Reborn America, this is my time

Chapter 168 Split and Cut
"Aaron, I have two important tasks here that you need to deal with immediately."

"You release the recruitment and cooperation information to the outside world according to the requirements I wrote above."

"You will be solely responsible for the recruitment. I only have one request, that is, if the applicants are of equal ability, we will give priority to those from Stanford."

"Report to me after the partners are selected, and you can talk after I evaluate."

"Okay?"

Two hours later, Ethan Jones called his treasurer, Alan Massey, into the office again, and handed the drafted document to the other party.

The sudden job made Alan Macy stunned. After he took the file and opened it for a look, his concise words and straightforward demands made him nod repeatedly, "Okay, Boss, I'll do it right away."

Without hesitation, he turned around and left.

A moment later, the conference room on the third floor of the Destiny game was full of employees, and a serious voice came from Alan Macy in front of the venue——

"Now, I am announcing an executive order from the President."

"From today, our company's departmental structure will be adjusted..."

Since Julis Noble volunteered to go to the book to taste freedom...ah no!It is to go to the book to exercise Ethan Jones' supervisory powers in Nintendo Chip Company.Then Ethan Jones, who couldn't find a suitable dispatcher, naturally agreed.

With her departure, the adjustment of the company's structure was logically put on the agenda.

In fact, the departmental structure of the Destiny game has always been chaotic. In order to save money, the departmental structure of the start-up company was like a grassroots team.

Before the company was small, it was acceptable to be disorganized, but it had to be changed after it became bigger.Clarifying job responsibilities and compacting job responsibilities are things that all companies will emphasize.

And under Ethan's thinking (for reference), the headquarters of Destiny Game will have five departments: administration, personnel, marketing, finance, and R&D.

Among them, finance and R&D have not changed much. The former is still under the control of Aaron Massey, while the latter is divided into R&D I and R&D II.R&D Department [-] will manage the company's hardware research and development, such as hosts and optical storage. The person in charge is Evelyn Johnson, and there are no department employees.

As for administration, personnel and marketing, that is actually the splitting of the original administrative department.

The administrative department led by Julis Noble was able to contact customers at the top and receive guests at the bottom. This combination of literary and military attributes is great, but it is too complicated.After reorganization, the administrative department only retains its general functions, and is only responsible for the management of the company's daily administrative affairs, recruitment, training, and employee performance calculations, all of which are handed over to the human resources department. The newly established marketing department is responsible for customer contact and maintenance, which were originally in charge of them.

This dismantling is still for the future. Now that the research and development of the home console has been carried out, the sales of the supporting products must also be started, and the sales of this gadget are not the same as the electronic arcade machines.

To make a simple analogy: the latter is B2B. Destiny Games sells its products to North American cinemas and small merchants in North American entertainment cities, which are also merchants. The amount and number of transactions involved in each transaction are relatively stable; while the former is B2C. Destiny Games needs to sell its products to North American consumers, and this involves the issue of distribution. It needs to negotiate with electronic product stores and large shopping malls in America to let those stores put their products on the shelves.

The tug-of-war caused by this cannot be handled by ordinary administrative clerks. The communication with small electronic product stores in various places also requires large-scale promotion. This form is actually to establish its own sales network in North America, so it is necessary to find a specialist to do it.

If Julis Noble does not leave, Ethan Jones will also reform. If Julis Noble leaves, Ethan Jones will not have to consider whether her actions will remove her power when reforming.

Although the game of fate is Ethan's one word, but when Barbara, an amiable professor, will show his desires, if Ethan can't change his mind, then he won't do it either.

This was covered in the recruitment letter that Ethan handed to Aaron Macy. In addition, he also needed a secretary who could help him collect all kinds of information, and the company also needed several drivers.

And the partner he asked Alan Macy to look for externally involved two major aspects, legal and financial.Although in the past two years, Stanford has been providing legal support to their company according to the student entrepreneurship plan, but when the negotiation starts, the Stanford law school teachers will definitely not participate in the whole process. They do not have the time and energy. When prostitution is not feasible, seeking external cooperation becomes inevitable.

After arranging the main affairs in the headquarters, Ethan quietly left the company and went to the factory in Miabida.When Thomas said that this place might have been targeted long ago, Ethan wanted to come here to see what the factory had become under his control.

"Oh Ethan, long time no see..."

As soon as he got out of the car, Michael Blanco, who was in charge of factory affairs, greeted him.

Perhaps because of a stable job and a happy life, he is now much younger than before. His gray hair has regained its luster, and a few strands of it have turned golden.

"Everything is stable at the factory, and the current number of employees is about to exceed [-]."

"But unfortunately, the oldest batch has gone, and now I have become an old employee here."

Accompanied by Michael Blanco, Ethan visited the factory area.

There are five workshops standing on the huge land, and ten workshops are evenly distributed among them. The employees of Workshop A follow the plate-making steps demonstrated by Evelyn to produce the circuit boards of electronic arcade machines there. After receiving the freshly baked motherboards, the employees of Workshop B solder the main components such as chips and memory on the motherboards according to the requirements in the production manual. Since this work takes less time, they will also send the motherboards loaded with games into the arcade box to complete the connection.

On the surface, the entire factory is running perfectly, but if you take a closer look, you will find that all the employees here are all wearing camouflage uniforms.

Although this look is common in any factory, because the camouflage is strong and stain-resistant, but those 30-something faces can confirm something.

"These are all veterans?"

Ethan greeted them with a smile, and asked in a low voice.

"Yes." Michael Blanc nodded and said, "They are all veterans who have heard the news, and most of them know each other, or... they brought each other."

Then he explained: "This matter is actually quite complicated. Do you remember Christmas last year? I said that some friends had a bad life. After learning that we had a stable job, they also wanted to come to work. At that time, you agreed, so I called them to come."

"At first, we got along relatively simply, but later on, these people told me that they also had some friends who wanted to come to work."

"I thought it was just a few at first, so I agreed."

"But now, they brought 47 of them one by one."

"Maybe it's because our formation frightened those children, so..."

"They just ran away."

"But that's good too. Now that the staff is unified, it's easier to manage."

"Oh, by the way, the new guys asked me to ask you, can they also enjoy the benefits of building houses after they have worked for a while? If they can, they also want to stay."

Now, there are no hippies in the Fate game's Milpita factory.

Unlike those who were fired before, these people resigned voluntarily.

Although they resigned for various reasons and involved various aspects, even Michael Blanco knew that the reasons on paper were all false, and the real reason was probably fear. They were afraid of the gathering of veterans and felt that they were out of place with this place.

And for this kind of behavior of pulling people together...

Ethan could understand, but he also had some headaches.

His original intention was to provide a decent job for the former owner's father's comrade-in-arms, but now... why are there so many veterans gathered here?

Although judging from the current situation, these guys are all working honestly.

But if all this falls into the eyes of outsiders, then it's obviously not right, right?

Not to mention that these guys have been on the battlefield, they must have some things that the general public does not have. Just the professional military training these guys have received is a bit outrageous.

In other people's factories, they are full of hard-working people who want to make a living, but in his factory, the workers can either drive a helicopter to make an emergency landing, or shoot birds with Bartley?

It's normal to be stared at, and it's an accident not to be stared at, right?
Special code!
"These people...should be all right?" After Ethan came to Michael Blanc's office, he asked cautiously what he thought.

At the same time, he also opened the skylight to speak bluntly——

"Michael, you are my father's comrades-in-arms. Because of this relationship, I will trust you unconditionally, but the others... Let me be honest, they won't cause trouble for me, right?"

Michael Blanc understood Ethan's worries, and said with a smile, "Oh Ethan—don't worry, I've reviewed all the people who come to work here, and I've rejected all those with PTSD."

"I know this is your hard work, and I know this is our home. So..."

"We won't mess around."

"Do not worry."

Seeing that Ethan remained silent, he patted his chest again and said, "Come on!"

"I'm watching them!"

"Everyone is poor!"

"If something really happens, I'll be responsible!"

Ethan was relieved by Michael Blanco's serious attitude... No wonder!
After inspecting the factory and returning home at night, he decided to go to his sister's villa.

After he described the matter clearly, Evelyn frowned deeply.

"I think I understand why you just curse someone in the media and they come to us."

"Me too." Ethan shrugged.

"Didn't you know about this before?" Evelyn asked suspiciously.

"Blame me, blame me, I always have an inexplicable trust in my own people."

Ethan raised his hands, voluntarily admitting his mistake.

This action made Evelyn squint him with her eyes, "Then what do you want to do now?"

Ethan said, "Should we take the factory out of the company?"

"Is this okay? Does that factory have the ability to survive independently?" Evelyn expressed doubts.

"It should not be possible to maintain a normal life at present, but in the future, it should be possible." Ethan replied.

After seeing the single personnel structure of his own factory, the idea of ​​splitting up suddenly popped up in Ethan's mind. There was no other reason, it was simply that it was not appropriate to name such a factory under the name of the game company.

When the number of veterans who have been on the battlefield almost reaches a platoon...

If he said he had no idea, no one else would believe it!
Since it is not suitable, then peel it off, and the difficulty of peeling off...

Yes, but not too many.

At present, the main products produced by the factory are their electronic arcade machines. Only relying on this, the employees can survive, but the factory will definitely not be able to make a profit. Even if the home consoles are handed over to them for production in the future, the factory can maintain a flat rotation without cutting the equity. If it wants to make it really survive, it can only open up business externally.

At present, no external business can be found for the time being, but since those employees can be kept alive in their current state, the split should not be a big problem.

After Ethan expressed his thoughts, Evelyn pondered for a moment, and said, "Demolish!"

"We can afford to support more than a dozen people, and there is no problem with more than twenty or thirty, but the growth rate is too fast now, and it is also very difficult for us to grow so endlessly."

"At the same time, in order to show our concern for them, we also take part of the equity as an incentive. How about [-] points? Michael has [-] points exclusively, and the others share [-] points. In the next five years, as long as they can achieve profits other than the business we gave, they can cash in on time."

"We can give them a decent life, but they have to contribute themselves."

"If they really can't make it through, then at most you can just introduce an Apple business to them, and absolutely nothing else, let them talk about it themselves!"

"Oh, by the way, the team employees in our factory are my dad's old employees, right?"

"You let Thomas take them back. Many of them are old. Let's wait for the farm to retire."

"Okay~" Ethan felt that his sister's idea was fine, and he didn't care about the shares in the factory, because the most valuable thing in the entire company was the game, and everything else was trivial.

However, even if the two major shareholders of the company reach an agreement, the split of the factory will not be carried out so soon. After all, Ethan just asked Michael if the factory is safe.

In his view, the specific notification should be placed in the production of new products.

Give everyone a buffer time.

And this decision made Ethan shake his head with emotion, "I thought I could support him for a lifetime."

"But I didn't expect..."

"Man, what a strange creature."

In Ethan's emotional voice, the time quietly came to October.

Since he released the news of seeking cooperation, many accounting firms and law firms have submitted their cooperation plans to them. After some comparisons, Ethan chose the San Francisco-based Morrison and Foerster law firm to serve him, and financially, he chose Deloitte.

With the finalization of these two collaborations, Ethan always feels that his company has entered a new era.

Before, it was just for fun, but now...

"It's a bit of a look!"

Sitting in his office, he happily turned his pen.

At the same time, someone knocked on the door of the office, and Alan Macy, who should have been serving across borders for the last time, walked in after a call to come in.

"Boss, we're almost done with the recruitment of your secretary."

"After two rounds of interviews, we have identified three candidates."

"Here's their resume."

"Do you think you need to meet in person?"

This news made Ethan very happy, but wait for him to take a look...

The first guy is a beautiful sister!

The second guy is also a beautiful sister!
And the third...

Tsk~ Why is it a bald head?

And just when Ethan was about to throw the third person's resume into the trash can, the round cheeks gave him a sense of familiarity, he frowned and glanced away, good guy!
It turned out to be from Harvard!
"Uh...they're all in California?"

"Right here in Palo Alto."

"Then let this bald head come over."

"Just him?"

"Yes, he's the only one."

(End of this chapter)