1998 year

Born in the 70s and matured in the 90s, the generation is not a newborn born in the 90s, and their cognition of society stays on superficial senses.

Reform and opening up have already achieved initial results, and as the market economy has embarked on the road of rapid development, the whole society is in the process of accelerating transformation. People's traditional and simple ideas and concepts are irresistibly affected by foreign economies and cultures, and from satisfying the basic needs of people's livelihood to gradually growing up an infinite desire for material and cultural life.

At this moment, development means opportunities, struggle is accompanied by challenges, you can grasp this fleeting critical period, dare to fight, you may be able to become the leader of this era of great changes.

Wine word lane, there is a small shop at the corner of the alley, the area is not large, but the goods are varied, dazzling.

Most of the products here sell small groceries and groceries, from matches and toothpicks to pots and pans. This form basically continues the structure of sugar, tobacco and liquor stores or commissaries all over the city in the past, providing convenience for the residents of the entire alley area.

Although supermarkets are not a rarity these days, such low-profit and high-turnover stores are still a favorite of the neighborhood. After all, it has existed for many years, and there are more or less feelings, and if you can buy it here, you will never go to any shopping mall, and pay attention to an interdependent relationship. Therefore, in daily life, people are coming in and out, and business is booming.

On the way to work, Cheng Jianghai wanted to enter the store to get some tea for Cao Wangquan, but found that a bunch of people had gathered at the door of the store, and even the door was blocked. Although there were many people, they were silent, and their eyes were solemn as they looked at the TV set that the shopkeeper had placed on the shelf, and a news was being broadcast inside.

"The "Circular on Conscientiously Doing a Good Job in Guaranteeing the Basic Livelihood and Reemployment of Workers Laid Off from State-Owned Enterprises" strives to initially establish a social security system and employment mechanism that meet the requirements of the socialist market economic system in about five years......

Cheng Jianghai frowned, swallowed his saliva with difficulty, and suddenly felt a little uneasy in his heart. In the past two days, some negative gossip has spread and stirred up people's fears, and it has long become the point of most concern of people.

In fact, a wave of layoffs in some state-owned enterprises has already begun a few years ago, but it has not yet affected remote areas like Ganquan.

In the late 90s, the deep-seated contradictions in the operating mechanism of state-owned enterprises came to the fore, and the root cause of this was that the employment system that was implemented in the past period of the planned economy was too lagging behind. The supply of labor has been in excess of demand for a long time, and most of the employees of the enterprise are full of overstaff, and each of them is floating in things, holding an iron rice bowl and eating a big pot of rice, and the enthusiasm for production is infinite.

What's more, they occupy the pit and do not, resulting in low efficiency of enterprises, frequent triangular debts, and many enterprises cannot even pay normal wages. In this way, reducing staff and increasing efficiency, changing jobs from iron to porcelain, and following market changes in reorganization and reform has become inevitable, which has correspondingly set off a trend of a large number of layoffs in enterprises after reorganization.

At that time, "laid-off" was only put forward as a formal concept, and tens of millions of people who lost their jobs had a special title in a special period.

Laid-off workers!

Although Ganquan is a predominantly agricultural city, it has always been self-sufficient, and there are very few state-owned enterprises, but the distillery is one of them.

The tide has appeared, and the big waves are coming.

It's just that I don't know who drowned after the huge wave of devouring people, and how many will survive, this is undoubtedly another unsettling watershed.

Cheng Jianghai was so happy and sad for a while that he didn't want to buy anything. Drooping his head into the factory to work.

But when I walked to the factory gate, I saw the crowd of people crowded in front of the notice board at the door and talked about it. Cheng Jianghai chuckled in his heart, stepped forward in a panic, squeezed into the crowd and watched, only to hear an employee reading loudly the contents of the bulletin board.

"In order to do a good job in enterprise reorganization, improve production efficiency, and ensure the realization of the three-year reform and relief goal of our factory, the proposed laid-off distribution plan for each post in the whole plant is announced as follows, 15 people in the production department, 8 people in the technical department, and 12 people in the supply and marketing department......"

Before he finished reading, the surrounding crowd was in a commotion, blowing their beards one by one and staring at each other.

"Fuck it, how can there be so many people, how can this work!"

"Isn't it, what should I do if I am laid off, what do you eat and drink?"

"Hey, did you watch the news? It is said that the spirit from above can ensure the basic livelihood guarantee and reemployment of laid-off workers. ”

"Then the ball is used, no matter how good it is, can it have the current iron rice bowl?"

"This matter, whoever is on the head is unlucky!"

"Isn't it, if you want me to be laid off, I won't do it!"

The workers were like a hornet's nest that had been stabbed, discussing with righteous indignation, and the posture was like being dug up the ancestral grave, which instantly caused a burst of chaos and panic. Cheng Jianghai tried his best to squeeze forward again, and when he saw the laid-off quota of the electrician group, his heart couldn't help but twitch, and then his face was full of gloom. He retreated from the crowd melancholy, but when he turned around, he found Hao Chunju standing on the periphery frowning, his face extremely ugly.

Cheng Jianghai stepped forward and asked with concern: "Chunju, you are also here, why is your face so ugly?" ”

Hao Chunju pursed her mouth coldly, and said gloomily: "Didn't you see it too!" ”

Cheng Jianghai's heartstrings tightened: "You mean you ...... too"

Hao Chunju frowned, with a big sad word written on her face, and she was a little angry between long sighs: "The efficiency of the factory is so poor, and the serious front-line workers have to be laid off, not to mention me, who is engaged in the Women's Federation." I know, they're going to put me on the first list of layoffs! ”

Cheng Jianghai made a bitter face, could he not know the dilemma that Hao Chunju was facing? First, her job is really not related to key production positions. Since it is a reduction in staff and increasing efficiency, those posts that are empty and dispensable are the first to be at the top of the laid-off list. Secondly, with her temperament, she has already offended the leaders of the factory, and if she wants to find someone to intercede at this time, I am afraid that anyone will avoid her like a plague.

Searching the intestines and scraping the stomach couldn't find a suitable reason for comfort, Cheng Jianghai could only say stupidly: "It's not that the list hasn't been announced yet!" ”

Hao Chunju pursed her lips and hummed self-deprecatingly: "Do you still need to announce it, don't I have a number in my heart?" ”

Looking at Hao Chunju's sad eyes, thinking that he was no better, Cheng Jianghai sighed sullenly and said, "Hey, I saw it, our electrician group has also been assigned a place." ”

"And!"

Hao Chunju rolled her eyes, an inexplicable sour water appeared in her heart, and she said sneeringly: "What are you worried about, even if you are laid off, it will not be your turn!" You are now the technical backbone of our factory plus excellent workers, even if there is only one laid-off index, it is reserved for my uncle. ”

This is a bit harsh, but when it comes to personal self-interest that is at stake in life and death, the bad roots of human nature are often exposed.

Seeing the money, seeing the profit and forgetting the righteousness, not suffering from the lack of wealth but suffering from unevenness, about the same.

Often at this fork in the road of life and death, those emotions of hello and good in the past are like a fragile toothpick, which breaks with a slight break.

Hao Chunju, who has sharp teeth and a sharp mouth, can say such unacceptable words, which is also a personal selfishness, which is an instinctive reaction.

But these words made Cheng Jianghai sound quite harsh, and he couldn't help frowning even tighter, and hurriedly defended: "Chunju, what are you talking about, I didn't want to let the master be laid off." ”

"Forget it, Jiang Hai, don't talk about the scene."

Hao Chunju looked disheartened, and sneered sadly: "When people come to this, which one is not for themselves, hehe, this makes people not destroy for themselves." ”

After speaking, Hao Chunju had a cold face, turned her head and left depressedly, Cheng Jianghai looked at her disappearing back, and her heart was also bitter.

There are two electricians in the group now, one by himself and one by the master Cao Wangquan. Who to leave and who to leave is a headache. You must know that Bao Xiaoqi has no job, and if she is laid off, it is equivalent to the whole family running out of food. Could it be that a seven-foot man who is twenty years old and pees ten feet in the wind still relies on Cheng Jia'an's retirement salary to gnaw at the old?

If you keep it yourself, then you have to leave the master.

But Cao Wangquan is in his fifties and sixties, and he has stayed in a factory all his life from the beginning to the end, and he doesn't even know where to go when he leaves the factory, so how should he live if he is laid off?

Hey, you can blow up your head just thinking about it.