A few days ago, I was chatting with a friend, and I talked about a friend we both knew. I asked about Mr. Z's current situation, and my friend said that it would be difficult for him to go ashore with his current situation.
Mr. Z is more than ten years younger than me, and I have known each other through business for more than ten years, and when I was doing earthwork part-time, I often borrowed his company's qualifications and his company's technical personnel (all paid according to the rules). Z always dropped out of high school and went home because he didn't study well, opened a pig farm with his father, and stayed in his hometown for two years, so he came to the city to work as a construction worker. Because of the active brain, he slowly went from pure manual labor on the construction site, to a small package foreman, and then to pull a team by himself. When he began to work alone, he mainly took over some small projects of public unit maintenance and decoration, Z is always very good at things, and the relationship between the big leaders of each unit and the competent leadership office is very harmonious, the management of the unit project in previous years is not very perfect, cost audit, bidding or something is to go out of style, at that time the profit of doing public work is very considerable, Z always slowly completed his original accumulation.
Mr. Z later established his own company (before this, he borrowed the qualifications of other companies), the kind of company with high qualifications that can build buildings and repair roads, and has a professional management team of more than 20 people all year round (after receiving the project, he will recruit other professional and technical personnel), contracting or subcontracting some of our local larger projects, and Mr. Z has some reputation in our local area. However, later, as the state's management of relevant aspects became more and more formal and strict, under the high pressure of anti-corruption, it became more and more difficult for Mr. Z to find the qualifications of several companies to "rig bids" successfully. The change strategy is to find more qualified companies, echelon combinations, and win the bid by quoting low prices. Originally, the cost of the project had been strictly audited by a third party, and his company's profits were not as good as before. One time when we were having dinner together, I asked him how his business was now, and he said that they all won the bids at low prices, which was very difficult, and the gross profit was only about 10 percent. I was very surprised at the time, if this encounters a little uncontrollable factor, I will lose money if I don't get it right.
Z's general economic situation fell sharply during the mask period, when several of his projects were started and stopped, and the cost of the project skyrocketed: I dare not dismiss a considerable number of professional backbones, because you don't know when to notify the start of construction, if you are dismissed and then recruit again, one is too late, and the other is not easy to recruit the right one, so you have to support these people if you can't work; They are all advanced construction, they have a kind of rules, such as you use a large number of steel bars, negotiate the price with the supplier when you start construction, and then give the supplier a certain amount of deposit, within a few months, regardless of the price of steel bars, the supplier is supplied according to the negotiated price, after the agreed period, with the market. The extension of the construction period, the cost of raw materials has increased greatly, and the unfavorable factors such as the mask period have made Z always miserable.
The mask can be counted as over, thinking about doing a few projects to return to the cost, and catching up with the economic downturn of the whole country, the real estate trough, the developer can't sell the house, can't settle the account for him as agreed, and even some developers have broken the capital chain and the real estate is unfinished, and he has completely fallen into it.
Listening to my friend, in fact, Mr. Z has long known that the possibility of being able to turn over is very small, and if he owes him, he will not come back, and what he owes others, let alone repay others. At the beginning, in order to alleviate the shortage of funds, he also borrowed a lot of usury from the people, which was a heavy burden. Mr. Z also asked me to borrow money and promised me a high interest, but I found an excuse to refuse, and I was not involved.
Mr. Z had already made a bad plan, and quietly divorced his daughter-in-law a long time ago, and the assets that should be transferred were also transferred to his daughter-in-law and children. I have all the debts I have with the company, and I look like a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, and it is as far as it can go.
Now Mr. Z's company is like a broken car that is about to fall apart, squeaking and still running, maybe when the part (or not the part of the key part) suddenly falls off, the whole broken car collapses, and all the relevant companies and people are stunned and completely dumbfounded!
