Chapter 866 Gossip
After Lao Yang left, Lu Shiliang picked up the newspaper he hadn't finished reading and continued reading it, but after reading only a few lines he began to feel irritated and uneasy.
He threw down the newspaper, stood up, walked to the window and looked into the distance.
These days, Lu Shiliang has been feeling a little uneasy, especially as Nandu's restructuring progressed step by step and the specific restructuring plan would soon be finalized, and Lu Shiliang's mood became worse and worse.
He knew very well that when this matter came to light, his history in Nandu would be over. Although Lu Shiliang had been working privately these days, had made many connections, and had received some promises, it would not be a problem for him to transfer to another place after Nandu was restructured. However, compared with the past four years in Nandu, Lu Shiliang knew that the good days before were gone forever.
Although Lu Shiliang's management skills were not good, he had gained a lot of benefits in Nandu. Not to mention the eating and drinking, the bad things he and Qian Wanjiang did secretly together had harmed a lot of Nandu's interests.
The reason why Nandu has come to this point today, apart from the problems with the system, management, products and triangular debts, Lu Shiliang and Qian Wanjiang should bear most of the responsibility. Take the contract that Lao Yang just signed for him, for example. There have been many such things in the past few years, and the tricks involved cannot be put on the table at all.
Now, Nandu is about to be restructured, and these things will be impossible after the restructuring. So Lu Shiliang and Qian Wanjiang took advantage of the last opportunity to arrange a few large purchases in the past few days. For these purchase contracts, even though the funds in the factory are very tight now, Lu Shiliang still instructed the Finance Department and the Supply and Marketing Department to give priority to solving them.
When Lu Shiliang thought of this, he felt a little heartbroken, and couldn't help but complain to the higher-ups why they wanted to change the system for no reason? Wouldn't it be better to continue to maintain Nandu?
Although Nandu had asked for a lot of money from the higher-ups since last year, in Lu Shiliang's eyes, this money was what Nandu deserved. You have to know that Nandu holds a lot of shares in Sit. How big is Sit now and how good is its performance? Anyone with a discerning eye can see it. And what about the performance created by these shares? How much did Nandu get? Most of it didn't fall to Nandu at all. He, Lu Shiliang, was just taking back what should have belonged to Nandu in this way.
Unfortunately, the arm is not stronger than the thigh. The decision is made from above, and Lu Shiliang, as the head of Nandu, can only follow the arrangements from above.
Sighing, Lu Shiliang couldn't help but shook his head. This matter could not be undone. What a pity...
Lighting a cigarette, Lu Shiliang's gaze gradually moved from a distance downwards, and finally fell on the factory gate.
Nandu’s factory office building is in a good location, and his office is on the third floor. Through the glass windows, he can clearly see most of the factory area, including the factory gate.
It was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, and it was also time for the early shift to get off work. There were quite a few employees walking out of the factory gate, but the strange thing was that usually after leaving the factory gate everyone would go their separate ways back home, but today Lu Shiliang saw quite a few people gathered outside the factory gate. These people were all employees of the factory, young and old, male and female, and no one knew what they were talking about when they got together.
After watching for a while, Lu Shiliang couldn't help but frowned. He thought about it, returned to his desk, picked up the phone and dialed an internal number. After a while, someone answered the call.
"I'm Lu Shiliang!"
"Hello, Secretary Lu. I am Xiao Wang from the Security Department."
"What's going on at the door? How do you do your security work? Why are there so many people gathered?"
"This... Secretary Lu, I don't know either. How about I go and ask?"
"Where is your section chief? Ask him to check it out immediately and report to me!" Lu Shiliang hung up the phone after saying this. Xiao Wang from the Security Department couldn't help but curse when he heard the busy tone coming from the phone. Lu Shiliang was so arrogant, but he was scolded for no reason, and he was also asked to find the section chief to investigate?
Why are you making such a big deal about such a trivial matter? Is it necessary? Isn't it just a gathering at the door after get off work to chat?
However, the leader's arrangement could not be ignored, so Xiao Wang immediately called the security department and told the section chief about it. The section chief frowned upon hearing it and told Xiao Wang that he would come over to check it out right away, and asked Xiao Wang to find out what was going on first.
Xiao Wang hung up the phone and walked out of the guard's room. In fact, he was a little curious about what happened today. Normally, everyone would leave directly after the early shift, and at most a few good colleagues would wait at the door for someone to leave together.
It has never happened before that a large group of people gathered at the door like today, and they were chatting enthusiastically about something.
A few minutes later, the security chief arrived. Xiao Wang had already been in the crowd while. When the chief came to ask Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang quietly told the chief what he heard. After listening, the chief hurriedly asked if it was true or not. Xiao Wang said he was not sure, but everyone was saying that it should not be false. The chief hurriedly leaned over to listen for a while. After about ten minutes, he squeezed out of the crowd with a worried look on his face, said a few words to Xiao Wang, and then rushed towards the factory office building.
After arriving at the factory office and knocking on Lu Shiliang's office door, the security chief quickly reported to Lu Shiliang. After listening to the report, Lu Shiliang was also stunned and asked the security chief whether it was true or not. The security chief patted his chest and said it was absolutely true. He personally listened to it for a long time, but he didn't know where the news came from. However, everyone said it with a lot of evidence, so it shouldn't be false.
Lu Shiliang frowned and thought for a while, then waved his hand to let the security chief leave. At the same time, he told him to take people to the factory gate to tell everyone not to gather like this, as it would have a bad influence if so many people gathered together.
After the security chief left, Lu Shiliang could not sit still. He walked around the office for a few times, picked up the phone and dialed it. A moment later, the factory director Qian Wanjiang came to Lu Shiliang. Lu Shiliang asked him to close the door, and the two started chatting about this matter.
Good news doesn't travel far, but bad news travels far and wide. By the next day, everyone in the factory had heard about what happened at the factory gate yesterday, and everyone was in a panic.
"Have you heard?"
"I heard about it. You heard about it too?"
"Of course I heard about it. I found out when I got off work early yesterday. What about you?"
"I left early, and my apprentice came to my house and told me not long after I got home."
"By the way, do you think this is true or false?"
"I think it's true. Otherwise, how could they be so strict? Besides, you know that the factory is going to be restructured. It is said that they originally wanted to let Si Te be in charge of the restructuring of our Nandu, but I don't know what happened and now it suddenly became Coca-Cola."
"Yes, yes, yes, I know that too. It seems that in addition to Sit and Coca-Cola, there is another southern company? Do you think the restructuring will really fall on Coca-Cola? If so, then what we talked about yesterday is really possible?"
"What do you mean by really possible? Let me tell you! After my apprentice told me about this, I immediately contacted the neighbors of my cousin's wife's second aunt's classmates and asked around. It's basically been decided that Coca-Cola has been chosen to restructure our Nandu, and this restructuring is a merger and acquisition restructuring. Do you know what a merger and acquisition means?"
"What?"
"Mergers and acquisitions mean mergers and acquisitions! That means we will sell our entire Nandu to Coca-Cola, and there will be no Nandu anymore..."
"Fuck! This is really true! If this is the case, what should we employees do?"
"What else can we do? Didn't we say it? Coca-Cola is a beverage company. After acquiring Nanfang, they will no longer produce previous products and their equipment will be useless. All we have been doing for half our lives is making candies, cakes and so on. By then, they will be completely useless. Then we will... what was it...?"
"get out of class dismissed?"
"No... it's not dismissal. Your kid is dismissed after school. This is called... That's right! It's called layoffs? Anyway, that's it. Everyone is dismissed and go home to hug your children..."
"Don't even think about it! I've worked at Nandu for most of my life. Not only me, but my wife also works at Nandu. If we get laid off and go home, what will we eat and drink without a salary? Besides, we are a state-owned enterprise! Isn't it said that we, the employees, are the owners of the enterprise? How can we do this? No! I can't control others, but I won't leave even if you kill me!"
"Don't be silly. What about state-owned enterprises? Once Coca-Cola acquires Nandu, you will be a slave working for the capitalists. What about the owner of the company? You will be worthless by then! Just wait and see..."
"XXXX! That bastard came up with this? Wouldn't it be better to let Si Te come? Why did he have to ask Coca-Cola to come? After all, we and Si Te were a family before, so it's better than having outsiders come, right?"
"What do you know? Let me tell you, Coca-Cola wants to acquire Nandu because it is aware of the shares of Ster held by Nandu. I tell you, you must not tell anyone else, this is confidential. After Coca-Cola acquires Nandu and gets the shares of Ster, Coca-Cola will take this opportunity to control Ster, and then pack up . Do you think capitalists are all kind-hearted people? Have you read books? Capitalists are all black-hearted."
"There is such a statement? Do the leaders above allow it?"
"What's wrong with that? Maybe they've been wearing the same pants secretly for a long time, otherwise why would they be interested in Coca-Cola?"
"If this is the case, can we still survive?"
"Yes, in the future...ah..."
Similar conversations were common throughout the factory, and as time went on, the situation escalated beyond everyone's expectations.
By the afternoon, employees who worked the early shift gathered at the factory gate just like yesterday, but employees who worked the middle shift did not go in after clocking in, but gathered together to talk about this matter.
The more they talked, the more panicked everyone became, and they were also extremely angry. A good company has now become like this, and the employees of Nandu were already very dissatisfied. Now Nandu is going to undergo restructuring. If the restructuring plan and the implementers are sincere, perhaps the employees of Nandu would not have too many thoughts. But now these true and false news are getting more and more outrageous, and with the secret promotion of some "interested people", they have become more and more plausible, making everyone uneasy.
