Chapter 144 Vocational Education in Gotham

The faculty cafeteria of Gotham University has a very old history and is one of the first buildings built in this university.

It still adopts the ordering system of the traditional club restaurant. When Schiller entered the door, he turned around and shook the water drops on the umbrella outside the door. Victor stepped aside and said, "Luckily you are here. Who would have thought that it would rain halfway through the journey."

"Gotham is like this. If you don't carry an umbrella with you, you must be prepared to be soaked."

He shook the black umbrella, then folded it inward, tied it up and put it on the umbrella stand by the door. When Schiller entered the door, the heat in the room made his glasses covered 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. I'll buy one too."

"Do you know Green Street? It's the street next to the living hell in the East District. There's an umbrella maker in the alley."

"God, you're too old-fashioned. What era is this? You're still looking for an umbrella maker who makes handmade umbrellas?"

"You said it, too, this umbrella looks good."

While chatting, the two 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 retro. When I was in California, the restaurants there were all window-style."

"On the contrary, I don't like window-style restaurants. All that greasy bacon is piled together, and there are unevenly cut bread slices..."

Schiller took the menu and said as he looked at it: "You seem to be busy again recently. Is there anything going on at the School of Science?"

"Don't mention it." Victor took the menu from Schiller, pointed it to the waiter, sighed, and said: "I am so busy, isn't it all thanks to you?"

"But I heard that the recent cold chain project is nearing completion, and you should have been free."

Victor showed a helpless expression and said: "You didn't know? Those gangsters are short of people recently!"

"They are especially short of people with management ability. Almost all the people who can do management in Gotham City are At Gotham University, the gangsters came to borrow people, and the principal had no choice but to agree. "

"But how many faculty members are there at Gotham University? The positions that the gangsters lack are probably far more than the 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 management personnel, the entire management will be in chaos, so they can only talk to Principal Seldon again..."

At this time, the ordered food was just served, and Schiller asked while cutting the steak, "What do they want to do?"

"Just as you expected before, they want to open a school."

Victor took the wine in front of him and took a sip. The cold wine made him smack his lips. He said, "There are only three high schools in Gotham, and the entrance fee is too high. The enrollment rate is less than 10%. Most people who study hard don't want to go to Gotham University, let alone stay in this city. "

"They want to open their own schools, that is, private schools, and teach what they need."

"I remember there should be private schools in Gotham?" Schiller thought for a while 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 the rich area, where rich people take care of their children. What they teach there is useless, musical instruments, painting, hockey, do you expect gangsters to use this knowledge to manage their business?"

"So they want to open a vocational high school?" Schiller flipped 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 called a vocational school. Anyone can go, but the gangs should select a group of people to go in, mainly to train management."

"To be honest, they are a bit unreasonable. Victor complained: "They asked me to repair the low-temperature warehouse for them, but I asked all the warehouse managers, and no one could understand the reading table. They couldn't even understand the most basic readings. How can they manage the warehouse?"

"So those gang bosses plan to train their own people for this problem?"

"That's right, and they can't find a teacher, so they can only borrow people from Gotham University." Victor shrugged and said, "I just hope I'm not the one who is borrowed, but I guess I'm definitely on the list."

"You should be able to choose not to go, right?" Schiller put down his knife and fork, he drank a sip of water, and continued: "Seldon can't tie you up."

"That's what I said, but in Gotham, more than a dozen gangs jointly invited you, do you dare 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 very good, several times my salary."

"Are you still short of money now? Didn't you accept the commission of the twelve families to maintain and operate their cold chain industry? That should be enough for you, right?"

"But no one would complain about having too much money." Victor said very bluntly: "Operational work doesn't take up much time. Gotham University's daily teaching... you know, it's basically nothing. If the price they offer is right, I can be a part-time teacher."

"And teaching them to read the reading table is also convenient for me. If they can maintain the warehouse by themselves, I don't have to run back and forth."

Schiller nodded. Victor's words made sense. He estimated that most teachers who agreed to teach part-time in vocational schools also thought so.

Professors have more or less accepted the work of the gangs. When they accepted the work, the remuneration offered by the gangs was very tempting, but when they arrived at the scene, most people were dumbfounded. The gang members in Gotham were very good at using guns and weapons, but they were all useless when they encountered such technical problems.

Not being able to read the reading table is a light matter. They can't use a slightly complicated switch. If the professional words have more than 5 letters, they have to look up the dictionary. After asking the entire team, few can tell the full operation process.

In essence, because the mafia industry in Gotham is too mature, most people are destined to make a living by simple and crude methods since birth, and they will not consider learning any technology. When the industry began to upgrade, many people in this city suddenly found that the role of guns became smaller and the role of knowledge became larger.

However, their thinking has formed a certain qualitative form, and they have missed the best learning stage. Most people don’t understand these things and are unwilling to learn those complex technical problems.

However, the rise of the logistics industry has led to drastic changes in personnel needs.

Originally, if it was to collect protection fees, the small boss did not need to know anything more than the thugs below. It might just be that he had a long seniority and collected protection fees. He just needed to be able to count the money.

But now it is not possible. The general manager of a warehouse must know everything. At least he must be able to read the reading table, pay attention to the temperature reading and product status at all times, and other people below must also pay attention to the goods entering and leaving the warehouse at all times.

Originally, these professional jobs could be done by hiring professionals, but everyone knows the reputation of Gotham. No one with a normal brain would risk their lives here. The gangs could not hire a few professional financial staff even if they spent a lot of money, so they had to do it themselves.

They lack professional knowledge and are unwilling to learn. However, there is a shortage of management talents everywhere, and they cannot hire external staff. The gang leaders have only one choice, which is to open training classes.

Since the teachers of Gotham University have more or less taken private jobs from the gangs, the gang leaders have successfully contacted them, offered high prices, and hired them to be teachers in private schools.

Just as Victor thought, many professors found out during their work that these gangs are not good at anything, which only increases their workload. It is better to teach them the basics first, so that they can be more relaxed when taking private jobs in the future.

Of course, originally, this had nothing to do with Schiller. He was a professor of psychology. The gangsters might need physics teachers, chemistry teachers, math teachers, and even language teachers, but they didn't need psychology teachers. The people of Gotham had nothing else but open-mindedness.

But the bad thing was the celebrity effect.

Before, Falcone opened a small private lecture hall in his manor and invited Schiller to give lectures to his family members.

Schiller mainly taught some basic knowledge such as industrial models, but the gangsters in Gotham always followed Falcone's lead. Even the old godfather invited Schiller. If you don't invite him when you run your own school, isn't it obvious that the old godfather has no vision?

So, Schiller received a joint invitation letter from more than a dozen big gangs in Gotham one afternoon.

The invitation letter did not directly state the purpose, but only asked Schiller to visit their new vocational school, but Schiller estimated that he would not be able to leave when he arrived, and he would have to serve as an honorary professor at least.

Schiller agrees with the gangsters' active efforts to build schools. After all, if Gotham University wants to enter the Ivy League, it is essential to improve 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 has already built formal elementary and middle schools, but the results will not be seen for a while. Now the gangs are spontaneously building vocational education, which is actually a good way out and very suitable for the current situation in Gotham City.

In Gotham, where basic education is lacking, the city's operation basically relies on empiricism. The gangs are family-based, passed down from generation to generation, and the previous generation teaches hand-in-hand.

This model may have been okay in the past, but it is a little worse now. It can be foreseen that with the introduction of new industries and the gradual upgrading of existing industries, this kind of vocational education will become more and more prosperous in Gotham, and will continue until the results of basic education are apparent.

As a professor, Schiller didn't mind giving a helping hand in the process, so he accepted the invitation and planned to go there this weekend to see what the Gotham gangs could do to this vocational education school.