Struggle in the Steam Age

Chapter 450: Human Resources

Lawrence took a look at this young man who was about his age and thought about it, and quickly found the corresponding information from his memory. This Bill was recommended by Uncle Jill, the person in charge of Lawrence’s Eagle Fort factory. He was the most educated person on their street. He graduated from Adams University Law School in the capital of the Eagle’s Nest District, the capital of the White Eagle Federation.

In theory, Adams University is one of the best in the federation. College students graduating from here often have a good future. It is a pity that most of the students studying literature and history in such universities come from prominent families. Although their education will not bully those classmates of ordinary background. But Bill, who came from an ordinary worker's family, was basically unable to integrate into their circle.

So after graduating, Bill, who did not build a network with the young masters in school, naturally found that the jobs he could find were far lower than the level of education he received. Natural salary and job prospects were also in this way. After repeatedly running into walls, he gave up the lofty ideals of his college days, and prepared to return to his hometown in this way, find a job that is convenient for him to take care of his parents, and try to become a middle class.

However, when he returned to his hometown, he happened to meet Lawrence through Uncle Bill to pull emigration to his island. Considering that Lawrence is a well-known medical expert, plus the reason that he feels that he can flex his muscles in such a new colony. He simply brought his family to the island.

The latter thing was just as he had expected. Because of the lack of talents on the island, college students like him were naturally listed as the focus of investigation. So he was quickly appointed as a judge of the circuit court to patrol the farms and mediate disputes between immigrants.

Because this work has been at the grassroots level, it is very hard. So many of those who Lawrence had recruited from outside the island before left after doing a while. But this Bill was supported by his own ambitions and became one of the few who persisted except for those retainers and their descendants.

So after the end of the grassroots work during this period, these people who passed the test were quickly promoted to higher positions by Lawrence. For example, Bill and several other young people who passed the test were assigned to the core of New Sauer Port. Administration. Exist as the secretary and staff of Bayer's butler administration. This is why he was able to attend this meeting today.

"Oh, Bill, do you know where to hire a suitable mechanic? Tell me quickly." Lawrence asked excitedly after hearing Bill's opinion. After all, you don’t need any experience to answer this type of question, so even a newcomer like Bill is likely to make very constructive comments.

"It's my hometown, Eagle Fort." In Lawrence's eyes, Bill said his own opinion. "In my impression, there are many old workers in my hometown who are around 50 years old. Because of the injuries and illnesses left at work, their lives are not going well, but they have a lot of experience. I think if they After receiving here for a while, they can work for at least several years, and they can also help train a group of apprentices."

"This is indeed a good idea." As Bill said, Lawrence also realized that this manpower that has been forgotten by many people in this era, even if the churches have joined forces in order to avoid a large number of negative emotions to force the factory owners to set the highest job Time and minimum wage. But those factory owners always want to maximize profits, coupled with the technical problems of industry and labor insurance in this era, still prevent workers from continuing to work hard when they are in their 40s or 50s.

For those workers who cannot work intensively, the factory owners naturally drove them out of the factory. It's like throwing away a dried fruit. Before, Lawrence recruited many such old workers when he was building a lighter factory there. After all, the labor intensity required to manufacture lighters is not large, and these experienced workers can better complete those manufacturing tasks.

And now Lawrence and the others are doing the same with the mechanical operation work. They can take the apprentice and let the apprentice help them to do those heavy physical tasks. At the same time, it is enough to guide the apprentices with their own experience. And for many machine operations, the physical consumption is actually not that big.

So Lawrence quickly decided to send a telegram to Uncle Jill, asking him to help recruit a group of more reliable people to help on the island. Of course, Lawrence will routinely give these people 120% of their normal wages as an extra subsidy for coming to such remote places, in addition to the island-specific benefits that are obviously better than ordinary factories.

Most importantly, in Lawrence's view, Eagle Fort, which was very cold in winter, was actually not suitable for these older people. If you invite them to this tropical island and stay away from the polluted environment in the past. Maybe the life expectancy of each of them will increase.

After solving these two thorny issues, everyone said that there was nothing to discuss, so this meeting naturally came to an end. After everyone had left, Lawrence walked to Syfiel and hugged her and kissed her on the cheek, and then asked her if she had any plans for the two days.

"These two days-these two days should be fine." After grabbing a calendar from the table and looking at it, Sefil said. "At least for the last ten days, I have nothing to deal with. By the way, did you say that Nora has something important to solve? Ask me what to do with this?"

"Originally, Nora and I have been studying a trophy in Volume 1 recently, because that trophy is closely related to Nora's strength improvement." Lawrence explained to Syfiel. He thinks it is better to explain some things in advance. . "But just today, Nora has successfully solved all the problems a week in advance, and got an improvement in extraordinary power with me~lightnovelpub.net~ so I just have free time."

"You said you have improved in terms of supernatural power? That is to say, now you have become a traditionally said silver super superhero, and Nora has become a gold super superhero? This is simply fantastic." Hearing Lawrence's words Later, Saifeier showed a very happy look on his face. "By the way, we must celebrate this kind of thing. What do you think of hosting a banquet?"

"Uh, let's forget about it. I don't think there is any need to publicize it except to inform relatives and friends." Although according to tradition, the emergence of golden supernatural beings in small independent or semi-independent political entities like Lawrence is enough to hold it. The celebration is over, but Lawrence himself does not want to celebrate on a large scale at this time. "I think it might be better to hide some power sometimes."

Speaking of this, Lawrence looked at Syfiel, who was too lazy and frustrated, and said: "We can invite those relatives and friends to have a small banquet tonight, and then we can go out and relax in the next week. , I remember that you haven’t left the port of Neusauer a few times since you were on this island, so you should go out and go around."

"That's great." Syfiel said with a sniff. Hearing what Lawrence said, she immediately knew that Lawrence did not ignore her efforts during this period, but really took her to heart. "But there are still a lot of things to deal with here, and it's not appropriate for us to go out for too long. So I think it's okay to just take a look on the island."

"Okay." After persuading for a while and discovering that Syfiel was indeed thinking this way, Lawrence said with a kiss on her forehead. "Let me plan the next journey well today, and we will set off tomorrow."