It can’t be that hard to open a hospital in another world, right? 76

Chapter 76: Why Do I Have to Deal With KPIs Even After Transmigrating?

Grett wasn’t surprised that the Magic Tower had annual reviews. In this day and age, the Health Bureau assessed hospitals, hospitals assessed departments, departments assessed doctors, everyone carried KPIs, and everyone strived for their targets. He had been working for over a decade in his previous life, and had been reviewed for over a decade, he was used to it.

The Magic Tower’s leader resided in a tower built by the Magic Council, received a salary from the Magic Council, and used the Magic Council’s funds. Wasn’t it natural to be reviewed annually?

He calmly followed the others to the fifth floor. He watched as an old mage pulled out a large, leather-bound book, flipped through it with a whooshing sound, and revealed a form covered in lines and squares, at least the size of A4 paper. He looked left and right, and started ticking off the items:

“First, the maintenance of the Magic Tower. I checked when we came up, the Magic Tower has been repaired in a timely manner, and the magic circuits are running smoothly. There are no newly constructed facilities, but there is a new set of alchemical equipment. For this item, I’ll give you a 90.”

Lawmaster Gelman nodded, his expression calm, obviously expecting this score. The old mage wrote a few words, then continued his assessment:

“Second, maintaining the status of the Magic Tower. At the Midsummer Festival banquet today, your seating arrangement hasn’t changed, the City Lord’s Mansion still treats you with respect, and at least five noble families want to send their children here to study. However, you only maintained your status, you didn’t improve it. For this item, I can only give you 82.”

“Teacher!”

Lawmaster Gelman called out, seemingly wanting to argue, or plead. The old mage shook his head:

“The Magic Council’s regulations are very detailed. Gelman, for the sake of teacher and student, at most, I’ll raise it to 85, no more.”

Huh?

What kind of scoring system is this? It sounds familiar!

Grett quietly tiptoed, stretching his neck, wanting to get a glimpse of the form. The old mage saw him, and beckoned the lower-ranking mages over, opened the form and placed it in the middle:

“Haven’t seen this before? Come, come, everyone have a look. You are all mages, and you might be the ones leading Magic Towers in the future. Seeing this early won’t do you any harm!”

Mage Elliot looked at Grett with resentment, and slowly edged forward. Who wants to see this stuff? It’s not like they haven’t seen it before. Last year, his score wasn’t high, and Lawmaster Gelman slammed the assessment form on their faces, and scolded them for an hour!

Forget about the Magic Council’s assessment form, they even felt a little nauseous when they saw anything resembling a form!

Grett, on the other hand, had no negative emotions. He excitedly strode forward, gave a slight bow, and looked down at the form. When he saw it…

He froze.

Project Name, Project Definition, Calculation Method, Weight, Project Score, Total Score…

And there were two lines of small characters at the bottom. The first line read the assessment standard:

95 or above, A (Excellent);

94-90, B (Very Good);

89-80, C (Normal);

79-60, D (Needs improvement);

Below 60, E (Advised to withdraw).

The second line was even scarier, it was the reward and punishment for each grade. Just by glancing at it, Grett could picture the face of his hospital’s human resources director, a face that made everyone feel like they owed him 50,000 yuan.

A: Major reward;

B: Reward, research resources tilted towards;

C: No reward or punishment;

D: Resources deducted, salary deducted, replaced with a new person after two consecutive times;

E: Stripped of leadership position, replaced with a new leader.

This… promotion, performance bonus, salary deduction, position change, advised to resign…

What a standard KPI form!

Who made this!

Why does the Magic Council have this thing!

He felt like his vision went black. Why did he transmigrate, but still couldn’t escape this thing?!

…Wait, this Magic Council, they even have journals, and papers, and the paper format is the same as he is familiar with…

There must be a transmigrator here! This world, there must be a transmigrator, only a transmigrator would change the Magic Council like this!

And most likely it’s a liberal arts major… considering that mages perceive the world through earth, water, fire, and wind, they haven’t taken a step towards the periodic table, that predecessor transmigrator probably couldn’t develop a scientific research method, they could only follow the existing path…

Right. Judging by the professional level of this KPI form, they might be an HR.

Grett suppressed all his curiosity and complaints, and continued to listen to the assessment process. As he listened, he couldn’t help but admire that predecessor HR: their success was not without reason, at least they could come up with this task scope.

For example, the Magic Tower industry was broken down into villages, workshops, stores, mines, and animal and plant resources. The village category was further broken down into population, acreage, irrigation, seasonal harvest, and several sub-items, each with a different score.

Even more frighteningly, the form the old mage brought with him contained records of the values and scores from the past three years…

It made you want to cheat, but you couldn’t.

Fortunately, Lawmaster Gelman had been leading the Magic Tower for several years. Although he wasn’t very talented in management, he wasn’t so incompetent that he would make big mistakes. He followed the rules, did things according to the past two years, and got a score of 85. Although not high, it didn’t drag down the average score.

Next was the cultivation and progress of the mages. This was the focus of the assessment, after all, in the Magic Council, strength was more important than everything else. This item accounted for 30% of the weight, the old mage didn’t show any favoritism, and had everyone in the Magic Tower cast spells one by one, and evaluated them individually.

“Well, at your level, Gelman, it’s very difficult to improve. But there’s no way, scores that shouldn’t be given, can’t be given;

Kalden? You’ve learned three new spells, and your spiritual power has also increased, not bad! But you haven’t broken through to level three, so I can’t give you a high score;

Elliot? Your spiritual power has increased quite a bit! Very good, very good, you’re about to reach the edge of breakthrough, your score can be higher… Oh, and you’ve taught a mage apprentice. Right, little guy, how many spells can you cast a day now?”

“Five.” Grett answered frankly. Before the old mage could ask further, he seized the opportunity and added:

“It’s been over a month, but I can’t break through. Lawmaster, could you spare some time to look at my situation?”

“Over a month?” The old mage’s brow furrowed. He counted on his fingers, this little guy had only been learning magic script for a month. In other words, this young man had been able to cast five spells a day since becoming a mage apprentice –

Such talent was worth his guidance.

“Meditate for a while. Then cast any spell, let me see your situation.”

Grett did as he was told. The old mage also immersed himself in the meditation environment, carefully sensing his surroundings. After a while, he exited meditation, his thick eyebrows furrowed:

“Strange. Your spiritual power, the way you manipulate the surrounding magic, it’s like… like there’s a layer of gauze in between. It’s not very efficient. You won’t be able to break through like this, forget it, just grind it out slowly…”

Thanks to @Send You Away No Longer Come Back and @Night Snow Broken for the 100 starting coins.

The next two chapters might cause significant psychological harm to office workers, so I apologize in advance…

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