Chapter 27 Chapter Twenty Seven

The state has begun to reform state-owned enterprises. The idea of ​​reforming state-owned enterprises is to separate ownership and management rights and realize corporate restructuring.The reform policy is not qualified to comment on workers like us, nor has the ability to comment on it. The specific reform measure implemented on our heads is that 25% of the employees in the factory will be laid off recently. The economic benefits of our factory have always been good. Although there have been no big ups and downs, there has been no big downturn. According to the factory manager, our factory employees can pay an average of 200,000 yuan in profits and taxes to the country every year. Our factory has always been a blue-chip stock in our city.It's a pity that our factory manager is getting old and is about to retire. After he retires, a new leader was transferred from other places. The new leader is younger than me. I don't know what kind of relationship he was transferred to become our factory. factory manager.There are so many things like this these days, it’s inexplicable, as long as you have a good relationship with a certain leader who holds real power above, and the above will send him a red-headed paper for promotion and reuse, you will suddenly become a leader like a dog , You can get reimbursed for everything you do with popular food and spicy food.The common people have always been kept in the dark, helpless, as long as they are sent by the above, they have to listen to them, as long as they don't harm the common people, they will be considered a high incense.Unfortunately, the newly transferred factory manager seems to have a deep hatred for our company's employees. After arriving, he will lay off a quarter of the workers, saying that it is to reduce staff and increase efficiency.It is an incompetent way to increase efficiency by reducing staff, and it is to obtain temporary short-term benefits by killing enterprise employees.Really capable leaders should increase efficiency and increase people. The bigger the cake, the more employees are recruited. This is a common standard all over the world.However, China has Chinese characteristics. At present, this is the policy above. It seems that the leader of the company that reduces the number of employees will have political achievements, and the leader who can lay off employees will have a sense of reform.The new leaders of state-owned enterprises generally choose this method in order to make some political achievements as soon as possible for the person who sent him down, so that he has a sense of reform and a pioneering spirit.For an enterprise like ours, the plate is too big. It is not easy to increase profits immediately, and it is not easy to lose much immediately.It is fashionable and simple to make a show to the superiors, and make a fuss about the means of laying off workers, reducing staff and increasing efficiency.

Proportionally, more than 30 people will be laid off in our workshop, and I am sure I am not among the more than 30 unfortunate ones.The director is my apprentice, and I'm a provincial model worker. To put it bluntly, I'm really gone. They don't know whether they can handle urgent, difficult and dangerous jobs.This is what it means to have a unique job in your hand, and be angry with the Tathagata Buddha.What is a unique job?If others can't do it, you can do it; if it's not written in the book, you can figure it out in practice;I, Yang Wei, have unique skills in my hands, and there are more than one set or two sets. This determines that if I want to be laid off, the leaders have to beg me not to leave them alone.

Since the higher-ups set the task of layoffs and death, the whole workshop was like a boiled porridge, and the noise was dizzy, and everyone became restless like a mule in estrus.Everyone has also become mysterious, like an underground worker before liberation or a US-Chiang spy agent after liberation.Comrades who were good friends in the past are now starting to suspect each other. You see me as an enemy and you as an enemy. It seems that people have become enemies overnight.If you think about it, you have worked in a factory for most of your life. If you don’t want you, you won’t want you. If you are paid 300 yuan a month, you will be sent away. From the second year, no one will give you 300 yuan. Well, it is a matter of life and death whoever puts this kind of thing on.If you are laid off, I can stay, and if I stay, you have to be laid off. This is really not much different from life and death.Both the young and the old are fine, the young still have time to learn something else or do something else, the old simply retire and have an answer for the rest of their lives.People like us who are in their forties and fifties are the most pitiful. They are too young to retire, and it is difficult to find a job after being laid off. It is even less time to learn to do something else.However, laying off people of our age is the key point, because driving people like us down will benefit the company the most. Our wages are generally relatively high. After working for a few years, we have to retire to get pensions. Save a lot of wages, and also save the pension we have been dying to get.Seeing my seniors, seniors, seniors, and seniors, who are in panic all day long, like sparrows that have not yet built their nests when winter arrives, and seeing my apprentices, disciples, disciples, and grandchildren listless and sullen, like suspects waiting for judgment, all the parts in my chest are broken. No more, just a handful of needles left, which made my heart hurt unbearably.

I said to Ye Shengnan: "Now it seems that you are still good. I have opened such a business. As long as someone enters the door, money will come. As long as you pay taxes according to the regulations, no one can control you. It has nothing to do with you. There is no need to look for that trouble." After get off work, I went to Ye Shengnan's hot pot restaurant to eat and drink. Recently, I'm in a bad mood and dare not go home. I'm afraid that my parents will scold me if I say something wrong.I finally realized my dream as a second-year student. I went to a company in Shenzhen and became the deputy general manager. After a while, I took my wife and children.My younger sister was transferred to a foreign-funded enterprise in the provincial capital as the financial director, earning more money in a month than my dad's annual pension.Only me, my dad, and Dandan are left with my mother. My dad is willing to be obedient, and my mother is reluctant to scold Dandan. I have become the main target of my mother's strict management. Fortunately, I won't talk to me with rolling pins and broom bumps like I did when I was a child.Sometimes she would slap me just because she just scolded and couldn't get rid of her anger. I don't hurt her but she hurts me. My mother finally understands that she can only suffer from beating me now, so she won't do that kind of stupid thing anymore.

Sometimes Ye Shengnan would speak up for me when we met: "Mom, don't keep bullying Yang Wei." My mother said: "You know what a fart, beating is kissing and scolding is love, not beating and not scolding is nothing. Big Dan is the boss, and it is normal to get a lot of love." Ye Shengnan said: "Then you can even out this love, and share it with the younger sister." My mother said, "I'll give it to you if I want it. They're far away and out of reach." Ye Shengnan stuck out her tongue: "Forget it, give it all to Dadan, I can't."

My mother said: "Then you don't care about it." Ye Shengnan didn't dare to care about it anymore. Ye Shengnan filled my glass with beer: "What's wrong, are you going to be laid off?" "It's not my turn yet, and I won't feel so uncomfortable when it's my turn." "Oh, are you feeling sorry for others? That's not easy to handle. You can carry forward your style, go down by yourself, and give up the position to others. It's fine." Why don't I want to do this, but if I do this, let's not say whether people let me go, even if they let me go, I can only vacate one seat, and other people still have to go home and start a new life.

Ye Shengnan's eyes roamed around her sphere of influence, observing the performance of her subordinates and diners at any time. The sense of responsibility on her face made me jealous: "Did you listen to me?" Ye Shengnan turned around: "Listen, do you dare not listen?" "I also want to be self-employed." "What? You're self-employed too? Really?" I looked at the exclamation marks and question marks on Ye Shengnan's face, and suddenly made a bold decision that even I myself had never thought about before: "I want to organize the laid-off colleagues in our workshop and set up a technical service company. Workers have worked in a super-large enterprise like ours all their lives. What kind of work have they never done? What projects have they never seen? Who doesn’t have one or two unique skills? It’s really organized, soliciting work from outside, machinery, installation, and maintenance. Yes, there is nothing wrong with cars, pliers, riveting, electricity, and welding, and I don’t believe that the skills we have practiced all our lives can’t support us in the end.”

Ye Shengnan looked at me helplessly, and said after a while, "Good job, that's right, do you know what the price is for a senior technician like you in Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Xiamen's special economic zones?" In the past, he told me that as long as I went there, he promised me to get 100,000 yuan a year. I told Ye Shengnan, and Ye Shengnan said: "So you know how much you are worth, you should have done it yourself. You It would be even more valuable if you organized your gang." The decision I made at this moment made me very excited. I never thought of using my own technology to work for myself. In any case, my technology and title are given by the company when I am small, and by the state when I am big. It is a matter of course to use one's own technology to serve the country. Now the country doesn't need it, and it is just used to make a living for itself.Then I think that those colleagues who are worried about their future can start a business with me, and if they make a lot of trouble, they may earn more than going to work as a worker, I am even more eager to try.

"You have to register a company first, otherwise you have to set up a stall on the side of the road to find work like those wage earners, or go to the labor market to find a job, otherwise it is illegal business operation." Ye Shengnan reminded me. If a person like me is reduced to running the labor market, or taking a tool to the side of the road to get a job, then half of my life will be considered a waste of time.If I just earn some money for myself, I don't need to rush to get laid off.I drank a glass of beer and said to Ye Shengnan: "I will ask to be laid off tomorrow. If you don't let me go, it's okay. Everyone won't do it. As long as there is one laid-off in the workshop, I will go. I have to publicly announce that I will set up a technical service center." The company and the laid-off workers can work with me as long as they want."

"Your technical service company is called Labor Model Technical Service Company, and it must be very popular." Ye Shengnan gave me another trick, and I approved her rationalization suggestion: "Yes, it is called Labor Model Technical Service Company, and at the same time, our company Everyone's job type, level, and specialty are announced, and then..." Ye Shengnan began to worry again: "Everything is easier said than done. Think about it, company registration is simple, and it's not difficult to recruit a few people. Anyway, those people are laid off and have no place to get paid. Since you recruited them, you have to Responsible for paying people's wages, if you can't get a job, what do you use to pay people?"

I sneered at Ye Shengnan's concerns: "Do you think I open a private restaurant like you and hire waiters? I want to implement a cooperative system. Anyone who comes to our company is not only an employee of the company, but also the owner of the company. Everyone is equal. If you earn money, everyone will have a share, if you can’t earn money, everyone will be hungry.” Ye Shengnan shook his head: "Why does our country want to smash the big pot of rice? It is because the big pot of rice is not distributed fairly, good or bad, easy to raise lazy, treacherous and slippery people. What you do is like setting up the big pot of rice again. Let me tell you, don't Not happy, with your thoughts, your model worker technology company will be ruined in two days." "What is a big pot of rice? Everyone works together to get rich together? Just wait and see, I have to make our big pot of rice delicious." Ye Shengnan curled her lips and scoffed at my confidence.But I firmly believe that the big pot of rice is still delicious.I couldn't sit still in Ye Shengnan's hot pot restaurant. I was eager to turn my imagination into reality. I threw away the half-eaten pot ingredients and the half-bottle of beer I just drank, and left Ye Shengnan's world in a hurry. Immediately find the workshop director to apply for layoff. The workshop director was not at home, so I chased him to the workshop office. Sure enough, several of the workshop leaders were hiding in a small dark room and having a meeting secretly. No need to ask, they were just studying who would be laid off.Seeing me coming to look for it, the workshop director pulled me outside and said, "Master, you don't need to look for it. No one will let you get off. If you get off, I will follow. You should feel relieved now? Go back and rest. Our meeting isn't over yet." He thought I was afraid of being laid off and came to him through the back door. "Director, don't look at you as my apprentice, but you really don't know me. Even if I'm afraid of being laid off, I won't come to you. Why don't I go directly to the factory manager? Let me tell you, I'm here to say hello to you. I ask to be laid off." When I said it with confidence, the eyes of the apprentice director suddenly stared like two glass balls: "Master, what are you talking about? You asked to be laid off? Stop joking." "I'm not joking, and I don't have the heart to joke with you. I really want to be laid off." The director of the apprentice was a little dazed, his eyeballs circled a few times in his eye sockets like golf balls that had been hit in a hole: "Master, I have to make it clear that it is really difficult for you to ask to be laid off." "Didn't you force others to be laid off? Why can't I be laid off?" "Master, don't worry. It's not that I won't help you. You are a model worker. There are regulations in the factory. All model workers above the city level cannot be laid off. They must be approved by the factory department. Who are you? You are a provincial model worker. Who dares to dismiss you so easily." I really didn't expect my title of model worker to have such a protective effect. If the factory doesn't approve it, wouldn't the future I just designed be in vain again?The plan I designed was very attractive to me, and I even felt that this was a major turning point in my life.In essence, I am a person who keeps my own place. Although I also struggled for a while during the "Cultural Revolution", maybe it was the "Cultural Revolution" that tossed my vitality. Since I joined the work, I have devoted myself to Being my worker, I didn't even think about transferring jobs.Now, I can’t tell what’s wrong with me. The idea of ​​setting up a labor model technical service company and organizing my laid-off colleagues to start a career makes my blood boil. I’m not willing to give up my dozens A rare impulse in years. "My greeting has arrived. You can decide whether to let me be laid off. If you need to ask for instructions, you can ask for instructions. I must do so." After I finished speaking, I left. The next day, I publicly announced in the workshop: "I applied to be laid off, and I plan to start a technical service company. If anyone in our workshop is laid off and willing, come and work with me. Everyone is welcome." It was absolutely different from what I had imagined. After listening to my words, everyone was expressionless and did not show the enthusiasm and interest they should have at all.I looked at these people of different heights, shorts, fats and thins one by one, and searched for these people that I was very familiar with and loved very much. Whoever caught my eye would droop their eyelids, as if they had done something sorry for me.I understand that this group of people is holding a glimmer of hope in their hearts. Others will fall, but they will not fall, so no one wants to follow me to boo.Responding to me is tantamount to voluntarily announcing that you will be laid off. After all, the target for this layoff is only 25%, and three quarters of the people still hope to stay in the factory to earn a living.People's silence and indifference poured into my heart like ice water. I have to admit that I overestimated the consciousness of my colleagues. We are all Chinese. Still deeply rooted.Whenever a crisis strikes, everyone takes a little bit of luck, hoping that misfortune will bypass themselves and fall on others, and then they will watch indifferently with a numb expression.In the history of our country, those who save themselves and save others have become martyrs who will be hated through the ages. At this time, facing the indifferent yellow faces of my colleagues, I suddenly thought of Lu Xun. The best description of the mood at the time. Discouraged, I stepped out of the living room. I suddenly felt that the living room I had been in for decades had become a tomb, and I would suffocate to death if I stayed in it any longer. "Master, come here and let me talk to you." I followed the workshop director to the bottom of the broken shoe tree. "Master, you have to think about it carefully. You will be able to retire in a few years and get your pension safely. If you are laid off now, you may lose your pension by then. I advise you not to be stubborn." , No one can say anything unless you are laid off." My colleagues rejected me. At this time, it was too late for me to repent. I can continue to work at my post with peace of mind until the day I retire, because I am a model worker and a senior technician.Intellectually, I also knew that the workshop director who used to be my apprentice was completely kind, but emotionally, I suddenly hated him: "Don't be so long-winded, I don't believe that I have to beg for food after I am laid off. I have already laid off." I've made up my mind, if you don't agree, I'll look for it myself, I won't do it, enough is done!" My expression made the workshop director unable to continue the conversation with me, he sighed and shook his prematurely bald head and left. I was laid off, and the news quickly reached my parents. My mother was very angry and wanted to settle accounts with the new director of the factory. I had to tell her that I applied for it myself. "Are you crazy? What job are you laying off now? Who will support you when you get old?" My dad said at this time: "What's the matter? It's a big deal. I don't believe that my son doesn't even have the ability to support himself. When I participated in the revolution, no one told me when I was old. Pensions are paid, and now I am old and not hungry." My mother was impatient: "You fart, is it the same now as you were then?!" My dad didn't become a obedient citizen this time: "You're a shitty fart, what are you making a fuss about? My grandfather, my dad, and our grandparents have never been supported by anyone. They all support themselves and have to pay taxes and food. What's wrong with us? ? They have survived from generation to generation. Dadan is promising." My mother didn't say a word. When she saw that my dad was really angry, she backed down a step. She was afraid that my dad would get sick.My dad is getting older, his health is getting worse day by day, he started to walk on crutches, he has a bad heart, high blood pressure, and gradually became a frequent visitor to the hospital. My mother also accommodated him more and more. Focus on the first priority. "Forget it, it's already like this, there's nothing you can do about it. From now on, you can go home and eat. As long as there is a bite for your parents, you will have a bite for you. Eggy doesn't have to pay the monthly living expenses, thanks to you." Mom and Dad can still support you." My mother raised her hand as she said, I thought she was going to hit me, so I dodged instinctively, my mother pulled me by my collar and pulled me over my head. I went up and down for a while: "Oh, my son has gray hair." I saw tears in her eyes, and suddenly remembered the words my mother often said to relieve her own violent behavior: "Beating is just scolding." It’s love, and it’s okay not to beat or scold.” Because my stubbornness and high-spiritedness made my parents who were over seventy years old worry about me and cry for me, I really hope that my mother will beat me again, just like when I was a child leading a second-year student Playing truant, my mother whipped my butt with a rolling pin for several days, so that she dared not sit on a chair and beat me hard. "Mom, do you really believe that I'm so incompetent that I won't be able to earn money or eat enough after leaving the company? Maybe I can earn more and eat better than working in the company." My mother sighed and said, "I wish it would be like that." I was laid off, and Ye Shengnan was more excited than me, as if I had gotten a big deal, and ran around to help me register a labor model technical service company, I told her forget it, I don't have the energy anymore People who only know how to ask others for alms but do not know how to rely on their own ability to create are not worth the effort. "Then you have to work and earn money yourself. You can't really go to the labor market to be a wage earner, or take tools and squat on the side of the road waiting for someone to hire you as a laborer. Don't forget, You are Yang Wei, a provincial model worker, and a senior technician." I never felt that I was unusual, that I was taller or wider than other people.However, what Ye Shengnan said is true. I really can't reduce myself to an ordinary wage earner who sells his coolies for a living.I have technology, knowledge, experience, and extensive social connections, all of which are my assets.I accepted Ye Shengnan's advice and started my labor model technical service company.I didn’t recruit any of the colleagues who were laid off at the same time as me. Since I can rely on my own ability to open up a new life path after being laid off, they should be able to do it too. Besides, my enthusiastic face was hurt by their cold buttocks .I chose three of the students who graduated from the technical school but couldn't get a job because there was no back door, a lathe worker, an electrician, and a welder, as the first batch of employees of our company. It is easy to set up a company, register with the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, register with the tax bureau, and the company can be opened in less than a week.Making money and running a company are completely different things, and the distance between registering a company and RMB has not been shortened.Our company has no business, and we don’t know how to contact the business. Ye Shengnan calls this contracting business. I know very well that contracting business is to find a job. We can’t find a job, and we don’t know how to find it. work.In the past, others assigned us jobs. In order to make us work hard, praise, criticism, bonuses, fines, ideological work, political education... Leaders at all levels used both soft and hard methods, and all kinds of methods were launched at the same time.Now we don't need anyone to do anything to drive us, we want to work hard, we want to do all kinds of work quickly and well, and we have no work.Regardless of whether there is work or not, the wages of the three people I hired are still paid. They feel uncomfortable when they are idle, and it is even more uncomfortable to watch them idle. Now I begin to understand why capitalists always fire employees. When the boss is not profitable Paying wages with money is like going to the street and letting a thief steal your wallet.I haven't cultivated the black and hard heart of a capitalist. I can't bear to let people be laid off, and I can't bear to fire them. I just let them guard the door of the company, and I go outside to try my luck. . My company is located in the courtyard of Ye Shengnan's brother's work unit, occupying two rooms of her brother, one big and one small. The small room is used as an office, and the big room is used as an operation room. At the beginning, I didn't want to put myself under the supervision of Ye Shengnan's brother. Next, Ye Shengnan said: "My brother doesn't know and dare not take care of you, let alone participate in your affairs. Isn't he going to his place just for the cheap rent?" Mi's house only costs a symbolic one hundred yuan a month. "If you don't start work and don't get any income, you can delay paying him. Anyway, he is a public company and you are private." Ye Shengnan has a darker heart than me, and she doesn't even bat an eye when she cheats on her brother.I didn't do what she said, and paid the whole year's rent at once. I wandered around her brother's yard a few times bored and depressed, but couldn't figure out what to do, so I had to continue to circle around her brother's yard. I thought, if people see me at this time, they will definitely think of me. A wolf in an iron cage in a zoo, or a donkey circling a millstone in a mill.The gap between imagination and reality is so far that I can’t bear it. Before I was laid off, I felt that I was very capable and capable. I might get better if I left that factory, but I ended up relying on other people’s relief. degree.In the past two or three months, the company has relied on Ye Shengnan for its maintenance funds, which made me feel embarrassed and inferior.Simply, disband this company that doesn't have any business at all, at least I don't need to support the few recruited workers. I rely on my own skills to find some work, and I don't need to rely on Ye Shengnan just to earn wages.Anyway, she and I are not husband and wife anymore, and even if we are still husband and wife, I can't accept relying on her to support me.After figuring this out, I suddenly felt a little enlightened. Don't force anything, take a step back, and the words handed down by our ancestors really make sense.I turned around and went upstairs, when the three apprentices saw me coming in, they stood up quickly and looked at my face anxiously.My heart relented and I couldn't open my mouth to tell them I was going to fire them. "Look, Sister Ye's car!" An apprentice pointed to the downstairs and told me.I looked down from the window, Ye Shengnan got out of the car and was locking the door.After my company was established, she came twice. I was annoyed that she came to my company. I didn't want to give others the feeling that she was the boss's wife, and I didn't want her to have the desire to listen to politics behind the curtain.Although she helped me register this company, and although I have received financial support from her, this company is mine, and I have to rely entirely on my own ability to get it right.She probably sensed my psychology, and then she never came to my company again. I deliberately asked her: "Why don't you come to my company?" She said: "I dare not go, I am afraid of saying I made a mistake and caused you to stare at me in front of others." Why is she here today?Could it be that she has something to do with her brother?If she is looking for me, she will call first.I'm judging the purpose of her coming, and the facts have proved that she really came to me.She entered the door in a hurry, and didn't care about those little guys, so she pulled me away: "Hurry up, there is something important, come with me!" I figured she had something to say that she couldn't say in front of others, so I followed her out and asked her, "What's the matter? Was it robbed or was it on fire?" "There is a job, hurry up and contact me." This is important news. What I need most right now is work.I asked her: "What work? Whose work?" She said, "Stop asking, I'll tell you when I get in the car."