Although Maeda was a little bit tongue-tied, he was still very serious when doing things. It didn't take much time to lift all the natural gas tanks in the car onto the trolley.
"Hashimoto, why didn't you use up all the natural gas this time? This tank is obviously heavier than before."
Maeda weighed the can and said with some doubts: "The natural gas in this can probably be used for three to five days, so Hashimoto, you didn't bring these natural gas cans here with Sawada Yoshida on your back, right?"
Hashimoto Satoshi rolled his eyes and said unceremoniously: "Maeda, you are slandering me. Am I, Hashimoto Satoshi, the person who would do this? I never do things behind other people's backs!"
Maeda smiled, shook his head and said: "That's true, you guys have always known what you should do and what you shouldn't do, so every boss you have ever worked with trusts you and treats you as their confidant.
;Okay. Then we are ready to enter the factory now."
Maeda was just about to push the car away, but suddenly thought of something, turned back to Liu Xing and said: "Mr. Meteor, in order to ensure the safety of your life and mine, I hope you can remove your cell phone, belt, etc. that may generate sparks and static electricity."
Put the items in the car to avoid causing an explosion... Well, although I think this is unlikely to happen, after all, the safety measures in our factory are pretty good. Logically speaking, you can't even make a phone call inside.
Something may happen, but we still have a lot of old employees in this factory, and each of these old men is more unreasonable than the last, forcing us to comply with some unnecessary regulations."
Looking at the helpless Maeda, Hashimoto Satoshi couldn't help but said: "Isn't this your boss's problem? Although these old men in your factory can still move, what meaningful things can they do?
I remember the last time I came here, I saw an old man twisting his waist while carrying a natural gas tank. As a result, he was sent to the hospital and is still not out."
Hearing what Satoshi Hashimoto said, Maeda said even more speechlessly: "That's not because my boss has a brain problem. In the past, in order to lower his salary, he insisted on signing lifetime contracts with others. As a result, it is difficult to fire these old men now, so we
Now I can only treat them as my uncles, but I heard a good news today, that is, our natural gas canning factory is about to be acquired. I think the new boss will not take in so many old men.
Bar."
interesting.
Before Hashimoto Satoshi could speak, Liu Xing asked: "Oh, Brother Maeda, can you tell me how many old men there are in your factory who can't do any work?"
"Why are you asking this?" Maeda said with some confusion: "But it's not that I can't tell you. Now our entire factory has a total of 83 regular employees and 15 dispatched employees. These dispatched employees are usually in urban areas.
I work at the distribution site in the factory, so I don’t know them too well. As for the factory, there are at least twenty old men who cannot work normally. They are usually responsible for sweeping the floor, tidying up things, etc., and then sitting in the factory the rest of the time.
Drink tea and play mahjong and chess in the office."
"More than twenty. This ratio is a bit exaggerated. Can the rest of you be busy?" Liu Xing continued to ask.
Maeda shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Actually, although these old men are all formal employees of the factory, the boss actually regards them as transparent people, so every time an old man starts drinking tea in the office, the boss
A new employee will be recruited to replace the old employee, so it stands to reason that our manpower is sufficient, but those middle-aged people who are old and young are not a good thing, and they often take the position of seniors.
Leave their tasks to us young people, and they will be responsible for some easier tasks, such as sorting out natural gas tanks, checking whether there are air leaks in various locations, etc. In short, it is us young people who do the dirty work.
People have to do things, so we are exhausted every day, so we can barely complete the task."
Having said this, Maeda did not forget to show Liu Xing the calluses on his hands.
"It seems that you young people are still having a hard time in the Xinjia factory, so have you ever thought about coming to work at Zetian Construction? Although you may be more tired at ordinary times, your income will definitely be much higher than you are now."
Liu Xing said.
Maeda's eyes lit up, but then dimmed again, "If possible, of course I would like to change to another company, but the problem is that the contract with this company is for life, so unless I pay a large sum of money,
Liquidated damages, otherwise it would be impossible to leave this factory early... Speaking of which, I was too young and signed the contract without even looking at it, because the companies on the market now are different from those before.
I signed a lifetime contract at every turn. After all, there are so many available employees and there is no shortage of you, so now I very much regret the decision I made at that time."
As Maeda said, today's island companies rarely sign lifetime contracts with job seekers because this is no longer the bubble era.
During the bubble era, most companies thought about how to spend money rather than how to make money. Because the island country was very rich at that time, banks would lower their borrower standards for their own performance. Basically, you only need one person to be innocent.
people, then you can bring a large amount of loans, and the loans are to various companies.
Therefore, in order to strengthen their competitiveness in recruiting employees, many companies have begun to sign lifetime contracts with employees to prove their sincerity... But in addition, some companies do this to reduce the cost of firing employees, because unless
If an employee makes a major mistake or leaves voluntarily, the company will give the employee a sum of money when he or she leaves.
Although the lifetime contract seems to eliminate the risk of unemployment for employees, because unless the company goes bankrupt, then the employees will be the company's employees until they die, and they will never leave the company for the rest of their lives. But in fact, the lifetime contract is a big problem.
Pitfall, because when signing this contract, the company will determine some "small goals" based on the employees' current situation, and these "small goals" will be difficult to achieve when the employees get older, so these old employees have to take the initiative
Resign.
Therefore, you can often see in island country TV series or movies that the father and husband, the heads of the family, are kicked out of the company because they cannot keep up with the pace of work. If the company still has some conscience, it will give its employees a sum of money.
Severance pay, but more often than not, it is not paid at all because you have not met the requirements of the contract.
Therefore, these employees who signed lifetime contracts in the bubble era have begun to encounter waves of layoffs since the 21st century. And because they have been doing the same thing in the same company for half their lives, it is difficult for them to return.
Find a new job.
So I have to say that the boss of this natural gas bottling company is really "conscience" and did not kick out the old employees who were just waiting to die.
However, Liu Xing also knew very well that these old employees were actually "landmines" prepared by the public faction, waiting for his group to step on them.
If nothing else goes wrong, when the Zetian family took over this natural gas tanking company, they would still be able to see these old employees who were lying on their backs. At that time, the Zetian family would have a headache if they wanted to clean up these old employees. After all, they would be fired directly.
Old employees who have signed lifetime contracts may seem a bit unreasonable, but keeping them will be a burden. As for letting them go to the front line to perform high-intensity labor, then these old employees may have their lives in danger.
As long as there are one or two missing, it will be even more troublesome.
Therefore, the last and best option is to give these old employees a pension so that they can enjoy their old age... But now we do not rule out the possibility that there are members of the public faction among these old employees. If there are.
If Liu Xing and others wanted to touch him, it would be difficult for them to do so.
As for the lifetime contracts of other employees, it is actually a bit troublesome, because if you want to force an employee who has signed a lifetime contract to leave, the only thing you can do is to add tasks to him, put mental pressure on him, and then directly tire him out or
After the employee collapses, you can say that he is no longer suitable for the current job, so that you can justifiably lay off the employee... But if this employee is hard-working and has strong mental strength, then you really have no way to make him get out.
, unless you come to the rescue and let the company bury him with him.
Of course, these speculations are only based on abiding by a lifetime contract, and Liu Xing and others will not abide by this lifetime contract when necessary.
Lose money?
It's trivial.
Suspension for rectification?
Can't get it.
While Liu Xing was thinking about it, he threw his mobile phone and other items in the car. However, Liu Xing did not forget to encrypt his mobile phone specially to ensure that it would not be opened and peeked by others.
Then, Liu Xing followed Maeda and others into the factory area.
The factory area is not large, but there are still many related devices, so the roads may appear narrow in some places.
In the office near the door, Liu Xing saw several old men in their 60s and 70s playing cards at a glance, which made Liu Xing mistakenly think that he was passing by an elderly activity center.
Going further, Liu Xing saw several middle-aged men talking and laughing together. When he saw Maeda and others pushing a cart, he had no intention of helping them, and Maeda and others were very friendly to them.
He turned a blind eye and walked past them with Liu Xing and Satoshi Hashimoto.
After making sure that the middle-aged people did not pay attention to his group, Hashimoto Satoshi whispered to Liu Xing: "The four people just now are the thorns in this factory. They often fight with other people, but they fight
Although their style is very fierce, the people who fight with them only have some superficial injuries at most, so we all think that these four people have practiced a lot, otherwise they would not be able to control their strength so freely."
As soon as Hashimoto Satoshi finished speaking, kp Duanqiao smiled and said: "Now let's enter the optional task - the first question of trust or distrust. Liu Xing, do you agree with Hashimoto Satoshi's statement?"
Faced with this sudden question, Liu Xing quickly closed his eyes and recalled the images of the four middle-aged men. Only then did he realize that the four middle-aged men were all muscular men, and each of them had flowery arms.
Because this multiple-choice question has no time limit, in theory, as long as the answer is not revealed, Liu Xing can not answer it for the time being, so Liu Xing chose to ask Hashimoto Satoshi for help.
"Hashimoto, have you seen those four people fighting?"
Faced with Liu Xing's question, Hashimoto Satoshi replied without thinking: "Of course I have seen it. These four people will not only fight with young people like Maeda, but also actively provoke other middle-aged employees, so these four people
People are kept to themselves in the factory; the last time I came here to replace the natural gas tank, I saw a group of gangsters blocking these four middle-aged men. As a result, the gangsters holding wooden sticks and steel pipes were beaten by them.
He was pressed to the ground and rubbed, and he was almost powerless to fight back."
"That's right."
Maeda, who heard Hashimoto Satoshi and Liu Xing talking, interrupted and said: "The four members of Honzhong were originally the personal bodyguards of the former boss, but because of the financial crisis in 2000, the former boss simply took the money and ran away.
Including all the savings of the four people in this group; the four people in this group are all orphans, so they originally planned to use the money to buy a farm, and then they could live a pastoral life happily, but unexpectedly
They were shocked and angry that their boss who was very generous to them actually stole all their money. They finally chose to sign a lifetime contract with the new boss in order to advance money to hunt down the escaped former boss. Unfortunately, they ended up with
lost."
"So, they who valued their credit returned to work in the factory. Because they were practicing practitioners, they did quite well in this factory. After all, there were too many manual jobs in the factory that needed people to do it, so in this factory
The quartet was very popular at the beginning. The reason was of course that the quartet was willing to do the dirty work. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. At that time, there was a young gangster who had just entered the factory.
With the big brother protecting him outside, he wanted to become the number one person in the factory, but as soon as he came, he chose to provoke the four people in Benzhong. Naturally, the four people in Benzhong beat this little gangster up, and then
Then he beat the little gangster again with the helper he called."
"But this little gangster just didn't give up and thought he hadn't lost yet, so he came up with a bad idea - because no one else saw him fighting with the Benzhong Four, he spread rumors about the Benzhong Four.
The team was bullying him, an honest man, but in the end, he actually tricked several people into helping, but the four-person team didn't care and just followed suit."