With these words, everyone was shocked.
“Specially recruited??”
“Tenda? Are you sure it’s Tenda?”
“Was it Tenda’s Human Resources Department that called? What exactly did they say? Will there be any follow-up interviews or anything like that?”
Before Brother Wei could answer, Old Zhou’s phone also rang.
Everyone held their breath, watching Old Zhou.
Could this be another call from Tenda?
Old Zhou tremblingly answered the phone, mumbling a few “hmms” and “ahs,” barely able to speak clearly.
After a long while, he also hung up and looked at everyone.
“Damn, Old Zhou, was it from Tenda or not? Speak up! Don’t keep us in suspense!” The onlookers immediately became restless.
Old Zhou swallowed and composed his shocked expression: “It was from Tenda. I’ve been specially recruited too!”
The whole group erupted in commotion!
“Holy crap, what’s going on? It hasn’t even been two days since the written exam, right? Logically, they should still be grading papers, right?”
“This efficiency is way too high! What’s happening? Could these be scam calls?”
Brother Wei hastily explained: “The number displayed was Headwind Logistics’ official number, and the person who called wasn’t from Tenda Group’s Human Resources Department, but Manager Lü from Headwind Logistics!”
“Manager Lü briefly explained that this special recruitment isn’t following the process of Tenda’s special recruitment exam—it’s not the same special recruitment.”
“Tenda’s special recruitment exam provides positions from all departments, specifically targeting those three categories of people.”
“But this is Manager Lü’s Headwind Logistics department’s specific poaching quota, which can be used to specifically poach people from Shengrun Group, and there are no restrictions on the conditions!”
“Before poaching, Manager Lü first screened the applicants from this exam, filtering out my and Old Zhou’s resumes based on our previous work experiences. He was very satisfied with our backgrounds, so he reserved spots for us, asking us to make time to go to Jingzhou for a face-to-face talk.”
“Although it’s not completely guaranteed, from Manager Lü’s tone, they need a lot of people, and he really admired my decision to resign in anger, so it’s pretty much a sure thing!”
Everyone suddenly understood—so that’s what happened!
It was quite a twist, with maximum dramatic effect.
Brother Wei and Old Zhou were still anxiously waiting for their written exam results, but meanwhile, Manager Lü happened to have a batch of targeted recruitment quotas, so he screened through the applicants’ resumes and directly picked them out!
“Congratulations, Brother Wei! This is great news!”
“Damn, I’m so envious I’m getting sour. If I’d known about this good opportunity, I would have overcome all obstacles to apply!”
“Me too, I thought I wouldn’t pass so I didn’t take the exam. What a huge loss!”
“Don’t joke around, weren’t you completely ineligible to participate?”
“How was I ineligible? I could have proposed to my girlfriend and gotten married a week in advance, then made a fertility plan. Wouldn’t that have made me eligible?”
“Wait, Brother Wei, didn’t you just say Manager Lü has specific poaching quotas, can poach from Shengrun Group, and there are no condition restrictions??”
“Doesn’t that mean we have a chance too?”
“Holy crap, Brother Wei, Old Zhou, take us with you! We want to go to Tenda too!”
Everyone had been wearing expressions of jealousy, impossibly sour.
But suddenly they realized there was this magical thing called an “internal referral,” and they immediately perked up!
Actually, in Tenda’s original recruitment process, internal referrals were very rare, only certain special departments had this authority with Mr. Pei’s permission. It was precisely because Tenda had always strictly adhered to the principle of “exam required for all entrants” that people regarded the Tenda recruitment exam as one of the most difficult exams.
But this time was different—Manager Lü had quotas for internal referrals!
This was incredible.
Brother Wei patted his chest: “No problem, I’ll bring this up with Manager Lü when I meet him!”
“Although it might seem a bit inappropriate to do this, I believe Manager Lü is a broad-minded person, a person with great vision. Even if he can’t take all of us as a package, taking some would be fine!”
In fact, Brother Wei was very clear that thinking about bringing his brothers in before even joining himself was slightly inappropriate.
If the supervisor was petty, they might think: are you already planning to form factions now?
But Brother Wei’s thinking was, first, the opportunity to enter Tenda was too precious, these brothers all really wanted this opportunity, so he had to try; second, Manager Lü should be like Mr. Pei, magnanimous, with enough confidence and courage to accept these people.
As the big brother of this group, of course he had to try!
Wouldn’t it be wonderful for all of them to go to Headwind Logistics together and accomplish something magnificent?
…
…
February 28th, Thursday.
Pei Qian was in his office, briefly looking at the news in the gaming sector.
Sure enough, various gaming media had broken the news that “Tenda is about to acquire Finger Company, inside sources reveal the price tag is $10 billion,” which quickly occupied the headlines of various media outlets.
Absolutely massive news!
Because if this news was true, it meant that Tenda had accomplished the feat of almost unifying the global MOBA market—this was a pure money tree!
Currently, GOG and IOI together accounted for over 90% of the global MOBA game time share. Once merged, it would mean Tenda’s ultimate victory.
Of course, reactions to this news from netizens were varied.
Some netizens felt that Tenda’s move was quite bold. Buying Finger Company could completely monopolize the MOBA game market; in the future, they would dominate the market unrivaled. The spoils would be all theirs, with extremely promising prospects.
But other netizens believed that $10 billion was no small sum even for Tenda. What was the point of buying Finger Company? Even without buying it, it was only a matter of time before GOG accomplished the goal of killing IOI and monopolizing the MOBA game market. Why waste this money, benefiting the Dayak Group?
Overseas, there were both optimistic and pessimistic players.
Pessimistic players felt that Tenda had completed the unification of the MOBA game market. Without competitors in the future, GOG would certainly not be as generous as it was now and would inevitably start making money aggressively. As for IOI, it wasn’t even being treated like a stepchild anymore but had directly become a discarded piece falling into enemy hands, likely to be completely ruined soon.
Optimistic players thought that perhaps Tenda would cultivate both, letting GOG and IOI continue to fight against each other, expanding the MOBA game market. Even if Tenda treated IOI as an adopted son, not as well as GOG, the biological son, it would still be much better than the pit of a parent that was the Dayak Group. At the very least, Tenda was a game company with the most basic reverence and respect for games.
Players said all sorts of things—some thought it was worth it, some didn’t—but regardless, everyone was highly concerned about this matter.
According to the report sent by the negotiation team, the final kick of the negotiations had a small but not insignificant twist.
Finger Company’s current CEO, Charles, had grand plans to leverage capital to take over Finger Company himself, which was why he had caused so many problems, various ways to lower Finger Company’s stock price.
Others thought he was an idiot, but in reality, everyone else was at the first level, while he was at the second level.
But Charles hadn’t anticipated Tenda Group entering the scene unexpectedly!
This wasn’t his fault; Tenda really didn’t have a very strong or sufficient motivation to acquire Finger Company.
Yet they went ahead and acquired it anyway!
As a shareholder, Charles quickly received this news, and he was clearly very unwilling. But the problem was that even after all his maneuvering, he couldn’t change anything.
First, Charles’s expected price was around $800 million. He did try to raise the price, but after Tenda raised it to about $10 billion, he backed off, because this far exceeded his expectations.
Second, Charles’s series of actions had created some tension with the Dayak Group. With Tenda’s negotiation team and Eric “mediating,” the Dayak Group’s impression of Charles had plummeted to rock bottom. They realized he was trying to lower the stock price through these methods, causing serious friction.
The Dayak Group controlled 80% of Finger Company’s shares and had complete power of life and death. Charles was just a minority shareholder; he could deceive those above and below, but once the Dayak Group made up its mind, he couldn’t change anything.
The only way was to outbid Tenda, but Charles lacked that courage and determination because he also felt it was foolish to engage in a bidding war with Tenda.
His original idea was to bottom-fish and pick up bargains. Charles himself wasn’t particularly optimistic about IOI’s future; he thought buying at a low price would be profitable. But if the price was too high and required introducing more outside capital, not only would it be difficult to convince others, but he could easily become a puppet, making the deal unprofitable.
So Charles finally gave up, but at the same time, he held onto his shares even more tightly.
Because his preliminary judgment was that Tenda’s acquisition of Finger Company would be good news for Finger Company in the short term.
Previously, Charles had worked hard to push Finger Company’s stock price down considerably. Wouldn’t it now surge dramatically?
Holding onto these shares and selling at the peak would allow him to make as much as possible.
In any case, the acquisition of Finger Company, with the professional operation of this four-person team and Mr. Pei’s full support, had finally been basically settled.
Pei Qian hurriedly transferred all the remaining money in the account as a deposit, essentially emptying the system funds!
More money would continuously be earned later, but it didn’t matter. What mattered was reducing the system funds as much as possible at the moment of settlement.
Besides this, news about Headwind Logistics and Shengrun Group still occupied the hot topics, and there were many other departmental matters to handle…
But Pei Qian couldn’t care about so much at the moment. He now only cared about one thing: settlement!
Until the system screen appeared before Pei Qian, only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.
Good, this cycle had been navigated successfully with some scares. He had managed to lose a big sum!