Chapter 116: If I don’t beg for mercy, how can I let Chonghe Garment Factory deliver the goods…
Back to that morning, not long after Xu Heye left the old church, a woman with triangular eyes named Yu came to Lu Jun and asked, "Boss Lu, can you increase the wages?"
"If it can be added, then I'd still like to follow you and do it. It's better to do what you're familiar with than to do something new!"
Lu Jun shook his head: "The wages were raised before the New Year, so they can't be raised now."
Sister Yu was a little unhappy: "But they can only offer a high price of 15 cents. And you made it earlier than them. I've seen people selling these fake collars. They can get two or three yuan each. You make so much money, but you only pay us so little. Aren't you too greedy?"
Lu Jun shook his head. "Sister Yu, you only see the money we make, not the risks we take. Workers' wages, fabric costs, factory rent, equipment expenses... these are all things we have to bear."
"Besides, we haven't treated you unfairly. The wages we pay you are also the market price. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can get a salary that is no less than that of ordinary workers.
You work at home, using your own sewing machine. You said you were working for a workshop, and the machine has worn out after being used for a long time, so you need to be compensated. We also agree to pay for the machine rental.
But now you are threatening us to pay higher wages because of other factories, and I'm sorry we can't do it."
Sister Yu threatened, "Aren't you afraid that we'll all leave and stop working for you?"
Lu Jun waved his hand and said, "Please do as you please."
"Okay, I won't work for you anymore. Just give me the rest of my wages."
"No problem. Return the materials the factory gave you, and I'll calculate your wages right away." He glanced at the other workers and said, "If you feel the same way, you can also return the materials, settle the remaining wages, and go earn more money."
The others looked at each other in confusion. They were too hesitant to make up their minds if they were really allowed to leave.
Although the wages here are lower, everyone has been doing this for so long that they are familiar with it.
I changed the place, but I don’t know if it will be better.
Sister Yu was anxious: "What are you still hesitating about?"
"Don't you understand how much you're paid? We're all working for people, but here we only get 1.2 cents per piece, while over there it's 1.5 cents. We do the same 100 pieces a day, but here we only make 12 dollars, while over there we make 15. That's a full 3 dollars more! 3 dollars more a day, how much more can you earn in a month?"
After she said this, the man who was already wavering in his thoughts finally made up his mind.
"Sister Yu is right, Boss Lu, we won't work for you anymore. Please pay me the wages I earned previously."
"Okay." Lu Jun took out the payroll and settled the wages of those who were leaving one by one. Each time he settled a person's wages, he drew a line under her name.
Everyone looked at the payroll with bewildered expressions and a strange feeling. They were all employees of various factories, but after being laid off due to poor performance, everyone had been experiencing a period of depression and loss.
After coming here to work, especially after receiving wages, everyone has regained a long-lost sense of existence and self-esteem.
However, thinking of the high wages Sister Yu promised, everyone quickly put this strange feeling behind them. After all, work is to earn more money, so why not go to a place where the wages are higher?
After receiving the wages paid by Lu Jun, everyone left the old church happily and prepared to go to another workshop to get work.
Lu Jun sighed as he looked at the salary capital of half the people that had suddenly been reduced.
Those who had not left yet saw this sudden change and went to find Lian's mother Guan Wanxia.
"Sister Guan, Sister Yu and the others are gone, what are we still doing here?" To be honest, she was actually quite interested in the high wages her sister mentioned. Just like Sister Yu said, three yuan more a day, that's a full ninety yuan more a month!
Lian's mother glanced at her older sisters and sighed, "You only see the high price, don't you think about other issues?"
"What's the meaning?"
"The labor cost of 1.5 cents is indeed higher than 1.2 cents, but have you ever thought about whether there are enough goods for you to work on over there? The supply here is stable. If we are willing, we can get nearly a hundred pieces of goods to work on every day.
What about over there? Are you sure you can handle this much work every day once you get there? What if they can only give you 50 pieces a day, or 30, or 20?
How much more can you earn just by adding this three cents to your salary?"
Several people were dumbfounded.
"Also, not only do we have this workshop here, we also bought the production line from the Jiangcheng Garment Factory. What does it mean to be able to buy the production line? It means that this factory is getting better and better.
If the factory does well, the boss can make money, so he won't delay our wages. For ordinary people, it's not easy to earn a little money. If I had to choose, I would rather earn less but get paid on time.
After Mrs. Lian finished speaking, everyone fell into deep thought.
Indeed, they were all confused by the high wages Sister Yu mentioned, but they didn't consider other issues. High wages are high, but high wages don't really mean you can earn more money.
After two days of commotion, more than 30 people left the old church, but there were still more than 20 people willing to work here.
Lu Jun looked at the rest of the people and told them Xu Heye's decision.
“In fact, after we bought the production line from Jiangcheng Garment Factory, we planned to move all the production here to there.
However, considering that the old church is close to everyone and convenient for everyone to pick up and deliver goods, we decided to keep this place so that everyone can take the goods home to make them.”
"But now there are too few workers here to support a workshop. So after some consideration, we decided to move all the production in the old church to the factory over there."
"Jiangcheng Garment Factory is not close to us, but it's not far either. It takes about half an hour to get there by bike. If you still want to get goods to work with, you can go to the factory over there and find Manager Dong Xinghua. The salary will remain the same."
Of course, there's another path. If you're willing, you can become a full-time employee and work at the factory there. Full-time employees have to work in the office, which means they have less freedom than before.
But there are also benefits. As long as the regular employees meet the production targets, they will receive bonuses of varying amounts every month."
This is the performance award that Xu Heye recently proposed.
Every month, as long as you meet the production target and have full attendance, you'll receive a 50-yuan attendance bonus. The top performers will also receive additional bonuses of 100, 50, and 20 yuan.
After Lu Jun finished speaking, the remaining employees looked at each other. In the end, sixteen employees decided to become regular employees, and the remaining six still got goods from the factory and made them at home. They all had children to take care of at home, and this method was more free, they could earn money, and still take care of their families.
With the transfer of sixteen employees from the old church and the addition of fourteen employees from the original factory who were hired for the second time, Xu Heye's factory workshop instantly expanded a lot.
However, the existing production line could not meet the needs of so many employees, so the factory began to implement a two-shift system. The morning shift was from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm, with a one-hour break in between, for a total of eight hours of work.
The night shift runs from 4pm to 12am, with half an hour for lunch, so the total working time is seven and a half hours.
With sixty-six regular employees and six temporary workers, this number of people can produce three to four thousand fake collars a day.
Xu Heye felt the pressure on her shoulders increase. She had only wanted to make a quick buck, so how did she suddenly end up opening a factory?
Fortunately, Dong Fuyun took three newcomers to Suzhou for three days and brought back ten orders.
Four large orders, each for goods worth tens of thousands of yuan. Five medium orders, each for goods worth five thousand yuan. The last small order, for three thousand yuan.
Whether or not to place additional orders depends on their sales performance.
There are so many orders, and although it may seem like a lot, it actually only takes a few days to complete them.
Unable to let the workers idle, Xu Heye and Lu Jun also joined the ranks of going out to discuss orders. This time Dong Fuyun brought Duan Jie and Jiang Cheng
They went to Xicheng, while Xu Heye, Lu Jun and Hua Feng went to Hecheng.
On the Lantern Festival, the two groups rushed back to Hucheng again.
Dong Fuyun signed eight orders, and Xu Heye and his team signed six. They then went to Changshi and Lucheng again, bringing back five and seven orders respectively.
The orders from the six people were enough for the factory to produce until the beginning of March. Xu Heye could finally breathe a sigh of relief, stop running around, and go to school with her schoolbag on her back.
The factory was brightly lit every day, with people coming and going in an endless stream, so those retailers who planned to unite to lower prices were dumbfounded.
Under this trend, they may not even be able to get the goods at the original price, let alone lowering the price.
"Yao Kun, what should we do now? The goods of the Chongdu Garment Factory are easily sold." They originally thought that as long as they united, they could force the garment factory to lower the price.
But they didn't expect that the other party would ignore them completely. As soon as they proposed to lower the price, they immediately went to the cities near Hucheng to develop the market and produced new models with more novel styles and better sales, which immediately ignited the market enthusiasm.
They did order goods from other imitation factories, but neither the quality nor the style could match the goods from the Chonghe Garment Factory. At the same price, they couldn't sell the goods they imported.
In the end, they had to sell it at a low price, but even then, sales were not particularly good. Customers are always fickle, and why would they buy basic models that are about to become outdated when they can just pay a little more?
Yao Kun gritted his teeth and said, "Let's go to the Chonghe Garment Factory."
"What are you going to do?"
"Go and beg for mercy." Yao Kun rolled his eyes. "If we don't beg for mercy, how can we get Chonghe Garment Factory to give us the goods?"
Yao Kun couldn't help but feel a little regretful as he spoke. He had been a wholesale retailer at the Chonghe Garment Factory when it was still a small, fledgling operation, so he naturally had a close relationship with the factory.
If there were no price-cutting, the factory would definitely supply them with goods at the same price.
Just look at Fei Cai and you will know that although heavy goods are in short supply, Fei Cai, that woman, has never lacked goods to sell.
If they had not been so greedy at the time and had not taken advantage of the counterfeit products on the market to lower the purchase price, they would still have goods to sell and would not have to worry about making money.
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