Real teaching, hypocritical gray life

However, at least I can understand that 'pool lifeguard' is definitely a role that should not be underestimated.

"...Speaking of which, can I ask you a question first?"

"Well, sorry, I seem to have gone too far in some aspects just now... If you have any questions, please ask directly. I will try my best to entrust everything to you in the next period of time."

Please don't speak so heavily.

"So..." I paused for a moment and focused my attention on the face of the student named Teruichi Yasuda. "Senpai Yasuda, do you know why I was asked to be a lifeguard at the swimming pool?"

"ha......?"

When Mr. Yasuda heard my question, he was stunned for a moment, and then a look of confusion appeared in his eyes.

"Well, I'm sorry, I don't really understand the details... Is Luo-san saying that he has a complete understanding of the operation of this special swimming pool? Or is this just my personal misunderstanding...?"

"No, Senior Yasuda. What I just said was just a literal question, and there is no other meaning. Because I am also very confused about this matter."

"I see..." Senior Yasuda scratched his cheek gently in front of me and looked at me somewhat at a loss.

"If that's the case, then I seem to disappoint you... In fact, we have made many speculations about your identity and your sudden involvement. We originally thought that you would know more or less why you were invited here, but... from what you said, it seems that that's not the case."

"At least it didn't involve the operations here... We just followed the arrangements of the student union and made adjustments."

"Will the student council...?"

"Well, they say the student union, but actually they are the school. But usually the school won't come out to notify directly, and usually the student union acts as a link to manage the relationship with the students."

"..."

No trace of lying.

A low-level, self-righteous expression, an indifferent emotion, and involuntary blinking of the eyes...

There is no hint of hypocrisy, and we can basically conclude that what Mr. Yasuda just said is true.

In this case, their power is really great.

Whether it's the student union or that gentleman...

According to the previous rules, High School for Incubation should be a school that tends to be fair and equal. So what kind of advantages and interests would lead to so many extra situations in my class...

Is it because of a talent that no one before me has discovered, or is it simply because of my own personal problems...

After suppressing all my suspicions, I came to my senses and quietly apologized to Senior Yasuda.

"I'm sorry to interrupt you midway. But I still want to mention something now..."

"Since the senior said that the lifeguard of a sports pool has the most important responsibilities, is it really appropriate to give it to a newcomer like me? If something unexpected happens, it may be difficult for me to recover."

After listening to my explanation, Senior Yasuda smiled helplessly and shook his head.

"The notice we received here just gave you a brief explanation. As for the rest... it just said something like 'he is fully capable of doing the job'."

"You really think highly of me. This is the first time I've encountered something like this..."

Although I have learned the knowledge that a lifeguard should have, most of it is just theoretical knowledge. Maybe I can pretend to have it on the surface, but I have no practical experience at all.

This is a terrible fact.

"We also refuted this proposal at the initial stage, but since the school has said so, you should have the ability to do so, so please don't be overly modest."

"No, please don't have any strange misunderstandings about my abilities and personality. I would also be troubled by such statements."

"It's okay, at least I will believe you."

As he said this, Senior Yasuda gave me a thumbs up in a very sunny manner.

"..."

His hair is purple, and looks a bit black under the bright light. With his regular facial features and sunny personality, I think he is a little handsome at this moment, but I will never like him because of his good looks.

Your trust has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not I can actually accomplish this.

Simply put, this consolation will not bring about any qualitative change.

"You're just worrying too much. I just gave specific examples of injuries. I've watched here for two days without any problems. Even if there are any, the students will basically solve them themselves without any trouble for you."

"...So this is actually a perfect sinecure...?"

"Well - let's put it that way."

It would be great if I could get points as a reward after completing this task. Who wouldn’t like a job that has no content but pays?

"Also... you need to go through this and memorize all the rules. I don't know if you will be punished if you break the rules, but it's best to try to avoid that from happening."

Senior Yasuda searched carefully in the stall's equipment drawer, and then took out a piece of light yellow paper right before my eyes. There were many wrinkles on it, probably because it had been circulated many times, which meant that it was not something shameful. In addition, the rich oil stains on it also made my fingers feel a little uncomfortable.

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[Swimming Pool Lifeguard Management Rules]

In order to implement the opening of special swimming pool facilities, ensure the safety of swimmers and prevent major accidents, this position responsibility is specially formulated. The specific contents are as follows:

1. Carry out relevant orders from the school, strictly abide by various rules and regulations and relevant provisions, listen to the opinions of swimmers, work pragmatically, and establish the idea of ​​serving swimmers.

2. Go to work on time and stick to your job. You must ask for leave in advance if you have something to do, and you are not allowed to leave your job without permission, or go to other posts without permission, or find someone to take your place, or leave your post vacant or missed.

3. Lifeguards must wear uniform life jackets and pants when on duty. They must not: not meet with friends and relatives, not answer the phone, not smoke, not talk to others casually, not doze off, not instruct others casually, and must pay full attention to the pool and the swimmers.

4. When on duty, it is strictly forbidden to swim or do things unrelated to the duty.

5. If swimmers are found violating the rules, they should be educated through reasoning, and if uncivilized behavior is discovered, active publicity should be given and efforts should be made to persuade them.

6. Master life-saving techniques (be able to independently handle water watching, towing, artificial respiration, etc.) to provide convenient conditions for handling various emergencies.

7. Carry out publicity and safety precautions to prevent public security disasters and accidents. Complete all finishing work before and after the swimming pool opens.

8. If serious consequences occur due to negligence at work, the person responsible will be held strictly accountable.

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Pretty ordinary content as expected.

But smoking and the like, is this really the message it is conveying to us?

"If I were to explain this matter in detail, it would probably make you feel somewhat humiliated. But I still want to ask."

"Mr. Luo should at least know what situations require him to work as a lifeguard and the corresponding countermeasures."

"Well, I think anyone who has gone through a normal junior high school education will understand some of the content. The rest is how individuals handle things within the rules and regulations."

Hearing what I said, Senior Yasuda breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's great. It seems you really understand this aspect. Then I would like to remind you again not to use violence to solve problems."

"Senior, do you think I look like I have that kind of ability?"

"Haha, I'm not sure about that. Maybe Luo-san is the type who keeps things a secret... So do you have any other questions about these rules?"

"Well, there are two aspects I want to ask about."

"Excuse me."

"First, let's talk about the life jackets that lifeguards wear. Do you require the same for me?"

"Since this is a temporary decision, you don't have to worry about this rule. But since they are lifeguards, they are definitely wearing swimsuits. Is there any problem with that? As for what type, it depends on personal preference. As long as it doesn't affect other things, it doesn't matter."

"I see... Then, if an unexpected accident really happened during the opening hours, I would have to go to the infirmary. If someone else asked me about it at this time, what should I do? Or is there a lifeguard backup?"

"Ah, come to think of it, this is something I need to explain to you. It seems I completely forgot about it. Sorry."

"You are right. There is indeed a backup lifeguard. But..."

Senior Yasuda glanced around to the left, but couldn't find anyone and could only sigh.

"I don't know if he's still in the facility... Well, you'll definitely meet tomorrow morning. After all, there will be a roll call at 8:30 in the morning. It won't be too late to get to know each other by then."

"Besides, he is only a backup lifeguard. There is no such thing as a shift change except during lunch time. Most of the time, it is up to you to make sure the surroundings are safe. He has many other things to do as well."

"Okay, I have no questions."

"Your answers are really reassuring... Then let's go to the infirmary and take a look."

Senior Yasuda threw the two remaining bamboo sticks in his hand into the garbage bag beside him, and then led me to the infirmary that he had heard of for a long time but had never seen before.

The room was not very large, only about 40 square meters. The diagnostic bed, diagnostic table, and diagnostic chair alone took up most of the space, and the medicine cabinet and some cabinets for storing medical supplies could only be crowded in the corner of the room.

The diagnosis table does not have the common stethoscopes and blood pressure monitors like those in the school clinic, but it is equipped with basic equipment such as tweezers, disposable tongue depressors, medical flashlights, tourniquets, etc. There is also a freezer next to the diagnosis table with medical ice cubes.

There are also several treatment methods corresponding to common injuries in swimming pools posted on the wall.

......

Rather than being called an infirmary, this place is more like an emergency treatment center for sudden accidental injuries, or in fact, this is the name, but the name of the infirmary came into being due to the students' simplification.

The incomplete equipment here also explains why there are no medical staff in this "infirmary".

Mr. Yasuda introduced me in detail the storage locations and usage of various tools. His explanation of the tools helped me remember them in a short time and become familiar with them even if I had no experience using them before.

After leaving the infirmary, I followed Senior Yasuda and walked around the border of the entire swimming pool several times, going through almost all the routes marked on the map.

This concludes the situation at the pool facility.

Chapter 140: Unexpected Characters

"Do you need to rest for a while? If you don't feel tired, let's go directly to the perimeter of the special swimming pool facility."

"I had a good rest before coming here, so it's no problem at all."

"You are full of energy..."

Senior Yasuda smiled bitterly and shrugged his shoulders.

I can probably guess that the reason why Senior Yasuda said this is that he felt tired. After all, being a lifeguard by the swimming pool for a whole day would make him mentally exhausted. Although from his description, no accidents happened, but the energy required for vigilance alone is greater than expected.

However, I don't intend to show him mercy in this matter. It is not a good thing to carry out continuous operations in such hot and humid weather. Besides, I don't want to waste too much time on this matter.

"Well, let's just think of it as completing the mission as quickly as possible."

Senior Yasuda wiped the sweat from his forehead naturally, and then returned along the same path. During the period of time that he introduced me, most of the seniors had already left. It seemed that the time now was approaching the actual closing time.

After passing through the passage with the disinfection pool, we returned to the outer hall of the special swimming pool facility.

This large facility has six locker rooms for both men and women.

Of course, the men's and women's changing rooms are located in different corridors on the left and right sides, just like the men's and women's baths, the roads leading to the changing rooms are separated. It is unknown where the ends of the left and right corridors lead to, and it is possible that they are used similarly to the entrance corridors in competitions and other activities.

If you want to peek...

This swimming event is the last event of the summer. Although tomorrow is also the last day of summer vacation, the crowd is expected to be as turbulent as in the past two days. No matter from which aspect, stepping directly into the corridor of the women's locker room will definitely be suspected.

Four cameras with 360-degree coverage were installed in the open space above the hall. There were six monitors in the locker room corridors on both sides, three in the men's locker room corridor and three in the women's locker room corridor. The view in the corridor was fully covered, and the angle control did not allow for any blind spots that could accommodate one person, and the situation in the locker room would never be filmed.

If he really did something like that and filmed the evidence before being caught, then even if he was disgraced, his status among all the boys would probably be regarded as something like a 'brave man'.

I originally thought that the purpose of Senior Yasuda bringing me here was to let me understand the function of the second floor, and he would not deliberately explain the situation of the locker room. But I didn't expect that the target I need to face now is not only the men's and women's locker rooms, but also this is the last thing I need to understand.

"...As pool lifeguards, we shouldn't need to deliberately understand the situation in the locker room, right?"

"Well, our responsibility is to take care of the swimming pool and the safety of the swimmers...at least that's what we decided before."

"…So what changed afterwards?"

"...What do you think of the space of this special pool facility, Mr. Luo?"

Mr. Yasuda did not answer my question directly, but asked a counter-question: I don't know what the size of the special swimming pool can mean.

“It’s not comparable to the Algarrobo Pool at the San Alfonso del Mar Resort, but it’s in the middle of the pack when it comes to water parks.”

I gave a vague location and Senior Yasuda nodded in agreement.

"As you can see, our special pool facility is quite large, which makes the logistics of handling it difficult. As for the specifics of the handling... it would probably be like cleaning the pool floor, changing the water in the pool..."

"......These are things that sound very troublesome."

"Yes. It is precisely because the incidents that the logistics department needs to handle are very troublesome in terms of process execution, and because of the shortage of manpower on the student side, some of the finishing work in the men's and women's locker rooms has fallen into the hands of our swimming pool lifeguards."

"Understaffed students...?"

"Normally, shouldn't these logistical tasks be handled by people hired by the school? Why are students doing it themselves?"

"On weekdays, this special swimming pool facility is indeed maintained by staff hired by the school. That's because this swimming pool facility is usually borrowed for training by members of the swimming club. The number of club members is relatively small, and the degree of pollution to the environment is relatively small."

"But in some special cases, if the pollution is serious, the students will need to deal with it themselves."

"For example, in this event, since people don't normally have the opportunity to visit this facility, the three-day limited opening attracted a large number of swimmers. At the same time, senior students set up stalls in the facility, so the level of pollution has exceeded the upper limit for employing personnel."