Future Stamps and Coins Diary

Chapter 18: Mr. Dou leaves

The first floor of Zongyuan Market.

Another busy day has begun.

From September every year to before the Spring Festival is the traditional peak season for gifts. With the collecting craze in recent years, coin collecting has gradually become a trend, especially among middle-aged and elderly people, where there is a subtle trend of comparison.

At the 1023 stall, Jiang Rui's mood has not been so good recently. Although the recent market of the fourth edition of coins has made him a small profit, the sharp drop in shipments has made him a little worried.

There must be something wrong.

There was a constant stream of customers on the first floor of the market, but he had no intention of dealing with these small-time retail investors. He only made a few hundred dollars from a set of seats, which was not enough to cover the rent.

Huang Doudou's figure slowly appeared in front of the stall. Jiang Rui looked at the ripped jeans he had worn for several years and felt even more annoyed.

Glancing at the phone on the counter, he raised his eyebrows, not hiding his emotions at all.

"Do you know what time it is?"

"Mr. Jiang, there's a traffic jam in the subway today..." Huang Doudou had no intention of communicating with him and just said it perfunctorily.

Jiang Rui looked at him like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water and took a deep breath: "If you look like this, you will starve to death sooner or later if you leave my house."

Huang Doudou lowered his head and went back behind the counter. He took out all the cups, lunch boxes and other things he had used when he was working and placed them outside the corner of the stall.

At this time, there were already several groups of people looking at the goods at the stall, but Huang Doudou naturally paid no attention to them.

Jiang Rui watched the other two employees dealing with several groups of people at the same time, and immediately became angry: "Are you giving me a cold shoulder?"

"Ah, no, no." Huang Doudou realized that something was wrong with her and apologized quickly: "I didn't sleep last night, so I don't feel very energetic today."

"Then what are you doing?" Jiang Rui asked coldly.

Huang Doudou took the cardboard box, put the things in it, and responded: "Pack up. Didn't Mr. Jiang say..."

Jiang Rui was so angry that his face turned pale, and he cursed: "You are a fool who can't think flexibly."

The end of the year is the time when people are needed. How could he lay off employees who have been with him for several years at this time?

Jiang Rui's purpose in suppressing them was not to force them to leave, but because the store's business was bad, he wanted to take the opportunity to lower their wages.

He believed that with Huang Doudou's temperament and appearance, no one else would be willing to accept him. What he was waiting for was Huang Doudou to come and beg for mercy.

Unexpectedly, Huang Doudou took it seriously!

"Put your things down and get to work first. If you have anything else, we can talk about it after get off work today." Jiang Rui ordered.

The two colleagues next to him looked at Huang Doudou with a look of grief. Last night, they had received an official notice that their base salary would be reduced by 500.

For those at the bottom of society, five hundred is their monthly rent.

Of course they knew that the business was a little slow, but they were just earning some money from hard labor and running errands. When the store made hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue every month, they didn't even give out any extra bonuses.

"No, Mr. Jiang. I've thought it through. There's no point in me staying any longer. It's been three and a half years. I've been following you since I graduated from junior high school. It's okay that my salary hasn't kept up with the normal market level, but I've never seen the annual bonus that you mentioned when you first asked me to come here. Since you've said so much, I know what I should do!" Huang Doudou didn't have much stuff, so he packed it up in a short while.

"I told you to put your stuff down, did you hear me?"

Jiang Rui found that the other two employees also stopped their work. The few individual customers who were originally looking at the goods moved away consciously after seeing this situation.

"Hey, Dou, why are you so hesitant? Are you not ready yet?" Lu Feng walked in from the market entrance and went straight to Huang Doudou.

"Why are you urging me? I don't even want to help." Huang Doudou complained.

Seeing Lu Feng appear, Jiang Rui's face instantly became even uglier. "What are you doing here again?"

"Good morning, Mr. Jiang. I'm here to help Doudou move things. I heard that you fired Doudou, and I happen to be short of someone above me, so I'll let him go up and help out." Lu Feng greeted with a smile.

"Lu Feng! Who told you that I fired him?" Jiang Rui said angrily.

"Ah? Dou..." Lu Feng looked at Huang Doudou.

Huang Doudou said directly: "Mr. Jiang, several colleagues can testify to what you said yesterday afternoon, so I went to find Brother Feng myself after get off work yesterday."

"Put your things down!" Jiang Rui's voice became increasingly cold.

If Huang Doudou really left like this, he would lose all face. Not only would his wish come to nothing, but he would also lose an obedient employee.

Although Huang Doudou had many small problems, he was great at doing heavy work. He took on almost all the lifting work in the store, which saved him a small amount of expenses.

If he left, there would be only two girls left in the store, and they would have to hire people to move the boxes of gift books weighing dozens of kilograms. It would cost one or two hundred yuan to unload the goods.

Facing Jiang Rui's order, Huang Doudou threw the last cup of water into the box and said with a smile: "Boss, please take care of me in the future."

Just as he was about to leave, Jiang Rui grabbed his arm. "Tell me, what kind of magic potion did he give you? You've been following me for so long, and you've only known him for a short time, and you just leave like that."

"Do you really want me to tell you?" Huang Doudou smiled bitterly.

"Tell me!" Jiang Rui couldn't figure it out. "What can he give you for a store that could go bankrupt at any time?"

"He can give me a basic salary of 5,000 yuan a month!" Huang Doudou said calmly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the pupils of the two female colleagues next to him shrank instantly, and they looked at Lu Feng in disbelief.

Five thousand?

For those at the bottom, their prices are generally between 2000 and 2600, and even with commissions, it is difficult to exceed .

After deducting the 500 yuan that was reduced this time, their salaries are now only a little over 2,000 yuan. The two had already begun to think about leaving, but they thought it was not suitable to find a job at the end of the year, and the Chinese New Year would come in a few months, so they endured it.

Now when they heard Huang Doudou talk about the basic salary of 5,000, their mentality collapsed.

Why?
"Five thousand?" Jiang Rui looked surprised, but immediately asked back: "Just for a mere five thousand yuan? As a newcomer, what kind of platform can he provide for you? What kind of money can he make for you?"

"That's right! Just for 5,000 yuan!" Huang Doudou had adjusted his mentality and hid his grievances in his heart. At this moment, he was provoked again and roared directly: "A mere 5,000? You also know that it is a mere 5,000. Did you give it? What a bullshit platform? That is the platform of you big bosses. What does it have to do with us? In the past three years, you have made a net profit of over a million yuan a year, and what about me? From 2,600 to 2,100, this is what you call a platform, your mother is flat..."

When Huang Doudou was so angry, he just swung his hands and all the things fell to the ground.

"Jiang Rui, stop making promises to me. I'm so sick of it! You stupid bastard..."

"Let's go!" Huang Doudou pulled Lu Feng straight up to the second floor without even looking back.

(End of this chapter)