That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 918: I am the best in technology, but I am not the technical model

On February 13, 1988, the 26th day of the twelfth lunar month, Beijing was hit by the coldest cold wave before the Spring Festival.
The strong cold wind blowing from Siberia brought snowflakes and ravaged the earth, dropping the temperature to minus 20 degrees Celsius overnight. Even the most cold-resistant people would stamp their feet in the cold if they stood outdoors for 20 minutes.

But even in this kind of weather, outside the workers' club of the Light Automobile Company, there were thousands of people queuing up in a row. Several long lines were slowly crawling in a winding manner, like a few snakes about to be frozen to death.

"Everyone, please don't push. Everyone will get their share of New Year's goods and bonuses. They have just been distributed to Foundry Workshop 1 and will be distributed to Foundry Workshop 2 in 20 minutes.

The rest of you should not queue outside in such a cold day. Come back according to the schedule notified. Don’t worry, everyone will have to get some New Year’s goods.”

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This is the main factory workers queuing up to receive the new year's goods and bonuses. The reason given by the main factory is that this year's profits need to be coordinated and distributed.
So it’s not that the main factory distributed less, but only distributed a part of it, and the other part was distributed to everyone by a branch factory.

This reason sounds reasonable, but the thousands of workers are not fools. Who wouldn't understand what is going on?

If you hadn't gathered together and made a fuss earlier, who would have given you the bonus and an extra New Year's gift as a welfare benefit?
Why was the first payment less? It must be because the factory was short of money! What is the point of coordinating the distribution? Asking people from a branch factory to give money and things to people from the main factory is such a disgrace, isn't it?

So even though the loudspeakers outside the club kept broadcasting notices, urging everyone to go back and collect their benefits according to the order, it was of no avail. The workers would rather stand in the wind and snow for a whole day than gamble on the credibility of certain people.

What if everyone else has received all the gifts and you are left without any, can you still have a good New Year?

When the children at home don't have enough meat to eat, don't get enough pocket money, and can't buy new clothes, the father can only scold them a few times to suppress them.
But you get less than others, and your wife won't even let you touch it. Who can stand that?
So no matter how cold the weather is, we have to wait outside and we won’t leave until we get what we want today.

But when the workers in line entered the club, they felt warm all of a sudden and felt completely at ease.
Because there were four tables lined up in front, and there were several piles of New Year's goods behind each table. The big suitcases on the tables were open, and they were full of colorful banknotes.

There were two groups of people sitting behind each table, one group was from the logistics and finance departments of the main factory, and the other group was from the logistics staff of a branch factory.

"Take your work ID and come over here, Li Ming. This is Li Ming from the Foundry Workshop 1! Remember, don't mess around. There are seven or eight people named Li Ming in our factory!"

"Zhang Shihai, this is yours, take it and count the money, or we won't acknowledge it!"

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The workers who got to the front of the line were asked to show their work ID cards, and then people from the branch factory and the main factory recorded them at the same time.

The only difference is that the two sides have different ways of recording. The main factory looks up the employee roster, while the branch factory, which has no roster, directly opens the FoxBASE database software on the computer and fills in the name, age, and work department into the data list.

It seemed that both parties were checking numbers and amounts, but in fact, several insiders knew that this was a blatant lack of trust in the main factory.

When the main factory proposed to borrow money from the first branch for emergency, the first branch immediately refused. We just gave you money in the name of employee welfare, and you turned around and embezzled it? Now we give you the money directly, what if you embezzle it again?
So in the end Ma Zhaoxian and the factory director reached a compromise, and both parties distributed the money on the spot one person at a time, and they had to ensure that every penny went to the workers, and no one else was allowed to touch a single penny.

"Huang Qi, why are you in Assembly Workshop 4? You have just been transferred to Casting Workshop 1! Your Workshop 4 is scheduled to deliver goods at 1:30 pm."

"Oh, I have to go back to take care of my kids in the afternoon! I've been waiting in line for two hours, and you want me to come back in the afternoon? That doesn't make sense."

"What's wrong? If you don't come in order, you won't be able to receive it."

The people in the logistics department of the main factory were furious. They had already had enough of the people's cold shoulder today and were just looking for a place to vent their anger! Now someone else cut in line, who else should they cut in line if not you?

But Huang Qi had been standing outside in minus 20 degrees Celsius for an hour or two, and he was even angrier than the people in the logistics department, so he started quarreling right away.

"Do you still have any shame? Today it's the branch factory that's distributing things, not you. They haven't said anything yet! Who do you think you are?

Don’t think I don’t know about your troubles. The branch factory gave you a sum of money a long time ago, and you fed people like Guan Liang. Now you are just a beggar, and you are trying to bully us.” Huang Qi’s fierce scolding immediately caused the other workers to jeer.

"Oh~oh~, girl, you're right. If you say a few more words, you'll embarrass these bastards to death."

"That's right. If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have done it in the first place. Wouldn't it be better if I had been less greedy? Who are you trying to show off to now?"

"Okay, stop arguing!"

Seeing that Huang Qi was talking too much and was about to make a fool of himself again, Director Wan quickly stopped several managers in charge of distributing the things with a sullen face.

Then he asked Li Ye from the first branch: "What should we do with this kind of queue-jumping? If it causes chaos and mistakes, can we still have a happy New Year?"

"How did I cut in line? I waited in line for two hours, how can that be considered cutting in line? Why don't you reflect on yourselves? Why don't they just give it to you and then assign it to our workshop?"

Seeing that a quarrel was about to break out again, Li Ye did not say a word, but looked at Xiao Zhiyu, who was already the leader of the computer team.

Sometimes, some things should be said by your subordinates.

Xiao Zhiyu said calmly: "Our computers have indexing and sorting functions, so there should be no problem in theory.
But it will be a little more troublesome on your side, you need to record the number of people on paper so that we can check and verify each other later."

"Then let's do it!"

Director Wan whispered a few words to the people in the logistics department with a gloomy face, and sent Huang Qi's things to her.

Huang Qi took the things but didn't leave. He asked Li Ye, "Director Li, will your branch factory hire anyone next year?"

"Hurry up and go! Everyone is waiting in line to get the New Year's goods! Are you holding them back because of you? I will ask your director how he manages the workers."

"Don't scare me with our director. You'd better fire me! I just want to go to a branch factory to make a living. They even give me a new building!"

"Come on! The new building of the first branch is for technicians. Are you a college student? Are you a technical secondary school student?"

Director Wan and others looked at Huang Qi with contempt.

But Huang Qi stiffened his neck and shouted: "Although I don't have a diploma, I have been assembling car dashboards for ten years.
I always win first place in technical competitions, but I have never been the technical model. I just want to take the mule or horse out for a walk to see who is the technical talent."

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"Yes, Huang Qi's assembly skills are absolutely first-rate. I can prove this."

"I can also prove to her that she just has no connections and no backing."

Suddenly, the workers around started to make a fuss again, and all of them gave Huang Qi testimony. The cheers, which were hard to tell whether real or fake, made Director Wan and others look very upset.

Finally, Li Ye said, "Okay, okay, let's talk about this later. The New Year is coming soon, so everyone should get their stuff early and finish the job. If we don't get everything after five o'clock, we will have to lose overtime pay!"

Wan Ke President: “.”

[You might as well not say that! If the workers start to make trouble over overtime pay again, we won’t be able to celebrate this New Year.]

(End of this chapter)