Stronger by Paying Salaries and I Have 1 Billion Employees

”Xiaojiang, hurry up and tell us!” another young man, who had been feigning sleep on his electric vehicle, nimbly hopped off, offering him a cigarette as he pressed for details.

Jiang Hao didn’t stand on ceremony. He took the cigarette, tucked it behind his ear, and slowly began to speak. ”Base salary is 1,600 yuan, with full social security and housing fund contributions. There’s a quarterly bonus every three months, calculated based on delivery volume and service rating. It’s a minimum of 1,600 bucks and a max of 4,800. On top of that, there’s accident insurance, third-party liability insurance, and commercial health insurance.”

”Are there no volume bonuses or event rewards?” the young man asked.

”Of course there are. All that stuff you mentioned is standard at Kuai Pao. After three months, you even get stock options, which are like shares. They’re worth about twenty to thirty thousand, vested over four years.”

Jiang Hao said with a disdainful curl of his lip.

”Kuai Pao’s benefits are definitely awesome, but when it comes to the price per delivery, Meituan is the king,” another Meituan driver interjected out of the blue.

”Bullshit! Take orders within three kilometers, for example. Kuai Pao pays 4.5 yuan, Meituan pays 6. It looks like a one-fifty difference, but you have to factor in the base salary, quarterly bonus, and volume bonuses. If you want to make money, you have to go to Kuai Pao! If you’re bad at math, you should talk less!”

Jiang Hao immediately shot back.

”Pfft! You think your math is good? You only scored 160 on all six subjects in the college entrance exam. I could do better than you with my eyes closed,” the Meituan driver teased mockingly.

”That’s just because I didn’t feel like studying!” Jiang Hao retorted stubbornly, his neck stiff and his face flushed red.

”Oh, is that so?”

”Hahaha, Xiaojiang, why don’t you go back and repeat a year? Show us all you can get into Qingbei.”

The other drivers laughed and teased him.

Once Meituan’s new regulations came out, even more drivers wanted to jump ship to Kuai Pao. But no matter how many people quit, they were outnumbered by the new hires.

It was just as Wang Xin said: if you won’t do the job, there are plenty of people who will!

「Elsewhere.」

At a Kuai Pao station right next to Kirin Xintiandi, the place was packed to the gills. Inside and out, it was crowded with delivery drivers still in their Meituan uniforms.

Some, having received brand-new Kuai Pao uniforms, helmets, and electric vehicle keys, were walking out with broad smiles. The rest remained in a long queue.

The station chief, Zhu Chao, gazed at the massive crowd and couldn’t help but remark, ”It’s a good thing the company paces its recruitment to match order growth to protect the income and interests of our full-time drivers. Otherwise, if we just hired without limits, I wouldn’t get any work done. I’d be too busy with interviews all day.”

Just then, a Kuai Pao delivery driver made his way through the crowd, sidled up to Zhu Chao, and whispered a few words in his ear.

”What the fuck! Are you serious?” Zhu Chao’s expression changed instantly, his eyes turning red as he cursed.

”A Meituan driver told me himself. He even showed me the residential complex’s building layout map,” the Kuai Pao driver replied.

With that, he pulled out his phone, opened his photo album, and displayed a picture of the building layout map for Poly Central Park.

This was data their station had spent over twenty days painstakingly compiling, bit by bit, in cooperation with staff from Gaode Map, before uploading it to their internal navigation software.

This was the main reason why Kuai Pao was able to reduce its delivery times to under 29 minutes.

The riders’ positioning was accurate, their route planning was precise, and they could even navigate directly to the customer’s building.

For the average rookie delivery driver, just finding the right building number after entering a residential complex was a challenge.

But with the help of the navigation software, Kuai Pao’s drivers, regardless of their experience, could become seasoned pros right from the start.

But now, this precious data had somehow ended up in the hands of a Meituan driver.

’Who the fuck did this?’

’Trying to cut off our livelihood?’

Zhu Chao’s eyes narrowed as he immediately realized the gravity of the situation. He told the driver, ”Don’t spread this around for now. You try to find out on the quiet who the bastard was that did this.”