Chapter 168
Binjiang City's performance appraisal work began after the First Five-Year Plan.
Initially, only model workers were selected. Later, in order to encourage everyone to devote themselves to socialist construction, advanced individual awards and advanced collective awards were added.
This year marks the tenth year of the advanced evaluation.
Deputy Director Sun has served as a judge three times and encountered some individual corporate leaders who wanted awards.
But they all come to ask for quotas or recommend promising candidates.
This was the first time she had met someone like Ye Manzhi, who directly asked them to add a new award.
After a moment of stunned silence, she said businesslike, "Director Ye, our committee has noted your suggestions and will discuss them seriously later."
When it comes to awarding prizes, the superior unit usually announces the award rules, and the subordinate units recommend candidates according to the requirements.
Ye Manzhi also knew that she was being too nosy, but the opportunity was right in front of her, so she had to give it a try, right?
If you don’t fight for it this year, it will be even harder next year.
It is only natural to hold special events and set up special awards every five or ten days.
But although the "Glorious Eleven Years" is also quite glorious, it seems like an award specially set up for someone.
"Director Sun, our grassroots units will certainly fully support the city's award-giving efforts. I've taken the liberty of visiting you today simply to share some of the current situation at the grassroots level. Our city recognizes over a thousand outstanding individuals every year, and I'm sure there are quite a few who have received awards for consecutive years."
Director Sun is not sure how many workers have been awarded advanced titles nine times in a row, but there are definitely many who have won the award multiple times.
Seeing her nod, Ye Manzhi continued, "Winning awards can motivate everyone to maintain excellence, but there are limited awards. If the award is always given to a fixed number of people, others will feel that there is no point. They will not be able to compete with these outstanding comrades, so they will simply give up. However, it would be unfair to let the comrades who have won awards for many years to carry forward their style and give the award to others..."
Director Sun smiled and said, "Director Ye, company leaders also need to develop new ideas. If a comrade has won awards for nine consecutive years, it means that this comrade is very outstanding and can be considered for a more important leadership position."
The award system for factory leaders and workers is different.
If you reach the top among workers, you can then work your way up to cadres.
Ye Manzhi smiled and said, "This comrade from our factory was just promoted to workshop director this year."
After the 2.27 fire, the director and deputy director of the canning workshop were both held accountable.
Chen Guilan was the new director promoted after the fire.
Upon hearing this, Deputy Director Sun nodded thoughtfully.
The situation reported by Director Ye does exist, and the tenth anniversary is indeed a gimmick and deserves a special award.
However, the jury cannot tailor an award for someone. They must first confirm how many comrades in the city are eligible to receive the "Glorious Decade" award.
*
Do your best and leave the rest to fate. Ye Manzhi went to the city to report the situation and then returned to work.
While running for awards for others, she also cannot neglect her own work.
The workers in the workshop should be awarded, and the cadres in the factory should also be awarded.
Ye Manzhi has been working at the First Food Factory for nearly a year and has a lot to write about.
She is quite experienced in winning awards. Not only does one have to do a good job, but one also has to write good reporting materials.
Therefore, in addition to working in the workshop and making the supply and marketing plan for the entire factory next year, she spent most of her time writing reporting materials.
Zhou Ruyi entered the office and took the signed documents. After a moment's hesitation, he asked, "Director, we have quite a lot of materials to summarize at the end of the year. Do you need me to write them?"
The factory manager of her family is a college student. He writes all the speeches and materials submitted to the superiors by himself.
When Zhou Ruyi first discovered this, he was secretly delighted.
However, the longer time went on, the more uneasy she felt.
An important job of a secretary is to serve as the leader's penman. If the materials are written by the leader himself, then what is the use of her as a secretary?
On the part of Deputy Director Jiang, even the year-end work summary and award application materials were written by his secretary.
Director Jiang only needs to make modifications and additions based on this.
Ye Manzhi smiled and said, "Okay, I haven't started writing the summary of my work this year. You can contact the Supply and Marketing Department and the Finance Department and write a first draft."
This was a very important job. Zhou Ruyi nodded quickly and happily returned to the secretary's office with a stack of documents.
Ye Manzhi was still staring at the manuscript in front of him, worried.
She has finished the first draft of her application for the personal award.
It was thirty pages long, longer than her college thesis.
She was worried that the awards committee wouldn't have the patience to read it all, so she planned to simplify it.
But she read it over and over again and was reluctant to delete or change any part.
Especially the content related to the implementation of the "Angang Constitution" in the canning workshop, she did not want to reduce a single word in the 17-page report.
These are all her achievements!
Ye Manzhi spent the whole afternoon in the office revising the documents but still couldn't finish them. Seeing that it was time to get off work, she quickly put the materials in the drawer and went to pick up her child from kindergarten.
Wu Zhengrong went on a business trip to Beijing yesterday, leaving only her and Accountant Wu at home.
"Baby, Mommy has to be on duty tonight. Do you want to go to the factory with me or stay at Grandma's house for the night?"
"I'm with you!" Wu Yuzhuo answered straightforwardly.
This was not the first time she had gone to her mother's workplace to be on duty. When her father was not at home, she would follow her mother to the workplace.
Ye Manzhi was not surprised by the follower's choice. Just as she was about to agree, she heard her daughter say, "I need to write a work summary. Mom, can you teach me how to write it later?"
“What kind of work summary should I write?”
"It's the work summary of our children's group!" Wu Yuzhuo said proudly, "The group leader asked me to write it!"
Ye Manzhi: “…”
Oh my god.
Her daughter is only five years old and she has to write a work summary. Who came up with this stupid idea?
What can a five-year-old write?
Wu Yuzhuo took out a gridded notebook from her small schoolbag and said proudly, "The regiment commander asked me to write on this and give it to Uncle Fang when the time comes."
Uncle Fang is Secretary Fang of Qingnian Street Commune.
It seems that this work summary of the Children's Group was arranged by the clever Secretary Fang.
Ye Manzhi took the notebook and started flipping through it.
There are handwritings of several people on it, some of which are obviously written by older children. The handwriting is neat and there are very few typos.
Some articles not only have typos throughout the text, but also have new words replaced by pinyin.
But the young cadres wrote very seriously, recording the activities organized by the Children's League over the past year, as well as the planting and harvesting of that acre of land.
Wu Yuzhuo had been an accountant for less than four months, so the notebook still contained the handwriting of the previous accountant.
Ye Manzhi stared at Guo Dongdong's crooked signature and thought that this leader of the children's group was really capable. He even called back the former accountant who had embezzled public funds to write a work summary.
She immediately changed her tone and said, "Baby, the temperature has dropped recently, and the duty room in our unit is really cold. Why don't you stay at your great-grandfather's house for a night? He used to be a university dean, so he's very good at writing work summaries. Let him give you some guidance on your summary."
"Is my great-grandfather's writing better than yours?"
In Wu Yuzhuo's impression, her mother always wrote work summaries at home, and she must be very good at writing.
"You can definitely write better than me!" Ye Manzhi praised the old man with all the praise he could muster. "I'm just a college student, and your great-grandfather is a teacher for college students. He's amazing!"
Accountant Wu, who was very responsible at a young age and always put work first, nodded and said, "Then I'll go find my great-grandfather!"
Ye Manzhi quickly sent the child to the Wu family's old house.
Compared with her biological mother, Director Wu attached great importance to her child's work summary. He waved to his granddaughter-in-law and started to draft with his great-granddaughter.
*
Factory Manager Xiao Ye arranged a place for his daughter and returned to the factory alone to work.
She has to be on duty five or six times a month and is already familiar with the duty procedures.
In the first half of the night, I patrolled the workshops with the militia company and the security department, mainly to check production safety and prevent accidents.
After 11 o'clock, she can go back to the duty room to sleep.
The Security Department will arrange staff for night shifts.
Generally, no major incidents will occur. Accidents like the 2.27 fire will not happen once in many years.
However, not long after she fell asleep tonight, someone came running into the duty room and banged on the door.
"Director Ye, are you asleep?"
When Ye Manzhi heard the voice, she immediately woke up, agreed, and got up to put on her cotton jacket.
While moving the tables and chairs that were blocking the door, he asked, "What happened?"
She doesn't take off her clothes when she sleeps, so it doesn't take her long to get dressed.
The most laborious part is moving the tables and chairs.
She could work night shifts with male colleagues, but she was not very brave. When she was on duty alone in the empty factory area, she would always lock the door and block it with tables and chairs.
When she finally put the tables and chairs back in place, the security personnel outside the door also explained the situation.
"The forklift driver made an operational error and crashed the forklift into the finished product warehouse gate. Master Bao was bleeding from the head and had already passed out. Xiao Xu, who was working on the loading and unloading team, was standing next to the gate at the time and was hit on the shoulder by the gate."
Ye Manzhi opened the door and asked, "Have you organized someone to send someone to the hospital?"
"Our section chief called the hospital and asked for an ambulance, but they said they only had one and it had been dispatched to pick up a pregnant woman in labor. Mr. Bao's head was covered in blood and no one dared to move him."
Ye Manzhi ran quickly towards the warehouse. When they arrived at the open space in front of the finished product warehouse, more than a dozen people were surrounding Master Bao and Xiao Xu.
Someone took a clean towel and pressed it on Master Bao's forehead to stop the bleeding, while Xiao Xu sat on the ground groaning in pain.
"Chief Liu, Chef Bao's bleeding is too severe. He needs to be taken to the hospital as soon as possible."
"I've sent someone to find the nearest truck driver."
The factory leaders didn't have a car, and there were only two trucks for transporting goods. No one present knew how to drive, so if they wanted to use a truck, they had to contact a truck driver.
Ye Manzhi looked at his watch. Even if the driver arrived as soon as possible, it would still take half an hour.
"We have a cart in our warehouse. Let's put the two injured people on it and take them to the nearest central hospital. They have a nighttime emergency room!"
Now that someone has stepped forward to make a decision, everyone can take action immediately.
A group of people first moved Master Bao and Xiao Xu onto a cart, and then sent five or six strong young men to push the cart out of the factory.
When I reached the door, the medical worker on duty in the infirmary also rushed over.
One of the doors of the finished product warehouse was knocked down by a forklift. Ye Manzhi found a few people to guard the finished product warehouse and hurriedly arranged the follow-up matters. Then he caught up with the cart in front and sent the person to the emergency room with everyone.
…
She stayed in the hospital until dawn. When Niu Enjiu and the injured patients' families rushed to the hospital, she forced herself to explain the situation.
"Master Bao was on night shift last night, transporting goods between the canning workshop and the finished goods warehouse. At around 11:45, for unknown reasons, he suddenly crashed his forklift into the finished goods warehouse's main door. The forklift knocked down one of the doors, and Master Bao was injured from falling debris hitting his forehead and the back of his head. He also fractured his left leg. Master Xiao Xu was hit on the right arm by the warehouse door, dislocating his shoulder and fracturing his wrist and fingers."
Ye Manzhi was speechless about this accident.
Compared to other people on the loading and unloading team, driving a forklift is a very easy job.
Finished canned goods are relatively heavy, and most of the products are packed in glass bottles. In order to prevent damage during transportation, the food factory specially purchased a forklift last year to transport goods within the factory.
It can not only save the effort of loading and unloading workers, but also ensure the safety of canned products.
In the past, when workers were asked to move goods, there were never any major problems. But now that working conditions have improved and there are forklifts, things have started to go wrong.
Bao Shifu's parents were only concerned about their son's safety. They pulled Ye Manzhi aside and asked, "Director, is my son Bao Xu in danger?"
"The doctor said he's not in danger of death, but he needs to recuperate from a broken leg and his head injury needs to be monitored. Chef Bao woke up twice in the middle of the night and is now asleep again."
Ye Manzhi was actually not sure whether Master Bao was knocked unconscious or drunk.
But the family members were a little emotional, so she did not mention this matter in front of them.
It was not until both families entered the ward that she told Niu Enjiu the details.
"Bao Xu smelled of baijiu (white liquor), and many people noticed it last night. I'm not sure how much he drank, and whether the accident was caused by drinking. The temperature dropped sharply after winter, and it was quite cold at night. It's possible that the driver relied on baijiu to stay warm."
Forklifts are different from cars. Although cars also leak air everywhere, at least they have a cab with doors and windows.
The sides of the forklift cab are empty, with no doors or windows. When a night shift driver works, it is no different from working outdoors in the open air.
Bao Xu smelled of alcohol and his face was red.
However, we cannot classify him as drunk driving based on these alone. After all, drinking can be done to keep warm, and blushing can be attributed to the cold weather.
Niu Enjiu snorted and said, "It's probably because of drinking. The security department found a military canteen in the cab of the forklift. When they opened it, it smelled like white wine. That canteen can hold at least two kilograms of white wine."
If it was just a minor accident, the factory would turn a blind eye and let it go.
As long as nothing happens, there's no penalty for drivers drinking and driving these days.
Drinking some white wine during the coldest days of winter is a way for many drivers to keep warm, which is understandable to everyone.
But now it is the end of the year and all the work in the factory has entered the sprint stage.
While the entire factory was working overtime to catch up on production, Bao Xu drove a forklift and knocked down the warehouse door.
And he had just packed 20 cases of canned apples from the canning factory.
The collision didn't cause any harm, as almost all of the 20 cartons, totaling 480 cans, were smashed, with less than 20 bottles surviving.
Even if we only calculate the cost price, these cans will cost three or four hundred yuan.
No matter what caused the accident, the factory's punishment on Bao Xu will definitely not be light.
…
The subsequent development of the matter was similar to what many people expected, and the factory quickly decided to fire Bao Xu.
The last time a fire broke out, all the safety officers who were jointly responsible were fired. This time, Bao Xu was the person primarily responsible, so it was reasonable to fire him.
However, before the factory announced its decision to fire Bao Xu, the police arrived first.
Bao Xu's parents seemed to have expected that their son would be punished by the food factory. On the third day after the incident, they reported the incident to the police.
Request the police to investigate.
But three days have passed, and even if Bao Xu really did drive drunk, no clues can be found.
When questioned by the police, several workers who were present at the scene gave ambiguous answers.
Everyone has a good relationship with each other, so even if someone thinks he is driving under the influence, they would be too embarrassed to come forward and confirm it.
The doctor at the hospital could only confirm that Bao Xu had been drinking. There is no clear standard for determining drunkenness nowadays. Bao Xu was unconscious and injured when he was sent in. The doctor was more inclined to believe that he was briefly unconscious due to a severe blow.
The only person who could give clear testimony was Xiao Xu, who was also injured and hospitalized.
He was willing to come forward and accuse Bao Xu of being drunk.
Xiao Xu is a worker in the loading and unloading team, a young man in his twenties. As a result of the accident, he suffered fractures in his wrist and phalanges. After the recovery, he can lead a normal life, but cannot lift heavy objects.
Being a loader is a physical job, and he is also a temporary worker.
Suffering such an unexpected disaster at such a young age, it was like Bao Xu had ruined his job.
How can people not hate him?
"Then Bao Xu obviously got into trouble because of drinking. The factory should fire him!"
"Liu Hanmin, you are not working in the workshop, why are you meddling here?" Jiang Wenming asked with a headache.
Liu Hanmin was fired for dereliction of duty during the February 27 fire, but later made amends and returned to work at the factory.
"I'm Xu Jianwei's uncle!" Liu Hanmin stood in the camp of Xu Jianwei's family and said righteously, "People who drink and cause trouble like this should be fired!"
Bao Xu's father said: "My son is a forklift driver. It's cold at night, so he drank to keep warm! My son Bao Xu weighs one kilogram, and the wine in the kettle is less than two ounces. How could he be drunk?"
"Then why did he crash into the warehouse door for no reason?" Liu Hanmin asked.
“My son was not feeling well!”
If you get into an accident while driving drunk, you will definitely be fired from the factory, but if the accident happens because you are unwell, you can be forgiven.
"Drivers have annual physicals. If he wasn't in good health, he wouldn't be able to be a driver!" Liu Hanmin questioned. "How did he become a driver if he wasn't in good health?"
"My son is in good health, but he's been working night shifts for two months straight. What good person can stand that?"
Liu Hanmin sarcastically said, "Who among the night shift workers in the canning workshop hasn't been working night shifts for months? Everyone else is fine, but only Bao Xu got into trouble? And he was drinking when he got into trouble."
"How can Bao Xu be treated the same as the workers in the canning workshop?" Old Bao said anxiously, his face flushed. "Most of the workers in the canning workshop live in the food factory's staff quarters, but we live in a house rented from the street! Not only is it next to the street and the vegetable market, but we're also squeezed into the same yard with seven other families. It's so noisy during the day that we can't even get a good rest!"
The workers in the food factory are divided into day shift and night shift, so in order to ensure that the night shift workers can have a normal rest, the logistics department requires the family compound to pay special attention to the families of night shift workers.
All workers who work night shifts can hang a sign at their door saying "Night shift tonight, no noise allowed."
After the sign is hung, no one, whether adults or children, is allowed to make noise at other people's doorsteps.
Once caught, you can report it to the neighborhood committee.
If mistakes occur during the night shift due to lack of rest, the person caught will also be held jointly liable.
Therefore, the environment in the food factory’s staff quarters is very good, and there is rarely any noise during the day.
However, the family compound was built six or seven years ago. At that time, the food factory was not so large, and most of the people who could live in the family compound were cadres and employees of the canning and pickle workshops.
The employees who were later incorporated into the food factory did not have the conditions to live in the family quarters.
They can either live in their original houses or the factory can help them rent a house in the city.
Everyone lived in scattered areas, and the living environment was also uneven. The Bao family was unlucky, as they lived in a large compound.
Employees from several units live in one courtyard, and no one cares whether you work the night shift or not.
Do what you need to do during the day.
Bao Xu, who had been working night shifts for several months, had no chance of getting a good rest during the day.
Therefore, Bao Xu's parents believe that the food factory should bear most of the responsibility for Bao Xu's accident.
The factory could not solve the employee's housing problem and kept arranging night shifts for him.
Bao Xu didn't get enough rest. He was not in good spirits and could not concentrate during the night shift, especially on cold winter nights. People tend to feel sleepy when they are cold. Isn't this a problem?
The factory leaders present were all stunned by the Bao family’s sophistry!
Even Ye Manzhi hadn't expected that Bao Xu's drunk driving and crashing into the warehouse door could be linked to the housing...
What does this have to do with anything?
Everyone felt that Bao Xu's family was being unreasonable, and Liu Hanmin even spread these remarks as if they were telling a joke.
His original intention was to let everyone see to what extent Bao Xu's family could go to exonerate him.
The forklift crashing into the warehouse has become a hot topic in the factory, and the employees are all very concerned about the follow-up developments of the incident.
The Bao family's words were indeed widely circulated, but what Xiao Xu's family and the factory leaders did not expect was that public opinion in the factory suddenly changed direction, and many people actually agreed with the reasons given by Bao Xu's side.
The conditions of public rental housing on the street are not good to begin with, and cannot be compared with the environment of the family compound.
The food factory’s staff quarters have a library, a game room, a bathhouse, and a basketball court.
We are all employees of the food factory and have to take turns working the night shift. Why can the employees of the canning and pickle workshops live in the family compound, while others can only rent houses on the street?
The better the conditions in the family compound, the more unbalanced others will feel.
Taking advantage of Bao Xu's case, many employees who were not allocated housing or lived in very poor conditions reported the situation to the trade union, logistics department and factory office.
Request the factory to solve the housing problem for employees.
"Many people in our workshop wanted to sign a joint letter!" said the fourth brother, chewing a large piece of fat meat. "They asked me to sign it as well, but I said I'd think about it."
"Temporary workers aren't eligible for housing, so your signature won't help." Ye Manzhi poured cold water on him and asked, "Brother, how's your driving? Have you forgotten all the driving skills you learned?"
The fourth brother shook his head repeatedly: "No, I feel sick when I smell that diesel."
"There are only two forklift drivers in the factory. After Master Bao was injured, there was no one to take his place. The drivers are all regular employees. If you can drive a forklift, I'll recommend one for you."
Fourth Brother swung his legs and asked, "What exactly does the factory plan to do with Bao Xu? If he's not fired, what's the point of having me drive a forklift? A broken bone takes a hundred days to heal, and I can only cover for three months at most. By the time he recovers, I'll have to go back to the pastry workshop as a temporary worker."
"Don't worry about Bao Xu. Even if he comes back, it won't make much of a difference. Forklift drivers these days work two shifts, and the hours are still too long. It would be best if we could have three shifts, eight hours each, to prevent drivers from getting fatigued." Ye Manzhi smiled, "If you become a regular employee, you'll be eligible for housing."
Fourth Brother still shook his head. "I can't stand the diesel smell. Besides, how can the public housing on the street compare to the housing conditions in the military industrial complex? I live well at home, and maybe it will be even better in a while."
At this point, his tone was somewhat depressed, and he sighed, "Didn't our father and third brother both sign up to support the Third Front construction? The official list has been released. Our father asked you to take some time to go back..."
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