It just snowed a little two days ago. It seems that the snow has not yet penetrated. The clouds in the sky are just like this. It neither continues to snow nor clears up.
The weather has entered the winter season.
Egger and three companions were loading various supplies into a pickup truck as they prepared to leave the church to establish an outpost.
There was a plenary meeting after dinner yesterday.
At the meeting, Iger's first proposal was about the promotion of Andy, Erica, Catherine, and Clyde.
Iger proposed that the four people be voted on one by one to decide whether they can be promoted to shareholders.
It can be seen from this that as the number of people in the team increases, it will gradually become more difficult to obtain the core identity. Of course, it may be that Iger is just having fun, and 12 people is the maximum number of people in the gospel team.
Andy, Erica, and Clyde were quickly approved unanimously, but when it was Catherine's turn, the first thing that appeared were two negative votes.
One negative vote came from Elvira, and the other negative vote came from Lily.
Seeing Avila and Lily voting against it first, Catherine almost cried.
Voting against is also very particular. This kind of preemptive voting against can be said to be an attempt to set the pace. To put it more neutrally, it expresses one's attitude very directly.
The people of the Central Plains value harmony. If you do this, you will offend others. After you come down, no matter whether things are successful or not, everyone will definitely create a feud.
It is said that Americans never hold grudges against such things, but Egger's experience tells him that it is impossible not to hold grudges.
Moreover, Avila and Lily have some habits of treating people wrongly. Of course, as far as this matter is concerned, their stance is reasonable.
Subsequently, the remaining six people voted, Vance also voted against, and the other five voted in favor. According to the principle of a majority, Catherine passed the test.
Catherine is a young African-American girl with neither outstanding appearance nor character.
Avella and Lily are standard white women, and their personalities are actually on the left side.
Vance is a standard red-neck, and he has a prejudice against African Americans.
Catherine can allow white women and red necks to vote against her. Let's put it this way, to a certain extent, it reflects that there is something wrong with her.
Everyone has some problems.
After spending this time together, Egger found that Catherine's problems were indeed more prominent.
It can be summed up in one sentence: No matter what she does, she is always at the bottom.
You may say that her cooperation is not high, but Catherine's willingness to cooperate is still very strong.
You say she is lazy, Catherine works very hard in everything she does.
After a comprehensive summary, based on Egger's many years of training experience, Catherine is the kind of person with low basic abilities and no training value.
She was like one of those scumbag students in the class who worked very hard, tried her best, but still fell behind frequently, and was eventually left further and further behind by the mainstream of the class.
This was also a prominent problem in America before.
African Americans, especially black-skinned African Americans (there are some mixed-race African Americans who cannot be seen from their appearance). Due to various historical and practical reasons, their educational conditions, opportunities, and abilities are relatively poor, so in Afghanistan
In the United States, African Americans are still hanging out at the bottom of society so many years after they were liberated.
Then one year, a strange correctness suddenly became popular.
Of course, it can also be seen as politicians, in order to win over the votes of African-Americans, continue to provide sweeteners to African-Americans while ignoring the reality.
For example, in college admissions, African-American students can ignore their grades and must account for a certain proportion of freshmen.
In this way, Catherine inexplicably finished college, then entered a pretty good company and got a research assistant position.
After struggling for a few years, under the joint attack of the economic downturn and financial crisis, a large number of companies no longer care about what the hell is right. They have to throw away their burdens and survive anyway.
Layoffs, layoffs, starting from the marginal staff.
Therefore, Catherine, who had just lost her love, suffered another heavy blow from unemployment, which immediately made her hopeless.
To be fair, if Iger had met an employee like Catherine in his previous life, he would have given HR a message directly without saying anything, and HR would have found a way to get her out.
I don't know what Andy's purpose was, maybe he sympathized with the girl's plight, maybe because everyone had a life-and-death experience together, so Andy took the initiative to recruit Catherine into his third search and rescue team.
After the scavenging, Egger temporarily added the third search and rescue team to the wilderness operation team to seize the tail of late autumn for the final hunt. At this time, Catherine's ability flaws were fully exposed.
After completing a three-day hunting activity, Egger did not let Andy continue to be a good guy. The search and rescue team must be elite members. Even if Andy is very capable, if his partner is not strong enough, both of them will be killed.
Iger ruthlessly rejected Andy's request. He kicked Catherine back to the gospel team's mobile crew and added Erica to the third team.
After Catherine returned to the church, she messed up many things one after another. In the end, even Erica and Clyde from "The Four" were full of opinions about her.
If everyone is in a company or enterprise now, Catherine will definitely be facing unemployment for the second time.
But as a doomsday survival team, we cannot only recruit elite members.
Many anime and games like to create a group of extremely elite protagonists, and then defeat large, bloated, and low-capacity hostile forces.
Maybe in other circumstances, this kind of elite grouping would be a good idea, but right now, it's a recipe for suicide.
Iger has emphasized to everyone many times that if we want human civilization to continue, we must have a certain population base to support it.
Because when it comes to survival and restoration of production, there must be a lot of inefficient work that needs to be done by people.
Not to mention other things, 24-hour sentry, cooking and washing dishes twice a day, washing clothes, cleaning toilets and raising Yuan Guanguan. No matter who does these things, the efficiency is the same, that's it.
If there are only two or three elite members, then they can only lower their living requirements, such as not standing guard, not cooking, not changing clothes, not shitting... No, shit still has to be shitted, and they can only lay landmines casually.
Under such circumstances, it doesn't matter how elite members of the team can fight, it doesn't matter if they can kill a hundred infected people a day, but they can't resume production, it's all nonsense.
Finally, there is a very serious problem, the problem of population reproduction.
Even if elite members can live comfortably for more than ten years, or even decades, without a certain population base for population breeding, the destruction of the team is inevitable. Further reading: The dangers of incest marriage.
Therefore, Iger tried every means to "collect" the population. At the conference that day, Iger categorically stated that he could not betray his companions, which was to draw a bottom line for the team.
As long as they are obedient and can obey work arrangements, that is to say, as long as their loyalty is qualified, no matter how low their ability is, the team is in urgent need of them.
Anyway, the chubby breeder is still vacant.
Of course, lack of ability and lack of willingness are two different things.
If he meets a survivor who wants to "eat subsistence allowances," Iger will definitely help him reshape his thinking and understanding with the attitude of "treating illnesses and saving lives," ensuring that he will become "popular and professional."
