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The red sun adds a touch of color to the blue sky.

Early in the morning, Wang Qiang sat on the Rolls-Royce sent by Boss Wang to pick him up, and he was still the driver before.

After half an hour's drive, I came to the underground parking lot of an office building.

Under the leadership of the driver, Wang Qiang took the elevator to the twenty-second floor.

The entire floor here is the office of the probation company, which is not headquartered here.

Get in.

The driver communicated with the front desk lady and explained his intentions.

The tall, brown-haired white lady at the front desk nodded and made a call.

After a while, someone from inside came out and took Wang Qiang and the driver to the manager's room of the business department.

When I met the account manager, he was a brown-skinned man in his thirties, who looked a bit like Wade, who later played in the NBA, but he was a little shorter, about 1.8 meters.

Wang Qiang and he simply communicated in English, and learned that the other party's name was Stephen Johnson, but his English was really average, and many words were a bit unsatisfactory, and finally the driver took over the work of translator, building a bridge of communication between the two.

in the office.

Stephen Johnson made a cup of hot coffee for each of them, and got into the subject: "Dear Wang, I heard you want to do business with our company?"

Wang Qiang sat on the sofa and took a sip of coffee, put down the cup, nodded and said, "Yes, your company may need to provide seventy or eighty manpower, and the specific amount depends on the follow-up work." ”

The driver acts as an interpreter.

Stephen Johnson asked, "I wonder what you do?"

"Oh, I work in warehouse sorting. Wang Qiang roughly introduced the situation he needed, and then said: "If I formally cooperate with your company, I hope to personally participate in the training of workers." ”

Stephen Johnson was a little embarrassed, "It's a little inconvenient...... he paused, and then said, "Let's talk about how much you're willing to pay." ”

Even if it is a private prison, it is still a prison in the end, and it will certainly not be too convenient.

It's just that the capitalists are a bunch of bastards who can take risks for the sake of profit, and if the price is right, Wang Qiang believes that the reforming company will definitely agree to train the prisoners he is engaged in.

Once the first batch of competent people is trained, the follow-up will be much easier.

Skilled workers bring new arrivals, and the cycle repeats, forming a virtuous circle.

Moreover, it is also an expedient measure to use private prisons, if the capital on hand is enough in the future, Wang Qiang does not mind spending more money on formal warehousing and logistics, in the final analysis, the money is still not enough.

Wang Qiang did not quote directly, but asked rhetorically: "What is the labor fee standard for each of you?"

Speaking of this, Stephen Johnson smiled and introduced seriously: "It depends on what kind of work you do, which is a bit technical, such as working in the computer industry......"

Wang Qiang directly interrupted: "I don't need any technology, just be literate and know how to operate some simple mechanical equipment." ”

If a normal person is interrupted, he will definitely be unhappy, but Stephen Johnson is facing a customer, so naturally there will be no unpleasantness, "You don't need any technology, according to the minimum hourly wage in the United States, $4.25 an hour." ”

That's a bit of a sky-high asking price.

If you are based on the minimum hourly wage in the United States, where do you go to find customers?

However, Wang Qiang knew that the other party's lion opened his mouth to allow himself to have room to lower the price, so he couldn't come up and quote the low price, right? ”

"And how much do you say?" asked Stephen Johnson rhetorically.

Wang Qiang said unhurriedly: "Each worker is two dollars an hour." ”

Stephen Johnson immediately said, "No way. He vetoed again and again, "We don't make money at all for two dollars, and we have to pay backwards, after all, we have to pay wages for workers." ”

"Oh, is it?" Wang Qiang stared at the other party with interest, pretending to be careless, "How can your company pay workers no more than 20 cents an hour as far as I know?"

He didn't know how much private prisons were paying prisoners an hour in the current era, but it would take another twenty years to pay 25 cents an hour, and it would probably not be more than 20 cents today.

Stephen Johnson, who was debunked, pretended to be surprised and said, "Who did you listen to? Rumors, all rumors." He said righteously, "We are a regular company, and we must pay salaries normally in accordance with national laws." ”

Bullshit, if you really want to make money in your private prisons?

No matter how much he pretends to be like Wang Qiang, he will not be fooled, and he has a ruler in his heart, "Naturally, I listened to the insiders, you think it's okay for me to talk nonsense, I just want to reduce the financial burden on your company, or in other words, create revenue." ”

"But if you set such a low price, we won't be able to generate revenue at all, and it may increase the burden. Stephen Johnson said: "It is not easy for us to open a private prison, we need a lot of capital to support the inmates ......"

Wang Qiang interrupted at one point: "Even if you can make money without taking on other businesses, the U.S. government subsidizes the bed fee for each prisoner as high as more than $30 per day, and the bed fee standard in some model prisons may even exceed $50." ”

This time, Stephen Johnson couldn't sit still.

This is a trade secret, how did the young man in front of him know?

Because the contract was signed with the U.S. government, it stands to reason that there is no possibility of leakage.

Of course, he didn't know that Wang Qiang's young body contained the soul from the information explosion, and in later years, not to mention the bed fees signed by private prisons and the U.S. government, he knew more confidential things, for example, the income of private prisons in the United States was more than that.

Then Wang Qiang said this, "Moreover, I heard that several telecommunications giants in the United States, such as telephone and telecommunications companies, Sprint companies, etc., all have long-distance business cooperation with you, and I don't know anything else, but the telephone bills of your California prisons and juvenile detention centers alone can exceed 100 million US dollars a year, and I don't need to say more about how much you can earn, right?"

Stephen Johnson frowned even more, and did not reply, as if he was afraid that if he said too much, he would lose it.

The more Wang Qiang spoke, the more confident he became, and he said eloquently: "I mean, if the inmates in your prison don't work, you won't be able to earn labor costs, and secondly, how can they shop and make phone calls if they don't have money? And if I'm not mistaken, your business is not so busy that every prisoner has a job, can you bear to watch a lot of manpower wasted? If I were your boss, I would definitely feel distressed, and I would feel sorry that those manpower can't be turned into wealth." ”

Even the driver of the translator was stunned by Wang Qiang, and he looked so reasonable.

Of course, Stephen Johnson was certainly not so easily fooled as a business manager, and he was silent for a moment, "That being said, two dollars is still too low." ”

"Not low, not low at all. Wang Qiang shook his finger, "Even if you deny giving each prisoner 20 cents an hourly wage, I also know that the real situation is like this, a prisoner can earn 1.8 US dollars per hour, and the type of work I need is almost unskilled, such a good money, if your company doesn't make money, then I can only find other companies, after all, you are not the only one who runs a private prison in the United States." ”

Hearing that customers might be lost, Stephen Johnson immediately changed his face and greeted him with a smile: "We can talk about the price again, and you still have to talk about the price if you go to someone else, don't you say?"

Finally can't take it anymore?

Retreat as advance worked.

Wang Qiang smiled slightly, knowing that the other party was already empty, fortunately he had a lot of useful things in his head, otherwise it would not have been so smooth for Stephen Johnson to regress.

After all, the first priority of a capitalist is to make profits, and Wang Qiang knows the hole cards of the probation company, so he naturally takes the initiative in his own hands.

For example, Stephen Johnson offered $4.25 an hour, and the average person could pay back $3.5, no, $3 is remarkable.

But now Wang Qiang is confident that it will be pressed below 3 US dollars, as for how much it can be pressed, it still depends on the next negotiations, the two US dollars per hour is just his bargaining, relatively speaking, the price must be too low, even if the labor of the probation company is no longer valuable, it is still unlikely to agree.

Wang Qiang breathed a sigh of relief, let's have a good relationship with this account manager, a penny is a penny, after all, he needs money too much now, and he must push the price to a very low position.