For several days, Sun Xu rushed between many factories for interviews.
Some of these factories are in the nearby Xicheng Industrial Zone, so they are quite convenient. However, many factories are not in the Xicheng Industrial Zone, but in various places in Songjiang. Some are even more than ten kilometers away. place.
In order to participate in interviews at these factories, Sun Xu traveled through different places in Songjiang City by public carriage.
Although the public carriage companies in the Da Chu Empire were all government-run enterprises, even privately operated public carriages needed to be affiliated to the government-run public carriage companies to be managed, and the fares were unified to keep prices as low as possible. But the money spent on intensive car rides these days still makes Sun Xu heartbroken.
This public carriage can often be used for ten cents for a short distance within the city, and twenty or thirty cents for a longer journey.
This price is not cheap for Sun Xu now!
There is only a little more than three yuan in his pocket now.
In the currency system of the Dachu Empire, it was stipulated that one Chu yuan = 3.5 grams of pure gold. In addition, there were two auxiliary currency units, jiao and wen.
One Chu Yuan is equal to ten jiao, which is equal to one thousand Wen.
Chu Yuan actually evolved from the silver tael unit of the pre-Ming Dynasty. Before the early implementation of the gold standard, one Chu Yuan was actually one tael of silver, a standard thirty-seven grams of pure silver.
The small silver coins issued in the early days of the Chu State weighed 3.7 grams and were worth one-tenth of a Chu Yuan silver coin, also called a dime.
The price of the copper coins issued is about the same as one penny in the past, and one Chu Yuan is equivalent to one thousand penny.
Later, the price of gold and silver fluctuated greatly, and the price of silver plummeted. The state of Chu officially adopted the gold standard system, stipulating that one Chu yuan was 3.5 grams of gold, but the unit of auxiliary coins was still retained.
This series of changes finally continued to the present, with the emergence of a currency system in which one Chu Yuan is equal to ten jiao equal to one thousand Wen.
(If the currency refers to the British gold standard pound in the 19th century, roughly, 1 Chu yuan ≈ 0.478 pounds ≈ 9.56 shillings ≈ 114.72 pence; one dime ≈ 0.956 shillings ≈ 11.472 pence; one penny ≈ 0.114 pence.
If you find it troublesome, you can also simply and crudely understand that ten yuan is equivalent to one penny, one dime is equivalent to one shilling, and two yuan is equivalent to one pound. Although the error is large, it is easier and more convenient to understand, and there will be no price error. . )
At present, the common ticket price in Songjiang City is ten cents, which is not expensive in the contemporary Chu Empire, and certainly not too cheap... A short round trip once a day is about five or six times the income of a low-income person. About one.
Generally, low-income people cannot take public carriages to and from get off work every day. Those who take public carriages to and from get off work every day are generally middle-income people.
As for the taxi cabs on the streets, they are more expensive. The starting price for three kilometers within Songjiang city center is ten cents, and an additional forty cents per kilometer.
Ordinary people can't afford to ride on this thing in daily life, and they can't bear to part with it... Usually only high-income people can use taxis as daily travel tools, and some middle-income people can also take them occasionally.
Taxis have never been cheap public transportation. Let alone the Chu Empire in the 35th year of Chengshun. Even in the 21st century, there are only a few ordinary-income workers who take taxis to and from get off work every day...
Even for public carriages, only middle-income people can ride them regularly, while low-income people only ride them occasionally.
Because Sun Xu had to attend interviews intensively, and some factories were indeed far away, he had to frequently take public carriages to different factories for interviews.
However, even if he could travel by public carriage, the intensive travel still made Sun Xu exhausted.
After all, the public carriage only goes along the street and does not go directly to the entrance of major factories. After getting off the public carriage, some factories still require Sun Xu to walk a certain distance to reach them.
Fortunately, the results of the interview were relatively satisfactory!
After participating in interviews with eight factories, Sun Xu relied on his relatively solid mechanical theoretical foundation and his sincere attitude. He also showed good learning ability in the interview. Therefore, although his practical ability is somewhat poor, his experience It's a little less, but it's still appreciated by many managers in the factory's technical department.
The heads of these technical departments also want to find a subordinate who has a solid foundation, is smart and eager to learn, and has a sincere attitude. In this way, a very good mechanical repairman can be cultivated with a little training for a period of time.
In particular, Section Chief Song of the Machinery Maintenance Department at Anhua Spinning Mill, who was in charge of interviews, was very satisfied with Sun Xu.
At that time, he took out a stack of technical information on the new spinning machine and asked Sun Xu to read it and propose solutions to some possible problems. , Sun Xu’s answer made him very satisfied.
They even recruited him on the spot and promised a lot of additional conditions. For example, he promised that if Sun Xu successfully joined the job and maintained his learning ability, he would be included in the training plan for technical backbones.
The person in charge of the other party, Section Chief Song, was satisfied. Naturally, it was not without reason. He simply felt that Sun Xu’s mechanical theoretical knowledge level was already better than that of most students from secondary technical colleges majoring in mechanical repair. If he continued to maintain this learning attitude, then In a few years, you may not be able to reach the level of a college graduate with a mechanical major.
For a single-digit monthly salary, you can hire a technical backbone equivalent to the mechanical repair major of a technical secondary school, and this technical backbone may even go further in the future.
No matter how you think about it, you’ve earned it!
After all, in the entire Anhua Spinning Factory, there are actually only three college students... all of them are senior managers. One of them is the person in charge of the technical department, a proper senior engineer.
The section chief of the Mechanical Maintenance Department himself only graduated from a technical secondary school.
Anhua Spinning Factory attaches great importance to him, and this is not an isolated case... The person in charge of technical interviews at several factories expressed their appreciation for Sun Xu and their intention to recruit him.
After this trip, Sun Xu found that he, an ordinary mechanic, was quite popular after arriving in Songjiang... Although many people have some concerns about their less experience and poor hands-on ability, they are basically very good. Appreciate your solid theoretical foundation and learning ability.
Someone even asked him to confirm: Are you sure you just dropped out of junior high school? Rather than a technical secondary school graduate?
What this said... It seems that Sun Xu deliberately lowered his academic qualifications, and then pretended to be a pig to eat the tiger. Educational qualifications are related to work and salary. As long as he can get a high school or technical secondary school graduate, Sun Xu Will take it out without hesitation.
But that’s not something that can’t be taken out...
After winning job candidates from four factories, Sun Xu faced the trouble of happiness...because he only had one, and in the end he could only choose to work in one factory.
So after the interview, Sun Xu took Sun Dawei together and repeatedly discussed where to go.
After the final discussion, Sun Xu decided on his first career stop in Songjiang: Anhua Spinning Factory!
In fact, the salary offered by Anhua Spinning Factory is not the highest. The highest salary is from a large textile factory. They give a basic monthly salary of eight yuan and five yuan, as well as some subsidies such as rent subsidies. In the end, the comprehensive income can reach About ten Chu Yuan.
But Sun Xu visited their factory and saw four mechanics in their repair department... This is very strange. Such a large textile factory has only four mechanics... This is not normal!
With these four machine repairmen, it may be impossible to complete daily maintenance and safety inspections for so many mechanical equipment in the factory!
And the four mechanics all had serious faces, and they didn't look at the head of the mechanics who took Sun Xu to visit... Sun Xu guessed that there was something wrong with the factory.
Needless to say, a job with a real high income, a promising future, and good benefits in all aspects is definitely a good job. A large number of people will not resign, and the relationship between all subordinates and superiors will not be so bad at first sight. .
Sun Xu was afraid that there were pitfalls that he didn't know about, so he refused after repeated consideration.
Sun Xu didn't think he was the chosen one. He felt that such a good job would definitely come to him, and there were no competitors.
Unlike interviews at several other factories with good remuneration, the competition is fierce.
When he was interviewing at Anhua Spinning Factory, there were as many as seven competitors. These were the candidates for the interview that day, and there would definitely be people interviewing at other times.
In the end, it is estimated that there are dozens or even more people competing for the same good job!
We excluded the big factories that had the best pay, but were probably insecure, and also excluded two factories that had deviant pay, with a salary of less than 8 yuan not including room and board.
In the end, Sun Xu chose Anhua Spinning Factory!
The basic monthly salary they finally gave was eight and a half yuan, with rest periods according to legal holidays, ten hours of work every day, and overtime pay according to legal standards for overtime work.
In addition, there are subsidies for food and accommodation.
If he does not stay in the factory, he can be provided with an accommodation subsidy of 50 cents.
If you want to eat, you can do it yourself or go to the factory cafeteria.
Most factories in the Dachu Empire have special canteens, and the prices are very cheap. Employees in some factories even buy more food and take it home to their families after get off work.
Because the canteen in the factory basically directly purchases rice, flour and other ingredients in large quantities, and then cooks them for employees at cost prices, which is even cheaper than buying rice, vegetables and cooking at retail prices.
Sun Xu felt that the overall treatment provided by Anhua Spinning Factory was very good, and could even be said to be beyond his expectations... When he worked in the machinery factory in his hometown, his monthly salary was only more than three yuan, and it did not include enough food, so it was nothing. canteen.
I only get three days off a month, and I’ve never seen overtime pay!
More importantly, Section Chief Wang of the Machinery Department of Anhua Spinning Mill admired him and promised to let him learn the maintenance of new spinning machines. Once he succeeded in learning and passed the assessment test, his basic monthly salary would be returned. It can go up by another dollar.
If you add this to the eighty-five yuan, it will be ninety-five yuan. If you include the accommodation subsidy, then the monthly salary will be ten yuan.
This income is much higher than that of his father, who has worked as a shoemaker all his life.
Even in Songjiang, this income is actually not low. It is basically at the upper-middle level. After all, ordinary unskilled workers in Songjiang City only earn three or four yuan a month.
Even the low-level officials in Songjiang City, such as the low-level clerks in the yamen, actually only earn about this amount, and these are decent officials in people's eyes.
Therefore, Sun Xu is very satisfied with the salary income he can get!
After making the final decision, early the next morning, Sun Xu once again put on his professional attire of very good woolen material and prepared to go to Anhua Spinning Factory to join the company and sign a formal labor contract.
This set of professional attire was custom-made by a tailor in the county when I started my apprenticeship at the beginning of the year. With the support of my master and father, and some small savings of my own, I had it made.
The complete set includes a woolen double-breasted jacket, woolen trousers, and a high-quality white cotton shirt underneath.
This body is Sun Xu's most valuable possession, and the total cost reaches seven yuan, which is equivalent to two months' salary of an ordinary worker.
Then he puts on a pair of black cowhide shoes, which were made by his father using high-quality cowhide material. They were his apprenticeship gift. If you really want to count the money, if the customer asks his father to order such high-end cowhide shoes, he must at least ask for a price. Yuan.
After putting on his shoes, he also put on a small black round-brimmed hat made of silk. This thing was not cheap, costing 500 yuan.
He also hung a small jade pendant around his waist. This was a 16-year-old coming-of-age gift from his mother. It cost 600 yuan when he bought it.
Then he held up a top-quality rice paper fan from Wu ground. This folding fan was not cheap. He spent more than 400 yuan on it last year.
The total price of this piece of clothing is close to ten yuan, making it the most expensive thing Sun Xu has ever owned in his entire life.
When he was looking for jobs and interviews before, he basically wore this outfit... After all, he was looking for a job, and he was not an ordinary worker. He could be considered a technician, so he still needed the dignity he deserved.
If you are poorly dressed, people will think that you are not very skilled and cannot make any money!
It's just that every time I wear this clothes when I go out, I am cautious, for fear of getting dirty. Every time I come back, I take it off immediately, then simply wipe it clean, and then use Sun Dawei's hot water iron for simple ironing.
He only had this set of decent clothes. If they got dirty and messy, he would have to wear his ordinary business clothes even when he went out to find a job.
This ordinary fabric professional attire is cheap, and it only costs more than one piece for the whole body. After that, he officially went to work. In fact, he wore this ordinary fabric professional attire every day in the factory.
As for the woolen business attire I am currently wearing, it is actually something I wear on formal occasions and I would rather not wear it on weekdays.
Today he went to Anhua Spinning Factory to finalize the employment and labor contract... Naturally, he had to be considerate in such a formal occasion. When he officially went to work, he would not wear this high-quality professional attire.
This has to do with machines. If the clothes get all kinds of lubricants and other things, they won't be able to be washed off.
After officially going out with a folding fan in hand, Sun Xu quickly went to the public carriage platform at the street corner to wait for the bus.
When I arrived at the public carriage platform, I found an acquaintance... Actually, she couldn't be considered an acquaintance, but a female neighbor I had only seen three times in the past few days.
The first time we met, Sun Xu was a little embarrassed at the door of Sun Dawei's apartment, and he was almost regarded as a bad guy.
The second time they met, Sun Xu was waiting for Sun Dawei to come back at the door. The woman opened the door and gave him a cup of tea.
The third time we meet is now...
In Sun Xu's sight, he saw that she was wearing a decent sky blue Lotus Feiyan stand-collar double-breasted large-sleeved shirt, a medium-sized woolen cloak, and two beaded silver pendants on the front and back of her hair. Hairpin, hands with sky blue gauze gloves, and carrying a small silk handbag.
When Sun Xu looked over, she happened to turn her head slightly and look over... The moment he met her eyes, Sun Xu felt that the sky had lost its color!
After taking a deep breath, I came back to my senses and took two steps closer. I was about to speak, but then I saw a two-wheeled taxi approaching.
The woman must have recognized Sun Xu at this time, and immediately nodded slightly, then turned around and got into the taxi!
Sun Xu was left alone on the public carriage platform in winter, and he couldn't calm down his restless heart for a long time!
(End of chapter)
