Unless you're really hopeless, after 1020, the hardworking and resilient elderly workers from the 70s and 80s will still be the main force in factories. You don't have to worry about being short or fat and not finding a factory to hire you. You can be selective about which factory to work for; you're not willing to work for just any factory.
Later on, when you start working in the factory, you don't even need your ID card anymore, unless you need to apply for social security, medical insurance, and the five social insurances and one housing fund...
We've gone off-topic again. Let's get back to Lin Xiazhu's story. The factory was supposed to cost around a million, but Yan Xin and her father tried to negotiate a lower price. In the end, it was sold to Yan Xin and Lin Xiazhu for a "family price" of 800,000, with each of them contributing 400,000.
Mr. Yan didn't want to take her money, but Yan Xin insisted on giving it to him, saying, "This factory was bought by me and my friend. From now on, this factory belongs to me personally, and no one else has the right to a share."
She made a pointed remark, implying that her two younger sisters should not even think about taking her private assets. When Yan's father heard this, he was immediately annoyed. His eldest daughter used to be dull and stupid, knowing nothing. But after recovering from her illness, she became extremely shrewd and obsessed with money, with only money in her eyes.
"Whatever makes you happy. From now on, that land and factory will be yours. It has nothing to do with the rest of the Yan family. No one will compete with you for it, okay?" Father Yan waved his hand and gave her the transfer contract and all the documents.
“It’s not just mine, my friend got a share too, like Lin Xiazhu, whom I’ve mentioned to you before, she’s very capable,” Yan Xin emphasized with a smile.
After Lin Xiazhu took out 400,000 yuan, her bank savings shrank drastically, leaving her with only 100,000 yuan. After that, she could only rely on the dividends from the jewelry store and the rent to make ends meet.
With the factory in place, they needed to recruit workers from the labor market. Lin Xiazhu and Yan Xin personally took charge, as the clerks and administrators had all quit, and they needed to recruit new people. There was a real shortage of manpower at the moment.
Fortunately, they managed to recruit clerks and administrative staff on the first day. They were all graduates of key vocational schools, three young women who were just over twenty years old and looked quite refined and capable. General workers were easier to hire; as long as they had a junior high school education or even a pseudo-junior high school education, they would accept them as long as they could work and had good character.
Because it's an electronics factory, they're hiring mostly female workers. As for technical staff, they'll recruit them gradually, both men and women are fine. The four security guards at the gate are the original four; they're all locals, in their forties to nearly fifty.
We recruited workers for three days, bringing the total to over 110 general workers. For now, we won't divide them into shifts; the newly recruited workers will need to be trained by experienced workers for a period of time before they can officially start working.
For now, we'll keep things as they are, with six production lines and about twenty people per line. The Yan family's factory is quite comprehensive; each production line and each work station has a piece of paper attached to it, which is the work instruction manual. How to operate a work station, the sequence and actions are all clearly written down.
Their factory was originally called "Xingxing Electronics Factory". After Lin Xiazhu and her group took over it, they changed it to "Wuxing Electronics Factory". There was no special meaning to it. They just felt that the original factory name didn't sound like their own factory, so they changed it. But they were too lazy to think of a name, so they changed Xingxing to Wuxing.
'Five Star Electronics Factory' mainly produces transformers. For now, it only has the Yan family as its customer, and it's only through Yan Xin's connections that it can get orders. At the moment, it's okay to have only one order because it has few people, but once it gets on track, it will need to get more orders so that workers can work overtime and the factory can make more money.
After hiring people, Lin Xiazhu fired seven or eight more. Three of these people were in the first process of winding the wire. They were lazy and their products were all defective when tested in the later stages. They were unwilling to rework the products.
The other two are the second process of winding the legs. Because this transformer is relatively large, the copper wire used is also relatively thick. After winding the wire, a separate process is needed to wind the legs, and then cut them. There are a total of four legs. Some need to be wound twice, and some need to be wound once.
Those two always get it wrong. I heard they've been doing this for over half a year. With this kind of work attitude, what's the point of keeping them around?
Another type is the one who dips the product in tin. They always complain that tinning smells too bad, so they just smear a bunch of tin all over the four feet of the product. They don't do the rework properly, and they do whatever they want, operating haphazardly.
The last one was for testing, measuring resistance. The guy sat on the stool with his eyes closed, randomly pressing the product on the fixture, ignoring the machine's beeping noises and not even looking at the red or green light.
In her previous life, Lin Xiazhu was a workshop supervisor. She was very familiar with every process and could repair many jigs and machines. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to become a supervisor. She had no education or connections, so she could only rely on diligence and hard work to climb the ranks step by step.
It took her a full ten years to go from line leader to squad leader, and finally to supervisor. Later, fearing that people would say she had a low level of education, she even took time to attend night school and obtained a college diploma. Only she knows how much hardship she endured.
Looking at a production line, she could tell at a glance how well each worker performed. In fact, most of the workers were children from poor families in the countryside, and they were all very hardworking and honest.
The reason so many people were fired this time is that the factory didn't want to continue operating, so it fostered laziness among the workers. There hadn't been any overtime work for more than half a year. 'Xingxing Electronics Factory' actually wanted the workers to leave on their own, so as not to have to pay them a month's basic salary for each dismissal.
But some workers, no matter how low their wages, just stay put and don't leave. Then, with nothing to do every day, they just drift along and become lazy.
For the next two months, Lin Xiazhu was so busy that she couldn't even find time for dates. Bai Ru'an started to complain, and he even considered buying her small, run-down factory so she could go back to her coffee shop and relax.
But he didn't dare to. He could only think about it in his heart and didn't dare to take action. Moreover, he had to place an order with 'Five Star Electronics Factory' against his will. The Bai family was involved in many industries, including electrical appliances and communications, so they could cooperate with 'Five Star Electronics Factory'.
Logically speaking, such a small factory should not be qualified to cooperate with companies under the Bai family. Although it is a subsidiary of Zi Gong, 'Five Star Electronics Factory' is too small and dilapidated for the Bai family. However, with Bai Ru'an's order, they have no choice but to cooperate.
With orders from the Yan and Bai families, 'Five Star Electronics Factory' hired another fifty or sixty workers, working in two shifts, with overtime every day, twelve hours a day, excluding half an hour for lunch and half an hour for dinner, for a total of three hours of overtime.
It was tiring and tough, but the workers were all hardworking and resilient. When they saw their wages on the 10th of the following month, all the hard work was worth it. Their smiles deepened, and they all felt that the factory was doing well, that there were overtime shifts, and that they would have more money to take home for the New Year.
"Oh, being a boss is so wonderful. You don't have to work yourself to the bone like a factory worker, only to earn a pittance and have to rely on sheer willpower." Xu Yan sighed as she looked at the payroll.
“Being a boss has its pressures too. If it weren’t for the orders from your family and Xiao’an, we wouldn’t just be busy with small things like the assembly line. We would have to come everywhere to get orders, and we might even have to entertain people and drink until we have a stomach hemorrhage just for an order.” Lin Xiazhu’s scalp tingled just thinking about it.
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