"The hall has become a staff dormitory, these people don't go back by themselves?" Su Cheng's tone couldn't tell whether it was good or bad, he walked around the side of the stairwell, and saw that on the floor of the hall behind the sheets, there were twenty or thirty people sleeping horizontally, some sleeping on the bunks, some hiding in sleeping bags, most of them were wrapped in a thin quilt, and they were used as mattresses and quilts. As for the pillows, they are almost all replaced by books.

The whole hall, except for a vacant space in the middle for going up and down the stairs, is full of people sleeping on both sides, and the loss is that the weather is hot, so that the empty hall will not be cold and windy. This kind of Chase Shop is not a Chase Shop, Sioux City has only seen it during the Battle of the Oil Field, but that scene is the victory of spirit over matter, and the background of this era is different.

Wang Yun was a little nervous, two months ago, he was still a researcher who only cared about the project, and in the blink of an eye, he had to think about the food, drink and Lazar of the entire research institute, and he couldn't tell whether what he was doing was right or wrong, so he hesitated for a long time and said honestly: "In fact, most of the people who stayed in the office building were assistants and interns, and they all had no staff dormitories." You know, we don't do research day and night, some people stay up until one or two o'clock in the morning to get off work, there is not even a car outside, and they can't go back if they want to, so they can only deal with it all night in the office. After coming and going, many people moved their luggage over. ”

Su Cheng also knew about low-paid assistants and unpaid interns, and he nodded slightly and asked, "How many people sleep in the office building?"

"They all sleep in shifts, two or three hundred people. ”

"So many?" Sioux City turned his head in surprise. There were dozens of people sleeping in the hall, and he thought it was too much.

Wang Yun whispered: "We recruit more interns and assistants. ”

"How much?"

"It's almost two thousand. "That's twice as many as it was more than a month ago.

Su Cheng gasped: "You're almost catching up with the total number of employees in Dahua Labs." ”

"The Carbon Fiber Research Institute has approved 120 people, and according to the number of our experiments, it will take three years for this person to complete the current two-month amount. I think that now that we have the equipment, we have figured out the experimental methods and everything. You can't slow it down because of people...... In addition, the cost of assistants and interns is low, so there are more people to recruit. When Wang Yun said this, he also said that he said like a showdown: "If we don't use this method, even if we can make cheap carbon fiber in two or three years, we won't be able to sell it at a price." The speed of foreign companies can reduce the price of carbon fiber by one-third in a year, and even if we don't take the lead, we have no advantage. ”

Sioux City was silent when he heard this. I went upstairs on my own.

said everything he could say, but didn't get a response, Wang Yun was dumbfounded all of a sudden, thinking: Dead or alive, you give me a happy one.

Catch up and ask. Wang Yun didn't dare, so he could only ask Yang Ming next to him in a low voice: "Does Su Dong approve or disapprove?"

Yang Ming couldn't judge it, but he didn't want to show his timidity, and said with a chatter: "What do you think?"

"Is that angry?"

"It's hard to say. Yang Ming patted him on the shoulder and said, "Let's go up first, won't we?"

Afraid that he would continue to ask, Yang Ming ran up the stairs in three steps and two steps.

Looking at the monkey-like office director, Wang Yun was stunned for a long time. I also chased after him regardless of the image.

The second floor is an ordinary office building, with a corridor in the middle, laboratories on both sides, and one or two windows in between. But it's much brighter than the gloomy office buildings that were prevalent in the 90s.

Signs are hung at the doors of every laboratory and office, and most of them are chemical laboratories and physical testing laboratories.

Su Cheng went upstairs and saw a door with a "mechanical property testing laboratory" hanging in front of him open, and a young experimenter probed his brain. When he saw Su Cheng and his party, he immediately straightened up. It's obviously a posture waiting to be reviewed.

"Are you an intern or an assistant?" asked Su Cheng.

"Intern. ”

"Unpaid?"

"There is a subsidy of 2 yuan a day. The intern replied cautiously, and at the same time looked at Wang Yun who came up from behind.

2 yuan a day, if you don't work overtime, it is 40 yuan per month, even if you work every day, 60 yuan a month in 93 years, it is only enough for the cost of food, accommodation and clothing and other expenses have to be borne by yourself. In the case of not including food and accommodation, the subsidy of 2 yuan is really equivalent to no salary. Probably, only college students who have not graduated can put up with it.

"Why would you be willing to do an unpaid internship?" Sioux City was indeed curious. 93-year-old college students are still very expensive, and the package distribution system still exists, no matter what school or major, it is not difficult for college students to find a job with an iron rice bowl, and the unpaid internship of Dahua Laboratory does not guarantee employment.

The Carbon Fiber Research Institute has a full staff of 120 people, but there are 2,000 assistants and interns, no matter how it expands, it cannot expand more than ten times.

The intern standing opposite Su Cheng looked at Wang Yun and said, "I believe I can stay." ”

"Can't stay? There's going to be someone who can't stay. ”

"I will be able to become an assistant within the year, and I will definitely be able to stay if I accumulate man-hours. ”

"What if you graduate and don't stay?"

"I've graduated. "The intern was in the sun.

"You gave up the state allocation?" Nowadays, college students will be assigned to different state units after graduation, and they do not need to take the civil service examination. Correspondingly, it is difficult to enter the state organs again if you give up the assignment, and there is also no path to the civil service examination.

Sioux City itself was assigned to the oil field from school. For any college student, giving up the state distribution is a bold move, if you go directly to the private company to get a high salary, it is just a low-paid assistant, Su Cheng asked himself if he could not do it back then.

The intern on the other side disagreed, saying, "There is nothing good about the state allocation, I have to do research." ”

There was no shortage of college students full of ideals in the 90s. In fact, most of the college students in the 90s, even if they didn't do anything earth-shattering, they mostly didn't have to worry about food and clothing. Without material confinement, it is natural to be able to let go of ideals, and such an opportunity is not envied by ordinary college students in later generations.

Su Cheng sighed with emotion and said with a smile: "The country's research institute can also do research." ”

"They're paid a little more than their assistants. The assistant is 180 yuan a month, but he can follow the researcher and associate researcher to do the project, and there is a project bonus when he makes it. How many of the domestic research institutes can allocate 100,000 yuan for a single project? In the end, they are waiting for death with a dead salary of several hundred yuan, and many researchers in their thirties and forties. I didn't do as many experiments in a year as I did in a month. Perhaps bewildered by Su Cheng's smile, the intern also let go, and said, "Besides, as long as you are an assistant researcher, you will have a salary of 1,000 yuan a month, and you will have 2,000 yuan as an associate researcher, and you will earn it back in two years!"

According to Dahua Industrial's salary standard, even ordinary researchers without "special contributions" will receive a monthly salary of more than 1,000 yuan. Depending on the level, a salary of 2,000 yuan or even 3,000 yuan is common.

Of course, ordinary researchers in Dahua are also rare academic elites in China. In the first two years, students who have just graduated are directly recruited, and their resumes and college grades can blind a room of kryptonite dogs. High scores in national competitions, national scholarships, or theories with high impact factors are just appetizers...... China's education system has always been meritocracy, and this has not changed until 20 years later. You can graduate without studying, but it's not easy to study hard and get excellent grades.

No matter how much the media disparages China's university education, even if 90 percent of students don't study at university. There are still 10 per cent of students who are studying. If any student wants to come out on top, there is still a cutthroat competition. In fact, China's university education has always been geared towards the top 10 or even 5 percent of students, and the new knowledge system and excessive coursework requirements have not changed until 20 years later. The expansion may have increased enrollment, but it has not lowered the academic requirements for universities. For the 90% of students who don't have a solid foundation, they may have achieved something in business, politics or the arts, but. Unless it takes several times as long, most people are at the beginning of school. It is already destined not to achieve anything academically.

For the current Dahua industry, students who can join at the beginning of graduation, all aspects of the conditions must be top-notch, on the basis, the resume of most school graduates must be the most beautiful 10% to have the opportunity to interview, the requirements of the Dahua laboratory are naturally higher in terms of treatment and status, just the two difficulties of the written test and the interview, you can brush down most of the elite students, the lack of famous teachers and excellent teaching equipment of the school students, the base has been difficult to enter the door of the Dahua laboratory.

It is foreseeable that with the low-paid assistant and unpaid intern system implemented by Dahua Laboratory, the difficulty of joining Dahua Laboratory in the future will only increase, not decrease. At least, except for those who have made achievements, the vast majority of newcomers have to start as interns.

However, compared with domestic research institutes, Dahua Laboratory's investment is much larger. The 90s was the low tide period of domestic research institutions, and the lack of funds was not even enough to ensure the salaries and benefits of researchers, and where could they do expensive material experiments like Dahua Laboratory.

Such a situation will be difficult to change for at least a decade. Especially before the implementation of the Patent Law, the research results of state-owned research institutions were almost given to enterprises for free, and no amount of money made by enterprises was distributed to research institutions, and research institutions were also not interested in market-oriented products, preferring to do cost-saving and good-sounding theoretical research......

In the domestic research institute, only a few state-guaranteed projects can win some small special funds, such as the carbon fiber project, it was not until 9697 late that it entered the list of national guarantees and received a small amount of funding, and it was not until 15 years later that it was included in the key projects and received a large amount of funding.

But for researchers now, there are a few more five years, a few fifteen years to wait.

Wang Yun has done countless experiments on paper, and the progress of the Carbon Fiber Research Institute of Dahua Laboratory can be so fast thanks to his accumulation in the early years. However, if the current experimental conditions existed before, why wait until now to produce results.

"What are the requirements for going from intern to assistant to assistant researcher?" asked Wang Yun this time.

Wang Yun said a little unnaturally: "Time plus assessment, the current set is that unpaid interns do half a year or more than 1,200 hours, and the assessment is transferred to an assistant, and the effective working time of the assistant is more than 10,000 hours, or there is a recommendation from the chief researcher, and after the assessment, he will be transferred to an assistant researcher." ”

The assistant researcher is a formal employee of Dahua Industry, Wang Yun said and asked tentatively: "In three or four years, our carbon fiber research institute can always increase the establishment by a few hundred, right?"

"If you make achievements, you can naturally increase the number of staff. ”

"How much can you add?" Wang Yun didn't have so many twists and turns. I asked directly.

Su Cheng was asked, and said dumbly: "This has to be calculated by the personnel department, so anxious?"

"I'm not worried about the invalidation of the previous commitments, but if there are more staff, everyone will be able to work a little more energetically. I now regret that I filled all 120 staff. Wang Yun really looked regretful, and patted his head and said: "At that time, I was also squeezed, and the bosses who could do projects independently were not small, and the salary was not high enough." People are also reluctant to resign. Later, in order to cooperate with them, so many low-paid assistants and unpaid interns were recruited, and the institute could not continue. ”

As he spoke, Wang Yun looked at Su Cheng with blank eyes. Said: "Look, let's make the finished carbon fiber in two months, if we can add another 120 this year, I promise to make two more carbon fibers!"

Sioux City habitually meditated.

Yang Ming was worried that he would agree, so he hurriedly said: "The Carbon Fiber Research Institute is not in this year's budget, the establishment of 120 people is all on a mobile budget, and the salary of assistants and the subsidy of interns are also extrabudgetary." The research budget is the overall budget of the Dahua laboratory, which crowds out the funds of several material projects, and if the funds and salaries of another 120 people are added, everyone will have to rebel. ”

To Yang Ming. Wang Yun had nothing to say, and said with a stiff neck: "It's okay to increase the salary by 120 assistant researchers, and not increase the fund." Research assistants do not work on stand-alone projects. ”

"Then you have to pay hundreds of thousands more salaries every month, you talk to Li Lianxiang. Let's see where Dahua Lab can pick out hundreds of thousands. "The annual funding of Dahua Laboratory is hundreds of millions of yuan, but it is divided by several research institutes, and then it falls into the overall funding of the laboratory, and thousands of researchers with thousands of projects are waiting to be fed, and the funds are scraped at the beginning of the year, not to mention that it is now the end of the year. In addition, there is a clear distinction between experimental funds and personnel salaries in the budget of Dahua Laboratory, Yang Ming has done administration for many years, and knows how troublesome it is to coordinate these things, when the time comes, not only Dahua Laboratory will have to do many pieces, Dahua headquarters will also have to verify countless pieces, in the increasingly institutionalized Dahua industry, these tasks are indispensable, otherwise the management of the headquarters will be out of control.

Wang Yun, like other researchers, was extremely dissatisfied with the bureaucracy and bargained: "120 is not good, 100 is fine." We have a little 500 assistant now, and we have to solve one-fifth. ”

Yang Ming said suspiciously: "You said 10,000 hours of effective working time, according to 8 hours a day, you have to work 1,250 working days, even if you work overtime, you don't need to increase the number of employees in three years." ”

"No, there are still researchers recommending it. Wang Yun twisted.

"This can be controlled, and even if there is, it should be arranged in next year's budget. ”

"If you become an assistant researcher one year late, you will have to be a year late for everything in the future, and people have made achievements, so why don't you let them become regulars. Wang Yun spends most of his time working in state units, and his speech is still in the tone of a state unit, but the meaning is the same. On the other hand, similar to the concept of the Japanese consortium in the same period also has a strong meaning in Dahua Industry, looking at ten or twenty years later, there may be a huge difference between officially joining Dahua Industrial in 93 and officially joining Dahua Industrial in 94.

The intern standing on the side saw that now was an important moment to decide whether the interns and assistants would eat meat or drink soup, and seized the opportunity to say: "10,000 hours of working time will not take three years, and it will not take two years." ”

Several people turned their heads to look at him.

The intern snapped his fingers and said, "Our interns work together for a minimum of 100 hours a week, and they usually work 110 hours. I work six and a half days a week, accumulating 500 hours in a month. Even if I take one month off every year, I can accumulate 11,000 hours of work in two years. 1,000 hours were used to transfer assistants, and the remaining 10,000 hours were enough for me to become assistant researchers. ”

Su Cheng's eyes straightened when he listened: "Working 110 hours a week?"

"110 hours is an average level, and there are many people who work 120 hours a week. If you look at the people who sleep inside and outside, they all sleep four or five hours a day, and even if they live in front of them, they are reluctant to go back and waste an hour going back and forth. ”

Wang Yun didn't have time to stop it, and the intern finished speaking, and he touched his head in a hurry. Said: "I'm not exploiting labor, I'm going to drive people back to rest, and I can't get rid of them." The meeting said to change the rules, but it was pushed back again. ”

Only then did the intern realize that he had said the wrong thing, and remedied: "We are happy to stay in the laboratory, what is the point of going back to sleep, as long as the carbon fiber research institute has funds to do experiments, I would rather do experiments until death." ”

The words "death from overwork" instantly appeared in Su Cheng's mind, and he hurriedly shook his head and said, "No." The intensity is too high and must be lowered. ”

"We'd love to. ”

"It's not okay to be willing, it's really exhausting, and the media doesn't want to criticize and write. Sioux City insisted: "100 hours a week is too much......

"What's the matter with the media? What are the days and nights of research and experiments? Such a good device. With such good conditions, if you don't hurry up to do research and experiments, isn't that a sin?" This time it was an old man who came out of the mechanics laboratory opposite, and looking at the gray hair, he was sixty or seventy years old.

This kind of face is either a retired researcher hired by Dahua, or a part-time old qualification. Su Cheng couldn't give a direct order, so he had to say warmly: "The investment of our Dahua laboratory will only increase, as long as the equipment is not wasted, and people can't be exhausted for the sake of equipment." ”

"I think you're saying the opposite. People are not tired of this thing. When we were engaged in the 156 Project, who didn't sleep three or four hours a day? The equipment is different, the equipment is old, and this year is still first-class equipment. If you don't hurry up and use it, it will become a second-rate device next year. The gray-haired old man said. He pointed to the assistants and interns on the side, and said, "You ask these boys, if they want to go to Tsinghua University and the University of Science and Technology of China, which one of them will be more tired if they don't read 100 hours of books a week and read 120 hours of books?"

Su Cheng was dumbfounded, but he didn't know how to refute. Explain the relationship between stress and death from overwork? Isn't arguing with the old man who did the Soviet-aided construction projects in the 50s looking for a political lesson?

Yang Mingqing coughed twice and said, "Shall we ask the interns and assistants what they mean?"

"I didn't hit them when I asked them. The old man snorted and said, "Forty or fifty-year-old researchers have to work overtime for three or four hours every day.

Yang Ming was anxious: "This old gentleman ......"

"This is Professor Du Manchun, who has been a visiting scholar at the Technical University of Kemnitz in Germany for 3 years and has just returned to China. Wang Yun was afraid that he would say the wrong thing, so he hurriedly introduced.

Yang Ming was stunned. This person who has done 156 projects, why is he still returning from overseas?

The old man waved his hand domineeringly and said, "Don't engage in those things that worship foreign flattery." Why is Germany's industry so powerful, the Germans are diligent and willing to work. Whether it's an apprentice at a technical school or a student at a school, there are many people who spend 100 hours a week in factories, libraries and laboratories. Why can't we do what others can do? Can we do it?"

"It's done. A roar resounded through the hallway.

Only then did a few people realize that they were already surrounded by researchers and interns. The young interns' faces flushed with excitement as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and the older researchers recalled the eventful old days, their necks raised higher than the younger ones.

The old man Du Manchun smiled, he helped the door slightly, and once again seemed to be a speech, and said with full of anger: "Our country is backward, let's say carbon fiber, what a good thing, military and civilian dual-use, light weight and high strength, but what level do we have? T300 can't do it, foreign countries have done T800, our country has lagged behind for more than ten years." The Germans work 100 three hours a week, 110 hours, and we can only catch up slowly if we work 120 hours or 130 hours.

Su Cheng really hasn't been called Xiao Su for some days, but at this time, he can only honestly bow his head and say, "Yes." ”

"That's right. The old man was satisfied, and scolded Fang Xuan and said: "What are tired people afraid of, the general's horse leather shroud is still there, if you can die of exhaustion in the laboratory doing research." That's a good talk, isn't it?"

"This ...... It's still not okay to be tired, and as the chairman, I have to ensure the health of the employees, right?" Su Cheng said cautiously. This is also Du Manchun's old qualifications and retired cadres. If someone else says this, I don't know how many hats will be buttoned up.

However, these researchers ate Du Manchun's set, and they buzzed below, and if they were in a hurry, they rolled up their sleeves directly. I went back to the experiments.

Du Manchun was proud, knocked on the door with his black fingers, and said with a smile: "Look, this is the opinion of the masses." If you want your employees to be healthy, you might as well buy two more commuter cars. It's better to get more hot dishes and hot soup in the cafeteria than anything else. ”

"You're right. Su Cheng nodded honestly, turned around and said, "Yang Ming, you record, transfer two commuter buses to the research institute today...... Well, so be it, bring in four cars. With 8 drivers, for the entire Dahua laboratory, four cars are on duty 24 hours a day, and the cars are full of people to drive. Travel to and from the residence halls and labs. ”

Yang Mingyun's pen was flying, and he made a record on the "rustle", and a group of people watched from the side.

Su Cheng thought for a moment, and then continued: "The canteen is the same policy. I remember it used to be a 24-hour workday, right?"

"The meals in the evening were more simple because there were fewer people eating them. I don't make dishes that can't be put up, and I rarely replenish them when they are sold out. Yang Ming is the director of the office, and he is very clear about this.

Su Cheng waved his hand and said: "In the past, there were few people who ate supper, but now there are more young people who work overtime and stay up late, so they have to cook it as a serious meal." If the chef can't put it, find a few Cantonese chefs. ”

"Yes. ”

"In terms of dormitories, the group's housing policy should be strengthened, interns and assistants should be included in the group's housing policy, and the finance department should be ordered to make a budget. As soon as Su Cheng said this, the interns and assistants cheered, Dahua's housing policy is a parallel way of subsidies and kinds, if you are willing to live in a dormitory, you can enjoy a subsidy if you are not willing to live in a dormitory, the amount of subsidies is estimated at the average price of rent, the amount is a lot, and the dormitory is built well - Dahua Industrial and Dahua Investment are both wholly-owned companies in Sioux City, he lends the land purchased by Dahua Investment with his left hand, and his right hand can continue to buy land with the cash paid by Dahua Industrial, and he can also solve the problem of land retention by the way.

For the interns and assistants, eating in the cafeteria, wearing lab clothes, living in the dormitory, and traveling by shuttle bus are the basic solutions to life problems.

"Yes. Du Manchun was happy, his hometown dialect came out, and he changed his tongue before saying: "That's it, if Wang Xiaozi can't make T300 level carbon fiber, he will spit on Xingzi." ”

Wang Yun had a bitter face: "Uncle Shi......"

There was a burst of laughter around.

Su Cheng breathed a sigh of relief, touched his neck, and sweated finely, only then did he feel the stuffiness on the first floor, thought about it, and grabbed Yang Ming again, and said: "In this way, add air conditioning to several buildings in the carbon fiber institute, so many people sleep on the floor, and I am afraid that it will be very hot at night." ”

Hearing the word "air conditioning", the people from the carbon fiber institute who were talking happily closed their mouths and widened their eyes.

The air conditioner in the 90s is a rare play, the imported one costs four or five thousand yuan, and the domestic one has to be three thousand upwards, and the air conditioner at this time is not to mention the supply of tickets, it is not easy to install it, and it is necessary to pay thousands of yuan to the power supply bureau.

Shanghai has always been the city with the highest standard of living in China, but in the season of 93, in order to install an air conditioner in the wedding room, ordinary families inevitably have to mobilize the whole family, get tickets, pool money, and find someone to install it...... It is not surprising that an air conditioner uses up a family's savings for three or five years, even so, everyone is still waiting in line to buy, the summer in the south is too difficult, especially for families with small houses, even if the air conditioner is turned on for two hours a day, it is also extremely comfortable and decent.

Installing an air conditioner at home is so troublesome, needless to say, the workplace. Foreign companies occasionally have air conditioning, and state units only provide air conditioning for machines, but there are very few people, including the headquarters building of Dahua Industrial, which only has electric fans and no air conditioning.

Yang Ming's head was as big as a bucket, and he whispered: "All three buildings are air-conditioned, so what should other research institutes and project teams do?"

"If you want anything else, you can apply for a report, and this time it will be Professor Du Manchun's oral application. Su Cheng paused for a moment and continued: "Within Dahua Industrial, Dahua Laboratory gives priority to the installation of air conditioning, and we must wait for all the installation of Dahua Laboratory to be completed, and then consider the ...... of Dahua Headquarters."

With Yang Ming's record, the young people quickly began to whisper, only to hear a sharp voice: "Great, I'll bring the cover over tomorrow." Do you want to bring a thick quilt for the bed? I heard that the air conditioner is cold. ”

"Aren't you married?

"How hot it is to sleep with your wife in your arms......"

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