Chapter 233: The Loveliest Person
But suddenly, this contract changed, and someone told them: The unit is the unit, you are you, everyone take some subsidies and disperse, and in the future, they will find their own way out, and the unit will not care about you. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The question is what are these workers going to do without a unit? Where is their future? Where is their way out? How are they going to live? These are questions that no one has ever taught them before, and they are not allowed to talk about these things.
Now suddenly throwing them like a rag, they are immediately at a loss. The concept of life that has been passed down for generations is shattered in an instant, and the outlook on life, values, and worldview all have to be pushed to reconstruction.
If they are still junior high school students, they may be able to adapt and change a little, but most of them are middle-aged, and if they want to quickly change these concepts and rebuild a new set, the speed will be very, very slow. As a result, they are unable to adapt to this change, to use the fashionable phrase, abandoned by the times.
It is ridiculous that a few years ago there were still people who patted their chests and said that this era belongs to them, and the working class is the master of the country!
This wave of layoffs lasted from the mid-90s to the end of the 90s, and Hong Tao didn't care much about these things, because he was not old enough to understand the distress of those laid-off workers, but his uncle's group could feel it firsthand. Their age is precisely the most affected by the wave of layoffs, and some of them have been told by their units to take some money and get out. Every time they get together, in addition to making a game, they will discuss these issues, and they will all sigh and scold each other.
Hong Tao has heard them talk several times, and it is said that in the past few years, there have been almost 60 or 70 million laid-off workers in the country, accounting for almost half of all the workers of state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises. In other words, according to the statistics of the whole country, one out of every two employees of state-owned enterprises and collective enterprises has returned home to find a way out.
This situation is not particularly prominent in the capital, after all, this is the capital, there are many administrative units, and there are not many real factories and mining enterprises. In the three northeastern provinces and the southwest, where the original heavy industry, light industry, and military enterprises gathered, it is a different scene.
"What a tragedy in the world...... Every dusk, there will be old men riding bicycles to carry their daughters-in-law to the door of nightclubs and song halls, and then wait at the door. Most of the time, you can see more than a dozen such people in one place, and the locals even give them the title of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Don't laugh at them, they have a daughter-in-law who is quite old and good-looking, what about those who are a little older? No one wants to sell it,!"
This is the feeling of the vinegar uncle when he came back from the three eastern provinces to do the bureau and reported his work to the younger uncle and a group of people. In his words, a large area of heavy industrial cities in the three eastern provinces has been completely destroyed, and if we now have a capital of several million in our hands, we can find a way to win state-owned enterprises worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions in minutes, and we can become big capitalists in an instant. Ten years ago, this class that was criticized to death turned over overnight, and there is still a bit of a feeling that I Hu Hansan has come back again, and I am very proud of it.
If you just look at the number of laid-off workers, you may not feel anything. There are more than one billion people in China, and tens of millions of laid-off people are considered fart, can the rest of the people be waste?
But the problem cannot be counted this way, these laid-off workers are skilled and strong laborers, they are not only the main force in the factory, but also the breadwinner of the family. When they are laid off, their husbands, their wives, their children, their parents are not affected, and the most conservative calculations have to quadruple or quintify that number.
Family planning has been practiced for so many years, and many families are three-person families, with dual-income couples carrying one child. If one of the husband and wife is laid off, the family can make do with it, and if they don't live well, they won't starve to death, but what if both husband and wife are unfortunately laid off?
In some heavy industrial cities, a huge state-owned enterprise is the main pillar of the local area, many families have worked in the same factory for generations, and many husbands and wives are colleagues themselves. They have never left the factory or called the factory in their lives, and even went to kindergarten and went to work in the factory.
The blind uncle's family was also hit by the wave of layoffs, one of them worked in a bus company and the other in a canvas factory. As a result, the blind uncle's unit was fine, but his daughter-in-law's factory was not completed. Three years ago, the employees were allowed to go home to stay, at first they received a living allowance every month, and then they simply bought out the length of service and directly broke away from the unit. If you want to wait until retirement age to receive a pension, you have to pay all these years of pension insurance and medical insurance.
But the problem is that even the job is gone, where will the insurance money be earned? Let a woman in her forties who has worked in a factory for half her life go outside to fend for herself, she will also be able to do it, what will they do besides operating a loom?
Someone said, you have to learn, you have to recharge, and adapt to social changes!
The word "learn" is too light, not to mention whether she has the foundation to learn, let you take a child, and have to take care of two elderly parents to study, in exchange for you can continue to learn? Do you still have the time and energy to learn?
Some people have said that this is the throes of reform! But look at the people who take all kinds of approvals and resell them and make millions of dollars by changing hands; look at the people who are in and out of the night clubs in various places, who are spending a few years' wages of ordinary workers in one night, they don't seem to have any pain? Why is it that when Nima is in pain, it is the ordinary people who are flat-headed to go to the top?
Hong Tao can't figure out these things, the only thing he can figure out is what kind of successor, what is always ready, all down. In the slang of the capital, now is the era when the father dies and the mother marries, and everyone takes care of everyone. Whoever can eat more quickly eats, who can catch a little more, hurry up, and count on those who are empty as well as on themselves.
If you can eat more, make more money, and have a little wealth in your pocket, then you might as well take it out to help people you know who are still temperamental, such as Uncle Blind and Fei Lin. I don't ask them to give anything in return, as long as they can make them feel better, even if it's just a little bit, they are better on their conscience.
Didn't the old monk say that if you don't plan to eat those fish, don't catch them and die, keep them and you can still catch them in the future, this is not to help the fish, but to help yourself. Hong Tao felt that he had figured out this truth, what the old monk said was not only fish, but also that it should be the same when put on people. If you can avoid disasters and pull others, it is not harmful to yourself. If it's harmless, it's good, that's what dialectics says.
"What are you talking about, let the child talk to the teacher, we will pay it in a few days, it's not time for the change of season." "Uncle Blind's family lives in a large courtyard, the yard is quite deep, directly connecting the north and south alleys, Hong Tao just entered the courtyard gate, he heard the voice of the blind uncle, he seems to be discussing something with his daughter-in-law.
"The other children have all paid it together, just our Pingping is late, what do you let the children think? Or you can think of a way, so let's make it up to the children, we adults are hard, and we can't let the children not be able to raise their heads in school." "Uncle Blind's daughter-in-law Hong Tao has seen more than once, she used to be a very neat woman, not only tidy up her body, but also neat and tidy with Uncle Blind and the family, and she is very good at running a house. She usually doesn't talk much, she is very diligent, and she doesn't need to reach out to her husband for the work at home, she basically does it. But on this issue, she obviously disagrees with Uncle Blind's method and is still insisting.
"What can I do? My brother-in-law has been laid off for more than a year, and their family is not much better than ours, how can you let me open my mouth!" As the saying goes, marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat. Now that his pocket is empty, and he can't think of a way, he is not impatient, but helpless.
“…… Boss, don't quarrel with the two of you, how much does Pingping need, I have it here. You go to the unit and report the cost of these medicines to me, and come back to get the money for the child. Your daughter-in-law is right, it's okay for adults to be bitter, and you can't be bitter for children. Then the door of the next room opened, and out of it came a trembling old man with a large handful of slips in his hand.