CEO Chen, You're Too Professional

Inside the office, Chen Xu, Yang Xin, Ruan Ningxue, and the others had an intense brainstorming session sparked by the news.

Of course, most of the time, Chen Xu was talking while they listened.

"Generally speaking, situations like criminals taking Hostages in movies rarely happen. To bank robbers, Hostages are actually more of a burden. What they want is money, not to risk their own lives."

"And once they take Hostages, they could rack up quite a few additional charges. What might originally have been a twenty-year sentence, with good behavior and certain special policies allowing them out after eight or nine years, would turn into spending the rest of their lives behind bars after taking Hostages."

"Besides that, most banks use time-locks. In my opinion, that is actually irresponsible toward employees' lives, because usually only the bank's branch or regional managers know about those time-locks, and the vault door does not open immediately either."

"But this is not a good method, because when bank employees tell the criminals that they cannot open the vault immediately and need five or six minutes, it makes the criminals extremely anxious. They will think the employees are lying, deliberately refusing to open the door and stalling for time."

"After all, most bank robbers are inexperienced when they rob a bank for the first time. They do not know that those employees truly cannot do anything about it. Their panic and desire to establish dominance can lead them to hurt ordinary employees."

"So, to pull off a successful robbery, they need a stable source of information and a thorough understanding of the bank. Usually, the easiest time to strike is when money is being transferred into the vault. Obviously, one of the robbers in this news report must have been a seasoned veteran. I