Chapter 63 – Job Aptitude Test (1)
You can always get the best sleep on the day you return after completing the operation.
This is because the moment you lie down on the bed, your nerves, which were on edge as if they were going to break through your skin, declare a strike all at once.
I can’t hear my eyes or ears, and even the feel of the blanket gently wrapping me is blurred.
Consciousness sinks down that abyss without any disturbance of the senses.
The morning after the lab expedition was successfully completed.
“Oops!”
When I got up on the wide, soft bed and stretched, blood circulated all over my stiff body.
Waking up refreshed with the sleep gauge completely empty, not the alarm clock or the need to pee.
I would like to rest for a few more days, but I can’t help it, and I’m conducting an aptitude test for residents starting today.
It’s because you can’t let them play and eat forever.
The test consists of 4+1.
The first is record analysis.
It is a series of analyzes based on the data obtained from the marine prison and the residential attitude after moving into the shelter.
Occupations and skills held in society.
Crime committed.
Prison record.
A look at the shelter life.
Personality test data taken in the past.
Since it is data derived from the judgment standards of the society before the collapse, there are parts that do not fit the special situation of the present, but it is convenient in evaluating the factors of failure.
For example, if she is a woman with a criminal conviction, she will not be given an important position even if she has excellent abilities or is an exemplary prisoner. A person who hits once can hit twice.
The second is the written test.
It was a self-developed test for the purpose of efficiently managing residents in the eternal underground life that will unfold after the blockade.
However, since the current situation is so bizarre, a significant revision has been made.
The third is the practical test.
Verifies practical competence of personnel with useful knowledge or skills.
It also includes a program that detects potential risk molecules by applying advanced lie detection technology.
The fourth is a fitness test.
Physical ability is essential because it is the basis of all job aptitude.
Needless to say, those with excellent grades are assigned priority to good positions such as the security guard.
The last +1 is a VR test that is limited to some occupations such as police officers.
When I turn on my PDA, I see women lined up in front of the temporary test center in the camp.
Manipulating the panel and zooming in, various emotions appear on the faces of the women.
Anxiety, anticipation, confidence, regret and many other emotions. It feels like watching new recruits who are about to be deployed.
A waiting message has arrived on the PDA.
It is Artemis.
Inside the homes of VIPs, the interference of AI is limited to guarantee privacy.
Thanks to this, while I’m at home, if it’s not urgent, I leave a message through the messenger function.
“Reception.”
As soon as I said the command, Artemis’ mail, which seemed to have been sent around dawn, had arrived.
From: Artemis
To: Seo Jin-soo
Subject: Matters concerning policy meetings
Jinsu, we have a meeting scheduled for the afternoon on labor allocation and policy decisions. Don’t be late
“Everyone knows.”
I closed the PDA and got out of bed.
* * *
While Jin-soo was checking his mail at his home, in the camp in the lower district, women with various ideas gathered in front of the waiting room.
They had already been informed of the form of the job exam through a notice.
The upcoming exams must be taken with sincerity.
Isn’t it obvious from common sense that the better your grades are, the more your body will go to a more comfortable place?
Thanks to this, no one left the ranks and lined up properly, probably trying to keep the order score, whether or not there is one.
But at least their mouths were constantly moving.
“A laundromat, please! Please!”
“Are you still doing that?”
A woman staring at her colleague who is praying beside her as if she is dumbfounded.
“Pilates… They won’t assign this as a job.”
A former Pilates female president with 60 new students said with a depressed face.
“Sister, in case you don’t know. Cheer up.”
“Right, right!”
Although her pupils cheered, they all knew that it was not feasible.
No matter where I looked around the world, there was no prison that assigned Pilates training to prisoners as labor.
Of course, this is not a correctional facility, but neither is it any better. It is strictly a facility for survival.
In addition, although the Pilates president did not know, she was on the C-class alert list.
The moment when the number of Shelter students increased to dozens.
Among them, there were women who had decided on a particular career path.
These muscular women gathered on a bench in the corner of the camp grounds and contemplating.
“Sister, can you become our prison guard?”
A strong woman who asks Ji-soo as if she is anxious.
“It’s not a correctional officer, it’s a security guard.”
The woman next to me corrected herself. She is a member of the same health family.
“Whether it’s a correctional officer or a security guard, that’s what the fuck is.”
“Speaking frankly, there is no one better at controlling the bitches here than we are, right?”
They were confident that they would really zealously control the prisoners with just one prison guard uniform and baton.
No, you don’t even need a club. Just bare fists are enough.
I really want to refrain from being put into a sweaty workshop with dirty gloves on, riding a line in a factory, cooking meals for 2500 people, or cleaning up the mess.
Compared to that, it’s a very comfortable job to dress up neatly and monitor and control personnel while giving a little shouting from time to time.
Why isn’t it there?
In elementary school, when it was cleaning time, when all the other kids were walking around with brooms and linens, they were self-appointed supervisors, but they did nothing but watch.
“You said you talked to the manager? Any talk?”
A woman gently caressed Jisoo’s shoulder, who was sitting on her bench, she said.
Every time I touch Jisoo’s strong shoulder muscles, for some reason, the person who is being massaged looks happier than the person receiving the massage.
Jisoo’s sleeveless running shirt was pulled as her hand moved, and nipple marks were visible through her shirt.
“Well, you’ll have to see that.”
Index said.
She, like the other women, wanted to be assigned to the police rather than to work in a dirty factory or as a janitor.
Regardless of whether she was a prisoner or a prison guard, it was said that she was selected based on her ability, so those who have excellent control ability that comes from her physical strength will have an advantage.
And indeed it was.
Exercising and taking care of one’s body continuously is a kind of self-control ability, and it was also an item that was given extra points in this test.
And most importantly!
The point is that she had already been prearranged to be assigned to the police force even before the test.
She also got a rough idea of Ji-soo herself, but couldn’t she say that she seemed to be guaranteed only by herself?
There were some women among whom she was already sure of what she was about to do. Mainly in the case of specializing in a specific field in society.
“She was desperate because she didn’t want to do farming, so she came here in a flash, but now she wants to do farming again.”
A woman with impressive freckles and healthy brown skin said as if complaining.
Her liveliness and naivety overflowed, her appearance was rustic, but she was by no means ugly.
Although she can’t be said to be as beautiful as a flower, she has a face that can be praised as much as a well-grown cabbage.
She was born into a farming family, helped her with farming from an early age, and graduated from an agricultural college, so it was obvious where she would be assigned.
“I’d rather farm, I’m a factory again.”
A middle school graduate woman with 10 years of factory experience sighed.
“Are you kidding me? Does farming look funny? You say you wake up rubbing your eyes from dawn and work until sunset. You sweat profusely in the scorching sun and get stung by insects.
Chronic back pain is a bonus.
She looked at the passionate woman as if the 10-year-old factory car was pitiful.
“Are you going to get up at dawn and roll around in the scorching sun like society out here? It must be fully automated. Besides, look.”
She lifted one of her hands and swung it around her.
“Isn’t the temperature constant throughout the day? Agriculture that is neither cold nor hot, and there are no insects or wild animals? On the contrary, being with the plants makes the air feel fresh and pleasant. If you grow something like fruit, soybean crops will also fall.”
She may not have known about the existence of hydroponic cultivation facilities, but her reasoning was correct. She was, to some extent, a woman whose head was spinning.
“Is that so?”
Looking at her head scratching her head, the reserve Gongsuni sighs.
“I hope you don’t wear dustproof clothing. If you’re not lucky, getting on the line is a bitch, but fuck it.”
I was really desperate for a cigarette, but she, who was forced to quit smoking, only licked her lips.
Among other professional waitlists, there are those who form a fairly large force.
“Where are you from?”
“Very nice. What about your sister?”
“I am Baejae University.”
It’s the nurses Technically, most of the women here were nursing assistants.
The orthodox nurses who completed the 4-year education mixed in with the drought exercised great influence here.
If it was an ordinary prison, there would be no such thing, and the ranks would change in order of time, but this is a special place in a special situation.
There is a serious shortage of medical personnel compared to the total number of people.
Under these circumstances, formally educated nurses would be guaranteed some position by the city’s rulers.
Of course, the assistants who will be in a position to receive instructions from under him have to notice.
In this way, countless women, each with their own hopes, expectations, and insecurities, entered the test site one by one.
However, the written test was more systematic and technical than the girls thought.
And there was a bit… An asshole side.
