[Tomato System + Supermarket Management + Ideal Society + Farming and Business + Workers Awaken]
What makes a company a good place to work?
According to Yu Dong, chairman and co-founder of Fatty Lai Group,
“Full seven-insurance and three-fund benefits, every store closes on Tuesdays, 30 days of paid vacation a year, no need to come in if you’re unhappy, and a Mercedes-Benz for every manager and above. A company like that is just about decent…”
Three years after graduating from college, Yu Dong still couldn’t afford a down payment on a home. His girlfriend of seven years started seeing her married boss, who had a child, and got Yu Dong fired.
Down on his luck in both love and career, Yu Dong unexpectedly awakens the Tomato System. As long as he keeps losing money while starting businesses, he can earn rebates. And so Yu Dong launches into a “self-sabotaging” entrepreneurial career.
No five-insurance and one-fund benefits? No way. I’m starting with the full seven-insurance and three-fund package!
An employee’s upset after arguing with their girlfriend? Give them time off to cheer them up.
A supplier’s selling fakes? I’ll stock up on ten million yuan’s worth for my collection…
Business is bad? Then the benefits aren’t good enough. Improve them!
Thanks to Yu Dong’s self-sabotage, Fatty Lai Group’s profits keep reaching new highs. Yu Dong has no choice but to close some stores for “rectification,” and the company becomes a popular photo spot. The local government couldn’t be happier…
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Years later, when the famous investor Buffett asks Yu Dong, now the richest man in the country, what the secret to his success is, Yu Dong replies,
“I thought I could make money by constantly losing it… But these crafty employees are just too good at pulling things off. I can’t lose it all… There’s no way I can lose it all…”
