BXBX NOVEL Chapter 396: 390: Drunk
Chapter 396: 390: Drunk
As for how they were brought back, there was no need to worry. In less than three hours, Finn Lewis saw the three people who had been brought back to Celeston City. A woman named Olivia Thatcher and another woman were both unconscious with gunshot wounds all over their bodies. Olivia had been shot in the lung and would have died if Finn hadn’t intervened.
The surgery was handled by the T1000s. For them, operations like these are a piece of cake. Also, obtaining the necessary medicines wasn’t difficult for Finn. Plus, this place wasn’t Gold and Silver City, so people wouldn’t be so curious about what kind of medicine someone is buying. Thus, Finn wasn’t worried.
Sophia was not injured, but when Finn saw her, he was speechless. Despite her maturity, her face and physique seemed girlish, which was quite deceptive.
He placed the three women in a room in one of the houses he had bought in Celeston City, which was kind of empty anyway.
“Master, they will likely wake up in about two hours.” Olivia said.
“Um, okay. I’ll go check on them.” Finn nodded, then drove directly to the room where the three women were being held.
“There’s something else. The integration with Activision Blizzard and WY is nearing completion. Yuri Johnson asked if we’re still planning to hire Programmer Encouragement Teachers.” Olivia asked again.
Hearing Olivia mention this, Finn was reminded of his original promise. The Programmer Encouragement Teacher. Hardly anyone knew about this newly emerging position.
“Hire them! Of course, we are! As many as possible! Tell Yuri that every programmer should have an Encouragement Teacher.” Finn responded decisively.
After a pause, Finn thought for a while and let go of the steering wheel. “Olivia, you drive. I am going to do a micro post.”
Finn had many followers on Micro. Now that he was recruiting, he decided to post the Programmer Encouragement Teacher position on his Micro page. “Recruiting Programmer Ape Encouragement Teachers for all subsidiary companies. Job description: Girls who cheer up programmers when they get frustrated by bugs. Requirements: Sweet appearance, pleasant voice, ability to always smile; loved by everyone, able to bring joy to everywhere; good at listening; okay if not good at communication, able to tolerate game developer otakus; good at recognising every programmer’s good nature, successful in taming; single, unmarried! Salary ranges from 8000 to 15000 Flame Nation coins every month. Bonus lots for every bug resolved by the programmer.”
Finn has at least over a million followers on Micro. They are largely lively followers, not many cold followers. With his update on Micro, there was an immediate flurry of comments.
“… Prodigal Bro, can you tell me if this is really suitable? Are you sure you’re not a pimp for your company’s programmers? Just asking, Prodigal Bro, are your programmers hiring? I’m from the Software Engineering Institute at Tsinghua University.”
“… This is the first time I’ve heard of such a position.”
“Damn, programmers have such benefits? Aren’t programmers said to be all awkward tech nerds?”
“Just for this benefit… I think I can completely disregard the salary.”
“Would you believe me if I said that I work in the game development department at WY?”
In just over ten minutes, Finn’s Micro post was shared more than ten thousand times and received over three thousand comments. Many celebrities and industry insiders follow Finn’s microblogging, especially the insiders. They were taken aback when they saw his post. Commenting, “You are raising the costs for everyone! Now we all have to follow suit!”
Computing is mostly repetitive work, except for the program being written, especially the basic ones which demand a large number of engineers. This work would usually be quite dull, but now there would be a girl next to them, a soft, cute girl…
Damn it, isn’t this an overpowered bonus for these otakus?!
What Finn didn’t expect was that a phone call from Mr. M came before he reached his destination. Mr. M seemed exasperated. If his company, T Company, had about 25,000 workers, close to 5,000 being programmers or related to programming. If the company were to follow Finn’s proclamation, wouldn’t T Company have to hire at least 5,000 more employees?
“Mr. M.” Finn used the usual call.
“Director Lewis… are you joking with this post?” Mr. M asked somewhat exasperatedly.
“Of course not.” Finn replied decisively. How could this be a joke?
“Our company too?” Mr. M asked again somewhat exasperatedly, realizing that hiring 5,000 employees on a salary of 8,000 Flame Nation coins minimum, would cost the company upwards of 40 million Flame Nation coins, just on wages. And this included only T Company. Although WY and Activision Blizzard wouldn’t have nearly as many programmers, considering all the firms that Finn was associated with, it would mean hiring at least 10,000 new white-collar employees. That could potentially mean extra monthly expenditure of one to two hundred million Flame Nation coins.
“Every single company! These programmers are the lifeblood of our companies, their personal concerns are our concerns.” Finn responded cheerfully.
“Very well, you’re the boss. Whatever you say.” Mr. M yielded. Although he was the CEO of T Company, Finn was the largest shareholder. Even if this extra expenditure wasn’t necessary, it didn’t contradict the company’s business goals. It was only… a prodigal act. But Finn was the majority shareholder. If Finn wanted to be prodigal, Mr. M was powerless.