Yi Anguo just quietly listened, as the ordinary frontline employees around him vented their dissatisfaction, the various unreasonable shortcomings of the department, and the brutal management style.

More importantly, they were unhappy about their welfare and benefits being deducted and embezzled by department management.

"Huaxing Company is a good company, and the boss is also a good boss. The salary and benefits they provide us are not low, a bit higher than comparable factories."

"The benefits in all aspects are not bad either, and the overtime pay is quite high. It's just that the management is a bit chaotic. In our department, who knows how much of our benefits are eaten up by those in management? Anyway, the bonuses for excess production, the bonus for halving scrap, we ordinary employees don't get a penny of it; it all gets divided among the higher-ups."

"Your department is indeed a bit too chaotic, with all these bonuses. They are all divided among those supervisors, managers, and operations, while you guys only earn a basic salary."

"Yeah, who doesn't agree with that? If it weren't for the relatively high salary, I would have left a long time ago."

"The salary in your department is indeed not low. Your department's leaders probably see this and know that even if they deduct your prize draw bonuses and scrap-reduction bonuses, you are reluctant to leave."

"Leaving Huaxing Factory, finding another factory with such a high monthly salary would not be easy."

"That's exactly why it's infuriating! You don't want to leave, but staying feels suffocating. These department leaders blatantly embezzle the bonuses that rightfully belong to us."

"But no one seems to be in charge of this matter. There's no way to file a complaint, and you don't know who to complain to or whether complaining will be effective."

"File a complaint with the big boss, or report to the group's headquarters. As long as the group sends someone down to investigate, it will surely be effective."

"Didn't the group send people to the company to audit the accounts at the beginning of the year?"

"What's the point of auditing? The account books surely show that all these bonuses have been distributed! It's just that they're embezzled by those corrupt department officials. How do you audit that?"

"As long as the group's accounts match, there's no problem. Does the group really come to the workshops to ask us ordinary employees whether we received our bonuses?"

"Like in your workshop, these bonuses are distributed in cash, which makes it even harder to track. Salaries are deposited into bank accounts. These bonuses are not recorded in the payroll."

"It is indeed a bit troublesome. If these bonuses were distributed as salaries, directly deposited into bank accounts, it would be easier to track. Just check the bank records."

"The company originally had good intentions. If these bonuses were included in salaries, directly deposited into bank accounts, more taxes would have to be paid."

"Who doesn't agree with that? So the company is a good company, and the boss is a good boss. It's just that the department managers are too greedy; their greed is too much."

"Yes, when there was a rush to fill orders, the workshop manager would always talk about the excess production bonus in meetings, using it as a lure for us to increase production. Initially, the target was sixty packages a day for our line. We worked faster and faster, and they kept raising our production targets until we were doing over 100 packages upfront."

"Resulting in several months of hard work without getting a penny of the excess production bonus, treating us, the 2,000 people in the department, like fools."

"Every day, even going to the bathroom requires a leave-of-post certificate. Without it, those security guards wouldn't let you go, no matter how you begged."

"Last time, there was a female student, here for a summer job arranged by her school, who wet her pants because the security wouldn't let her leave the workshop without a certificate, and she broke down and cried."

"Then there was a team leader who got a student working a summer job pregnant, and after a feigned handling, he was reinstated as a team leader not long after."

"Some people have connections. They just arrived, and at 18 years old, they've already been promoted to team leader."

"Frankly, our entire department's management is chaotic. As long as you have connections, you can immediately get promoted. If you don't have connections, your efforts are all in vain."

"That's pretty much the same in every department. Without connections, and you still want to be a manager?"

"The factory is always recruiting team leaders from outside, but without connections, none of them can last. If they can't stand it, they have to leave in a short time."

"Just having skills and knowing how to work is useless. You have to know how to network."

"No problem, just invite the people upstairs for some drinks, meals, karaoke, and soon enough, you'll get promoted."

"Indeed! We have a leader in our department who's only 18, but he's a second-generation wealthy kid. He drives to work. Once, our manager asked him to drive to Yangcheng to pick someone up. When offered to pay for the ride or the fuel, he wouldn't accept."

"How could the leaders not like someone like that? No wonder he became a team leader at just 18."

Yi Anguo listened to these people's discussions around him, feeling that the complexities of society are truly everywhere! Such a massive Anguo Group, and yet the companies beneath it seem like they're beyond the reach of higher-ups. Not to mention the various departments below these companies.

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