A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 488 Holidays and Layoffs

The 2018 Spring Festival was particularly late, more than half a month later than the previous year. The annual Spring Festival holiday officially began on February 2.

Many people in Chen Jinnian's team have been working non-stop since the summer vacation, from Beijing to Qingdao, and then to Shenzhen. They have not been home for a long time and are all waiting for the end-of-year vacation.

After waiting for a long time, Teacher Zeng Xiaomin finally got the most satisfactory performance results.

When Chen Jinnian received the news, he was so excited that tears welled up in his eyes. It was not easy, it was really not easy. The Chinese New Year was only a week away, and it was finally a successful conclusion.

"Teacher Zeng, thank you very much. Thank you so much. On behalf of the entire crew, thank you."

He held Zeng Xiaomin's hand tightly and kept thanking her, which made Zeng Xiaomin feel a little embarrassed.

"I just did what I should do and tried my best to act in the movie well. If we want to express our gratitude, we would like to thank you. We still need your strong support for the subsequent film production."

"Don't worry, once I finish producing the first version of the special effects shots for the movie, I will ask the teachers to review it first. I will also ask the teachers to dub both the Cantonese and Mandarin versions."

When Chen Jinnian was filming this drama, he did use live sound recording, but drama is different from ordinary movies and TV series. It has higher requirements for sound, and even the breathing is very particular.

So he will come back to dub it again later to make it as perfect as possible. After all, Zhuying has spent more than 100 million yuan, and he cannot give the other party a defective product.

"Dubbing is easy. It gives us some time to figure out how to pronounce Mandarin." Zeng Xiaomin agreed to Chen Jinnian's request.

In fact, even if Chen Jinnian didn't mention it, she would also suggest re-dubbing the lines.

"Okay, I will notify all the teachers in advance when it comes to dubbing." After Chen Jinnian finished speaking, he looked at the other actors who were anxious to go to the dressing room outside the studio and continued.

"I just heard from the staff at the agency that they have a lot of performance plans recently. Why don't we hold the wrap party for now and hold it together with the celebration party after the movie is released?"

"No problem, we'll celebrate properly after the release."

Zeng Xiaomin is the first winner of the Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Opera after the reform of the national literary and art awards and the reduction of the number of places. She has a large number of evening parties and performances at the end of the year, and it is indeed difficult for her to find time to attend the wrap-up party.

After Chen Jinnian said goodbye to several opera teachers one by one, he immediately began to arrange the team's vacation.

The annual party and New Year’s goods cannot be arranged, and no one can take them away after they are distributed. They can only be converted into bonuses and New Year’s fees and distributed together.

There is also the issue of tickets.

It is a bit late to book tickets now. Some people's tickets to go home are sold out. If they want to go home, they can either squeeze into a long-distance bus or try to grab a plane ticket to a nearby city, and then make their way home bit by bit.

After all, the fact that no one got the tickets was somewhat related to Chen Jinnian.

Because he didn't know the exact completion time, everyone could only wait together.

So Chen Jinnian asked the company to contact a bus company and use chartered buses to send back some employees who failed to get tickets.

The efficiency is a bit low and it takes a long time, but we can ensure that they can all be sent back within a week.

After settling the Guangdong crew, Chen Jinnian hurriedly flew to the head office and took the time to distribute New Year benefits to the employees in Beijing.

The holiday schedules of Chen Jinnian's two companies are different. He has to provide enough benefits to prevent various voices of dissatisfaction from arising from below and affecting work efficiency.

His Huanshu Qianzhang special effects production company had a heavy workload to deliver, so Guo Xun came over every few days to follow up on the progress of the later stage, almost racing against time to finish the work.

Of course, we can’t give employees a half-month vacation like the head office does.

If Chen Jinnian really dared to take a vacation like this, being unfamiliar with the skills when he came back would be a small problem. The big problem would be Guo Xing rushing over to fight him.

Now it is less than a year away from the 19 National Day holiday.

For ordinary movies, a year of post-production time is a luxury, but for hard science fiction special effects blockbusters, a year of post-production time is a bit stretched.

So the holiday will definitely not last for a few days.

It is only one day longer than the national statutory holiday.

Chen Jinnian arranged holiday benefits for employees in the company, while Wang Yidi, who had returned a few days earlier, was discussing layoffs with Qiao Yingzi in a coffee shop.

The pet center has too many people.

Normally, a pet center of a certain size would be considered fully staffed with four to five people, but in a store with two people, including the store manager, there are a total of eleven people.

And although these eleven people seem like a lot, after actually dividing up the work, they are not a lot at all.

There is a store manager who is responsible for management, purchasing and receiving customers.

The pet center has long business hours, so it operates in two shifts, with five people on each shift.

It seems that there are a lot of people in each shift, but if you take into account the time for rest, there are only three to four people in each shift at most, which is just the basic manpower to meet the operation of the pet center.

So Wang Yidi and Qiao Yingzi felt that something was wrong, but also that it was reasonable, and they didn't know which employee to lay off.

Seeing that the two of them really couldn't come to a conclusion, Qiao Weidong, who was acting as the chief military advisor, finally spoke.

"You two have never worked for others before, so naturally you don't understand the difficulty of making money. This includes Fang Yuan. Do you know why he has been working in the workplace for 20 years and is still just a grassroots leader? It's because he is too lucky and has never suffered any hardship."

"In high school, he didn't study hard and struggled with the art exam. He finally failed the exam, which made him feel frustrated. But in the end, he only studied for three months and was admitted to China University of Political Science and Law."

Qiao Weidong couldn't help but shake his head. Fang Yuan's life was indeed too good. He was so lucky that he surpassed most people without much effort.

"Okay, let's not talk about him anymore. Your pet center only does cleaning and clipping. It's pure manual labor with no real value. The unit price is limited. If you want to make a profit, you have to be like the milk tea shops on the streets and work hard to squeeze out your employees. Take away the weekend off, increase the working hours from 7.5 hours to 10 hours, lay off half the staff, and then aim for profitability next month."

In Qiao Weidong's opinion, even so, he still can't make much money. After deducting the rental cost, the profit is only about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.

The best solution is to continue to remove Fang Yuan's position, and then Wang Yidi and Qiao Yingzi will replace the two employees and do the work themselves. They can make a profit of about 40,000 to 50,000 yuan per month, which is a very good project.

Of course, Qiao Weidong was just thinking about it. He would rather do it himself than let his daughter suffer.

"Ah, is this the only way?" Qiao Yingzi said painfully. It turned out that they still had to use the method of reducing costs and increasing efficiency.

"It's all laid out before you."

Apart from the virtual economy where you can make money by playing with money, making money is a very tiring thing, otherwise Qiao Weidong would not have completely left the real economy and become an investor.

"Of course, there is another way, but it is not so easy to achieve."