Chapter 041 Daily Work
The morning of my first day at work was peaceful.
There are only four people in the office, two men and two women, so it is impossible to engage in office politics.
After Wen Jiajia learned that reading newspapers was her current job, she went to the bulletin board at the door to get a newspaper.
The propaganda column was on the outer wall of the office, and the newspaper was hung in a wooden frame next to it.
Wen Jiajia took a quick look and found three types of newspapers: People's Daily, Workers' Daily and provincial newspapers. The dates started from May 1st, and several thick stacks had already accumulated.
She thought about it and started from yesterday.
I'm bored, so I'll probably have to rely on newspapers to kill time these days.
I took all three newspapers to the office and took a look at the workshop before leaving. It seemed that all the workers in the workshop had arrived and were working hard.
She sat down, opened the kettle to drink some water, and opened the newspaper.
She had read the People's Daily before. Wen Jiajia flipped through it and put it aside. She read it every day when she was preparing for the exam.
The troops also subscribe to many kinds of newspapers, and the logistics department has them. It is said that the logistics department also held a newspaper reading activity for families, but it turned into a place for families to exchange knitting skills and even a place for gossip. In the end, the logistics leader angrily abolished it.
Wen Jiajia was praised by the logistics officer Lao Wang for going to get newspapers to read every day some time ago.
Later, he passed the exam and stopped watching. Old Wang also said something about him, both openly and secretly, so Wen Jiajia had to avoid him when she saw him yesterday.
As for the provincial newspaper, she read it selectively, but now she can read it all when she has time.
As for the Workers' Daily, the army did not subscribe to it, so Wen Jiajia put it aside and prepared to read it carefully. After all, it was a Workers' Daily, and who knows, she might be able to read something from it.
The sun is shining brightly, and the lush branches and leaves of the ginkgo tree outside the window look like a giant green umbrella, completely blocking out the sunlight.
A gust of wind blew, and the ginkgo leaves rustled, making people feel sleepy.
Wen Jiajia supported her head and yawned.
The Workers' Daily is actually quite interesting, as it mostly reports on the deeds of advanced workers or collectives.
The next thing is to report on some achievements, not just in industry, but also in agriculture and fisheries.
There are even reports on which countries were received politically and what kind of receptions were held.
Wen Jiajia focuses on reading those that do not overlap with the People's Daily, and will write down any articles she thinks are good in a notebook.
Time passes as you turn the pages of a newspaper.
During this period, Li Haijun went out several times. Judging from the noise, he went to the next workshop.
He has patrol work, so he has to go.
Qiao He didn't move at all. Even after Wen Jiajia and Sha Yue went to the toilet, he didn't get up the whole morning.
It was half past eleven, almost time for dinner.
Sha Yue copied some content from today's newspaper onto the blackboard of the propaganda column with chalk, washed her hands, and came back to the door and said to Wen Jiajia: "Comrade Wen, let's go eat together, otherwise there will be too many people later."
Wen Jiajia didn't expect to eat earlier. After thinking for a while, she took out her lunch box and chopsticks: "Okay."
Sha Yue was very familiar and put her hand on Wen Jiajia's arm.
Wen Jiajia was puzzled: "Don't you need to bring a lunch box?"
Sha Yue shook her head: "No, my aunt is in the cafeteria, and I put my lunch box with her."
Wen Jiajia didn't understand. Did she have to take the lunch box home? She decided to wash it after each meal and put it in the office.
Since the two of them were not very familiar with each other, she did not ask any more questions.
The pharmaceutical factory has three canteens and a state-owned hotel at the entrance. However, most people would not go to the state-owned hotel unless they had something to do, after all, a meal in the state-owned hotel is equivalent to five or six meals in the canteen.
Shayue took her to Canteen No. 2, but in fact Canteen No. 1 was the closest to Workshop No. 6.
"The dishes in Canteen No. 2 are the best among the three canteens, especially the stir-fried eel." Sha Yue explained to Wen Jiajia, "But this dish is usually only available on Fridays, and it's hard to buy."
If her aunt didn't work in logistics, she could ask her aunt to save some for her, and she wouldn't eat it all every time.
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "Then aren't we the ones with the most people coming to Canteen No. 2 to eat?"
"Of course not!"
As we were talking, we arrived at Canteen No. 2.
Wen Jiajia looked at her watch and saw that it took 9 minutes to get from the workshop to canteen No. 2.
There were already quite a few people in the cafeteria. It seemed that he and Shayue were not the only ones who left early. The rookie Wen Jiajia felt relieved.
Shayue went to her aunt to get the lunch box, while Wen Jiajia came to the food window first to get food.
"Hello, comrade. I want a bowl of rice." Wen Jiajia said after taking a look at the staple food area. There are several kinds of staple foods here, including pure rice, sweet potato rice, mixed grain rice, and steamed buns.
Wen Jiajia also saw a sign for noodles hanging on the wall, but there were no noodles today.
One serving of rice weighs only 5 taels, which is more than enough for Wen Jiajia.
She ordered another portion of green pepper and eggplant and stewed tofu, then sat at the table next to her to wait for Shayue.
Shayue also came out with a lunch box. She knew which ones were delicious and which ones were average, so she packed them quickly.
"You also eat stewed tofu. I just wanted to tell you that the stewed tofu in the cafeteria is also delicious." She picked up the chopsticks, then took out a spoon from her pocket and stirred the rice.
Wen Jiajia took a sip and found it was indeed delicious.
While eating, several groups of people came into the cafeteria one after another. When the dishes at the food counter were almost finished, the workers in the workshop went off work. Wen Jiajia looked at her watch and saw that it was just after twelve o'clock, which meant that the normal time to get off work should be twelve o'clock.
The canteen staff hurriedly brought in a few more dishes from the kitchen. Wen Jiajia was shocked to find that there was a second wave.
And the steam was rising, as if it had been in the pot just a minute ago. No wonder the workers in the workshop were so quiet!
At noon, there is a two-hour break.
Work starts at 8 o'clock in the morning and ends at 6 o'clock in the evening, with a two-hour break in between. In other words, the pharmaceutical factory implements an eight-hour work system at this time.
It’s almost the same as a few decades ago.
If you think carefully about the factory where the original owner's adoptive parents worked, the same thing happened.
"Actually, most factories are like this. My uncle works in a canning factory, and they get off work at five o'clock, which is earlier than our pharmaceutical factory." Sha Yue said when she saw her sighing.
When they arrived at the office, the two men were not there. She left the door half-closed and asked curiously, "Jia Jia, are you from the countryside?"
Otherwise, how could you know nothing?
Wen Jiajia answered readily: "Yes."
Sha Yue was very impressed when she heard this: "So you got into our pharmaceutical factory by yourself? Which middle school did you graduate from?"
"I passed the exam last week." Wen Jiajia stuffed the washed lunch box back into the drawer. "But I'm not a local, and my school isn't here. I came here with my husband, and then took the exam for the pharmaceutical factory."
Sha Yue: “…”
"Wait, you have a husband." Sha Yue was shocked.
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "Yes, we got married last year."
Sha Yue was stunned and said, "I really can't tell. I thought you were a graduate this year."
For a moment, Wen Jiajia sighed. After marriage, she would be entangled in trivial matters, but she was still able to pass the examination to work in a pharmaceutical factory, which shows her character.
After all, she failed the college entrance exam when she graduated last year, and it was only because her mother gave her the job that she didn't have to go to the countryside.
Afternoon.
The office was quiet, Wen Jiajia lay on the table with her eyes closed to rest. Because she got up early in the morning, she fell asleep without realizing it.
The sunlight gradually shone in through the window. The dark hair was a good heat absorber, and Wen Jiajia was woken up by the heat.
When I woke up, my mind was not in place and I was confused. Then the scene in front of me gradually changed from virtual to real, and I woke up.
Shayue was still taking a nap, and the two men were nowhere to be seen until about 2:10 when they came one after another.
Wen Jiajia rubbed her temples and yawned three times in a row.
She felt that the work at the pharmaceutical factory was different from what she had imagined. It was so easy that it was boring, so boring that it was... extremely boring.
Shayue began to cultivate her aloe plants. She even grew two pots of aloe plants in her office.
No one knew where Li Haijun was going. He came back, checked in, and left in a hurry.
But Qiao He was preparing his safety presentation.
He is a very interesting person. He doesn't take other people seriously at all. He reads while writing, and reads passionately. You can tell that his safety speech is well written, clear and humorous, and easy to understand.
Obviously he is quite capable.
Only Wen Jiajia has no job and no Luhui, and all she does is read newspapers.
Is it going to be like this from now on?
Wen Jiajia thought of this problem again.
This kind of life is indeed comfortable, but also boring.
Whether to actively seek a job or passively wait, Wen Jiajia felt that she needed to think carefully about this question.
However, she did not have much time to think. After Wen Jiajia finished reading today's newspaper, the office door was pushed open.
"Who, smell..."
Wen Jiajia stood up and said, "Director, my name is Wen Jia."
Director Xue: "Okay, Wen Jia, please come to my office."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Sha Yue's eyes widened in shock, "I never thought that one day Director Xue would take the initiative to call for help."
Even Qiao He, who was revising the manuscript, looked surprised.
However, the original owner, Wen Jiajia, did not have time to be surprised and hurried out with a pen and paper.
Director Xue's office door was not closed, so she knocked twice as a sign of approval.
Seeing that she brought paper and pen, Director Xue felt that this newcomer might be capable.
Wen Jiajia stood in front of the desk: "Director Xue."
Director Xue pointed to a pile of documents next to her and asked her, "Can you sort them out?"
Wen Jiajia nodded immediately: "It can be sorted."
I have never been an employee but I have been a boss. In a state-owned enterprise, you have to say you can do it before the leader gives you a task.
If you do a good job, it means you have the ability. If you fail, no one can deduct your salary or fire you.
Seeing that she answered so readily, Director Xue also gave her some advice and said, "This is the production record of medicines in the workshop last month. You need to sort out the data. If you find any medicine missing, go to the workshop and find the team leader and ask him to explain the reason."
Wen Jiajia: "Okay."
She immediately repeated it in her mind several times: sort out the data... give a reason for the lack of drugs...
She took the documents back to the office, where Sha Yue was waiting for her with her head cocked.
"Hey, hey, hey, Jiajia, what does Director Xue want to talk to you about?" Seeing her come back, Sha Yue couldn't wait to ask.
Li Haijun came back at some point, and he and Qiao He turned to look at her.
Wen Jiajia patted the documents and said, "Organize the drug data in the workshop."
This……
Qiao He's expression froze for a few seconds, then he turned around and read his article again, even louder.
Li Haijun had a blank expression and said nothing.
Sha Yue just looked puzzled and said, "Why didn't Director Xue ask us to do it before?"
She didn't mean to be jealous. She had a clear idea of her own position, that she was just here to make a living and earn a salary.
Originally she was supposed to go to the workshop, but her family used connections to assign her to the office.
Her family had only one request for her - not to be kicked out by Director Xue.
Although we cannot fire employees now, we can definitely change their jobs. The office is so good, she doesn't want to be transferred to the workshop or logistics.
Wen Jiajia hadn't answered the question when Qiao He shook the paper in his hand and said without looking up, "That's something that only people like us who were recruited through formal exams or assigned by the school can do."
…
For a moment, the office was silent.
"Oh!"
After a moment, Shayue rolled her eyes and continued to fiddle with her aloe vera.
Even Li Haijun looked unhappy.
Wen Jiajia was speechless.
No, just be proud of yourself, why do you need to bring me along?
She was a rookie who had just started working. She had not yet familiarized herself with the pharmaceutical factory's operations, let alone established herself. She did not want to offend anyone.
She didn't offend the key person; she was just implicated. Wen Jiajia felt that she was going to die unjustly.
She cursed Qiao He a thousand times in her heart, took a few seconds to calm down, then drank a sip of water and started to tidy up.
In fact, this work is not difficult, but it is difficult because it is rather tedious.
The main reason is that the records in the workshop are too sloppy and haphazard, and it takes patience to extract the data.
Wen Jiajia started sorting from the first, sulfaguanidine, sulfamethoxazole...
These are all sulfa drugs.
Before I knew it, more than an hour had passed.
If the dazzling sunlight had not moved onto the notebook, Wen Jiajia would still be immersed in her work.
"Jia Jia, you can really sit still for a long time." Sha Yue sighed, "I've already stood up and walked three times."
Wen Jiajia put down her pen, rubbed her wrists, and stretched her waist lazily: "There is no other way, I want to finish it quickly."
She twisted her neck, making a crackling sound. She stood up and moved, then sat down again and continued working.
Now she has finished half of it, and she has to try to finish the other half before leaving get off work.
Practice makes perfect, and Wen Jiajia can organize things faster and faster.
By five o'clock, she had the data in order.
Just as she was about to go to the next workshop to ask the team leader questions, Sha Yue, who had returned from outside, knocked on her desk: "Jia Jia, Director Xue said you can leave at five o'clock."
Wen Jiajia paused: "Don't you get off work at six?"
"Yeah." Sha Yue was also surprised, "Is your home far away? Anyway, that's what Director Xue just told me."
Wen Jiajia put the organized data into the drawer, thought for a while, took it out and put it in her backpack, and said to Sha Yue: "My home is in the suburbs, it takes 40 minutes to ride a bicycle, it's not far, but the suburbs are not safe at night, so Director Xue let me leave work early."
Sha Yue suddenly realized, "Then you go first, see you tomorrow."
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "See you tomorrow."
She packed her things, put on her backpack and walked towards the carport at the door.
Only a fool wouldn't want to leave work early.
As soon as she left, the atmosphere in the office became a little subtle.
Qiao He muttered, "Is Director Xue also so enthusiastic sometimes?"
In fact, the rules of the pharmaceutical factory are not very strict. The people in the R&D team can also get off work at five o'clock, or even come to work at nine o'clock. But they are capable, and no one can say anything. How can Wen Jiapin do this? As for the others, no matter how boring it is, they have to stay in the factory.
Sha Yue held a grudge, so she snorted at Qiao He: "Director Xue is only enthusiastic about useful people. It doesn't matter how they got in. Even if they were assigned here, they are still slacking off."
As she said this, she shook her ponytail and ran to the workshop.
Wen Jiajia still gave her a sense of crisis. She always felt that this sister was a catfish. If she continued to lie there, although Wen Jiajia would not eat her, Director Xue would definitely dislike her.
Although the sun has set, the sky is still bright.
The evening breeze is as comfortable as the morning breeze, but it carries the smell of food, which makes people salivate.
Wen Jiajia stopped when she passed the state-owned hotel, looked carefully and said, "Give me eight steamed buns."
Waiter: “The buns are big.”
Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "There are many people in my family." Just kidding, she wanted to eat two meals, tonight and tomorrow morning.
The waiter opened the steamer and saw that there were still red sugar steamed buns inside. He immediately said, "Comrade, four white steamed buns and four brown sugar steamed buns."
"Okay, get the food coupons ready."
The waiter wrapped the steamed bun in oil paper and handed it to her. Wen Jiajia took it and handed over the food coupons and money.
She stuffed the steamed buns into her empty backpack, which she placed in the front basket of her bicycle.
The waiter gave her two 8-liang food coupons. Wen Jiajia took them and rode away on her bike.
Wen Jiajia was eager to go home, so she drove faster than in the morning. The price she paid was that her butt was so sore after getting off the car that she almost didn't dare to sit down.
The two children had not returned yet, so Wen Jiajia quickly lit the fire in the stove and stir-fried the blanched bracken, bacon, and wild onions in the pot.
After frying, cook another bowl of seaweed egg drop soup.
Just as Wen Jiajia put the two dishes on the table, the two children came back. They rushed in and hugged Wen Jiajia's legs.
Wen Chun was curious: "Aunt, are you back from work?"
Wen Jiajia was so tired that she pushed away the two clingy spiders and said, "Yes, yes, go wash your hands and eat."
Wen Xuan smiled and said, "It turns out that my aunt gets off work earlier than we get off school."
“…”
You naughty child, you are just hoping that I will be late, right? !
Wen Jiajia was angry: "If you don't wash your hands, you won't be allowed to eat. I bought some brown sugar steamed buns today."
The two children were frightened and quickly washed their hands and ate.
Children have no resistance to sweets, and they actually ate a whole brown sugar steamed bun that was bigger than an adult man's fist.
That’s not all, I also had a big bowl of seaweed egg soup.
Wen Jiajia quickly touched their bellies and asked, "Are you going to hold them? Don't complain about the pain at night."
Last month, they had a bad meal. They were fine in the evening, but in the middle of the night, both sisters started crying and vomiting. Wen Jiajia was almost scared to death. Why? They had eaten mushrooms that day, and she thought they were poisoned.
Wei Dai held one of them in his arms and carried them on his back, and sent them to the military hospital in the dark. The doctor rubbed their stomachs for half an hour and they took medicine before they felt better.
The last question is about eating and supporting.
Wen Xuan straightened her waist and patted her belly: "If my aunt doesn't support me, I can still eat."
Wen Jiajia lifted her to the ground and said, "What are you still eating? Go outside and pick some wild onions. Don't come back until you have a basket full of them."
Then he turned around and said, "Chun Er is the same."
night.
Wen Jiajia checked the sorted data again. This was her first job and there could be no mistakes.
From what Qiao He said today, it seemed that he had also been assigned a task by Director Xue, but he did not do it well, so he could only take a step back and take charge of the safety propaganda work in the workshop from now on.
After checking, the data is correct.
Wen Jiajia put the documents back into her backpack and looked out the window. The sky was bright with moonlight and stars. Tomorrow would surely be a sunny day.
——
Wen Jiajia was still the second one to arrive at work today.
Qiao He seemed to have just arrived and was cleaning the glass next to his desk.
He and Li Haijun sat at the desk on the corridor side. Although they were protected from the afternoon sun, because the propaganda board was on the corridor, chalk dust would always float onto the glass and even onto the desk.
Eight o'clock had passed, but Sha Yue and Li Haijun had not arrived yet. It was not until around 8:10 that they arrived at the office one after another.
Sha Yue took out an enamel cup from the drawer: "Jia Jia, aren't you going to the workshop? Why are you still reading the newspaper?"
He shook the cup in his hand and asked Wen Jiajia: "Do you want me to fill some water for you?"
Wen Jiajia looked up and said, "No, I just filled it up. The team leaders in the workshop haven't arrived yet. I'll go ask them later."
Well, she decided to bring water from home in the future. The factory does have water, but she always felt that it tasted bad, too hard, and not as sweet as the water she brought from home.
It was a quiet morning, with only the sound of flipping newspaper pages filling the office.
Wen Jiajia had read the Workers' Daily up to May 1st, and had written down several articles in her notebook.
She marked several of the articles in red because they were related to pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Just after ten o'clock, Wen Jiajia put away the newspaper and came to the workshop with paper and pen.
There are four team leaders in the Sixth Workshop. Wen Jiajia then realized that the workshop she saw yesterday was not the entire Sixth Workshop. This was just a small team in the Sixth Workshop.
Team leader Wei was debugging the equipment. Wen Jiajia's arrival only made him raise his head for half a second, "Wait a minute, please."
Having said that, he lowered his head to debug again.
Wen Jiajia was not in a hurry and waited on the side.
There is actually no smell in the workshop. Sulfonamide is odorless, which makes the environment of the sixth workshop very good.
I heard from Shayue that some workshops have a strong odor.
Those workshops are all located downwind, and the buildings are ventilated on all sides, almost like an observation tower.
It is said that the residential houses near the workshops are also being moved away one after another, and the vacant space will soon be taken over by the pharmaceutical factory.
There is no assembly line in the workshop. Wen Jiajia feels that it looks a bit like a small pharmaceutical workshop, but it is already the most advanced pharmaceutical workshop in the province at this time.
She saw a yellowish powder on the laboratory table and moved closer. It was a crystalline powder.
Wen Jiajia was too timid to touch it.
Even when getting close, I had to hold my breath, for fear that I would inhale the medicine into my nasal cavity.
The workers nearby laughed and said, "Don't be afraid, comrade. This poison is not very toxic."
Wen Jiajia:!!!
Her eyes were as big as dragon eyes, and she was so scared that she stammered, "Yes, yes, yes, it's poisonous? You're not lying to me, it's really poisonous?"
No, is this how you put poisonous medicine? Don't you need to cover it with something? If the wind blows, won't everyone be poisoned?
Wen Jiajia asked three questions to her soul, then she moved her feet and ran to the window quickly.
The worker laughed and said, "I'm kidding you. This one is not poisonous. The poisonous one is the one in the cover next to you. That one is really poisonous. We put it next to the window on purpose."
Wen Jiajia was silent for a moment, turned her head to look at the big hood next to her, and then walked back quietly.
Team leader Wei finally had some time. He looked at Wen Jiajia and said to the others, "Don't tease young people. What's poison? Poison is medicine if used correctly. It's not that easy to get poisoned. What if no one comes to our workshop in the future?"
Wen Jiajia nodded heavily in her heart, this is very true!
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