Chapter 65: The Meaning of Getting Paid on the 1st

Anyone who’s ever held a job should know just how incredible the terms Li Xiao had just offered were.

Nowadays, most companies wish they could pay one salary and have their employees do the work of three people.

For small things like running errands, bosses don’t even consider it extra work; they think it’s just part of the job.

Forget about getting extra pay for the trouble; even getting reimbursed for transportation costs was extremely difficult.

However, with Li Xiao, not only was the job easy, but there was a clear line drawn between work and personal time. Everything was clearly defined.

More importantly, the salary was paid on the 1st of the month!!!!

There was an unwritten rule among the working class.

The earlier a company paid its employees, the better the company was.

The earlier the payday, the greater the pressure on the company’s cash flow and payroll processing.

Companies that could pay early were considered more humane, and their employees had a higher sense of well-being. At such companies, employee turnover was low and stability was high.

Generally, companies that paid between the 5th and 10th were considered top-tier.

Companies paying on the 15th were more common and considered mid-tier.

Companies paying between the 15th and 20th were already quite rare and considered low-tier.

As for companies that paid on the 30th, they were as rare as a unicorn’s horn—the lowest of the low-tier.

The PR firm Zhou Shishi previously worked for was considered one of the better ones in the industry, but even they didn’t pay until the 15th of each month.

She never imagined she could find a job that paid on the 1st.

She quickly snapped out of her excitement and hurriedly replied:

[No problem, of course, no problem.]

[By the way, Boss, what do you need me to do tomorrow?]

Li Xiao:

[It’s nothing major. During the stream just now, didn’t I promise the audience 200,000 in cash vouchers and 90 Pine Needle Crabs?]

[Tomorrow, I’m going to the law firm to sign some papers, and I’ll drop off the cash vouchers there.]

[You can use the list of winners to mail out all the cash vouchers for me.]

[Also, I’ll send you the redemption codes for the Pine Needle Crabs and the store’s address in a bit.]

[While you’re at it, please help me send out those 90 Pine Needle Crabs too.]

[I just asked the store manager. They can provide foam boxes and ice packs for shipping free of charge. You just need to follow up on the related shipping information.]

[I’ll transfer you the money for the shipping fees in a moment. Make sure you don’t mix up any of the winners’ information.]

[Whatever is left over from the shipping fees, just consider it your payment for the trouble of running the errand.]

[Oh, right. I bought 100 Pine Needle Crabs in total. Of the 10 leftover crabs, send 9 to my apartment. The last one is a company perk, so take it home and enjoy it yourself.]

With that, Li Xiao opened his banking app and sent her a transfer of 10,000 yuan.

Staring at the 10,000 yuan transfer that appeared on her phone screen, Zhou Shishi’s eyes widened. She was completely stunned.

’Wait, in this day and age, there’s actually a boss who pays you *before* you do the work???’

At her previous company, she often ran errands for her senior and junior managers.

Buying coffee, picking up packages, going to the bakery for desserts and drinks, and even picking up her boss’s kid from school.

But for all those tedious tasks, her bosses always made their subordinates pay out of pocket first. Only after the job was done and the items were bought could she get reimbursed with a receipt.

GULP. She swallowed hard.

She quickly did some math on her fingers.

The cash vouchers would be 200 packages. Since they were paper, even with Shunfeng Express, the cost would be around 12 yuan each.

Plus, there would probably be a discount for a bulk order, so the total shipping cost for all the vouchers would likely be around 2,000 yuan.

The Pine Needle Crabs would be more expensive since they were bulky and needed to be sent by air freight.

But since the winners were all either in the same province or neighboring ones, the price wouldn’t be too high. She estimated the shipping fee for each would be about 30 to 40 yuan.

Even calculating at 40 yuan per package for 90 packages, that’s 3,600 yuan.

The total shipping cost for both items would come out to a little over 5,000 yuan, less than 6,000.

This meant that just by running an errand tomorrow, she could earn 4,000 yuan.

If it were just 400 yuan for her trouble, Zhou Shishi would have accepted without a second thought. But this wasn’t 400, it was 4,000.

After hesitating for a good while, she typed with some difficulty:

[Boss, isn’t this a little too much?]

[I just did the math. The total shipping costs will only be around 5,500 to 6,000 yuan.]

[You transferred me 10,000 directly, which seems like a lot.]

[How about you cancel this transfer and send a new one for 6,000?]

Li Xiao had been about to start his next game, but when he saw Zhou Shishi’s reply, he was a little surprised.

’Who doesn’t like money these days?’

Li Xiao typed his reply while selecting his hero’s runes.

[It’s fine, my game is about to start.]

[There’s not much difference between 6,000 and 10,000 yuan to me. It’s a pain to cancel and resend it, so just keep it.]

Seeing Li Xiao’s reply, Zhou Shishi couldn’t help but sigh internally. ’The way rich people think is truly impossible to fathom.’

But she quickly realized that while 4,000 yuan was nearly half a month’s salary for her, to him, it was probably just half the cost of a single meal.

Thinking of this, her unease subsided a little.

At the same time, she secretly resolved to do an excellent job on the tasks her boss gave her.

After all, given how things were going today, if she worked for such a generous boss, the extra money she earned just from running errands in a month might be higher than her 10,000-yuan salary.

After his game, Li Xiao quickly found a law firm online.

He asked them to draft an employment contract that would provide security for both parties.

Once that was sorted out, Li Xiao uploaded the video that Zhou Shishi had edited.

Watching the video upload, he was very satisfied with the decision he had made today.

10,000 yuan to easily offload a huge amount of his work was an incredible value.

From now on, he only had to worry about live streaming. Everything else could be handed over to his new little assistant. It was a huge weight off his shoulders.

「The next day.」

Li Xiao used his lunch break to drive to the law firm and sign all the necessary documents.

Afterward, he went to the market to buy some ingredients for that evening, since he had to stream a tutorial on how to prepare Pine Needle Crab.

After tossing all the ingredients into the fridge at his apartment, Li Xiao rushed back to school. He had two major classes in the afternoon and didn’t want to get a failing grade for skipping them.

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