He Zhou, supply chain director at Hengda for eleven years, was demoted to watch the warehouse by the newly appointed HR director under the pretext of cutting costs by three million, slashing his monthly salary from thirty-two thousand to four thousand five hundred. He refused to sign and refused to quit, clocking in precisely at eight every morning to sit at the warehouse entrance. The nephew who took over sold scrap materials back to the company, causing both production lines to halt and Huaxin to file a return claim of twenty-eight million. They wanted to save three million, but ended up losing three hundred million.