When it comes to the departmental setup and personnel arrangements of Chongwenmen Hotel, it has more state-owned characteristics.
It also better reflects the superiority of the system back then.
First of all, speaking from a general perspective, there are almost no temporary workers in the unit.
Even loaders, cleaners, dishwashers, floor sweepers, and toilet cleaners are all officially established employees.
The key point is that no matter how hard or tiring the job is, it can become neither hard nor tiring.
Nothing else, the secret is just having more people.
If a job that can be done by one person is shared by three people, who can complain about being tired?
Secondly, there are differences in job titles between our state-owned hotels and those in Western capitalist countries.
Although the departments are divided into the front office department, guest room department, catering department, engineering department, finance department and administrative department.
Each department also has managers.
But it’s different when you subdivide it further down.
There are no supervisors or foremen in state-run hotels.
The grassroots cadres who can benchmark against supervisors and foremen are team leaders and deputy team leaders.
For example, the political work team and logistics team that Ningwei Civil Affairs Office went to for entry procedures are all under the administrative department.
The same goes for the front office department, which is divided into the reception group and the operation group, which can also be referred to as group one and group two.
The functions of the reception team are mainly responsible for leading the daily layout of the conference room, cooperating with the inspection work of the competent department, and recording messages, letters, and newspaper delivery.
The functions of the operation group are to handle passenger check-in and check-out procedures, telephone reservation business and train ticket purchasing business.
If you don’t count the boss and the cashier assigned by the finance department.
If all the grassroots employees are added together, there are seventeen people.
In addition, the organization of these two groups is not so rigid. Except for the group leader and deputy group leader, the grassroots employees can be replaced with each other.
One can imagine how easy it would be to take this class when there are so many people.
In fact, except for the night shift, two people are arranged to be on duty.
Regardless of the morning shift or the middle shift, each shift in the front office can have at least five people lined up.
At the busiest time of the day, there were almost twelve people sharing the work, and the workload was minimal.
So for people in the front office, most of the time there is nothing to do.
Whether chatting, reading newspapers, magazines, eating snacks, or even hanging out in other departments.
As long as you don't go too far, you can do whatever you want.
However, including Ning Weimin, there are only three men in the entire front office, and those two are almost "welded" to the night shift position for a long time.
So it goes without saying that the job of turning on the water every morning must be Ning Weimin.
In addition, as a newcomer, he has to take over some chores that others find trivial.
For example, go to the warehouse to pick up some office supplies and receipts.
Or dealing with people at the post office, delivering newspapers to the leadership office and distributing letters to various departments every day.
It's a bit like the errands the old man in the mailroom does.
But even so, he still had a lot of free time, and Ning Weimin fully realized his original intention of coming here - to live a comfortable life.
It's just that things in the world will not be so perfect after all, and there are some distortions between reality and imagination.
There are some small worries that Ning Weimin did not expect, and that is gender differences.
As the saying goes, three women perform one drama.
There were four major dramas performed around him every day, and the "Twelve Golden Hairpins" were put together. Think about how lively it must be.
Among these young ladies and young wives, everyone regarded him as the target of ridicule, and even "driving" from time to time.
I really treat him as a little brother who doesn't understand anything.
But the problem is that he actually knows everything, so what does it feel like?
It's not okay to ignore me, it's not okay to make someone blush when you start talking, it's even less okay to tease someone out of your mind.
The blessing of staying in a beauty's nest is not so easy to bear.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of hard work, a colleague who worked the night shift got a fever and was given an intravenous drip.
Ning Weimin was transferred to the night shift in advance and started working as a partner with another male colleague.
This time he was liberated and completely pure.
He really didn't expect that the job he was least willing to accept at the beginning would now turn into an opportunity to save him from disaster.
And to be honest, only when you work night shift can you know the benefits of night shift.
Because no one would ask to stay in a hotel late at night these days, and the latest train from Beijing Railway Station is at ten o'clock.
Therefore, even for morning and middle shift workers, the workload of night shift workers in the front office is pitifully small.
People on the night shift don't even need to provide morning wake-up calls, they just deal with occasional emergencies.
For example, if a customer is seriously ill and needs to call an ambulance.
For example, if there is a water leak in the room or a power outage, the engineering department must be notified to arrange a room for the guest in a timely manner.
Another example is cooperating with the public security department in inspections and arrests.
Or if there is a fire, cooperate with the political work team and firefighters in evacuation work.
Other than that, the most I can do is answer outside calls and record messages for guests or leaders of the unit.
Then you can pass the long and boring night by reading a book, reading a newspaper, chatting, or even playing cards with employees from other departments, or sleeping on the table or lying on a chair.
In addition, the unit also provides supper and breakfast, and the night shift subsidy is 50 cents per day.
It's a wonderful job where you can make money while eating and drinking enough and sleeping.
I'm afraid there is no job in the entire capital that is more worry-free than doing this.
Of course it hurts the body to stay up late.
But young people, who would be afraid of having a liver attack at midnight?
What's more, sleeping on the table is still sleeping. It's just that you go to bed later and sleep less comfortably.
Compared to the reward, this flaw is nothing.
That means working late at night, in the dark, with inconvenient transportation, which is not very convenient for lesbians.
Only male compatriots can share this blessing.
Ning Weimin even felt that if he became familiar with his new partner.
It's not a problem if he occasionally takes off work and sneaks out to visit the ghost market.
The only thing that made him a little worried was that he had promoted a girl's position, which might disappoint another male colleague and then make him resentful.
However, as he worked the night shift on his first day, even this worry dissipated.
Because as the leader of the reception team, I introduced him to his new work partner.
The young man named Zhang Shihui, who was a few years older than him, not only expressed his heartfelt welcome with a friendly smile.
Even after the team leader left, he was so enthusiastic that he expressed his gratitude as if he was his savior.
"Brother, thank you so much. You came and saved me completely."
"Oh, don't be so polite. If you want to scare me away, you will have to watch the night shift alone."
"Haha, I'm not kidding, you'll understand as soon as I tell you. The job you held was originally mine. We met while working the night shift. But the bad thing is, from then on, she started to have sex with me and others.
I was worried about the night shift and insisted on staying with me. Otherwise, I would accompany myself to the hospital. Now that you are here, we will be partners, and my partner will be able to rest assured. Moreover, it can be rotated, and I will see the light of day again.
It’s been a long day, shouldn’t I still thank you?”
Ning Weimin finally understood. Behind the co-authorship was a romance about the night shift and the sadness of being a wanderer all year round.
"I should, I am grateful that I have accumulated so much merit. Then you can't just say thank you. You have to give me a banner with the words 'helping others' written on it."
As soon as this was said, the two people talking were amused by each other.
Zhang Shihui took the initiative to hand over a cigarette, but his mouth was still empty.
"Hey, buddy, the pennant is just a pennant, but you have to let me embroider it slowly. As for now, let's do something affordable. Come on, risk one..."
Ning Weimin thanked him and took it, but he didn't dare to order it just like that.
"Dude, can I smoke here?"
Zhang Shihui did not hesitate to do so, and directly struck a match and handed it to Ning Weimin.
"It's okay, this isn't the day shift? Just be careful and don't do it..."
While puffing out the mist, he had already stood up from his seat and greeted him carelessly.
"Wait a minute, I'll get an ashtray. By the way, I still have a cup here. Where's your cup? You clean it first, and we'll both make a cup later, and then we can continue chatting..."