Produced | Odaily (ID: o-daily)
Produced | Odaily (ID: o-daily)
On June 4, Ketuan Zhan, who picked the lock and returned to the Bitmain office building, issued a "summoning order", calling on all employees to return to the company's office.
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From robbing business licenses to robbing employees
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Screenshot from: Maimai Zhiyan
The absurdity in the eyes of outsiders is the helplessness and anxiety of employees.
Behind the "business license grabbing by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau" is the struggle for control of the company by the two founders of Bitmain, Jihan Wu and Ketuan Zhan. The "machina drama" staged by the two camps has been reversed many times. For the convenience of reviewing the previous situation, Odaily now organizes its timeline as follows:
Grabbing the business license was originally a delaying technique by Wu Jihan's camp to prevent Ketuan Zhan from returning to Bitmain.
As shown above, on April 28, Ketuan Zhan succeeded in the second reconsideration, Liu Luyao’s legal person status was revoked, and the legal person of Beijing Bitmain was changed to the state before October 28, 2019, that is, Ketuan Zhan “won” Beijing Bitmain again legal person status. Undoubtedly, the next step for Ketuan Zhan is to return to the company and seize actual control.
Naturally, Wu Jihan will not sit still. On the one hand, he sent his generals to fight for the business license, and on the other hand, he began to transfer the original business, legal relations and employees of Beijing Bitmain to the new company - Chongqing, which is wholly owned by Singapore Bitmain. Silicon continent.
This trick of "Golden Cicada Escapes its Shell" made Ketuan Zhan unable to sit still.
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Picture taken from: Ketuan Zhan's open letter
According to a current employee of Bitmain, before Ketuan Zhan returned, the company implemented a partial online office system, and "about 1/3 of the employees will come to work in the company."
However, after the legal person Ketuan Zhan issued the "Comprehensive Work Resumption Order", many employees were caught in a dilemma: Does going back mean supporting the "new legal person"? Failure to reply is definitely "disobedience", "Will it be recorded as absenteeism"...
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Do employees go back a lot? What will happen if you don't go back?
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Screenshot from: Maimai Zhiyan
According to the above-mentioned employee, after Ketuan Zhan issued the open letter, Wu Jihan did not issue a mandatory notice not to allow employees to return to the company. Therefore, it is up to the employee to decide whether to return or not. Of course, from the perspective of actual company management, whether an ordinary employee should return , basically depends on the decision of the department head.
A current employee who returned to work at the company told Odaily, "The number of employees returning to work at present is about the same as before, about 1/3. But the meaning is quite different."
Before Ketuan Zhan's return, working from home met the company's requirements, but if he still didn't go back after Ketuan Zhan issued orders, he would be interpreted as standing in line with Jihan Wu.
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Reasons for some employees not to go back. Screenshot from: Maimai Zhiyan
Does going back mean accepting the leadership of Zhan Ketuan and choosing Zhan Ketuan's camp?
The employee did not agree. He believes that as an ordinary employee, he is not directly under the leadership of Ketuan Zhan, "I will just do my own work normally when I come back, and I will not stand in line."
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"How long will the boss be calling? Should I go or stay?"
"This is how Murong Bo and Xiao Yuanshan faced each other in "Dragon and Babu". Their martial arts are too high. If they want to retreat, they will be seriously injured, but if they want to advance, they have no choice."
A Weibo netizen described Bitmain’s current stalemate in this way.
Is Wu Jihan planning a new counterattack plan? Will Ketuan Zhan issue a "return to work order" or even take new measures? Will the company be split into two?
This company caught in internal strife, "variables are everywhere."
Just this afternoon, according to the block rhythm news, Ketuan Zhan is trying to control the Shenzhen mining machine delivery factory recently, prohibiting employees from delivering goods to paying customers normally, hindering the normal operation of the mining machine department. Subsequently, Wu Jihan issued an internal letter stating that the problem is being resolved through legal channels.
Watching the two bosses come and go, the employees also have mixed feelings, helpless, anxious, or already bearish and disappointed...
Some employees are also rethinking the right and wrong gains and losses of the company and the two bosses.
One of the current employees interviewed by Odaily was born in a major Internet company and joined Bitmain in 2017. In the past four years, he has seen glory and experienced troughs, and also witnessed the grievances and grievances between the two bosses from the side.
He believes that man-made disasters are the company's biggest problem. "It's not about the two bosses, but those who flatter or pick things up for personal gain."
"Because this company was once too rich and the boss was too simple, it almost attracted a large number of bastards and speculators in the capital, back and forth, coming and going. There are many people complaining about the former HRVP Wang Zhi, but I I want to say that there are too many people like this, not just these few.”
In addition, the above-mentioned employee said, "Regarding recent events, I feel that Mr. Han has not thought through many things."
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Screenshot from: Maimai Zhiyan
After a series of events, people outside eat melons to watch the fun, those who leave Bitmain seem to be celebrating, and those who are still working still cherish this "high-welfare company".
Some Bitmain employees certified by Maimai listed the advantages of the company: high salary, low pressure, "The treatment belongs to the upper middle of the Internet, the work pressure is 1/2 of the Internet, and the management is not strict. It is better than other ABCs to go public and cash out options. If it were you, would you like to leave?"
The employee also sighed, "It's a good company, but if it goes on like this, I'm afraid it will be a dream. Bit's last moat is the brand and technology. It depends on whether these can be kept."
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Screenshot from: Maimai Zhiyan
"Now this situation is almost unresolvable. I look forward to seeing if there are any powerful talkers among the investors who will come to make peace. Most employees still hope that the two bosses can recall the friendship of starting a business together and resolve it peacefully. " said the above-mentioned employee who returned to the company.
References:
References:
"Bitmain's Administrative Reconsideration Document Exposure: Unauthorized Amendment of Shareholders' Decision to Destroy Authenticity, Signature of Legal Person Amendment to Articles of Association Is Invalid", Chainshang Finance
