"Is this the case for everyone?"

Feng Xiaochen asked nonsense. Yan Han asked him if he had an answer, but he was actually giving him an answer. Living in such an environment, who still has the heart to work hard. I am afraid that the main reason for the delay in the design of the ethylene plant is this.

"We, a group of engineers in our 30s, are all like that. Yan Han said, "The old workers in the hospital, who are in their 40s, have basically moved into the unit. As for those senior engineers and deputy senior engineers, the conditions are much better. Several of the directors and chief engineers live in large four-bedroom suites. ”

"This is also formed by history. Feng Xiaochen said. There is a reason why old workers can live in units, and even four-bedroom apartments, while young workers live in two families. The original housing on the unit was not tight, and everyone had a place to live. Later, a large number of young workers were recruited, and the unit certainly could not let the old workers quit their houses for young people to live in, so the newcomers could only squeeze into the building. It doesn't matter when you're single, two or even three people can bear it. But after all, the young people are married, and there is no new housing in the unit, so the young people can only get married in the building, so the situation of the cold is formed.

Yan Han said: "Assistant Feng, don't you know, if it's because there is no housing in the courtyard, we live like this, and we don't have anything to say, who let us not enter a good unit." But last time, your equipment company gave 10 million, and the courtyard started to build two new buildings, and now it is about to be capped. As soon as the subdivision plan in the courtyard came out, our building exploded, and Zhou Ting and the others directly shouted the slogan of the strike. ”

"Why?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

Yan Leng smiled: "Why else, protest." We young people who work on weekdays, and when we get to the room division, we say that our score is not enough and we can't be included in the scope of the room division. Everyone has worked so hard and hard to end up without even a room of their own, who is willing to do it?"

"I see. Feng Xiaochen nodded. Each unit has a house division, and there are rules for seniority, and young people will definitely suffer. But the main force for drawing drawings is young people, and if you can't mobilize the enthusiasm of these young people, it won't work to rely on the old people alone. The old engineers in their 50s have some experience, but their physical strength is limited. Those in their 40s have experience and physical strength, but they are the heaviest burden on the family, and it is difficult for them to concentrate on doing things. Young people like Yan Han, who are around 30 years old, are in good health, and they have no family burden for a while, so they are suitable for work, but a house division policy has directly dispelled everyone's enthusiasm, and it is no wonder that Kang Haidong will be helpless and can only play tricks in front of them.

"You don't like to work, so what do you usually do?" Feng Xiaochen asked with interest.

"That's a lot. Yan Han said, "I'll count them for you." The first group was busy running and transferring, and wanted to be transferred to the enterprise. Although the work in the enterprise is a little harder, the housing is not so tight. You see, like me and Zhou Ting, we don't have children yet, so it doesn't matter if we live in the same room. Some people see that they are about to add Ding to import, and then squeeze a room with other colleagues, but it is not suitable, so they want to transfer to the company. ”

"Well, that's a way out. ”

"The second batch, ready to go abroad. Yan Han snapped his fingers and continued, "Few of those who can enter the Petrochemical Design Institute are mediocre. I didn't think about going abroad in the past, but now I can't live my life, so I can only go abroad. In our building, everyone in the family buys a tape recorder for the purpose of listening to foreign languages, just to go abroad, casually count, thirty or forty people. ”

"Well, that's a brain drain. ”

Yan Han snorted and said, "What kind of talent is lost, the courtyard doesn't care." A master's degree from Pudong Jiaotong University like me is quite good to say, but in the petrochemical institute, I am not even a scum. There are no other petrochemical institutes, and it is not uncommon to have a doctorate or a master's degree. ”

Feng Xiaochen was silent, universities, research institutes, design institutes and other units are all places where doctors and masters gather. It's not easy to get a full-fledged undergraduate in other places, and in these places, doctors and masters are just animals living in groups in the building.

"Go on. Feng Xiaochen said.

"There is also a third group, which is busy earning money outside. With money, at least you can go out and rent a farmer's house to live, next to us is Wali Township, every peasant family in the village has a special house for rent, a room is 100 yuan a month, and we have many colleagues who have moved out to live. ”

"Earn money, why do you make money?" Feng Xiaochen asked.

"That's a lot. Yan Han said, "Some of them are substitute teachers for the schools next to them, ranging from 8 to 10 yuan per class; some simply go directly to other people's homes to be tutors and tutor other people's children in the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination; and some can help others repair computers and make some money." However, the one who makes the most money is still going to the south to work as a technical consultant for township enterprises, and if he does a good job, he will earn thousands of yuan at a time. ”

"Wouldn't it take many days to go out to the township enterprises in the south?" Feng Xiaochen said.

Yan Han said: "Isn't it, it's at least a week to go out." If you can't buy a sleeper ticket, you will suffer if you go to a hard seat, and it will take almost a week to recover after you come back. ”

"Wouldn't you be able to work for two weeks?" Feng Xiaochen smiled bitterly. He didn't need to be explained by the cold, he could imagine what the situation was. It is quite easy to ask for leave in a public institution, at best, it is to deduct the salary of personal leave, which is nothing compared to the income of 1,000 yuan at a time. As for saying that you can't slow down after you come back, as long as you can go to the office, the leader has nothing to say, and you take a drawing pen to sleep for a day, which can be regarded as having work. But in such a state, can you still expect them to make big ethylene?

Just as he was saying this, he only heard the sound of kicking and taping in the corridor, accompanied by some chatting sounds, which was the movement of everyone coming back from work. After a while, the lock of the room clicked, and a young man with glasses pushed the door in. Yan Han hurriedly got up and introduced Feng Xiaochen: "Assistant Feng, this is my colleague Zhou Ting, he is from the pressure vessel design room, your ......." ”

He wanted to say that the pressure vessels entrusted by Feng Xiaochen's company were designed by Zhou Ting's design office, but Feng Xiaochen interrupted him, and stood up directly to greet Zhou Ting: "Hello, Zhou Gong, my surname is Feng, I am a friend of Xiao Yan, I passed by here today, came up to visit Xiao Yan, didn't disturb you." ”

"No, no, welcome, welcome. Zhou Ting was a very enthusiastic person, he shook hands with Feng Xiaochen and said, "Feng ...... Uh, it's Assistant Feng, I'm so sorry, you see we're in such a mess here......"

Feng Xiaochen waved his hand and said, "Zhou Gong, don't listen to Xiao Yan's bragging, I'm just the logistics assistant of our unit, you still call me Xiao Feng." ”

"Well, it's okay, you can call me Lao Zhou, I'm a year older than Xiao Yan, and he has always called me that. Zhou Ting said with a smile.

The two exchanged a few words, Zhou Ting motioned to Feng Xiaochen to continue chatting with Yan Han, and he changed his clothes and began to prepare for cooking. While scooping rice into the pot of the rice cooker, he casually said to Yan Han: "Xiao Yan, you didn't go to the meeting just now, did you?" Lao Kang lost his temper again and spoke harshly. ”

"Really, what did he say again?" Yan Han asked while winking at Feng Xiaochen, Feng Xiaochen understood, the old Kang Zhou Ting said should be the Kang Haidong he had just met. He didn't say anything, waiting for the cold to put Zhou Ting's words.

Zhou Ting regarded Feng Xiaochen as an unrelated passerby, and when he saw Yan Han asking him a question, he replied with a smile: "What else can it be, isn't it just about 600,000 tons of ethylene." I heard that there was another person from the equipment industry company today, and he gave an ultimatum to the hospital, saying that he would give an answer within three days. Lao Kang summoned several of us from the design office, and said a lot of big and small things. ”

"Did you talk about his participation in the oil war again?" asked Yan Han. Kang Haidong participated in the oil battle that year, but he did not participate in the general battle when the Daqing Oilfield was developed at the end of the 50s, but a small battle when the Shengli Oilfield was developed in the 70s. Although the scale of the battle was much smaller, it did not prevent him from showing it off twice in three days, and tried to encourage today's young people to be as dedicated as they were back then.

"Isn't that the set?" Zhou Ting pursed his lips disdainfully and said, "It's just talking big all day long, and it's useless." ”

"What ultimatum, how can anyone dare to give you an ultimatum?" Feng Xiaochen interjected.

Zhou Ting said: "Xiao Yan also knows about this, that is, the state handed over a major task to our design institute, saying that it would be completed in one year, but now more than a year has passed, and we haven't even finished a third of it, and people are anxious, so they came to give us an ultimatum." ”

"Then what will happen if you still can't finish it?" Feng Xiaochen asked with a pretended curiosity.

Zhou Ting said: "What else can I do, whether it is completed or not, whether it is completed or not, it is not our business to coordinate between leaders." ”

Feng Xiaochen said: "How can it be none of your business? Could it be that if you can't complete the task, the leaders won't trouble you?"

Zhou Ting sneered: "Why should they trouble us? It's good that we didn't trouble the leaders." You may not know the situation of our design institute, just look at the place where Xiao Yan and I live, we are both married, and we have to live in the same room, under such conditions, what qualifications does the leader have to trouble us?"