Chapter 61: CCTV's temporary workers and child laborers
"Wang Touer, who do you think he is?" The young man didn't know what his leader said, but when he saw the black on his leader's face, he felt something was wrong.
"You are stupid!" The person in charge of the column team hated the young man with a big face at this time. "Even Deputy Director Chen doesn't know you, do you still want to stay in Taiwan?!"
Although Old Chen is not very arrogant, he is a real hero in the Taiwan industry. What is more noteworthy is that he holds financial power and CCTV's income and expenditure must be nodded by him. Even the various salary and benefits of employees must be approved by the financial department he is in charge before they can be approved. It is really a key department.
"Xiao Wang, what's going on with this person? How come there are employees with such low-quality in your group? It's very satisfying to lose our face in front of the distinguished guests, right?" Old Chen asked angrily.
The person in charge of the column team who was called Xiao Wang by Old Chen and said with a embarrassed look on his face, "Deputy Director Chen, he came the day before yesterday, a temporary worker."
Temporary worker?! Fan Wubing suddenly felt a little surprised. He looked at the young man with a bumpy face, then looked at the director of the column team with an awkward face, and felt that this scene seemed familiar.
You should know how many years later, the excuse of temporary workers has basically been used by all walks of life!
Fan Wubing couldn't help but whisper to the pimple-faced young man, "Are you really a temporary worker?"
Tuda Face is indeed a temporary worker. People from his department have not figured it out yet. How could they come into contact with a leader as high-level as the deputy director of CCTV? Therefore, it is natural to not know Lao Chen.
"Forget it—" Fan Wubing patted Lao Chen on the shoulder and said with a smile, "It's not easy for temporary workers. Just ask them to educate them well in the future. You, the deputy director, are always embarrassed to be serious with him."
For Fan Wubing's sake, Old Chen hummed, turned around and left.
Fan Wubing smiled and nodded with the person in charge of the column, patted the shoulder of the young man who was stunned, and smiled at him, "Do it well, CCTV's temporary worker, there is great potential." Then he waved his hand and followed Lao Chen away.
The person in charge of the column looked at Fan Wubing's back and thought to himself, whose child was this? He could let Lao Chen come with him to visit. He calmed down his anger in one sentence and stopped pursuing Liu Bing, who was full of pimples on his face. He was obviously a very status figure.
"Whose child is this? Why does it feel even more arrogant than Master?" Liu Bing asked, touching his head.
"Do you care who the child is?" The person in charge of the column patted his head and scolded, "If someone hadn't said good things to you, would you still want to stay in the stage?! If you have nothing to do, go and look at the leadership column in the stage first and write down all the main leaders in the stage to avoid the same problem in the future!"
"Oh!" Liu Bing shrank his head and responded.
Fan Wubing caught up with Lao Chen and said with a smile, "There are many temporary workers on CCTV, right?"
Old Chen pointed, "Well, I've been getting up in more than two years!"
Due to CCTV's huge influence in China, it inevitably led to the staff and hosts of local TV stations taking the ultimate goal of working at CCTV as their ultimate goal. Many people are even willing to give up their original jobs with good treatment. When they come to CCTV as temporary workers, although not everyone has the opportunity to become formal employees or hosts of CCTV, some excellent temporary workers have become formal employees of CCTV due to their outstanding work, such as later famous hosts such as Wang Xiaoya and Zhu Jun.
It is difficult to enter the gate of CCTV. These successful celebrities only became regular after several years of training. Of course, although CCTV has always been very attractive, there are too many rules and regulations. After the development of local TV stations, some outstanding CCTV hosts chose to withdraw from CCTV and entered local TV stations in various provinces, cities and counties. The reason is that they accumulated high popularity during their work at CCTV, and their popularity increased rapidly, but their income did not increase rapidly.
At the same time, many local stations have begun to use high salaries as bait to invite these newly famous hosts but have not officially joined CCTV to host new programs, such as Liu Yiwei. Since CCTV hosts are not allowed to participate in commercial performances, some hosts feel that their work freedom is very low and they cannot earn too much money, they choose to be professional actors, such as Cheng Qian, Ni Ping, Wen Qing, etc.
But from the general trend, local station hosts are still rushing to become famous at CCTV. After all, this stage is too big.
Old Chen finally invited Fan Wubing to the balcony, pointed to the CCTV Tower under construction in the distance and said to him, "Did you see it? That is the TV Tower we are building, which is expected to be more than 400 meters in height. After completion, it can integrate radio and television launches, tourism, catering and entertainment, and it can be called a landmark building."
The TV tower has already taken shape at this time, but the decoration problem will take a long time to solve. It will probably take two years to go into use.
From a distance, Fan Wubing saw that the TV tower consists of a trestle square, a reclining corridor, a tower base, a tower, a tower body, a tower and a mast. The tower is very unique in shape. The double-eaves of the Hall of Prayer for Life, raised from the ground to more than 200 meters, and the cylinder radius is picked out ten meters outward to form a palace-shaped tower. Such high towers generally use steel structures abroad, which consume an astonishing amount of steel.
The palace-shaped tower has a VIP room, a rotating restaurant and a terrace, which is very large. When tourists climb the tower, they can see the scenery of Beijing. The eighteenth floor of the tower is a rotating restaurant, the nineteenth floor is an indoor viewing hall, the twenty-twoth floor is an open-air observation platform, and the twenty-third floor is a Liuyun Hall, which is specially designed to receive group entertainment and celebrations.
In order to improve the overall stability and seismic resistance of the tower, the CCTV Tower adopts the overall casting method of concrete, which is said to be able to resist magnitude nine earthquakes.
Overall, the TV Tower gave Fan Wubing a good impression, which was a hundred times stronger than the big pants built later. I really don’t know who came up with the creativity that thing. If CCTV hadn’t been the biggest monopoly media, what would have been the big pants become by everyone?
"By the way, the time is almost over. I'll invite you to have dinner outside?" Old Chen saw that it was past eleven o'clock and it was time to have dinner time, so he suggested to Fan Wubing.
When Fan Wubing saw Old Chen's painful expression, he smiled and said, "It's not an outsider, forget it, let's have a box lunch this afternoon. Can you afford this money?"
Old Chen said hypocritically, "How can that work? Why do you have the nerve to ask you to have a box lunch? This is inconsistent-"
"Don't pretend-" Fan Wubing resisted the passion of wanting to beat him up and said to him, "It's really because I'm tired of eating big fish and meat. I cried and shouted that I wanted you to treat me to a CCTV lunch box. Is that okay?"
"Since you said that, I have to reluctantly meet your requirements. Next time you treat me, let's go and go for big fish and big meat." Old Chen cooperated very well with Fan Wubing.
When the two of them walked out, they happened to meet the studio there that had finished filming the program. The group of people scattered and went to the restaurant for dinner. The remaining directors and staff were packing up their things, talking about some topics.
Fan Wubing glanced and did not find Zi Qi. So he went to the restaurant with Lao Chen, found a table and sat down, and then went to choose lunch boxes. CCTV's lunch boxes are standard, and there are three types of lunch boxes to choose from each lunch box. Each lunch box consists of one rice plus three dishes, and the dishes are two meats and one vegetable. Today's dishes are a group of braised meatballs, a group of mushroom chicken nuggets, and a group of braised flat fish. There is always a group of three groups that are halal. Lao Chen and Fan Wubing chose the same mushroom chicken nuggets, which also come with soup and fruit.
A foamed plastic lunch box covered with plastic wrap was divided into four small grids, with larger ones filling rice, smaller ones being mushroom chicken nuggets, cooked pork and sour cucumbers. After the two got the lunch box, they returned to their seats and opened them to eat and chat.
"You haven't eaten enough for so many years?" Fan Wubing picked up the dish and felt that the taste was average. The rice was gentle and not very hot. After eating it for a few bites, he would lose his appetite.
"Isn't this convenient-" Old Chen pulled the sour cucumbers and rice, and said to Fan Wubing while eating, "I have been having too many social engagements outside these years, and my stomach is almost broken. I still feel that eating some common food is more comfortable. Although the lunch box in the table is not good, at least it is still hot when I come here as soon as possible, it is better than drinking!"
Fan Wubing deeply agrees that he is the boss of himself. Although he has done it to the extreme and no longer has to do those who show up for the guests, but this feeling is still there. Leaders like Lao Chen who eats public meals cannot be shirked from social engagements, so they have a headache when they mention drinking, which is really pitiful.
"Uncle Chen, are you eating a boxed lunch again?" A pleasant voice came over.
Fan Wubing and Lao Chen looked up, but Ziqi stood next to the table and talked to them with her lunch box.
Fan Wubing looked at the side and found that the tables around him were filled with diners, and only her table had empty spaces. No wonder Ziqi came here, but why did she eat boxed lunches? The host's treatment should be better, right?
"It's Ziqi, come and sit down quickly, I'll introduce a friend to you." When Old Chen saw Ziqi, he really cared for her like his juniors. He hurriedly called her to sit down and introduced Fan Wubing to her. "This is Fan Wubing, a very interesting child. This is Ziqi, an excellent host of our children's program, and is specially hired."
Zi Qi wore a light gray dress with white calves exposed outside, extremely smooth. She sat down on the chair opposite Fan Wubing, looked at Fan Wubing curiously, and asked Old Chen in surprise, "Uncle Chen, I saw you accompanying this student Fan in the morning. Is he the new host of the children's column?"
Ziqi's father has a good relationship with Lao Chen, so he has joined this line and came to CCTV to be a children's program host and practice for future work. Therefore, when Ziqi first joined CCTV, Lao Chen led her to visit everywhere. Today, before recording the show, she saw Fan Wubing being led by Lao Chen into the CCTV building. She was still together for a while, so she immediately thought that Fan Wubing might be like herself, both of whom were newly introduced to the Children's Department.
If it were an ordinary staff member, it would be impossible for an important leader like Lao Chen to accompany him to visit in person. Zi Qi thought that Fan Wubing probably had a good family business like him and came to exercise.
"He is not--" Old Chen said with a smile, "He is our partner and an important guest of CCTV."
"Oh, it turns out to be a guest." Ziqi nodded and looked at Fan Wubing with curiosity.
She saw the scene that happened just now at the door of the studio. She originally thought that the temporary worker would be asked to leave. Who knew what Fan Wubing and Lao Chen said, so Lao Chen turned around and left, and did not pursue it. Through this, Zi Qi knew that Fan Wubing's origin must be very difficult, but she did not expect that he was a young man, at most, at most, but she was about the same age as hers, but she could become a partner in Taiwan. It was really incredible.
"He is like you, his birthday is on his 1976th anniversary. This year, he should be sixteen years old, right?" Old Chen calculated with his fingers.
"Oh, I'll celebrate my birthday next month." Zi Qi looked at Fan Wubing with big eyes and asked, "Where are you?"
"My birthday is over. On February 2nd, the dragon raised its head." Fan Wubing answered, then frowned and asked Lao Chen, "I said Lao Chen, there seems to be some problems in your station."
"What's wrong? What's the problem?" Old Chen was stunned and even forgot to eat the food.
Fan Wubing said to Zi Qi, "Zi Qi is under 16 years old. Is it considered hiring child labor for you to use others like this?"
"Child labor?" Old Chen said in a daze, "As you say, it seems that it is really a child labor!"
"What child labor?" Ziqi was stunned by the two of them.
Fan Wubing took two bites of rice, then asked Ziqi, "Let me say that, how much salary is CCTV pay you a month?"
"Ah? Do you have a salary? Why did I never know?" Ziqi replied in surprise.
"Ahem——" Old Chen's old face blushed, "This, among the hosts of the children's column, students in school specially hosted it. Generally, we don't pay wages, just subsidize round-trip fares, and take care of two more meals. They have always been handled accordingly, so they don't have any salary."
"Okay!" Fan Wubing said to Lao Chen with a stern face, "not only does it hire child labor, but it also deducts the salary of child labor! Lao Chen, isn't I talking about you, treating your juniors, are you embarrassed to use such a bad hand? Abusing child labor is a bit more serious!" Lao Chen said with a wry smile, "I said to Mr. Fan, can you eat your lunch box with peace of mind? I know you came back from the United States and pay attention to human rights, but China has the national conditions of China. You can't hope that our country is the same as the United States. That's not possible. You must know that we are a socialist country with Chinese characteristics, which is completely different from those evil capitalist countries. So, their legal provisions have little to do with us. When you are fine, you should consider the cooperation between us, and don't worry about it!"
Fan Wubing shook his head and said, "The road is uneven and everyone is shoveling it! I encountered this today, how can I ignore it? At least you have to pay some salary to the little girl, right? If you are hosting such a hard work, you will be willing to deduct such a little labor reward from others? I am quite speechless to you!"
Old Chen was amused by Fan Wubing, thinking that this kid is so bad. Even though he knew that he had a very unusual relationship with the little girl's father, he still wanted to sow discord here. It was really bad! But speaking of this, it is not uncommon for CCTV to use his giant position in the media market to bully young actors. Even the Spring Festival Gala every year is to reimburse some carriage fees for those big-name singers and movie stars and various actors. As for the real money, when will it be sold?
Chapter completed!