From cannon fodder to sweeping across thousands of stars.

Chapter 455: Who touched whose cake?
If we go back to the time when the Atlas Group officially separated from the Rubion System, no one would have thought that the situation would rapidly evolve to a point where it could not be resolved, except for Franklin and a few other rational young government employees.

Including the civilians of the Rubion galaxy, especially those working at Atlas Holdings, they did not expect that their lives, which seemed to be getting better and better, would soon be shattered.

After all, from their perspective, it was just that the 'Atlas Group', a company that they had little contact with on a daily basis, was replaced, and the company that took over did not carry out any layoffs or anything like that, so such 'big news' did not seem to affect ordinary people like them.

It was also for this reason that when the Atlas Group was forced to decouple from the Rubion Galaxy, although there was a lot of heated discussion among the people, no one stood up to speak for the Atlas Group.

The autonomous government of the Lubyon system took advantage of this to make a fuss, saying that Atlas was "unpopular" in the Lubyon system and was not loved by the local civilians, so it would be better for him to leave as soon as possible to avoid trouble in the future.

This situation can be said to have greatly infuriated the Atlas representatives who participated in the negotiations, as well as a group of employees who participated in the post-war reconstruction of the Rubion galaxy.

At the subsequent review and summary meeting, many people even complained directly to Amber, saying that the Rubion galaxy, from the autonomous government to the civilians, was a bunch of "ungrateful people", and that all the infrastructure should have been dismantled before leaving.

Amber could only smile and comfort everyone, telling them not to worry. At the same time, she said that if Atlas could win the hearts and minds of the people now, then there would be no point for their autonomous government.
Moreover, he felt that there was no problem with the lack of public support, because their interests had not been affected at this time, so there was no need for them to stand up and speak for Atlas.

"Don't be impatient, wait and see, maybe the situation will be different. Their interests are not affected now, but that doesn't mean they won't be affected in the future, right?
You guys still think those local businesses are too ‘kind’. Believe me, they will never let us down in terms of ‘not being human’.”

Amber looked around at the people attending the meeting and said seriously: "Don't worry, the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government and local companies will not let us down!"

His predictions or deductions about the future are not exaggerated, and are even a bit conservative.

Although Amber has always believed that Atlas is just playing the role of a normal enterprise, doing what it should do, and not being fussy about things related to internal interest distribution.

That's it.

But unfortunately, in the competition of the worst, the Atlas Group will basically be at the bottom of the current forces for a long time.——
As the local consortiums and enterprises in the Rubion galaxy completed the "takeover" work one after another, the former "Atlas system" enterprises, various factories, automated farms, hydroponic towers and other industries under their control actually operated stably for a period of time.

But after the nearly 2-week "adaptation period" or "newbie protection period" ended, various problems began to emerge one after another.

The first thing to be affected is the efficiency problem caused by the huge difference between the current "Atlas-style" organizational structure and the traditional enterprise structure.

The so-called "Atlas-style" organizational structure actually refers to the unique structure of the Atlas Group and its subsidiaries, which reduces administrative clerks and middle-level management to almost nothing.

This is no secret, and all the companies that have been paying attention to Atlas are well aware of it, and they also know that Atlas can do this without affecting efficiency because of some kind of highly intelligent "enterprise management system" they have.

Therefore, when the acquisition negotiations were being conducted at that time, many companies, including the Rubion Galaxy Autonomous Government, expressed their willingness to purchase this "enterprise management system".

However, they gave up the idea only after the Atlas representative who participated in the negotiation told them directly that this product was not for sale. Many local companies and consortiums also felt that it didn't matter whether they bought it or not. After all, the "enterprise management system" was not a rare thing. Slightly larger companies were using similar systems, so at most they just had to ask the technical department to make the switch.

But what happened afterwards told them that they had thought the system was too simple.

Obviously, there is an essential difference between ordinary "enterprise management systems" and the system used by Atlas that is highly dependent on Lilith to operate.

Or it's not a thing at all.

This directly led to a significant drop in the overall efficiency of these enterprises immediately after switching systems. Some companies with relatively complex industrial structures were unable to even maintain normal work and production.

Then, a magical operation occurred, which was enough to mark the beginning of the "storm" that swept across the entire galaxy.

Many local companies and financial groups did not realize where the problem lies. Instead, they mocked Atlas's business operation methods as being too rubbish. Then they looked for the giant companies in the core galaxies of the Federation that they considered to be "role models to learn from" - that is, the military-industrial complex that was later destroyed by Atlas.

And follow their lead to realign current enterprise architectures.

The first step was to recruit a lot of administrative staff to fill the shortage of personnel in this area. Naturally, a large number of "people with connections" would be involved in the process.

The second step is to readjust the salary levels of all positions except middle and senior management, especially the salaries of the largest number of technical workers.

Of course, this "adjustment" actually refers to a pay cut.

The reason for the overall salary cut is very simple, which is to use the saved money as the salary of the newly recruited administrative personnel in the company.

Because the proportion of 'employee salary' in the current fixed expenses of corporate operations is already much higher than that of traditional companies, it is already a sign of 'kindness' on the part of the bosses if this proportion is not reduced.

At this time, if you ask them to pay extra money to pay the wages of the newly recruited employees, it will definitely be impossible.
The daily workload and working hours of ordinary employees have been increasing. The "eight-hour work system" during Atlas' management has completely become a beautiful memory of the past.

Except for a few employees who protested and were fired at light speed as expected, most people actually had complaints in their hearts at this time, but they remained silent because they did not want to lose their jobs.

But when rumors of salary cuts began to appear and everyone learned that the reason for the salary cut was to take the money that should have belonged to them and give it to others, a wonderful chemical reaction began.

(End of this chapter)