Chapter 257: Blessings in Middle Age (Part 1)
Central Park, Manhattan.
A black bird-like aircraft was quietly hovering over Central Park. As the hatch opened, Fang Yu stepped out and put the "Falcon" that was hovering in the air and remained invisible into the Unbounded Messenger.
West Fifty-seventh Street, Eighth Avenue, Hearst Tower, yes, that's it.
How dare you call a building less than fifty stories high a tower?
Once I have full authority over the Lorraine Tower, I will lower it to Manhattan and let you see it.
Unlike the Hearst Tower in San Francisco, the Hearst Tower is the real headquarters of the Hearst Corporation. The more than a dozen newspapers and magazines in the building are all properties of the Hearst Corporation.
The ELLE editorial office is also here.
This building was first built by the Hearst family a hundred years ago. It originally had only six floors. Later, they wanted to expand it but the New York City Hall always disagreed. Then, forty years ago, they simply designated this building as a protected landmark building in New York and required the Hearst family not to change the facade of the building.
How could the Hearst family tolerate this? You have a plan, but I have a ladder. You don't allow me to modify the exterior wall, so I can just raise it higher.
The Hearst Group only retained the exterior walls of the original building, re-pile the interior, rebuild most of the structure, and raise the building to 48 floors...
As a result, the building became a strange combination of the lower eight floors being in a 19th-century style and the upper forty floors being all glass curtain walls.
However, the most famous thing here is not these, but Spider-Man.
Many people believe that Peter Parker developed his super powers after being bitten by a spider here, and the Daily Bugle is also located here.
The comic fans in Mai Country are much crazier than those in Da Zhou. There are comic fans coming here for pilgrimage every day.
"Robbie, are you sure you want to put the company office here? Won't it cause trouble here?" Fang Yu scratched his head and looked at the floor sign on the 39th floor. Robbie Myers' old employer ELLE was upstairs.
I didn't expect Robbie Myers to be so vengeful.
"The property of this building belongs to the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, not the Hearst Corporation. The foundation is managed personally by Mr. William III. It won't be easy for that despicable Steven Swartz to cause trouble."
Robbie Myers is full of fighting spirit.
Fang Yu came to New York this time for an interview.
Robbie Myers has been running ELLE for 16 years. All 236 employees of the magazine were discovered and promoted by her. She knows very well who can do the job and who cannot.
This time, she wanted to poach those fashion editors, makeup artists and public relations personnel who maintained good relationships with many wealthy businessmen and celebrities.
There are 11 people in total.
In fact, many people here did not want to go with Robbie Myers when they received the call. Most of them were still reluctant to give up their jobs at ELLE.
After all, these people's basic annual income is between 100,000 and 300,000 Malaysian dollars, which is above the median level even in Manhattan.
Last year, in 3061, the median household income in Manhattan was $75,000.
Manhattan is one of the few areas where the median household income is lower than the average household income, which was $120,000 last year.
This inversion shows that a small group of people with high salaries have extremely high salaries.
Fashion editors may seem to have a glamorous life, but their actual income is ridiculous. Many of them look glamorous on the surface, but actually live in the basement.
Of course, Robbie Myers certainly wasn't recruiting the kind of interns that were readily available, but rather a group of people who had truly established themselves in the industry. Their income was actually quite good, so most people cherished them.
But when Robbie Myers showed them the effects of Wangshu Tears and described the income prospects, almost no one gave up the opportunity and all agreed to participate in the interview.
During the interview, Robbie Myers' former handsome assistant Seth Plattner's face turned green when he saw Fang Yu.
He had been pretending to be gay for several years, but he didn't expect that Fang Yu would expose him that day.
Fang Yu's interview was simple, asking just one question: What was one thing in your past work that you are most proud of? What was your role in handling this matter? What specific work did you do?
In interviews with non-technical personnel, many people don’t know how to interview people. There are many applicants who have good eloquence, but after they are actually hired, they find that they are just good at talking and can’t do anything. They are never satisfied with what they eat.
Therefore, for the recruitment of non-technical personnel, this question is the most practical question, which can comprehensively examine a person's work ability.
The things that a person is proud of must be things that make him feel accomplished and successful.
If he can clearly explain what specific work he did in this matter and make it logically consistent with his previous answers, it at least guarantees the lower limit of this person's ability.
On the other hand, if a person talks big at the beginning but just brushes aside what he or she did, or cannot justify himself or herself when asked by the interviewer, then this person is a big liar and should definitely not be hired.
There is certainly no problem with this regard for the people Robbie Myers wants to bring over. The reason why Fang Yu insisted on interviewing them in person was not only because he wanted to use malicious detection to see if these people had any ill intentions towards Lorraine Novin Company, but also to establish control over the company in front of the employees.
After all, this company will be run by Robbie Myers in the future, and it is easy for it to become too big to be managed, so we must nip it in the bud.
Another very important reason is to use an oath contract to sign a work contract and confidentiality agreement with these people.
After everything was done, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon. Fang Yu invited all the employees who had signed their work contracts today to have a meal at the nearby Per Se.
"Oh my god, how could they agree to let so many of us come to dine here today? You have to make a reservation at least a month and a half in advance."
Robbie Myers couldn't understand why Fang Yu had just a few words with the restaurant manager Dave Widom and then agreed to add a table for so many people to come in for dinner.
They also vacated three tables originally reserved for them to sit at, and added three tables near the porch with reservation signs placed on them.
This is Per Se, a Michelin three-star restaurant!
Trump, who is running for president, has to make reservations for meals!
Even though she was familiar with Per Se's owner, Thomas Keller, and its chef, Chad Plage, the best they could do was occasionally arrange a last-minute meal for her and her husband.
For a casual group dinner like this, don't even think about coming here.
"This kind of restaurant always has a plan for when faced with guests they can't refuse."
Faced with Robbie Myers' questioning, Fang Yu just smiled and did not comment.
What’s the big deal about just adding a few more tables? If Viscount Astor, the King of New York, comes, the restaurant will have to be cleared out.
I haven't seen any customer this restaurant couldn't explain to.
Per Se does not require ordering, but rather a daily menu prepared by the chef, which is divided into vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. Both menus are 355 Malaysian dollars each, plus the service charge for drinks, the price per person starts at at least 500 Malaysian dollars.
There were a lot of fashion-conscious pretentious people, four or five of whom were so-called vegetarians. It was unclear whether they were genuine or fake, and Fang Yu was too lazy to bother choosing a restaurant with vegetarian options for them. So he simply used a charm to convince the manager of Per Se, which already had a vegetarian menu, to agree to add a table temporarily.
By the way, show off in front of this group of professional show-offs.
Sure enough, when the restaurant waiter skillfully put the three tables together, not only the other young pretentious people, but even Robbie Myers' eyes changed when he looked at Fang Yu.
This Fang must be the heir of a certain family.
Maybe the names are all fake.
Fang Yu was very happy eating this meal, not because the yellowtail with golden Masolino caviar and slow-cooked Hudson Valley foie gras were so delicious, but because he finally succeeded in pretending to be cool.
Or he's just showing off in front of professional show-offs.
It's simply double the happiness.
After dinner, Fang Yu went to Scarlett Johansson's home in New York.
The distance is so close that you don’t even need to fly, you can just walk over.
Scarlett had already given Fang Yu the security card and keys, and had also specifically notified the property manager.
This apartment is a typical white glove apartment. Scarlett spent 2.1 million dollars to buy this penthouse apartment. It is not expensive in Manhattan where every inch of land is valuable. What is really expensive are the property fees and property taxes.
The property tax rate in New York is relatively high, with monthly property fees of more than $1,000 and annual property taxes of more than $20,000. Many people with generous savings and inheritances can afford to buy a house, but they may not be able to afford to live there.
And if you want to buy one, you have to pass the condominium qualification review.
Most apartments in Manhattan are co-ops. An apartment building is a cooperative. From a legal perspective, buying a house is actually buying shares in the cooperative. Therefore, if you want to buy or sell, you need the review and approval of the owners' committee.
You have to submit a bunch of things like recommendation letters, work certificates, income certificates, self-residence declarations, etc.
But correspondingly, the service in this type of apartment will be better. It is called a white glove apartment because the doormen all wear white gloves.
After entering the room, Fang Yu was a little surprised.
Scarlett's house in Manhattan isn't that great either.
Fang Yu walked around the house and felt that it was only a little over a hundred square meters.
There are two bedrooms, one of which has a baby crib, and two bathrooms. The decoration is very ordinary, not much different from many ordinary families.
There is no dedicated assistant room. Doesn't her life assistant live at home?
However, the few times I saw her, it seemed that there was indeed no assistant around her. She must be hiding well behind the scenes and only appears at work.
But this large terrace is quite interesting.
Scarlett's apartment is on the 8th floor, which is the top floor and has a large terrace. The view is pretty good and you can see the Manhattan skyline.
Fang Yu picked up a half-drunk bottle of champagne from Scarlett's house, found some food, and sat on a lounge chair on the terrace to drink by himself.
The portion of Per Se's dishes was not small, but Fang Yu had a big appetite now, and he digested all the food he had just eaten in half an hour.
I happened to look down and saw Scarlett getting out of the car.
Oh, was he sent back? The man looked quite respectable. Although there was a red light from the malicious detection, it was much less than Scarlett's.
He looks familiar. After checking, I found out his name is Colin Jost. He's a stand-up comedian. He's neutral, kind, and tends to be law-abiding. Well, his stance is okay.
Judging from this surging desire and belief, he must be a pursuer.
But why does this faith taste a bit sour?
Look up, are you looking at me? Then say hello.
Fang Yu raised his glass to Colin Jost and smiled kindly.
Damn, why did the red light suddenly increase? You don't know what's good for you, do you?
Fang Yu pointed his finger and cast a "Middle-Aged Blessing" on Colin Jost.
This spell was a desire spell he had just created. It could only work on men. The effect was that the target of the spell would continue to receive the "blessings of middle-aged people" within a week, just like a geoduck that had spit out water, a boiled sea cucumber, or a rotten green onion.
Just focus on your work this week, maybe your career will reach new heights.
Taking the kids to the hospital did delay me today. I'll try to post the second update later. Sorry.
I'll try to make up for the 1,000 words I owed the day before yesterday tomorrow. I always feel like the amount I owe is getting bigger and bigger.
(End of this chapter)
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