"This is a great start! Shouldn't you treat us to milk tea to celebrate?"
Gu Chen was quite willing to engage in this sort of social exchange. He smiled and said, "Milk tea alone isn't enough. Once I start work, I'll treat everyone to cake."
After hanging up, Gu Chen called Liao Chunhua and asked whether his salary had been paid incorrectly.
Liao Chunhua laughed. "No mistake. That's the correct amount."
Liao Chunhua explained, "Did you forget? Our Great Zhou World sales department has a rule: the team that wins the monthly sales championship gets an additional team incentive bonus. It used to be ten thousand yuan, but it was raised to twenty thousand starting last month. This month's team sales champion is Sales Team One. Since you're always helping everyone calculate mortgages, negotiate contracts, and close deals, our team discussed it internally and unanimously decided to transfer the entire twenty-thousand-yuan bonus to you."
Gu Chen frowned. "There's no need to—"
"No refusing." Liao Chunhua cut him off. "Or do you think the twenty-thousand-yuan bonus is too little? Honestly, given the current situation, since you helped everyone close deals, they should each give you half their commissions—"
"That's not what I mean." Gu Chen hurriedly explained. "I mean, this twenty-thousand-yuan team incentive bonus is for everyone. Isn't it inappropriate for me to take it all myself?"
"But everyone voted unanimously for it." Liao Chunhua said with a smile. "Just accept it. Otherwise, no one will feel at ease. They won't dare ask you for help in the future."
Just as Liao Chunhua had said, Gu Chen had helped the team members close deals. Logically, once the deals went through, every team member should have given half their commission to Gu Chen. But no one wanted to part with that money,