“The winning department of Tenda’s First Zero Overtime Competition is—Terminal Chinese Website!”

As soon as Assistant Xin finished speaking, everyone’s eyes turned simultaneously toward Ma Yiqun, who was eating a slice of watermelon.

Ma Yiqun froze completely, only reacting after two seconds. He hurriedly pulled out a tissue to wipe his mouth and hands, then went up to the stage.

Everyone responded with enthusiastic applause.

Pei Qian was already standing on stage with the trophy, waiting to present the award.

Pei Qian had already known the results of this competition well in advance.

The selection method for the Zero Overtime Competition was: whichever department worked the least overtime would win the prize.

If multiple departments achieved zero overtime in all four evaluations over a month, then ranking would be determined by department size from largest to smallest, with departments that had already won before being automatically deferred.

Looking at Tenda’s current business departments:

Tenda Games, Fei Huang Studio, Shangyang Games, OTTO Technology, and similar core departments were all filled with workaholics. The employees in these departments all tried various ways to work overtime. Places like OTTO Technology and Fei Huang Studio even had leaders suspected of taking the lead in working overtime, so they definitely couldn’t win the award.

Departments like Headwind Logistics and Slackin’ Internet Café, although they were also striving to implement the no-overtime policy, often encountered unexpected situations where overtime was difficult to avoid completely.

To achieve zero overtime, they needed to further improve their management capabilities.

Departments similar to Dream Venture Capital didn’t need overtime either, but they had too few people, so their priority wasn’t as high.

Therefore, Terminal Chinese Website, which had reached over 30 employees and had never had any overtime records, successfully won the honor of “First Zero Overtime Competition Winning Department.”

Receiving the trophy from Mr. Pei, Ma Yiqun felt somewhat overwhelmed by the honor. After waving to everyone in acknowledgment, he left the stage.

But this segment wasn’t over yet, because Mr. Pei still had to give a speech.

Pei Qian took the microphone from Assistant Xin and cleared his throat.

“Congratulations once again to Ma Yiqun.”

“Although the award has been presented, clearly most of you present haven’t understood the significance of establishing this award.”

“Why are there rewards for not working overtime, while there are no rewards for working overtime?”

“Because for the heads of each department, if your department has overtime, there are only two reasons:”

“First, your department’s work task allocation is unreasonable, with some people being assigned excessive work that can only be completed by working overtime. On this point, you department heads cannot escape blame!”

“Second, certain employees in your department have low work efficiency and cannot complete their tasks within the designated working hours. In such cases, as department heads, you should give these employees sufficient care and assistance!”

“So, everyone must remember firmly: at Tenda, overtime is a disgrace!”

“All department heads should learn from Ma Yiqun and strive to achieve zero overtime!”

After Pei Qian finished speaking, warm applause erupted from below the stage. Many department heads showed expressions of guilt on their faces.

Mr. Pei’s speech had touched their souls, and the overtime phenomenon at Tenda would improve even more in the future!

Pei Qian was very satisfied with this and gestured for Assistant Xin to continue with the next segment.

The exciting, biannual Best Employee Selection!

Li Yada noticed that Bao Xu, sitting next to her, was nervously cracking sunflower seeds, his face pale, with cold sweat dripping down his forehead.

“Brother Bao, what’s wrong? Are you feeling unwell?”

Bao Xu shook his head: “It’s nothing.”

The previous outstanding employee selections had already left him with very serious psychological trauma, making him unwilling to go out, no matter what.

This was a completely conditioned response, an instinctive reaction.

Although he still instinctively experienced rapid heartbeat and nervousness, Bao Xu genuinely believed that this outstanding employee selection should have nothing to do with him, right?

Not to mention those who had already won the Best Employee Selection and become department heads.

Even if they selected from people who had never won the Best Employee award before, Bao Xu wasn’t the most outstanding one!

During this period, Bao Xu had been following a strategy of keeping a low profile. Not only had he not left any overtime records, but even in his daily work, he gave everyone the impression that “I’m seriously playing games.”

The documents he secretly modified were all sent to Li Yada for submission.

From all perspectives, he shouldn’t have attracted anyone’s attention!

Looking at others:

Ma Yiqun led Terminal Chinese Website to complete a reversal, turning losses into profits, and ran the webnovel training class with excellence.

Zhang Yuan’s Slackin’ Internet Café had expanded to Lin City, and the ROF computer assembly business was developing rapidly, achieving both strong sales and a reputation.

At Shangyang Games, the three leaders Lin Wan, Ye Zhizhou, and Wang Xiaobin led the development of the mobile version of “Hot-Blooded Battle Song” which swept the mobile game market, and now they were diligently developing “BE QUIET”;

At Dream Venture Capital, Ma Yang and He Desheng had invested in three projects: IOI was already certain to make a huge profit, shared telephone booths had become a new cultural symbol of Jingzhou, and the Scholar Express project already had extremely high popularity.

Although OTTO Technology hadn’t yet produced their phone, Chang You and his team worked very seriously and could be called a model team…

None of these people had won the Best Employee award yet!

Even if the Tenda Games Department, as the most senior department receiving the most attention from Mr. Pei, were to be judged based on merit, Li Yada would rank first.

The achievements of these people could all be checked on TPDb’s internal website. Who had made greater contributions was clearly evident.

Thinking this way, he should finally be safe, right?

Bao Xu forcefully comforted himself, and his shaking hands improved slightly.

“Now, each department begins voting, Please look at the screen!”

Everyone looked up to see a bar graph appearing on the big screen. Each person’s votes began to steadily increase, with various people overtaking each other.

Everyone took out their phones, opened the TPDb website app, and cast their valuable vote.

Those ordinary employees who weren’t at the scene could also vote on their phones. Those who didn’t vote by the deadline were considered to have automatically abstained.

Names alternately rose, and most people with the fewest votes were already determined to be eliminated early.

Bao Xu nervously looked at his name and was surprised to find that he had received more than twenty votes!

He suddenly wanted to know who these twenty-plus people were, so he could have a good talk with them about life.

However, fortunately, this number of votes was indeed insufficient to support him entering the top two.

Seeing his name being quickly surpassed by one name after another, Bao Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief and could crack sunflower seeds with peace of mind.

Finally, the bar graph jumped imperceptibly a few more times before becoming fixed.

Outstanding Employee: Zhang Yuan.

Outstanding Employee Runner-up: Li Yada.

Outstanding Employee Third Place: Ma Yang.

Although Dream Venture Capital’s achievements were also very outstanding, this kind of voting made it difficult to be absolutely objective and fair, and would more or less be influenced by personal relationships.

Dream Venture Capital was equivalent to an independent department with few opportunities to interact with other departments.

Zhang Yuan was responsible for Slackin’ Internet Café and ROF computer assembly, maintaining very close relationships with various departments. For example, the computers for Ma Yiqun’s webnovel author training class were purchased at cost from ROF, and Headwind Logistics helped ROF deliver and install the computers, so they were quite familiar.

Additionally, departments like Slackin’ Delivery, Slackin’ Internet Café, and Headwind Logistics had more employees. Since Lü Mingliang had already won the Best Employee award once and was no longer participating in the selection, it was well-deserved for Zhang Yuan to receive this award.

Li Yada’s main achievement was that she had taken over “Turn Back to Shore” midway, and the popularity of this game added many points for her. Combined with GOG testing and the long-standing influence of the gaming department, she obtained second place.

Zhang Yuan hadn’t anticipated this result at all. He was stunned for two seconds before realizing he needed to go on stage to receive the award.

“Thank you, Mr. Pei, and thank you to all my colleagues!”

“I’m unworthy of this award, but I’ll continue to work hard in the future and not disappoint everyone’s trust in me!”

Though his words expressed happiness, his face showed no happy expression at all.

Winning the Best Employee meant receiving a Dream Fund to pursue one’s dream, but Zhang Yuan had nothing to pursue as a dream!

His current favorite business was ROF computer assembly, and he also liked the position of CEO of Slackin’ Internet Café, but receiving this award meant that these two businesses would have nothing to do with him!

Although very unwilling, in such an occasion, he could only silently cry in his heart.

Pei Qian was very happy. Great, the first-place elimination system had taken out another person who had backstabbed him the most!

Zhang Yuan had stirred up a lot of trouble while in charge of Slackin’ Internet Café and ROF computer assembly. Now, demoting him completely and making him responsible for other businesses would finally bring some peace!

Of course, the Slackin’ Internet Café business and ROF computer assembly business originally managed by Zhang Yuan would now need to change hands.

But Pei Qian didn’t care at all and was instead full of anticipation.

Zhang Yuan went down from the stage somewhat dejectedly, and next it was Li Yada’s turn.

However, Li Yada’s first words after going on stage surprised everyone.

“Mr. Pei, can I give up this award…”

Pei Qian’s face darkened: “This award cannot be given up. Haven’t we emphasized this many times already?”

Li Yada frowned: “But, Mr. Pei, I can’t live abroad by myself… applying for visas, booking hotels, planning itineraries, communicating with foreigners… I can’t do any of these things!”

“And I have to live abroad for a month. As a girl, it’s too unsafe…”

As a homebody, these things were indeed very challenging.

Pei Qian was silent for a moment, then nodded: “Well, what you say makes sense.”

“It is indeed a big safety concern for a girl to travel abroad alone.”

“How about this: find someone to accompany you on the trip who can also take care of you and ensure your safety.”

“Hmm, we need to find someone experienced to go with you.”

“Bao Xu, it’s you!”

Below the stage, Bao Xu, who was leisurely drinking tea, sprayed it out with a “poof.”

He didn’t even have time to wipe the tea stains from the corner of his mouth: “Mr. Pei! I…”

Pei Qian waved his hand, indicating he had no interest in hearing his explanation: “You have the most experience, and you’re also familiar with Li Yada. You’re the most suitable candidate. This is a work assignment, you can’t refuse!”

Bao Xu wanted to say something more, but after opening his mouth, he was momentarily at a loss for words.

You might escape the first calamity, but you can’t escape the fifteenth!

He never thought that, although he hadn’t been selected, he still couldn’t escape the fate of going on a trip!