Training the workers was a lot harder than I thought.
After I convinced some to come work for me, promising them a fixed weekly salary (an unheard-of thing around here; workers in the area got paid daily by the hour), I was appalled at the state of education in the province.
Like, most of them could barely read.
What did they attend school for eight years for?
Don't they teach the three R's here?
No, apparently.
No reading, no writing. As for arithmetic…
Just forget it.
"They don't need to know math," Joe said. "Just teach them how to use the machinery."
He, of course, was not doing the training.
So I ignored him.
Thankfully, I wasn't facing the problem alone. Mr. Casler had stayed even after construction ended. I hired him as the manager; he was competent, knew his pipes, could
