Since Chen Feng had to go to work, he didn’t accompany Guo Mengyao on outings during the next two days. However, after work in the evening, Chen Feng returned to the Lakefront Villa to spend the night.
During these two days, Chen Feng was mostly immersed in the planning department because it was his old turf and he was familiar with it. He directly participated in some activity planning in the department, offering many of his own suggestions, and received unanimous praise from the entire planning department.
Moreover, as the operations director, he also visited other departments, mainly the sales department, chatted with several top salespeople, and encouraged the new employees.
Although he didn’t have much experience as a company leader before, he had seen how things were done, and now he was quite adept and proficient in leadership.
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On the day after the layoffs were announced, the company laid off 20 people, mostly those connected through nepotism from previous management who had average personal work abilities.
By noon on the third day, each department submitted their layoff lists. After Chen Feng and Liu Meijun reviewed them and talked with some employees on the list, aside from a few who were kept, the rest were let go. This time, more than 30 people were laid off.
As a result, the company, which originally had more than 120 employees, was left with about seventy, reducing nearly half of the workforce.
The magnitude of this action was undeniably large!
Consequently, the company was extremely tense, yet everyone was focused and working hard, especially in the sales and planning departments, both voluntarily worked overtime. The sales department lost five people in this layoff, and the planning department had ten directly laid off.
The planning department originally had three teams, with a total of over twenty people. After this round of layoffs, only around ten were left, effectively cutting more than a third from each team.
However, these layoffs, instead, stimulated work enthusiasm within the planning department.
The people let go were mostly those with no real abilities who were just passing time, among them at least five had been idlers in the company for over three years. They had become accustomed to earning their salaries without working hard, were not very proactive in their tasks, and often delayed projects when assigned. Their completed plans usually failed to satisfy clients, often being sent back.
Though such occurrences were common, especially when encountering difficult clients leading to multiple revisions, if different clients frequently found their plans unsatisfactory, it undeniably reflected personal capability issues.
Many old clients had been slowly worn down by these old idlers’ unqualified plans, opting to cooperate with other planning companies instead.
Having worked in the planning department for so many years, Chen Feng was naturally well aware of this. So, after becoming the boss, he despised these former idlers in the company and laid off them without hesitation.
Because the company had decisively laid off many people from the planning department, those who remained greatly revered Chen Feng, the deputy boss. The manager, newly appointed and in office for less than a year, was especially nervous.
This planning department manager was named Gao Xiangyu, also considered a veteran employee of the company, joining just over a year after Chen Feng, roughly at the same time as Yan Jun, making him his junior colleague. Initially, their relationship was quite good because Chen Feng was favored by the boss at the time and held the position of a team leader, vice-manager level.
However, later as Chen Feng was suppressed, Gao Xiangyu naturally distanced himself to protect his own interests, sometimes even speaking in favor of the then up-and-coming Yan Jun, albeit not excessively, but still considered an accomplice to Yan Jun.
When Yan Jun was ousted, Gao Xiangyu was one of three team leaders. After Yan Jun’s downfall, another team leader involved in a scandal was dismissed, and the other resigned due to personal issues. As the last remaining team leader, Gao Xiangyu was relatively clean, thus promoted to department manager.
In this regard, he actually owed gratitude to Chen Feng, who put Yan Jun in prison. Otherwise, as long as Yan Jun held the manager position, there wouldn’t be a chance for him to emerge.
But now, with Chen Feng as his direct superior and boss, the psychological pressure on him was too much, causing sleepless nights and poor appetite, his dark circles markedly worsened.
In his view, now that Chen Feng had risen to power, he surely wouldn’t show mercy to those who suppressed him in the past or were accomplices. It’s only human nature.
He had been preparing for dismissal or demotion, but after two days and the conclusion of layoffs, he remained seated in the manager position, with no sign of Chen Feng intending to demote or dismiss him.
This left him feeling both relieved and puzzled.
That evening, Chen Feng invited a few remaining colleagues from the planning department to dinner, totaling nearly ten people.
At the dining table, Gao Xiangyu proactively punished himself with three glasses of baijiu to apologize to Chen Feng, thanking him for "sparing him" and apologizing for being complicit in past events.
Chen Feng graciously accepted his apology with a smile, allowing the anxiety Gao Xiangyu had been feeling these past few days to finally dissipate.
The other "old colleagues" had no grudge against Chen Feng, as those who held grudges were basically close allies of Yan Jun, most of whom either went to prison with Yan Jun or were fired by the company.
Even if a few slipped through, Chen Feng took advantage of this layoff to dismiss them as well. He felt no psychological burden over this.
For instance, the obese supervisor encountered previously was directly targeted by Chen Feng in the first wave of layoffs, receiving no severance and having a month’s pay deducted.
The reason being simple: as a junior supervisor in the administrative department, the guy had frequently taken kickbacks and lined his pockets while handling logistics; Chen Feng did not intervene personally but had HR remind him to accept reality and leave.
The remaining "old colleagues" in the planning department were relatively clean. Thus, Chen Feng was willing to invite them to dinner to strengthen relationships.
This meal left everyone satisfied, especially Gao Xiangyu, who, upon confirming Chen Feng’s lack of intention to target him, returned home thoroughly drunk.
After this meal, Chen Feng began to slack off, no longer going to work, and instead spent an entire day accompanying Guo Mengyao and her daughter at the amusement park, then returned to Lakefront Villa devoting the evening solely to Guo Mengyao.
Ensuring she had a perfect experience before leaving.
The next morning, Chen Feng drove her and her daughter to the airport. On the way, Guo Mengyao was very reluctant to leave, but she couldn’t neglect her responsibilities as the company’s boss, so after a deep embrace at the airport, she turned with her daughter to board the plane.