The new intern secretary knocked on the door and walked into Blake's office. She put a folder on the table and said at the same time: "Mr. Blake, the telephone return interview has been completed."
Blake took the folder, opened it and took a look, but his expression became stern.
"Nancy, work is a very rigorous thing, and I hope you can complete it seriously. If you come to work with the idea of dawdling, you can pack up and leave now." Blake said.
The little secretary was startled and almost stopped crying. She looked a little confused and asked cautiously: "Mr. Blake, did I do something wrong?"
Blake showed a knowing expression. He pointed to the folder in his hand and said, "I asked you to do a phone interview. Are you sure you have completed it? Have you interviewed everyone?"
"Yes, Mr. Blake, I called everyone and recorded the results of the return visits on the file." The little secretary pointed to the folder in Blake's hand.
Blake laughed sarcastically: "Nancy, work is no joke, and today is not April Fools' Day! Everyone on this return list is very satisfied with our training. Of course, 100% satisfaction is not a big deal. What's new, but more importantly, in the column of "passed" or not, everyone has "passed". Haha, everyone has completed the 24-hour frogman challenge, and the pass rate is 100%. You Do you think this is possible! Nancy, you have to understand that I can tolerate the incompetence of my employees, but I will never tolerate deception. Integrity is a very important moral character."
The little secretary suddenly looked aggrieved, and she timidly defended: "I confirmed it again and again, but every customer said that they completed the competition. It's true, I didn't lie to you, everything I said is true. , if you don’t believe it, you can check with the customer.”
Seeing the little secretary's appearance, Blake couldn't help but frown. Blake thought that the little secretary was dealing with work, so he filled out the approval form for each customer without calling back. But judging from the little secretary's current behavior, what she said seems to be true.
"Is it possible that every customer has completed the competition? It's impossible. This is not a simple mass competition. It is a 24-hour frogman challenge. It would be great if 50% of the students passed. How could there be 100%? Pass rate. Is it possible that the students in this training class are all professional triathlon athletes?"
Although Blake didn't believe it, when he saw the aggrieved expression on the little secretary's face, he still softened his heart and decided to call and verify it himself.
"Select a few customers at random and ask them, and the truth will naturally come out."
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Half an hour later, Blake looked at the phone on the table with a confused look. Everyone he called back had completed the game. For a moment, Blake didn't know whether he should continue to make the next call.
"What the heck, everyone has completed the competition. Is it possible that the 24-hour Frogman Challenge has become easier? It's like taking the driver's license test and everyone can complete it!"
Blake knows that he is also a professional. He clearly understands how difficult the 24-hour Frogman Challenge is. After all, it is a test project of the SEALs. If ordinary people can pass it, then the SEALs are too "watery". Come on.
Blake suddenly remembered that it was Dai Li who was in charge of this training class.
"That guy Dai Li, how did he do it?" Blake couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and dialed Dai Li's phone number.
…
"Have they all finished the race? How did I do it? It's just training! If your level is relatively low, then spend more time on training, and you can always finish the race." Dai Li's tone was incomparable. easy.
"Are you kidding? Do you think it's as simple as going to Wal-Mart to buy something?" Blake snorted, then lowered his voice and continued: "Tell me honestly, did you use something you shouldn't have used? .”
Dai Li was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, he understood the underlying meaning of Blake's words.
"You mean doping, right? Randy, you were once a professional athlete. You should know that doping has no effect at all in the 24-hour Frogman Challenge." Dai Li said with a smile.
"That's right." Blake nodded. This is a physical fitness test competition for ordinary people, not the Olympic Games or the World Championships. For ordinary people, the use of doping or not has no impact on the results. For example, for candidates taking part in the physical education program of the high school entrance examination, drinking a can of Red Bull before the exam will not improve their performance except to quench their thirst.
Just listen to Blake continue to say: "100% completion rate, this is simply a miracle. To be honest, I really want to announce this result, which will bring us huge advertising benefits. In next year's training class, we will Get more customers.”
"Then announce it. Publicity is your job." Dai Li said.
"But do you think anyone would believe it? It was the 24-hour Frogman Challenge, with a 100% pass rate. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it myself. If we announced the results, the whole of Los Angeles would question us. Yes, everyone will think that we are liars. However, due to the reason of protecting customer privacy, we cannot publish customer information, so those who question us cannot verify the authenticity, which means that we have no way to prove this 100% The completion rate." Blake said.
Privacy protection is indeed a problem. If it is placed in China, the awareness of privacy protection is relatively weak. For example, some training courses for civil servant examinations often publish the information of admitted students in the most conspicuous position. In this training class, a certain student was admitted by the Finance Bureau, a student was admitted by the Construction Bureau, and a student was admitted by the Construction Bureau. The IRS has admitted me, and the training class wants the whole world to know about it. There are also some high schools that publish the list of students admitted to college every summer. They make a large bulletin board and place it at the school entrance. The names of the students, their college entrance examination scores, and which university they were admitted to. These are all personal privacy, but It will always be used as a way to show off your achievements.
However, in the United States, people obviously pay more attention to the protection of personal privacy. As a physical training center, for example, customer information must be kept confidential. Unauthorized disclosure of customer information will lead to lawsuits.
The 24-Hour Frogman Challenge is extremely difficult, and no one would believe the 100% completion rate. The best way to prove it is obviously to announce the students' results. But under the U.S. privacy protection system, this is simply impossible.
Since there is no way to prove this 100% completion rate, announcing this result will actually arouse people's doubts. Otherwise, it will not have the advertising effect, and it will probably get burned.
Dai Li knew Blake very well, so he asked: "Since you called to talk about this matter, you must have a countermeasure, right?"
"I have an idea. It is impossible for us to release the information of all students, but we can release the information of one or two of them. This should not be a difficult task. We only need to obtain their consent. But this candidate Well, it’s best to be representative and let the public feel through this student that our 100% completion rate is real.” Blake said.
When Blake reminded him, Dai Li suddenly thought of Fatty Hasel. Just looking at Hassell’s size, no one would believe that he can complete the 24-hour Frogman Challenge. From another perspective, after training from Dai Li, even a fat man like Hassell can complete the 24-Hour Frogman Challenge. If it's a competition, then if it's a normal guy, it won't be anything new to finish the competition.
If the penultimate student in a class all passed the exam, then it is reasonable to say that the entire class passed the exam.
So Dai Li said: "There is a student in this training class named Hasel. He is a fat man. You should be able to find his photo in the student database. I think this Hasel is a very good candidate. You can Show it to the public as our role model.”
"Okay, I'll contact this student named Hasel right away." Blake replied.
"No, I'd better come and tell him in person." Li Dai continued: "Hasel is about to participate in the interview as a beach lifeguard. Maybe we can help him."
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"Coach Li, I really didn't expect you to call me." Hassell's tone was a bit surprising.
"Mr. Hassell, you haven't gone to the beach lifeguard interview yet, right?" Dai Li asked.
"Not yet. I'm making preparations. The interview was supposed to be in the morning the day after tomorrow, but it was said that there were too many people for the interview, so it was postponed and rescheduled to next week. But I don't think my chances are good, Monica Nan The beach is only hiring one person this year, but I have dozens of competitors. There are so many people who want to be a beach lifeguard." Hassell's voice became increasingly frustrated.
"I have a plan that can bring you some fame and positive influence, which may help you become a beach lifeguard." Dai Li lowered his voice mysteriously: "If you are interested, you can come I’m here, let’s meet and talk in detail.”
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Ironman Training Center.
Max has been waiting for the results of the call back, but after waiting for a whole day, Jones did not appear in front of him.
"It seems that I can't hear any good news. If the results were very good, Jones would have come to report the good news." Max has realized that the results of this training class are at best unsatisfactory, and may even be very bad. the result of.
"The 24-hour Frogman Challenge is relatively difficult. I shouldn't have had too many expectations. Even if only 30 to 40 percent of the students can complete the competition, it is an acceptable result."
Thinking of this, Max decided not to wait any longer, but called Jones directly and asked him to come over.
A few minutes later, Jones showed up in Max's office.
"Coach Jones, the phone call for the physical training class has been completed, right? How is the situation? How many of our students have completed the 24-hour Frogman Challenge?" Max asked directly.
"Well..." Jones finally plucked up the courage and said after a lot of effort, "None of our students have finished the competition."
"What did you say?" Max began to wonder if he heard correctly.
Jones hurriedly said: "I'm very sorry, Mr. Max, this year's situation is just an accident. Wait until next year, next year I will definitely..."
"You just said that no one finished the race? Not one?" Max obviously didn't pay attention to what Jones said later. His mind was still stuck on the sentence "None of our students have finished the race."
"I'm very sorry, that's it." Jones said awkwardly.
Max looked distracted for a moment. He had already expected that this year's training class would have a bad result. He even prepared for the worst, with only 10% or 20% of the students completing the competition. However, the actual result does have the word "one", but it is not "one or two percent", but "none".
The next second, Max looked at Jones with an incredible look.
It would be unbelievable to say that all students finished the race, but it would also be unbelievable if not a single student finished the race.
Almost everyone has scored full marks in the exam when they were students, but there are probably only a few people who have scored zero marks in the exam, except of course handing in a blank paper. From a probability perspective, the probability of successfully avoiding all the correct answers is lower than getting them all correct. Even if you are poor at studying, you should still know one or two questions. Perhaps only those who know the correct answer to every question have the ability to answer all questions incorrectly.
Therefore, Max's face looked different at this time. All the students in the training class had not finished the competition, which was equivalent to a probability of winning a lottery.
"How bad training must be for everyone to fail to finish the race? How did Jones do it?" Max stared at Jones, not knowing what to say.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door, and Max's most senior employee, the bearded coach, walked in.
The bearded man first looked at Jones, with a hint of disdain in his eyes. Then he turned his head and said to Max: "I just got the news that at Coach Li's training center, they claimed that all students this year have completed the 24-hour training. Frogman Challenge, 100% passing rate!”
"One hundred percent, this is impossible!" Max said instinctively without thinking at all.
When Jones across the street heard the news, he was instantly sweating...