NOVEL NEXT Chapter 410: Lian Po is Old, Can He Still Eat His Fill?
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"Hong Qingyang has been the product manager of the cultural and creative products department headquarters for two years, and his performance has been very outstanding. After careful consideration, I have decided to promote him to director of cultural and creative products. Does anyone have any objections?"
Chen Qiao opened the file he had prepared in advance, which contained the personnel changes he had thought over and rearranged.
The named Hong Qingyang's face lit up with joy. At 29 years old and having worked at the company for two years, he had thought that reaching product manager was the peak of his career.
He had never expected to be suddenly called to a meeting by Assistant Dong today. He originally thought that he must have made some mistake, but it turned out to be a promotion?
His hands clenched into fists, trembling with excitement as he anxiously surveyed the room.
The eyes of everyone present were on Dong Huaimin, because the position of vice-chairman at the company had always been vacant, and Dong Huaimin was effectively the company's second-in-command.
Moreover, Dong Huaimin was one of the original shareholders of the company and held real decision-making power.
"I have no objections." Dong Huaimin had been calmly drinking tea, but when he saw everyone looking towards him, he glanced at Hong Qingyang and uttered indifferently.
Once he had spoken, the others also nodded in agreement.
In high-level meetings like this, besides Chen Qiao, it was basically Dong Huaimin who made the decisions.
No one dared to express their opinion first.
It was a joke; even if you disagreed, the general manager had already agreed. What use would your objections be?
Perhaps expressing dissent could even lead to you being the next one to be reassigned in a personnel change!
Though it appeared to be a collective executive meeting, in reality, there were very few people who could voice their opinions at this meeting.
Only heads of major departments or directors of such rank had the privilege to raise questions.
Chen Qiao then announced several promotions one after the other. Dong Huaimin reviewed them, and they were all young faces he wasn't familiar with.
There was also a personnel file on his desk, recording the service records of these individuals. While they had all done quite a bit of work, he viewed it as mostly run-of-the-mill tasks.
Not exceptional, but also not erroneous.
Most of these individuals were those Chen Qiao had personally interviewed or whose hiring Chen Qiao's assistant had overseen.
Dong Huaimin knew that this so-called personnel meeting wasn't actually about soliciting his opinion.
It was actually just to inform him, not to let him make the decisions.
Dong Huaimin was well aware of this fact, as was Fu Jiangxin, along with all the old-school figures present.
"Is Manager Zheng Shou present?"
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After approving four newcomers for promotion, Chen Qiao suddenly called out a name.
"Chairman! I'm here!" A rotund figure hastily stood up, looking nervously at Chen Qiao, who was seated in the main seat.
Zheng Shou felt his ample flesh quiver; this was his first time attending such a meeting full of high-level executives.
Everyone here was a leader above his own.
This was the headquarters of the group, not a subsidiary like Shengda Game, where the gap between managers was significant.
He was called a manager, and Dong Huaimin sitting above was also a manager.
But there was no comparison between them.
"Hmm, Manager Zheng, no need to stand, let's talk while sitting." Seeing Zheng Shou, Chen Qiao's smile was noticeably more generous than for those previously promoted.
"Oh, okay." Zheng Shou quickly sat down, nervously observing Chen Qiao's beaming face.
Although it seemed like good news judging by Chen Qiao's demeanor, Zheng Shou was still anxious.
After all, a single word from Chen Qiao could send him packing.
"Zheng Shou, Manager Zheng, I've read your work report for this year, as well as the departmental financial report sent from the game subsidiary. Your mobile game operations department has performed exceptionally well!"
Chen Qiao looked at the nervous Zheng Shou and then lowered his gaze to the work report submitted by the game subsidiary, a satisfied smile crossing his face.
It could be said that this year's entire performance of Shengda Game's subsidiary was driven by Zheng Shou's department, with revenues increased by more than tenfold, setting a new high for the first time in five years.
Moreover, he had revived the Shengda Mobile Game Platform, which was about to be scrapped, reaching over one million daily active users.
Such an achievement was outstanding, even within the whole group.
"It's my duty. You flatter me, Chairman." Inside, Zheng Shou was overjoyed, yet he maintained a humble tone outwardly.
However, Chen Qiao shook his head with a laugh: "If every person in the company who made significant contributions thought like you, Shengda would probably already be among the top 100 in the world."
"So, is there anything you'd like to ask of the company? A promotion, a bonus, or any other requests are all possible. These are the rewards you deserve for your outstanding contribution as a manager."
He didn't directly offer Zheng Shou a reward. Instead, he gave him the choice.
This made the newly promoted executives envious, as it represented Chen Qiao's validation, not just a simple work commendation.
At the mention of promotion, Zheng Shou's eyelids twitched. It was something he never dared to dream of before. He was now a department manager at a subsidiary; a step up would make him head of three departments as a director!
To become the director of three departments, the next steps would be deputy general manager and then general manager of the subsidiary.
The attendees were, in essence, equivalent to deputy general managers and above in the hierarchy, all core members of the group.
Could it be that he, Zheng Shou, had a chance of joining the core executive circle of Shengda in his lifetime? His heart was pounding with excitement.
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