Chapter 292: Chapter 292: Make an appointment to meet
Having made a decision and obtained her father's approval, Jin Ling felt much lighter.
It was very important to obtain her father's approval. She was not a little girl, and she would not be pretentious enough to think that her father's identity restricted her freedom and development. She knew very well that it was precisely because of her father's identity that she had so many opportunities and possibilities to try.
Otherwise, how could she have studied abroad so easily at the best business school abroad? How could she be the boss of a large group of people in their forties and fifties? She would not be naive enough to think that it was all because of her own abilities and hard work.
This ease of hers, which came from within and showed on the outside, was first felt by her secretary when she went to work on Monday. When she was bringing her coffee, she sincerely praised her, 'Director Jin, you look great today!'
'Thank you!' Jin Ling replied with a smile, not the kind of polite reply she used to give, but a sincere thank you. 'Tell the finance department to sort out all the company's expenses from last month and send them to me this afternoon.'
Director Jin wanted her to at least balance the books and not leave a big burden for her successor. Judging from the current situation and efficiency, it would be difficult and slow to increase income and open up new sources of income, but it would be easy to cut costs and the results would be quick.
When she looked at the report carefully in the afternoon, she was shocked herself.
There are now a total of eight stores, and the average turnover per store is still around 1,500 yuan, which works out to a total monthly sales of around 300,000 yuan. However, last month, the costs of entertainment, travel, car maintenance, and various subsidies for department heads added up to 20% of sales!
It is normal for the purchasing department to have travel expenses, and the marketing department, whose scope of work is only in the provincial capital, also has a large amount of travel expenses. What is strange is that the six subordinate departments all have entertainment expenses. What entertainment expenses can the finance department incur? And the construction department, only other people give him gifts and invite him to dinner, but his entertainment expenses are not inferior at all. What is this, a competition?
Each of the eight department heads has a car, the worst of which is a two-boxed Fufang. Everyone except Director Wei of the Human Resources Department is assigned a driver. Together with her car, the company now has more special cars for leaders than delivery trucks, and more driver for leaders than truck drivers.
These three items alone account for 20% of sales, and when you add in personnel expenses, management costs, taxes and other expenses, the total comes to nearly 40% of sales. It's a shock to see how much money is being spent.
It seems that you can't rely on the self-discipline of the department heads. It turns out that in order to improve work efficiency, Jinling has stipulated that funds of less than 2,000 yuan do not need to go through her, and the department heads can approve them. Now it seems that this is a big loophole.
As soon as she arrived at work on Tuesday, Jin Ling immediately notified the office that a notice had been issued, and that with the exception of her, all other managers in the company had their financial approval rights revoked.
As soon as this notice was posted on the notice board, new notices were posted one after the other.
From this day forward, all the leaders' cars will be sealed up and turned in to the headquarters to be exchanged for funds to be allocated. From the general manager and all employees below, all will go to work on their own. The eight drivers will all be transferred to the logistics department or the marketing department.
From now on, with the exception of the purchasing department, all other departments will not be reimbursed for entertainment expenses. The purchasing department must obtain prior approval for entertaining guests and must do so at designated hotels.
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For the general staff at the Jiamai headquarters, these notices have brought some new changes. Many of these people who were transferred to Jiamai were employees who were not doing well in their original departments. They never imagined that staying at Jiamai would be even worse than staying in their original departments. Two months have passed, and now there is finally hope.
But for those department heads, these notices are a step-by-step erosion of their power, a repeated slap in the face.
Director Yu of the Construction Department, who has already been verbally removed from office by Jinling, has scurried from department to department, successfully gathering a lot of anger. But when they gathered in Jinling's office, they were disappointed.
Jinling was already in the office of the group's general manager at this time. She had made an appointment for an hour yesterday afternoon.
The department heads left in a bad mood. Not long after, they heard that Jinling had returned to the office, but before they could go find her again, there was a commotion coming from the bulletin board.
Director Yu, who was wandering around, went over to take a look. It was a notice of the company's restructuring. The original eight departments were to be reduced to five: human resources, finance, procurement, marketing, and logistics. Nearly half of them would be cut.
The personnel and finance departments would be reduced by more than half, with a fixed staff of three, meaning that each director would only have two subordinates.
He couldn't help but feel angry. Two days ago, he had finally managed to get someone from the head office to speak for him, but today, not only had his department been abolished, but he himself had been made redundant. He no longer cared about his position in the company, and was about to go and confront her, when he saw that the notice at the end was not only stamped with the official seal of the company, but also the official seal of the head office. He was a little confused. Had this been approved by the head office?
He returned to his office and immediately saw the appointment and dismissal notice on his desk. Not only did it have Jin Ling's signature, but also the signature of the head of the personnel department of the head office. He was completely panicked, but when he went to other departments to ask for support, he couldn't get a single one.
The directors, who were still furious in the morning, were now acting as if nothing had happened, without a single complaint. It was no wonder that they were like that. The situation was beyond their control. When a tiger shows its claws, everyone knows that she is no pushover.
If the situation continued, the next notice might be to dismiss all the supervisors and replace them with replacements from the head office. After all that Jin Ling had done, it was understandable that she would take this step.
He trudged to the end of the day in a daze. Director Yu was packing up in his office when he saw through the window Director Wei from the HR department and Director Yang from the purchasing department walking together with smiles on their faces to the bus stop to catch the bus. He couldn't see the indignation they had shown when they were told to hand in their car keys, the way they had hated to see Jinling go down with the ship. What a wind-reading thing to do!
He gave the company one last look before leaving sadly. Starting tomorrow, he and Jiaming would have no connection at all, and he would return to the personnel department of the head office to wait for his next posting.
Finally, she had done everything she wanted to do regardless of the consequences. Jiaming was well aware of the saying that when the person is gone, so is the policy. Although she knew that these measures would definitely come to nothing after she left, she still felt very good about it.
Before leaving, there was one more thing she had to do: she had to go to Youjia and make things clear. It wasn't personal, but Jiamei just couldn't keep up with the pace at Youjia.
She didn't bring anyone with her, and took a taxi to Youjia's office alone. It was a fairly decent office building, but Jiamei's office environment was very ordinary, mainly due to the high density. She looked through the blinds and estimated that there were at least ten people working in an area the size of her current office.
Zhou Xinyu, who had just returned from a neighbouring province, heard that General Manager Jin of Jiamei was looking for her. He really wanted to ignore her, but thinking about her background, he still dared not neglect her and personally ushered her into the small meeting room.
As soon as Jin Ling saw him, she remembered: Isn't this the person who said they were opening a pickle factory on the opening day? It turned out that at that time, they had already been the butt of jokes, but since Zhou Xingyu didn't mention it, she naturally didn't either.
'President Jin, I'm honoured by your visit. What can I do for you?' Zhou Xingyu offered her tea and asked with a smile.
'I'm no longer President Jin. I've already submitted my resignation to the provincial government,'
'Oh, that's right, this market is always too small, and it's only natural that President Jin doesn't care about it. Then I wish President Jin great success in other fields.' Zhou Xinyu said something conventional, but in her heart she wasn't sure what her intentions were. If you're going to resign, why come and tell me?
So, the pride of princesses is beyond the understanding of ordinary people.
'President Zhou, don't worry, I will never compete with Youjia in the province again. I hope that under your leadership, Youjia will become bigger and stronger.' Although she was the loser in this competition, the tone of her words to Zhou Xinyu was still like that of a superior to a subordinate.
Looking at the employees of Youjia, who were in their twenties on average, walking at a trot with full energy, Jin Ling felt that there was no need to watch any longer. 'I just want to tell you that the main reason for the lack of development of Jiamy is its asset nature and its system. Goodbye!'
Zhou Xinyu now understood. This Jin Ling had come specially to say something to his competitor. It was not her fault that Jiamei had lost. She probably wanted to see for herself why Youjia had left Jiamei far behind. But was it worth it?
"General Manager Jin, please stop. You've said the wrong thing to the wrong person. You should not have said it to me, but to my boss. Youjia's achievements today were made possible by his leadership and arrangements.'
'Oh,' said Jiamei, who was arrogant and full of high aspirations when she first met the provincial business representative. Seeing that it was Zhou Xinyu who was making the arrangements in the provincial capital, and considering his resume, she naturally took him for the helmsman of Jiamei. This was the first time Jin Ling had realised that there was someone else at the helm.
But so what, 'No, goodbye!'
'Mr. Jin, please stay. I personally feel that you two will have a lot to talk about. I hope you can find the time to meet. It won't do any harm, will it?'
It would be nice to find someone who knows the industry well to talk to. 'Okay, take me to meet him!'
'I'm sorry, Mr. Jin, I'm afraid that won't be possible until Saturday two days from now.'
'He's on a business trip?'
'No, he's still in school and won't have the weekend off until Saturday.'
'Which university?' A university student? What can he tell me?
'He'll start university in the second half of the year, he's still in his senior year now.'
'Senior year?' Jin Ling almost flew into a rage. Are you telling me a story in Chapters?
'Meet me on Saturday, and you'll see that I'm not lying.' Zhou Xinyu said with a smile. He knew very well that Feng Yiping really needed someone like Jin Ling right now, not to mention the benefits her background would bring.
After Zhou Xinyu said that, Jin Ling really became a little interested. She knew that Zhou Xinyu wouldn't joke around like that, and if he was so sure, then she might as well meet him.
'What? Jin Ling has resigned, and you convinced her to meet me. Okay, no problem, I'll be there on Saturday on time.' Feng Yiping hung up the phone with a smile. This is really good news. Miss Jin, just come to me willingly!