In the Spring Festival of 1995, Linyi swept away the gloomy and decaying scene of the previous years, and the whole factory was lit up and down, and everyone was beaming. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the aroma of stewed meat and chicken filled the entire factory, and the sound of firecrackers at zero o'clock was even louder. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people dressed in new clothes began to pay New Year's greetings from house to house, and the children carried New Year's money and firecrackers in their pockets, running happily in the factory area, and the laughter came and went, so that the adults were also infected, and all of them had smiles on their faces.

"Master, the apprentice has given you a New Year's greeting!"

"In-laws, Wishing you prosperity!"

"Lao Zhang, how is it, it's time to hold your grandson this year, right? Congratulations!"

"Sister Liu, you change this body, you look like you're in your 20s......"

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A factory is a society. More than 20,000 employees and their families are inextricably linked, some of them are fathers and sons working in the factory, some are children and daughters, some are classmates when they were studying in children's schools, and there are also old colleagues, old leaders, old subordinates, fellow villagers and so on.

On weekdays, everyone is busy with their own affairs, especially in those times when the factory economy is in a recession, many people are working outside the factory, there are few opportunities to meet, and they only sigh for a long time when they meet, how can they be interested in chatting. Nowadays, the factory has improved a little, especially on Chinese New Year's Eve, the factory paid everyone 3 months' wages in one go, and some dual-income workers almost got thousands of yuan at home, and their pockets bulged all of a sudden.

As the saying goes, money is the guts of the poor. Everyone had money in their pockets, and they all spoke in a few degrees higher pitches. The son wanted to buy firecrackers, and the father waved his hand: "Buy!" The daughter took a fancy to a ski shirt, and the mother sold it for 100 yuan without saying a word. Those friends who haven't gotten together for a long time also dare to make an appointment to eat together, what is a little wine and meat, isn't it just money?

Everyone got together, chatting and chatting, and couldn't help but turn to the topic of the present and future of the factory.

"Xiao Cheng, after the New Year, do we still have any business?"

This is the home of Cheng Wei, the director of the lathe workshop, and a small family banquet is going on. The people who came to the banquet were all employees who had a good relationship with Cheng Wei on weekdays, and the one who asked Cheng Wei questions at this time was Cheng Wei's former master, Li Zeqing, a seventh-level lathe.

"Master, don't worry, the kind of baler we made last month has now received more than 70 orders in the factory. Director Zhou said that this time there is no need to be in a hurry, it can be completed in 3 months, so the business of our workshop should be at least in May. Cheng Wei replied.

Cheng Wei's junior brother Pang Lin asked: "Senior brother, didn't the factory originally say that after making that batch of packing machines, they would give everyone a bonus?

"Yes, I did the math, I can at least get 100 yuan, I originally planned to get the money and eat a few meals during the New Year, but why didn't I believe it?" Another worker named Liu Yongxing also chimed in, he and Cheng Wei are chess friends, and they always have time to kill a few games on weekdays.

Cheng Wei said: "The things promised by the factory will definitely not be repaid, which everyone can rest assured." Director Zhou said that at the end of this year, three months' wages were paid to everyone, and the amount was not small, so the bonus would be paid after the New Year. Lao Liu, the combined salaries of your two are more than 1,000 yuan, and you are still counting on the 100 yuan bonus to eat?"

Liu Yongxing said with a smile: "The salary is the salary, and the bonus is extra." How to spend the salary, my wife has already planned, and I can't get a penny more. If you can get this bonus, won't there be more reasons to drink?"

Pang Lin asked: "Senior brother, the factory didn't pay bonuses before the year, do you have any other ideas?"

"What do you think?" Cheng Wei asked rhetorically.

Pang Lin said: "I heard people say that the factory is afraid that the bonus will be unevenly distributed and cause trouble, so it will be delayed until after the Chinese New Year, so that everyone will not have a good time in the New Year." ”

Otherwise, if you don't want people to know, unless you don't do it, the calculations of the leaders of the factory council may be able to hide some of the workers, but if you want all the workers to guess it, it is absolutely impossible. Among them, there may be the factor that Zhou Heng deliberately let people let off steam, this kind of thing, let the wind go first, so that everyone has a psychological preparation, it is better than taking a surprise attack.

Hearing Pang Lin's words, Li Zeqing's attitude also became serious, and he asked Cheng Wei: "Xiao Cheng, I heard that the policy in the factory is to work more and get more, work less and get less, and don't work hard." In this mission, there are a lot of people in our workshop who are not involved in production, and you really don't give them a penny of bonuses?"

Cheng Wei smiled bitterly and said, "Master, is this something I can decide? Director Zhou usually looks quite amiable, but he really doesn't recognize his six relatives with a straight face, how can I have the courage to openly violate the requirements of the factory council. ”

"Does the factory council say that no bonuses will be paid to those who are not involved in production?" asked Liu Yongxing.

Cheng Wei nodded his head with an almost imperceptible degree, and said: "This matter, the factory leaders are not allowed to make it public, so don't go out and talk about it." ”

Pang Lin said: "We definitely won't go out and talk about it. However, there is a lot of talk in the factory. That Wang Ying in the milling workshop, you all know each other, right?"

"Of course I know, family planning cadres who are out of work. Liu Yongxing said in a somewhat mocking tone.

The Wang Ying they are talking about is a female worker in her 30s, who entered the factory in 1980 in place of her father's index and was assigned to the milling workshop as an apprentice. At the beginning of the apprenticeship, Wang Ying's performance was quite passable, although the speed of learning technology was more than half slower than others, but he was still disciplined. After that, she got married, gave birth to a child quickly, and then ran in the direction of the middle-aged aunt.

After returning to the workshop after confinement, she claimed that she had fallen ill and could not stand for a long time, could not listen to noise, and could not see things spinning rapidly, otherwise she would be dizzy. But as a miller, how could she meet these requirements? So, she had to go to the staff hospital several times a week to get sick twice a day. In the workshop, if she handed over any work, she would definitely not be able to complete it, so she would hand over a few sick notes to offset it.

There was no way in the workshop, so she had to be transferred out of the milling position, first let her be an inspector, but she said that she couldn't learn the testing equipment, and let her be a statistician, and she said that she had a headache when she saw the numbers. After several tosses, in the end, the milling workshop creatively set up a family planning post, let her be in charge of this work, and usually publish a propaganda newspaper to help everyone get some family planning supplies and the like, which is purely a position of eating and waiting for death.

This time, the production task of the baler has nothing to do with family planning, so Wang Ying has not participated in this business from beginning to end, so naturally it belongs to the group that cannot get the project bonus.

"That's her. Pang Lin said, "She came to my house yesterday and asked my wife how to make egg dumplings. Later, the two of them were chatting in the kitchen, and I heard an ear. Wang Ying said that if she didn't pay the bonus this time, she would have to finish with the leader. ”

"Cut, why did she take it!" Liu Yongxing reprimanded, "We don't need to talk about this production, from the time she entered the factory to now, it has been more than ten years, has she done anything at all?"

Pang Lin said: "She really hasn't done anything, but she hasn't taken the benefits of the milling workshop once." I heard my wife say that in the past, when our factory still had night shift pay, she got the highest night shift pay every month in the milling workshop. ”

"Damn, what's the matter!" Liu Yongxing jumped up, "Isn't she in charge of family planning, why does she still have a night shift!"

Pang Lin said: "You don't know, do you? She said that she went to the workers' homes every night to carry out family planning propaganda, and it was well documented that she went to any one of them. ”

"She went to someone's house to play cards, right?" Cheng Wei said angrily.

"She has such a ability, fortunately she is not in our lathe workshop, or you will have a headache. Pang Lin said with a smile,

Cheng Wei sneered and said: "Where is there no such person in our workshop? Zhou Yijin and Xu Wenlan, aren't they all like this? I am tired when I work, and I am too little when I pay bonuses. This time, the task in the workshop was assigned by the old manager, and they couldn't do the task assigned to these two people, and in the end someone else took it over. In terms of workload, these two people don't get a penny bonus, and I'm still having a headache about how to deal with them. ”

"This is all Zheng Guowei and Ma Dazhuang, who have spoiled the atmosphere. In the past, when Director Feng was here, did these people dare to cheat and cheat like this?" Li Zeqing said indignantly. The Zheng Guowei he said was Zhou Heng's predecessor, that is, the former director of Linyi Machine. As for Director Feng, it was an earlier old factory director named Feng Liansong. In Li Zeqing's memory, during Feng Liansong's tenure, the atmosphere in the factory was still good.

Liu Yongxing said: "When Director Feng was here, I could only say that these people were a little more honest, but there were still things like cheating. The things that have happened over the years are not only made by Zheng Guowei and his gang, but also the atmosphere of the whole society, and it is not just that we have one machine and one factory. ”

Pang Lin said: "What Lao Liu said also has some truth, the atmosphere of these years is indeed not as good as in the past. The new factory director Zhou is a bit similar to the temper of the old Feng factory director, but I don't know if he can grasp the production discipline like the old Feng factory director. Zhou Yijin and Xu Wenlan that my senior brother said just now, I don't know how the factory thinks about it. ”

Cheng Wei said: "The factory leader means to strictly manage, and those who don't do things can't get bonuses." However, people like Wang Ying and Zhou Yijin can be tossed, and it depends on whether Director Zhou can withstand the pressure. ”

"I'm afraid that the pressure will be all on you, senior brother. Pang Lin said.

Cheng Wei said: "I won't carry this black pot." The factory said that how to pay bonuses, I will pay them. If the factory says that they won't pay Zhou Yijin a penny, I will show them the documents in the factory. If you want a bonus, I'm sorry, you go to the factory leader, I'm a small workshop director, how can I have this power. ”