Chapter 1203 Two People (XII)

• Chadwick Fullner couldn’t listen anymore. He didn’t want Madison Sawyer standing alone in the line of fire, so he rose and spoke, slow and steady: “Miss Collins’s staffing plan never asked you to go down to the front-line production floor or to a construction site. Tell me, isn’t the whole point of commercial consultants that the older you are, the more experience and connections you bring? It’s meant to ease the pressure that comes with age. As for pay, nothing’s being cut. We’re just using a more common and fair way to carry it out. Why do you all assume you’ll be paid the minimum? Flip it around: if you never create any real value for the company, why demand a salary way beyond your contribution? And your status isn’t being stripped—you’re simply not involved in company resolutions right now. Everything else stays the same. We’re just adding a practical job title in front of ‘executive director.’”
• “Also, our new policy makes it clear: if you want to keep your director status and take part in decisions, that’s fine. Going forward, you can attend every board meeting as usual, including voting. But for the sake of all shareholders, after each board meeting we’ll convene a shareholders’ meeting to re-vote, until we hammer out a decision that truly serves shareholder interests.”
• When Chadwick finished, they all went quiet, dumbstruck. Of course Madison wasn’t going to dissolve the board or throw them out for no reason. And he’d made it clear—they weren’t losing their titles, just getting added responsibilities. They had nothing solid to argue.