Chapter 98: Chapter 97 Rule Number One of the Workplace

"Fuck! I just escaped the princess's clutches only to get screwed by a damn dragon? Shitty game!"

Zheng Shou slammed his phone down on the desk in anger, while the employee who lent him the phone watched on heartbroken but dared not make a sound.

"So… manager, should I take this game down?"

The subordinate moved the mouse over the "Take Down" button next to Life Restart Simulator, ready to make the game disappear from the platform with just one click.

But Zheng Shou slapped him right on the forehead, nearly smashing him under the desk.

"Take down my ass! Put it up! Featured on the front page! Full channel promotion! Motherfucker, this month's performance, no! This year's performance depends on this wave!"

Zheng Shou's body shook, and he yanked up his belt with force.

It had been several years since he had felt this driven.

Shengda's initial goal in launching their mobile game platform was to compete with manufacturers like Tencent for mobile user market share.

Unfortunately, Shengda didn't have any mobile game products worth mentioning.

At first, they rode the wave of nostalgia with Hot Legend but soon ran out of new blood.

In terms of product competitiveness in mobile games, Shengda couldn't hold a candle to Tencent, with their deep experience in the mobile game market and QQ and Fexin as their traffic foundation.

One could say that Shengda's mobile game platform peaked upon its debut and had been on a downhill path ever since.

When he first joined the mobile game operations department, he had a heart full of ambition, but after two years, he realized it wasn't something a few people's efforts could achieve.

Shengda's upper management started rotting after the former chairman, Mr. Chen Tian, left.

The executives were only thinking of ways to funnel money from the company coffers into their own pockets; how could they be bothered to put forth the effort to revive a mobile game operations department with no potential for growth?

They would rather engage in financial investment, taking control of small companies with growth potential.

Then help those companies inflate their market value, and finally, after attracting a wave of private capital, they would take the money and run!

The whole of Shengda was permeated with the corrupt and decaying odor of trying to scrape a living from the bottom of the barrel.

With such decay at the top, there was no way Zheng Shou could talk about ideals; naturally, he went along with the decay.

Now that he was in his third year of going with the flow of decay, his only thought was to make a run for it when the company collapsed.

But on his path to decay, out of nowhere, a dark horse appeared.

It revitalized the gaming platform he was responsible for.

No, to be more precise, it was still hanging by a thread.

But Zheng Shou's sharp business instincts told him this was a huge opportunity!

Maybe it could help their mobile game operations department achieve new glory!

Oh… strictly speaking, they'd never had any glory in mobile games before…

So create glory!

"How many promotional resources do we still have on hand?"

Zheng Shou sat down at his desk, now covered in dust, and booted up his desktop computer, which hadn't been turned on for several months.

The startup self-check actually took more than a minute to reach the desktop.

He logged into his operations management account and began allocating operational resources.

These resources were nothing more than ad slots and entertainment news media people they had cultivated or collaborated with on various platforms.

"Uh… our department only has one hotlist ad slot on Qiandu Tie Ba left, two news bottom recommendation slots on Qiandu Headline, and some Weibo dead accounts with hardly any followers."

An employee checked the resource allocation for the month, which was pitifully scant compared to the Browser Game Operations side.

Zheng Shou also saw the resources mentioned by his subordinate in the backend, just a few scattered promotional resources, leftovers by regulations from other departments each month.

"What about the website navigation page ad slots? Dou Ying? Libilibi? Not a single one?"

He switched back and forth between several pages, finding no strong promotional resources, his triple chin nearly sagging to his chest in frustration.

His own department was this pathetic? As a department manager, he didn't have a single decent resource slot?

"This won't do, I need to talk to Director of Operations, you guys assign all the resources we have to the Simulator, and make sure to maintain a steady increase in new users."

Zheng Shou slammed the table and stood up, heading straight for the door.

He had not taken more than a few steps before he suddenly turned back, his expression somewhat awkward. Snatching the attention of the subordinate closest to the door, he asked, "What's the surname of the new director? Du or Guo?"

After pondering for a couple of seconds, the subordinate also looked embarrassed: "I have no idea… The director took office in February, and he hasn't visited our department yet."

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Zheng Shou was taken aback and looked around at the twenty-something subordinates in the department.

Including the assistant manager and the junior supervisor, no one spoke up.

"Damn! A whole department and not a single person knows the name of the director? What kind of useless pigs have you all been trained by!"

Zheng Shou got so angry that he ended up insulting himself as well.

The crowd wanted to laugh but didn't dare to.

"Mana... Manager… I remember the director's name is Wei Xinrong! I saw Director Wei when I first joined the company,"

As he was cursing under his breath and about to send a message to the manager of the neighboring department to ask, a young subordinate who seemed to be only in his mid-twenties stood up and spoke softly.

Zheng Shou's fingers, which were tapping away on his phone, paused as he realized that the speaker was Guang, a new employee who had joined at the beginning of the month.

He deleted the typed-out message on Feixin and gave Guang an appreciative look.

"By the end of this month, your probation period will end early. Get ready to apply for a permanent position," he said.

With that, Zheng Shou hurried off.

Guang stood there for a long time without recovering from his surprise.

He had only joined less than a month ago, and now he was about to be made a permanent employee at the end of the month?

He was this year's fresh graduate and had entered Shengda with a dozen other people through campus recruitment.

But among them all, his written test and interview scores were the worst!

Then he was assigned to this department, which he had heard from the veteran employees was basically dispensable in Shengda—a department where people just coasted along waiting to die.

The implicit meaning of throwing him here was that he would be out after surviving the three-month probation period.

But was this happiness coming too suddenly?

Just because he paid attention to the director's name when he entered the company, he was being made permanent? Sёarᴄh the NôᴠeFire.ηet website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

He felt like he was dreaming!

At this moment, the veteran employees around him also started to applaud, smiling and saying, "Congratulations, Guang! After more than a year, our department finally has a newcomer!"

"Guang, come have dinner with us tonight; it's my treat! Let's celebrate for you!"

Supervisor Wu, who usually barely spoke to him, now threw an arm around his shoulders, his face full of enthusiasm, upon learning that he was going to be made permanent.

The colleagues who had been cold to him since he joined now seemed to have changed faces, making him feel noticed for the first time.

"Not quite used to our change in attitude? That's how the workplace is. Interns and trainees are not considered part of us; only when you become a permanent staff does everyone want to associate with you," Supervisor Wu whispered into his ear, noticing his discomfort.

Guang finally understood what was going on.

It was the first unwritten rule of the workplace he came to know—reject ineffective social interactions.

The laughter and applause were short-lived, and everyone quickly returned to their silence, burying their heads in their own work.

…

Elsewhere, at Honey Jar Ice City's main store in Haidong District.

Lin Xinyue and Honey Jar Ice City's regional manager Qi Fenghua stood up and shook hands.

"Pleasure doing business! We'll discuss the details tomorrow, and feel free to inform me in advance through Feixin," Lin Xinyue said with a smile, urging Qi Fenghua to add her work Feixin contact.

Qi Fenghua also wore a satisfied expression; he had successfully secured Gu Yu's campus endorsement!

"Let's meet again tomorrow. I'm off to prepare the contracts and paperwork!" Qi Fenghua hurriedly took his leave.

"How did it go?"

Seeing Lin Xinyue approaching, Gu Yu quickly asked.