Game Development: Our Perks Are Totally Normal

A question: what counts as normal employee benefits at a game development company?

Weekends off? Or seven types of insurance and a housing fund?

Jiang Huai says, “What you have is child's play! Our company has an indoor pool, a hot tub, ten types of insurance and ten types of housing funds, twenty-four months' pay a year, and all kinds of bonuses, like an on-time departure bonus and a no-early-arrival bonus...”

“I was such a fool, really! All I did was set a few normal employee benefits for our game company, but I never expected their work efficiency to improve so much!”

With “happy” written all over his face, Jiang Huai answered the reporter's questions. At the same time, he took a towel from his little secretary and wiped the words off his face. “The company keeps getting bigger, and I'm finding it especially troublesome.”

The reporter looked a little scornful. “I feel like you're just humblebragging.”

“Please remove ‘feel like.’ Thank you.” Jiang Huai composed himself and said, “Maybe it's because our company keeps growing and squeezing our competitors out of the market. Lately, the other bosses have been holding more and more of a grudge against me.

After all, they didn't have to give their employees so many normal benefits before.”

The reporter seemed to have caught on to a key phrase. “I noticed you used the words ‘normal benefits.’ Are you sure your company's benefits are normal?”

“What's wrong with them?” Jiang Huai asked in confusion. “A ten-insurance, ten-housing-fund package and twenty-four months' pay aren't normal benefits?”

[Other bosses: “Normal my ass! We always...”]

[Jiang Huai: “Just because it's always been that way, does that make it right?!”]