On the bulletin board of the garment factory, a notice about overtime was posted.

Aunt Wang, who was uneducated, came over again.

"Xiao Zhang, what is written on this notice?" asked Aunt Wang.

"It's Sister Wang, what I posted today is a notice of overtime. Xiao Zhang said with great interest.

"Overtime?" Aunt Wang frowned with disgust, she hated working overtime the most.

"Why are you working overtime again? The children at home are still waiting for me to go back to cook! I have to take a leave of absence. Aunt Wang has already begun to think about what reason to take a leave of absence to avoid overtime.

Xiao Zhang said with a smile: "Sister Wang, you don't need to ask for leave, this overtime is voluntary, and the factory doesn't force it!"

"It's voluntary overtime, that's great, at my age, my body can't bear it if I work overtime, so let's go home early, wash clothes, and do housework!" Aunt Wang said.

"Sister Wang, this notice also said that if you work overtime at night, you can go to the canteen for dinner, and the company will subsidize the canteen with 3,000 yuan every month, and it is estimated that you can have meat to eat every meal. Xiao Zhang said.

"I'll buy you for a meal of meat!" Aunt Wang said secretly in her heart, he pursed her lips, looked like she didn't eat the food that came to her, and said: "Then you have to eat enough at night, so you have the strength to work overtime, and add a few more hours, which can be regarded as a contribution to the factory!"

"You can't add a few more hours!" Xiao Zhang nodded seriously: "An hour is a dollar!"

Aunt Wang was slightly stunned: "What's one dollar an hour?"

"Overtime pay! The notice says, one hour of overtime, one dollar overtime pay. I pondered that if I worked three hours of overtime a day, thirty days a month, that would be 90 hours, and I would be able to get 90 yuan in overtime pay!" replied Xiao Zhang.

"Overtime and overtime pay?" As an old comrade in the garment factory, Aunt Wang felt that her three views had been challenged.

I think Aunt Wang often worked overtime back then, but at that time, she always shouted slogans such as "work hard for 100 days and fight for three months", and then a large group of people began to generate electricity for love, how can there be such a thing as overtime pay.

In the next second, Aunt Wang quickly began to calculate.

Overtime pay of one dollar an hour, three hours of overtime a day, is 90 yuan a month, plus dinner allowance, how can you eat back 10 yuan a month!

Aunt Wang's monthly income is 100 yuan, so it is equivalent to a double salary!

Thinking of this, a sentence came out of Aunt Wang's mouth: "It's good to work overtime, I like to work overtime the most!"

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At nine o'clock in the evening, the lights in the workshop of the garment factory are still bright, and the workers are working overtime.

Xiao Zhang stood up, stretched, twisted his neck, and then looked at the wall clock on the wall.

"It's already nine o'clock, the children at home should have gone to bed!" Xiao Zhang let out a sigh of relief, but there was a relieved expression on his face.

If you work overtime for three hours, you can get three yuan of overtime pay, and the money to buy little white shoes for your child is settled.

After working for three hours in a row, I was actually a little tired, but at dinner, the cafeteria added a fried egg to everyone and replenished the protein, so I didn't feel hungry after three hours of hard work.

In the position next to Comrade Xiao Zhang, Aunt Wang was still sitting there, working overtime energetically.

"Sister Wang, it's already nine o'clock in the evening, let's go back!" Xiao Zhang said.

"You go first, I'll add another hour to the shift. Aunt Wang replied without raising her head.

Xiao Zhang was suddenly a little surprised, he didn't expect that Aunt Wang, who would be fifty years old in a few years, would be so energetic, much stronger than herself, who was in her thirties and in the prime of life.

"Sister Wang, you've been working for three hours in a row, aren't you tired?" Xiao Zhang couldn't help asking.

"I'm not tired, what is this, it's only three hours! I think I can work for another three hours!" Aunt Wang said proudly.

Xiao Zhang looked at Aunt Wang in front of her, and she suddenly found that this old colleague who had worked together for more than ten years seemed to be a little strange.

Is this still the Aunt Wang who is the first to get off work!

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China does not lack hard-working workers, only money. As long as the money is in place, working overtime to death is definitely not a slogan.

The 996 work system of Chinese Internet companies in later generations was considered inhumane overtime, but compared with their parents and grandparents, the 996 work system was nothing, and the workers in the fifties and sixties were really crazy overtime!

What is a weekend, what is an eight-hour workday, what is spare time? None of these things need to exist. At that time, the employees of state-owned enterprises really took the factory as their home.

In the era when there was no overtime pay, the use of love to generate electricity alone could make workers take the factory as their home, and now with overtime pay of one dollar per hour, workers are eager to stay in the factory 24 hours a day to work overtime.

used to work overtime, all for love to generate electricity, but now I don't love it, and I talk about money directly, although it hurts a little emotionally, but I am really happy.

The employees of the garment factory were very enthusiastic about working overtime, and Li Weidong was also a little relieved, according to this production schedule, there would be no problem with on-time delivery.

Another problem was solved, Li Weidong was in a good mood, went to buy a roast chicken after work, and planned to go home to have a drink with Mr. Li Dengke.

As soon as I entered the house, I saw that my second sister Li Chunyan was busy working in front of the stove, my second brother-in-law Yao Guangzhi accompanied Li Dengke, sitting in the living room drinking tea, and my younger brother Li Weimin also took a small Mazha and sat aside.

"Brother-in-law is here! It just so happened that I bought a roast chicken, saying that it was only an old rooster that had been raised for several years, and this meat was definitely chewy!" Li Weidong said and put the roast chicken on the table.

"Weidong, it's just right to come back, I'm talking to my dad about Weimin!" Yao Guangzhi leaned to the side and made way for Li Weidong.

"What's wrong with Wei Min again," Li Weidong asked subconsciously.

"Brother, can you think of me as good!" Li Weimin complained with an aggrieved face.

I only heard Yao Guangzhi continue: "Wei Min is about to graduate from junior high school, this is not discussing, what kind of job should he find after Wei Min graduates." ”

With the results of Li Weimin, a scumbag, he will definitely not be able to pass the high school examination, let alone the technical secondary school, and he will join the job as soon as possible after graduating from junior high school, which is the best way out for Li Weimin.

Old man Li Dengke opened his mouth and said: "I was thinking that after Wei Min graduated, he would first go to the transportation company as a temporary worker, and then slowly consider the matter of becoming a regular. But your brother-in-law said that if he looks for a relationship over there, he can also go to other units. ”

"The other units are good, better than in the transportation company. Don't look at the current transportation company's efficiency is very good, but in a few years, there will be more individual transportation, and the transportation company will not be as beautiful as it is now. ”

Li Weidong looked at Yao Guangzhi as he spoke, and asked, "Brother-in-law, what is your way over there?"

"There are also a few good units in our sub-district office in the western suburbs, and I went to find a relationship, but I can help Weimin recruit workers. Yao Guangzhi replied.

Yao Guangzhi is now a deputy section-level cadre in the sub-district office in the western suburbs, and although he is a petty official at the grass-roots level, he still has some connections within the jurisdiction of the sub-district office, and there should be no problem in arranging a formal job for Li Weimin.

"Brother-in-law, there are really a lot of decent companies in your western suburbs sub-district office, which company are you looking for Weimin?" Li Weidong asked.

"Our local construction company, now renamed the City Construction Company, is currently being expanded, and if Wei Min goes there, he will definitely be able to get a formal workforce. Yao Guangzhi replied.

"The city construction company is good, now all units are building family buildings, and the benefits of the construction company must be good. I think Wei Min can go!" Li Weidong nodded in agreement.

"I'm not going to move bricks, it's hard and tiring, I can't do that job. Li Weimin immediately shook his head.

Li Weidong had no choice but to persuade: "Weimin, listen to me, although it will be very hard to go to the construction company, it will not be long after that, and after two or three years, a large number of peasants will go to the city to work, and then you regular workers will be foremen." In a few years, there will be a chance to become a cadre, at least for a lifetime. ”

In the late eighties, although many migrant workers had left their hometowns and came to the cities to work, most of them were still concentrated in the developed areas along the southern coast. It was only after the 90s that a large number of migrant workers poured into the cities in the northern region.

Therefore, in 1987, the workers of the construction company were all formal workers, unlike the construction workers of later generations, all of whom were temporary workers, and many of them still worked for a day.

In Li Weidong's memory, after the number of migrant workers gradually increased in the 90s, the front-line brick moving work was handed over to the migrant workers, and the formal workers of the construction company all became managers, and they no longer had to work hard to move bricks and carry cement.

At the end of the nineties, the construction company was restructured and became a joint-stock cooperative enterprise, and those old workers more or less obtained some shares.

After 2008, China's infrastructure development frantically, the construction industry is very prosperous, the shares in the hands of old workers, a dividend of five or six hundred thousand a year is very normal.

Obviously, in the long run, the construction company is a good place to go, although it will be hard for a few years at the beginning, but later you can eat and drink enough, a dividend of five or six hundred thousand yuan a year, although it is not considered a big rich and expensive, you can also be a small rich man in a prefecture-level city like Qinghe.

However, Li Weimin shook his head resolutely: "I'm too tired on the construction site, I'd rather go to the transportation company as a temporary worker than go to the construction site!"

"Wei Min, only when you endure hardships can you become a master, how can there be an easy and profitable job in this world. Li Weidong said.

"Anyway, I just don't go to the construction company!" Li Weimin said with a stubborn face.

The old man Li Dengke was also reluctant to let his youngest son go to the construction site to move bricks, so he asked: "Guangzhi, apart from construction companies, are there any other good enterprises?"

"Then go to the power plant, which has been expanding its capacity recently, saying that it is going to add another unit, so it needs to recruit a group of workers. Yao Guangzhi said.

"The power plant is not bad, but the harvest is guaranteed by drought and flood! And in the future, the electricity consumption will only increase, and the scale of the power plant will become larger and larger. Li Weidong opened his mouth in agreement.

In the late 90s, the power plant in Qinghe City was also restructured into a state-controlled limited company, which not only generated electricity, but also undertook urban heating and waste incineration.

Although the development potential of the power plant is not as good as that of the construction company, it is an iron rice bowl for a lifetime.

Li Weimin asked, "What are you doing at the power plant?"

"You didn't graduate from an electric power school, and the technical position must be none of your business, I guess it's either to shovel coal or shovel coal ash. Yao Guangzhi replied.

"No, it's better to shovel coal ash than to go to the construction site to move bricks, at least don't choke and panic!" Li Weimin shook his head.

"Weimin, this shovel of coal is only temporary, and technology will become more and more developed in the future, and when the time comes, the coal will be transmitted through the crawler at the push of a button. Li Weidong opened his mouth to persuade.

"In the future, it will be the Year of the Monkey! Anyway, I won't go to the power plant. Li Weimin said resolutely.

Yao Guangzhi had already expected Li Weimin's reaction, and he said: "There is also a unit, which is our department store in the western suburbs, if you go, you can help move the goods and deliver them to the counter, there are no heavy objects in the department store, and it will not be too tiring to move and deliver goods." ”

As soon as he heard about the department store in the western suburbs, Li Weidong immediately vetoed it: "No, you can't go to the department store!"

However, Li Weimin nodded frantically: "The department store is good, I'll go to the department store!"