Chapter 39: The Chairman?
It was chaotic at the Jack & Sons Enterprise.
Without even considering whatever the shareholders having a meeting might be up to inside, what laid around the opulent towering glass structure was enough. Enough testament to the uproar at the company.
Protesters stood on the front lines, raising boards that screamed, "... Pay our pension before appointing a new CEO!", "... Justice for the staff!"
Why they would say justice for the staff was that, it was a general knowing that once a new CEO ascends a company, the staff yet to receive their salary will suffer from it because their business wasn’t the new CEO’s.
Instead, it was their recent boss’s, who at the same time might be facing financial issues for having just lost their income source.
Thus, these staff will either receive their salary late or the worst case, get a cut-down amount.
The reporters trying hard to get answers from the business men rushing across the blue carpet, also argued the same thing. And most importantly, why they all sold their shares to Mr Holland if that meant betraying Mrs Jackson.
Despite the fact that this company was a public type, someone can’t just make a hostile takeover if the present shareholders aren’t ready to sell their shares.
But once they do, and he manages to get 70% shares, even if the present CEO owns the remaining 30%, she must sell them, as stated under the law. That was called a squeeze-out.
Inside the meeting room was a much greater chaos. Files flew in the air, people stood against each other with yells and slammed their hands on the table. Mrs Jackson was silent amidst all this, yet her chest ached. She mumbled *Kieran Holland* over and over again as though she might be able to kill him that way.
So, this is how he wishes to play the game?