Chapter 143 Vocational Education in Gotham
The history of the faculty and staff canteen at Gotham University is very old and is one of the first buildings to be built in this university.
It uses the ordering system of traditional club restaurants. When Schiller entered the door, he turned around and shook the water droplets on the umbrella outside the door. Victor moved aside and said, "Fortunately, with you, who would have thought that it would rain halfway through the road."
"That's the case with Gotham. If you don't carry an umbrella with you, you must be prepared to be soaked in a scattered chicken."
He shook the black umbrella, then put it in, tied it and put it on the umbrella stand next to the door. When Schiller entered the door, the heat in the room covered his glasses with a layer of white mist, so he simply took off his glasses.
Victor looked back at the umbrella and said, "Where did you buy this umbrella? It looks good quality, so I'll buy one too."
"Do you know Green Street? It's on the east side, a street next to Living Hell, and there is an umbrella maker in the alley there."
"God, you are too old-fashioned. What era is this? Are you still looking for a handmade umbrella maker?"
"You said, this umbrella looks good quality."
While chatting, the two found a round table by the window to sit down. After a while, a waiter came to order the order. Victor said: "I'm really not used to it. The restaurants at Gotham University are too retro. When I was in California, the restaurants there were all windows."
"On the contrary, I don't like window making, the greasy bacon is piled together, and the slices of bread that are not evenly cut…"
Schiller took the menu and looked at it while saying, "You seem to be busy again recently. Is there anything wrong with the Academy of Sciences?"
"Don't mention it." Victor took the menu handed over by Schiller, pointed it to the waiter, and sighed, "I'll be so busy, isn't it all thanks to you?"
"But I heard that the recent cold chain project is coming to an end, and you should be idle."
Victor showed a helpless expression and said, "You don't know? Those gangster bosses have been short of people recently!"
"They are especially lacking people with management capabilities. Almost all the people in Gotham City who can do management are at Gotham University. The gangsters come to borrow people, and the principal can only agree."
"But how many faculty and staff at Gotham University are there? I'm afraid the lack of gangs is far more than they can borrow, right?"
"The problem is here." Victor tapped the table with his finger and said, "They can't borrow so many people, but without management personnel, the whole management will be in chaos, so they can only talk to Principal Sheldon again..."
At this time, the food ordered was just served, Schiller asked while cutting the steak, "What do they want to do?"
"As you expected, they want to open a school."
Victor took the wine in front of him and took a sip. The cold liquid made him tut. He said: "There are only three high schools in Gotham, and the enrollment rate is less than 10%. Most people who can study honestly don't want to take the exam at Gotham University, let alone stay in this city."
"They want to start their own school, a private school, and teach them what they need."
"I remember there should be private schools in Gotham?" Schiller thought for a moment and said, "Where is it? It should be south, right? There are two private boarding schools..."
"You said, it's in the south, which is a school in the wealthy area, where rich people are entrusted with their children, and what they teach is useless, musical instruments, paintings, hockey, do you expect the gang to use this knowledge to manage the business?"
"So they want to start a vocational middle school?" Schiller flipped through the scrambled eggs with a fork and said.
"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 said that it is a vocational school, and anyone can go to it, but the gangsters should choose a group of people to go in, mainly to cultivate management."
"To be honest, they are a little distorted, Victor complained: "They asked me to repair the low-temperature warehouse for them, but asked all the warehouse managers, and none of them could understand the reading table, and they couldn't even understand the most basic readings. How should they manage the warehouse?"
"So those gangsters are going to train their own people to address this issue?"
"Yes, and they can't find a teacher, so they can only come to Gotham University to borrow people." Victor shrugged and said, "I just hope I don't want the one I'm borrowed, but I guess I must be on the list."
"It should be possible to choose not to go?" Schiller put down his knife and fork, took a sip of water and continued, "Sheton can't tie you up."
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"That's right, but in Gotham, more than a dozen gangs jointly invited you, how dare you not go?"
"It seems you already know the ecosystem here." Schiller said with a smile: "Welcome to Gotham, welcome to this big stage."
"And the price they offered was very good, several times my salary."
"Are you still short of money now? Didn't you accept the entrusted orders from the Twelve families to be responsible for maintaining and operating their cold chain industry? Then the rewards should be enough, right?"
"But no one thinks they have too much money." Victor said very bluntly: "Operation work doesn't take up much time. Gotham University's daily teaching... You also know that it basically means no. If the price they offer is right, I won't be able to be a part-time teacher."
"And it's also convenient for me to teach them to read the reading table. If they can maintain the warehouse themselves, I won't have to run back."
Schiller nodded, Victor's words made sense, and he probably thought that most of the teachers who agreed to teach part-time in vocational schools also thought so.
The professors took on gangs more or less. When they took on gangs, the rewards offered by the gangs were very touching, but when they arrived at the scene, most people were stunned. Gotham's gang members were very good at gun and weapons, but when they encountered such technical problems, they were all given in vain.
If you can't read the reading table, you will not be able to use a slightly more complicated switch. If you have more than 5 letters of professional words, you have to look up the dictionary and ask the entire team. There are not many people who can tell the entire operation process.
In essence, because Gotham's gang industry is too mature, most people are destined to make a living by simple and crude methods from birth and do not consider what technology to learn. When the industry began to upgrade, many people in the city suddenly discovered that the effect of guns has become smaller and the effect of knowledge has become larger.
However, their thinking has formed a qualitative approach and has missed the best learning stage. Most people don’t understand these and are unwilling to learn those complex technical problems.
However, the rise of the logistics industry has led to drastic changes in personnel demand.
Originally, if you were doing the job of collecting protection fees, the small leader didn’t need to be more capable than the thugs below. It might be just that he had a seniority and was charged a protection fee, and he could count the money clearly.
But now it is not possible. The general manager of a warehouse must know everything, at least you must read the reading table, always pay attention to the temperature reading and product status, and others below must also pay attention to the inlet and outflow of the goods.
Originally, these professional jobs could be hired to hire professionals, but everyone knows that Gotham's reputation is not a ill person, and the gangsters can't hire several professional finance officials even if they spend a lot of money, so they can only go on their own.
I don’t have enough professional knowledge and am unwilling to learn, but I lack management talents everywhere, and I really can’t hire externally. The gang boss has only one choice, that is, to open a training class.
Since the teachers at Gotham University have more or less taken private jobs from the gangsters, the gang bosses successfully contacted them, offered high prices, and hired them to be teachers in private schools.
Just like Victor thought, many professors found that these gangs were not good at doing anything while working, and they only increased their workload. It would be better to teach them the basics first, so they would be easier when taking private jobs in the future.
Of course, it was originally irrelevant to Schiller. He was a psychology professor. Those gangsters might need physics teachers, chemistry teachers, mathematics teachers, and even Chinese teachers, but they didn’t need psychology teachers. The people of Gotham don’t have anything else, they just think openly.
But the bad thing is the celebrity effect.
Previously, Falcone opened a small private lecture hall in his own estate, asking Schiller to give lectures to his family's children.
Schiller mainly talks about basic knowledge such as industrial models, but Gotham's gangsters have always followed Falconema and even the old godfather invited Schiller. Then if you don't invite him to run a school, isn't it obvious that the old godfather has no vision?
So, one afternoon in Gotham, Schiller received an invitation from more than a dozen major gangs.
The invitation letter did not directly explain the purpose, but only asked Schiller to visit their new vocational school, but Schiller estimated that he would not leave when he arrived, and he would have to serve as an honorary professor.
Schiller agrees with the act of gangsters actively building schools. After all, if Gotham University wants to join Ivy League, it is essential to enhance the academic atmosphere of the entire Gotham City. In addition to building more high-end research institutes, it is also necessary to establish a complete talent training system.
The Wayne Group is already working on regular primary and middle schools, but it will not be effective for a while. Now the gangsters are spontaneously engaged in vocational education, which is actually a good way out, and it is very suitable for the current situation in Gotham City.
In Gotham, where basic education is lacking, urban operation basically relies on empiricism. The gangsters are family-based, passed down from generation to generation, and the previous generation teaches them step by step.
This model may have been OK in the past, but it is getting worse now. It is foreseeable that with the introduction of new industries and the gradual upgrading of the original industries, this kind of vocational education will become more and more prosperous in Gotham and continue until the results of basic education appear.
Chapter completed!