Chapter 400 Final Disposal
When Iwata heard that Shirakawa Kaede was going to hand over the development of the handheld game console to him, he was eager to try it, but also a little worried.
After all, he witnessed Tanimura's previous experience with his own eyes.
And when Shirakawa-kun gets angry, he's really scary.
They knew each other before graduation. In Iwata's eyes, Shirakawa Kaede has always been a gentle and kind person.
But today, Iwata finally saw his cold and ruthless side.
However, Iwata soon put these distractions behind him. He didn't engage in corruption, so there was no need to worry.
What Satoru Iwata likes most is computers, followed by games and beautiful women.
As for money, Iwata does not have any extreme pursuit, just having enough is enough.
For a fat otaku, he didn't even spend much of the money he earned in the past few years.
So after hearing that Shirakawa Kaede wanted to hand over the development of the handheld game console to himself, Iwata hesitated for a moment and then began to really consider its related development work.
After thinking for a while, he spoke carefully. "Next summer, there shouldn't be any problem."
"Okay! Then let's set it for next summer." Shirakawa Kaede was very satisfied with Iwata's answer.
He didn't mention any difficulties and just gave a time limit.
It’s nothing like the original Tanimura, where either there were not enough people or time was tight.
All in all, five or six requests were made during the entire handheld console development process.
However, although he did not make any additional requests, Baichuan Feng still considered some auxiliary work for him.
“Please feel free to raise any requirements during the development process. If necessary, SIC and LCD factories will fully cooperate with the development of the handheld game console.
All of this is aimed at the smooth launch of the handheld console next summer."
"Huh!" With such a guarantee, Iwata became more confident.
In fact, the time he just gave, next summer, is already a conservative estimate.
With his experience in developing the previous generation of handheld game consoles and his familiarity with SIC8089A, this cycle can be shortened further.
However, in order to avoid seeing Baichuan Feng getting angry, he gave a development cycle with sufficient margin.
The handheld game console project started again, and Shirakawa Kaede's mood, which had become bad because of Tanimura's incident, finally improved a lot.
"Everyone," he looked at the faces of everyone in the conference room and said solemnly, "HAL's focus in the next stage will be the development of handheld ODS.
Everyone must unconditionally cooperate with project development, including personnel transfers and work assignments.”
"Ha!" everyone answered in unison.
Just because of the public execution of Tanimura and Yamamoto before, they didn't dare to be perfunctory.
"In addition, the subsequent development of FES will be temporarily handed over to Mr. Yamashita, and Mr. Iwata will temporarily take over the position of president of HAL."
FES has now entered a stabilization period and the console will not see any changes in the short term.
The most he could do is develop some supporting products such as handle peripherals, which Daiji Yamashita is fully capable of doing.
As for the development of FES game cartridges, there are six production teams, so there is no need to worry too much.
At the very least, signing so many third-party game developers is enough to absorb the number of game cartridges released each year.
The appointment of Satoru Iwata as acting president of HAL is also a preparation by Shirakawa Kaede for him to officially take over the position of president next year.
When the handheld is developed and officially launched next year, as long as the sales are acceptable, Iwata Satoru will no longer be the acting president.
Everyone in the conference room could naturally see that Shirakawa Kaede was intentionally cultivating Iwata Satoshi, but they had no objection to this.
First, he developed the best-selling FES, and then he was entrusted with taking over the development of the handheld game console ODS.
With these two achievements, everyone was convinced of Iwata's promotion.
Moreover, most of HAL's employees are young people, and they don't pay much attention to seniority among each other.
In this way, HAL's management underwent a sudden change, but the reorganization was quickly completed.
But the handling of the Tanimura and Yamamoto incidents is far from over.
As soon as the meeting ended, Shirakawa Feng immediately asked the audit team of Shirakawa Holdings to move into the HAL Research Institute.
In the coming period, they will conduct a comprehensive financial review of HAL.
Shirakawa Kaede didn't believe that Tanimura and Yamamoto alone could have secretly embezzled a huge amount of nearly 300 million yen.
It would be difficult to achieve this without the cooperation of the people below or other departments.
The original handheld game console development team and several other important departments, including personnel, are the focus of review.
At the same time, Yamamoto had just been interrogated in the conference room. After coming out, he told everything like a bamboo tube pouring beans.
It turned out that at the very beginning, it was Tanimura who found him first.
As the president of HAL, Tanimura is the nominal chief executive.
Although the parent company Shirakawa Holdings still exists, the latter does not participate much in daily business activities.
After all, the gaming industry is different from traditional enterprises. You can’t just send two people to run it.
Also because he has the final say on game and software development, Tanimura is regarded as an absolute authority in the eyes of ordinary members.
It just so happened that he took over the development of a new generation , and all funding, personnel transfers, etc. were under Tanimura's power.
When Tanimura found Yamamoto and started the first large reimbursement.
Although the latter was shocked, he did not dare to report the matter directly to Baichuan Holdings.
There is also a strict hierarchy within Neon Company, and the head of a company is an irresistible figure for the employees.
Haven’t you seen that in later generations, in order to please customers, bosses directly stuffed their employees’ faces into the hot pot.
There was also a male member of Dentsu who was forced by his leader to finish the beer that had been poured into his leather shoes at a banquet .
As for the situation where the president poured coffee on employees in public and smashed things around him, it was a common occurrence.
So what do these employees who are treated unfairly do?
The employee who was trapped in the hot pot did not even resist. The other colleagues present also had no reaction and went back to work after taking a two-day break.
The male Dentsu employee who drank beer with shoes was traumatized by the humiliation and later went home to commit suicide.
Did you notice that these members did not resist immediately when they were bullied?
Even if they couldn't stand these things and put up with the most extreme resistance, they would hide in their home alone and then commit suicide.
Why are Japanese people so extremely tolerant, and why are they so accustomed to workplace bullying?
This is related to their traditional culture, and there is also a very objective description in "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword".
"The Japanese are extremely aggressive yet very gentle; militaristic yet beautiful; arrogant yet polite;
Stubborn yet pliable; docile yet unwilling to be manipulated; loyal yet easily rebellious;
Brave yet timid; conservative yet very welcoming of new ways of life.”
This passage describes the character and way of doing things of the Japanese people today very appropriately.
In this kind of environment and culture, it is not surprising that they can accept and get used to the strict hierarchical rules of the workplace.
Is there workplace bullying at HAL or even Shirakawa Electric now?
There is no doubt that Baichuan Feng has no way to completely eradicate this phenomenon.
All he can do is to ensure the welfare of his employees as much as possible.
As for the rest, the Neon government has no way to deal with it. What can he do?
So when faced with Tanimura's blatant false reporting of large expenses, Yamamoto, knowing full well the trick, did not dare to question it.
Especially after Tanimura gave him some kickbacks, Yamamoto even enjoyed it.
Later, as they grew bolder, they teamed up to invest the research and development funds for the handheld game console into the stock market.
For them, developing handheld game consoles can make some money.
Not to mention the long cycle, even if you succeed, you will only get a small bonus.
But the stock market makes money quickly. A slight would be enough to cover their annual salary.
So during this half year, Tanimura focused all his attention on stock trading and had no energy to take care of the development of the handheld game console.
He just threw the project into the hands of the people below, and he and Yamamoto had a lot of fun trading stocks.
It was not until now that Shirakawa Kaede personally came to verify the results of the handheld console that everything came to light.
Speaking of which, Shirakawa Feng was also quite curious. Based on Tanimura's income in recent years, he should be considered a social elite.
But why is he still trying to find ways to make money for himself through these crooked means?
Later, after listening to Yamamoto's explanation , he realized that the more than 200 million yen he had earned in the past few years had all been squandered by Tanimura in the stock market.
The result, of course, speaks for itself.
Baichuan Feng really didn't understand him. He had lost all his savings in stock trading.
Why didn't they stop in time? Could it be that stock trading, like gambling, is also addictive?
He didn't know Tanimura's psychology, but the most important thing now was to recover the R&D funds in the stock market.
With Yamamoto's cooperation, the professional financial team quickly transferred the remaining 140 million yen.
Fortunately, half of the 300 million yen could be recovered, otherwise Shirakawa Feng would not let him go so easily.
This matter took nearly a month to deal with, and finally there was some preliminary result.
Yamamoto from HAL's finance department was suspected of helping former president Tanimura to falsify accounts and transfer company public assets.
Finally, he was ordered by the headquarters to resign and be relieved of all related positions.
Considering that the amount of money he embezzled was not large, HAL did not send him directly to the Metropolitan Police Department.
In fact, the most fundamental reason why he was not allowed to operate the sewing machine was that Shirakawa Kaede had already reached an agreement with Tanimura.
The latter handed over his shares and the former did not pursue his legal responsibility.
If only Yamamoto was sent to jail, he would feel unbalanced and would definitely give out Tanimura as the mastermind.
Since both parties have signed the contract, Baichuan Feng will keep his promise.
After all, the deal was definitely a good deal as it cost less than 200 million yen to get 1.8% of HAL's original shares.
Otherwise, with the rapid expansion of FES and gaming business this year, Tanimura's dividends would be more than 200 million yen by the end of the year.
Moreover, the company has been involved in a financial scandal, which is not a good thing no matter how you look at it.
Considering the social impact, the matter was ultimately handled in a low-key manner.
Tanimura resigned, handed over his shares and left. Yamamoto was blacklisted in the industry and disappeared from the scene.
At the same time, two staff members of the development team were transferred from their original departments to the Internal Affairs Department.
A deputy director of the personnel department was fired and the two parties signed an agreement that HAL did not have to pay any compensation.
At this point, the "handheld game console incident" ended with the resignation of three senior executives and the transfer of two developers.
"All evidence regarding Yamamoto and Tanimura's crimes must be sealed and not lost."
"Yeah!" Assistant Oda nodded to show that he understood.
Shirakawa Kaede looked at Tokyo outside the window, his eyes sometimes flashing, sometimes falling into deep thought.
