Chapter 417 New Immigrants (Part 3)
Under the sunset.
The immigration cruise ship also slowly docked in the artificial lake of Gobi City.
Hulu, who was called up by his friends, was on the deck, watching the Grand Canal and the Nile River intersect.
Looking from the deck, the Nile River looks like a green ribbon floating above the land.
The Grand Canal is like a sea-blue arrow, penetrating straight below the Nile River.
"So huge!" The severed finger opened its mouth slightly.
The Kaud Ombo Canal Hub project is indeed very large. The two overhead bridge locks, plus the other two upper and lower locks connecting the Nile River and the Southern Canal, make people feel insignificant.
Although the overhead bridge has not been completed yet, the construction workers walking on it can feel how huge this project is.
Humans walking on it are like ants walking in a big villa.
After the cruise ship dropped anchor, about 1,400 new immigrant employees left the cruise ship one after another under the guidance of the local personnel department.
At this time, there were about 3,000 people left on the cruise ship.
At the same time, the cruise ship also received various supplies in Gobi City, including fresh vegetables, fruits, beef and mutton.
"Alu, do you want to go down for a walk?" Broken Finger asked eagerly.
"Go down? Okay." Hulu nodded. He also missed the solid feeling of land. After more than ten days on the boat, his feet felt as if he was walking on cotton. He always felt light and fluttery.
After applying to their team leader, the two were allowed to disembark.
With a few dozen dollars, the two got off the boat.
There weren't many people in the port area, so they used their employee cards to swipe an electric scooter. The two of them drove the electric scooter from the port area into the commercial area.
Ten minutes later, they arrived at the commercial district.
The two did not go looking for a restaurant because it was the rush hour after get off work and many people would be eating here, so the restaurant would definitely be full.
They are not hungry, so there is no need to squeeze.
Moreover, the two of them didn't know what the consumption level here was. If it was too expensive, they would choose to go back to the ship and eat the free set meal.
Walking on the street, you can see that there are quite a lot of locals, but there are also many new immigrant employees.
As for how to distinguish locals and new immigrants, it is actually very simple, because racial characteristics are easy to judge, especially the East Asians with soft facial features and the obvious West Asians, which can be seen at a glance.
Passing by several street restaurants, Broken Finger was a little curious: "It's strange, why is rice more popular than flatbread here?"
Hulu also discovered this phenomenon: "It is indeed very strange. I remember during the training, the instructor said that the staple food of the Suez people is flatbread and noodles."
However, what the two saw was somewhat different from the Suez described by the instructor.
In fact, their instructor was not wrong. In Kaodeonbu City, not far from Gobi City, the staple food there is flatbread and noodles.
They just have this illusion because they think Gobi City is the traditional Suez area.
In fact, in Kaudőmbo, the proportion of flatbread and noodles eaten by ordinary people is also decreasing.
The reason is very simple - economic interests determine the form of consumption.
Now the rice production of the entire Suez branch is growing, and the Sapiens company is bringing in the eating habits of East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia through employee immigration.
Many farmers and ranchers who previously grew wheat in the Nile Valley plain found that cash crops were more profitable, so they switched to growing cash crops on a large scale.
Many people choose to use freshwater farmland to grow vegetables and fruits, and then buy cheap mixed flour and sea rice.
After all, the production cost of local natural wheat flour is significantly higher than that of formulated flour and sea rice. Ordinary people with low incomes can vote with their feet.
Not used to eating rice?
Can’t learn? The internet company of Zhiren Company has a special food APP with a large number of cooking teaching videos.
Even if you can't make clay pot rice, egg fried rice, pilaf, etc., you must be able to make curry rice and white rice!
What's more, there are a large number of private restaurants that will take the initiative to learn.
You are right, there are private enterprises in Suez, which are mainly concentrated in the service industry and handicraft industry. This is why the Sapiens company has modified some of its previous plans and adopted a step-by-step approach.
Many of the more traditional middle-aged and elderly Suez people are the main force of these private enterprises.
However, few young people in Suez are engaged in this field.
The reason is very simple. It is difficult for the elderly to change their ideas and they still want to maintain their previous lifestyle.
But it is different for young people. The labor intensity in traditional catering and service industries is too high, but the output value is very low.
Many heirs of small restaurants don’t want to do that anymore, and it’s difficult for small restaurants to hire ordinary employees, which forces them to use family members as employees.
Anyone who has worked in the catering industry knows that each of the tasks involved is very troublesome, including purchasing, food preparation, cleaning, and service. Not only are the tasks tedious, but they are also difficult to replace with machines.
And it cannot be said that there are no various benefits, but they are almost non-existent.
Compared with the welfare of Homo sapiens, there is a world of difference. Young people simply will not stay in traditional private enterprises.
Therefore, it is becoming increasingly difficult for private enterprises in Suez to recruit employees, and they can only rely on the older generation of middle-aged and elderly people to persevere.
However, the tide of the times will not compromise for this, nor will it produce compassion for this. These private enterprises will sooner or later be eliminated by the tide of the times.
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Hulu was walking on the street, watching the employees coming and going. Although he could see the racial differences among them, many of them used a variety of languages in their conversations.
This situation is common among Homo sapiens.
Arabic, Mandarin, Thai, English, Hindi are mixed in, and even Annamites can be heard occasionally in Hulu.
However, this seemingly chaotic language does not seem to affect communication and social stability. Everything here is in order.
If Hulu could understand those languages, he would find that the conversations between these employees seemed somewhat unscrupulous and they would talk about all kinds of topics.
This is because new humans do not need to suppress many of their own thoughts. Only by speaking out everything can they understand each other during communication.
The hottest topic now is naturally the proposals to the demand department. Many people have put forward all kinds of strange demands and proposals.
Everyone's suggestions and demands are different, but when the employee base is expanded to 1 billion, there will be many similar situations.
As a new immigrant employee, Hulu has not yet fully integrated into the internal system of Zhiren Company and finds many things incredible.
When the training instructor asked them to fill out their personal needs some time ago , he didn't pay much attention and filled it out casually.
However, the demand department later sent someone to check. After hearing that the demand he proposed was likely to be included in the production plan, Hulu quickly revised some of the demands.
His previous demands were very strange and many of them were obviously unrealistic. The auditor of the demand department did not disallow it, but just asked him to adjust those unrealistic ideas into future visions.
This incident made Hulu feel incredible, but the company did deliver the uniform, shoes, hats, etc. that he had carefully written to him according to his requirements just before he left.
For an ordinary person who has always been ignored, suddenly receiving such attention has a very obvious positive effect on his mentality change.
When it comes to winning people's hearts, the Sapiens company is very professional.
Why do many people feel they can’t leave Sapiens after working in the company for a year or two?
It is because here that they feel like human beings, not parts of machines, let alone organs and blood bags of the rich.
