On the second day of the first lunar month in the thirty-sixth year of Chengshun, Sun Xu, who had only rested for a day and a half, once again got on the public carriage and prepared to go to work at Anhua Textile Company.
Anhua Textile Company is currently in the process of equipment upgrading, which is a critical period for the production of new cotton yarn. All technical staff have been working overtime since December last year. Even during the statutory seven-day Spring Festival holiday, they can only rest for one and a half days. Then it was back to work.
Although Sun Xu has only been employed for a month and is not considered a technical backbone, as a member of the Mechanical Maintenance Department and a mechanic specially recruited to learn and maintain new equipment, he is naturally working overtime every day. .
So just after the first day of the Lunar New Year, he was going to work.
However, Sun Xu was obviously not the only one who went out on the second day of the Lunar New Year, there were many others.
As the most populous and densely populated city in the Chu Empire, Songjiang City quickly regained its vitality on the second day of the Lunar New Year after being deserted on New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Many people began to visit relatives and friends on this day, which also resulted in many people going out even though they did not go to work, causing public transportation to become quickly crowded.
At the same time, some factories with tight production tasks, many of which are like Anhua Textile Company, would rather give three times the salary on statutory holidays and let workers come to work early. Sun Xu is one of them.
However, most of them are places in the service industry, which are even busier during the Chinese New Year. Ms. Meng goes to work early in the morning. The Huidong Department Store where she works belongs to the retail industry. During such major holidays, It is very rare to be able to take a day and a half off here. When the second day of the new year comes, the business will be resumed immediately. Ms. Meng and other staff have to go there in advance to prepare for the business.
Thinking of Miss Meng, Sun Xu couldn't help but curve the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile.
Taking advantage of the rare one-and-a-half-day Spring Festival holiday, the relationship between him and Miss Meng achieved a great breakthrough.
The two people were like two fireflies flying alone in the city, attracted by each other's light, and then turned to each other.
After the New Year's Eve fireworks show, the relationship between the two of them broke the deadlock. When they came back from watching the fireworks, they were already holding hands when there was no one on the carriage... Well, they were still wearing leather gloves at the time. , it’s not really a skin-to-skin relationship.
After going back in the evening, there was nothing out of the ordinary. After saying goodbye at the door, Sun Xu was so excited that night that he didn't sleep well all night.
The next day, while the rented carriage was still there, Sun Xu took Miss Meng to a garden park in the northern suburbs of Xicheng District. When it was time for dinner, the two of them once again joined forces to cook. At this time, they were already a real couple. Hands holding hands...without gloves.
Thinking of the past day and a half, Sun Xu couldn't help but smile.
He likes this Songjiang City!
Although I have been in Songjiang City for a month, I know many bad things about Songjiang City, such as the bad air environment. When I first came here, I thought it was just caused by the occasional bad weather... But after living there for a long time, I realized that Songjiang City The air in the center is so smelly every day...
Sun Xu also dislikes the traffic in the city center... It doesn't matter if there are many asphalt roads and concrete roads, or there are many major roads. There are traffic jams every day. The average speed of the public carriages he rides is only five or six kilometers per hour. Sometimes If you're stuck in a traffic jam, it's faster to just walk.
And the rent is expensive... Although the welfare apartment in the city center is cheap, it is actually relatively speaking. After adding up the rent, water and coal bills this month, the apartment he rents together will cost more than one yuan a month, and if you want to Living in a slightly better apartment in the city center is even more expensive.
If it is a suburb with a better environment and a relatively close distance to work...the rent in those places is more expensive, and rents of two to three yuan or more are the norm.
This is naturally not a big problem for Sun Xu, but for most ordinary workers from other places, these rents are not cheap.
This is why the apartment Sun Xu and the others rent may not look good, but in fact the tenants renting there are mostly low-level technical and managerial personnel, or working-class families with two-income earners. In fact, the income of singles or families is not bad. That kind!
After living here for a month, Sun Xu also thought about moving away from here and living in a better place one day.
But the family is also short of money, and he still has to save money to pay for his younger brother's tuition, so he can only think about it for a while. It is impossible to move out in a short time.
This place is already pretty good for his income. If he wants to move up, the rent pressure is too great and it's not worth it.
Fortunately, he works in a large factory. The factory provides affordable canteens. He heard that some places where he works do not provide working meals. People who need to cook for themselves or eat out have to pay for every meal. The cost is not small.
The expenses for many other daily necessities are not small either.
After coming to Songjiang City for a month, Sun Xu also has an overall understanding of Songjiang City. It is an immigrant industrial city with a poor living environment and high consumption pressure, but with many employment opportunities, great career prospects, and a very inclusive environment.
There are good ones and there are bad ones.
But in the past two days, Sun Xu felt better about Songjiang City... This change in feeling was naturally due to Miss Meng.
A person's impression of a city, good or bad, will most likely change because of one person.
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Sitting on the gently swaying public carriage, Sun Xu quickly arrived at the public platform of Bei'er Road in the Xicheng District Industrial Zone, where Anhua Textile Company is located.
However, the Xicheng District Industrial Zone is very large, with dozens of criss-crossing roads. There are a large number of factories on both sides of these roads. The industrial zone not only has a large number of factories, but also a large number of various services for the employees in these factories. There are many shops providing daily life services and even workers’ residences.
On the periphery of the industrial area, there are various commercial streets and residential areas with better environments, targeting various middle and low-level managers and technical personnel.
The East 7th Lane of Shenjia Village where Sun Xu lives is this kind of place. The overall environment is actually pretty good for a run-down place like the city center. Most of the residents have an income above the middle level. The apartments may seem small, but they are basically It is a small apartment with one bedroom and one living room or two bedrooms and one living room.
If it's the workers' apartments in industrial areas, many of them are single-room apartments with only a small room. There are no toilets and kitchens, only shared toilets and kitchens. Moreover, such workers' apartments often use bunk beds, so people can live in them. Four or even six single workers.
In their Anhua Textile Company, they rented many workers' apartments like this and used them as dormitories for ordinary workers...
Anhua Textile Company is on Bei'er Road. After getting off the public carriage, Sun Xu walked for about ten minutes and arrived at the door of the company.
The guard at the company entrance was obviously familiar with Sun Xu, a technician who came to work overtime every day during the Chinese New Year. When he saw Sun Xu, he didn't go up to ask like when Sun Xu first came. Instead, he looked up and then lowered his head to fiddle with it. Know what went.
After Sun Xu entered the company's administrative building, he saw a middle-aged man in business attire in front of him. He immediately took two steps forward and greeted: "Chief Wang, happy New Year!"
Section Chief Wang turned around and nodded slightly to Sun Xu: "Sun Xu, happy New Year, how have you been during the past two days of rest?"
Sun Xu said: "Thank you section chief for your concern, I rested well!"
Section Chief Wang said: "That's good. Starting today, we have to work overtime again!"
After thinking about it, Section Chief Wang added: "Today, the manufacturer's engineers came to install and debug the several pieces of equipment that were shipped a year ago. Today you will be responsible for one of the pieces of equipment and assist the manufacturer's engineers in the installation and debugging!"
"Keep your eyes open and carefully observe the operations of the manufacturer's engineers. If you don't understand anything, write down questions and ask me in time!"
When Sun Xu heard this, he immediately said: "Thank you, Section Chief Wang, for your cultivation. I will definitely study hard and there will definitely be no problems!"
Sun Xu has been working at Anhua Textile Company for a month. Naturally, he knows the importance. Anhua Textile Company is upgrading and transforming to produce new cotton yarn. In the future, it will gradually replace the new spinning machines produced by Hantian Machinery Company... And He and six or seven other newly recruited young mechanics learned the maintenance of these new spinning machines.
But so far, no one else has been able to assist in the installation and debugging of new equipment alone.
Many people haven't even figured out the new equipment yet and are still in the learning stage.
Sun Xu was also one of them, and he studied very hard, and with a very solid theoretical foundation, his learning progress was very fast, and he was already doing well when he started.
Now Section Chief Wang has given him sole responsibility for the installation and debugging of a piece of equipment. Even if he is only assisting the engineers of the equipment manufacturer in the installation and debugging, it is still a great affirmation of his ability... because so far, the new recruits He is the first among the young mechanics!
Seeing the joy on Sun Xu's face, Section Chief Wang also said with a smile on his face: "Also, your inspection period has ended, and you will be a formal monthly worker starting from this month."
"I said at the beginning that as long as you study hard and can quickly master new equipment, I will give you a salary increase."
"Your performance is good, so starting from this month, you will receive an additional RMB 1 yuan subsidy on your salary!"
"Don't talk about salary matters and remember to keep it confidential!"
At this time, Sun Xu's face became even more joyful, and he immediately bowed slightly to Section Chief Wang and said, "Thank you, Section Chief, for your training. I will keep it in my heart!"
Section Chief Wang looked satisfied, nodded slightly and said: "Do a good job, I still think highly of you!"
Section Chief Wang is indeed very optimistic about Sun Xu. In his opinion, although Sun Xu has an average academic qualification, he has a very solid basic mechanical theory. The most important thing is that he is smart and studious. He has mastered the operation of a new cotton yarn machine within a few days of going to work. The various parameters of the equipment and the maintenance manual are almost gone through... You don't need to think about it all, you must be working hard after get off work.
At the same time, although the hands-on experience is a little worse, what they are doing is not the old model of equipment, but the new equipment. In this regard, the difference between novices and veterans is actually not big, and the hands-on experience is not very good... It depends on who you are looking at. Acceptance and academic ability are higher.
Obviously, Sun Xu won the first place among the six or seven new mechanics who entered the factory at the same time.
He has good basic skills, is smart and eager to learn, has a sincere attitude, is proactive in his work, and is a relatively cheerful person. He should be praised by his boss, and he gets along well with his colleagues, especially those veteran mechanics. .
Of course, Section Chief Wang would not ignore such talents.
He was offered a full-time position early and received a salary increase.
If Sun Xu can continue to maintain this pace of hard work in the future and make great progress in technology, Section Chief Wang will not be unable to continue to be promoted.
After all, Anhua Textile Company is in the process of upgrading. New equipment will be purchased one after another in the next year, and all equipment will eventually be replaced one year later.
In this case, the requirements for technicians who understand new equipment are also higher, more!
If there were more people like Sun Xu, Section Chief Wang wouldn't have to work overtime every day to do it himself, as he had been doing recently, and he would be as tired as a dog.
He, Section Chief Wang, is a technical manager and a senior technical backbone in the factory... He usually doesn't go out personally when it's not necessary, and all he provides is technical guidance.
Most of the time, they are the kind who use their words but don’t use their hands.
However, Hantian Textile Company's new textile machine is very different from the old textile machines. Many old machine mechanics who are familiar with the old textile machines are faced with this new type, which is more complex and even has many different principles. The equipment can't do anything, so I can only learn from scratch like a novice.
The only people who can get started after simple contact are core technical backbones like Section Chief Wang who have strong basic theory and extremely rich experience.
But there is only one such person in the huge Anhua Textile Company...
To be honest, it is difficult to find ordinary mechanics who are familiar with new spinning machines... After all, the new equipment of Hantian Textile Company has been launched on the market less than a year ago. There are not many on the market yet, and some large enterprises have adopted it on a large scale. , such as Jiangnan Textile Company, Suzhou Suqin Textile Company and other giant companies. At present, only these large companies have more mechanics who are familiar with these new equipment.
But it's not that difficult for small businesses to recruit their mechanics... It's not that they can't be hired, but the cost is too high, and they often have to bear high signing bonuses and salaries.
Well, people do well in large companies and their salaries are already very high.
A small company came to poach people, and Section Chief Wang couldn't give up his position. If it was just an ordinary mechanic's position, they would not look at it at all.
Even if you fall in love with it, it will cost you a lot.
People are also afraid that you will go bankrupt without knowing when, and they are even more afraid that your boss will be unscrupulous and will discount your salary, so they often ask for a large signing bonus and a substantial increase in salary...
Last year, Section Chief Wang came into contact with a mechanic from Su Qin Textile Company through an intermediary. He was knowledgeable about various mechanical theories and knew all about new equipment. He was a high-tech talent...
But what they asked for was a signing bonus of 1,500 yuan, a monthly salary of at least 100 yuan, at least six days of vacation per month, and at least one month of paid vacation every year.
The company is also required to provide a private four-wheel carriage, driver, and horse feeding, and the company is required to provide a single-family yard in the suburbs...
When he heard this condition, Section Chief Wang turned green on the spot. He didn't even get such treatment himself.
And if such a big boss is poached, it’s not certain who will be the section chief!
So Section Chief Wang looked embarrassed at that time and said he would go back to discuss it with his boss.
When people saw Section Chief Wang's performance, they turned around and left... Later, a good friend and intermediary revealed that the other party had gone to a textile company in Nantong, with a monthly salary of 120 yuan, and the signing bonus reached an astonishing 1,800 yuan. Yuan, and also presented him with a suburban villa worth more than 2,000 Yuan. After three years of service, the villa was directly given to him as a loyalty bonus!
After hearing the news, to be honest, Section Chief Wang himself wanted to change jobs...
So he discussed this matter with his boss Wang Liqing...
Wang Liqing took out a cigarette and lit it on the spot. After taking several puffs of cigarette, he said to Section Chief Wang: "Old Wang, your contribution to the company is obvious to all, and I, Mr. Wang, will never treat my own family poorly." , so I will increase your salary to one hundred, and the company will equip you with a four-wheeled carriage, with a driver and horses... When you are done with this period of work, I will give you one month of paid annual leave, and you can take your younger siblings and Nephews, go have a good time."
"You own the house yourself, so I won't bother you. But when the three-year contract expires, the company will give you another three thousand yuan as a loyalty bonus."
After hearing this, Section Chief Wang naturally patted his chest and said that he was willing to work for the company and that he would definitely live up to the company's expectations.
What does this mean?
Nowadays, in the textile industry, there is a huge demand for senior technicians who understand new textile equipment, but the supply is very small, resulting in a serious imbalance.
Why did Wang Liqing give Section Chief Wang such good treatment... Because he wanted to dig out an engineer with the same technical level, and even had to pay a higher price, and he might not be able to find one, and even if he did, he might not be able to find a real engineer. The materials are solid and it takes time to get used to them.
It would be better to just give Wang Liqing a salary increase to appease him.
This is also the reason why Anhua Textile Company directly recruits new mechanics who have a solid foundation, are smart and eager to learn... If they can't recruit people, they can only train them themselves.
The ability and potential Sun Xu has shown in the past month have made him a key technician to be trained.
As a grassroots technician, Sun Xu naturally didn't know much about these higher-level things, but the attention from his superiors still made him very happy.
He worked harder and harder, and his cleverness and eagerness to learn made the engineers dispatched by Hantian Machinery Company couldn't help but pay more attention to him.
These days, there are more diligent young people and more smart young people.
But there are not many young people who can really achieve success in their studies, master a few things, remain diligent and studious, and have a very good attitude!
So much so that he asked in private: Sun Xiaoyou, are you interested in coming to our Hantian Machinery Company?
Sun Xu was very excited when he heard this!
However, after careful consideration, Sun Xu still declined!
He works very well at Anhua Textile Company, his boss values him, he gets along well with his colleagues, he is quite satisfied with his salary, and his overall job is satisfactory.
And the most important thing is that he is still in the learning stage. There is no point in changing jobs now, and it is impossible for the other party to give him a high salary.
At the same time, Hantian Machinery Company does not have any large-scale production base in Songjiang. If he accepts the invitation, he still has to go to work in Hantian Mansion... For Sun Xu, who has just held hands with Miss Meng, now you let him Leaving Songjiang is impossible!
When the engineer from Hantian Machinery Company heard about Sun Xu's toys, he felt sorry for them, but he didn't force them. After all, everyone has their own ambitions, and you can't force this kind of thing.
However, it was rare to see a young man who looked at him so well. It was also rare that this engineer didn't hide his secrets. In the following time, he taught all the things that should be taught and gave some hints on those that should not be taught.
As for how much Sun Xu can learn secretly, it depends on his own understanding and ability.
(End of chapter)
