Chapter 18 Recruiting Volunteers
After playing the message on the radio more than ten times, the community staff immediately forwarded the document issued by their superiors in the group chat. Then the community staff continued, "The supplies have not yet arrived at the community. Before distributing the supplies, the corridors of each residential area must be cleaned. The cleaning tools have been placed in the community. Due to staff shortages, we are now recruiting several volunteers."
Many people were hesitant to volunteer at this time. After all, they still didn't know how to prevent the toxic fog. Someone asked in the group: "How do we prevent this toxic fog? Can you tell me first? And how do we clean the corridors? Will volunteers get paid? You can't work for nothing in this life-threatening situation."
A community worker replied, "As long as the toxic mist doesn't come into direct contact with the skin, it's fine. Just put on your protective suit and gas mask and you're good to go. Of course, if your protective suit gets damaged or your gas mask falls off, it can be dangerous. So volunteers aren't working in vain. The community provides three meals a day and a daily allowance of two packs of instant noodles. We encourage everyone to sign up."
This was the same equipment Lan Jin used when traveling outside. As for food, people who had not yet experienced the beatings of the apocalypse did not know the importance of food. They only heard that the salary was two packs of instant noodles a day, and they all started to laugh at it.
"No, are you guys just sending beggars away? Two packs of instant noodles a day, is that the kind of instant noodles I'm thinking of? Do you know how much a bag of instant noodles costs? The most expensive is only 2.5 yuan. Am I only worth 5 yuan a day?"
"The guy above, how much do you think you're worth? If you think it's too little, you don't have to do it."
"Go ahead and do whatever you think is necessary."
"I don't think it's too much, but volunteers seem to be poor anyway. Giving them two packets of instant noodles is already very good. At a time like this, I can't even go to work, so what else is there to complain about?"
"If it's a good job, why don't you sign up? It's such a good job, don't be too late and let someone else take it away."
"Wait, let's not talk about the salary for now. It seems that volunteers don't get paid. I'm just curious what the volunteers eat for three meals a day. I really haven't eaten rice in a long time. If there was rice, I would sign up right now."
"Yes, yes, I've been eating instant noodles at home for several days. Now I just want to eat some rice. The subsidies and other things don't matter. Do you have rice?"
A community worker sent a photo of self-heating rice and a bottle of mineral water to the group and said, "This is our dinner tonight: a bowl of self-heating clay pot rice and a bottle of mineral water. Oh, and the material subsidy includes two packs of instant noodles and a bottle of mineral water, which I forgot to send out."
No one really cared about the material subsidies, because everyone's attention had already been attracted by the rice. "Rice, I want to eat it so much, I want to sign up, I want to sign up."
"Volunteers who want to sign up can just add me and sign up. Don't sign up in the group. Click my avatar to add me and sign up individually. It's 1:35 now, and the registration deadline is 3:00 p.m. There is no upper limit on the number of registrants. Please sign up actively so that the corridor can be cleaned up sooner and everyone can receive the supplies sooner."
As soon as he finished speaking, the community worker's mobile phone kept receiving messages to add his account, which made him feel relieved. After all, it is better to have someone add him than no one.
Of course, the more people there are, the better it is not, and they don’t accept everyone. For example, those with poor physical fitness or psychological endurance cannot participate in volunteer activities.
To put it bluntly, the work of cleaning the corridor is actually dealing with corpses. People with poor physical and mental qualities really cannot do this job.
So even if these people add him, he will explain the content of the work first, and then give them time to think about it and decide whether to do it. Otherwise, if these people give up halfway through the work, where can they go to seek justice?
Regardless of whether others do it or not, Lan Jin will definitely not participate. She has so many supplies in her space, and there is really no need to compete for food with people who have no food. Besides, it is not convenient for her to do these things with her children. The community staff have previously registered the family situation of each household, and knowing that Lan Jin is a woman with a child, they will not let her participate in this event.
Of course, this is what she felt too.
In this way, the time came to 4 o'clock, and the final list of volunteers was finally finalized. Many people signed up to be volunteers, but many people were rejected. The final number of people, plus more than ten community staff members, totaled 63 people.
However, after these 63 people actually started the work, they realized how tedious the job was.
The number of residential communities managed by a community varies. In her previous life, the community opposite where Lan Jin lived had a total of 6 residential communities under its jurisdiction, while the community where she lives now has only 4 residential communities under its jurisdiction.
Don’t think that four communities are too few. They are managed in different areas. Although there are not many communities, the number of people in each community cannot be small because they are divided into stages and buildings.
The community where Lan Jin lives now is called J Hua Community. It is divided into two phases. The first phase has 15 buildings, and the two phases together have 30 buildings. Each building has 33 floors, and each floor is divided into four households. You can imagine how many people live here.
But the number of people is not what the volunteers are responsible for. What they have to do now is to assign a few people to each building, some to the top floor and some to the first floor. Those going to the top floor must first check whether the access door to the rooftop is locked and sealed. If not, they need to lock and seal it, and then go down one floor at a time, carefully checking the access door on each floor, and sealing any gaps in time.
The people on the first floor also need to seal the gaps on the iron gate of the community on the first floor at this time, and then install two layers of protective curtains outside the iron gate. One layer is the transparent curtain that Lan Jin uses in the aisle on his own floor, and the other layer is the extra-large and thick kind used in supermarkets in winter. It is mainly divided into two passages, so that it will be safer to remove the poisonous fog on the body.
After finishing all this, the staff will then suck the poisonous fog from the top floor to the first floor layer by layer, and discharge it layer by layer from the curtains on the first floor to the outside. After the staff sucks away the poisonous fog, they will also install a poisonous fog alarm next to the windows on each floor. Whenever a trace of poisonous fog floats in from the gap, the alarm will sound immediately. Residents who hear the sound will naturally know not to go out and should pay attention to safety.
Thanks to toppeak for the reward, thank you!
(End of this chapter)
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