Ants exploded, I opened a power plant to supply power to the world

Chapter 45 Lincheng Power Workers' "Assistance"

After driving a few steps out of the garage, Chen Yunhai couldn't hold it anymore. The advertisement of Zhetong Electric Power was actually placed at his doorstep.

He saw the brightly lit billboard at the entrance of his community. It was right at the exit.

The staff of Zhetong Electric Power had no idea that the boss of Lincheng Electric Power lived in this community, but they still put up advertisements there as planned.

Walk further and you will see the next community as well. The lighted billboards of Zhetong Electric Power Group cover most of the communities.

Chen Yunhai also looked unhappy when he saw these billboards with lights on in the dark.

In his opinion, these are just some petty tricks of "taking advantage of the fire", and only a "small household" like Zhetong Electric Power, which has just started, would choose to do so.

They, Lincheng Electric Power, would not bother to do such a thing. Apart from anything else, they had actually put up light billboards when passing by a bungalow area just now, which made him feel disrespectful.

That street is full of self-built houses by local people in Lincheng. It is a mess. How much is the electricity used by hundreds of households worth?

But Zhetong Electric Power has also advertised here in every possible way.

With a bit of disdain, contempt and unhappiness along the way, Chen Yunhai came to the Lincheng Power Plant.

……

After arriving at the power plant, Chen Yunhai noticed that no extra people had come, just the dozen or so people who were originally left on duty.

Now their faces are all black with some oil or something stuck on them, and they are busy working on the two power generators that are out of repair.

Currently, only one generator set in the factory is still working normally, and the remaining power has long been exhausted. It is only enough to supply power to the municipality and one or two additional places.

"Hello, Mr. Chen..."

Watching these people greeting each other, Chen Yunhai just nodded lightly and didn't want to say anything more. He went straight to the factory gate and sat on a bench.

I stared at my watch and looked at the door, and finally someone came in after five or six minutes.

These workers' daily work is already very tiring, no more so than those who sit in an office and commute to get off work.

So after the power outage, no one had the energy to go out and wander around, and many people simply chose to rest.

Now, as soon as they get a call, they have to get dressed and rush over. Most people don’t have cars, so they have to ride bikes. Naturally, they are not as good as Chen Yunhai who drives over as soon as he hangs up the phone.

Chen Yunhai was not in a hurry. He did not ask these people to help with the repairs immediately, but stood here waiting.

In his opinion, these employees were responsible for the power outage.

If they worked more overtime and paid more attention to every detail of the machine, wouldn't there be no power outage?
As the absolute boss of Lincheng Electric Power, he has been comfortable for too long under the near-monopoly operation over the years, so comfortable that he has long forgotten what ordinary employees are like.

In his opinion, Lincheng Power has benefited these employees and provided them with jobs.

But he never thought that perhaps these employees made Lincheng Power successful.

……

"Everyone is here, right?"

"Look at you guys, you look so sleepy, are you in high spirits? Is this how you look when I ask you to come over to work overtime?"

Listening to Chen Yunhai's lecture, the workers below remained silent.

"Alright, be smart, start the motors and restore power as quickly as possible! And don't accuse me of being mean, there's no benefit in asking you to work overtime at night."

As he said this, Chen Yunhai walked to his car and opened the trunk.

"When the power is restored, everyone come and take it. One bottle of Red Bull and one pack of Furongwang per person. Now let's get to work!" There were several boxes of Red Bull in the car, which he drank while driving.

Besides, Furong King is certainly not a cigarette of his level. He bought ten packs of cigarettes that cost dozens of yuan each, intending to prepare them for when he returns to his hometown in a couple of days to face his poor relatives.

Send it to these employees now.

Faced with his encouragement, the workers seemed unmoved and just went to the workshop numbly.

Instead, the manager next to him came up and spoke.

"Mr. Chen, you should be considerate of us frontline employees. They are reluctant to drink Red Bull on weekdays. And this is Furongwang, right? Tsk tsk, they are lucky to be able to smoke with you."

It doesn’t matter whether the manager was being sarcastic or flattering. What matters is that Chen Yunhai thinks he is doing a really good job and is a good boss.

……

After entering the workshop and putting on protective equipment, everyone came to the power unit in silence.

The temperature inside the power unit workshop was very high. Sweat beads appeared on their foreheads soon after they entered. The heavy protective clothing made them even more uncomfortable.

It's dirty and hot here, the boss and manager will definitely not come to such a place.

The highest level here is just their team leader, but the team leader does the same work as them and just gets an extra 200 yuan in salary. Everyone is on the same line.

After a long silence, someone finally spoke.

"This is really inhuman. He called us to come over to work in the middle of the night and still got scolded."

"That's right. He looked so arrogant when he handed out bottles of Red Bull and Hibiscus King. He thought he had done something great. He treated us like beggars."

"After comparing myself to this, I really don't want to do this job anymore. There is no overtime pay for overtime work. I have heard that Zhetong Electric Power actually pays three times the overtime pay."

After this statement was made, everyone fell silent for a moment, and then some people had already made up their minds and turned their attention to Zhetong Electric Power. If there was a recruitment plan, they would switch jobs there if possible.

With this thought in mind, no one was in the mood to work, and even if the job was done well, they wouldn't earn a penny, as all the money went to the boss.

So they just slacked off in the workshop. They didn't care how long the power outage would last.

In the past, they might have worried about being criticized and scolded, and if the power outage lasted for a long time, those users would curse them behind their backs.

It doesn't matter now. Anyway, there is Zhetong Electric Power, and users are better off going there. They will have less work to do on weekdays. Besides, if there are more users there, they may start recruiting, and they will have more opportunities to change jobs.

So a strange scene was formed in the workshop. Everyone was tightening a screw back and forth. It seemed that everyone was busy, but the repair progress of the power unit did not improve at all.

……

Outside the workshop, Boss Chen asked the guard to take down a few boxes of Red Bull and some cigarettes, and then drove home.

Today, except for their high-end residential complex, power outages occurred everywhere else, and this is not the only high-end residential complex in Lincheng.

He had a few friends, all of whom were wealthy people, who had nothing to do after the power outage, so they simply invited him to their homes for a drink.

Chen Yunhai, who had experienced many social dinners, had already developed a drinking addiction. When he heard that his friends were inviting him to drink, his alcohol addiction was aroused.

Anyway, the workers here will restore the power supply soon, so he might as well have a few drinks while he has nothing else to do.

After arriving home, as Chen Yunhai drank cup after cup, Lin Cheng was quietly changing.

(End of this chapter)