Four hundred and fifty seventh chapter instrument optional
"Mr. Tu Xian, Ms. Wang Yun, this is the case at the moment. If you and your wife are willing to work full-time in Huarui Laboratory, we can provide a monthly salary of 2,000 yuan per person and a corresponding bonus. The bonus can reach a maximum salary of 12 months, which is 24,000 yuan. If only one of you is left, the salary will be 1,600 yuan per month, and there may also be a maximum bonus of 12 months."
Li Zhangzhen stopped for a while, his speech slowed down, and said, "Of course, it doesn't matter if you choose not to work full-time at Huarui Laboratory. We provide a subsidy of 150 yuan per month."
Tu Xian and Wang Xiaoyun sat opposite him, with a serious expression on their faces. Changing jobs is almost the most serious thing for Chinese people.
Yang Rui knew this well and immediately increased his investment and said, "If you sign a contract within three days, we will give you a three-month salary reward. If both of them sign a contract, it will be 6,000 yuan per person, and the two of them will be 12,000 yuan in total. If one person signs a contract, it will be 4,800 yuan. In addition, we will try our best to help you handle the procedures."
Nowadays, there are people who go into business all over the country, so it is not difficult to handle the procedures. The key lies in what the two of them think.
Wang Xiaoyun looked at her husband Tu Xian and asked first: "Why is one person 1,600 and two people 2,000?"
"Because you are a couple, if you work together in Huarui Laboratory, it will be more stable, which can reduce many costs for us. In addition, it is more convenient to keep confidential." The difficult questions were answered to Li Zhangzhen.
Wang Xiaoyun hesitated for a moment and asked again: "What is the difference between incomplete work and full-time work, besides the difference between subsidies and salary?"
"In fact, full-time employees will enter a new company, registered name is Huarui Bio. All assets of Huarui Laboratory will be injected into the new company, and they will receive more funds and do brand new research. Part-time researchers will continue with the potassium channel project, and the funds mainly come from Peking University and the national funds they apply for."
"That is, part-time, almost the same as now?"
"I may change to a new laboratory, but a fixed subsidy of 150 yuan will be added. In short, we hope you will stay in the way you like." Li Zhangzhen showed a sincere smile as much as possible and said, "I will also recruit new employees to serve you researchers as much as possible."
The subsidy of 150 yuan is very large, which is a little higher than Tu Xian’s current salary, but compared with the salary of 2,000 yuan, it will be nothing.
Tu Xian and Wang Xiaoyun are typical dual-employees, and they both work in public institutions. In the 1980s, they were typical economically good families. They were not too short of money, and their decisions made usually did not come from an economic perspective.
However, the difference between a salary of 2,000 yuan and a subsidy of 150 yuan is actually beyond the economic perspective.
But on the other hand, the difference between a iron rice bowl and a private company is also huge, and foreign companies are no exception.
Tu Xian’s work unit is Beijing Institute of Steel and Steel, the future Beijing University of Science and Technology. Although the Department of Biology has just been established, it also means that Tu Xian is a veteran of the Department of Construction. Even from a future perspective, it is difficult to say whether Tu Xian’s resignation ends is good or bad.
From an optimistic perspective, if Tu Xian stayed at Beijing University of Science and Technology, with his qualifications and level, he would not be able to reach the position of professor in 20 years. At that time, he was still a young professor under 50 years old. At that time, whether he chose to live hard, pursue careers, or eat gray income, he would have very good conditions.
However, it is difficult to tell the future when joining Huarui Laboratory. If you are unfortunately fired, the result will be unpredictable.
Wang Xiaoyun's work unit is the Beijing Institute of Biological Products, which is also a first-class biological research institution in China. As a woman, her chances of entering a career in the future are relatively low, but in other aspects, she is not inferior to Tu Xian.
Under such circumstances, is Huarui's conditions worthy of the two of them making a blessing in their lives?
"We need to discuss it." Wang Xiaoyun did not make a decision immediately.
"Of course." Yang Rui expressed his understanding.
The two left, Yang Rui looked at the door and closed and asked, "Do you think they will agree?"
Li Zhangzhen said inconscientiously: "If you are a teacher from Hong Kong University, if you pay a salary of 200,000 yuan, you will most likely change jobs, because Americans can't pay so much? If they make money, they can't go abroad to work in the future, but if the mainland teachers are 2,000 yuan enough, I can't say."
"Do you have to add some strength?"
"2,000 yuan is enough, 3,000 yuan and 4,000 yuan, I don't think there is much difference." A ten-fold increase is probably normal in Silicon Valley, but it was absolutely rare in China in the 1980s.
Yang Rui said: "It's not about salary. I think we're a little ignoring the research conditions."
"Conditions? Our laboratory conditions are first-class." Li Zhangzhen didn't know what the laboratory conditions were for the University of Hong Kong or foreign universities, but he remembered the money spent on Huarui Laboratory every day.
Now, when processing a few kilograms of samples a day, the culture medium used will cost hundreds of yuan. The cost of going to Yunnan on a business trip is even higher. The instruments transported directly from Hong Kong are more than 100,000 yuan. Yang Rui came back and ordered new instruments and consumables non-stop. After calculating, half of the 600,000 sent by Peking University have been spent.
As for the four-hand information Li Zhangzhen learned, Hong Kong University is not so luxurious.
Yang Rui did not consider it from the perspective of laboratory managers. He thought for a while and said slowly: "I'm not saying that the conditions in our laboratory are not good, but I think we did not give Huang Mao, Tu Xian and Wei Zhenxue independent research conditions."
"You mean funding them to do research independently?"
"It is completely independent, but it is not yet mature, just to write an entry-level SCI paper? Then what is the difference between them and other lecturers in the school?" Yang Rui is qualified to despise entry-level SCI papers. When he was studying for a graduate school, he could write SCI papers. At that time, the conditions were not as good as Huarui Laboratory. With the per capita instruments and per capita funding of Huarui Laboratory, the goal must be a "JMC"-level paper to be sustainable. As for now, Yang Rui is about to publish "CELL", it is meaningless for his laboratory to publish an entry-level SCI paper.
Li Zhangzhen didn't understand: "If we don't let it be completely independent, what else can we give?"
"When you are like this, didn't there be many instrument companies sending their product catalogs a few days ago? Take it to me."
Li Zhangzhen didn't ask much, and immediately ran to the utility room in the west room to find the product catalog.
Commercial companies in Western countries like to set up product catalogs. Not only instrument companies, but toy companies will send their own product catalogs to families with children. Some families will give their children a budget and then ask them to choose Christmas gifts in the product catalog. After confirmation, the toy companies will mail the products to the buyer.
Most of the product catalogs are magazine styles, and some newspaper styles. Nowadays, most are black and white, but most of them are full of pictures and texts. They recommend some products with key points and large sections of product details, which are a bit like early online shopping. In fact, Western mail orders have been developed for many years, and the application of scientific research is even more comprehensive. From a test paper to a 10,000-ton hydraulic press, there are various product catalogs and illustrations for people to circulate.
The benefits of doing this are also very obvious. First, it can convey the information the company wants. Secondly, instruments and equipment companies are all transnational, and text translation is simpler than making calls. Third, purchasing instruments and equipment is often not decided by one person, or even by the person who answers the phone or receives it. A product catalog is much more useful than a simple business card.
This is the situation now. Yang Rui put a bunch of product catalogs and carefully selected three books, saying: "Each person has a quota of 100,000 US dollars, let them choose the instrument they want. Huang Mao, Tu Xian, Wang Xiaoyun and Wei Zhenxue, whoever joins, you can choose the instruments of 100,000 US dollars, without repeating them."
"Ah? Why?"
"Because we are going to buy instruments anyway, and they are actual operators, so they naturally have the right to choose the instruments they want to use. The instruments are public, but the right to choose is left to them." PCR is a big project, and Yang Rui can't do it alone. If Huang Mao and others join, they will take on considerable tasks. Instruments are always to be bought, and it's good to hand over some of the rights to them.
Scientific research is actually a very private thing.
Everyone has different methods of experimentation, and everyone has different habits in scientific research. Perhaps some people don’t like to do repeated verification, so they will be willing to buy automated instruments. Some people may not care about spending time doing repeated verification, but they care about the stability of the instruments.
?Large equipment may require relatively comprehensive knowledge, but small instruments in the laboratory may not be necessary. In fact, for sufficiently excellent professionals, it should not be difficult to select equipment. Most of the professional instruments on this planet are invented and manufactured by professionals. This is their original job. Even if they encounter uncommon equipment, everyone has enough learning ability to cope with it.
In advanced laboratories, what senior researchers care about the most is the right to choose equipment.
Most basic scientific researchers have low salaries, with a median of about 30,000 US dollars. If you save a little, this is more than the income that can support your family.
However, the price of equipment is expensive, tens of thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars... In theory, scientific research is about how expensive it is. Geneva's ion collision, Harvard telescope in the sky, space shuttles taken off, submarines going into the sea, any kind of equipment can be a big toy for researchers.
For those who really like scientific research, the laboratory is the place to rest.
There are many scientific researchers with this tendency, and Yang Rui has seen many of them. When he was studying, there was a professor who went to the laboratory regardless of wind and rain during the winter and summer vacations just to take a standard nap - he couldn't get used to the bed at home.
Huang Mao, Tu Xian, Wang Xiaoyun and Wei Zhenxue are all dream chasers who aim directly at the scientific avenue. This era is full of dream chasers full of ideals and burning passionately. Their dreams may gradually become realistic, but they have never disappeared. On the contrary, working in Huarui Laboratory will only make the dreams of Huang Mao and others burn more hot.
A settlement fee of several thousand yuan is of course good. This is the basic requirement for quitting your job and making huge changes in your life.
100,000 US dollars represents dreams and respect.
Chapter completed!