In the afternoon, Charlie expelled and fired nearly half of the entire staff working for Kobayashi Pharma with incredible ease. 7
These people from Kobayashi Pharma were originally thinking of using a strike to fight against Charlie. However, they never expected that Charlie would not b e softhearted at all. Instead, he fired all of them directly without leaving even a single person behind. 6
This incident caused a major commotion in the Japanese business community!
First of all, no one would have thought that Kobayashi Pharma, which had been developing and growing so well, would experience a sudden change of ownership. Ninety percent of Kobayashi Pharma’s shares had already been transferred to an Oskian, and it was now officially an Oskian company, s
Secondly, no one would have thought that after Kobayashi Pharma became an Oskian company, it would fire more than half of its employees at one go!
In Japan, apart from bankruptcies, very few companies would suddenly expel and fire so many of their workers just like that. 3
This was especially so for a manufacturing company like Kobayashi Pharma who had nearly ten thousand employees working for them. 5
If they fired more than half of their workforce all at once, that would be equivalent to them getting rid of more than four thousand to five thousand people! 4
Moreover, aside from the production staff, all the employees in research and development, promotion, sales, and marketing positions had all been laid off. This operation left everyone feeling very incredulous. 1
From their point of view, this method of laying off people was tantamount to throwing away all of their most valuable assets.
However, Charlie did not care at all.
What he needed was not the Kobayashi Pharma brand or the reputation or patents that Kobayashi Pharma had. What Charlie needed was simply the production bases and production lines that Kobayashi Pharma had.
As long as Kobayashi Pharma could manufacture and produce the Apothecary Stomach Pill according to his requirements, that would be Kobayashi Pharma’s greatest worth at this stage. 7
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