Offer To The CEO

Monday, continued …

Once he hung up from the call the first thing he did was sit down in his chair and breathe a sigh of relief. That was scary in dealing with Lu Jingho. That then made him start to question whether he could remain at Lu Corporation. Lu Corporation's entertainment division was good, despite the interference of Lu Jingho, which often destroyed good outcomes.

The problem was, that Lu Jingho had caused significant damage to the entertainment division, through his actions. The web of companies that were behind what, if he had to be honest, he believed was in fact the truth, was from what he understood was significant that even Lu Corporation's own legal team had not yet been able to unravel it. That was scary.

For Deputy Vice-CEO Tang, the concern he had was his career. He started out in the entertainment industry working as an artist's assistant before working his way to become an artist manager through into management and ultimately into the position he currently had. He had always been known as a person who was highly protective of any artist that he has dealt with. 

Having to deal with the allegations, which from what he had seen were consistent, was abhorrent and went against what he believed management should do for the artist that they are responsible for, all in the name of profit. It was only when his wife, over the weekend sat him down and went over his employment contract he realised that he could not only immediately leave Lu Corporation, there was no active restraints on him joining another entertainment company. After long discussions, he agreed with his wife that the best thing would be to leave as soon as possible after dealing with the fallout from the lost contracts.

The funniest thing was, his wife told him that they had enough money, and he could either be a stay-at-home parent, or join her in creating a small artist management company, where taking care of the artists they managed was the priority.

He picked up the phone to make the two calls he needed to make, to finalise the report. He already knew why the projects had gone, and the realityt was it was all Lu Jingho's fault. The problem was that he would never accept that. He simply needed confirmation to do the report, then he would hand to the board his letter confirming that given his employment contract end he was leaving with immediate effect.

Twenty minutes later Deputy Vice-CEO Tang had the answers which confirmed all his suspicions of. The loss of those contracts boiled down a few different things. Lu Jinhu's behaviour was concerning to them, and when everything started to come out about Lu Jingho, that was for some the last thing that they would tolerate. They did not want to be associated with their actions. Adding to that was the joint venture between Hou Enterprises and XF International, which provided a more attractive deal for them. Plus, the few artists that they recommended to use were not those that the people wanted.

He quickly worked to finalise his report for the board, as he wanted this piece of work done. Once he completed it, he turned his mind to his resignation letter. He knew that he needed to get out of Lu Corporation, as he suspected things would only get worse.

Twenty minutes later when he finished the resignation letter, he finalised packing his final few remaining personal items into the two remaining boxes in his office. Even though people had been in and out of his office for a significant part of the day, no one had realised that his personal items were gone.

Just before he sent the email with his resignation, he copies the contacts from his business mobile into an email to his assistant before doing two factory resents on his mobile, and as he sent the final emails he started the factory reset on his laptop and desktop computers.

As he finished, he picked up his personal mobile and dialled a number. As soon as the person on the other end of the phone answered he said "CEO Hou, this is Tang Din, before you hang up on me could you please listen to what I have to say..."