After leaving the black market, Jiang Shiyue was invited by Director Chen to visit their patriotic garment factory.

The location of the garment factory is not remote, the scale is not large, and the facilities and equipment are extremely old.

There was still an old-fashioned foot-mounted sewing machine in the workshop, which was similar to what Jiang Shiyue saw at Wang Ying's sister-in-law's house.

It was supposed to be working hours, but no one was working in the workshop. Few people were even standing in front of their desks. The workers were in groups of three or five, some chatting; knitting sweaters; Paste of cartons; There's even playing cards.

These workers obviously found that Chen was the director, but none of them panicked, some did not move, and some waved their hands to say hello and continued to busy their own business.

Jiang Shiyue frowned.

Director Chen explained: "Don't blame them. They used to be the backbone elites in the factory, but they really didn't have any work and couldn't pay their salaries. There are all old and young, and if they don't get some side jobs, they will starve to death. ”

"If you don't have a job, why don't you stop work and stop production to give the workers a holiday?"

Director Chen shook his head and said helplessly: "It's not that we haven't thought about it. ”

He pointed to the idle staff in the workshop, "They are all old and young, how do you live when the family stops working?" ”

"But if you don't stop working, don't you have no work and no salary?"

Director Chen waved his hand and didn't want to say more, "I can't say it clearly, I'll take you to the warehouse to have a look!" ”

To Jiang Shiyue's surprise, the warehouse was actually larger than the workshop.

"This is also a helpless thing, the original warehouse is half the size of a workshop, more and more inventory, less and less orders, so another workshop is vacated to put work clothes."

Jiang Shiyue nodded and didn't say anything.

The work clothes are neatly categorized. Industrial, commercial, service, etc., all kinds of tooling are subdivided again according to spring, summer, autumn and winter, and stacks are placed neatly.

Jiang Shiyue casually pulled out a few sets of clothes to check.

As Director Chen said, the clothes produced by their factory are indeed of good quality.

It's just that she is a little puzzled, even if the market demand changes, such quality will not be unsellable.

Director Chen led Jiang Shiyue to his office and personally poured her a glass of white water, "I'm sorry, I haven't bought tea here for a long time." ”

Jiang Shiyue shook her head and said she didn't care.

Director Chen's office is so poor that there is only a table and a chair, plus an old sofa and coffee table in the reception area.

The fact that he can personally go to the black market to sell clothes proves that he is not a factory director who is greedy for pleasure.

Jiang Shiyue took the tea bowl and drank two sips before speaking: "Director Chen, I won't beat around the bush with you." I originally thought that you would just not be able to sell your work clothes if they couldn't keep up with the market demand. Walking around the factory, I realized that your problem is far more than just outdated work clothes. Your production cost is too high, resulting in a very low cost performance of the product. This is the main reason for being eliminated from the market.

If you want to turn a factory into a profit, you first have to replace the equipment. "The second is layoffs.

However, layoffs in state-owned enterprises are not a matter of words, Jiang Shiyue swallowed back when he said this.

Director Chen nodded: "This is also the result of several internal meetings. But the problem now is that if this batch of goods is not sold, there is no money to enter the equipment. ”

"Can't you take out a loan?"

"I've thought about it too." Director Chen shook his head, "It's not easy to do." ”

Before the reform and opening up, they were all unified deposits and loans, and individuals were not eligible for loans. Banks also do not operate independently, roughly equivalent to the cashier of the state.

If an enterprise wants to take out a loan, it must first have indicators, and if it wants indicators, it must first report a plan to the relevant departments.

The relevant departments will then verify whether the company's assets, profits, etc. are eligible for repayment.

Obviously, the patriotic garment factory is not a high-quality enterprise.

And even if they are high-quality enterprises, they have to wait in line for the state to decide whether to give loans or not after the Planning and Development Commission submits the list.

After this set of cumbersome processes, if you can't get a loan, the patriotic garment factory will go bankrupt a long time ago.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, you are now the hope of our patriotic garment factory. As long as you can help us sell the goods, you can ask for anything. ”

Jiang Shiyue is actually reluctant to take over this mess, it is easy to sell goods, but the money from clearing the inventory is just to make this factory survive for a while.

It's just that she doesn't have anything else to do now, she needs to make money and prepare for the college entrance examination.

If you can leave the compound and live in the factory, it will be much easier to get in and out of the city.

Jiang Shiyue thought about it and made a few requests.

"First, I know that you have designers in your factory. But I have the final say in changing the clothes, and I have to change it how I say.

Second, I needed a place to live.

Thirdly, I don't commute to work on time, and of course, I will say in advance if I don't have something to do.

Fourth, I won't volunteer to help. If I can change the tooling and sell it, I want 10% of the total turnover. ”

"This ......" Director Chen hesitated, "Others are good to say, this commission ......"

He didn't think that Jiang Shiyue would volunteer to help, and he was willing to pay the salary, but he didn't expect that Jiang Shiyue's request was not a one-time amount of money, but a little according to the turnover.

"I'm adamant about that." Jiang Shiyue did not intend to give in.

"I'll have to have a meeting with the people down there. Don't look at me as a factory manager, in fact, I have limited power. Director Chen explained.

Jiang Shiyue expressed her understanding and said that she was going to buy something for her child, so she happened to go out for a walk and come back later.

This was the era when the workers were the masters of the country, and the appointment and dismissal of factory directors were decided by the votes of the workers.

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Near the department store, Jiang Shiyue saw the ticket seller he met when he first went to the black market, and bought some food stamps and cloth stamps for daily life with him, and bought some stationery stamps, spending a total of 23 yuan.

The ticket seller counted the bills and put the money in his pocket, and suddenly said, "I remember you!" ”

Jiang Shiyue: "......"

The ticket seller scratched his head embarrassedly, "You look very eye-catching, it's a salsa!" ”

"Sasha?" Jiang Shiyue was puzzled.

"Sasha is our dialect, which means pretty girl." Afraid that Jiang Shiyue would misunderstand, the ticket seller hurriedly added, "I don't mean anything else, after all, we only have one side." And I remember you not because you are good-looking. ”

In fact, in addition to being amazing for the first meeting, the ticket seller was also a little disappointed, Jiang Shiyue couldn't afford a ticket, could he not be disappointed?

"I didn't expect you to be a character!" The ticket seller gave a thumbs up to the river.

Jiang Shiyue, who was about to turn around and leave: "??? ”

"Why do you say that?"