Chapter 5 Four

A 486 computer kept me excited for ten days. I checked the computer in the section chief's office carefully, and there were many dead programs in the game that could no longer be played, which often knocked over my programs like floating corpses.I asked the section chief who was sitting in the back room who used this machine, and the section chief looked at the mimeographed documents in the back room and said: "It has been left there and no one is using it. Take a good look. I really have a lot of things to do here." I need to use a computer. I have a black eye on the computer, and I have to learn from you tomorrow." "No problem," I said while cleaning up the file fragments, "section chief, can this machine be reinstalled? The problems here are too messy , the computer runs too slowly.” The section chief said jokingly: “Professionals are different. No one has ever said to make this machine faster, but those grandchildren can only make the machine slower and slower. How do you How can I fix it when it suits me!" While formatting the machine, I told the section chief that after the machine is set up, it will be equipped with a printer, so that there is no need to mimeograph documents, how dirty it is!And you don't need a pen to write documents.

The section chief said without raising his head: "Just tell me what you need!" He took a few mimeograph papers and went out with a crying face.The section chief in his early forties likes to have a bitter face, which always gives the impression that he is too busy. I reformatted the computer in the section chief's office and installed the DOS, Pctools, and Foxpro for DOS I brought from school. not excluded.I basically didn't touch Windows in school, and I still remember IBM's XT machines and AT machines.I want to install a set of Windows on the section chief's computer, then install Word, and then equip the computer with a printer, so that the processing of various documents and the drawing of forms in the production department can be basically completed.If Foxpro is used to compile a production ledger management system, there is no need to manually copy those thick ledgers, and the speed and accuracy of statistical data can also be improved.

The only computer in the production department that can be called a Wintel architecture is the 486 that I took over from the section chief's office.There is a Wang An terminal in the glass room of the dispatching room. Several female workers work in four shifts and three shifts. They record the production data transmitted from the blast furnace every day, and use these data to control the production progress and the supply of ingredients.The data of Wang An’s machine is not collected from the scene in real time through the sampling machine, but the technicians in the production line take samples through the industrial computer to obtain product indicators, and then call the attendant in the Wang’an machine room, and the attendant records the data. , and then feed back to the workers who control the ingredients by phone.These data will also be entered into the computer by the female workers in the dispatching room, collected in the computing room of the technical department of the factory, and calculated by the host computer to obtain comprehensive indicators.Fill in the comprehensive indicators and special data in the production daily, and provide it to the factory manager for decision-making every morning.At the morning meeting, the leaders of our factory arranged the production for the new day according to the data provided by the daily newspaper.Between computers, we connect people, not twisted pairs or thin cables.

I spent an afternoon writing a report: "Projection of Computer Business Transformation in the Production Section".In order to make my idea easier for the section chief to see clearly, this report has the characteristics of a descriptive text, which includes not only the requirements for hardware and software, but also the system plan for further computer management of various businesses in the production department.After the plan was written, just in time for the section chief to go on a business trip, I went to the control room to chat with several masters to familiarize myself with the production situation.I found that every time I go to a new job, what I hear the most is to get familiar with the situation first.The situation of machines is not complicated, but the situation of people is always more complicated than I imagined.

There are two dispatchers on duty in each shift, and soon I and several dispatchers began to call each other brothers.Although they were much older than me, they insisted on calling me brothers, and I couldn't refuse.They often insist on putting Wangzhihe brand stinky tofu in my rice bowl, or they must recommend me to use Wangzhihe steamed buns. Although I made a stubborn resistance, I finally compromised with them.They are the kind of working class people I have seen in movies, talking loudly, swearing, doing a lot of work, and never eating dark.Sometimes I think this is also a kind of joy.I spent a lot of time in the dispatching room. Apart from knowing their hobbies, I still couldn't understand their work.Sometimes they pick up the walkie-talkie and yell wildly there. If the people below don't listen, they will curse anxiously, throw the ashtray on the ground, let the person on the phone listen, and then pick up the ashtray again.Sometimes when I meet someone, I will be so gentle and lingering there like a woman, lying on the table and making fun of the phone, as if the phone in front of me is a poodle puppy.

If after many times of shouting loudly, the production failure still cannot be eliminated, the dispatcher will go to the production line in person.Ye Tuan wanted to take me down there many times to have a look, but I couldn't make the trip due to various reasons.Ye Tuan is a fat man in his 30s, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and a smiling face. He often wears work clothes blackened by soot and likes to walk around the production front.If it was dark and the roads were slippery at night, Ye Tuo took a large flashlight with four batteries, put on deep-tube rubber shoes, and put on a hard hat, looking quite like a German soldier.His classmate, Yang Dispatch, is a musketeer who curses at people as soon as he opens his mouth. If the dirty words in his words are overestimated, a sentence will be shortened by 80%. It is said that his dispatching work is the best in his class, which is also the dispatching level.One of Yang Tuo’s unique skills is making facial makeup. He makes facial makeup at home when he has nothing to do. He uses cloth, plaster, leather, and oil paint. He can do whatever he likes. The most popular one is Peking opera facial makeup. He has a professional standard, and some people want to buy it for money. He rarely sells it, and most of the people he buys are acquaintances. He said that he can still see the face makeup he made when he visits the house.It is said that his younger brother is engaged in mural painting, and their family has this talent.

I like to go to the control room and listen to them tell about Beijing in the past, about the Cultural Revolution, about personal affairs, and about unofficial history. They are born masters of storytelling.There is a huge goldfish tank in the dispatch room, and the goldfish are raised by Wu dispatch who is nicknamed Heizi.I often fiddle with goldfish while listening to stories... After the section chief came back, he did not come to the factory, but went to the hospital.It is said that the section chief was plotted against by others at the drinking table in other places, and he was defeated by others with a piece of Wang Zhihe and a catty of Erguotou's drinking capacity.After a few days of dripping, the section chief finally came back to us from under the eyes of Dionysus, but his face was swollen, which was said to be scratched with a woman's high-heeled shoes.After I came back, without any further hesitation, I solemnly handed over the "Projection of Computer Business Transformation in the Production Section" to the section chief.Three days later, the section chief asked me to type a copy of the materials sent to each production workshop, and at the same time provided me with a situation.The section chief said to me rationally: "The computers in the factory are managed by Lin Ping from the technical department. If we lack anything in the office, we can apply for it from her. In some cases, you are not familiar with the development of the office system. She can propose a plan to the factory, and if the plan is approved, the money will be approved and implemented in a unified manner. We cannot do this kind of work alone, and you will gradually become familiar with some procedures." "Familiar with the ball!" I cursed inwardly.

I don't think this is a simple matter, let's find out about the situation with Lin Ping first.I went to the technical department downstairs to find Lin Ping, and brought up the computer application situation and requirements of the production department.Lin Ping is the kind of girl who looks to be only 25 or 26 years old, who may or may not be married. She has a square face, single eyelids, fair skin, and a bald head. She looks competent and principled.For this kind of woman, I don't think of her as bad, and I admire her.Lin Ping listened to my report very enthusiastically. Her voice was soft and rhythmic, and she spoke logically. It seemed that she had been working for many years.She seemed to have heard reports like mine before and was not surprised by these initiatives.There is some understanding of the enthusiasm of my new comrade in her eyes, and it also shows her responsible attitude towards work.She lent me the Windows installation system and gave me two floppy disks at the same time. She said with a smile: "In the past, no one in the production department used computers, so we didn't equip us with printers." Lin Ping also said that computers might be arranged uniformly in the factory. System construction, including rewiring, establishing NT LAN and client/server applications, is currently in the system selection phase.

The technical secondary school student people refer to is Lin Ping. From my contact, I think she knows a lot about computers. I don't understand why some people make some criticisms based on her technical secondary education.At the same time, I felt quite resentful. I have been in the factory for more than three months, but I have never heard of any situation about the construction of the computer system in the factory.Now I suddenly know that the computer system in the factory needs to be fully deployed. As the only computer professional in the factory, I don't know it at all.I felt very angry, there is nothing wrong with getting angry. I sat by the computer and thought about it for a long time, and gradually I got an idea: first of all, I can’t let the section chief know about this matter. If he doesn’t want to let me leave the production department, I can’t participate The construction of the computer system in the factory.The first step is to talk to the head of the personnel department, hoping that he will transfer me to work in the technical department.If I go to the technical department, I can participate in the computer construction of the whole factory.For this reason, I lay on the wooden bed in the dormitory and even made a careful job transfer plan, and drew up a draft of how to talk to the leader, and rehearsed it in my brain when I had nothing to do.I gradually discovered that the right to do the work I like is obtained by fighting for it. It will take time for the leaders to discover your underground gold, and waiting will only depreciate the gold.

On a beautiful autumn afternoon, I was very calm, and reported my recent work to the head of the personnel department as objectively and modestly as possible, and suggested that if I went to work professionally, I would make better contributions to the factory.The head of the personnel department expressed his understanding. He blew out a round smoke ring and said, "I will report your request to Director Zhao, who is in charge of personnel." The head of the personnel department did not respond for two weeks , I still stay in the production section all day to make reports.Since the solicitation of the printer, I have become a professional typist in the production department, and the professional reputation of typing reports has spread far and wide. People from across departments will come to me when they encounter difficulties in report production. I gradually fell into trivial matters.

For the sake of my own technical future, I must personally talk to the director of personnel.Director Zhao seemed to know my purpose of coming and controlled the initiative of the conversation. First of all, he affirmed that I did a good job in the production department and standardized many tasks. The production department is the most neat among the various production materials sent up now. I said very sincerely: "Director Zhao, the work in the production department is important now, but basically I don't use computers very much at present. My major is computers. Now the factory is planning to build a computer system. I can play my professional expertise, so that my role may be several times more than it is now. If the production department asks me to come back to do computer work in the future, I can do it too." Director Zhao has a better understanding of the ideological activities of young people like me, He also couldn't say that I was making trouble for no reason, and he couldn't directly and arbitrarily deny that I was a college student, so he took a very sensible way to dispel my thoughts.Director Zhao was more sincere than me and said: "Xiao Xu, the production department is the most important department in the whole factory. Assigning you, a college student who understands computer technology, to this department is to value you and let you Familiarize yourself with the situation of the production department first, and prepare for the computerization of the production process in the future. What do you think?" After speaking, Director Zhao looked at me with firm eyes, which I dare not face. I have nothing to say, but I don't want to leave, like a cricket that refuses to admit defeat.I feel that the leader's thinking is aimed at the overall situation, but my requirements are only personal. If the personal requirements are not related to the leadership's consideration of the overall situation, the individual requirements stand aside, and the factory's management system does not reasonably combine personal requirements and overall requirements. Combined.My awareness increased, but my mood was lowered.I am in the production department to prepare for the future, and I am not interested in the future, I just want to do something now.