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But there are no people who have big weeks at all, because no one can do a 40-hour week. Even if someone wants to work for 40 hours on their own initiative, it is impossible - a lot of work here is intricately intertwined, and a task is often split between two or three departments to handle at the same time, and each department has very different powers and responsibilities. limited.
This division of labor puts everyone under control. If others don't work, you won't be able to work. Excluding the time spent drinking coffee and chatting every day, I conservatively estimate that public employees in Ulian work around 28 to 30 hours a week.
I really don’t understand. I remembered that in Askia, everyone’s attitude towards work is diligent and conscientious, because work is not only a means of making a living, but also a way to constantly make oneself more complete and strive to find one’s own mission. the process of. It's really annoying to get an empty salary and waste your life for the foreseeable future!
They have no idea how rich and rare the material life they enjoy now is. For some of them, the existence of the wilderness is a "curious story" whose authenticity needs to be tested, while chelation disease is a government policy. One of the exaggerated "conspiracies" fabricated to "restrict civil liberties."
Thinking about the blood shed by so many people in the wasteland... I felt like I could never be friends with these people.
I've gone crazy thinking about you.
Donna
25/10/4623
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Sender: Donna
Date: 22/01/4624
recipient:*****
Email title: Shocked! The excellent mercury needle inside ahgas actually aspires to become an equally excellent decoration worker
Dear Jane:
Yesterday I just received my work evaluation for the last quarter from the headquarters, and the result was A++ (although it is a very rare achievement, but it is also what I expected.
I bought the old house you mentioned in my last letter after much deliberation. The procedures really made me shed two layers of skin. Because I am not yet an adult, I can only entrust ahgas' logistics to purchase the house in the name of collective property and gift it to my name. There are still five years before I actually get this house - I am twenty. ! I am really looking forward to her arrival!
Although this old house has a beautiful back garden, it has a history of nearly two hundred years. If I want to move in, the first thing I need to do is to renovate it. I can only do this by myself, you know. why? Let me tell you a little thing and you will understand.
Last month, the balcony of my office leaked. Because I usually like to work on the balcony, I immediately contacted my secretary to repair it. After looking at it, the secretary said that this was not considered an "emergency" damage, so I could only Submit the application first, then wait in line for the repairman to be sent down.
I asked how long it usually takes to wait, and the secretary checked the system and told me, seven months.
I said no, I couldn't wait so long. The secretary was so frustrated by me that she finally came up with a plan: I would contact a mason from a house repair company to come over and repair it first and advance the payment. I could leave for the related expenses. "Office losses" are reimbursed. Although the money will still have to wait until the end of the year to be reimbursed, at least I can find someone to solve the leakage problem on the balcony immediately.
Do you think this is over? No!
I made an appointment with the mason three days later. The agreed time was 9:00 a.m., but he showed up at the door of my office at 9:25 a.m., then he climbed up the ladder to the top of the balcony to take a look and told me I didn't send it for repair today because of some reason. This is not an ordinary leak. He didn't bring enough materials.
The next day, he arrived late at 9:44. This time he was probably ready. After adjusting the necessary things, he went to the room and started working. I listened to him singing for almost an hour. At ten o'clock Halfway through he came down and told me he was half done, but tomorrow was Saturday, so he would come back next Monday at 9:30am.
On Monday, he finally showed up on time at 9:30. However, less than half an hour after he went to the room, it started to rain. He packed up his things and was about to leave, saying that the weather was bad today and he would continue tomorrow - I refused. His proposal was to pay him half of his wages and let him leave quickly.
Then, taking advantage of the last half hour before get off work, I went to the nearby hardware store to buy a piece of rainproof felt and half a bucket of asphalt from the proprietress. I went up to the roof and found the leaking place. Within a quarter of an hour, it was gone. Got the problem solved.
I have always believed that it is true to "leave professional matters to professionals", but who can judge whether a person is truly "professional"? I have borrowed several related reference books from the library for the renovation of my old house this time. No matter what, I will try it out first and wait until I hit a hurdle that I really can’t overcome.
Do you still remember that time before, you, me and Turan were chatting in my room? At that time, we talked about the quarantine measures in the wasteland. I once said that the two chelate waves were a wake-up call for people in habitable lands and other wastelands. Now I must take back this sentence, completely. Take back.
Over the past six months, I have been suppressing some anxiety and anger. In Wulian, most of the epidemic prevention measures are ineffective, and people deal with these things like a chore. If there were a sudden outbreak of chelation here today, I dare say it would fall faster and more completely than in the wasteland.
I shouldn't say this because my job is to prevent this from happening. But I still feel that we are trapped in a paradox - at the beginning, we set up hundreds of effective defense lines related to chelates. Even if one of the defense lines fails in extreme circumstances, the remaining ones can still Danger is out.
Because of this, a livable place can be impregnable and become an Eden outside the world. However, the better the people here are protected, the less aware they are of external dangers, the less aware that some small changes are closely related to everyone here, and the more lax they become.
When a defense line breaks down from the inside, it doesn't require much external force at all - it will collapse on its own.
Hey, let’s not talk about this anymore, my life in the livable area is really difficult... But thinking on the bright side, at least until the day you officially leave the base, you will have a beautifully tidied Askia style courtyard here. I'll treat you to afternoon tea.
Looking forward to that day and wishing you all the best.
Your friend who is evolving into a mason.
Donna
22/01/4624
Hesta looked back one by one. Each of Liz's emails contained some small things in her life, such as being troubled by not being able to find a common topic with her colleagues because of the large age gap, and occasionally using mercury needles. With her identity, she participated in the local police's crackdown on criminals and successfully rescued the hostages. There were even a few annoying moments when she had to go through the documents and details of the cooperation program between ahgas and the coalition government to take a breath and join hands with Wulian. The entire cumbersome administrative system is confronting...
Stories like this are vivid and lively.
For almost half a year, Liz has been trying to get familiar with Wulian's government structure and security structure, and she finally felt enlightened recently. At present, with the help of another mercury needle from a neighboring province, she has begun to restart the chelated bacteria monitoring and control plan in the province that has been abandoned for several years.
After reading the last letter, Hesta held the phone close to her heart.
It can be seen that Liz's past six months has been very difficult, but also very exciting.
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