From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars

Chapter 302 Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dockyard Company

Cosmic Standard Time, 22:32 on November 4, 589 New Year.

Nino 6 at 9 a.m. local time.

In the Cornerstone 5 Industrial Space City, Milton, the former president of Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dockyard Company, stood in front of the headquarters building and watched as the 'Poseidon Company' logo was closed and taken down.

Immediately afterwards, several spider-like orange-yellow engineering robots installed a set of holographic LOGO bases on the wall in front of the company building.

When the circuit is connected and all components have been inspected, the on-site hoisting command ‘3! 2! 1! ' After the countdown ended, the holographic projection device was activated, and several huge geometric LOGOs appeared outside the wall of the building.

"ATLAS"

The former helmsman of Poseidon Shipbuilding looked a little lonely in his tone as he looked at the new logo that lit up.

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Time goes back to some time ago.

After some initial contacts, the company named Atlas expressed its willingness to acquire the entire assets of Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dockyard Company.

To be honest, the entire top management of Poseidon Shipbuilding was confused at that time.

Especially after they investigated Atlas and found out that it was a multi-star enterprise with businesses involving heavy industry, mining, defense contracting, and equipment manufacturing, they felt even more unbelievable.

Although the name of their company looks very domineering, in fact, until now, the company's main business has only been the manufacturing of various cargo ships.

The two companies can be said to be in two completely different worlds, and theoretically there is no chance of intersection.

But now, not only has there been an intersection, the other party even wants to acquire their company on very favorable terms.

During a certain negotiation, the vice president of Poseidon Shipbuilding couldn’t hold back his curiosity and asked:

"I would like to ask, what kind of virtues and abilities does our company have to attract your attention? Your sudden proposal to acquire us really makes us feel unsure."

In response to this question, Nick Leeson, who was responsible for the acquisition at Atlas, did not say anything and just responded with a mysterious smile.

"There's no special reason. It's just that our chairman likes your company better."

In fact, Nick Leeson was indeed telling the truth. Amber did take a fancy to the future of the Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dockyard Company. One of the unknown design teams of this company came up with several projects that 'amazed everyone' battleship design plan.

We still don’t know under what circumstances several cargo ship designers began to design the capital ship, but the fact is that they did design it.

Moreover, according to the early secret investigation of the acquisition team, this design team has already produced a blueprint of a battleship in their spare time, and all the main design indicators are exactly the same as Amber's impression.

In addition, Atlas has now also developed the capital ship construction business, so it really needs to acquire a shipbuilding company as a basis.

Obviously, everyone at Poseidon Shipbuilding didn't quite believe his answer.

However, they did not dwell too much on these aspects. After confirming that Atlas was not a leather company or a fraud group, they agreed to advance the acquisition to the next step.

For 'Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dock Company', being acquired by a large company is definitely a good thing. After the capital injection, the company's production line can also be upgraded, and in terms of business development, Atlas Group obviously has much richer resources than them.

But soon, these company executives were no longer happy.

Because the acquisition team headed by Nick Leeson put forward a prerequisite for the acquisition

That is, all company executives, including President Milton, will retire early.

Middle- and low-level administrative and clerical positions will also be abolished. For employees in these positions, Atlas also gives them two options: "transfer to technical positions" and "leave with N+5".

"Gentlemen, are you serious? How will the entire company run if so many civilian positions are eliminated?"

The chief human resources director raised this issue during the communication meeting.

"You don't need to worry about this. We at Atlas Group have sufficient experience in this area. Eliminating these bloated departments will only greatly improve the company's operating efficiency."

Nick Leeson answered with a professional smile.

After being released from prison and joining Atlas, the former economic prisoner felt that he had started a second life. The group's various treatment and reward and punishment systems were almost perfect. More importantly, he felt that he was learning new things every day. thing.

After spending some time in the financial business department, he found that everyone there was talented and spoke nicely.

Because of this, after Amber gave him the task of acquiring the Poseidon Shipbuilding and Dockyard Company, Nick Leeson immediately vowed in his heart to complete the task perfectly.

So now when facing the senior leaders of Poseidon Shipbuilding Company, he responded in his best condition.

"This is Mr. Nelson." Nick Leeson glanced at the work badge on the chest of the human resources director and said:

"I believe that what you are concerned about is not the staff in these administrative positions, but what you have in mind about the arrangements for you senior managers, right?"

After seeing the expression on the other person's face, Nick Leeson smiled and continued:

"Mr. Nelson and everyone present, don't be too greedy. I believe that other companies can never come up with the compensation plan we offer.

The money you get is enough to buy a few small islands on a certain planet and live a life of "superior people". It is more than enough to change a few second- and third-tier stars to accompany you every year. There is even spare money to invest in financial management to protect your second half of life.

So what are you dissatisfied with?"

"But this Poseidon Shipbuilding is the lifelong hard work of all of us! How can it be measured so simply with money!"

The human resources director said with some dissatisfaction after hearing Nick Leeson's words.

"Really?"

Nick Leeson showed a playful smile on his face.

"How about this, I will open an anonymous vote. You can send me your choice in an anonymous email within 20 minutes. Do you want to take the money and leave, or continue to entangle with us to protect your "lifelong hard work"?"

Nick Leeson also deliberately emphasized the pronunciation of the words "lifelong hard work".

"By the way, you must not have any psychological pressure, or think that dragging it into a 'protracted war' will lead to victory. The plan I am giving you now is absolutely a fair plan for both parties. If you insist on a stalemate, our Atlas Group is also quite experienced in 'forced acquisitions'."