Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

That night, Banggeng told Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi about the steel mill's new policy of temporarily not accepting apprentices as regular employees.

Jia Zhang started cursing on the spot.

Standing at the doorstep, he cursed the steel mill and then the mill leaders... He said whatever unpleasant words he could, which attracted the attention of his neighbors.

It took him ten minutes to vent his anger.

But no matter how much they curse or how dissatisfied they are, it cannot change the fact that the steel mill no longer accepts apprentices as regular employees.

Although Qin Huairu did not curse along with Jia Zhangshi, her furrowed brows showed that she was very anxious.

She has already started thinking about buying a house for Banggeng. Although she doesn't have much money, it is not a problem to buy a small house.

When the time comes, let Jia Zhang and Kuihua move into the small house, and then renovate the current house of the Jia family a little bit, and Banggeng will have a wedding room.

As long as Banggeng gets a permanent job at the steel rolling mill, Qin Huairu will help him find a wife.

If I can't find a city girl to marry, with the conditions of being a formal worker at the Banggeng Steel Rolling Mill, it will definitely be no problem for me to find a country girl.

Unexpectedly, when the whole thing came to the last moment, there was a problem with Bang Geng's regularization at the steel rolling mill.

If Banggeng cannot get a permanent job at the steel mill and keeps receiving an apprentice's salary, no one, even a rural girl, will be willing to marry him.

With the current prices in Beijing, an apprentice's monthly salary of 18 yuan is just enough to support two people.

If he divided some of his salary to support himself and Qin Huairu, even if Banggeng was lucky enough to marry a wife, the remaining salary would not be enough to support the two of them.

The more Qin Huairu thought about it, the deeper her frown deepened. Seeing Banggeng not in a hurry at all, she couldn't help but ask, "Banggeng..."

"The steel mill no longer accepts apprentices as regular employees. What are you going to do?"

"Why don't we work somewhere else?"

"Ten yuan a month is too low a salary. Even if you have a stable job, this little income is not enough for you to find a wife..."

Bang Geng refused without hesitation: "No change..."

"It's not as easy as being an apprentice in a steel mill..."

"mom……"

“I guess this policy is only temporary.”

"After the factory announced this policy today, more than a dozen apprentices and regular workers in our workshop alone approached the director to resign."

"It is estimated that many people will resign and change jobs during this period."

"Once everyone leaves and there is no one at the steel mill, they will definitely announce the cancellation of this policy."

"After all, the factory still needs a lot of workers to maintain normal production."

"If all the workers leave, the steel mill will be finished."

Qin Huairu looked at his son with a skeptical look and asked back: "Great...Are you sure the steel mill will really cancel this policy in the future?"

"Don't wait for several years."

"You are almost 30 years old. If you don't find a job with a higher salary, it will be difficult to find a wife when the time comes."

Bang Geng answered confidently: "Mom..."

"You have to believe in your son..."

"It's definitely right to listen to me on this matter."

Kuihua, who was eating nearby, was worrying about whether she should tell Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi about her resignation from the steel mill. After all, they borrowed money from her to buy this job, and she still had to pay them ten yuan every month.

Seeing that Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi were all focusing their attention on Banggeng, they were afraid that Banggeng would not be able to find a wife because he could not get a regular job at the steel rolling mill, so he just escaped a disaster.

…………In the blink of an eye, half a month had passed.

The steel mill’s policy of no longer accepting regular employees was implemented for a full half month.

The effect is better than expected.

Take a workshop for example: before the implementation of this policy, there were a total of 63 apprentices and regular workers in the workshop.

In the past half month, a total of 42 people voluntarily resigned from the steel rolling mill to seek other jobs, leaving only 21 apprentices and regular workers still working in the workshop.

If nothing unexpected happens, a lot of people will leave during this period.

Previously, all kinds of odd jobs in the workshop were evenly distributed among 63 apprentices and regular workers. Strength lies in numbers, and on average each person only had to work two or three hours a day to finish the job.

The number of apprentices in the workshop has now been reduced from 63 to , but the various miscellaneous and hard work in the workshop has not decreased.

This means that each remaining apprentice and regular worker has to do the work of the previous three people, and basically they have to work from the time they get to work until the time they get off work to complete their work tasks.

For those formal workers who earn 27 yuan a month, it is understandable that they work seven or eight hours a day without getting off work.

For those apprentices who only earn 18 yuan a month, it is a bit depressing to be busy from the start to the end of the day.

With the same labor intensity, a formal worker can receive a monthly salary of 27 yuan, and if he works in a private factory outside, he can even receive a salary of more than 30 yuan.

As a result, the few apprentices left in the workshop all thought about resigning and finding other jobs, including Banggeng.

I thought I would continue to work as an apprentice in the steel mill, and every day I would work for two or three hours and then chat and brag with my co-workers as before.

As a result, the work in the workshop became harder and harder, and the director assigned them more and more tasks every day.

There are even days when the work intensity is higher than that of private factories outside.

If they had known that continuing to work as apprentices in the steel mill would be so hard, they would have followed the trend and resigned.

Although he has lost one month's salary subsidy after resigning from the steel mill, Banggeng, who is used to cheating and playing tricks, can't continue working there.

He decided to talk to the workshop director about his resignation this afternoon.

As for Qin Huairu and Jia Zhangshi, Banggeng was not too worried.

He was the only grandson of the Jia family and the only son of Qin Huairu. Even if Qin Huairu was dissatisfied with his resignation, he would at most just say a few words to him.

When the time comes, you should find a job for yourself or continue to find a job for yourself.

…………

Workshop director's office.

After hearing Banggeng's purpose, the director did not show any surprise on his face. It was obvious that he had expected Banggeng to come and resign to him.

Without showing any hesitation, he readily agreed: "No problem with resigning..."

"I just need to sign here..."

"But the factory's voluntary resignation policy has been in effect for half a month. If you resign now, the steel mill will not give you any compensation. You have to think about this carefully..."

Bang Geng didn't want to stay in the steel mill any longer, so he answered straightforwardly, "I don't want any compensation. I want to resign from the steel mill now and find another job to earn money."

The workshop director replied calmly: "Since you don't want compensation, the rest of the matter can be easily solved..."

"But there is one thing you must consider..."

"Because you have never been converted to a permanent employee at the steel mill, the house that the Jia family lives in has never been bought from the steel mill and turned into private property. Up to now, the house still belongs to the steel mill."

"If you resign from the steel mill, according to factory rules, the steel mill will take back the house within ten days after your resignation..." (End of this chapter)