Little Life on An American Ranch

  Chapter 543 Workers

  Jian Heng yelled at the truck driver: "You can't unload the stuff there, it's all grass, didn't you see? Don't crush my grass!"

  The truck driver happened to want to stop the car, but was taken aback by Jian Heng's words, stuck his head out of the cab and asked, "Where the **** is it?"

   "In front, in front, there is such a large open space on the side of the stone platform, where the grass is bald by the car, that's it! Drive the car over there and stop there!" Jian Heng replied loudly.

  The driver listened, made an OK gesture to Jian Heng, and moved the car forward.

  Ceresto is now looking eagerly at the container next to the parked stone platform, and after a while he asked Jian Heng: "So many?"

   "This is halfway here, and the other half is on the way!" Jian Heng didn't know what Ceresto was thinking, and now he was watching the truck driver's movements.

Jian Heng saves money on wood and some labor, but the total cost is only a little less than that in China. This is because the results of transportation in the United States are low. In Heng's hometown, that guy's shipping fee is enough for Jian Heng to drink a pot.

While watching the drivers stop, Jian Heng kept muttering in his mouth: "Who the **** is bragging that Americans are not lazy at work? These truck drivers are all cunning, if you don't tell them If you don’t, they can’t wait to unload the container at the intersection for you…”

Fortunately, Jian Heng can only hear this kind of muttering. Even if Celesto next to him can hear it clearly, it is impossible for him to understand what Jian Heng said because his Chinese level is still at the stage of Hello. What means.

  Even if Celesto understands it, he is not in the mood to think about it now.

He is now scorched inside and outside by the twenty or so containers in front of him. As a foreigner, he doesn't understand why Jian Heng wants to buy building components directly from China, and as the boss of a construction team, he also See business opportunity from so many containers.

   "That other..." Jian Heng finished commanding this trailer truck and started commanding another one.

   Seeing Jian Heng talking to the truck driver abruptly, Celesto stopped and asked Jian Heng: "Does the Chinese company send people to install these?"

Jian Heng waved his hand and said: "How is that possible? There are only a few main technical personnel, about a dozen of them, who will stay here for two or three months. The main assembly and construction needs to find local technicians. People do it."

   "Someone took the job?" Ceresto asked hastily.

   Seeing Jian Heng shook his head, Ceresto immediately said: "Then give us this job?".

After hearing this, Jian Heng said in surprise: "You still have the energy to do this work? You will spend almost all of your manpower on the renovation of the big house over there, and it will take one and a half to two months. This project is considered to be paid by me. You, you can’t eat it, at least 30 people are needed here, and there are also a few technicians who have experience in operating that kind of big crane, like the big wooden pillars over there need to use machinery..." .

  Ceresto opened his mouth and asked directly: "Are you going to find a bounty hunter outside?"

   "How do you know?" After thinking about it, this is not a confidential matter, so he nodded and said, "I have plans for this!"

   "Mr. Jean, do you believe that those pampered white people can do your job well?" Celesto said very bluntly.

  Jian Heng couldn't help but tsk when he heard this, and he had to say that Celesto's question was right on point. Generally speaking, except for the work on the ranch, these old white hired laborers are not very efficient at work.

The main reason is that these people have too strong a concept of time. For example, it is said that the nine-to-five is legal, and these goods will really give you nine-to-five. Let's take a lunch break, and I will give you another hour in one fell swoop. The same job would be done in three days at the expense of one hundred for the white man, but not necessarily complete in one week for the white man. Generally speaking, the cost of work for white people is high and the time is long, so it is really not a good choice.

   "..." Jian Heng was speechless.

Celesto looked around, then lowered his voice and said, "Not only are they slow in their work, but they also make a lot of demands once they find the working environment unsatisfactory. If they go on strike, you can still Can you find another worker to continue your work? . . . ".

   This statement is discriminatory, but in private everyone understands that this is the case.

Now Celesto's words hit Jian Heng's weakness. It cannot be said that this matter will definitely happen, but once it does happen, let alone complete all the projects before the snow falls this year, it will be fine if it can be completed next year. It was time to burn high incense, thinking of this, Jian Heng fell into deep thought.

Celesto immediately added the last straw: "Actually, we can continue. I don't mean my construction team, I mean I will take the lead to do these things. You are equivalent to handing over the project to Me, let's sign a formal contract, and when will it be completed... ".

  Jian Heng heard Ceresto say this, and couldn't help but move: "Can you guarantee it?"

"I haven't seen the workload yet, but we Mexicans can work overtime, we can work on weekends, and we ask for a lot less wages than those people. I honestly can't find you giving up on us and using those half-tones outside. The bounty hunter" Ceresto shrugged, pretending to be relaxed.

Jian Heng is looking for Celesto to discuss the renovation of O'Brien's old mansion today. Originally, Jian Heng thought that just one renovation job would be enough for Celesto and his gang to do it for one and a half to two months. No, I didn't expect this guy to have such a big heart, and he would directly eat a modern Chinese-style antique building on his side.

But what Celesto said is also reasonable. The group of white people in the United States is indeed too expensive. When they encounter a job, they always pick three or four, and keep shouting who has robbed them of their jobs. In fact, most of them The low-level immigrants in China are grabbing jobs that white people don't do. These jobs pay little money and are hard work.

   "I don't know how skilled your workers are?" Jian Heng asked.

  Ceresto couldn’t help but smiled wryly when he heard this: Let the bounty hunters come to work, you don’t ask for anything, but if I say you want to eat this batch of projects, you will improve the standard of the workers?

Thinking this way in my heart, Ceresto is not stupid enough to say it out of his mouth. Although the two are very familiar with each other, in essence, Jian Heng is still Ceresto's Party A, the person holding the money in his hands, So Celesto didn't want to offend Jian Heng.

  So Celesto said: "The people I am looking for must be certified, and they cannot be handymen."

  Jian Heng listened to it and thought about it for a while, so he initially agreed with Ceresto's idea: "I think what you said is good, but I have to think about it before I can give you an answer."

  The smile on Ceresto's face became wider when he heard what Jian Heng said. He knew that he had eaten the order himself, so he nodded at Jian Heng: "Of course!"

   After Jian Heng finished speaking, he turned his attention to the truck driver. After shouting, the truck driver asked the group of people unloading the truck to pay attention to the number of the boxes, so as not to confuse the contents of several boxes.

   After yelling like this for half to twenty minutes, all the containers were unloaded in the correct order and stacked neatly.

Watching the group of people driving and unloading the truck leave, Jian Heng checked the unloaded container again uneasy. This check was all right, but he found another mistake. It was originally a B23 box and a C23 box. They tuned each other one by one, the group of people misunderstood the words as big as the box, and Jian Heng was quite speechless.

  The two boxes were still in the middle, with a box under it and another box on top, which made Jian Heng stand underneath and scratch his head, scolding these people for their sloppy work.

   Cursing people can't solve the problem. Even if Jian Heng wants to move the day, he can't use his means, so he has to wait for the night like a thorn in his heart.

Turning around, he saw Ceresto standing next to him. He felt that this group of old whites were not as hard-working as old Mo, so Jian Heng said: "Come back with me, I will find the person in charge to follow me." You talk about the details, if you can figure out his request, I think the matter between us will be settled.”

  Ceresto nodded.

  Then the two of them turned around and went to the study. When they returned to the study, Jian Heng dialed Professor Guan's cell phone and asked him if he had nothing to do. Then the two started a video chat and started chatting.

   What Jian Heng didn't expect was that Professor Guan's English is very good, especially the architectural vocabulary. Many Professor Guan, whom Jian Heng has never heard of, have no problem communicating with Ceresto. Originally, Jian Heng thought that if Professor Guan's English was not good enough, he could be a translator or something, but he didn't expect that Professor Guan's personality was not very good, and he was a bit servile and humble. If you are good at English, you don’t need it. If you really understand that sentence, academic achievement and character are two different things. Some people are masters in academics, not necessarily masters in human nature.

  After chatting for more than half an hour, Professor Guan asked Jian Heng directly in Chinese: "Where did you find such a good construction worker?"

   Jian Hengzhen rolled his eyes when he asked this question: "Americans build houses in the countryside with this standard!"

Professor Guan doesn’t know much about it. In the United States, even if you want to repair a water pipe, you must have an exam and a certificate to do this work. Let alone doing this in China, even if it’s a construction site, there are not many people except for necessary ones. Carpentry and cement workers are certified. For a company with a national prefix, the quality of its employees is naturally high. The average construction site worker is really inferior to the small construction team that builds a house in the countryside here in the United States. Every one of them is a trained professional with complete certificates. .

  (end of this chapter)