Chapter 309 The Talk (Revised)

Two days later, as it was nearing noon, in the small conference room of the Hard Gold Group’s Personnel Department, Takayuki Nanno appeared in front of the management trainees for the first time. As the head of the Personnel Department, he was rightfully seated in his rightful place.

Takayuki Nanno opened the door and said, “I’m here to first congratulate all of you for being able to enter our Hard Gold Group’s management trainee team.”

After he finished his first sentence, he took a sudden turn and then added, “Regardless of the way you all came in, I will only leave behind those who are useful to the Hard Gold Group ……”

Watanabe Saki and the others were listening while each having their own calculations in their hearts. They had been here for a while as well.

They had more or less been explicitly or implicitly collecting information about the internal personnel of this one group of companies. Even if it was said to be gossip, it was fine.

The relationship between Takayuki Nanno and the chairman is not ordinary, hairy. He is also the second largest shareholder of this group of companies. Even if the shares in his hand were not much, it represented that his position here was not to be underestimated.

After finishing what he had to say, Nanno Takayuki did not stay long before leaving under the bows of the crowd. As for the following matters, they were still left to the chief of the third personnel division and the others to handle.

“Everyone, disperse!” Kimura Hiroshi, the head of the Third Personnel Division, raised his hand and looked at the recently purchased Rolex watch on his left wrist and said.

With that, the group of people present began to prepare to head out in twos and threes. Kimura Hiroshi’s eyes fell on one of them, “Watanabe Saiki, stay for a moment.”

Watanabe Saki had no choice but to stand still and watch as the others headed out of the Personnel Department’s small conference room. She was at a loss for words, and was completely confused as to why the section chief had called her back in public.

After everyone had left, only Watanabe Saki and Kimura Hiroshi remained in the small personnel department meeting room. He took the initiative to pull out a chair and sat down first, then beckoned her to come and sit down as well.

Watanabe Saki bowed at a forty-five degree angle to the other party, then walked over and sat down. She was starting to feel a little apprehensive in her heart.

“Did you understand Minister Nanno’s speech?” Kimura Hiroshi asked with a serious expression.

“I heard and understood.” Although Watanabe Saeki knew that there were hints in his words, she was not sure what exactly the other party was trying to say. She wanted to ask but didn’t dare to.

“I see that you didn’t understand at all.” Kimura Hiroshi said bluntly.

Watanabe Saki was instantly silent. Even though she had just stepped into the workplace as a rookie newcomer, she knew that within the native Japanese company, the relationship between superior and subordinate, and seniors and juniors was very much emphasized. This once if one disobeyed the consequences of their superiors, then there would be endless shoes to wear.

I also heard that a subordinate in a company was not willing to go drinking with his boss after work, and from the next day onwards, he was deliberately made difficult by his boss, isolated and ostracized. In the end, that person also had to voluntarily resign and leave that one company.

“You should know that our group company did not conduct campus recruitment at Tokyo University of the Arts. Even if they were to conduct a recruitment from the talent market above the society, they have never recruited people who majored in art school related majors.” Kimura Hiroshi said bluntly.

Watanabe Sawaki came to a realization, her head recalling Minister Minamino’s words, “No matter how you came in”.

She hadn’t faked anything, so she said confidently, “I didn’t falsify my academic credentials! It’s all in line with the process.”

Kimura Hiroshi’s body fell backward, leaning his back against the back of the chair, his arms crossed over his chest, and he smiled without a smile on his face, “It looks like you’re not going to tell the truth.”

“I really don’t understand what you mean.” Watanabe Saki said uncertainly.

“How did you get our group company’s internal qualification? Who arranged for you to come in? What exactly is your relationship with that person?” Kimura Hiroshi asked three questions in a row.

Watanabe Saki finally realized why the other party had left himself alone to talk. This was an examination of himself.

Even if Watanabe Saki hadn’t done anything wrong, she was too embarrassed to open her mouth and tell the truth. She had the feeling that she had gone through the back door to get in.

In fact, she could have been completely free of any psychological burden, after all, things like this were not unheard of in Japan, but were normalized. Even in the United States, it was still there.

However, she had not completely lost her student status, and she knew that the management trainees at the same time as herself were either from top S-class domestic universities such as the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, or famous domestic universities such as Waseda University, Keio University, and Osaka University.

Otherwise, they were from prestigious universities that had returned from overseas. None of them majored in art, except for myself.

Management trainees are different from other recruits in that they join as full members of the group company and are trained as future executives. Of course, this was if those with outstanding abilities could be completely promoted to the top levels of the group company.

“It looks like you’re not going to tell the truth.” Kimura Hiroshi knew her bottom line from the start. The reason why he didn’t reveal it like he did today was that he was thinking in his heart that Watanabe Saki must be related to someone within the company.

This one connection certainly wouldn’t be something that an ordinary official employee would be able to pull off, after all, they neither had that much energy nor that much guts.

Anyone knows that if something like this is reported and uncovered, in all likelihood it will lead to dismissal and negatively affect one’s future job search. Who would be so stupid as to take such a completely unnecessary risk when a good job has come by with great difficulty?

His own speculation, it must be either in the personnel department of the internal, or the group company’s senior. He originally did not want to poke this inside the “hornet’s nest”, but at today’s meeting, Nanno minister’s speech in the point of a little water, he again pretend to be deaf and mute will not be able to say.

In the future, if something really happened to track down, he is certainly to blame. This is a black pot, he is not to memorize.

On the other hand, he did not think about the things above the progress again. Even if he can’t become a minister directly, he can still be promoted to the position of deputy minister (undersecretary).

Furthermore, it was rumored that Takayuki Nanno would be promoted to executive officer. Once the head of the Personnel Department was vacant, the person who was the deputy head of the department would have the most hope.

He was the head of the Third Personnel Division, and had to compete with several others who were also the head of the division. In particular, the chiefs of Section 1 and Section 2 were his biggest rivals.

If he could catch one of them, he could “kill” one of his rivals first, and even use it to pull the other to fight the other one with him.