When will I have a long tassel?

During the Spring Festival of 1995, the gloomy and declining scenes of previous years were swept away. The whole factory was decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and everyone was beaming with joy. On New Year's Eve, the aroma of stewed meat and chicken filled the entire factory area, and the sound of firecrackers echoed throughout the sky.

On the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, people dressed in new clothes began to pay New Year greetings from house to house. Children held New Year's money and firecrackers in their pockets, running happily in the factory area, laughing one after another, making the adults also Infected, smiles overflowed from all faces.

"Master, my apprentice wishes you a happy New Year!"

"In-laws, congratulations on getting rich!"

"Lao Zhang, how are you? It's time to have a grandson this year, right? Congratulations!"

"Sister Liu, you look like you are in your 20s now..."

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A factory is a society. More than 20,000 employees and their families are inextricably linked. Some have fathers and sons who have both worked in the factory, some are sons and daughters, some are classmates from their children’s schools, and some are old colleagues, old leaders, and old subordinates. , fellow villagers and so on.

On weekdays, everyone is busy with their own affairs, especially during the economic downturn in the factory. Many people work outside the factory and have few opportunities to meet. When they do meet, they just sigh and sigh, and there is no interest in chatting.

Nowadays, the factory has improved a bit, especially on New Year's Eve, the factory paid everyone three months' wages at once. Some families with two working hours received almost a thousand yuan, and their pockets suddenly bulged.

As the saying goes, money is the courage of the poor. Everyone has money in their pockets, and the tone of their voices has risen a few notches. The son wanted to buy firecrackers, and the father waved his hand: Buy! The daughter took a fancy to a ski shirt, and the mother sold it for 100 yuan without saying a word. Those friends who haven't been together for a long time dare to have dinner together. A little wine and meat are nothing, aren't they just money?

Everyone gathered together and chatted all over the place. As they chatted, they couldn't help but turn to the topic of the factory's present and future.

"Xiao Cheng, after the New Year, do we still have business?"

This is the home of Cheng Wei, the director of the lathe workshop, and a small family dinner is going on. The people who came to the banquet were all employees who usually had a good relationship with Cheng Wei. The person who asked Cheng Wei questions at this time was Cheng Wei's former master, seventh-level lathe Li Zeqing.

"Master, don't worry. The factory has received orders for more than 70 units of the baling machines we made last month. Director Zhou said that there is no need to rush this time. It will take three months to complete. That’s okay, so our workshop’s business will be at least until May.” Cheng Wei replied.

Cheng Wei's junior brother Pang Lin asked: "Brother, didn't the factory say that after finishing the batch of balers, they would give everyone a bonus? Why didn't you mention it?"

"Yeah, I did the math, I can get at least 100 yuan. I originally planned to get the money and have a few good meals during the Chinese New Year, but why didn't I believe it?" Another person named Liu Yongxing The worker also echoed that he and Cheng Wei are chess friends, and they always find time to play a few games on weekdays.

Cheng Wei said: "Everyone can rest assured that the factory will not default on what it promised. Director Zhou said that we will pay everyone three months' salary at the end of this year, and the amount is already quite large, so the bonus is It won’t be paid until after the New Year. Lao Liu, your couple’s combined salary is over 1,000 yuan, right? Why are you still counting on this 100 yuan bonus?”

Liu Yongxing smiled and said: "Salary is salary, bonus is extra. My wife has already planned how to use the salary, and she can't come up with an extra penny. If you can get this bonus, you will have more reasons to drink. Yet?"

Pang Lin asked: "Brother, if the factory doesn't pay bonuses before the year, do you have other ideas?"

"What do you think?" Cheng Wei asked.

Pang Lin said: "I heard people say that the factory was afraid that the uneven distribution of bonuses would cause trouble, so it postponed it until after the Chinese New Year to save everyone from having a bad year in the coming years."

Otherwise, if you don't want others to know, unless you do nothing, the calculations of the leaders of the factory affairs meeting may be able to be hidden from some employees, but it is absolutely impossible to prevent all employees from guessing it. . There may be a factor in this that Zhou Heng deliberately let people off guard. It is better to let everyone off guard first so that everyone can be mentally prepared, rather than resorting to a surprise attack.

Hearing Pang Lin's words, Li Zeqing's attitude became serious and asked Cheng Wei: "Xiao Cheng, I heard that the factory's policy is that the more you work, the more you get, the less you work, the less you get, and the less you work, the less you get. For this mission, There are quite a few people in our workshop who are not involved in production, are you really not going to give them a penny in bonuses?"

Cheng Wei smiled bitterly and said: "Master, is this something I can decide? The tone was set at the factory affairs meeting, and I can only follow it. Factory Director Zhou usually seems very amiable, but he can be so serious. It’s true that I don’t recognize my relatives. How can I have the courage to openly violate the requirements of the factory affairs committee?”

"Does the factory affairs committee say that bonuses will not be given to people who are not involved in production?" Liu Yongxing asked.

Cheng Wei nodded almost imperceptibly, and then said: "The factory leaders are not allowed to make this matter public yet, so please don't go out and talk about it."

Pang Lin said: "We will definitely not go out and talk about it. However, there is a lot of discussion in the factory. Do you all know Wang Ying in the milling workshop?"

"Of course I know him, he's a retired cadre from Family Planning." Liu Yongxing said with a somewhat mocking tone.

The Wang Ying they are talking about is a female worker in her 30s. In 1980, she took over her father's job and joined the factory and was assigned to be an apprentice in the milling workshop. At the beginning of her apprenticeship, Wang Ying's performance was quite passable. Although her speed in learning skills was more than half as slow as others, she was still disciplined. Later, she got married, gave birth to a child quickly, and then ran towards a middle-aged aunt.

After returning to the workshop after confinement, she claimed that she was suffering from confinement syndrome and could not stand for long periods of time, listen to noise, or look at rapidly rotating things, otherwise she would become dizzy. But as a miller, how is it possible to meet these requirements? So she stayed in hospital every day and visited the staff hospital several times a week. Whenever she was given a job in the workshop, she would definitely not be able to complete it, so she would hand over a few sick leave notes to offset it.

The workshop had no choice but to move her away from the milling position. First, she was asked to be an inspector, but she said she couldn't learn the testing equipment, and then she was asked to be a statistician. She also said she had a headache when she saw the numbers. After several twists and turns, she finally creatively set up a family planning post in the milling workshop and asked her to take charge of this work. She usually published a promotional newspaper and helped everyone get some family planning supplies. It was just a position where she waited to die.

Of course, the production task of the baler this time has nothing to do with family planning, so Wang Ying has not participated in this business from beginning to end, and naturally belongs to the group that does not receive project bonuses.

"That's her." Pang Lin said, "She came to my house yesterday and asked my wife how to make egg dumplings. Later, they were chatting in the kitchen, and I overheard. Wang Ying said, this time the bonus will be given, if not If you send it to her, she will never end it with the leader."

"Tch, why should she take it!" Liu Yongxing scolded, "We don't need to talk about this production. It has been more than ten years since she entered the factory. Has she done anything?"

Pang Lin said: "It is true that she has never done anything, but she has never received benefits from the milling workshop. I heard from my wife that in the past, when our factory still had night shift pay, she would receive it every month. The night shift wages are the highest in the milling workshop."

"Fuck, what the hell is this!" Liu Yongxing jumped up, "Isn't she in charge of family planning? Why does she still have night shifts?"

Pang Lin said: "You don't know that right now? She said that she went to the employees' homes every night to promote family planning, and there were well-documented records of which home she went to on which day."

"Did she go to someone else's house to play cards?" Cheng Wei said angrily.

"She has such ability. Fortunately, she is not in our lathe workshop. Otherwise, senior brother, you would also have a headache." Pang Lin said with a smile,

Cheng Wei sneered and said: "There are no such people in our workshop? Zhou Yijin and Xu Wenlan, aren't they all like this? They are too tired when working, and the bonuses are too small. This time the tasks in the workshop were assigned by the old supervisor , they couldn’t complete the tasks assigned to these two people, and finally someone else took it over. Based on the workload, these two people couldn’t get a penny in bonuses, and I’m still having a headache how to deal with them.”

"It's all Zheng Guowei and Ma Dazhuang who ruined the atmosphere. In the past, when Director Feng was here, would these people dare to cheat like this?" Li Zeqing said angrily. The Zheng Guowei he was talking about was Zhou Heng's predecessor, the former factory director of Linyi Machinery who was dismissed. As for Factory Director Feng, he was an earlier old factory director named Feng Liansong. In Li Zeqing's memory, during Feng Liansong's tenure, the atmosphere in the factory was still good.

Liu Yongxing said: "When Director Feng was here, I can only say that these people were a little more honest, but there were still things like cheating and cheating. What happened in these years was not only caused by Zheng Guowei and his gang, but also by the whole society. The customs are not good, and we don’t just have one machine and one factory.”

Pang Lin said: "There is some truth in what Old Liu said. The atmosphere in recent years is indeed not as good as in the past. The new Director Zhou has a temper similar to that of Old Director Feng, but I don't know if he can be like Old Director Feng." The factory director enforces production discipline like that. I don’t know what the factory thinks about Zhou Yijin and Xu Wenlan, who I just mentioned.”

Cheng Wei said: "The factory leaders want strict management. People who don't do anything just can't get bonuses. However, people like Wang Ying and Zhou Yijin can do it. It depends on whether Director Zhou and others can do it." I can withstand the pressure.”

"I'm afraid that the pressure will all fall on you, senior brother." Pang Lin said.

Cheng Wei said: "I won't take the blame for this. I will pay the bonus how the factory says. If the factory says they won't pay a penny to Zhou Yijin and the others, I will give it to them with the factory documents." They look at it. If you want a bonus, I'm sorry, you should go to the factory leader. I am a small workshop director, how can I have this power?"