After resting very late last night, Angora Davis still got up on time at five o'clock in the morning.
However, the first thing the housekeeper did after getting up this morning was to send all the maids and guards in the villa away, and then went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast herself.
At seven o'clock, the summoner on my wrist sounded.
Angre was a little surprised. She didn't dare to ask when a young man went to bed last night, but she didn't expect him to get up so early.
After leaving the kitchen, he picked up the brand new toiletries prepared in advance and went to the fourth floor. After serving the man to wash up, he led him to the dining room on the second floor, served the prepared breakfast, and then quietly stood aside.
Just tried it out.
Men do not object to the presence of others around them when they are washing themselves or eating.
At the dining table.
Simon picked up the tableware and asked casually: "Where are the others?"
Angre said: "I gave them a day off."
Simon nodded: "Very good."
The housekeeper heard what the man said and said, "Next time Mr. Westeros comes over, if I can inform him in advance, I can be better prepared."
Simon hummed, noncommittal.
The housekeeper stopped talking.
The only sound left in the restaurant was the faint sound of Simon eating slowly.
This isn't much of a test.
Simon knew all about the housekeeper.
This is also a very powerful woman.
Angel Davis is 38 years old, has been married twice and has three children.
Disregarding further experiences, Angorae Davis's most recent job before this was as a housekeeper for a business family in Florida, and she just barely managed to reach the position of hostess.
Moreover, when she almost achieved this goal, this woman did not use inferior means such as actively seducing men. Instead, she conscientiously fulfilled her career as a housekeeper to the extreme, so much so that the male owner of the family felt that she should be the only one. She is a qualified hostess of a family, not his wife who is more than ten years younger than him but is still old and is still keen on attending parties and spending money.
It's a pity that the success fell short in the final showdown.
The businessman and his wife did not sign a prenuptial agreement. Although they are a young couple, they have been married for more than ten years and have two children. If divorced, the businessman's wife could take away half of the businessman's property, and even cause him to lose control of the business he had worked hard for all his life from scratch.
The housekeeper was out.
These secrets, which are not humane to outsiders, were quietly collected by the Westeros family intelligence team, and then they were spotted by both Simon and his wife.
The huge Westeros system can best accommodate ambition.
However, Angora Davis was not immediately assigned to the Westeros family, but was temporarily in charge of the Gralf family.
Simon was never stingy with the people around him.
Angre Davis' eldest son is 18 years old. Under the arrangement of the Westeros system, despite his average academic performance, he successfully entered Yale University this year.
The Simons have been increasing their donations to various universities in North America in recent years. In addition to the long-term and in-depth layout, the most direct benefit is that they can easily obtain admission places from these first-class universities. Simon never wastes these places, either as a favor, as a reward, or as a benefit for the children of the family service team, and recommends a group of students to enter these universities every year.
In the top universities in the United States, learning knowledge is second, the key is to manage contacts.
Crossing this threshold means that many people have changed their class.
The housekeeper's other younger son and daughter also attended the best private schools in Manhattan, and were fully funded by the Westeros system.
By doing this, Simon is also cultivating reserve forces for the Westeros system.
In the future, these young people who have developed under the influence of long-term funding from the Westeros system will become purer and more loyal 'Westerosians'.
As for the housekeeper herself, she will naturally have to serve the Westeros family for a few years first. Then, no matter what ambitions the other party has, as long as she can show her due abilities, Simon does not mind giving the other party a chance to continue to climb up.
Simon left 92nd Street after breakfast.
In the villa, the housekeeper packed away the tableware used by the man and began to take care of other housework. She never thought of taking the initiative to take a look upstairs.
He started working in this profession at the age of sixteen. Over the years, Angora Davis has experienced too many things within a wealthy family. Some people become restless when they think they have grasped some of the secrets of the rich, and often end up very miserable. She has personally experienced the disappearance of the world more than once or twice.
How could some wild boars and wild rats covet the beast at the top of the food chain in the steel jungle
Therefore, Angourie Davis understood early on that he needed to stick to his duties.
Including the last time.
In fact, from the beginning, the housekeeper knew that she was unlikely to succeed. That man didn't like himself that much, and he also lacked the decisiveness that a strong man should have. When the couple had a confrontation, the housekeeper, who had roughly anticipated the final outcome, quickly chose to quit and moved her three children out of Florida without any delay.
As for the job in front of him, Angourie Davis actually doesn't have much ambition.
It is rumored that a young man likes mature women. If the other party needs her, she will not refuse her, but she does not expect that the other party will be as hot-headed as her last employer.
Moreover, compared to women such as Sophia Fessey and Claire Gein who came from the Westeros family, Angora Davis knows her own weight very well. Those women have very outstanding personal abilities. So I can do it with ease even after switching to other jobs.
And she is just a person who has been working as a maid since she was 16 years old.
The annual salary has skyrocketed from US$80,000 in the last job to US$200,000, and there are usually top-notch medical care, housing, transportation and other benefits, including the future of the three children is bright, Angora Davis I don't dare to ask for more.
At around eight o'clock, Victoria, the youngest daughter of the Gralf family, finally came downstairs and went directly to the restaurant.
Last night's experience made Angre no longer think that the other party was a harmless young girl. He did not express any objection to Victoria's obvious abnormality in walking. After greeting Victoria politely, the housekeeper served the girl breakfast.
You probably understand that if it wasn't for food, the girl might not get out of bed all day long.
It has long been discovered that girls have psychological shadows about hunger.
These days, the housekeeper has felt more than once that for Victoria Gralf, nothing seems to be more important than eating.
In the restaurant, after the girl had eaten and drank enough, she walked upstairs again with unnatural steps. Before leaving, she did not forget to remind Angre to wake her up during lunch, and also told her that she wanted to eat seafood for lunch.
The girl's mother and sister are allergic to some shellfish. It's not serious, but the itchy feeling on the body can definitely make people crazy.
The relationship between mother and daughter has never been very good. In the past, Angre just thought that the girl made such a request to vent her anger on her mother and sister. Now he understands that she really doesn't care, or even hopes that something will happen.
The other mother and daughter did not go downstairs until almost noon, when the housekeeper was called upstairs.
As punishment last night, the man asked the housekeeper to keep an eye on her after she brought two bowls of water, and then left the living room on the fourth floor with Victoria in his arms.
Angre watched with his own eyes two women kneeling with a bowl of water on their heads from eleven o'clock in the night to one o'clock in the morning. During this period, Cathy Gralf, who couldn't bear it anymore, secretly begged the housekeeper to let the water go. The housekeeper, who had generally responded to the mother and daughter's requests in the past, did not agree this time. She gave a very good reason. She did not want to lose her job.
When the punishment was over, the two women collapsed on the floor unable to get up.
When the man left, he told the two women that he would climb upstairs after the punishment was over. It turned out that he could only crawl upstairs.
Bringing some food to the fifth floor, mother and daughter were both on the big bed in the master bedroom.
The master bedroom was first occupied by Victoria, and then fell into the hands of the mother, and the younger daughter was driven to other rooms.
Victoria should be sleeping in her room at this time.
Ignoring the mess in the master bedroom, the housekeeper just set up a small table on the big bed and put food on it.
Because Angre didn't agree to release the water last night, Cathy Gralf looked at the housekeeper with obvious resentment, but the housekeeper didn't care. Compared with this big man who had both happiness and anger on his face, Daughter, she is even more afraid of Victoria now.
Facing the hostile looks of the mother and daughter calmly, Angre set out his lunch and exited the bedroom.
In fact, I also thought that the two women might need some ointment to treat bruises, but the housekeeper, who would definitely do her duty in the past, was rarely negligent today.
She is also a smart person. Not to mention Grace's past reminders, the experience from last night to now also made the housekeeper realize that she only needs to be loyal to Simon Westeros. For the three people in this villa, It is women's duty to fulfill their duties. If they do not fulfill their duties, there is nothing they can do about themselves.
Of course, Angre would not go beyond anything because of this.
It's clear that someone has been keeping an eye on this place for a long time. Even if that man doesn't care about the three vases in the villa, there is definitely no master who likes servants who don't know how to advance or retreat.
Simon's morning arrangement was to discuss matters related to the mid-term elections with Paul Spaihts, another political leader of the Westeros family.
With the 1994 mid-term elections to be voted on in November, the Westeros system's 'sniper plan' and the plan to maintain the political base are proceeding quite smoothly.
Wisconsin Democratic Senator Craig Ames, who launched a fierce attack on the Westeros system in the first half of the year, is struggling to cope with the scandal after it was exposed that he issued college recommendation letters for sexual predators.
Because the kid from a rich family who got Mr. Congressman’s recommendation letter was a repeat offender, and the victims happened to be girls from ordinary or even lower-class families. The matter became more and more serious. No matter how much Mr. Congressman refused to get rid of, he soon As other scandals came to light, especially this school season, another young man who had just been recommended by the congressman was also exposed by the media as being unlearned and unskilled. His approval rating in Wisconsin has dropped to a very embarrassing level. number.
Of course, there is no shortage of the results of the Westeros system working hard.
Mr. Congressman is obviously aware of this, and has even quietly sent soft words to the Westeros system through some connections. However, there is no turning back when the bow is fired. Since this is the current situation, Simon certainly has no intention of stopping.
In this year’s midterm elections, due to the lack of clear social issues and political platforms, states in the United States are performing a farce of exposing each other’s scandals, and campaign budgets have also skyrocketed due to the promotion of all parties. The Stro system is very beneficial.
Throughout the morning, Paul Spaihts, who was gradually entrusted with important tasks by Simon, introduced in detail the results of a series of 'projects' he was responsible for.
Near noon, Spaihts looked at his memo again and brought up the last topic: "There is one more thing, Mr. Westeros, about the issue of labor unions. Amazon malls owned by Ygrit Company will build new ones in various places this year. Batch of logistics and distribution centers have begun to be put into trial operation one after another. I found that Yigrit is working to prevent workers in the distribution center from forming a union. There is nothing wrong with this. However, I hope this matter can be postponed, at least in the near future without too much fanfare. Because this can easily be used by people with deliberate intentions to attack the Westeros system, and the legislators we support will also be implicated. Of course, it only needs to be delayed until after the mid-term election voting on November 8."
In the first half of the year, the Amazon online store in charge of Alice Ferguson began investing US$350 million to build a number of large-scale warehousing and logistics distribution centers across the United States. They are currently being completed one after another. Several of them have begun trial operations, and preliminary worker recruitment and training have also begun. Always pushing forward.
Then, Amazon had to face the issue of unions.
Compared with the first half of the twentieth century, with the economic globalization and deindustrialization of the United States, various types of unions in the United States have been in decline in recent years. In 1981, the Reagan administration suppressed American aviation dispatch employees with an iron fist on the grounds of endangering national security. The general strike was a major turning point for American labor unions, which had always been feared by the two parties.
At this stage, American labor unions are still powerful in industries such as automobiles, aviation, entertainment, etc. However, the proportion of the American working class as a whole joining labor unions is actually less than 10%.
Once the e-commerce business develops, it will inevitably need to employ a large number of relatively low-level ordinary workers in the future, and it is impossible to completely avoid dealing with established unions such as the United Auto Workers Union.
For Amazon, cooperation is nothing. Once the union enters Amazon, it will be a complete disaster for the e-commerce field that attaches great importance to efficiency.
Once a trade union is established, the relied-upon union members will inevitably continue to raise demands for increased wages, shorter working hours, lower labor intensity, etc., and may even openly and passively slow down work. The result will only lead to extreme inefficiency of the entire e-commerce distribution system. For other companies, it doesn't matter if the efficiency is lower and the cost is higher, as long as there is profit. If you really can't stand it, you can also move the factory abroad.
However, Amazon has no such 'escape option'.
Low efficiency will inevitably affect consumers’ online shopping experience, thereby limiting the development of e-commerce business.
The key to why all flight attendants on U.S. airlines are aunts and why violent incidents of treating customers often occur is not that airlines don’t want to improve user experience. The main reason is because of labor unions. The aviation industry unions in the United States are too powerful. Due to contract restrictions, it is impossible for airlines to replace old mothers with young girls. As for violent treatment of customers, just fight. Anyway, with the protection of the union, even if the matter becomes serious, as long as there is a barely justifiable reason, the airline has no way to fire the perpetrator and has to swallow the bitter pill.
Early trade unions can also be said to be rights protection organizations established by workers at the bottom who were in a weak position under the condition of imperfect labor laws to protect their own interests. After a hundred years of development, many Western trade unions at this stage have become parasitic on large enterprises. The excessive demands of alternative power agencies and trade unions have affected the economic stability of some industries and even a country.
Simon has no control over other areas, but he will never allow any company in the Westeros system to be parasitized by the union.
Therefore, whether it is Simon himself or the entire management of Igret, their opinions on the Amazon union issue are very unified and resolute, that is, to prevent Amazon employees from forming a union at all costs.