The Bottom of a Large Company Does a Good Job - Chapter 287



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Episode 287. Let’s get it together (2)

I’ve decided what to do.

Now all that remains is to make a plan.

Specifically, specifying the goal.

“This is a bit tricky. I can’t tell who my employees dislike… … .”

Even if you’re on the same team, it’s hard to know what’s on people’s minds.

But you want me to figure out human relationships across the company?

Well, I’ll do it if you tell me to, but it’ll take a while.

Kwon Tae-ho said, ‘now.’

Before Chae On-ik began to gather his forces in earnest.

We must first make Jo Mi-hyeon’s forces retreat.

So that Chae Tae-ik can step forward.

Who would know the ins and outs of human relationships within a company?

Should I ask people I know, like the head of the public relations team or the head of the housing division?

It was when I was worrying.

“Team leader.”

Chae In-ha looked at me with clear eyes.

I realized it in those playful eyes.

“Oh, no way… … .”

“Yes. No way! I know very well who hates whom!”

Chae In-ha put his hands on his waist and laughed, “Hahaha.”

I’m having quite a bit of fun.

Perhaps it was the fact that he was actively involved in the planning that motivated him.

Because I also found it thrilling and fun to make a plan and watch it come to fruition.

Let’s just enjoy it.

“There are quite a few employees in the company. Can you know them all?”

“Hahaha. The team leader has been going out all the time for the past three months. But I’ve only been in the office.”

I feel sorry for no reason.

Although I accompanied him on important matters, I mostly moved alone unless absolutely necessary.

With only a few days left to go to the office, Chae In-ha must have been very bored.

“But I’m not the kind of person to sit around and let loose! I’m shameless!”

The corners of Chae In-ha’s mouth twitched.

Reflect on yourself.

I feel like I’ve been left alone for too long.

“At first, I didn’t want to eat alone, so I was looking for someone to eat with. But then people started showing interest in me because I looked bad. Or maybe they were curious? It’s not important now.”

Probably both.

“One day I ate with the accounting team, and the next day I ate with the finance team. Then, I suddenly had this thought. Isn’t this also information?”

Although he said ‘suddenly’, this must also have been the result of thought.

This is the result of the loneliness of working alone in an office and the desperation to do something.

I listened seriously to Chae In-ha’s achievements.

“After that, whenever I had nothing to do, I would go around. Of course, I didn’t come empty-handed. I would have lunch with him, buy him coffee, and when I felt sleepy in the afternoon, I would go and chat.”

I pictured it in my head.

Chae In-ha, who was bored because she had nothing to do, waited alone for my call, then went around each department’s office buying something.

At first, you might have been wary.

As time passed, everyone probably accepted it with regret.

It’s not like you can kick out someone who comes to buy food.

“Thank goodness our team leader is a workaholic! Everyone looked at me with such pity? Thanks to that, I was able to easily get along. Oh, and I also cursed at the team leader a bit. Is that okay?”

I nodded my head towards Chae In-ha, who was speaking playfully.

“Of course it’s okay. It’s also information warfare.”

It’s okay for a team member to curse at a team leader who’s wandering around alone.

I heard that they asked for information about that.

“At that time, I honestly didn’t know what I needed, so I just asked around and picked up whatever I could. I didn’t like going to just one place, so I rotated around to different departments.”

“You didn’t hate it when I said I was busy?”

“The trick is to avoid busy places. I came here to find out about the company’s internal affairs, but I ended up hearing a lot of useless stuff. I think it will be helpful for this job.”

“Okay. I believed in you, Inha.”

We laughed it off coolly.

After a good laugh, Chae In-ha said with a refreshed expression, “Let’s go on a walk.”

“Let me start with the biggest one. Our vice president, whom I’ve never even met before.”

He started talking as if he was trying to relieve his stress.

“Team Leader, have you ever seen the Vice President’s face?”

“no.”

I thought it was strange.

If you look at the organizational chart, there is clearly a title called Vice President, but I have never seen it in the company.

But it is not something that cannot be understood.

Because there are always parachutes who don’t work and just keep their jobs.

Besides, isn’t this Taesung Construction?

The older the company and the more trouble it has, the more likely it is to be like this.

However, I guess he found this point of chaining strange.

Why is the president making all the decisions when there is a vice president?

From what I’ve heard from various departments, this is what it was like.

“Before the construction of Taesung, there were meritorious retainers who had been with Jo Mi-hyeon since his father’s generation.”

“You are the one who is leaving.”

“Yes. The vice president is the center of the group, or so to speak, the leader. After the previous generation passed the company over to Taesung and passed away, the majority of the group’s opinions turned to the vice president, who was the previous generation’s right-hand man.”

Jo Mi-hyeon did not want Taesung Construction to be taken over by an outsider.

So, he made his right-hand man the president and the person who would become the center of the group the vice president.

Therefore, although the vice president did not actually come to the company to work, his very existence was the foundation for the construction of Taesung.

In other words, it means that for us, it is a target that must be cut off unconditionally.

“There are a few executives who only have a title like Vice President but don’t actually do any work. For example, Managing Director Jin Young-guk.”

As far as I know, Jin Young-guk was the executive director in charge of finance.

The funds are managed by the finance team of the Management Support Headquarters.

But, whether it’s negotiation or investment attraction, there is a rank appropriate to the position.

For example, if a bank president comes out, it is impossible for the finance manager to come out, right?

Of course, considering the real power held by the finance manager, he is qualified, but that is a practical matter.

It was polite to have at least one executive present to brighten up the occasion.

Investment conditions and details will be handled by the working-level staff anyway.

Mr. Jin, just sit down.

It was a managing director position that was given to me under those conditions.

The problem is that Jin Young-guk even threw that thing away.

“There’s a lot of dissatisfaction in the finance department. They say they do all the work, but the managing director takes care of everything. They say that because they filled the executive staff with people from Jo Mi-hyun’s side, that guy ended up in the managing director position.”

“Did the shareholders and directors just sit still?”

“They’re all the same, you know. This place is even worse than Taesung in terms of family management. As Taesung grew bigger, the ones without skills just left. This place is a kingdom within a kingdom.”

“So this means that all of the shareholders, including the major shareholders, have gone.”

“Yes. My father said he didn’t touch Taesung Construction during the merger.”

Taesung has done M&A whenever necessary.

In the process, he secured stable management rights by cutting out major shareholders of opposing companies who were interfering with his business.

There is a way.

Because a merger is a stock exchange.

Simply adjust the value of the shares being exchanged by lowering the value of the counterparty company.

Although the process was by no means clean, it helped Taesung’s ruling structure remain unshaken.

The only sanctuary that such a chairman left untouched was Taesung Construction.

“It’s something the Chairman would want to tear down.”

“Maybe I’m a thorn in your father’s side?”

“If it were me, it would come to mind even while I was sleeping. Even though Taesung Construction is using Taesung’s name, it is not mine.”

The excuse is that it is to get Chae Tae-ik out of his skirt, but isn’t there also this kind of selfish motive behind it?

“Anyway, since Managing Director Jin Young-guk doesn’t do his job, the head of the headquarters usually goes out himself or another Managing Director goes out. That’s right, Managing Director Cho, who is in charge of external affairs.”

“Ah! Are you Executive Director Jo In-chan?”

“Yes. He is famous among the employees for being very busy. He has a lot of connections, but when there is an external schedule, Director Cho almost always goes out.”

Just as Taesung Group has Gam Bae-seop, Taesung Construction has Executive Director Jo In-chan.

Moreover, he does a much better job than the original person in charge, Executive Director Jin Young-guk.

If a company is doing well even without confidence, you should usually feel a sense of crisis, but Jin Young-guk was the opposite.

“I guess you’re just too excited to come out.”

“That’s right. People are complaining that they don’t do any work but just stand in line and get paid regularly. And they get paid a lot because they’re executives.”

The thing that practitioners hate the most is someone who got promoted through politics.

And you’re not even doing any work?

It’s worth hating.

“Vice President and Managing Director Jin Young-guk. These two are representative. In addition, there are two people who were put in executive positions for personal connections.”

There are cases where executive positions are given to former directors or vice ministers of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.

You get those connections in exchange for guaranteeing your old age.

Even though he has retired, his subordinates and juniors are still in their current positions.

In a word, it is full preferential treatment.

“Well, let’s not touch those people right now.”

Those people are also assets to Taesung.

Because what they wanted was not the construction of Taesung, but Jo Mi-hyeon’s power.

Considering the chaos that would result after the executive team was swept away, it would have been better to keep the human resources.

“Other than that, it’s just trivial.”

From Chae In-ha’s mouth, it was said that a team leader in a certain department stole an idea from a subordinate and submitted it under his own name.

Rumors continued that a manager had thrown paper at his employees.

“We have to be careful from here on out. We’re writing a death list right now. We can’t just assume someone is dead based on rumors.”

Chae In-ha nodded with a stern expression.

“That’s true. I think it needs further verification. At least I can witness it myself or cross-check it with multiple testimonies.”

Now, even without being told to do it, Chainha finds things to do on his own.

“Okay. Then let’s start by gathering evidence first. Our goal is to complete the list of murders within this week.”

“Yes. Just follow me.”

Chae In-ha drank the remaining iced Americano.

The ice left on the floor creaked as if foreshadowing a bright future.

***

The TF team starts doing something again.

Rumors began to spread throughout Taesung Construction.

Now, they are treated like fierce dogs that cannot be touched, so curious eyes follow them no matter what they do.

However, the one who people were paying attention to was Chae Kyung-jun.

It was relatively out of the public eye.

“Hello, Managing Director. Is this the first time I’m greeting you properly? I’m TF Team Leader Chae Kyung-jun.”

“Oh, oh, oh. Nice to meet you. You don’t have to go this far, but why… …”

“It’s been over three months since I came to the company, and I haven’t said hello to you.”

“If you’re busy, that’s possible. Hahaha… … .”

Chae Kyung-jun visited each and every executive, manager, and team leader under the pretext of greeting them, which he had put off because he was busy.

Thanks to that, the people above were very nervous.

‘Why is that guy who didn’t even care about greetings barging in all of a sudden! I don’t even want to see his face!’

It was a fun spectacle for the regular employees, but it was a real pain in the ass for the managers.

The Chae Kyung-jun they had seen so far was a person with the talent to create something out of nothing.

Because he is the culprit who caused a perfectly good construction company to start rebuilding.

It would have been better if you had come to greet me as soon as I was posted, but why are you greeting me now?

I couldn’t receive greetings with a pure heart.

While Chae Kyung-jun was running around the entire company, relatively less attention was paid to Chae In-ha.

As the executives had guessed, there was an ulterior motive behind the personnel decision.

This is what makes it easy for Chainha to move.

When Chae Kyung-jun started stirring things up again, the employees felt sorry for Chae In-ha and told her all sorts of stories.

To the ordinary employees who did not know that Chae In-ha was part of the owner family, Chae Kyung-jun was a capable and hard-working but evil boss.

There was a lot of public opinion sympathizing with the only team member who had no choice but to be swayed by it.

On one side, Chae Kyung-jun was stirring things up, while on the other side, Chae In-ha was quietly gathering information.

It was a fantastic teamwork.

So before the weekend, the two of them completed their kill list.