Gotham University's faculty cafeteria has a very old history and is one of the first buildings built in the university.
It still uses the ordering system of a traditional club restaurant. When Schiller entered, he turned around and shook the water droplets on his umbrella outside. Victor stepped aside and said, "Fortunately, I have you. Who knows?"
Unexpectedly, halfway through, it started raining."
"That's the way Gotham is. If you don't carry an umbrella with you, you have to be prepared to get soaked in the rain."
He shook the black umbrella, then put it inside, tied it and put it on the umbrella stand by the door. When Schiller entered, the heat in the room made his glasses cover with a layer of white mist, and he simply
Take off your glasses.
Victor looked back at the umbrella and said, "Where did you buy this umbrella? It seems to be of good quality. I'll buy one too."
"Do you know Green Street? It's over there in the East End, a street next to the Living Hell. There's an umbrella maker in the alley there."
"God, you are too old-fashioned. What era are you in, and you still go to an umbrella maker who makes handmade umbrellas?"
"As you said, this umbrella looks of good quality."
While the two were chatting, they found a round table by the window and sat down. After a while, a waiter came to take orders. Victor said, "I'm really not used to it. The restaurant at Gotham University is too...
It’s retro, when I was in California, all the restaurants there had windows.”
"On the contrary, I don't like the window system, the greasy bacon is piled together, and the bread slices are cut into uneven sizes..."
Schiller took the menu and said while looking at it: "You seem to be busy again recently. Is there anything going on at the School of Science?"
"Forget it." Victor took the menu handed over by Schiller, pointed it out to the waiter, and sighed, saying, "I'm so busy, isn't it all thanks to you?"
"But I heard that the recent cold chain project is nearing completion, so you should be free by now."
Victor showed a helpless expression and said, "You don't know? Those gang bosses are going crazy for lack of people recently!"
"They especially lack people with management skills. Almost everyone in Gotham City who can manage is at Gotham University. When gangsters come to borrow people, the principal can only agree."
"But how many faculty members are there at Gotham University? The number of positions that the gangs lack is probably far greater than the number of people they can borrow, right?"
"That's the problem." Victor tapped the table with his fingers, and then said: "They can't borrow so many people, but without managers, the entire management will be in chaos, so they can only go to Principal Seldon again.
Let’s talk…”
At this time, the ordered food had just been served, and Schiller asked while cutting the steak: "What do they want to do?"
"As you would expect, they want to open schools."
Victor took the wine in front of him and took a sip. The cold liquid made him click his tongue. He said: "There are only three high schools in Gotham, and the enrollment rate is less than 10%. Most of them will study honestly.
People don’t want to go to Gotham University, let alone stay in this city.”
"They want to open their own schools, private schools, and teach them what they need."
"I remember there should be private schools in Gotham?" Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Where? It should be in the south, right? There are two private boarding schools..."
"You also said that it is in the south. It is a school in a wealthy area, where rich people take care of their children. The things taught there are useless, such as musical instruments, painting, and hockey. You expect gangsters to use this knowledge to manage their businesses.
?”
"So they want to open a vocational high school?" Schiller said, flipping the scrambled eggs with a fork.
"It can't be called a middle school." Victor swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth with a napkin, and continued: "It can only be called a vocational school. Anyone can go to it, but the gangsters should choose for themselves.
When a group of people come in, the main thing is to train the management.”
"To be honest, they are a bit shameful," Victor complained: "They asked me to repair their low-temperature warehouse, but after asking all the warehouse managers, no one could understand the reading meter, even the most basic
How are they going to manage the warehouse if they can’t understand the readings?”
"So those gang bosses plan to train their own people to deal with this problem?"
"That's right, and they haven't found a teacher yet, so they can only come to Gotham University to borrow someone." Victor shrugged and said, "I just hope I won't be the one who is borrowed, but I guess it's on the list.
There must be me."
"You should be able to choose not to go, right?" Schiller put down his knife and fork, took a sip of water, and continued: "Seldon can't tie you up."
"That's what I say, but in Gotham, a dozen gangs jointly invite you, how dare you not go?"
"It seems that you already know the ecosystem here very well." Schiller said with a smile: "Welcome to Gotham, welcome to this big stage."
"And the price they offered is quite good, several times my salary."
"Are you still short of money now? Didn't you accept the entrustment of the Twelve Families to maintain and operate their cold chain industry? The reward should be enough, right?"
"But no one would mind that they have too much money." Victor said very straightforwardly: "The operation work will not take up much time. The daily teaching at Gotham University...you know, it is basically equivalent to nothing. If they open
If the price is right, I can’t become a part-time teacher.”
"And teaching them to read the reading meter is also convenient for me. If they can maintain the warehouse well, I don't have to run back and forth."
Schiller nodded. What Victor said made sense. He estimated that most teachers who agreed to teach part-time in vocational schools also thought so.
The professors all took jobs from gangsters more or less. When they took jobs, the rewards offered by gangsters were very attractive. But when they arrived at the scene, most people were dumbfounded. The gang members in Gotham had guns and
The weapons are all very smooth, but when it comes to technical problems like this, it's all in vain.
If you can’t read the reading meter, it’s all light. You can’t use the slightly more complicated switch. If the professional word exceeds 5 letters, you have to look it up in the dictionary. After asking the entire team, there are few people who can explain the entire operation process.
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In essence, because Gotham's gang industry is too mature, most people are destined to rely on simple and crude methods to make a living from birth, and will not consider learning any skills. When the industry begins to upgrade, this city
Many people in the city suddenly discovered that the role of guns has become smaller and the role of knowledge has become greater.
However, their thinking has become qualitative and they have missed the best learning stage. Most people do not understand these and are unwilling to learn complex technical issues.
However, the rise of the logistics industry has led to drastic changes in personnel needs.
Originally, if it was a job of collecting protection fees, the small boss didn't need to know anything more than the thugs below him. He might just be senior and just collect a protection fee, and he just needed to be able to count the money clearly.
But now it is no longer possible. The general person in charge of a warehouse must be able to know all aspects. At least he must be able to read the reading meter, pay attention to the temperature readings and product status at all times, and other people below must also pay attention to the incoming and outgoing goods.
Condition.
Originally, we could hire professionals to do these professional jobs, but with Gotham's reputation, everyone knows that no one with a sound mind would come here to risk their lives, and the gangs can't afford to hire a few professionals even if they spend a lot of money.
When it comes to finances, they can only do it on their own.
Not enough professional knowledge and unwilling to learn, but there is a shortage of management talents everywhere, and it is really difficult to hire external employees, so the gang boss has only one option, and that is to open training courses.
And since the teachers at Gotham University more or less took private jobs from gangs, the gang bosses successfully contacted them, offered them high prices, and hired them to be teachers in private schools.
Just as Victor thought, many professors discovered that these gangsters were not good at doing anything while working, and it only increased their workload. It was better to teach them the basics first, and then when they took on private work in the future, they could do the same.
Can be more relaxed.
Of course, originally, this Schiller had nothing to do with him. He was a professor of psychology. Those gangsters may need physics teachers, chemistry teachers, mathematics teachers, and maybe even Chinese teachers, but they do not need psychology teachers.
The people of Gotham have nothing but open minds.
But the bad thing is the celebrity effect.
Previously, Falcone opened a small private lecture hall in his manor and invited Schiller to give lectures to the children of his family.
Schiller mainly talked about some basic knowledge such as industrial models, but the gangsters in Gotham have always followed Falcone. Even the old godfather invited Schiller, so if you don't invite him to run your own school, isn't that right?
Is it obvious that the old godfather has no vision?
So, one afternoon in Gotham, Schiller received a joint invitation letter from more than a dozen major gangsters.
The invitation letter did not directly state the purpose, but only invited Schiller to visit their new vocational school. But Schiller estimated that when he got there, he would not even think about leaving, and he would have to serve as an honorary professor at some point.
Schiller agrees with the gangsters' active involvement in the school. After all, if Gotham University wants to enter the Ivy League, it is essential to improve the academic atmosphere of Gotham City. In addition to building more high-end research institutes, it is necessary to establish a complete
A talent training system is also necessary.
The Wayne Group is already working on formal elementary and middle schools, but it won't see any results for a while. Now the gangs are voluntarily working on vocational education, which is actually a good way out, and it is very suitable for the current situation of Gotham City.
In Gotham, which lacks basic education, the city's operation basically relies on empiricism. The gangs are run by families, passed down from generation to generation, and taught step by step by the previous generation.
This model may have worked well in the past, but it is worse now. It is foreseeable that with the introduction of new industries and the gradual upgrading of original industries, this kind of vocational education will become more and more prosperous in Gotham and will continue until
Until the results of basic education appear.
As a professor, in his position and doing his own thing, Schiller didn't mind giving a push in the process, so he accepted the invitation and was going to see what the gangs of Gotham could do this weekend.
