Post-2000 boss: You can be late up to seven days a week!

Chapter 202 The worries of the huge sea

Looking at the group of office workers in front of her who were still hanging out in the library late at night, the girl subconsciously glanced at the comic book in her hand.

He couldn't help but look a little embarrassed. Others were still working hard. Wouldn't it be bad if he was so lazy?

Just as the girl was hesitating, the phone in her pocket suddenly rang.

It was her colleague calling, and the girl answered the phone decisively.

"Hello? Xiaolin, I've arrived at the company door. Where are you?"

"I'm in the bookstore downstairs from the company. I'll be right over. Please wait for me!"

With that said, Xiaolin put the comic book back on the counter.

"I'll come back later to get the book. Please keep this set of comics for me!"

With that said, the girl rushed out.

Ten minutes later, the girl walked out of the company building with her colleagues with a stack of information in her arms.

"Bookstore? There is no bookstore near our company. Could it be that Xiao Lin was a ghost?"

"Besides, there are office buildings near us. To open a bookstore here, you have to go to grandma's house. And as you said, the bookstore is actually free? If you want to say that this bookstore is opened by a Bodhisattva, then I Still believe it.”

"I've obviously seen the bookstore. If you don't believe me, I'll take you to see it!"

Facing her colleague's attitude, the girl couldn't help but feel a little angry.

I obviously recommended it with good intentions, but my colleagues would rather believe that I was a ghost than believe that there is a bookstore nearby.

The girl was a little angry and led her colleagues towards the bookstore not far away.

"Here! It's this bookstore. I just borrowed a set of Crayon Shin-chan from there!"

The colleague looked in the direction of the girl's finger, and his expression suddenly became strange.

"Xiao Lin, are you sure this is a bookstore???"

“What else can it be if it’s not a bookstore?”

The girl subconsciously looked up and her eyes suddenly widened.

He rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The employees who were huddled together reading books before are now eating their meals in the bookstore?

It looks like a real canteen.

The girl walked into the bookstore with a weird look on her face. When Pang Panghai saw the girl coming, he also said hello and brought the books she wanted to borrow on the counter.

"This is your Crayon Shin-chan!"

The girl didn't care about this at all now. She pointed at the people not far away and asked Pang Panghai:

"Why are they eating in the bookstore? Your bookstore still sells food???"

Generally speaking, food is basically prohibited in bookstores.

After all, the aroma of food will disturb people reading, and if oil stains accidentally get on the books, it will inevitably affect sales.

There are very few bookstores that allow you to bring drinks in, so this group of people actually eat and drink like this?

Pang Panghai scratched his head in embarrassment when he heard the girl's doubts.

"I was still thinking that it was so late that you wouldn't come back to pick up the books. Everyone was hungry again, so I asked the chefs in the cafeteria to cook a few dishes..."

Originally, the bookstore had to prepare breakfast, so materials and kitchen utensils were also prepared.

In the same way, in order to take care of the company's employees, the bookstore has naturally installed a canteen system.

Each employee only needs to order their favorite dishes and then swipe their employee card.

Smelling the aroma of food that filled the bookstore, the girl's stomach growled unsatisfactorily.

The girl's face turned slightly red and she looked at Pang Panghai shyly.

"Um, can you give me some food?"

Da Dahai looked a little embarrassed. "Well, girl, our bookstore only provides breakfast and dinner, but if you want to eat, I can order one myself and treat you to it!"

With that said, Pang Panghai handed the tablet in front of him to the two of them.

“Just order whatever you want to eat!”

……

The next day.

Cao Che came to the bookstore early and looked at the two bookstore employees busy in front of him.

Cao Che couldn't help but feel confused.

"Where is Mr. Pang? Why didn't you see him today?"

Both of them shook their heads: "Mr. Pang seemed to be open late yesterday. He is probably still sleeping now, right?"

"Ok?"

When Cao Che heard this, his expression suddenly changed.

He immediately ran behind the counter and checked yesterday's sales.

"Thirty-one-five dollars..."

After seeing the familiar figures, Cao Che immediately felt relieved.

He warned the employees in front of him: "Let him calculate the number of overtime hours and add the overtime wages!"

At present, bookstores are losing money anyway. The more Pangdahai is open, the more it loses on water and electricity bills.

This made him feel relieved, as long as Pang Panghai focused on this bookstore that was bound to lose money.

Then he must be helping himself lose money, not to mention the so-called backstabbing.

Upon seeing this, Cao Che was satisfied and walked into the company building humming a tune.

And less than an hour after he left, Pang Panghai and Xu Xiaotang were sitting in the bookstore, with serious expressions on their faces.

Pang Panghai held a pen in his hand and kept writing something on the paper.

"The bookstore's monthly rent is around RMB 400,000. In addition to the RMB 300,000 spent on decoration and renovation, and the RMB 700,000 spent on purchasing books, the initial investment alone is already over RMB 1.5 million!"

"The nearby office area is full of commercial water and electricity. If it is open 24 hours a day, I am afraid that including labor costs, it will be at least 100,000 yuan a month!"

"If our bookstore is just like this for a month, I'm afraid it will cost half a million yuan. According to our turnover these days, let alone recouping the capital, even three months' turnover may not be enough. It’s a lot of expenses for a month!”

Listening to Pang Panghai's calculation, Xu Xiaotang couldn't help but be a little surprised.

Although she expected that the bookstore would definitely suffer losses in the early stage, she never expected that the losses would be so serious.

Even though the fourth floor of the bookstore is not in use, almost no one comes to visit the bookstore these days. The most frequent ones are the company's employees.

Moreover, many office workers nearby just order a drink and sit and wait for someone, which is not enough for reading.

They still prefer playing with mobile phones.

In just a few days, Pang Panghai was very worried.

Ten phone calls a day urged Shao Youqian to quickly produce Three Kingdoms and Cao Che's Quotations.

Pang Panghai looked at Xu Xiaotang in front of him in embarrassment, and said pitifully:

"Xiaotang, can you find any other printing factory to help me produce these? Without these things, the bookstore will lose more than 10,000 yuan if it does nothing for a day!"

Xu Xiaotang looked a little embarrassed and shook his head.

"I found an old factory and were negotiating a lease contract. These days, I also went to a printing factory near our city to learn and observe. However, the big industry is in a recession now, so it's basically the same as Shao Youqian's family. It's in a semi-stop state, and it doesn't look like it will restart. And even if we give them an order, there won't be enough time..."

(End of this chapter)