To facilitate business communication, Ji Wanmei installed a landline phone downstairs in the audio-visual store. In the future, she can call the audio-visual store directly and contact them at any time.
After a three-hour drive, Ji Wanmei arrived in Pingquan.
As soon as Ji Wanmei got home, she saw her father asleep on the sofa, still wearing his reading glasses.
On the coffee table at home, there was a cup of cold tea and several newspapers next to it, all reporting on the wave of layoffs in factories in various cities.
Ji Wanmei carried her bag into the house, took off her father's glasses, and folded up the newspaper. She was about to go inside to get a thin blanket to cover her father with when Ji Xingguo took care of it.
"Meimei, you're back? When did you arrive?" Ji Xingguo seemed to have aged considerably in this short period of time.
Ji Wanmei sat down on the single sofa next to her and put down her bag: "I just arrived. I drove back."
He propped himself up on his lower back, sat up wearily, and rubbed his sore shoulders, saying, "I was just reading the newspaper for a while when I somehow fell asleep."
Ji Wanmei went over and patted her father's shoulders, saying, "Don't worry, things will be resolved. I came back here specifically for this."
Ji Xingguo said, “Oh dear… how can your father not be anxious? You haven’t seen it, newspapers all over the country have reported it, with factories being merged and laid off, wave after wave of layoffs. The targets have already been assigned to our Dongfang Factory. Our Dongfang Factory is a daily chemical factory, not some key national chemical, steel, or petroleum factory. Factories like this, without patents or solid scientific content, are all going to be restructured.”
"I'm the factory manager, if I don't have to worry, who will?"
Yesterday, Ji Xingguo convened a meeting with the factory's leadership team. This round of layoffs will result in at least one-third of the workers being laid off and losing their jobs.
"The workers in our factory all have families that depend on us for their livelihood. If they are laid off, how will they survive?"
Ji Xingguo was still very worried about the workers' livelihoods.
If he were just an emotionless person who followed orders from above, he could simply lay off a third of the workers and still remain the factory manager without any worries.
He might even get a promotion because of this reform, and move up to the leadership team.
But Ji Xingguo no longer had that ambition. He had long harbored the idea of retirement, especially now that his daughter was grown up and he no longer needed to worry about her.
But Ji Xingguo was not the kind of person without conscience who could calmly endure the workers' insults without batting an eye.
Ji Wanmei knew what her father was worried about, and comforted him, "Dad, you've forgotten that the Yang family father and son are just as restless as you are right now."
Ji Wanmei smiled faintly: "The Yang family father and son have made their fortune by exploiting our factory. You are unwilling to let the factory be merged and restructured out of a sense of responsibility to the workers, but the Yang family father and son will not allow the factory to be reformed because of their own interests. They will definitely make a move. Just wait and see. As soon as they make a move, we will catch them red-handed."
Ji Xingguo pondered: "You already have a plan?"
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