Chapter Ninety-Eight (51) California Teenagers
California in early October was foggy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The weather turned cooler, foggy in the early morning, and by noon it could not disperse.
Because of the large temperature difference between day and night, California fruits are sweet and delicious. However, just like China's Xinjiang, people who live here have to change their clothes all day long to adapt to the weather.
Naylor is eleven years old and lives in Susanville, Larsen County, California.
In the past month, a toy has become popular in California. It is made of wood, with a layer of glass hollowed out in the middle, and some wooden circles inside. After filling the water, press the button below, and you can make the jet of water swim with a wooden ring, and finally put it all on the wooden stick.
When the grocery store first started, it wasn't very popular. Because it is made of wood, it is only like brushing a layer of tung oil, which looks very simple, and it is inconspicuous in a pile of colorful plastic toys.
However, after a few days, people kept buying this simple-looking toy, young and old, of all ages. It didn't take long for all of the wooden toys to be sold.
The owner of the grocery store was curious, and after careful inquiry, he learned that they had bought it not according to toys, but according to crafts.
The person who came to buy also deliberately let the boss look at the area under the transparent glass in the middle. The boss looked along the buyer's finger and saw that there was a painting inside, and after changing several machines, the paintings in it were actually different.
You know, the toys that used to be sold in grocery stores. Because of the low price, whether it is made in this state, the United States, or imported from abroad, it is all shoddy stuff. Most of them use plastic injection molding process, the accuracy is very poor, very rough, often not able to play for a while, then stop the food and scrap.
There really aren't many delicate toys like water-powered game consoles.
The appearance and texture are pleasing, and it's still playful, and then I found different patterns inside, and this thing is completely popular.
There is a middle-aged man who bought more than 20 by himself.
This thing is three dollars a piece, and more than twenty dollars is more than sixty dollars.
With this money, you can buy a lot of beef.
When Neller went out to play, he saw his friends around him showing off, holding a hydro game console and pressing it back and forth.
He went over to watch, looked at the hot eyes, and wanted to borrow it to play, but the partner wouldn't dump him. Naylor was not angry, he was used to it.
No, Neller is withdrawn, but these nearby friends always don't like to play with him, and slowly he doesn't want to hot face and stick to their cold ass.
However, he is not the most unlucky, the most unfortunate guy, although someone plays with him, everyone bullies him. When he went to school, he was always stuffed with dirty things in his closet, and Neller heard someone pee on him.
Rather than being treated like that, it's better to play alone.
As for why others ignore Naylor. Neller probably understands that it's probably because he always gets an A in his own tests.
In the eyes of those people, not taking an e, not taking an F is a mistake, and you can't play with them.
Neller went home with his parents and didn't want to take the exam well, and he also wanted to take E and F, but his father, who was a local lawyer, scolded him severely, and he was going to be like those fools.
If you want to live a good life in the future, if you don't study hard, you think about how to play all day long.
Don't look at those sons, now they take e and f one by one, as if they are very free. Waiting for them to graduate from high school, not even go to college, and only deserve to work in fast food restaurants with those black ghosts, living on and off the food line, that's hell on earth, my child.
Naylor didn't think there was anything wrong with working in a fast food restaurant, not only to eat fast food every day, but also to pay for it.
However, he wisely did not come out, and it would not end well if he had doubts about his father.
With such a family, Neller naturally does not have any pocket money.
Originally, his father thought that he didn't study hard, and it would be even worse if he knew that he wanted money to buy toys.
So, Naylor took advantage of the holidays to find a job delivering newspapers.
A week's worth of newspaper for one is twenty cents, and fifteen for three dollars.
Don't think it's easy to send fifteen, the subscribers are scattered, Neller set off before dawn, and the sun rises high and hasn't finished delivering.
Presumably, this is why Naylor was able to find this newspaper delivery job so easily.
On the first day of work, I felt that it was fresh and nothing, and on the third day, I felt a little boring.
On the fifth day, Neller began to feel that his father was right, and that studying hard was the right way, and if he didn't study well, he would indeed be better off than dead in the future.
After a week on the job, Naylor, who received three dollars, cherished it extraordinarily. It was the first time he had taken so much money, the first time he had earned it through his hard work.
When I went to the grocery store for three dollars and looked for that kind of wooden toy, I didn't find it. The boss is out of sales, and it will take some time to arrive.
Neller lowered his head in some disappointment, and immediately he raised his head again and said to the boss, then I want to book one.
Every day for the next day, Neller would come to the grocery store, and those who didn't know it thought he had become a child laborer.
"Uncle Tyson, has the wooden game console arrived today?" Neller asked as he pushed open the door of the grocery store and asked wistfully.
The grocery store owner was used to seeing Neller come and go home every day, but it did arrive today, he smiled and stretched out his hand, pointed inside, "It's over there, take it yourself." ”
"Really?" Neller was surprised at first, then sprang over in three or two steps.
Boss Tyson looked at his reckless appearance and wanted to remind him not to break anything else. However, when he thought about it, his father was a lawyer, and if he broke it, he would definitely be able to afford it.
It's just that when you go to ask for money, you have to be careful, and if you are bitten back, it is not cost-effective to blackmail a sum of money.
In America, lawyers are feared, but no one likes them.
Although the social status is high, it is similar to that of the litigators of ancient China. In fact, there are many people in the United States who think that lawyers are lawyers.
No matter who it is, whether the lawsuit is won or not, a layer of skin must be removed.
"Heart......" Tyson said.
Neller was very obedient, and since the boss was gone, he stopped running and walked slowly to the counter where the water game machine was placed. Pick up the hydro game machine, touch the wood coated with tung oil, and admire the patterns inside the glass.
The hydro game console he saw that day had nothing on the back. He thought it was the same, but when he turned it over, he saw a big red icon with letters written "huaia" in a rectangular frame.
Below the "huaia" sign is a detailed inscription, including the date of production, the address of production.
When he saw "China", he was a little puzzled, where is this?
Neller turned the globe in the grocery store and discovered that it was made on the other side of the ocean.
"You like it?" Tyson asked.
"Hmm." Neller headed.
"Then I feel that there is a toy that you will also like, you look over there, that one is produced by the same company as this." Tyson pointed to the window.
Lawyers are rich, and Tyson just wants to make more.
Neller didn't pay attention when he came, and then he saw the wooden robot in the window, very powerful, very stylish, and looked very fan.
In particular, the slightly raised word "huaia" on the left chest of the robot looks like it has a badge, which is particularly textured.
"It can transform! When you see the electric fan in the back, it can not only blow the wind, but also walk on its own after becoming a boat. "Boss Tyson, let's make up the knife.
"I want to buy it!" The more Neller looked, the more he loved, and a hot fire appeared in his eyes.
But where does the money come from?
He worried.
Or the rowing is on fire.
As its name suggests, "eciting," it excites the American people.
3,000 rowboats, like peppercorns, have been sprinkled into big stores in California. I thought it would sell slowly, but I didn't expect it to be sold out within a week.
The sales here are good, and the Huaxia factory will naturally receive more orders, and in the boss's heart, the status and importance of Nick and China have also improved a lot.
Originally, Nick was sent to China, but it was just a policy-based investment, and he didn't expect a return in the short term. I didn't expect Nick's ability to be quite sufficient, and it only took a long time to find a reliable manufacturer over there.
Although 3,000 boats were sold in a week, Nick's boss was not confused by this sales situation and placed orders for tens of thousands of boats at once.
Toys have always been fast-moving consumer goods, and it is common for them to sell quickly. However, no matter how fast and good it is, it is basically a while, if you don't stock up at one time, there is a break, people's enthusiasm fades, and it is not good how much can be sold in the future.
Therefore, Boss Nick placed an order of 7,000 units in a controlled manner, which was an integer of 10,000 units from the previous 3,000 units.
Not all the money from this batch of orders was turned into money orders and mailed to China. Instead, the fee for registering the trademark "huaia" was deducted first.
There is also a part of the payment, and the Chinese side asks to buy a video game console and mail it back.
Boss Nick listened to Nick's fluttering voice on the phone, and smiled in his heart, these Chinese also know that video games make money, and want to come in and intervene.
Putting down the phone, he shook his head, with the Chinese want to make video games? It's not that easy.
Due to his frequent dealings with foreign companies and overseas purchases, Nick's boss does not feel that the earth is flat, like most Americans. The United States is the center of the world, except for the United States, everywhere else is a barren, even the Soviet Union, which is worse than the United States and does not know where to go.
He knew where China was, and he knew that it was a vast land and a large population. Making toys with shallow technology has the advantage of cheap human resources, but making video games based on the semiconductor industry is whimsical.
The level of the semiconductor industry of China's big brother, the Soviet Union, is more than ten years behind that of the United States. As a younger brother of the Soviet Union, what is China's ability to make video games?
Nick's boss smiled, picked up the phone on the desk, and arranged for someone to deal with the request for the Huaxia factory that Nick had just conveyed.
Since they want it, then help them procure it, anyway, video game consoles are not trade embargos, and even in the middle, they can make a profit.
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Yu Tiecheng has been busy since he wanted to open and seriously run the factory.
Don't look at Huaxia Factory is just a factory with less than 1,000 people, but there are many things up and down. Even if you work hard every day, you can't do it.
One of the main things to deal with is to coordinate production in the factory, and the other is to build a new house.
The repeated work of machinery will inevitably make people in a trance and create substandard products.
Yu Tiecheng not only dealt with these substandard products these days, but also punished the workers who made mistakes.
He is also thinking about how to develop a reasonable and easy-to-use system, so that these workers can not only work efficiently without being lazy, but also ensure the quality of products.
Since the factory is now a private enterprise, the original kind of propaganda that exerts subjective initiative and publicizes that the factory is the home and the workers are the masters of the house cannot be done, and it has no effect.
If you want to make people motivated, the easiest way is to make a fuss about this money.
Nick has already had an idea after observing it up and down these days, but he did not communicate directly with Yu Tiecheng, but proposed a solution through Yu Tiecheng.
First of all, these workers are divided into groups according to the assembly line to which they belong.
Then, the salary reform is carried out, and the remuneration of the workers, in addition to the basic guaranteed salary, also has a performance salary.
If there is only incentives and no punishments, quality will definitely be sacrificed for the sake of speed.
So, some punitive measures are also needed. However, if a yield rate is directly formulated, it is not necessarily scientific, and workers may not be able to do it, even if it is scientific, workers can do it, it is possible to deliberately get stuck in the required yield rate and deliberately make some garbage.
In this case, it is necessary to introduce an incentive comparison mechanism.
Nick's method is to draw a statistical chart of the yield rate and the number of qualified products on the front line of production.
The data of each day are recorded, and then every Monday, what are the rewards for the production line with the highest yield rate, what are the rewards for the production line with the largest number of qualified products, and what are the penalties for the production line with the lowest yield rate and the least number of qualified products.
In this way, the problem of worker motivation and product quality is basically solved.
Yu Tiecheng took the paper handed to him by Yu Sheng, and felt that this plan was good, but he was still a little hesitant.
Not because of anything else, but because Nick is an American. For so many years, the propaganda of "the emperor-the lord-the righteous will not die" has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Nick, a white man, is an American, can he really be so kind?
Yu Tiecheng hesitated, and hesitated until he got the order for 7,000 rowing boats.
Worried about what to do so much, these Americans have gotten into the eyes of money and put forward a plan, not to make the Huaxia factory produce faster and make more money.
Again, this plan looks really complete and tempting, and there are no obvious pitfalls found. If there's a problem, just stop.
The worker management system began to change, and the construction site was also in full swing.
At this time, Yu Tiecheng listened to Yu Sheng, and asked the technical personnel found by the Industrial Bureau to come one after another.
These people come from all over the country with different accents, some from Sichuan, some from Shanghai, and some from Beijing. In short, as long as the whole country meets the requirements and is willing to come, they have basically arrived.
When picking up these people from the station, Yu Tiecheng found that their faces were not only tired from the journey, but also excited.
However, their excitement has already dissipated a lot when they arrive at the Huaxia factory.
It's not that they haven't seen the world, and the factories they come out of are larger, but at least they have 500 employees.
In addition, in the past few years, the state has attached great importance to it, and the foundation is very thick.
Compared with their factory, the Huaxia factory looks too shabby. Just a few factories, a few residential buildings, and a construction site.
Compared with the generosity of the Huaxia Factory when it provided them with soft sleeper tickets, the Huaxia Factory, which lives in the far suburbs of Qingtai Port at this time, looks really disappointing.
In addition, Huaxia Factory is a private enterprise, and many people directly think of going back.
"Lao Xu, I don't seem to be doing well when I look at Huaxia Factory." Lao Zhao, who got out of the car, looked at the Huaxia factory area that was not too big, and touched his chin.
Lao Li pointed to the piles of timber on the site, "I don't think it's very good, it doesn't seem to have anything to do with semiconductors, look at this pair of wood, this Huaxia factory won't be a wood processing factory." ”
Xu Yindong was not in a hurry, what he observed was not the site, nor the wood, but the people.
He looked at the movements quickly, in and out, like a Huaxia factory worker with the wind, and thought for a while, "No, take a look." (To be continued.) )