The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 83: Salary and Benefits (Updated temporarily after the release)
There is a room on the first floor where the Finance Department pays out wages and benefits every month. There is a window facing the outside. Those who go to collect wages must bring their work IDs and report their department and position. The finance staff are classified and can be easily found after reporting.

Fortunately, the transport station is not a large factory, and the place where wages are collected is not crowded. People in some departments also received notices of salary payment, and some people stayed at their posts while others left. When those who left received their wages and came back, others would be replaced.

Some of the salary and welfare vouchers are directly delivered to employees, but some are put in envelopes. Not everyone has the same welfare benefits. Some leaders of some units and people in different positions may have fixed salaries, but their welfare benefits are not the same.

Jiang Cheng received an envelope, which he had to sign. In addition to the envelope, he also received kelp, coal, a towel and two bars of soap.

Jiang Cheng smiled as he looked at the kelp and coal he received. He sold them to his company and took some back for himself.

Jiang Cheng found a deserted place and opened the envelope. The money was small, just some subsidies, a total of 8.6 yuan. The last time I came back from a long trip was on July 6th, and the subsidies after July will be paid in August.

Although the money was not much, Jiang Cheng found a lot of tickets, including match tickets, soap tickets, grain tickets, oil tickets, meat tickets, wine tickets, cigarette tickets, etc. Anyway, there were many varieties, but the face value was not large. The wine tickets were still the kind of loose wine tickets, not branded goods. The cigarette tickets also had the grade written on them.

Jiang Cheng felt that other ordinary workers would not have meat coupons, grain coupons, and oil coupons. It should be that drivers also use up their physical strength, so they get extra money, but not much. Meat coupons and oil coupons are all worth a few taels, and grain coupons are two or three coarse grain coupons and fine grain coupons, and the face value is also one catty.

The only thing that interested Jiang Cheng was that there was a ticket for household appliances and a ticket for a flashlight.

To be honest, Jiang Cheng had wanted to ask Zhu Lan if she could help him buy a flashlight, but he always forgot to ask. Unexpectedly, the company issued him one, and it was convenient for the driver to have a flashlight when he was out.

However, Jiang Cheng was a little suspicious. The sudden appearance of the flashlight ticket did not seem like a coincidence. It felt like other drivers had already had it, and only new drivers would receive the flashlight ticket in the first month.

Even as a person who came from the 21st century, Jiang Cheng thought that flashlights were actually very important to drivers of sports cars. Logically, they should be given to drivers as work supplies like raincoats and gloves, but now they give you a ticket and you have to spend money to buy it. If you buy it and use it at work, you may have to thank the company.

But Jiang Cheng thought about it carefully, maybe he was too narrow-minded. It's not that there are no positions that directly issue flashlights, such as the security departments of many units and factories, and police stations.

These units directly provide flashlights, but the flashlights are not personal. After the night shift, they must be placed in a special storage place. They cannot be taken home, but the driver actually has headlights in the car, unless the car breaks down at night.

But if a car breaks down at night, the driver will not repair it even if he has a flashlight.

In general, issuing a flashlight ticket is a way of taking care of the driver, and how to use it depends on the driver's personal opinion.

Jiang Cheng put the money and tickets back into the envelope, and then went to the warehouse. He had been to other warehouses before, but this was his first time to visit his own warehouse. After wandering around for a while, he found what he wanted.

Damaged wooden frames. In this era, many units use wooden frames to pack large items. Last time Jiang Cheng was in another warehouse, he saw a damaged wooden frame thrown in a corner. Now he came over to take a look and found that his unit was the same.

Jiang Cheng asked for a damaged wooden frame, and the staff here simply asked him and gave it to him directly. Jiang Cheng asked for a wooden frame so that he didn't have to get branches or anything to build a chicken coop. It was much easier to just use the wooden strips on the wooden frame. After doing all this, Jiang Cheng had done everything he had planned to do this morning, and indeed, the whole morning was almost over.

Jiang Cheng looked at the time on his watch. It was half past eleven. Employees were supposed to go home or eat in the canteen after get off work at twelve o'clock. However, the canteen would definitely prepare the food in advance, so he planned to go to the canteen to take a look.

Ten minutes later, Jiang Cheng drove away with his lunch box and some benefits he had just received. He only needed to go to the Rubber Factory No. 2 to load the goods at 2 or 3 this afternoon, and then he could set off tomorrow morning.

To be honest, the stewed pork in the cafeteria is really delicious. This is mainly because Jiang Cheng caught a lot of animals and fish, but pork has fat, so people who lack oil and water have to eat pork to replenish it quickly.

Back outside the courtyard alley, Jiang Cheng got another watermelon out of the space when he got off the car. There were only two left in the space, but if he didn't finish them, the watermelons in Changcheng would be on the market, and there was no point in keeping them until then.

Carrying the things back to the yard, Jiang Cheng saw Zhou Lingying and his mother busy preparing meals, while his father was chatting with Master Li with a smile on his face.

Master Li's apprentice saw Jiang Cheng had taken a lot of things, so he immediately came over to help take the bag of coal from him. Zhou Lingying saw Jiang Cheng coming back, so she also came forward to take the watermelon and lunch box from him.

After Jiang Cheng put the kelp in the room, he went to the car again and took the wooden frame. He asked Master Li to help him process it a little and turn it into a chicken basket.

"Dad, what did the doctor say in the hospital today?" After putting all the things away, Jiang Cheng sat on the bamboo bed and asked Jiang Changhe who was chatting with Master Li.

"It should be curable. I had a check-up today and received treatment. First, they gave me an acupuncture treatment, and then they gave me a massage. I can feel that I am much better after the treatment." Jiang Changhe said happily. It was because of the treatment this morning that he was in such a good mood now.

This morning, not long after Jiang Cheng left, the doctor came. Hospitals these days are service industries, they won't be able to cure you, and they'll take their time.

There was nothing to do, just take an X-ray or a blood test. He asked about Jiang Changhe's condition, touched some parts of his body, asked how he felt, and then arranged treatment for him.

According to the doctor, Jiang Changhe's initial symptoms were only minor illnesses. Even without treatment, he would recover after a few days of recuperation at home. But like many rural people, he did not take minor illnesses seriously and insisted on doing heavy work in the fields every day.

Many people in rural areas don't go to the hospital when they have a fever or a cold. They just fight it off. Young people may be able to fight it off, but some older people who have some health problems may die from a cold or fever.

According to the doctor, Jiang Changhe's current condition is not particularly serious. He just can't use the lower body strength, but he still has feeling. But if he delays treatment for another one or two years, he will become paralyzed, which will be troublesome.

It doesn't mean that paralysis is completely incurable, but it is often accompanied by other symptoms. The most obvious is muscle atrophy, which is something Jiang Changhe has now.

(End of this chapter)