Chapter 020: Employees from the Mainland
When Li Xuan came, it was just meal time, and the employees' lunch was arranged by the company, and the restaurants contacted in advance would deliver lunch boxes on time every day. Li Ke did this very carefully, the restaurant was selected after he personally tasted the taste, in his words, everyone can only do well if they eat well.
Li Xuan saw that Du Fatzi was trying to play with his Hong Kong squares, so he went out to help him get a boxed lunch. Du Wenqiang has been promoted to the head of the company's technical department, and is the third person in the company besides Li Xuan and Li Ke.
His boxed lunches are more sumptuous than others, and the average employee has two vegetarian dishes and one and a half meat dishes, and he adds an extra meat dish. Du Wenqiang is also a carnivore, he especially likes to eat meat, has a good appetite and does not like to move far, but the nutrients he ate grew fat and grew into a dead fat man.
"Xuan Shao is good!"
The employees in the factory all knew him, a small boss who didn't come often, and nodded their heads to say hello. Li Xuan also nodded and smiled at everyone all the way. There is an hour-long lunch break, and many people will go downstairs to the canteen to eat after receiving a boxed lunch, and if two or three people are together, they will buy a cold beer to quench their thirst.
"Hello boss!"
Li Xuan unexpectedly heard the greeting in Mandarin, which made him stunned, this was the first time he had heard someone say Mandarin in person after he crossed. When he worked in the summer vacation before, he only communicated with the staff of the Mainland Research Institute in Mandarin over the phone, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of intimacy in his heart.
"Hello, from the mainland, what do you call it!"
The man who spoke to Li Xuan was about thirty years old, with an angular Chinese face. The other party obviously didn't guess that Li Xuan could speak Mandarin, so he didn't react for a while, and only after two or three seconds did he show a sneer: "Hello Xuan Shao, my name is Dong Jianguo, from Xi'an!"
"The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people on the waterside of Chang'an! Xi'an is a good place!" Li Xuan showed off a poem by Du Fu, "How long have you been in Hong Kong?"
"It's just been a year!" Dong Jianguo saw that his boss was not difficult to get along with, and he couldn't help but feel a little less restrained at the beginning.
"Oh, I'll be free after a year, and I'll get my ID card!"
The Hong Kong government's new policy is that if you have lived in Hong Kong for one year, you can have a Hong Kong household registration, and when you get a Hong Kong household registration and then go back to the mainland to visit relatives, you don't have to worry about being denied entry when you return to Hong Kong.
"Well, it was done not long ago! I also have a mother who stayed in Xi'an, and I have been unable to go back to Hong Kong for more than a year, and I just went back a few days ago! Before returning to the mainland, I quit my original job, and it just so happened that the boss of your company recruited people to apply!" Dong Jianguo briefly talked about his situation.
Although he has been trying to learn Cantonese this year, his tongue is still weak for a while, and he can only do some simple communication in Cantonese.
Li Xuan listened patiently to the other party's narration, he himself had the experience of studying abroad, and he could most deeply feel the bitterness of being unable to speak in a different place. Others gather in groups to laugh and laugh, but they can only stand aside, unable to listen and unable to interject, and the feeling of loneliness is not pleasant.
"Work hard, and strive to bring my mother to Hong Kong one day earlier to enjoy happiness!" Li Xuan patted Dong Jianguo's shoulder and encouraged.
"Hmm!" Although the boss in front of him looked much younger than himself, Dong Jianguo did not have a trace of disobedience, and responded very solemnly.
Hong Kong is indeed a paradise compared to the mainland. The starting salary of an ordinary apprentice is also 7800 Hong Kong dollars, which is 2 or 300 yuan when converted into renminbi according to the domestic exchange rate, while the salary of ordinary domestic workers in China is only 30 or 40 yuan, and the income of the peasants is even lower.
According to Hong Kong media reports, hundreds of thousands of people have swam across the sea from the mainland to Hong Kong since January. Dozens of floating corpses are left in the bay between Shekou District in Shenhai City and Tin Shui Wai in the New Territories every night, but it still can't stop the surging crowd of people fleeing Hong Kong.
"Have you ever done electronics work in China?" Li Xuan observed that Dong Jianguo's work clothes and hands were very clean, and he should not be making machine frames.
"I graduated from Xi'an University of Electronic Science and Technology, and before coming to Hong Kong, I worked as a technical manager in a state-owned electronics factory in Xi'an!" Tung Chee-hwa said with a hint of pride.
At his age, he should be a college student before the Cultural Revolution, which is a high-level talent in the mainland. Li Xuan shook his head in his heart, but unfortunately Hong Kong does not recognize the mainland's diploma, so he can only start from scratch. Of course, the wages offered by Kee Electronics Factory are not low. The starting salary of the employees responsible for the assembly of the game console frame is less, the daily salary is 35 yuan, and the overtime of two and a half hours is half a job, and one day off a week. The starting salary of the welding of circuit board components is much higher, 70 yuan per day. This wage level absolutely kills all domestic electronic enterprises.
Li Xuan chatted with Dong Jianguo for a few more words, and then walked back to the office with Du Wenqiang's boxed lunch, he had already had lunch before coming to the company. Back in the office, Du Wenqiang was still playing intently in front of the computer with Li Xuan's newly developed Hong Kong square.
He was the second player to try this game, and the first person to try it was naturally Li Xuan's roommate Lin Yuhao. Lin Yuhao was in a similar state to Du Wenqiang at that time, they were completely immersed in it and couldn't extricate themselves, and they would come to play with Li Xuan's computer when they were free these days.
Li Xuan knew that his game was successful, after all, it was a classic game that had been tested by countless players in later generations, and success was actually inevitable.
"Okay, let's start eating quickly, it's going to be cold if you don't eat anymore!" Li Xuan waited for a while, and saw that Du Wenqiang had no intention of stopping, and he had to start the next game after failing a game, so he had to interrupt him.
"This game is so good, it's simple but it's fun!" Du Wenqiang's eyes finally left the computer's display screen, squinted at Li Xuan and smiled, "Xuan Shao, how did you come up with this idea, it's so powerful, this game will definitely be popular!"
"It's okay if you think it's okay, I only made the CP/M version, and you will be responsible for transplanting it to the arcade machine next!" Li Xuan patted Du Fatzi on the shoulder and said.
"No, Xuan Shao!" Du Wenqiang lamented, porting the game from the computer version to the arcade machine was no easier than cracking a new game.
"In the future, I will only be responsible for the creativity of the game, and the rest of the work will be handed over to you to take over, otherwise I will pay a lot of salary to invite you to the company!" Li Xuan said with a smile, it is good to be the boss, and you can be the shopkeeper at any time.
"By the way, do any of the classmates and friends you know have skills similar to yours, if you are also interested in making games, you can quickly sue me, I will talk to them, if I think I can hire the company!" Li Xuan suddenly said again, "In the future, we will set up our own R&D team to develop new games, and piracy is not the right way after all!"
"Xuan Shao, let's talk about it first, I'm the veteran of the company, are these latecomers coming to the company to be my little brother?" Du Wenqiang asked jokingly.
"Don't dream, our company has always focused on the first to be the first, and the capable leader, if you are a dead fat man who laughs so obscenely when you become an executive, I am afraid of damaging the image of our Keji company!" Li Xuan also joked.
"I really know a few people, and they are all technical experts who usually communicate together. But Xuan Shao, I can't guarantee that you can bring a few!" Du Wenqiang said with a rare seriousness.
"In the next few days, you talk to them first to see if they have this intention, if you are introducing it to me, I will find time to make an appointment to talk about it!"