Chapter 408
Lei Tingjun accompanied Ji Wanmei for a day in Pingquan County.
The next day, Pingdong City called, saying that the company had a new development project and Lei Tingjun needed to go back to personally negotiate with the client. They told Lei Tingjun to go back after his honeymoon.
Business is more important than vacation, and besides, their honeymoon was already coming to an end.
But Ji Wanmei did not go back with Lei Tingjun.
She stayed in her hometown of Pingquan County and lived at home.
During this period at the end of this year, she also plans to focus her work on the factory, and first improve the quality of the factory's production line.
Once the Oriental Charm flagship store in the new shopping mall in Pingdong City opens, the demand for product distribution will increase significantly.
Next spring, she will negotiate with a few more branches and shops, and the volume of goods shipped will increase.
Although the current business model of companies and factories is basically self-production and self-sales, strict quality control is Ji Wanmei's most basic requirement.
Currently, two new production lines and equipment have just been purchased and put into use. The workers are not yet very familiar with the new equipment, resulting in a significant loss of defective and scrapped products.
Ji Xingguo had been discussing this issue with Ji Wanmei before, so Ji Wanmei planned to personally go to the workshop to supervise the workers on the new production line to master the technology.
Lei Tingjun went back first, and will come back to pick up Ji Wanmei after he finishes his work in a few days.
The Lunar New Year is approaching, and another year is drawing to a close.
Ji Wanmei rode her father's old-fashioned bicycle from home to the factory every morning.
The road to the factory isn't far, just a few streets.
As the year drew to a close in the winter months, it was still quite cold. Ji Wanmei wore a thick down jacket and gloves as she walked through the streets and alleys. She saw that the low buildings and walls on both sides of the road were decorated with New Year's decorations and paper-cuts.
This reminded her of a few years ago, when she had just graduated from high school and received her university acceptance letter.
That year, she had just met Lei Tingjun.
But later, Lei Tingjun told her that he had almost hit her on his bicycle in a corner alley outside the factory much earlier, and that was the first time he had seen her.
Ji Wanmei could never remember that scene.
But now, as she rode her bicycle through this alley with its three-way intersection, nearly colliding with two workers turning the corner, she suddenly remembered this scene from a very distant memory.
It's like a forgotten memory suddenly resurfacing.
She remembered.
She remembered everything about that day: the weather, the time, even what clothes she was wearing and what food was in the insulated lunchbox she was carrying for her father.
Ji Wanmei parked the car on the side of the road, looked at the tree and the telephone pole, and suddenly smiled for a while.
He then pushed the cart back towards the factory gate.
The workers who saw her along the way all greeted her warmly, saying, "Hello, Ms. Ji."
Ji Wanmei now goes to the Oriental Factory every day.
However, compared to five years ago, her identity has completely changed.
Her primary title is no longer the beloved daughter of factory director Ji Xingguo; she is General Manager Ji, whom all the workers admire.
Of course, she is still the most dazzling pearl of the Oriental Factory, the soul and core of Oriental Charm.
Several key managers that Ji Wanmei brought from the East China Company headquarters, including Zhou Min, now live in Pingquan County and in the factory's employee dormitory because of their work.
The conditions of the staff dormitories are somewhat worse than those in East China.
Most of them are eight-person or ten-person rooms with bunk beds.
Back when the factory was a state-owned enterprise, the management staff were entitled to apply for housing.
That's the staff compound where Ji Xingguo and his colleagues live now; it was originally allocated by the state.
Now that the company has been restructured, the houses that the cadres and employees who previously enjoyed this benefit, whether they have retired or are still working in the factory, belong to them.
Now, a new dynasty brings a new court.
It's impossible for Ji Wanmei to bring her team all the way from East China and then have them squeeze into an eight-person dorm room.
Moreover, these people will all become important senior managers in the factory in the future.
Therefore, Ji Wanmei has recently been considering whether she can convert a currently vacant factory building into an expanded employee dormitory to improve the living environment.
But we'll probably have to wait until Lei Tingjun returns and discuss it with him to see if he has any good suggestions.
After all, he's quite skilled at renovations.
Dongfang Factory used to be the largest daily chemical factory in the area, with many production workshops for various categories.
However, after Ji Wanmei bought it, several of the previous workshops had to be temporarily shut down because the products were incompatible.
But with such a large factory and thousands of employees, if the production workshop stops, won't those idle workers lose their jobs?
Therefore, Ji Xingguo had been busy with various tasks to keep the factory's production running smoothly. He took on several daily chemical orders under the name of a private enterprise to maintain production and ensure the factory's stable income and expenditure.
Otherwise, the factory would lose money during the period of equipment upgrades.
Ji Wanmei agreed with her father's thinking and let him make the final decision on this matter.
When Ji Wanmei bought the factory, she had already considered that her clothing brand's market penetration rate was not large, and currently, it would not require several thousand workers.
Unless later, two or three years later, when the flagship stores are opened all over the country, at that time, let alone a factory with thousands of employees, it is possible to open another branch factory.
Therefore, Ji Xingguo's suggestion to divide the factory into two production departments was a good way to stabilize revenue and expenditure while minimizing layoffs.
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