Volume 2 Chapter 89 - Adjusting the salary (1/2)

Every action of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce was closely paid attention to by many people in Banta City and the surrounding cities, so once the news came out that Kennard would become the general manager of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, it created a large uproar.

What people cared about first was Kennard’s identity.

It’s said that Kennard was a blood related junior from the Emma Family. According to tradition, even if he wanted to go into business, he should enter the Walmart Chamber of Commerce. So why was he working at the Frestech Chamber of Commerce?

Next they cared about the meaning of the words “general manager”.

General manager? There wasn’t a single company on the Sines Continent with this position, so what did it do?”

“The work of a general manager…..it’s actually quite similar to a chairman. They are mainly in charge of managing the matters of our Frestech Chamber of Commerce, like internal working arrangements, negotiations with other companies, and other duties. Of course, this doesn’t mean that you have authority in the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, but rather you are helping me manage the company.”

For this matter, the Frestech Chamber of Commerce even held a press conference.

At the press conference, Xu Yi gave the same explanation.

The reporters of the major newspapers there carefully thought it over and felt that although the name of general manager was very strange, the work it did was like the vice chairman of many other companies. It was just helping the chairman manage the company, so it didn’t feel that strange and they started paying attention to another issue.

Although Kennard Emma came from the Emma Family and was known for being trained at the Walmart Chamber of Commerce since he was young, he was still only twenty seven. Moreover, the industries the Frestech Chamber of Commerce and the Walmart Chamber of Commerce were in were completely different, so it could be said that Kennard Emma didn’t know much about magic machines. Then if he were to become the Frestech Chamber of Commerce’s general manager, could he really do a good job?

“Don’t worry about the questions of those reporters. Since I picked you, I definitely believe that you have these abilities.” After the press conference, Xu Yi patted Kennard’s shoulder as he comforted him.

Kennard revealed a faint smile and his face was relaxed like he didn’t care about the reporters at all, looking like he was filled with confidence.

“Please be assured, chairman, I believe in me more than you.”

“That’s good. If you didn’t even have this bit of self confidence, it really wouldn’t be right for me to give you a starting wage of fifty gold coins a month.” Xu Yi said with a nod.

“Speaking of wages…..” Kennard said in a thoughtful voice, “Chairman, I’ve been carefully investigating and I’ve talked about it with manager Sebas, and I feel that our company’s wage structure isn’t right.”

“Oh?” Xu Yi looked at Kennard who had quickly jumped into his work with surprise and asked him in an interested voice, “What’s wrong?”

“Look, this is the report that I made yesterday.” Kennard took out a piece of paper.

Opening it up, there was a simple graph written on it. It was displaying all the different wages for different workers of the Frestech Chamber of Commerce, clearly demonstrating everything.

Xu Yi looked at it and he couldn’t help giving a nod of praise.

“Not bad, Kennard, you really are a professional. Was this report finished by you alone? Although Sebas has the capability, he wouldn’t do something like this.”

Kennard revealed a modest smile, “It isn’t anything, manager Sebas just wouldn’t spend time on this.”

“Un, good. Then which part do you think isn’t right?” Xu Yi pointed at the report and asked.

“Chairman, look. Based on this graph, the lowest wage of our company’s workers last month was 11.6 gold coins and the highest was 17.3, which comes to an average of 13.72 gold coins. Adding in the extra benefits that we give, the average income of each worker is over fifteen gold coins.”

“Un, Sebas has already reported this to me. Is there some problem?” Xu Yi asked.

“After a small investigation over the past few days, I found that alone, our company’s workers have the highest monthly salary in Banta City. Other than our company, the monthly salaries for normal workers of other companies is around ten gold coins. Only the Amrit Chamber of Commerce’s workers who are responsible for building the roads have higher salaries than our workers. But compared to this, the Amrit Chamber of Commerce workers work over twelve hours a day and our workers only need to work eight hours a day. Even if they work overtime, they still receive overtime pay.”

“So? What is the problem?” Xu Yi asked back with a smile, “If you think that our company is paying our workers too much, then you can stop right there. Giving the workers this pay is something that I’ve carefully considered and it would take too much effort to explain this reason to you, so I won’t do it for now.”

Kennard shook his head, “No, chairman, I don’t think that the worker wages are too high, rather the current wage structure isn’t right. Compared to this, I feel that the worker wages are actually too low.”

Hearing Kennard’s words that were different from chairman Cruise’s, saying that his wages were just too high, Xu Yi became a bit interested.