TVB will hold a large-scale poon choi banquet every year, which is actually an annual dinner, and most employees and artists will attend, about 3,000 people. This year's annual meeting was held on the rooftop of TVB's TV City, and it was held over two nights because the venue was not large enough.
This time, the poon choi feast was as bleak as last year. There were no celebrities at all on the first night, except for executives such as Zeng Zhiwei and Le Yiling, they were either newcomers, or some old actors who had worked hard for many years and still had not come out, such as Ou Ruiwei and Shao Zhuoyao.
The lineup on the second night was "stronger", and the only ones who could be called stars were Ma Guoming and Chen Zhanpeng, Ma Guoming's face looked relatively loose, and the sense of age was quite obvious; Chen Zhanpeng, who was 3 years younger than him, was in much better condition.
Ma Guoming, who just relied on the role of Liang Jingren in "News Queen" to "go to the next level", was the focus of the audience that night, and many employees lined up to take photos with him.
There are also many actors with familiar faces, such as Liu Dan, Shan Liwen, Teng Liming, Tang Yingying, and Wang Juntang from the crew of "Love Home", but everyone looks a little haggard when they take a group photo, and they still have a bit of a forced smile.
Therefore, the stars of this plate banquet are really dim, and in previous years, there are familiar faces such as Zhang Guoqiang, Zhuang Simin, Li Zhishan, Li Chengchang, Li Nuoyi, Chen Shancong, etc.
A little further back, TVB's poon choi banquet is more lively, and stars such as Ma Dezhong, Li Yaoxiang, Huang Haoran, Wu Qihua, Wang Zulan, and Wu Zhuoxi will also attend.
Now that many of TVB's old actors have left the nest, coupled with the company's continuous losses, it was forced to lay off 300 employees last year, and it is normal for the annual meeting to be bleak. At the annual meeting, the boss Xu Tao announced that he would raise his salary, and the audience cheered, but Zeng Zhiwei admitted frankly that "it's very little".
Netizens are also not optimistic about TVB's so-called salary increase, thinking that it may be increased by one or two hundred yuan, and maybe it will continue to lay off employees, after all, the annual loss is so big.
On the other hand, this poon choi feast is as down-to-earth as ever. The scene is still divided into two grades of tables, the six tables near the stage are more high-end, with two pots of vegetables, and the other more than 100 tables are relatively rough, with plastic film as a tablecloth and red plastic stool, all of which have only one pot of vegetables.
I didn't expect TVB to even differentiate the tableware, although the tableware of the high-end table is also disposable plastic, but the texture is much better, and it will be accompanied by two kinds of goblets, and the tableware of the affordable table is the cheapest kind of disposable dishes and chopsticks.
In fact, TVB is very cost-effective to hold such a level of banquet at its own venue, but I didn't expect that even the tableware of the annual meeting would also want to save money, which is too saving.
In terms of casual gifts that everyone has a share, TVB will save money, and last year it also gave out tea worth 50 yuan, and this year only issued soda biscuits priced at 16.5 yuan.
Such a casual gift is too down-to-earth, and ordinary companies really can't do it.
As for the dishes and drinks, they are similar to previous years, with abalone, soy sauce chicken, nine-section shrimp, roast duck and other ingredients in the basin, and the cheapest beer and drinks are still used, even at the high-end tables.
This is not the scene that a large company should have at the annual meeting, so even if everyone knows that such a poon choi banquet is TVB's "fine tradition", and knows that such a banquet is lively and has fireworks, but still can't help but complain about TVB's shabby, slamming the door, and being stingy, after all, many rural banquets do exceed this level now.
Of course, TVB has indeed had a difficult time operating in recent years, and is facing a great dilemma, so it is also necessary to save a little, after all, it has to support so many people.