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Chapter 22 Gender does not meet recruitment requirements

I finally grabbed a registration form and wrote down my situation.

Chen Luyang stood on a wooden stool at the registration office, wondering which recruitment department he should go to to line up.

Although Sun Zhigang had arranged a job for him in the Propaganda Department, out of dignity as a man, he still wanted to see if he could find a job based on his own abilities.

If you really can't find one, it's not too late to look for his brother-in-law's pre-marital friend.

"Comrade, what are you doing? Come down quickly!"

The clerk at the registration office saw from a distance that Chen Luyang was holding the registration form in his right hand to cover his eyes, and he scanned the area like a clairvoyant.

"Sorry, sorry, there are too many people here. I can't see the department clearly. I thought the higher I stand, the farther I can see, so I stepped on the stool."

Chen Luyang quickly jumped off the stool and apologized with a smile on his face.

The young clerk said seriously, "Even if there are too many people, you can't step on the stools."

"You were standing on the stool just now. From a distance, you looked like Sun Wukong. I don't know if you thought we were hiring at the zoo."

Hey!
Chen Luyang became a little angry.

Who is this little girl talking about, Sun Wukong?

If this is a zoo recruiting workers, then what are they?

However, the situation was stronger than the person, so Chen Luyang submissively said a few nice words, took the registration form and went to line up in the crowd.

Out of consideration for my own quality and for the ease of future work,
Chen Luyang decisively entered the "office track" where thousands of people were vying for it.

Taking advantage of his height, Chen Luyang stood on tiptoe to count. There were about 30 people queuing in front of him. Judging from the speed of recruitment, it would take at least two hours for him to be the first one.

The sun in the sky gradually rose high in the sky,

The hot and long queue made people drowsy, but Chen Luyang was still energetic at first and looked around at his competitors.

But in less than half an hour, he was wilted by the heat wave and the smell of sweat and oily hair in the crowd.

I could only unconsciously move left and right with the crowded crowd and squeeze forward.

When he finally reached the front of the line and handed in the registration form,

The lady in charge of collecting the forms pushed up her glasses, looked at the registration form in her hand, and then looked at Chen Luyang in front of her.
Then, he said in a slang-like voice:

"Comrade, I'm sorry, but you don't meet our requirements."

Chen Luyang's smile froze.

Although in a place like an office, someone must have said hello in advance,

But with so many people watching, even if someone wants to use the back door, they won’t dare to do it too blatantly. They will at least give others a chance.

I waited in line for such a long time under the scorching sun and with great difficulty.

I finally got the queue, but they didn't even ask me and just said I didn't meet the requirements?!

Isn’t this a bit too much!?

Chen Luyang asked persistently, "Comrade, why do I not meet the requirements?"

“Gender non-conforming.”

The old lady said sincerely, "Our radio station is only recruiting female announcers this year, not male announcers. Your gender does not meet our requirements."

The air suddenly fell into an eerie silence.

"Radio station?! Isn't the line I'm lining up in an office?"

Chen Luyang felt that he might have been dazed by the sun and his brain was not reacting well enough.

"The office is over there."

The lady kindly pointed to the long queue next to the two rows of people.

"Maybe there were too many people queuing up, the line was messed up, and you were squeezed in..."

Chen Luyang looked at the office track 2 meters away from him with a confused look on his face.

I looked back at the team behind me and saw more than a dozen other male compatriots who were innocently dragged into the radio station team.
People are numb.

So, he just lined up for nothing!?
Chen Luyang quickly changed his mind and said, "Comrade, please don't rush to refuse!" "The radio station wants female announcers, and that shouldn't just mean they're limited to men and women, but also to voices."

"I can also play a female voice!"

"I'll read you a poem, and then you can tell me what I'm like!"

After Chen Luyang finished speaking, without asking the other party whether he agreed or not, he just pinched his throat and read a passage from Gorky's "The Seagull" in a full and affectionate voice!
Although the female voice is not as rich and pleasant as the male voice, and the rhythm and pronunciation of the recitation are not as strong and powerful,
But the vocal cords of young people are clear and bright, with a kind of sweet girl's coquettish beauty.

Many male comrades did not know the truth of the matter, and they jumped up and down to see which girl was applying for the announcer position.

The old lady was confused.

But while she was still in a daze, the old lady suddenly burst into laughter, "Hahahahahahahaha".

Chen Luyang couldn't hold back his joy any longer.

He is a grown man, and it is shameful enough for him to imitate women's voices in public for his job.

Seeing the other person smile like that, he couldn't continue pretending no matter how thick-skinned he was.

"Comrade, can you please stop laughing? You're making me feel uneasy."

Chen Luyang's old face turned red, and he wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.

The old lady was so happy that she pinched her thighs hard. She was in so much pain that tears were about to fall, but she still couldn't stop laughing.

While laughing, the old lady took out a registration form from the drawer.

"Young man, please fill out this form."

"Let's go back and discuss it. If we decide to recruit you, we'll contact you."

Any drama? !
Chen Luyang's eyes suddenly lit up.

He bent down and quickly filled in his personal information on the form with a pen, repeatedly reminded the old lady, "Don't forget me!", and then turned around and left reluctantly.

The moment he turned to leave, the woman behind him stood up and yelled at the top of her lungs:

"Attention! The radio station only wants female announcers!"

"Men, please stop queuing!"

"Again, the radio station only wants female announcers. Men, please don't queue up!"

……

After leaving the radio station, Chen Luyang never thought about arranging the office again.

The queue in the office almost stretched to the horizontal and parallel bars in the yard.
A few brothers who were trying to find joy in their hardship turned over and sat on the bars, looking more like Sun Wukong than him.
In front of Chen's father's workshop team sat Yang Xiangyang, Chen's father's eldest apprentice and current captain of the forging workshop.

The people in front of the forging workshop are all skilled workers and students who have just graduated from technical schools this year.

Although Chen Luyang is skilled in martial arts, unfortunately he has no place to use his skills in the workshop.

After going back and forth for a while,
Chen Luyang was feeling really hot, so he saw a small stool under a tree and simply sat down on it.

Thinking of taking a break, he went to seek refuge with his brother-in-law's pre-marital friend.

But as soon as I sat down, I heard a voice from above my head:

"Comrade, are you hiring here?"

Chen Luyang looked up and saw a young woman in a blue plaid skirt standing in front of the table, holding a registration form in her hand. She was quite pretty.

Do you think this is a recruitment office?

Chen Luyang felt amused and sat up straight with a serious expression.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Jiang Xiaohua, and I'm an educated youth who returned to the city this year."

Educated youth?

Chen Luyang looked him up and down and said, "You don't look like an educated youth."

(End of this chapter)