The Winter Promise
Chapter 80: I Feel My Head Smoke A Little!
“Let's start choosing his new employee.”
Pak Hari shares CVs of applicants who have been sent by email.
Right now I am in a meeting room whose condition is different than before. This room has a table and chairs for us to sit. I also saw Maul who was very happy to be leaning on the chair during the meeting.
“Finally I can feel the real meeting room.”
Maul put her head on the table and occasionally tilted her head to the right and to the left.
“Is this all you've ever wanted?”
“Trouble for you? I've never felt a meeting room.”
Maul looked cynically at me.
“Cita-cita you are weird.”
This room was very different when we first came here for a meeting. The first time we came here the contents of this room only had a mat, it was brought by Mr. Hari from his home. Fortunately, the air conditioner was still working, otherwise we might have been close by using a fan as well.
We also started looking around at anyone who wanted to apply for the company Comic Universe.
“What should I do? This is the first time I've done this.”
“I also.”
Maul and I have absolutely no idea how to choose a new employee who is good and right. That is of course because we are students and never do the things that a company owner does.
“Of course to choose the people who will later become your subordinates.”
“Bawahan yes..”
I never wanted to be a leader because I thought it was too much trouble. I'd rather get people to be leaders and help him if he needs my help, but I'm just helping him from ideas not energy.
“I've divided the CV according to the revision you have. I've submitted to people who want to be editors to Amar and who become programmers to Maul.”
“Then what should I do to select people from this many applicants? I am in no way experienced in this.”’
“Such as I.”
“Choose a CV that you think is good.”
Huh! Choosing something this important by using feelings? Maybe Miyuki and Rina are good at this, but I'm not a person who is good at using feelings. If you use theory and logic, that's my forte.
“What's no problem choosing the workers by using feeling?”
“You rest easy Mar, this is just an initial selection. After there are several CVs that you have chosen later there will be a further selection to call the chosen person to the office for an interview. If the interview part let me and Febri take care of it.”
Fortunately I didn't do that troublesome thing either. If just choosing the initial selection doesn't seem like a problem, I can still do it.
“If you are still confused what to see. First look at his work experience alone, because the longer he works in the field he is good at, the more likely he is already an expert at it. You don't need to be glued to their graduates, because we are looking for experience and ability. As long as their ability can compete with others, want any graduate it is not a problem.”
So, skills and experience.
I also started to choose the CV in front of me, a lot of CVs there for me to choose. I also selected the applicants according to the direction of Mr. Hari. There are all sorts of people who propose.
Still it's hard for me.
I also saw Maul who looks accustomed to choosing her CV.
“How? You don't mind this.”
I whispered to Maul who was seriously picky CV.
“Not him Pak Hari had told him earlier, it was very easy Mar.”
“Yah's.. Looks like you're right.”
“What part are you choosing?”
I asked Mr. Febri who was picky CV as well.
“I am opting for secretary section, finance, and other administrative matters.”
“Secertary!?”
Maul was immediately excited when she heard that.
“What's with secretary?”
I only know that the secretary is the one whose job is always to write. Yep.. Because I only know the secretaries in the class.
“Usually the secretary section is filled by beautiful women who will accompany the superiors. Will I get a secretary too?”
Maul looked directly at Mr. Hari.
“Hahaha... Of course not, the secretary is only for me and Febri. It's too early for you to get a secretary.”
“Honey once.”
The disappointed Maul immediately returned to choose a CV again.
“Looks like I don't need a secretary.”
“Why Bri?”
“After many employees fill the important parts, I want to focus first to teach in school. So it seems after this I want to stop for a while.”
“Stop!? Don't you want to do two jobs at once? Your work here is not too burdensome.”
“Iya, I want to focus myself on teaching first. But I only temporarily stop here, later I will return to work here after stopping teaching at school.”
Mr Febri want to stop teaching? Wh why?
“Why do you want to stop teaching? Is there something bothering you at school?”
“No, actually I've been planning this from last year. But because this year I was appointed to be the homeroom teacher and that homeroom teacher had to accompany the class they were mentoring until their class graduated, so I have to wait until my protege lulu all just got out.”
Oh so because of that, I guess he got improper treatment by someone at school. But who would dare to do that to Mr. Febri considering he was a friendly person and close to the disciples. He also doesn't care much about what happens at school.
“Alright then, I will vacate your position until you return.”
“I leave Amar and Maul to you Ri. I guess those two were enough to cover up the flaws after I came out.”
“Are you ready? Mar?... Mul?”
“Ready!”
Answer us compactly.
That means my responsibilities will increase even more. Well if at least I get a bonus from it, I don't think it matters.
I also began to select the CV in accordance with their experience and ability. Indeed this feels very heavy because someone's income is in my hands now. What if I turned down someone who was in need of a job and this was his only chance to work, what if someone needed income to support his now sick family.
Take a deep breath and let it out. I need to calm down on this... If things like this alone can not go through what if there are problems in the future.
If being indifferent is the only way to do this, then I will.
...
Thirty minutes later.
“Thanks for your hard work.”
Pak Hari tidied up and separated between the CV that will continue to the next selection and also the CV that did not pass the selection.
“Finally done too!”
I leaned on the bench I was sitting on and looked up at the ceiling. I closed my eyes to rest for a moment.
I saw a projector hanging from the ceiling of the conference room.
“Alright now we start discussing about the application development from Comic Universe!”
Huh! It's starting again? We've just finished and started another.
“Maul! How many Comic Universe downloaders are currently.”
“Until last night, the number of downloaders from the Comic Universe application has reached one hundred and fifty thousand, I rounded up the number to be easy when mentioning. And here's a graph of the number of Comic Univers downloaders from the application release until last night.”
Mr. Hari turned off the lights in the room and turned on the projector. Maul also displays a graph of the number of downloaders from the Comic Universe.
“If it can be seen, there has been no decrease from the number of downloaders since the release of the app.”
Maul also explained every data he was displaying.
If I look at the chart, it keeps going up and there are no drops at all.
“Is that number one hundred and fifty thousand including many?”
I asked Maul.
“For the app size that just came out, it already includes a lot.”
“Then how do people respond about this app?”
“The average person looks at this application, there are only a few complaints from readers if there are some comics that they can not see and they download, he said, in addition, the server that we have is too small to accommodate readers who are growing more and more.”
Maul also displays other data to answer questions from Mr. Hari.
“How long can you fix it Mul?”
“With help from the current intern, maybe I can finish it within two days.”
“Good, then. Then how the comic development of the comics and readers Mar?”
Mr. Hari turned the lights back on and turned off the projector.
“The readers ask us to add some streams so that the storyline in Comic Universe is not too monotonous and varied, in addition, the quality control of the resolution in the comics is also needed to satisfy the readers.”
“Then you do what Amar said when updating the Mul.” application
“Siap.”
“Next we will discuss about the comic bookkeeping that has many chapters in the application.”
Mr. Hari began to continue his discussion to the next topic.
“My question now will it sell? You see, people are definitely more likely to read on the app because it is free compared to buying comics in the book version.”
Mr. Febri asked that.
“Indeed most Indonesians prefer free over paid, but I'm sure that there are still many people out there who like to read it in the book version.”
“I agree with Mr. Hari, there are some of my friends who also like to read in book form compared to the digital version.”
Actually the friend I was referring to was just Miyuki.
“Then for the first experiment better we will make a comic that was at that time the recommendation of the readers to print, we will make a comic, but before printing we tell this on social media first to see the response from the readers.”
Mr. Febri proposed it.
“Oh yes, we also need a team to be on social media.”
“What is it that previously held a social media account?”
I asked Mr. Hari.
“Febri who holds it.”
“Then let me take care of it, for now we focus on the development of the application first.”
“Alright, next we will discuss about paid content in the application. What do you think?”
Mr. Hari began to continue it to other topics. Looks like this meeting is much longer than the previous meetings.
“What is paid content for?”
“If in the Korean app, they use it so that readers can read the comics before the release date.”
“Great once they can use the curiosity of the readers as a source of money.”
Because I know what it's like when you're reading a book or watching a movie and it turns out that the story of the book you're reading or the scenes from the movie you're watching stops at the tense and making moments you wonder how the story goes. And in the app comes paid content to see comics faster than anyone else.
“We should have a different idea.”
Mr. Hari also tried to think and look for different ideas according to him.
“How are the advantages of that paid content?”
Ask Mr. Febri with a serious face for thinking about something.
“It looks like most of it will be given to the comic and we can only say the least. I've tried to calculate it first, at most we only get thirty percent only.”
That means he is indeed intent on creating paid content.
“That's a great way to make the comic at home in our app.”
“How about the tip system?”
I also tried to propose an idea.
“Tip system?”
“As give appreciation to the comic.”
“What it works?”
“In the game I play there is such a feature and many use it.”
“Ah I have an idea!”
It was like seeing a light on top to Mr. Febri.
“What is it?”
We all paid attention to the idea of Mr. Febri.
“What if the paid feature will be used for comic artists who want to create special episodes or chapters that have nothing to do with the main plot. So that paid feature will be optional and we leave it to the comic, whether they want to use it or not.”
“I think it's a good idea.”
“How about try it first later only we see the response from the readers.”
Usul Maul's.
“Means we've already earned some important points from the meeting this time. First are the employees who seem to be working next week, then improve the application by adding some flow and resolution in the application, the formation of a social media team, bookkeeping from a famous series, and so on, and lastly is the paid feature. Maybe we will apply them one by one first while looking at the responses of the
reader.”
Pak Hari summarized all the discussions from this meeting into one.
“Then I close today! Thanks for the hard work.”
Huh done too.
I leaned back in my chair and closed my eyes to rest my head a little, because I felt like my head was a little dizzy.
“Are you exhausted after this meeting Mar?”
Mr. Febri asked me who was closing my eyes.
“Of course, I didn't know that in a job like this there are so many meetings.”
“Originally you know, meetings at school are more tiring than this.”
“I don't want to hear that.”
Since I already felt that this was so exhausting, what if I thought of something more exhausting than this one.
Never mind.. I better rest my head first.
the End Chapter 80
