Zach tried to ask Benjamin to join him, but the ball that always moved with Benjamin refused on behalf of Benjamin, "Can you get the ball for me?"
So Zach hit the road by himself, driving Grande's truck, listening to the radio, and carrying a bunch of old things from Grande in the West End to do good deeds. Of course, to be thanked, to be able to visit the shelter, and for Mrs. Quinn's free commission.
Park in the parking lot behind Pixar as this is where the shelter's donation reception is located. Harrison already knew that Zach was coming back, so he was waiting here early.
The procedure went very quickly. Zach signed the name of 'Grand Funeral Home' on all the documents that could be signed. After receiving a certificate of appreciation, Harrison took him to the basement of Pixar Department Store. layer-
"I told you that Pixar lent the basement floor to the shelter, right?" Harrison explained quickly as he passed.
"You did."
"Yeah." Harrison nodded and continued, "In addition to the venue, Pixar also lent some of our people to help us arrange the layout of the venue as volunteers. The employee information I gave you yesterday did not include these volunteers who were obliged to help. Strictly speaking, they are not part of the shelter establishment under the Restricted Quinn Group, you can understand that."
"Okay." Zach nodded, "If I was just doing good deeds on a voluntary basis, I wouldn't hand over my files to you for management and become an employee." The focus is on what comes next, "So, what do you want to express? Do you suspect any of the people and volunteers lent by Pixar?"
"Uh... You can't put it that way. The entire shelter is grateful for Pixar's help. We don't want to target Pixar. All volunteer types, not just Pixar people, volunteers are helping here. Quinn Group put The internal staff of the shelter are separated from these volunteers to ensure that the internal volunteers of the shelter cannot enter." Harrison pursed his lips and said, "Quinn Group has implemented corporate management, so within the company..."
"That's good." Zach didn't need to discuss the management of Quinn Group with Harrison. "But I thought your suspects were people who knew the channels for Smith's drugs to enter and exit, that is, your internal employees. Could it be that volunteers Do you also know these things?”
"They don't know. But." The two of them had already arrived, looking at the simple beds arranged in the open space, and the volunteers walking through to take care of the messy homeless people on the beds. Harrison walked to the nearest place without continuing. A man wearing a volunteer badge on his chest was holding a registration form to register people in ragged clothes. "I'll do it." He took the registration form and looked at it. Grams, "You are here to visit and experience how you can really help these people. Do you want to give it a try?"
"Why not." Zach took the registration form from Harrison's hand and glanced at the homeless man sitting on the bed with a confused look.
"Name." Zach squatted down in front of the other party and just read from the registration form.
"I forgot."
Zach glanced sideways at Harrison, 'What do I do? '
"Give him a number." Harrison took out a numbered bracelet from the small cabinet beside the bed and put it on the other person.
Zach raised his eyebrows, copied the number onto the registration form, and looked at the subsequent forms on the registration form, "Age, place of birth, previous occupation..." Looking back at the homeless man who continued to look confused, "I don't remember. Mr. Name, do you remember any of these things I need to register?"
Zach is not being sarcastic. If you look at the records at the front of the registration form, you can see that many of the questions on the form are filled in directly with horizontal bars.
"I used to be a soldier?" Strangely, the homeless man answered Zach in a questioning tone, "I just remember that I used to be a soldier, well, I used to be a soldier." There was also an emphasis that sounded like a lie. .
Zach continued to look back at Harrison, still saying, 'What am I going to do?' '.
Harrison sighed helplessly and looked at the homeless man seriously, "Even if you are not a veteran, we still have a bed for you to rest, we will also give you food, let you take a bath, and treat you."
Zach raised his eyebrows and looked back at the homeless man. He already understood the reason for this situation - remember that during the rainy season, the shelter refused ordinary homeless people to move in, and the homeless people could only go to the old training center of Mary Church. Zach was curious about how the other person would respond.
The other party still didn't answer, his dirty face wrinkled, as if he was hesitating.
"This kind gentleman just donated a lot of things to us, including beds, furniture, clothes, and electric stoves for heating. He is here to help us and you. You can tell him the truth." Harrison pointed. Zach, said that to the homeless man.
The hesitation was gone, "I'm not a soldier, but I'm sorry, I don't remember anything else."
Zach glanced at Harrison, received a nod, and drew horizontal bars in all the boxes at the back of the registration form. Harrison took the registration form with only one number, casually found someone to take over, and took Zach to continue walking, well, visiting.
"I don't think this will make the person who donated feel happy." Zach followed Harrison. "To be honest, if I were an ordinary human being, I would be more depressed now."
"This visit process was formulated by Mrs. Quinn herself. You will feel better." Harrison waved his hand, "If you care, that person is a typical example. Wanderers will habitually hide their past. We There will be counselors who are good at psychology to provide follow-up counseling.”
Zach looked back at the homeless man who had moved away, stroking the sheets with unknown meaning...
Don't worry, Harrison had already stopped in front of another bed, glanced at the volunteer who was explaining something to the person lying on the bed, raised his hand to attract Zach's attention, and then clicked on the volunteer, "I Come on." He took the information from the volunteer, looked at Zach, and handed it over, "Remember the medical supplies information I showed you yesterday."
Zach looked at the information he received. According to the vampire's interpretation of human medical drugs, it was just instructions for using conventional drugs. Not even Smith's special drug in the second half of yesterday's information. The volunteer just now just recited it according to the above.
Harrison picked up the registration form on the side of the bed and motioned to Zach. The information on the homeless man on this bed is a little more detailed and a bit sad - the homeless man lying on the bed at this time was once an employee of the Hermann factory. It was probably his misfortune to survive the explosion. His legs are now made of wood. of.
Zach didn't pay attention to the registration form, but more to the medication instructions in his hand. Because there is a sentence above - 'Whether to be transferred to a pilot center to receive follow-up treatment with experimental drugs. no. '
Zach began to understand the process of the visit, and looked at the wooden-legged wanderer who stared at him, "Do you need me to read this thing, or you can read it yourself."
"I can read it myself!" He snatched the information from Zach's hand.
Harrison also put back the registration form and motioned for Zach to continue following.
"I understand a little better, but still, I don't think anyone will feel good about it. People who visit will be more depressed and think that their donations are meaningless."
No need to sugarcoat it, the first homeless man was a real homeless man, this one was probably just an opportunist who came to take advantage of free drugs.
We all know that Herman's compensation is quite generous. Those whose lives are affected must compromise for a new life, such as Bane, an employee of the Grand Cemetery, but it is not enough to become a homeless person. Even if he was disabled, who would believe that this guy had used up all his insurance, compensation, and government disability subsidies so quickly after the explosion at the Hermann factory? Need to grab resources from homeless people who really need help
Harrison still waved his hand, "There are people who give kindness, and there are people who abuse kindness. 'Comparison makes people feel great', Mrs. Quinn's original words." He glanced at Zach helplessly, " You don’t really need to be so concerned about this visit, you know what you’re here for.”
Zach shrugged, "I know, just saying it." Then, a little more seriously, "You want to tell me that even volunteers have access to Smith's drugs, right? The so-called 'pilot' The center' is the headquarters of the shelter, right? The homeless people housed here in Pixar will be evaluated and classified by volunteers, and then selected to enter the internal candidates. For example, the person just now, if his injury came from his military career, then his When you enter the column, you will fill in 'yes'. That's what it means."
Harrison nodded, "But you don't have to be a soldier." He looked at Zach gratefully, "Using your honor, I have convinced Mrs. Quinn that as long as there are people who really need help, there will be people in the shelter. Their positions." He pursed his lips and said, "There are not many places, so we choose carefully..." He waved his hand without wanting to say more, and took Zach to a bed again.
What happens here is a little different. The volunteers are not registering or caring for the homeless, but saying goodbye.
Harrison didn't take over this time, leaving Zach to listen in.
Let's listen.
Volunteer - "Don't let me see you come back again!"
A homeless person wearing slightly ill-fitting but at least clean clothes - "I won't! Sir! I promise! I will work hard and pay my rent on time! I will never touch alcohol again! I won't! I promise!"
Volunteer - "That's good! Let's go!"
Wanderer—"Goodbye then, sir!"
The whole process can finally give people a sense of satisfaction with life.
When the volunteer started to make the bed with a smile, Harrison stepped forward, "Hey, send another one away, well done!" He also smiled, "Pine, I really don't think about throwing away the 'Volunteer' sign. Do you want to work here officially? I assure you that Quinn Group is very generous and the salary will not be lower than your pension."
This volunteer was an old man, but his body seemed to be quite agile. He looked back at Harrison happily, "Haha, just like what I tell you every time, my pension is enough. I can I don’t want to go back to work! Hehe, I understand.”
"Mr. Pine, Mr. Grande, just donated a lot of things. I'm showing him around." This is the introduction, "Mr. Grande, this is Mr. Pine. If he is not a volunteer, he is ours. A five-star employee, the homeless people he helps have a 50% re-employment rate, and here he is like a star guarantor."
Pine must be a very polite guy. Although he raised his eyebrows, he asked "Grand Grande?" He still extended his right hand.
Naturally, Zach put on a pleasing smile and said, "Yes, Grande Grande, nice to meet you, Mr. Pine."
"Me too." Pine raised his eyebrows and was very direct, "You are indeed as good-looking and handsome as the newspaper said. Haha, but don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who just believes what the newspaper says. What kind of old man, haha, you are here, I don’t think the newspaper’s evaluation of you as ‘selfish’ is fair!” Well, he seems to be a nice old gentleman, “On behalf of these people, I would like to thank you for your donation. , it means a lot to these people!”
Zach didn't say anything, nodded, and decided to keep a humble image.
If this is the beginning of the visit process, when people start to feel grateful and have a sense of satisfaction, Zach feels that enough is enough, Zach is more concerned about what else he can get from this visit - his real purpose, He was entrusted to judge those people in the asylum who were suspected of stealing Smith's products. That's what Harrison wanted to express when he showed him these things.
Harrison seemed to want to chat with Pine, and looked around in the basement of Pixar for a while, "Where is your son? Didn't he come to help today?"
"Nate?" Mr. Pine's face wrinkled, looking a little impatient, "He was kicked out for an interview by me, and I get upset when I see him!"
Harrison asked Mr. Pine for his opinion, and after receiving a helpless wave of agreement, he spoke to Zach, "Nate is Pine's son. After graduating from high school, he and Payne often came to the shelter to volunteer. It was great. The young man…”
"Awesome?! What the hell, this awesome guy doesn't go to college! He stays at home and doesn't do anything serious! He spends all day partying with a bunch of friends! Tsk! I get upset when I mention him!"
Harrison smiled, "Mr. Pine, I know you refused, but my offer is still here. You know that as long as you agree, I can hire Nate! As long as he is over 21 years old, he will automatically have all the factors." The group’s employee benefits, believe me, it’s a good job. Moreover, he is really good at this job! Among the volunteers here, besides you, he is the guarantor with the second highest re-employment success rate.”
"Hmph! What kind of guy can make a group of people who can't take care of themselves find a job? He has hands and feet, but no job! Harrison, I appreciate your kindness! But Nate, my son, I’ll take care of it!”
Harrison smiled and shrugged, "My proposal will always be here."
After receiving a helpless nod, Harrison continued to take Zach around.
"I understand." Zach looked back at Pine, "You are telling me about the relationship between volunteers and homeless people, the 'guarantor', the informal 'guarantor' relationship like that of a mutual aid association, right? ?”
"Yes." There seemed to be nothing that Harrison wanted Zach to see here. The two walked out of Pixar Department Store and walked to the main building of the shelter. "Every homeless person who comes to the shelter will first be evaluated by the volunteers, and then Only then will they be considered as candidates to enter Quinn's pilot system. Before entering, as you just saw, the candidates will establish a personal relationship with the volunteers, just like a 'guaranteed mutual aid'. If they are directly re-employed and sent out as just now It’s okay, but if they are sent to a pilot center, volunteers will know from the candidates the treatment they received there.”
Harrison glanced at Zach, a little helpless, "Moreover, Quinn and I can't control this relationship. It's a personal relationship. They are volunteers, people who help with their own will. We can't stipulate that they prohibit everything. Those who enter treatment should keep in touch. Pine just now has two veterans who are receiving the 0711 treatment plan. You also saw the honorific title given to Pine by the person who left just now. What do you think..."
Zach interrupted, there is no need to speculate now, although the name 'Nate' appeared in the conversation just now - Nate at the party~ But Zach doesn't know him, does he~
Zach looked at Harrison with a smile, "And you tried it and kept proposing that these volunteers be included in the Quinn Group's employee system. Haha, it's a pity that they are unwilling."
Harrison nodded and sighed, "Yeah, I tried... Let's continue visiting, this way..." (.)