Chapter 179: Rejecting the two families in the house, except Dong Taohua,...
Except for Dong Taohua, everyone else in the two families in the room looked unhappy.
Especially Dong Hongfu, he has already lowered his attitude very much, just asking for a job, but he didn't expect Dong Taohua to be so cruel, and rejected him outright without leaving any leeway.
Of course Dong Taohua was unwilling. Dong Hongfu had a criminal record of stealing things from the factory and selling them for money. Asking him to work as a warehouse manager in the factory was like throwing a rat into a rice jar.
The two families are so close that outsiders don't know the details. Even if someone finds him stealing, they probably won't dare to tell anyone for fear of being in trouble and being unpopular.
This is the reason why strangers cannot be separated from their relatives.
The same consideration was used as to why Dai Ying was not accepted. She was a seamstress and was paid by piecework. It seemed that she made a living by her own ability, but that was not really the case.
When making clothes, some processes are difficult while others are simple and easy to do. Will she take advantage of her relationship as a relative of the boss and ask the team leader to assign her some high-priced and easy-to-do processes when allocating work?
The work was not done well and did not pass the quality inspection, so she was asked to redo it. Would she try to get away with it by using this relationship?
If it was Dong Xinghua, Dong Taohua was sure she wouldn't.
But Dai Ying and Dong Taohua were 100% sure that she would do so.
After all, she has always been like this.
If the workshop leaders can’t handle it, they will go to their superiors.
Xinghua and Heye can be managed, but the two families are relatives after all. If they are let off lightly, Dong Hongfu and Dai Ying will become more aggressive and try to get away with it. Over time, this will affect the work mentality of other workers.
If the matter is dealt with seriously, the workers will not think that the boss is strict with the law and discipline. Instead, they will sympathize with the two people and think that the boss is heartless. He treats his elder brother and sister-in-law so ruthlessly, and will definitely be even more harsh and ruthless to ordinary employees like them in the future.
No matter from which angle you look at it, Dong Taohua feels that such an "unreasonable" relative must not be allowed into her own factory.
She couldn't help, but she couldn't cause trouble for her daughter.
So as soon as Dong Hongfu suggested it, Dong Taohua directly rejected it.
But - Dong Taohua looked at the white hair on Dong Hongfu's temples, and a trace of pity flashed in her eyes.
A few years ago, when she first returned to Hucheng, Dong Hongfu was in his forties and looked very young, with thick black hair and a face without wrinkles. After the hardships of life in the past few years, his hair had thinned a lot, with white hair mixed in with the black hair. He looked decadent and old, and more and more like his father, Old Dong.
Of the four children in the Dong family, the eldest, Dong Hongfu, is the most like his father, Lao Dong. They are almost cut from the same mold. However, since one is middle-aged and the other is old, their spirits are different, so they don't look that similar.
Now Dong Hongfu has been worn down by life and looks exactly like the old Dong before he passed away.
After thinking for a moment, she said, "The factory really isn't hiring lately. Let me ask Xinghua if there are any suitable positions in other factories. If there are, I'll have her notify you."
Dai Ying pursed her lips and muttered, "What do you mean by not hiring? If you don't want to help us, just say so."
"Sister-in-law, what did you say?" Dong Taohua didn't hear clearly and looked over.
Dai Ying forced a smile. "Nothing much to say. I just wanted to trouble you. Your brother and I are depending on you for our jobs. And your nephew, Kangtai, is already 23 or 24 years old. If there's a suitable position for him, please pay more attention to him."
"I will definitely help if I can." Dong Taohua said that the factory was not hiring, but she was not lying to them.
Before acquiring the Shenyi Textile Factory, in addition to back-paying the workers' wages, the municipal government also required the factory to accept some older employees who had family difficulties or who had difficulty finding jobs after being laid off.
The Southern Garment Factory naturally disagreed.
Two hundred employees are enough to meet the operational needs of their factory.
But the municipal government was very persistent.
In recent years, many tragedies have occurred due to the restructuring of state-owned enterprises and layoffs of employees.
Young and healthy employees may be able to find other jobs after being laid off, but for those employees who find it difficult to survive without the textile factory, the municipal government will not make any arrangements. We can't just watch them go to a dead end after being laid off!
The two sides negotiated back and forth for several months before finally finalizing the contract.
The Southern Garment Factory bought the entire Shenyi Textile Factory for eight million yuan, including all of Shenyi Textile Factory's production lines and twenty-year ownership of the factory. This amount of money was paid out in two installments, with the first installment of five million yuan to pay the wages owed to employees of Shenyi Factory.
The remaining three million will be repaid with interest over five years. At the same time, the Southern Garment Factory must absorb no less than one-tenth, or 500, of the original employees of the Shenyi Factory and must not dismiss them without reason within two years.
A few, became five hundred.
Assuming 300 yuan per person per month, the annual salary alone will cost 1.8 million yuan.
In two years, that’s 3.6 million.
It is hard to say whether the southern garment factories can make so much profit in two years. Given their current scale, they do not need and cannot afford so many employees. The municipal government's requirement is completely unreasonable.
The two sides almost broke down in the talks again. Finally, the municipal government agreed to give the Southern Garment Factory a five-year tax exemption period, and the negotiations that lasted for several months were finally concluded.
How should I put it? In the long run, this contract is beneficial to the Southern Garment Factory.
Not to mention the mature production lines in the factory, the 20-year ownership of such a large factory is very valuable.
But they also have to be able to get through it.
After enduring the most difficult three years, the company's reputation increased, sales increased significantly, the factory scale was increased, and production costs were reduced through economies of scale. Only then did the southern garment factories usher in a real take-off.
However, they have not yet found a breakthrough.
Being able to maintain a balance between income and expenditure and keep the factory running is already the greatest luck.
At the end of last summer, just as the contract was signed, the clothing sales entered the off-season.
Sales were dismal, both wholesale and at their own shop. Seeing their income unable to cover their expenses, not only Xu Heye and Dong Xinghua, but even Dong Taohua, who didn't work at the factory, was getting anxious, with blisters forming at the corners of her mouth.
The weather finally got cold and it was the peak season for winter clothing sales. I barely made some money, but after the New Year, it was the off-season again, and this off-season would last until summer clothing came on the market in April and May.
The income is limited, but the monthly fixed expenses are not small.
With 700 employees, even if the work was light, each earning 100 yuan a month, that's 70,000 yuan. Add to that the shop rent, the 3 million yuan principal owed to the government, and millions more in interest.
It can be said that everyone in the factory is thinking about how to make money as soon as they open their eyes.
Increasing revenue and reducing expenditure is difficult, so the only option is to do whatever it takes to cut costs. With so many employees, the factory won't hire any more in the next year or two. Not to mention her brother and sister-in-law have a lot of problems, even if they were good people, she wouldn't let them go.
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