Chapter 78 Come and go in a hurry
After a month, Evan once again met the management of magic7. Among the management teams, General Manager Davidson looked the hardest and most tiring, and his hair turned much white.
Before the monthly report began, Evan looked at Davidson who couldn't hide his tiredness and said carelessly: "Davidson, have you been too tired recently? If the work burden is too heavy, please be sure to tell me or find someone to share the burden. Don't get any problems!"
Davidson replied: "Evan, I'm fine. It's just that the new factory has just started production recently. There are so many things happening, so I look tired."
"It's good to wait for this period to pass."
After Davidson repeatedly promised that he was fine, Evan had to believe him first.
The report began, and Carl attended as a director.
The first one to report was sales in September, and the one to report was Gillard.
"Last month, the sales of Rubik's Cubes successfully exceeded one million, reaching 1.02 million, and are still in an upward period. The marketing department expects that it will continue to grow by at least 70,000 next month."
"According to the tracking of the marketing department, the discussion on Rubik's Cube was still at a high level last month. Not only did the Rubik's Cube appear in the newspaper (excluding advertisements) more than 30 times, but three books with the theme of Rubik's Cube were published, and one of them even topped the sales rankings. Of course, this may also have a certain relationship with the author of that book being a middle school student."
After Gillard finished reporting, Evan took the lead in applauding and congratulating on the sales situation with great momentum.
Later, Gillard talked about the subsequent marketing plan. Based on the current popularity of the Rubik's Cube and the appearance of the Rubik's Cube Club, he made a suggestion to Evan - to hold an official competition.
After thinking about this for a while, Evan asked a question: "Can anyone restore the Rubik's Cube in 22 seconds now?"
Gillard didn't expect Evan to ask such a question, and was stunned for a moment before replying: "It shouldn't be there yet, otherwise there will be reports."
"So that's the case, push the game plan backwards!"
"At least, before the popularity of the Rubik's Cube has dropped significantly, there is no need to hold a competition."
"What's more, with the current production capacity, if sales continue to grow, the production capacity will not be fully met."
Evan's view was obviously beyond Gillard's expectations. He couldn't find a place to refute for a while, so he could only nod and accept it, and archived the game plan that he had worked hard for two weeks.
After Gillard, the new manager in charge of public relations and workers' affairs was inspected, Jean Lion. Leon was originally the foreman of the assembly line, and he was appointed to this position because he received the support of workers.
Evan had a little impression of Leon before this. He was one of the few people who did not participate in the "strike" incident, not only did he not participate in it, but also persuaded many workers to persuade them to do so.
So, Davidson chose to let him take the position, and Evan did not object.
Although he was not well educated, Leon, who spoke in front of Evan for the first time, was not nervous at all and reported on his affairs within his responsibilities in an orderly manner.
"…In general, new employees are quite satisfied with all the conditions of the factory and are very enthusiastic about labor. I believe this will be very helpful for the production capacity of the new factory."
"In terms of relationships with the Northern Sacramento government and the city council, because our factory employees are currently at the forefront of the region, they also attach great importance to it. They said they will tilt towards us in terms of public transportation and public security..."
After listening to Leon's report, Evan nodded and expressed his satisfaction.
After chatting with Leon for a few words, Evan listened to briefings from several departments such as the manufacturing department, the quality department, the finance department, and finally summarized it by General Manager Davidson.
"In September, we completed the production line assembly, commissioning and trial production of the second factory. At the end of the month, we successfully added eight new production lines, increasing the daily production capacity to 50,000."
"In September, we produced a total of 820,000 Rubik's Cubes, which exceeded the production target by 10,000, but it was 200,000 less than the sales volume of that month. If the second factory did not put into production, the market would be in short supply."
"In September, we also put the canteen into use and fulfilled our promise to the workers..."
"In October, sales will rise further, and our contract with Airfix will also be executed, so we cannot relax..."
"Davidson is right! I hope everyone will continue to work hard!"
Finally, Evan ended the meeting with this correct nonsense.
Afterwards, Evan, accompanied by Davidson, visited the newly renovated factory area, and had lunch with everyone in the new cafeteria at noon.
After lunch, after leaving the Magic7 factory, Evan and Carl went to the Alphabet office. There, Evan returned the information from the Joint Carbon Project Team to him.
Of course there was no problem with the information, but the project team had no progress. Evan couldn't help but wait. After hesitating for a few times, he added his prompt to the reply to the project team.
After that, before there was time to chat with my sisters, Evan had to rush back to Los Angeles with Audrey and Virginia.
As for Carl, he had to stay in Sacramento for a few days. The bidding for the Band-Aid production line has ended. The winner was a company founded by a CalTech alumni introduced by Rogers. Next was the manufacturing cycle of the production line and the preparation cycle of the factory site. Carl stayed to inspect the site and decide whether to place the ACAH factory in Sacramento or Los Angeles.
It depends on which of the conditions in the two places is better.
Judging from the current situation, Carl prefers to be in suburban cities near Los Angeles, where not only logistics is more convenient, but also human resources are not short of.
This is Carl's work, and Evan did not interfere.
When Evan and his group returned to Los Angeles, everyone was a little tired.
After driving around 1,200 kilometers in two days, Evan was the most tired one.
Back to the "hut in the forest", after having dinner, Evan leaned against the sofa in the living room without any movement.
Audrey walked out of the bathroom in her pajamas and lantern pajamas and sat next to Evan and asked him to help wipe his hair. Evan smelled the faint fragrance and then became a little more energetic.
"Audrey, Joseph didn't say bad things about me, did he?"
"No..." Audrey yawned.
"Audrey, tell you something..."
"What?"
"Do you believe I'm Gay?"
"Hmm? Are you?" Audrey asked without even looking back.
"no!"
"Then why ask me if I believe it?"
"Because someone slanders me so much, I have to find someone to prove it for me."
"Oh...I understand!"
"Did you just understand?"
"Yes, what if it's better?"
"..." Evan looked sad when he heard this, and his hands stopped.
"Oh... don't stop, okay, tell me, what do you want me to do?"
Chapter completed!