Offer To The CEO

Friday to Monday

After leaving the charity dinner, Hou Yi and Anna simple returned home, and remained there for the weekend. The only thing that they did, was that building security on Saturday reported to them less then 2 hours after they left for the dinner, two maids were detected calling Lu Jinhu and Yang Lin, to report that the two of them would be attending the dinner.

Hou Yi called the maids into his study, and immediately terminated their employment, for passing on information to Lu Jinhu and Yang Lin. Both protested their termination, but as they were being escorted from the apartment Butler Ge told them "Ladies, employers like Young Master and Young Madam, expect staff like us to respect their privacy and not tell people what they are doing. They accept that you will quietly talk about your work, but not further..

Anna spent part of the weekend preparing herself for the return to work part-time, but in Hou Enterprises, and debating with Hou Yi exactly where she would work within the building. They called Ji Feng over to ultimately settle the debate. She also returned and collected the suits that were made at the tailors in M Mall.

Lu Jinhu, decided to use his position as Vice-CEO at Lu Corporation to make hits at Hou Enterprises, and gain back some pride. Most of their spies without Hou Enterprises had their employment terminated so, they were getting limited information about its activities, particularly overseas activities.

He knew that Hou Enterprises were at their most vulnerable in Australia and the United States, with Australia being the most vulnerable as the activities were only in their beginning phase. The United States Activities had been going a little longer, but with the recent change in governmental policy Hou Enterprises were finding issues being a foreign company competing with domestic US companies.

Despite having been dismissive of his education and the business, Lu Jinhu believed he needed to be a public face for Lu Corporation's benefit rather than actually working in it. However he was not ignorant as to Lu Corporation's structure and its operations, generally. He attended meetings, and at least ensured he understood what was occurring.

On Saturday morning, he called all the senior executives in for a meeting to come up with the plans to deal with Hou Enterprises.

The first salvo fired last week by a junior senior executive about Hou Enterprises not complying with outward bound investment guidelines, failed to achieve much. But, as Lu Jinhu told the assembled staff that destroying Hou Enterprises was now the goal at any cost. Some raised concerns that if was fine trying to bring them down, but not at the cost of the company.

Lu Jinhu refused to hear this. "I am Vice-CEO of this company, and unless the CEO determines differently we are destroying Hou Enterprises at any cost. Additionally if you come across a woman in doing that called Anna Jones, then she is also to be destroyed."

Someone, unidentified by Lu Jinhu said "Vice-CEO Lu, how should we achieve this?"

"Well I do not know, that is what you are here for. That company has to be destroyed. You have an hour to have the next steps."

With that he stormed out of the meeting, leaving the senior executives questioning between themselves how they would achieve this, and whether they should leave the company before Lu Jinhu destroyed it in an unrestrained attempt to destroy Hou Enterprises. One even said, it was a pity that the CEO had left the country with his wife for two weeks and would be un-contactable for that time, otherwise he could have put restraints on his son.

They looked at the clock and realised that in their discussions they had lost 15 minutes of their allotted time.

When Lu Jinhu walked back into the meeting, he demanded "What plans have you come up with."

The allotted spokesperson, who knew that he would be fired if this was not liked "Sir, come up with two plans, with the steps to implement them. I will hand them to you to review. We have a list of other ideas that we will continue to work on."

With that, Lu Jinhu took the documents and quickly read over the plans. "Implement them, but I want another 10 things to be implemented by Monday night, as we have to have Hou Enterprises starting to crumble within 10 days, otherwise you are fired."

Lu Jinhu stormed out, and everyone looked at each other, knowing fully well then had nothing else that was even viable for the Vice-CEO and that would achieve his goals. Three people commenced implementing the approved actions, while everyone else continued to work on options.

Monday morning, Hou Yi and Anna after having spent a quiet weekend simply relaxing at home, were sitting down having breakfast, both ready to head into Hou Corporation, when Hou Yi received a call from Assistant Wang.

"CEO Hou, as you anticipated Lu Corporation, have started to act against the company."

"Doing what?"

"Firstly to be seen as more charitable they have announced a funding imitative for service for children, with significant donations from all the other major companies in the town. The on-line abuse and picketers outside Hou Enterprises, calling for the government to immediately liquidate us for failure to be a good corporate citizen is growing. They have used social media well to achieve this in such a short time."

"Secondly, they are attempting to undermine the Australian deal again. I understand details of what is happening in Australia is being emailed to Madam Hou, but here the attack is directed at Madam Hou. Part of what they are doing is claiming having legal staff from various countries on secondment, undermines local law graduates and lawyers. There is claims that we intend to employ only foreigners, and pointed to Madam Hou working here the week before last dealing the previous Australian legal matter."