Darkstone Code-Chapter 1035 - 1033: Corporate Restructuring
Human society is very complex.
In the eyes of the poor, exchanging their health for money is an acceptable way, and many have already turned this thought into action.
They engage in highly dangerous work or perform tasks harmful to their bodies, just to earn a bit more money each month than others.
They do not shy away from the fear of death, nor do they avoid discussing these issues. Sometimes, their attitude toward death makes many believe that their spirits have transcended.
That calmness, ease, and the indifferent smile on their faces when they talk and laugh make some people label them as "warriors."
In reality, they are not warriors, but pitiful people forced by money to do so.
In the eyes of the rich, as long as money can solve it, it will never be a problem that bothers them.
Too many casualties?
That is because these people are too foolish; their thinking is stuck in the lower and middle classes of society, believing that wealth and money have higher value.
This is also quite normal.
It’s like when a poor and a rich person stop in front of a display window, where a brand-new product is showcased.
The poor consider "Is it necessary for me to spend so much money to buy this product?" Then they consider whether they have the ability to buy it, and in the end, they rationally persuade themselves to abandon such unrealistic thoughts.
They can even list three to five similar products, and these are priced lower... more cost-effective.
But for the rich, they only care about "I fucking want to buy this," without worrying about whether the item is useful, has substitutes, or about the cost-effectiveness.
Cost-effectiveness?
What the hell is that?
Boss, I want this, wrap it up for me, then I’ll pay!
The "poor" and "rich" referenced here do not just refer to wealth, currency today, social status, influence, political capacity, social network, and other countless things tied to "value."
The soldiers are still in the stage of "money is hard to earn," so they think of solving problems in the dumbest way possible.
While Lynch is already at the stage of "if money is not enough, ask the Ministry of Defense," as soldiers’ lives are more precious.
From a humanitarian perspective, from specific value, and from the perspective of social impact.
In a comprehensive evaluation, spending ten thousand dollars to kill an enemy versus giving that amount to the family of a soldier who perished taking an enemy with him has completely different public opinions!
Lynch would rather spend more money than lose more lives!
The conference room was silent, Lynch looked at them, seeing each one bow their heads in shame, he leaned back against the chair.
"The work over in Amelia is the same, we are a private enterprise, we have strong objectives, we do not bear responsibility for the local government, civilians, and the like, we only need to ’complete the target’!"
"As for what methods you use in ’completing the target,’ that’s not important."
"Stop always thinking of yourselves as representing justice, none of you can represent anything, you can only represent yourselves."
"Parents’ children, wife’s husband, even the child’s father, you have to be responsible for yourselves."
"I don’t want one day when I can’t see you useless people here but can only go to your gravestones and vent my anger!"
He paused, giving these idiots time to think, "Next, I want the company to regain full control of the Mariluo operation."
"The facts tell us that the Ministry of Defense’s Strategic Command is not an excellent command organization; it is not even more militarily talented than us in this office."
"The attack will temporarily stop, we need to recruit more manpower, and once the new personnel are in position, we will then consider the next direction."
"Moreover, the company’s management will be restructured."
Currently, Darkstone Security’s structure is relatively simple; Lynch is the major shareholder, effectively the sole shareholder, yet he is not the highest in the company.
Because the Ministry of Defense is also involved in the company, he is paralleled, even inferior to the Ministry of Defense to some extent.
Below that are the various action offices, company orders generally assign directly to the available office, and then the highest officer in the office "takes the order" and begins dispatching personnel to oversee the mission.
Further down, there are various levels of field and a small amount of office staff.
A three-level parallel structure has its pros and cons in management terms; Lynch doesn’t want this anymore, and it’s a good time to take advantage of this major defeat in Mariluo to revise it.
Some might consider this a victory, but Lynch sees it as a major defeat.
Professional soldiers were defeated by semi-professional warlords; this is simply a disgrace!
The gentlemen in the room got serious, Lynch nodded and continued, "The company will change its current scattered structure, reducing the offices to nine."
"Among offices seven, eight, and nine are integrated logistics, domestic logistics, and overseas logistics, respectively, temporarily overseen by..."
He stated the names of three officers, and they nodded readily, expressing their competence for the roles.
Federation people do not have that modest nature, here if you dare say you may not manage, immediately someone will step up and say since you feel inadequate, let me try.
The logistics at Darkstone Security are also a mess, each doing their own thing, no unified cooperation and allocation, this also is part of the management methodology of the Ministry of Defense.
For a nation, this clearly isn’t a problem, even if one hundred offices under ten departments waste resources, it doesn’t matter.
The taxpayers pay so much every year, isn’t it just for such squandering?
But private companies cannot operate like this, reasonable efficiency is the core.
"From one to five are overseas military business office, overseas ordinary business office, domestic military task office, domestic ordinary business office, and emergency support office."
"Office number six is the internal office, mainly responsible for complaints and handling some internal problems."
Lynch appointed these, assigned highest officers for offices one to five, then looked at the Senior Soldier, "You’ll be in charge of office number six, any problem?"
Everyone indicated no issues, including the Senior Soldier, who felt very suitable for the position.
He belonged on Lynch’s side, without question, holding this power, he is the most appropriate candidate.
If needed, he can quickly purge the company’s "dissidents," by simply dismissing them.
Field personnel will also be divided into domestic and international distinctions, and ordinary and military distinctions.
Lynch intends to absorb some personnel from the society, rather than continuously accepting the Ministry of Defense referred personnel without any requirements.
This is a statement, a protest; the Ministry of Defense will understand, and they will certainly approve.
You must realize, about a thousand people died, according to the Federation’s current compensation standard, Lynch has to turn over nearly 35 million, a quarter of the Ministry of Defense budget gone at once.
Even though the actual calculation isn’t exactly like this, no one will say he is wrong.
Apart from these, there will definitely be some voices questioning the capacity of Darkstone Security, these losses are more frightening than losing money.
And these issues all stem from the Ministry of Defense; if they didn’t have such a strong desire to intervene in Darkstone Security, these problems wouldn’t occur.
It was precisely because of such occurrences that Lynch had the opportunity, within a reasonable scope, to reduce the Ministry of Defense’s influence on Darkstone Security.
The company’s system reform is not something that can be completed at once, it will continue until the end of this year, into the first half of next year.
The reorganization of personnel work, plus Lynch plans to implement an ID system, giving each field person an independent number to distinguish them, sorting personnel will definitely take time.
The restructuring of Darkstone Security related content was immediately sent in writing to the Ministry of Defense, who, upon reviewing these documents, neither affirmed nor rejected them, as if they didn’t know.
They messed up this time, always thinking their arranged personnel could easily win, resulting in such heavy casualties.
Lynch’s discontent is normal, so these non-core touching changes, they agreed with.
Not speaking itself is an attitude.
Along with the company’s system reformation is the adjustment of the salary structure.
The original salary structure was base plus subsidy plus bonus; when there were fewer employees, everyone worked around the clock.
There was no one getting paid for not doing anything, but as operations expand with clear divisions of labor, some people might be in a position of doing nothing but receiving a salary, hence this part also needs reform.
All management layers in the conference room had no objections to salary reform; in their view, the changes here weren’t big.
At the same time, Darkstone Security also began recruiting across society for people willing to take risks, those with regular military training, such as veterans, or local militias.
Field base salary starts at five hundred, logistics at four hundred, with task supplements reflecting the difference in employee levels.
Lowering the minimum wage but increasing supplement income means those hustling on the battlefield not only won’t suffer a slump in benefits but will even earn about ten percent more than before.
However, those staff who won’t go to the frontline see their salaries drop straight, with a four hundred base salary plus a small supplement and bonus, yet even so, Lynch believes their wages aren’t low.
After all, when others can only get three hundred, they receive four or five hundred or more, twice Bupen’s minimum wage standard, which is already high wages!
In some remote areas, such as Sabin City, this might be close to three times the minimum standard!
In conclusion, reform is a must, it’s not just the company’s system that needs reforming, people’s consciousness needs reform too!
