Lin Wanwan quickly packed up the raw-marinated food on the table and threw it into the trash can by the entrance.
Although this batch of raw-marinated food showed no issues upon testing, thinking of her experience running to the bathroom five times to evacuate her bowels yesterday afternoon, she couldn’t muster any appetite for this pile of raw-marinated seafood.
While finishing up the Golden Arches set meal in her hands, Lin Wanwan considered how to handle the problem in front of her.
Right now, the simplest solution was naturally to take time off.
She could directly take two days off and stay staked out near that Chaoshan raw-marinated shop for these two days.
Every time new stock arrived at the shop, she would buy it directly; eventually, she would hit a batch that had issues.
Although she was currently still a hundred thousand miles away from having no shortage of money, that 500-yuan monthly perfect attendance bonus really didn’t count as big money to her anymore.
Thinking up to this point, Lin Wanwan pulled out her phone, preparing to call Sister Zhang to ask for leave.
However, just as she was looking for the contact, a delivery guy dressed in a yellow uniform suddenly walked past her eyes.
Lin Wanwan’s gaze closely followed the yellow-uniformed delivery guy’s retreating figure. The hand holding her phone suddenly paused, and her eyes instantly lit up.
Taking leave to stake out the place was indeed direct, but thinking of the lifetime Platinum Card and 100,000-yuan check Evans was supposed to deliver today, she found herself in a dilemma again.
The future was not set in stone.
If she suddenly took two days off right now and happened to miss the subsequent follow-up with Evans’s team, wouldn’t her previous efforts go to waste?
Biting her straw, her gaze swept back and forth across the street.
Suddenly, she caught sight of a girl wearing a Meituan uniform standing under a bus stop sign not far away, looking down scrolling through her phone.
Lin Wanwan immediately got up and walked over briskly.
“Hello, could I bother you for a few minutes?”
She tried her best to make her tone sound gentle.
The girl raised her head in some confusion:
“Yeah, what’s up?”
“I wanted to ask you about something.”
“Roughly how many orders can you run a day right now? How’s the income?”
Hearing Lin Wanwan’s inquiry, the girl clearly mistook her for a future peer preparing to join the delivery workforce.
The girl let out a sigh, tapped her finger on her phone screen, and then displayed the rider backend income interface.
Lin Wanwan took a glance; that was yesterday’s income—errand fees plus customer tips totaled only 140 yuan.
“If you want to enter this industry, I don’t really recommend it.”
“I also heard other people say before that casually running orders would net eight or nine thousand a month.”
“Let me tell you, it’s actually all a lie!”
“I’ve been running orders for over a month now, and the highest day was only 200. On average, it comes out to around five or six thousand a month.”
Hearing the number “200 bucks,” Lin Wanwan felt reassured in her heart.
She leaned in closer and lowered her voice to say:
“It’s like this, I want to ask you for a favor.”
“Isn’t there a Chaoshan raw-marinated shop by the mall entrance up ahead?”
“I need you to help keep an eye on it for these two days. Whenever they put out new stock, buy a portion for me.”
“Then send me the payment screenshot, I’ll pay for it, and finally just deliver the stuff to my company.”
“I won’t let you help for free either; how about I pay you 200 bucks a day?”
The girl blinked, a bit puzzled:
“It’s that simple?”
Lin Wanwan nodded:
“Yes! Just that simple!”
The girl didn’t rush to agree, but instead asked back:
“I remember that Chaoshan raw-marinated shop should be on food delivery platforms. Why don’t you just purchase directly?”
Lin Wanwan naturally couldn’t tell her about what might happen in the future.
Adding color and flair, she recounted her story of eating raw-marinated seafood and having diarrhea yesterday afternoon.
“Later I went to find that owner, but he refused to admit it was a problem with his raw-marinated seafood no matter what, and even mocked me!”
“I’ve eaten plenty of raw-marinated food before, but I’ve never had a situation where I kept having diarrhea!”
“So, I specifically bought some test strips.”
As a food delivery rider, the girl had clearly seen the kitchen conditions of quite a few delivery shops.
Therefore, she naturally knew that the hygiene of some shops was indeed failing, but a customer who was this meticulous was truly her first time meeting.
The girl didn’t laugh at Lin Wanwan.
Sometimes society just needed people who were this meticulous!
After considering for a moment, the girl nodded earnestly:
“Alright, I’ll help with this favor!”
The two added each other as friends.
Only then did Lin Wanwan learn that the other party’s name was Zhao Yuewen.
Lin Wanwan transferred 100 bucks over first, then sent her company address and contact information over.
“This is the deposit. My name is Lin Wanwan; if you have any questions, call me anytime.
When buying, remember to get a little bit of every kind. No matter what new products they put out, buy a portion of each for me.”
Zhao Yuewen made an OK gesture:
“No problem!”
“Then I’ll start keeping an eye out now. If they restock with new goods, I’ll contact you!”
“Rest assured, Sister Lin!”
The girl saved the address.
“I’ll go over to the mall side and wait now. You can rest assured with how I handle things.”
Watching the girl’s retreating figure as she rode her electric scooter hurriedly toward the mall, half of the weight hanging on Lin Wanwan’s heart finally lifted.
This way, she neither had to take leave and affect her work nor miss keeping a tight watch on the raw-marinated shop’s stock—it was simply the best of both worlds.
She lowered her head to look at her phone; it was still early, so she quickly scarfed down the rest of her burger in a few bites, grabbed her bag, and rushed toward the company.
On the way, she was still thinking that if she could smoothly get her hands on the problematic raw-marinated seafood and stop that tragedy in time, spending this 400 bucks would be worth more than anything.
Lin Wanwan stepped through the company door during the very last minute of clocking in for work. Just as she dumped her backpack onto her workstation, she saw Zhang Jingru standing at her office doorway beckoning to her:
“Wanwan, come to my office for a moment.”
Lin Wanwan suppressed the excitement in her heart and pushed open the door. Zhang Jingru was looking down signing a document.
“Sit.” Zhang Jingru looked up and smiled, pushing the document in front of her.
“This is your official employment notice, just approved by HR. Starting today, you’re an official employee of Ocean Engine!”
Lin Wanwan looked at the official employment notice, feeling quite excited in her heart.
Although Ocean Engine wasn’t a so-called big-tech company well-known to everyone, as a sub-brand under ByteDance, its own development prospects were very large.
Ocean Engine adopted the job tier system common among big tech companies.
Since their team belonged to the support department, the corresponding job tier sequence was the S-sequence, with levels ranging from S3 to S11.
Someone like Lin Wanwan who had just gained official status belonged to the S3 level.
According to the normal process, every employee would undergo a thorough evaluation at the end of the year.
If performance in all aspects was good, one could apply for a promotion.
According to Lin Wanwan’s understanding, as long as one reached the S6 level, there was an opportunity to be transferred to ByteDance at the same level.
This meant that according to the process, she would have the opportunity to be transferred into ByteDance in three years at the fastest.
Although transferring to the parent company wouldn’t bring a massive increase in base salary, the year-end bonuses and various stock option rewards would be extremely generous.
According to information Zhang Jingru had disclosed before, her previous immediate superior was transferred to ByteDance after reaching S6.
Income directly transformed from an original annual salary of over 200,000 to an annual salary of over 1,000,000.
Although she possessed a golden finger now, facing the temptation of a million-yuan annual salary, Lin Wanwan was still looking forward to it very much.
After all, the uncertainty of her golden finger was far too great.
Relying purely on the golden finger to turn a profit was unrealistic, which was also one of the reasons why she had never resigned.