Chapter 598: Chapter 598

The Liu Family Residence

Xiaoliu, arm in arm with Chen Jiaming, walked into the entrance of her home. The butler approached and said, "The old master is in the back garden."

Naturally, the Liu Family lived in a villa. Content orıginally comes from 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵⁂𝓯𝓲𝓻𝓮⁂𝓷𝓮𝓽

The two of them made their way to the back garden and saw Director Liu alone, squatting at the edge of a flower bed, tending to the soil with a small iron trowel. Hearing their approach, Director Liu turned around, saw the two of them, and said, "Sit."

The butler brought over two chairs for the guests.

Xiaoliu rolled up her sleeves and poured tea for the guests.

After finishing with the soil in the flowerpot, Director Liu stood up and went to the tap to rinse his hands before returning. Coming up to Chen Jiaming, he smiled and asked, "How is everything?"

The tone was very much that of an elder showing concern for a younger one.

Chen Jiaming thought about how his father’s friends were now almost all taking on significant roles within Changda, each of them certainly remembering his father and thus looking at Chen Jiaming with a certain distinction.

But the problem was, aside from being the youngest director at Changda currently, he couldn’t think of any special advantage he had that would garner such attention from these people.

Perhaps, this was the reason he came to meet this person today. Because this person could be considered as one nearly on par with Xiao Jianming within Changda. Director Liu’s popularity and prestige were enough to call to many shareholders to move their substantial shares into their hands.

For this reason, when Director Liu had suddenly volunteered to leave the board, some speculated whether it was Xiao Jianming who had asked Director Liu to retire early. If Director Liu stayed on, Xiao Jianming feared his son would not be able to hold his position against Director Liu.

Reflecting on these thoughts, Chen Jiaming’s expression was very solemn as he said, "Business operations within the company are running as usual, it seems unaffected by external influences. People are different now."

"You mean employee loyalty to Changda?" Director Liu, as if speaking from personal experience, nodded emphatically to this remark, "If it’s not someone holding a large amount of Changda’s assets, just a wage earner for Changda, what kind of influence does he need? At most, he would leave his old employer and look for a new one. Now, the talent, the good talent, experienced talent, especially those leaving a large company like Changda, will not lack offers from other companies."

"The proportion of resignations has not increased as much as expected. Many people are watching and are not in a rush to submit their resignation letters." Chen Jiaming said, "It seems that no one believes Changda will collapse all at once."

"That’s a bit of an oversimplification. Employees today are far more cunning," Director Liu said as he dried his hands and sat down, taking a sip of the tea his granddaughter had prepared, "I heard that Manager Wu, the future son-in-law of one of Chairman Xiao’s daughters, was fired by MN, and took a severance package amounting to hundreds of thousands."

Chen Jiaming, of course, had heard about this incident, which was indeed a lesson learned the hard way. No wonder nowadays many companies would rather not dismiss an employee directly but instead try everything to force the employee to leave on their own. And someone as cunning as Wa Zicong, who could weigh the pros and cons and had patience, wouldn’t fear whatever decision the company made.

The hardest part for a company’s management is, after all, how to manage the people below them.

At this point, Director Liu said, "Even though you didn’t study human resources management at university, Chairman Xiao has positioned you over HR. Do you know why he did this?"

"Isn’t it because my father used to manage this department? Like father, like son."

"Wrong," Director Liu shook his head.

"Wrong?" Chen Jiaming’s eyes narrowed slightly.