Whoever doesn’t get promoted will be embarrassed

Since the establishment of Boring Short Videos, it had been in a state of loss. Although he showed no change on the surface, he had always been in a state of tension inside.

After all, on the side of Mingri Building, whether it was Cangxue Games or Lanpian Film and Television, they were both in a state of profit.

Cangxue Games goes without saying; it now brings in over 100 million in revenue for Mingri Group every month. As for Lanpian Film and Television, a single "demon subduing record" brought in over 3 billion in box office revenue, and with its recent release on Banana TV, it has also brought in several hundred million more.

Calculated this way, Boring Short Videos was the only one in Mingri Building still in a state of loss. Moreover, because there were so many streamers, the monthly loss was not a small amount.

How could this not make him anxious? If this continued, what would General Manager Chen think of him?

Would he think he was incompetent and regret making him the manager of Boring Short Videos?

But now, it was better.

Boring Short Videos had finally turned a loss into a profit, and it might even become the most profitable industry under Mingri Group.

"Hmm, but we must continue to maintain this; we cannot be careless. I will handle the agricultural live streaming side, and you handle the interest-based teaching live streaming. No problem, right?"

Li Shen looked up at Wu Yu.

"No problem. Before I went to pick up the impoverished elderly, I had always been involved with interest-based teaching live streaming."

Wu Yu revealed a confident smile.

"Good!"

Li Shen nodded.

"Besides that, let's find a time to visit Professor Yuan together. Professor Yuan has helped us so much; we definitely need to thank him."

…

Changfeng Garment Factory, near noon, manager's office.

"General Manager Jiang, you were looking for me." He Ping carefully pushed the door open and walked into the office.

"Sit down, Department Head He." Jiang Cheng looked at the person who had entered and smiled, pointing to the chair in front of the desk.

Ever since he was promoted to manager, this He Ping had taken on the position of Department Head of the Production Department.

"Yes, there is indeed something that requires you to do."

"What is it? General Manager Jiang." He Ping pulled out the chair and sat down slowly.

"Now that the new workshop of the Garment factory has been built, once the machines are moved in, the original employees will all have to work in the new workshop. However, according to the current number and size of the new workshop, our 120-plus employees in the workshop are simply not enough."

"In this regard, the Garment factory will recruit 1,000 people as new employees for the Garment factory. Since they are new employees, they naturally need people to guide them."

"General Manager Chen has already given the order: the 1,000 people will be divided into groups of 10, and each group needs one veteran employee to lead it. Furthermore, the veteran employee who leads the new employees will automatically be promoted to the position of team leader. The original team leader positions will be promoted to shift leaders; each shift leader can manage four teams, and so on."

"After the employees are promoted, their salaries will be issued according to the post-promotion salary."

Jiang Cheng looked at He Ping sitting opposite him and briefly explained the matter.

He Ping listened to Jiang Cheng's explanation, a trace of shock in his eyes.

Wasn't this just a disguised promotion?

1,000 people in groups of 10, that would be 100 groups.

100 groups would require 100 veteran employees to lead them. Once the veteran employees finished leading, it would mean that these 100 veteran employees had all been promoted to team leaders.

Of course, there was another more critical issue: the current number of workers in the workshop was 122.

If you subtract some positions like team leaders and shift leaders, that would leave 106 ordinary employees.

And 106 employees had to select 100 employees to lead the new employees.

That would only leave 6 employees.

Thinking of this, He Ping couldn't help but smile.

In other companies, every time there was a position, many people would fight for it.

But it was different here at the Garment factory; 106 people needed to select 100 people.

This situation,

He couldn't help but think back to the beginning of the Garment factory, when there had been a similar situation. But back then, there were fewer people—about a dozen—and only a few did not get promoted.

But now there were over 100 people, and 6 would not be selected.

Whoever became those 6 people, wouldn't they be embarrassed?

"General Manager Jiang, shall we still use voting for the selection method?"

He Ping asked.

"Yes, let's proceed by voting."

Jiang Cheng nodded.

The voting method was relatively fair; this way, the 6 people who were not selected would also be convinced.

"I understand, General Manager Jiang."

He Ping nodded, stood up, and left the office.

Jiang Cheng watched He Ping leave and checked the time, finding that it was already time for lunch.

He also stood up and left the office, heading straight toward the cafeteria.

After finishing lunch, he went straight back to the dormitory.

The Garment factory had a total of one and a half hours of break time every noon for lunch.

Not long after he returned to the dormitory, the door opened again, and Wang Juan walked in from outside.

"Not resting, what are you doing?"

Wang Juan saw Jiang Cheng sitting at the desk reviewing documents and asked casually.

"I'm thinking about things. You said that the Garment factory's pet apparel is selling very smoothly, but although the traffic for regular apparel has increased a bit recently, there hasn't been much change yet."

"Moreover, the production quantity of pet apparel has been restricted by General Manager Chen, and the monthly sales quota is basically fixed. On top of that, the new workshop has been completed, and General Manager Chen requires us to recruit 1,000 new employees. These 1,000 new employees, just in terms of salaries, will increase the burden significantly. Furthermore, 1,000 new employees will also lead to an increase in production, while sales volume remains stagnant."

"This presents another situation: the backlog of clothes in the warehouse will continue to grow. They can't be sold, and there is no capital recovery. And the increase in productivity will also cause the consumption of raw materials to increase significantly."

"As time goes on, the Garment factory will face an even greater situation of losing money."

Jiang Cheng rubbed his eyebrows with a headache. He had been thinking of countermeasures for the past two days, but he hadn't come up with any good solutions.

Wang Juan listened to Jiang Cheng's words and frowned slightly.

The situation before him was basically a dead cycle. To change this situation, the only way was to increase the sales volume of the Garment factory's apparel.

However, ever since the Garment factory switched to making brand apparel, sales had always been a problem.

This was determined by a brand's awareness and trust. Among those popular brands on the market today, which one wasn't built up over many years?

For Changfeng Clothing to reach the level of acceptance by the public like other brands, it definitely couldn't be achieved in a short period.

However, while she couldn't make it well-known to the public for now, she did have a way to increase sales volume and reduce losses.

Wang Juan smiled slightly, came to Jiang Cheng's side, and spoke softly.

"Although I can't make the Garment factory turn a loss into a profit, increasing some sales volume shouldn't be a problem."

"Wife, you have a way?"

Jiang Cheng turned to look at his wife.

"I do have an idea. Didn't you say that the Garment factory's pet apparel is selling very well? Then why don't we create a collaboration between our regular apparel and the pet apparel?"

"Just like couple outfits and parent-child sets, we can also make a batch of regular apparel similar to the pet apparel. That way, the whole family, including the pets, will be wearing the same style of clothing. That would be a very interesting thing, wouldn't it?"

"And regarding the recent pet apparel fashion show, aren't we arranging for those who are walking the pets to also wear our Garment factory's brand apparel? At that time, they could also wear the matching sets."

Jiang Cheng listened to his wife's words, and his eyes lit up.