Tommy Hawk stood in front of the dressing mirror carefully adjusting his golden retrievers, trying to make them look sharper, and asked his girlfriend Reni who was waiting next to him, "How do I look now?" ”

"Fascinating?" Renee stared at Tommy's face for a few seconds before she told her the truth.

Tommy thought for a moment, took off his T-shirt, changed into a floral shirt, and unbuttoned the two top buttons: "And now?" ”

"Like a native Texas or California man, a little uninhibited, it doesn't matter?" Reni finally realized what Tommy was doing and spoke.

After getting his girlfriend's answer, Tommy nodded with satisfaction: "Very good, let's go." ”

On this weekend, Symantec's No. 1 employee, SSD Shame, James Dunn helped Tommy Hawk make an appointment with his company's HR manager, Ian Knott, for a casual weekend get-together.

Since it was the weekend, of course, the three men brought their respective girlfriends, first went to the restaurant to eat together, and then went to the mall to shop, and the three men became sidekicks, until they arrived at the go-kart park, and the three women went to an excited racing competition, and they finally got the opportunity to rest.

In the leisure area of the Silicon Valley go-kart park, the three men watched their girlfriends screaming and driving the go-kart at high speed over the track not far from them, and they all raised the drinks in their hands to cheer each other loudly.

Ian Knott is thirty-two years old, and like Gary Hendriguez, the 35-year-old founder of Symantec, he is from Texas and a graduate of the University of Texas, where the two joined the same fraternity.

"Tommy, I wasn't going to look like a lazy guy like you in college." Ian Knott saw Tommy's world-weary expression and laughed: "Especially with this kind of beautiful girlfriend, it turns out that only after the age of thirty will you become a perfunctory expression like mine, of course, it can't be considered James, that guy has a unique XP, his girlfriend is not as attractive to him as Fleckie of the company, every time I see James looking at Fleckie, I feel terrifying, as if I can take off my pants and pounce on it at any time." ”

Fleckie is an artificial intelligence robot project developed by Symantec after receiving a large investment from the U.S. National Fund.

Although Symantec has only been around for a year, it is definitely not a small startup, after all, no small startup company can get an eight-figure investment without a product at all.

Symantec was able to get tens of millions of dollars in investment to start a business in Silicon Valley thanks to the connections of its founder, Gary Hendriguez, whose doctoral supervisor was hired as the chief scientist of a computer artificial intelligence project at the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

In the United States, everything is business, and DARPA's annual budget for such projects is only two million, citing the lack of state funding.

But if it is a private company that develops a similar project, then it can get a lot of investment from the state and the military, and the reason is naturally to keep the technology in their hands, and the other point is that it is also convenient for officials to make money in such companies.

Gary Hendriguez founded Symantec in this way of operating, mentors, some people from DARPA, some people from the state fund occupy the shares of this company in various ways, DARPA's research and development is almost stagnant, but Symantec's progress can move forward at a uniform pace, and when the development reaches certain key nodes, the country can continue to take out money to support Symantec, and the final outcome is that DARPA's artificial intelligence project is canceled, and the U.S. government pays a high price for Symantec's products.

In Silicon Valley, as long as you see that a new company is not starting from a garage, but directly renting expensive office buildings, recruiting a large number of people, and buying large computer groups, then it is almost certain that the new company should be similar to Symantec, either with high-ranking officials or with state investment, that is, it is not a nerd technology start-up, but a real businessman.

Tommy took a sip of juice and looked at Ian and James next to him: "I came up with a joke about a reporter interviewing a man and saying to him, sir, can I do a random interview for you?" Who would you like to spend a weekend with? A, your wife, B...... Before the reporter could finish speaking, the man immediately shouted: BBBBBB! ”

Ian and James both laughed and nodded their heads: "That's right, you should choose B!" That's definitely the smart choice. ”

After laughing, Ian reached out and patted Tommy, and then said, "James said, you and your girlfriend are doing some social activities at Stanford to help women find employment, and you want me to help arrange some female employment, boy, for the sake of this joke, you can talk to me." ”

"That's right, James said, Symantec now has nearly forty clerks in the administrative and secretarial departments, not counting the assistants in other departments and the like, I would like to ask Mr. Knott to give those women a chance, those women are definitely harder than everyone in your company at the moment, they value that job, and their efficiency is higher than the clerks you paid a lot of money for at the moment, but the pay is only two-thirds of those people." Tommy heard Ian Noether talk about it, looked at the other party, put away his smile, and said seriously:

"Most of those women only have a high school degree, they haven't studied in college, they don't know what a college job fair is, they don't know about the various company benefits that other college students have figured out when they are recruiting in school, they are as pure as a blank sheet of paper, but they can do those ordinary jobs that we thought only college students could do, such as entering documents, forms, preparing speeches, printing reports, helping you make coffee, etc., and now in your department, an administrative specialist who only knows how to turn on the computer and enter the attendance sheet, Most of the day's work is just to help Mr. Knott make coffee, how much does Symantec pay her? ”

"300 weekly salary." Ethan Knott pulls out a cigarette and lights it in his mouth.

Tommy said affirmatively: "The woman I recommend only needs 220 yuan, and if you give her the work that does not belong to her, she will also complete it obediently, because she doesn't know how much work she should be responsible for, she only knows how to do all the work assigned to her by the company." ”

Ethan Knott squinted slightly, opened his mouth and said with a smile to Tommy Hawk: "If you promote women's employment like this, Tommy, no company will refuse, one person saves eighty dollars in salary expenses, forty people can save three thousand two hundred dollars a week, which is 150,000 yuan a year, this data is more tempting than any words, I will think about it, and then talk to Gary." ”

"By the way, I forgot that the 150,000 saved can still be counted on their heads, and that's what I mean by blank slate, Mr. Nott." Tommy saw that Ethan did not promise on the spot, as if he suddenly remembered a missing point, and opened his mouth to speak to him.

Ethan looked at Tommy's deep eyes, and finally reached out to him, and said seriously, "When will I see the ladies you said are eager to be employed?" Symantec has always believed that women are the greatest existence in the world, and we should reach out to them as soon as possible within our ability, Tommy, the world needs social workers like you, the more the better. ”

"You can do an internal assessment right now and decide whether certain people stay or not, and we're going to have 10 women in our first batch." Tommy and Ethan held their hands together, "Thank you for your help with women's employment, and I think the Stanford Women's Equality Association will be willing to award Symantec a certificate of appreciation." ”

Ethan said seriously, "Symantec is honored to make a small contribution to women's employment. ”

The first update~~ is a little late, so I'll roll over and write the second update~

(End of chapter)