When seven o'clock came, a man in his thirties came out of the factory gate, and he came to us and said to these people who were waiting there, "Come in with me." Don't crowd, stand in a row, and enter one by one. After saying that, he instructed us to start lining up. We lined up like a group of students and followed this man into the factory gate.

When we got through the gate, he told us to stand in a row and wait, and he counted. Finally, we were told to take out our ID cards and register them one by one.

At this time, my heart began to beat the drum, and I was so nervous that I was afraid that someone would find out that I was over my age. If I don't get in, I'll have to take the bus back. By the time we got home, it was already late.

So we started to register one by one, and when I went, I gave him my ID card to look at, and then checked the information I provided during the day, and asked me to sign. When all was said and done, I was relieved that they hadn't really looked at my age. I guess he just looked at our ID cards to see our names and addresses.

When everyone had registered, the man who brought us in said that we had to put a hundred dollars in it because he was going to give us work clothes. Pressing this 100 yuan is afraid that we will not hand over our work clothes after we finish our work. If we pay it, the deposit will be returned to us.

No one objected to this suggestion, and they all obediently paid a deposit of 100 yuan first. Seeing this situation, I thought to myself, it seems that I am not the only one who needs this job, but everyone who comes here should need it very much, right?

We started lining up again and following the people in front of us to the factory. After walking to the door of the workshop, another woman came to give us a meeting, told us the precautions for entering the workshop, as well as the regulations in the factory, and told us that we must not go in with a mobile phone. After the woman finished the meeting, she began to let us into the workshop.

This mask factory is newly opened. It turned out that this factory did not produce masks, because there was a shortage of masks now, so this production line was temporarily added. It seems that this boss is also business-minded. Know that masks are the most scarce during the pandemic.

When we arrived at the workshop, the day shift people had not yet gotten off work, we just went to get the work clothes in one place first, and after receiving the work clothes, we changed our clothes according to the place they designated for us, and then we waited for the day shift workers to get off work, and we could only go in when they got off work.

It's not eight o'clock yet, and there's still half an hour to go. Because I didn't get a short slept during the day, I'm a little sleepy now. I secretly scolded myself in my heart, there was really something wrong, when I didn't go to work before, I couldn't sleep at twelve o'clock at night at home, but now I just went to work, and I didn't feel sleepy before eight o'clock.

Waiting for the workers to get off work, we also gathered together in twos and threes to talk. Originally, I thought that I was far enough away from this factory in about two hours, but there were even farther away, two and a half hours, or even about three hours to get there.

We talked about it, only to find out that there are people from all walks of life. There are beauty salons, garment factories, restaurants, and advertising companies that come here to work because they don't have any work for the time being, so they come here to earn some money. The original factory was also temporary.

But seeing the work of the day shift workers, we were all a little nervous because we looked at the machines. We had never seen any visitors before, and we were all standing working, and the thought of standing for twelve hours at night was a terrible thing.

Before eight o'clock, the workers on the day shift began to leave at 7:50, and after they left, we began to take over. Because these people are coming for the first day, they won't do it. Director Yan has made it very clear to us that it is because the production during the day is not enough to sell, so this night shift is temporarily added, if it is not because of this, maybe this night shift will not be added, and we will not have the opportunity to earn this money.

Because we are all newcomers, there are workshop managers who come to take us, they first divide the two of us into a group, and then two people start working on a machine. First of all, there are old people who teach us how to do it, although we have not done it, but this job is not difficult to do, unlike the work of a garment factory, if you have no experience, you will not do it. It takes a few months of training to do a good job. It's different, we all learned it in less than an hour.

In the first three days, we were given a daily wage, 200 yuan a day, and after three days, it was said that it was piecework, and I heard the leader say that if the piecework was more than 200, if the machine was not broken, it could reach 2340 yuan. I was very happy to hear it, how long has it been since I made any money? It's good if you can earn 200 yuan a day, and you can always solve your urgent needs.

It wasn't until then that I realized how happy it was to come out to work. In the past, when I had a job, I always picked fat and thin, and after a long time I couldn't find a job, I realized that it was the happiest thing to have such a good job before.

Partnering with me is a person about my age, her surname is Xia, only two years younger than me, I call her Xiao Xia, and she calls me Sister Ji. We can talk while we work, and it doesn't affect the yield.

I smiled and said to her, "So you're also past your age?" I thought it was just me, and I looked much younger than I was when I waited outside. ”

"It's not necessarily younger than us, some people look younger, just like you, I thought you were much younger than me at the time, it turns out that you are two years older than me." Xiao Xia said.

"To be honest, I thought I couldn't ask for it, but I didn't expect that although they said that it was an age limit, it seems that it is just that." I spoke my heart's thoughts.

"It's not easy to recruit people on the night shift, and if there is no way, no one wants to come to the night shift, so the conditions should be relaxed." Natsu and I were talking. The time passed quickly, but since I didn't bring my phone, I didn't know what time it was. When I heard the leader say that it was time to eat, I was surprised to know that it was already twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, because the rule was that dinner was twelve o'clock.

I bring my own food, but if I don't want to bring it, I'm hungry, so I can take advantage of this time to rest. Most of the people who brought food also brought some dry food or something, because after all, it was the middle of the night, and no one could eat too much. Besides, it's the first day I come to work, and I don't know if there's a place to have a hot meal.

I just brought some biscuits, but I wasn't hungry at all, I don't know if I was busy or if I was just starting to get to work. Xiao Xia brought bread, but she was hungry, and she quickly finished eating a loaf of bread. Because there is half an hour, you can sit for a while after eating.

Natsu and I found a place to sit and sat down. My legs were as stiff as a log, and it took a lot of effort to sit down, because I had never stood so long at once.