Chapter 422 - Caspar Returns to Office (1/2)
Caspar took on the new identity of Sebastian Schneider, the nephew of Heinrich Schneider, and became the new leader of the Schneider Group after Kurt's sudden death. He immediately convened a limited board of directors meeting and gathered the information he needed to run his business empire.
It had been almost 20 years since he managed the family business because he diverted his focus on his wife and children. Finally, now that he had to return to the business world, Caspar had to exert all his focus and concentration.
He had asked Ben to, again, become his personal assistant and they immediately prepared the regeneration process to make room for Terry to come in to replace Caspar after a few years.
The first week was still filled with various ceremonial events because all members of the company still felt deep sorrow due to Kurt's death.
There was hardly a single employee at the headquarters who knew Caspar because he had resigned from the company a long time ago.
Some senior officials who had seen him in the past didn't really recognize his face anymore and only assumed that as the 'nephew' of the previous boss, he must indeed look similar to his uncle, the group owner.
This morning, as usual, Caspar entered his office at the Schneider Tower in downtown Berlin. Because there were too many thoughts raging in his mind, that morning he forgot to bring the access key to his office on the highest floor and, unfortunately, the automatic access using fingerprint and cornea scanning had not been activated for him.
Hmm ... his meeting would start in 10 minutes and Caspar never liked being late. He looked around and saw, at the reception desk on the ground floor, two staff members who were busy with their work. He finally approached them and asked for access to go up to the 40th floor.
”Good morning, Sir. Are you a guest? Please leave your identity card and write down your appointment details,” said the receptionist who had a small hair bun above her head. She was staring seriously at Caspar, as if assessing who this prospective student or new employee was about to meet.
”I work here, but I left my access card at home,” Caspar said impatiently. He was usually very friendly, but lately, the anxiety caused by Aleksis' condition had made his patience run thin. ”If you can't give me access, please call Franz Hubert to pick me up here.”
The two receptionists looked at each other in surprise. Their faces showed clear dislike - this young man in front of them was behaving very insolently by casually asking them to summon the senior Vice President of Finance.
”Who are you? You cannot meet Mr. Hubert without an appointment. As far as I know, he has an important meeting today.”
Caspar shook his head; he was getting very annoyed. ”Yes, he will attend a meeting this morning with ME. If you are the cause of me being late, Franz will be angry.”
He looked at his watch. Ugh The meeting would start in 5 minutes. He knew the two receptionists were only doing their job and he was guilty of not having had time to request for his automatic access. His young and attractive appearance did not imply that he was the boss, let alone the group owner.
He knew that all his employees who saw him would think that he was a final year student who wanted to work as an intern or maybe they think that he was a new employee.