floor had fewer people, so it was more spacious.

Pei Qian had set up a large conference room on this floor and moved his own office there as well.

Large televisions and projectors were installed in both the office and conference room to facilitate presentations and reports.

Tang Yishu was naturally also arranged on this floor. This way, when various departments came here to report their work, they would be more or less influenced.

But Pei Qian also considered that if Tang Yishu were on the 16th floor year-round, the bugs in Tenda’s gaming department on the 17th floor would significantly decrease.

Therefore, Pei Qian planned to pick up a few stray cats from the pet hospital that no one had adopted and distribute them evenly across the 16th, 17th, and 18th floors.

With so many pets, arranging for some pet supplies, such as large cat climbing frames and the like, would also allow for spending more money.

This way, Tang Yishu could frequently go up and down the floors to scoop litter, covering all three floors with her aura effect.

Moreover, by keeping the gaming department on the 17th floor and moving his own office to the 16th floor, Pei Qian was also hinting to these gaming department employees: the boss is no longer on this floor, you can slack off!

…

Wu Bin’s workstation was on the 16th floor.

Upon learning that Mr. Pei’s office was also on this floor, Wu Bin felt a bit nervous.

After all, working under the boss’s nose meant he couldn’t be careless.

So far, Tenda remained a mystery to Wu Bin, completely unpredictable.

The information Wu Bin had about Tenda came from hearsay, and there were many quite outlandish claims, so the credibility wasn’t very high.

The written test and interview stages didn’t reveal much either.

But Wu Bin guessed that Tenda, as a company, probably emphasized spiritual construction.

Otherwise, why would they create a “Tenda Spirit Compatibility Test”?

Although Wu Bin had successfully passed the written test and interview and officially started work, according to the process, he still had to take the Tenda Spirit Compatibility Test three times within a month.

Passing the test meant becoming a formal employee; failing meant, regrettably, he wouldn’t continue.

So, Wu Bin had already prepared himself mentally. In his first month at Tenda, apart from working hard to win the approval of colleagues and Mr. Pei, he also needed to properly understand what the so-called Tenda spirit was.

After arriving at the reception and explaining his purpose, the beautiful receptionist handed Wu Bin a new employee handbook, then led him to the Human Resources Department to report to Hao Yun.

After welcoming Wu Bin, Hao Yun led him to his workstation, and then staff from the administrative group came to activate his internal network permissions, arrange his TPDb website account, and so on.

During this time, Wu Bin sat in his office chair and began to flip through the new employee handbook, hoping to find some information related to the “Tenda spirit.”

This new employee handbook had just been customized by the administrative department a while ago and had also been reviewed by Mr. Pei.

Originally, there wasn’t such a thing for new employees, because Tenda’s scale was relatively small at that time, and the onboarding process was relatively simple, not requiring all these fancy things.

But now it was different. New employees were joining in batches, and there were many daily points to note. Writing them in advance in the new employee handbook helped these newcomers integrate into the work environment more quickly.

Wu Bin flipped through the new employee handbook and found that it was divided into several major categories, discussing the points to note after starting work.

The first major category was lifestyle, mainly including recommendations for daily life, food, clothing, housing, transportation, and other aspects.

For example, for daily meals, the company would uniformly order Slackin’ Takeout, with reviews of the dishes inside. In simple terms, they were all quite delicious, and it was up to personal taste to choose.

There were subsidies for housing, daily commuting, and other aspects, and the specific subsidy amounts were quite high. The specific amounts, subsidy methods, reimbursement processes, and so on were all very clearly written.

Looking at the pictures of work meals in the handbook, Wu Bin was practically drooling.

“Such good work meals, and they’re completely free?”

“Taxis fully reimbursed, and there’s even a mandatory reimbursement quota each month? This money can be used to buy anything work-related?”

“There’s also a gym subsidy, and private coaching classes arranged for each employee???”

“This… these benefits are too good…”

Wu Bin was completely captivated and hurriedly flipped to the next page.

The second major category was entertainment, mainly covering the company’s various rest and entertainment facilities.

For instance, the water bar had various coffees and beverages that could be freely taken, the snack area had various snacks, and fitness equipment and the recreation room were all free to use without any restrictions.

Wu Bin couldn’t help but sigh: “Although it’s a face project, to do a face project so well and thoughtfully is very impressive.”

Wu Bin had always felt that setting up gyms and recreation rooms in the company was nothing more than a means to attract employees to work overtime.

In plain terms, it just looked better on the surface.

“Our company has prepared a gym and recreation room for employees.” This kind of boastful talk was very suitable for deceiving newcomers who had just joined and didn’t know much.

But in most companies, the gym and recreation room were not allowed to be used during normal working hours, only after work.

Using them after work, wasn’t that just indirectly enticing overtime?

Moreover, when it came to actual overtime, when everyone in the entire project team was buried in work, would you have the nerve to run to the recreation room to play games?

So, most companies prepared these things just as face projects, with symbolic meaning greater than practical value.

Wu Bin continued to turn to the next page.

This page was a note regarding the previous point.

Wu Bin had thought it would note something like “Please don’t go to the recreation room during working hours,” but it wasn’t like that at all!

The note clearly stated: “Each employee must accumulate 4 hours of use of fitness facilities or the recreation room every week, striving for a balance between work and rest.”

“Note: Please do not use the gym or recreation room during non-working hours. Please return home immediately after work.”

Wu Bin felt a bit dizzy.

It was generally similar to what he had expected, but with a “non” added before “working hours.”

This completely changed the meaning!

Other companies all said, “Do not use the gym and recreation room during working hours,” but Tenda had completely reversed it!

Did this mean you could only play during office hours???

Wu Bin almost thought the new employee handbook had a printing error, but after thinking about it, they shouldn’t make such a basic mistake, right?

He was a bit confused.

With puzzlement, he continued reading.

The third major category was work-related.

In other companies, this category was often placed at the very beginning, but at Tenda, it was exactly the opposite, placed at the end, occupying only the last few pages of the employee handbook, and the description was quite brief.

The previous lifestyle category not only had beautiful color photos of various work meals, but also detailed descriptions of the taste of each dish, which couldn’t be more thorough.

The entertainment category was the same, even introducing various games collected in the recreation room, with simple reviews.

But when it came to the work category, the style completely changed.

There were just a few simple points to note.

“Overtime is prohibited in principle.”

“If overtime is necessary due to work requirements, it must be reported to the department head, who will apply for an overtime quota. Overtime is only permitted after approval.”

“If you feel work pressure is high, report it immediately to the department head, who will promptly recruit new employees to resolve the issue.”

“It is strictly forbidden to contact colleagues for work reasons during non-working hours, as this will cause trouble for colleagues.”

And so on.

Wu Bin’s head was starting to hurt after reading this.

These points all pointed to the same thing, repeatedly emphasizing: no overtime!

On the contrary, the content Wu Bin had expected didn’t appear at all!

For example, work assigned by leaders must be completed on time, colleagues cannot shirk responsibility onto each other…

Such statements were completely absent!

Wu Bin thought they might be later, but after turning another page, the new employee handbook ended!

Where was the expected explanation of the Tenda spirit?

Where were the 100 rules for employees?

All completely absent!

Closing the handbook, Wu Bin’s mind only remembered the delicious food and various benefits from before; he didn’t remember anything else.

Wu Bin felt a bit lost, vaguely sensing that something might be wrong somewhere…