New in January

(January 24, 2015)

More than 20 days have passed in January 2015, and I hope you can share it with me and get useful inspiration from it.

The first thing is that my pension has gone up.

From August 25 to 27, 2014, our old classmates who had been separated from Keshi for 46 years had a reunion at the Shuishiying Shanshui Villa in Qi City.

One day in January 2015, Shan Wenzhen, an old classmate of Keshi, called me, and she told me: "Old classmate, I have good news for you, we are going to raise our salary. "Of course I was happy, and this is a good thing.

Shan Wenzhen, the liaison of our classmates reunion who had been separated for half a century and got together for a moment, also said: "This salary increase, it is said, it is quite a lot, in 2004, there was a sunshine project, and now, it has to be cashed in." "I still have a vague impression of the Sunshine Project that Shan Wenzhen said, but I can't remember what is going on.

Shan Wenzhen said: "This salary increase, our retirees are a key point. "I listened to this, I was even happier, since it is the key, of course, it will rise a lot, wages, the more the better, money, not afraid of more, afraid of less, money, is the lifeblood and reliance of people's survival.

I asked Shan Wenzhen again: "When will the salary be raised?" Shan Wenzhen said: "In January 2015, probably, I will pay a year of repayment." "I listened and was even happier to hear it, haha, this news is so good!

At the beginning of January 2015, my nephew, who was far away from my hometown, called me and said, "Auntie, the accountant of our school, let me call you and ask you where your initial education was?" I thought about it, that is the secondary school, I said: "That is the middle teacher, mine is the master." What are you doing when you ask this?" said the nephew, "I don't know, the accountant didn't say, ah, ah, her mouth is strict." ”

After a few more days, I felt the need to ask my old colleagues in my hometown, so I called Zhu Xiufang, and before I could ask, she said, "Did the accountant ask about your academic qualifications?" I told her truthfully, and she said, "Probably, it's about to raise your salary." ”

A few days later, Zhu Xiufang suddenly called me and said, "Does the accountant want your graduation certificate?" Zhu Xiufang said: "The accountant wants my graduation certificate." I called my nephew, and he said, "The accountant doesn't ask for your diploma." Later, Zhu Xiufang called and said: "The accountant said that he wants a bachelor's degree." So, I was relieved. My bachelor's degree is correspondence, not orthodox, it belongs to the dirt eight roads, and I won't want it.

About a week later, I called my nephew again, and without waiting for me to say anything, my nephew said happily: "Auntie, I was about to call you and tell you good news, we have raised our salary, I asked the accountant, and you raised it by 720." I listened, I was really happy, not only the salary has been raised, but also so much, in my memory, so many years of salary increase, and never once rose so much, I think, this is in response to Shan Wenzhen's words, this time the salary increase, the focus is on retirees.

Two days later, Zhu Xiufang called again, she said: "Good news for you, we have raised our salary, and you have increased by 715." I said, "Okay, thank you." Zhu Xiufang said: "Thank you, we are all old colleagues, there are good things, everyone can share." In the future, I will tell you if there are any good things. I said, "Great, you're in your hometown, I'm far away after all, and my ears are back." Zhu Xiufang said: "This time the salary increase, retired before 2006, the increase is more, and the price after this will be less." I said, "I retired just before 2006, I retired in 2004." Zhu Xiufang said: "So, you have risen a lot, Li Guiqin has risen the same as you." I retired after 2006, so the increase was less, and it only rose by more than 400. I said, "Let's raise our wages in January, will we make up for a year?" Zhu Xiufang said: "I will cash in in January, but I won't make up for it, and I will make it up in a year." ”

A few days later, my sister called, she said that her third daughter is in Harbin, her salary has risen a lot, and she has been making up for two years, and she can have 18,000.

A few days later, one night, after we finished doing the happy dance steps aerobics in Jiashi, my husband once gave a tall female teacher in his forties a nickname called Da Niang, her real name, I really don't know, the big lady said: "Auntie, have you raised your salary?" I said, "Say it's gone up." The lady said, "Haven't you seen it?" and I said, "Our salary, which is in the middle of the month, has not yet arrived." The eldest lady said, "We have risen, and we will make up for a year." ”

On January 18, I checked the salary discount, and it really went up, and I really increased it by 715, but I didn't make up for it. It's not the same place, it's different, the hometown has no money, there is no way, accept your fate.

In any case, I finally got another salary increase, and a lot, even though I didn't make up for it, which I was happy about, and I naturally remembered the history of wage increases.

Now, this kind of wage increase is different from the natural promotion wage increase, which is not the salary increase for everyone, or the increase for everyone in some kind of enterprise and institution, but whoever reaches the time period of promotion will increase the salary of the promotion.

What I am most impressed by is a wage increase in the 80s of the 20 th century, which means that not everyone will be raised, but 45 percent of the people will be raised, and those who perform well will be raised; from the original intention of those who advocate this kind of work, it is still well-intentioned and beyond reproach, and it is to be paid according to work, to encourage the advanced, and to arouse people's enthusiasm for work, but in concrete practice, it is difficult to grasp the scale, create contradictions, and backfire.

Take the situation of our school as an example, you can get a glimpse of the whole leopard. At that time, Secretary Zhao, the leader of our school, he wanted to give a female teacher surnamed Tao a salary increase, but the superior leader wanted to give a male teacher surnamed Han a salary increase, the difference between the two teachers, Teacher Tao was a celebrity in the eyes of the leader, and he performed well, and the situation of Teacher Han, the leader thought that it was generalized. Teacher Han has a longer teaching experience than Teacher Tao, and Secretary Zhao privately connected the teachers to his office, expressed his position one by one, and chose one of the two teachers.

Secretary Zhao also held a general meeting of all teachers, at the meeting, openly commented, as a result, Mr. Tao's votes were less than Mr. Han's votes, and even Mr. Tao voted for Mr. Han to the young female teacher Li Chunyan who introduced the object. Moreover, because everyone has to express their position, Teacher Tao has conflicts with some people because they did not vote for her, not only between Teacher Tao and some people, but also between others.

Soon after, the school wanted to transfer a few people to junior high school, but Secretary Zhao left Teacher Tao and transferred Teacher Zhou and others who had conflicts with her. Of course, among the few people who were transferred, there were also people that Secretary Zhao didn't like. Soon, Mr. and Mrs. Tao went to other places for their own activities, what should Secretary Zhao think about this? This kind of wage increase has caused contradictions, how can the society be harmonious?

In the future, wages have been raised many times, there is no such way to raise the method, between people, there is little difference, how to distinguish is not easy to do, unless it is a few people who really stand out from the crowd, everyone can be convinced.

After Deng's line of governance, the frequency of wage increases has increased, I remember that since Jiang came to power, to Hu and Xi, the number of wage increases, one is higher than the other, and the number of wages is also more, specifically, I have not recorded, in general, in the Jiang era, the number of rises is the least, and the number of wages is also the least, probably, one increase, it is more than 20 yuan. In the Hu era, there were more, more than 100 yuan. In the Xi era, that is, he came to power in 2012, and it has increased every year, and the amount is also large.

In recent years, the state has attached great importance to the adjustment of the wages of enterprise personnel, and has raised the wages of enterprise personnel every year, and the wages of enterprise personnel are less than those of public institutions, and the difference is still relatively large, and the wages of enterprise personnel should be raised a little more, and the wages of enterprise personnel should be about the same, but in fact this is not the case, and the difference is still relatively large, and it is indeed unreasonable; besides, since 1999, or even earlier, many enterprises have closed down, and workers have been laid off, so shouldn't we take care of them more?

Not to mention the fact that since 2008, the amount of wages has gradually increased, and after this increase, my pension is almost twice as high as in 2008, and every day I stay at home, the state will give me 1800 dollars, isn't this a kind of happiness? Not only in our socialist countries, but also in capitalist countries, people have pensions when they get old, and of course, they mean those who have jobs. This policy is very good, otherwise, how can we go back to work and earn money to support ourselves when we are old and frail?

Therefore, I think that it is really good that wages have been raised over the years, especially this year, and there has been a lot of increases, and it is still the same sentence, live well, stay at home, have an income of 18 per day, and have no worries about food and clothing, so why not do it? We all hope that wages will be raised every year, and the more they rise, the better, and of course, according to the strength of the country.

The second new thing in January 2015 was that my family bought a rice cooker again. After my family moved to Jiacheng, I bought a new house, bought a few household appliances, and spent tens of thousands of yuan, because I bought several things, and the amount was relatively large, so the seller gave away a big spoon, rice cooker, etc., and other bits and pieces. Soon after, my husband and I went to the commercial city again and bought a big spoon. In 2013, I bought an induction cooker at Jiafang Morning Market and gave away a big spoon, so that I have four big spoons and two rice cookers at home.

It's my husband who cooks, and he advocates cooking more, but I oppose it, because the leftover rice is very troublesome when it's hot, and it's not delicious, it's hard and tasteless like fish roe. I advocate doing less, just enough for two people to eat. Every meal, make a new one, delicious. My husband finally agreed.

Therefore, my family has no leftovers, and eats new meals at a time. My husband said, "It's too little to cook for two people, it's too hard to cook with a big rice cooker, so buy a smaller rice cooker." So, on October 24, 2014, my husband and I bought a small rice cooker near our home, this rice cooker, which was two liters, and as a result, as soon as I cooked, the rice soup came out of the lid of the pot, and it flowed onto the table, sticky and annoying, so that my husband had to use a towel to get wet and wrap it around the lid of the pot, so that it flowed much less on the table, but there were others, and the towels were sticky and not easy to wash.

My husband still feels very annoyed, and I advocate buying another rice cooker. At that time, when I bought this small rice cooker, I forgot that the rice cooker was not tightly closed, and there was a phenomenon of leaking soup, and my husband did not express his position, he may be reluctant to abandon this rice cooker that he had just bought.

I persuaded him several times, and he finally agreed, and on January 23, 2015, I ran to the department store, two Guanghui home appliances, a Gome home appliance, RT-Mart supermarket, Suning electric appliances, and finally, bought a two-liter small rice cooker in Zhengfang Home Appliances, the style is very beautiful, and the price is not expensive, this time, the cooking husband has no worries.

The third new thing in January 2015 was that my pillow was filled with buckwheat husk. It turned out that I had four pillows in my house, all new, not bought, it was a rich woman, I didn't want it, I gave it to my nephew, and my nephew gave it to me, at that time, we had just moved from BJ and there were no pillows. The pillow is made of acrylic cotton, a pillow goes up, the heat, especially in summer, is even more uncomfortable, but I have never thought of changing the cup, replacing it with buckwheat husk, after my sister died, my brother-in-law found a woman again, because of this relationship, we still corresponded with her, she said: "Second sister, this pillow is too hot, change it to buckwheat husk." ”

After her reminder, I bought ten catties of buckwheat husks, sewed two pillow scalps, and bought two pillow cases and two new pillow towels, so that the pillow was not hot and had a cool feeling, but the original four pillows were not replaced with buckwheat husks.

At a party, Sister Xu said, "This pillow is too hot and uncomfortable." I thought of replacing the four pillows with buckwheat husks. Sister Xu said: "Second sister, you don't have to change it all, just put a layer of buckwheat husk on the top of each pillow." "I think it's a good idea.

A few days later, I bought buckwheat husks at the Sunday horse market, bought a total of four catties, and put one pound in a pillow and put it on top. In this way, it is not hot.

The fourth new event in January 2015 was that my family replaced the energy-saving light bulb from 9 degrees to 25 degrees. It turned out that in the kitchen, there was a nine-degree energy-saving light bulb, at night, just turn on this light bulb, the house was not lit, I felt aggrieved, I thought, change a degree of it, why bother, with energy-saving light bulbs, it has saved electricity, the home is not poor, can not afford to buy a large light bulb, can not afford to spend electricity, so, I bought this 25 degrees of energy-saving light bulbs, spent 15 yuan, replaced the nine degrees, now, the house is very bright, and the heart is comfortable.

These four new things in January 2015 are some big and some are small, but no matter how big or small, they all give us a useful enlightenment, that is, it is not difficult, especially since wages have risen by more than 700 in January this year, and when living conditions permit, we must not blindly be simple and economical, we must raise our living standards, we cannot be misers, be willing to spend money, improve the living environment, and improve the quality of life; why should the party and state leaders build socialism with Chinese characteristics? Isn't the ultimate goal to improve the people's living standards so that everyone can live a happy life?

Of course, there are no conditions, and we can't overlord the bow, as long as the conditions allow, we have to change the living environment, enjoy the fun of life, even if there are no conditions, we have to work hard, create conditions, change our living environment.