"Please give me a serving of pan-fried butter fish, and French herb cheese with scallops."
"Thank you for your patronage. Will you be using company benefit vouchers, or...?"
"Benefit vouchers."
Jiang Han took out the benefit vouchers provided by the company. After staring at the half-length portrait of Big Eileen printed on them for a while, she placed them on the counter with slight misgivings.
Benefit vouchers.
A non-circulating currency with a face value, popular within the company, that could be used to access company facilities. Great Witches were capable of printing money and putting it into circulation in the world, though few Great Witches bothered to use such a troublesome ability. The former great Eileen, on the other hand, had been exceptionally good at it.
Several decades ago, after the trial plan of replacing half of employees' salaries with "company vouchers" had failed—and after she herself had been hung from the Solar System's biggest streetlamp, "the Sun"—Little Eileen's new plan was far more cautious.
The National Alchemy Workshop Group's standard salaries were still around thirty percent higher than those of others in the industry, an exceptionally generous arrangement.
At the same time, a fixed amount of company benefit vouchers was issued every week.
An additional batch of benefit vouchers was distributed every month based on performance.
These vouchers could be used as currency to purchase services from companies under Eileen's banner.
Though at its core, it was still the same old scheme of "having employees use their own wages to form an employee market, accelerating the consumption of internally produced resources while also grinding away employees' surplus value and additional rightful income," its generous benefits and gradual implementation were like boiling a frog in warm water, and it did not trigger another massive wave of opposition.
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