Chapter 168: MV Filming
The employee model was the operating model of Guangle Housekeeping. The company would regularly train housekeeping service personnel to improve their service level, and it would pay them salaries regardless of whether the employees had orders or not.
This model had built a good reputation for Guangle Housekeeping in the market, but a large portion of the housekeeping personnel would still voluntarily resign and then take orders themselves.
Another point was that without a clear path for advancement, it was easy for housekeeping personnel to resign voluntarily, which resulted in the company’s high operating costs.
Guangle Houserong proposed that the company would next train high-level butler talents, providing a career prospect that could not only attract younger practitioners but also retain more employees.
Wang Laikang quickly cleared his thoughts in his mind.
“Yes,” Gu Wanrong said affirmatively. “Guangle Housekeeping has already subdivided housekeeping services into maternal and child care, infant and toddler care, elderly care, and general housekeeping, and has completed standardization requirements. To go a step further in the future, I think this is a viable path.”
“The company has a complete professional technical training system for training housekeeping personnel, but the difficulty of training a qualified butler is not low.” Wang Laikang agreed with Gu Wanrong’s idea but still needed to consider realistic factors. “The training cycle and investment are too high, and our housekeeping personnel’s average education level is…”
“Classification,” Tong Shenyi proposed a solution. “First, directly hire excellent talents graduated from butler academies to train company employees. Second, sign agreements with employees where the company sends them directly to butler academies for advanced studies. Finally, all the trained employees must sign contracts regarding a certain number of working years with the company.”
Gu Wanrong nodded in agreement and said, “Not bad. This industry is about high-end service, and I can afford whatever the initial investment is.”
High-net-worth individuals have assistants and secretaries in their professional lives, but their complex and trivial family affairs and large social networks require the help of a butler.
Therefore, the demand for butlers among this group in the country is rising daily, and training butler-type talents fits the domestic market.
Gu Wanrong then looked at Wang Laikang and said to him, “Later, I will lend you one of the students of Butler Liu by my side for a period of time.”
Among the ten subordinates Butler Liu had brought back to the country, three were her students over the years. Two were learning butler skills, and one had already completed her training and followed Gu Wanrong whenever Butler Liu was not available. The person Gu Wanrong said she would lend to Wang Laikang was this trained student, Tong You.
Wang Laikang happily accepted.
His internal theater switched from “Consort Xi’s return to the palace” to the triumphant smile of Wang Yousheng from Drawing Sword.
“Meeting adjourned! Adjourned!”
Once the meeting ended, Gu Wanrong excitedly grabbed her bag and walked out of the office building with brisk steps. Every extra second spent in the office was a disrespect to her own wealth.
She just wanted to build a sanitary pad factory; who knew her subordinates would be so diligent and insist on reporting the past year’s work to her.
The next day, Gu Wanrong, who had returned to J-City, went to the filming site of Endless-9’s title MV to watch.
When Gu Wanrong arrived, Jing Xiu was sitting inside the Maglev 1.0 prototype, lip-syncing to the lyrics in front of the camera. The other eight boy group members and a crowd of people who had no work on their hands were all staring at the Maglev 1.0 with shining eyes.
Only one person was obviously different: Liu Ji. Liu Ji was staring at the Maglev 1.0 with a gaze that feared his baby might be damaged.
The others, however, had the wide-eyed expressions of “Grandmother Liu entering the Grand View Garden,” constantly questioning in their hearts: Has the world outside developed to this extent?
“Cut! This take is good.”
At the director’s command from behind the monitor, before Jing Xiu could even get out of the sleek and cool-looking Maglev 1.0, he was surrounded by a crowd.
“Too cool!”
“The flying car from childhood essays has truly entered reality.”
“I’m so envious of Jing Xiu and the others; they actually get to sit in it.”
Everyone’s gaze was focused on the Maglev 1.0, and not a single person noticed that Gu Wanrong had arrived.
Only Jing Xiu, who was sitting in the Maglev 1.0 levitating in mid-air, saw Gu Wanrong outside the set when he followed Liu Ji’s instructions to turn the button and make the Maglev 1.0 slowly descend from the air.
Jing Xiu was pleasantly surprised: “Chairman Gu!”
“What Chairman Gu! Even if you’re distracted, you have to get out of the car before you lose focus.” Liu Ji was terrified that in his excitement, Jing Xiu might damage the Maglev 1.0.
This was the first car from Shifei Technology! Even if the safety features in all aspects were perfect, Liu Ji still believed Jing Xiu would break his baby Maglev.
After nodding to Jing Xiu, Gu Wanrong approached the levitating car, Maglev, which had successfully landed, observing the difference between it and the flying car she had bought from the system mall.
“Chairman Gu, you’re here.”
The members of Endless-9 also saw Gu Wanrong and were all excited to greet her.
You have to know, their escape from that pervert’s hands abroad was entirely due to Chairman Gu’s immense influence. If it had been any other company boss, their fate would have been unimaginable.
Only then did Liu Ji realize it was truly Gu Wanrong who had come.
“Gu Wanrong!”
“Why didn’t you tell me you were back in J-City? The Maglev 1.0 has been successfully manufactured, but you’ve only seen it in the video.”
Liu Ji happily pulled Gu Wanrong along, speaking with immense pride about the Maglev he had successfully created.
“Didn’t I come specifically to see it as soon as I returned to J-City?” Gu Wanrong followed Liu Ji’s lead and spoke righteously.
Liu Ji blinked like an aggrieved puppy and said, “On the day you hung up on me, my heart was already raining cats and dogs. Maglev, I wondered if your sugar mama had some other dog outside.”
“I’ll have Tong Shen’er add more investment to Shifei,” Gu Wanrong said, speechless.
She had bought a real flying car in the system mall, so she lacked a sense of novelty toward this Maglev. Tong Shen’er had also sensed this and tightened the investment from E-Capital into Shifei.
In just one day, Liu Ji had shrewdly sensed it.
While Liu Ji was trying various ways to ask Gu Wanrong for investment, the stagehands and handymen surrounding the levitating car were incredibly fascinated by it, chattering incessantly.
Wow, our company is indeed the most ordinary one among the big boss’s industries.
“The flying car is also the boss’s industry.” One person’s mumble was heard by Liu Ji.
Liu Ji happened to explain to Gu Wanrong, “Strictly speaking, the Maglev 1.0 is not a flying car.
Of course, we have already made a breakthrough in Super-Intelligence and anti-gravity technology to create the Maglev. The time until a flying car is developed won’t be far off…”
In her heart, Gu Wanrong translated what Liu Ji was saying as: I want more investment, more investment, investment…
At this moment, the crowd suddenly became restless.
Gu Wanrong turned her head to look behind her. Several unremarkable people, whose gestures and movements nonetheless felt familiar to both Gu Wanrong and Liu Ji, were walking toward them.
Translator’s Note: “Grandmother Liu entering the Grand View Garden” (刘姥姥进大观园) is a classic idiom from Dream of the Red Chamber referring to someone being overwhelmed by a new, luxurious, or high-tech environment. “Drawing Sword” (亮剑) is a very famous Chinese war drama, and the “Wang Yousheng” smile is a popular meme of a soldier looking very proud and smug.
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