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"Sure." Jaden responded as he stopped, before turning around to face Samuel.

"About your decision to make the shuffle tomorrow. Can you try to minimize it to the lowest level? Something like starting with the low level management, before reaching the top management?" Samuel asked cautiously.

"Why is that? Could it be that you are afraid of what might happen if I decide to do the company wide shuffle?" Jaden asked, even though he already understood what Samuel was concerned about.

"That's right. I myself would have done that, but I don't really have the capability of doing it. It is not that easy to be able to get the people for those positions, that are the way that you want them to be. I have to tolerate some of them, because I have no choice.

During the time that I was the biggest shareholder of the company, I would have done the same. But I didn't have any choice but to allow them to continue running rampant. After all, the moment that I decide to do the same thing that you have decided on doing, it is possible that the company would collapse on the same day." Samuel voiced out his concern.

"I have already thought about it. You don't have to be worried, just trust me. I don't make blind decisions. It is true that majority of the employees of the company would lose their jobs, maybe even some of the artists would.

This is something that is going to lead to the company going downhill. But don't worry, this is just something that is going to happen momentarily. It is not impossible for the company to be able to go back to the top, and even to the levels that I told you before.

It is something that I desire for the entertainment company that I own to be at the very top, dominating every form of entertainment in the world. But this is something that has to be done step by step.

I don't want to start taking the necessary steps towards the top, then I start collapsing from within. That will be wasted efforts. It is better for the company to start at a low point, if that is what has to be done, but with a better foundation.

I know that you are worried about the future of the company, but don't worry, as long as I own this company, I will never make it fail. Believe me." Jaden said all these with confidence.

And the moment that he said that, Samuel did not really know what to say. His mouth opened, but he ended up closing it in the end.

He felt that it was completely unbelievable to accomplish what Jaden had said. After all, he understood that the moment that Jaden had decided to do this, and ended up doing it in the end, it would definitely be the end of the company.

It was not impossible for the company to collapse to the lowest level, from the top level that it was already in. And, what would happen next? The majority of the employees in this company would definitely join other entertainment companies present in the city or even in the other cities.

Then, they would possess enmity with this company, and considering that the company would have already dropped to a low level, the other companies would try as much as possible to suppress it, and if possible, to completely destroy it. So, it was going to be extremely difficult to be able to climb back to the top as Jaden was saying. It was not easy at all.

Upon realizing that Samuel did not have something to say, Jaden no longer lingered around. Instead, he turned around, and left, before leaving the building completely, and getting back into his car, before driving away.

Samuel continued remaining in the same position for a while, before he turned around and went back to the conference room.

The moment that he entered the conference room, he found that these managers that held high positions were chatting with each other. From what he had heard when he was coming in, he could immediately tell that they were thinking that it was a joke.

The majority of them thought that Jaden was simply trying to scare them. After all, if he ended up removing all of them from their positions, then the company would collapse. It was impossible for a sane person to do something that they knew would end up negatively affecting them.

The moment that Samuel entered into the conference room, the chatty group of people suddenly quietened down. They looked at Samuel with curious expressions, wondering what he had to say.

"I understand that all of you believe that what Mr. Moore said was just a joke. But believe me, he means what he has just said. I have talked to him right now, and he will be here tomorrow just as he has said, and in case you have anything that affects the company negatively, you will be losing your job tomorrow, or might end up being demoted.

You yourself know what you have done, and I'm not going to comment anything about it. But I will tell you one thing, I will support Mr. Moore in anything that he does. After all, he owns this company, and it is part of my dream to see this company rising to the top.

I have decided that even if this company collapses, I will collapse with it. It is your decision on what you are going to do, in case you are not part of the group that is going to be losing their jobs tomorrow." Samuel voiced out his thoughts.

The moment that he said those words, there was silence in the conference room. Nobody could believe what Samuel was saying. In their minds, they could not help but think that perhaps Samuel was just trying to scare them just like how Jaden had.

Maybe this was just a method that he was using to suck up to Jaden, and continue maintaining his position? That was a possibility.

But there was this nudging feeling that they were having. They understood Samuel quite well. They understood that he was not a person that would joke around with something serious.

And considering the intensity of this issue, it was clear that it was not something that would be joked around about. After all, if the company ended up losing the important employees, it would be the same as giving the company a death sentence.

Samuel did not continue remaining here, but instead, he decided to go back to his office. He had to look for a strategy that he would use in order to try to stabilize the company, after the changes had occurred. Stay connected via empire

Even though he wanted to believe that Jaden would be able to succeed in this plan, or he had another plan in mind that he was going to use, or perhaps he had already gotten another group of staff that he wanted to use to replace the ones that would be leaving the company, he had to make preparations nonetheless.

There were several people that he knew that possessed capabilities, and were quite clean when it came to working. The entertainment industry could be said to be one of the most dirty industries in the world.

The unspoken rules of this industry were known, but it was almost impossible to be able to deal with them. Still, Samuel believed that Jaden might end up targeting those that might be involved in this issue, considering that if a talented lady came to the company, if they decided to go against the unspoken rules, most of the time, they would not end up succeeding in the entertainment industry.

It was extremely rare to find a person who had not gone through the unspoken rules succeeding in the entertainment industry. As for the male counterpart, they had it even more difficult.

If it turned out that someone amongst those that was in charge of their auditions did not like them, they would end up not gaining that chance. In most occasions, the males in the company did not have much that they could give to those holding high positions and were male.

In those situations, they would be put in difficult situations, things that would mainly hinder them from either joining the company, or growing.

As for the matter of their attitude, in case they possessed a wrong attitude toward their direct superior, they would end up not progressing at all. A person might have joined the company for several months, even an entire, but might not have participated in anything related to the company, and would only be part of the company in name.

Those were the things that Samuel already knew about, but it was impossible for him to be able to deal with all of them. And, it was impossible for him to be able to change the unspoken rules of the entertainment industry.

The only thing that he could do was to try to minimize these incidences as much as possible. As for eliminating them from his company, he understood that was an impossibility.

Samuel decided to contact those people that he thought that were clean, and could join the company. He was trying to poach them from the other companies, even though he understood that it was going to be difficult.

After Samuel had left the conference room, the others that remained behind were not in the mood of joking around again. Instead, they began thinking about anything that might end up selling them, leading to them losing their job.

As for those that thought that it was impossible for them to be able to hide anything, they immediately began contacting other companies, to see if they could join them. As for those who thought that they could hide, they immediately tried to hide everything that they could.