Chapter 112 The factory cannot support idle people

"Son, you have to consider the factory at least! Last year, material prices went up, and we almost couldn't get any more earthwork in! If this continues, we won't be able to pay salaries in a few months. By then, it won't be as simple as just laying off employees. The factory might even go bankrupt!"

He was right. This factory has been struggling since it opened, and it really didn't make any profit last year.

She had been to the factory several times and found that some of the employees were indeed lazy. If they kept these parasites, no one knew how long the factory could last.

But in the current situation, spring planting is about to begin. If someone gets laid off at this time, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the family!

well……

Tian Xin sighed, picked up the list and took a look.

Those laid off included people from the village and outsiders, young and old. Guo Wanshun was surprisingly on the list.

"Director, what are the reasons for these people being laid off?"

"There are all sorts of reasons, I don't know the specifics," Li Baiwan said. "They're all submitted by various departments. It's survival of the fittest. The ones who get laid off mean their performance is poor, or they're just hanging around! We can't afford to keep idle people in our factory, right?"

The factory really can’t keep idle people!

But are these people really just idlers who are just wasting their time?

She took the list and went around the factory.

Guo Wanshun was driving a forklift to load goods onto a truck. When he saw her coming, he chuckled.

She stood aside and watched him load seven or eight cars in a row. It took almost an hour to finish one round.

The weather was still very cold in the first month of the lunar year. He was wearing a sweater with a single-layer work suit on top, but beads of sweat kept rolling down his head.

He grabbed the towel from around his neck and wiped his face roughly, then jumped out of the car to get a glass of water.

But he had barely taken two steps when another car arrived. He immediately turned around and got back in, starting his next round of work. He didn't even care about the empty cup beside him.

"Uncle, give me the cup, I'll go get you some water!" While a car had just been loaded, Tian Xin walked over, took Guo Wanshun's cup and helped him get a glass of water.

Guo Wanshun's cup is a large plastic bottle that holds one liter of water. The scale on the cup is no longer legible, but he probably can't bear to throw it away even after using it for so long.

When Guo Wanshun handed the water over, beads of sweat dripped onto the back of Tian Xin's hand. He embarrassedly took a towel to wipe Tian Xin, but felt the towel was dirty and rubbed his hair awkwardly.

"It's okay, uncle. Go ahead and do your work. I'm leaving first!"

Tian Xin handed the water over and turned to look around.

There were three forklifts loading the truck. Besides Guo Wanshun, there were two other employees. One was from the village, the other from out of town. They were both young, in their early twenties, and they were smoking cigarettes as they drove. She walked over and greeted them.

This is the busiest time, and trucks have to ship out all the goods from the previous night in the morning to ensure that there won’t be too much backlog later.

Tian Xin watched as the trucks drove in one by one, but the two men were not in a hurry at all, and they loaded the goods slowly and leisurely. The truck driver got angry and jumped out of the truck and handed them a cigarette: "Load faster, we are in a hurry!"

The young man over there was not anxious: "I see you are not anxious at all!"

"Hurry up!" The truck driver took out 10 yuan from his pocket and handed it over: "Go faster!"

"Yes, I'll load it for you right away!" The young man squinted his eyes, put away the money, started the forklift, and loaded a whole truck in two strokes.

It’s not that it can’t be faster, Tian Xin rolled her eyes in anger.

The car behind couldn't wait to go to Guo Wanshun's side. Seeing that no car was coming, the young man looked at Guo Wanshun's bulldozer and spat on the ground fiercely: "This porcelain hammer!"

This sentence is a local dialect and is used to curse people. It is quite unpleasant.

Tian Xin glanced at the list and found that the names of these two people were not on it.

She couldn't get into the production line because it was too noisy and she wouldn't be able to figure out what was going on even if she went.

She turned and went to the weighing room.

There were three employees in the weighing room: Zhang Feng and two young women, around 20 years old, who had been hired later. One was called Li Meng, and the other was called Zhang Ni.

At this moment, both of them were busy measuring, issuing invoices and stamping.

Every truck leaving the factory is weighed at the weighhouse. This quantity is crucial for shipping data. Typically, one person measures, another verifies, and then issues an invoice, which is then compiled and reported.

When Tian Xin went in, Zhang Feng was not in the weighing room.

She watched the trucks coming in and out for a long time, and basically all the trucks in service were at work.

There weren't many cars in the factory, and some were outsourced. Tian Xin didn't know these people well, and they came and went very quickly, taking the receipts and leaving in a hurry!

She stayed in the weighing room for two hours and didn't see Zhang Feng come to work, so she asked Li Meng who was working next to her.

"Isn't Zhang Feng going to work today?"

Li Meng was busy issuing invoices and didn't even look up. She replied coldly: "I don't know!"

"Can you two handle it while he's away?"

“…”

Li Meng lowered her head and ignored her, so she asked Zhang Ni again.

"Zhang Ni, how many trucks of goods have been shipped out today?"

“…”

Both of them ignored her.

never mind!

Seeing that both of them were busy, she felt embarrassed to disturb them and turned to leave the weighing room.

Zhang Feng hadn't contacted her since they met on the second day of the Lunar New Year, and he hadn't called her again. He probably figured it out after she turned off her phone.

That’s good, it saves embarrassment!

Let’s go to the quarry and take a look!

There were many large trucks going from the factory to the quarry, so Tian Xin stopped a car that was going the same way.

Dust was flying in the quarry, and explosions could be heard from time to time on the hillside in the distance. Large stones were blasted and transported down the mountain and put into crushers for secondary processing.

After being processed by the crusher, the gravel flows down from top to bottom like a "waterfall" and is quickly transported to the yard on the side by a forklift.

The gravels piled up in the yard will be pulled into the stone quarry by trucks for processing. After being made into qualified clinker, they will be sold to cement plants and become raw materials for cement production.

The workers here work in this kind of environment all day long. Not only is it hard work, it is also very dangerous, especially the workers in the blasting team.

Driving a bulldozer is a huge workload. Every day you have to deal with tons of stones and rumbling large machines.

Not to mention the trucks coming and going, the mountain roads are difficult to drive on, with steep slopes and many bends, and rear-end collisions occur frequently.

Ever since Zhang Shuai's accident, she has been very concerned about the safety of these trucks and has mentioned it to Li Baiwan several times.

Afterwards, drivers would carefully check their vehicles before driving to ensure that everything was safe. Zhang Shuai's incident was a wake-up call for them.

Most of the workers at the quarry were from the village and knew Tian Xin well. Seeing her coming, they all came over to say hello and chat about the work going on at the site.

After this conversation, she understood most of the situation and found the root cause of the layoffs!

She immediately followed the truck driver back to the factory and went to Li Baiwan's office.