Chapter 564: Elected

At dinner time, Masayoshi Kishimoto sat down in the large dining hall on the first floor. Today, there was not only him and Rie Sakai, but also Yuki Mizuhara. They opened a champagne to celebrate.

Mizuhara Yuki cheerfully raised her glass first and said, “Congratulations to my sister on being elected president of our Rosebud Society.”

Rie Sakai raised her champagne glass toward her as well and said, “Thank you.”

The two looked at each other and smiled as they tilted their heads and drank the pink colored champagne directly from their respective glasses.

Mizuhara Yuki was in high spirits, as if she had been elected as the president of this Rosebud Society, “Brother Justice, you didn’t see the expression on the face of our previous president on the spot, it was really too funny.

My sister didn’t win by a narrow margin, but by an absolute landslide. If I were the former president, I would have taken the initiative to give up my position.

Instead of losing, it would have been better to take the initiative and give up. This will not only preserve face, but also do a favor.”

“Seeing as you’re so happy, it’s hard to believe that you’ve become the vice president?” Masayoshi Kishimoto presumed from her good relationship with his wife that since Rie Sakai had become the president, then the vice president would definitely be someone who had a good relationship with her on a regular basis.

“That’s right.” Mizuhara Yuki nodded her head and replied forcefully.

“It’s true that there’s always a new generation of people.” Justice Kishimoto blurted out.

“Brother Justice, you make it sound like you wouldn’t do that yourself. I’ve heard that your Hard Gold Group is holding the butcher’s knife of major layoffs high against the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House.” Mizuhara Yuki said bluntly.

“That’s an outside slander against our Hard Gold Group. We’re just making a personnel adjustment on top of this matter that’s in line with how the market works.

This streamlining of the company’s personnel, that’s for the sake of being able to work efficiently. The reason why there will be a spin-off of the Literary Spring and Autumn Publishing House is also to reduce the number of unnecessary management levels, thus greatly improving the efficiency of execution.” Masayoshi Kishimoto completely embellished.

“You’re getting more and more capable of pulling your punches. Although I’m a layman above corporate management, I also understand the harm that layoffs bring to ordinary people.

In the beginning, my father was laid off by a commercial bank in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku. He had been working at that bank since he graduated from college. He worked there for more than twenty years, but he didn’t escape being laid off.

To be precise, people like him who are older are generally among the first on the list of people to be laid off.” Rie Sakai, holding a champagne glass on top of her right hand, did not hold back her words.

Masayoshi Kishimoto said matter of factly, “The wage system that is commonly practiced in Japan is the year-end serial system, which often means that the older the person is, the more they get in terms of wages.

In terms of work efficiency and quality, they are not as good as younger people who are paid less. As for the so-called work experience they have gained, most of it is of no use, just familiarizing themselves with some processes.

Young people can also familiarize themselves with these processes with a little time. They are not progressive in their work, and they have lost the spirit of hard work in the past, but they have a set way of making relationships, ganging up, and giving orders.

The company has raised them for nothing, why? A young man’s work efficiency tops about two of them, while the equivalent position of the wage income is only half of the old guys, or even a little less.

The life-long employment system advocated by Japan in the past is also not in line with the needs of contemporary global competition. At this point in time, I like the American work system more and more, job matching. You get paid for what you do, and it’s all clear.

It doesn’t matter if you are young or old, there is no such thing as a formal member, informal member, dispatched employee, etc. As long as you are not able to do your job or your work efficiency is low, you will be fired.

I’m afraid that anyone who stands in a pit and becomes a wage thief won’t be young, but nine times out of ten will be middle-aged or old.”

Rie Sakai said unhappily, “You’re saying my father should have been laid off in the first place.”

“No, how dare I say anything wrong about my own father-in-law to your face?” Masayoshi Kishimoto cried and laughed.

“Don’t I know you well enough? What are the things you dare not do?” Sakai Rie habitually fought with him again and said

“Middle-aged and elderly people like my father-in-law don’t intentionally slack off, but are forced to. Any kind of work done for a long time, especially that kind of simple and repetitive work, people will naturally become bored.

However, can not not do, after all, is the need to eat, clothing, housing, transportation and other consumption. No work, no money, no money can not survive in this world.

Even if you don’t want to do it again, you have to be forced to do it. Especially in the winter need to get up early in the morning, the kind of struggle in the warm blanket inside says it all.

In all fairness, one really doesn’t want to leave the warmth of the blanket and get up, but one can’t. It’s a fact that as you get younger, usually around the age of forty, the human body passes its peak.

Look at some of those people who play sports, how many of them manage to stay in the business past forty. They all tend to announce their retirement before they are forty.

Those who have earned money and won gold medals in sports competitions are still basically able to maintain a decent life in the future as long as they don’t have any vices.

If not, they are still able to go into coaching, after all, there is a job for an income. However, there is also a high rate of star athletes going from rich to poor in the United States. Of course, there are quite a few in Japan as well.

As for those obscure athletes, who have not finished their studies and do not have a good skill, they are often reduced to living at the bottom of the social ladder.

They too will only do jobs that pay little, take long hours, and are simple and repetitive. Once a person’s heart feels that their work is meaningless and that they are only living to make money, it can be very difficult and depressing.” Justice Kishimoto said slowly.

“I’ve noticed that you don’t have your ass deciding your head. So why do you still want to make big layoffs?” Rie Sakai asked with a wink and a sense of purpose.

Masayoshi Kishimoto had answered such a question from Makoto Natsui, and now, he needed to say it again himself. He didn’t like saying the same thing over and over again.

It was often said that good words were not said a second time. If one said the same thing over and over again, it meant that this one thing was very important and was being emphasized.

“It can be done without major layoffs. The problem is that you can guarantee that some of these people will work well and hard in the future?

It’s when they’re facing a crisis that they’re particularly nervous. This once the crisis if they get through it, they’ll revert back to the same jerks they were in the past.

Is it necessary to have two or three people to do something that can be done by one person? If you have to choose one of several people to keep, of course you will keep the best one and lay off the others.

The only promise I can make to the people who were laid off is that the company can prioritize calling them back to work in the future after the business has increased, instead of recruiting people from the outside.” Justice Kishimoto calmly said.