August 1, 1958, 7:10 in the morning, at the brewery gate.
The security officer looked at Ye Tianya and his son and asked with a laugh, "Hahahaha... When I saw you, I seemed to see myself...hahahaha..."
Ye Zhiqiu touched his nose, took out cigarettes and passed them around to a few people. After lighting them, they continued smoking and chatting.
He said helplessly, "There's nothing we can do. The old woman doesn't know anything and she woke us up at six o'clock! I'm lucky it's summer. If it were winter, I'd be in the cold wind all day!"
"Well, it's all the same! When I first retired from the army, I also brought my parents from the countryside to the city. Guess what happened? They got up at five o'clock to make breakfast, and called me to eat breakfast at half past five..."
"My mom was even worse. Wasn't our factory closed on Saturdays back then? But she said there was no way I could rest and forced me to come to work! No matter what I said, she wouldn't listen. I could only run away for the whole day. When I got home that night and told her I'd been criticized, she finally stopped torturing me like that!"
Ye Zhiqiu and Ye Tianya looked at each other, and they immediately knew how to talk to Wang Xiaolan in the evening.
"Dad, we were told last night that we were criticized and that our boss didn't allow us to come to work so early!"
"That's right! We need to clearly tell her that our factory regulations require that you can't enter the factory until after 7:30!"
A group of people couldn't help laughing when they saw the father and son discussing how to fool their family.
We are all experienced people, and the country people don't understand factory work at all. They always think that it is just like farming in the countryside, that they have to go to work earlier and work longer to justify the high daily wages.
How can I understand them when they have no concept of being on time for get off work? I always think they are slacking off at work, so they often make jokes like this.
However, Ye Zhiqiu felt that his mother should have the concept of going to and from get off work on time. It was not like she had never been to the city before. She was just too excited.
After chatting and laughing and smoking a cigarette, he pushed the bicycle into the shed and parked it in the direction indicated by the security personnel.
It's no wonder people nowadays love to take good care of their bicycles. They won't leave them outdoors like this. They won't let them get wet in the sun or rain, let alone snow in winter.
If it gets scratched, I will feel sad for several days. After all, it is a huge item that ordinary people have to save for several years to buy!
It was already 7:30, and people were indeed starting to come into the factory. Ye Zhiqiu and his partner, carrying bags of lunch boxes and water cups, ran outside the office building. After squatting and smoking another cigarette, some people finally started opening the door.
It wasn't until fifty minutes later that Director Li from the Human Resources Department arrived. Seeing Ye Zhiqiu and his son, he smiled and asked, "Why are you here so early? The people from other departments haven't officially started work yet, so it's hard for me to take you over and make arrangements!"
Ye Zhiqiu took out a cigarette and said with a smile, "Don't worry about Secretary Li laughing at you, but my mother kicked my father and me out of the house early this morning! She was too excited and didn't care about the working hours at all. We couldn't do anything about her, so we had to go to the factory early and wait for the time."
Upon hearing this, Director Li smiled and replied, "Well, you guys have experienced this kind of situation a lot. It will be over in a couple of days! You know, a sudden change is really exciting. When I graduated and was assigned a job, I rushed to work excitedly!"
At that time, I didn't have a bicycle, and my home was too far from the factory. I could walk for 50 minutes, and the wind was blowing all the way, but I didn't feel tired at all.
Speaking of it, the jobs of local people are actually farther away from the factory. Unless they use their own connections to get a job, there are more cases like Director Li.
The bus fare is five cents, which means a round trip for a day costs ten cents, which is three dollars a month! But not many people are willing to spend this much money.
He is relatively lucky, at least his home is in Chaoyang District and his job is assigned here. The people who are assigned to other districts should have the most headaches.
If you live far away, you have to rent a house, and the rent of three dollars a month is an additional expense.
By the way, Ye Zhiqiu and Ye Tianya will be charged a total of six dollars, but with such a large private courtyard, what else is there to say?
After smoking a cigarette, Director Li led the two of them into the workshop.
Ye Tianya was assigned to work as a porter in the workshop. After finding the production workshop supervisor, he began to work. His specific job was to work with another person to lift the boxed bottles of beer or barrels of beer onto tricycles and then take them to the warehouse for storage.
This job is not complicated, nor is it particularly tiring. Ye Tianya's partner is a simple and honest man with a simple smile. I believe he can adapt to this job quickly.
Secretary Li led Ye Zhiqiu and started walking towards the supply department, which was actually the logistics department, but it was called the material supply department at the brewery.
In most factories, the logistics department is called these two. The logistics department here is also divided into the supply and demand department, the materials department, and the transportation team.
Ye Zhiqiu's purchasing department belonged to the Supply and Demand Department. In addition to the department head, there were three purchasing staff and about ten other clerks. The key was that two of the purchasing staff were responsible for the handover of planned materials.
It didn't take much to tell that these two were the legendary "connected buyers." With their connections, it was easy for them to get planned supplies without being stuck on time. So, there was only one true unplanned purchaser, and now with Ye Zhiqiu, there were two!
After arriving here, Secretary Li handed Ye Zhiqiu over to Liu Wenjie, the head of the supply and demand department, and left the logistics department.
Ye Zhiqiu looked at Liu Wenjie, who should be around forty years old. But he should be quite serious, at least there was no smile on his face at the moment.
After a long silence, Ye Zhiqiu could only ask, "Hey, Chief Liu, who should I ask to pick up my things?"
Liu Wenjie rubbed his forehead and said a little unhappy: "Xiao Ye, don't worry, I have a headache! There is an old purchasing agent Huang Dajiang who can help you get familiar with purchasing.
But this guy's mother passed away, and he came to me last night and asked for three days of vacation. Now I'm also worried about how to arrange for you to go shopping. We have urgent supplies that are not planned, but there is nothing particularly urgent.
How about you stay in the office for a couple of days? When Huang Dajiang comes back from the funeral, he'll take you to the countryside to learn how to do procurement?"
Ye Zhiqiu was stunned. So that's how it was. He thought that Section Chief Liu had some grievances against him, but it turned out that was not the case at all.
He quickly smiled and said, "Section Chief, you don't know, I'm from the countryside. I've also purchased rabbits for the factory and written invoices, so I'm very familiar with it. I don't need anyone to guide me in dealing with the villagers."
"Once you've arranged for me to have dinner, I can go out and do some shopping. Oh, and before I started working, I already negotiated a deal for 24 rabbits!"
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