Going Into the World!

"Peter, would you like to try this? Kick-kick!"

"What's so funny?

Jennifer smiling in wonder, calling my name. Who's Peter? Of course, I work.

Name: Peter Kim

Age: 23 years

Career: After graduating from college, working as a computer programmer in a small venture, IT Bubbles exploded and fired. I studied to drive a truck for a while and came to work aspiring for a cable driver.

This is my obituary, my résumé. A few days ago, I finally decided to do what I had postponed.

The Chairman of the Johnstone Group is not so free. Working for more than 12 hours a day, working five days a night, and working on weekends, of course, is necessary to coordinate and direct what happens in dozens of subsidiaries. Moreover, social services are prolonged.

People may already be rich when they see it, and they may think that they need to work that hard, but most people are supposed to work with me around the time of chairman. There's hardly anything wrong with them if they say they're going to have a presidential quality.

In the meantime, ever since the involvement of the Dynkov, government-owned businesses, and Johnstone energy, I've been busy confirming the acquisition of Adelphia cables, so I haven't had time to practice. But I've already decided to take the Undercover Boss when the cable acquisition is complete.

"But do I really have to stay in a shabby place? Could it be dangerous?"

"It's okay. The guards are outside anyway."

"Wouldn't that be uncomfortable? John sleeps there. It makes me uncomfortable."

"I can't. That's what makes it a story. We can't have new employees staying in hotels."

"What about meals?"

"Eat what you're given."

Jennifer worries that I have to sleep in a shabby inn and that I won't be able to eat breakfast properly. I'm so used to good dragonflies, good food, and beauty... I'm honestly worried because I'm so used to good things.

"You have to be careful!"

"Don't worry. Take the security team with you."

Once again, I relieved Jennifer and gave her a hug. When people see me, they think I'm going to war. We went downstairs together, and there's a camera driver and a director already waiting for us in the living room. The format of the 'Undercover Boss' is to wait for the scene where I leave Jennifer at home and start filming from the beginning.

The filming team interviewed Jennifer and I for a moment, and the cameraman briefly photographed the house, saying that he intends to show me how this house and the inn I'm going to stay at today are matched. I left home, boarded the plane I was waiting for, and headed to my first destination, North Carolina. A little excitement and anxiety crossed my mind.

I had to sleep at a cheap inn for a nice shot, but I didn't get much sleep because of the smell of the inn. The next morning, I got up early, put on a slightly shabby outfit Jennifer had given me, dressed up a little bit according to the advice of the annotations team, and wore thick horn-rimmed glasses. I can hardly recognize myself because I've grown a little beard in the past week and the mood or face has changed so much.

My role today is called the Cable Guy, which is to visit customers and solve all problems with cable and the Internet. I thought I was going to the call center, but my first assignment was to meet the customers face-to-face. I laughed for no reason because I remembered the movie that Jim Carry starred in, but I borrowed a dress from the service center.

"I'm Peter. Please take good care of it."

"Peter here will be following you around today. Teach him well."

"I'm Jeff. Let's do this.“

As a guide from a supervisor who was contacted in advance, he was introduced to a cable driver named Jeff, who, in his early 40s, looked at me and smiled and asked me to shake his hand. I noticed a slight curiosity on Jeff's face, and it immediately disappeared. The impression is good.

Jeff goes to his office, picks up the order, and walks me to his car. I quickly chased after him and asked him questions. The knights usually don't come here every day, but only once or twice a week, except for cables, Internet terminals, and other needs. Jeff, who works with a company car, comes here every day.

"You said you drove a truck. Your hands look like a scumbag."

"Ah, I originally wrote a program in Venture until an IT bubble exploded. I learned how to drive a truck because the company crashed and made some money, and it wasn't as easy as I thought. So I've come to learn this."

This is a reality TV program, so the camera is filming us. However, we do not follow them all day long, but we should only be careful when necessary. When the recording pauses, he smiles and asks why he came here.

"But you'd better drive a truck if you want to make money. It's hard to make money doing this, but you're going the wrong way, right? If we take one more step, we'll never get out of here because it's a waste of technology. Unless we start at all."

"But if you keep working, don't you get skills and treatment?"

"Treat? Hehe. It's barely enough to live on. But it's a must-see. But now they'll grow up and go to college... They'll make their own money."

I remember a long time ago that developed countries, such as the United States, Canada and Europe, had a higher minimum wage than Korea and were worth living without leaving the university. Suddenly, I was curious about how much cable drivers would be paid for Jeff's slightly self-absorbed laugh.

"When you have a career, don't you get 70,000 dollars? Or, if you take a separate area and go out to the contractor and get paid for the installation, you get more than that."

"I think you're misunderstanding something. This is not an automobile company. Most of us get 20 bucks an hour. I work overtime for 10 hours a day, up to $150, up to $170. I work all year. Over $40,000. In which year do I earn $70,000 or $80,000? “

Jeff looked at me and said, "Where did you hear such nonsense? 'I make a face. I don't know what to say to that. I just said," Is that right?' Scratched my head.

I thought the wages were much lower for driving around, installing cables and terminals, and dealing with customers. Plus, overtime doesn't pay 1.5 times over 40 hours a week. He said he would pay 1.5 times more than a certain amount of time, and the rest was just regular wages.

"You're taking off overtime in America? It's the law. If you inform the Department of Labor, won't you correct it immediately?"

This is the United States of America for Labor and Human Rights. It is hard to understand that cable installers have been treated so unjustly.

"Haha, you're still young, so you don't know anything. Cable companies aren't stupid, and you don't know that either. It's not like we're stamping our offices, it's hard to keep track of our time moving around. You'll have to talk to the Labor Department before the job is done. It's not even tens of thousands of dollars, and I've been trying to figure out what else to do with it."

We're moving in our cars, and we're talking, wow, this is way more than the Americans thought. Plus, you give me 15 bucks an hour and I rip it from there to overtime, and there's a sound of wind in your lungs.

I didn't really understand it at first when the bad actor who was taking money from people like Jeff in the United States of Lawsuits started busting his balls, but when I thought about it, I didn't really want to come back after filing lawsuits. It looks like another American in America, so it feels unfamiliar.

"Wait... I'm the bad guy, right?" '

As I listened to Jeff's complaint and looked at the anger together, I realized that I was lying down and spitting. I said some consolation because I was slightly sorry.

"But now that you're part of the Johnstone Group, don't you feel better?"

"Better? Phew, don't tell me. Apparently, the Johnstone Group is trying to enhance the image for fame, which is why it bothers me."

Jeff frowned as soon as the name Johnstone appeared.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I won't say anything about 'customer satisfaction' upstairs, but I wish you'd leave me alone. Last week I was told to come for an education, so I took a two-hour lecture after work and came home at 9: 00 p.m. Education doesn't work, there's no overtime. Who would be happy about that? People like us aren't nearly as keen as we think they are. Patience."

"..."

I was silent and silent, watching Geoff burst into flames. Today, every time I say something for no reason, I eat nothing but sarcasm. However, I once again thought that the cable company here is really a different world.

We have to satisfy our staff before we can satisfy our customers. It was a little too much to have free education for those who worked late at night. I didn't even give him dinner because I had no time.

"I had some training yesterday, but there was a survey. There's an employee complaint in there. Don't you think it's getting old?"

"Hahaha! He's like a freshman in a freshman society. Will you care about people like us up there and down there? If something changes, it won't make a difference."

'Damn it, don't let him say anything!'

There is nothing to say because there is really deep mistrust. Anyway, I called you in late to train you to save your food money and avoid overtime, but there's something I need to tell you. Of course, I told them to just educate them, but they were part of it, so I just kept my mouth shut and listened.

I followed Jeff around visiting customers, which was really inefficient. When I went to my first customer, the order said, "The TV doesn't work," but when I checked, the cable was cut while working on the sewers next door.

The owner said when he called, he said when he called because there was no TV at the beginning of the construction, but he shortened the communication where it went wrong and the order was very 'no TV'.

I followed Jeff around a few times. I couldn't find him. It was because we couldn't figure out where the cable line had broken.

"If you are in a hurry, we can put the cable on the grass. I can watch TV once, but I'll come back tomorrow to plug in the cable. Do you want to do that? Or do you want me to finish the job tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow? Just do it now. By the way, will you come back and put it under the ground?"

"Of course, I'll install it now."

Eventually, I had to circle the house around the road outside the house, but I wasn't ready at all, so I just let the cable line hang long on the grass. You look unsettled with the black line stretching for more than 30 meters. The owner came out later and asked him to come back and bury the line if he didn't want to see it.

"Is the cable selling machine in the service engineering center?"

I was just curious because I'd never seen the cable buried in the ground. I was curious about what it looked like and how it worked.

"You could be there, or someone could have taken it out. We'll have to reschedule where we find it. I hope you tell me this correctly, but I'll make sure I do it twice. The same thing every few times. By the way...

Jeff clenches his tongue at the call center, saying that if he cares a little bit about what to do efficiently, he makes it unnecessarily difficult.

"Why don't we just find out who took it, and if he's not far away, tell him to come in and do some cloaking? If we do this, we can do it on the same day, right?"

"I wish it were as easy as I said, but when are you going to find him and get him to do it? The center doesn't even know where we are."

Theory and reality, ideology and reality, are all differences. Jeff says it's actually hard to do what I say.

He said it was difficult to locate the installers. When the order was placed in the morning, the knights made random judgments to determine the route, so the location of the individual was unknown without a phone call.

Someone needs to find the list of people who borrowed the machine from the office, call them, check their location, and ask for their intentions again, but the principle is not to do such complicated work. When I heard it, I understood. Who's doing that?

Whew, I don't know where to put my hands.

It wasn't even a day yet, but I couldn't help but sigh because I saw so many things to improve. The way we work or treat our employees seems to be preserved only in the cable industry in the '70s.

Artwork Reviews

I struggled to figure out how to get the Undercover Boss out. I found it very interesting, and I was suddenly stunned to write it in short. Barely raises one side.

Someone commented, "Customer impressions in Korea are tears in the eyes of contract service drivers," and the harsh conditions of cable drivers in the United States were not great.

What was said in the text is true. In the United States, "overtime eating," "overtime coercion," and other things are happening in the cable industry. The average wage for cable articles from Comcast, the largest cable company in the United States, was only $29,500 in 2003.

First time at the forum, someone is recruiting at the Comcast, and it pays $15 an hour. Is it okay? "And when I read the answers from the current cable drivers, one of them said," You know, you're in a place where most people get 20 dollars an hour.

For the record, Comcast is rarely unions, and it was once controversial because there was a 37-page article called "How to Suppress Unions." I can see from the U.S. Communications Union that the Emart Union Oppression case was similar enough to be based on the Comcast's report, and I think it's aid.

And when the cable drivers went out, a current reporter at the forum wrote that they didn't know who was in the office.

And he also referenced a customer who came in with a cable technician laying a line on the ground, saying he couldn't see it all week long.