#Chapter 143: The New Standard

Logan would work day and night to keep any of his employees from being laid off, but the numbers didn’t add up. Even if he worked 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, he wouldn’t be able meet the new efficiency standard for everyone else on his own. The new standard was demanding, damn near impossible maybe, but this was what the company now required of its employees. Anyone who couldn’t reach this goal would need to be set aside for someone who could. All of this was board-approved. It also reeked of his grandfather’s influence. The talk at the high society party still loomed over Logan’s head. His father had threatened, this isn’t over. This had to be part of that. It was also likely in part connected to his challenge against Hazel. Yet if this was how much he thought the working class needed to achieve in order to be as valuable as a high-ranking executive or member of the high society, then he was clearly deluding himself. Logan’s employees were not slackers. They came in, d