The eleventh day of the twelfth lunar month is Lao Tan’s mother’s birthday.
Five daughters, five sons-in-law, four nephews, two nieces-in-law, one niece, one nephew-in-law, two great-grandchildren, one son, one grandson, plus some immediate relatives and neighbors, all came to support the old man.
Happy birthday to my wife.
There were six tables in total, and there was a lot of commotion from noon until three o'clock in the afternoon when relatives started to leave one after another.
The old lady is quite prestigious in the Tan family. She has many nieces and nephews here, as well as several nephews from her mother's family. How can I put it, some dogs bite the ugly ones. Twenty years ago, the old Tan family was in poverty.
, I didn’t have a good meal, and few relatives came to the door. They even walked around the door, fearing that I would be in trouble. Now that life is getting better, and everyone is doing well, I know that I have this kind of relatives again, and I start walking around.
If you are poor in the streets, you will have no one to care about; if you are rich in the mountains, you will have distant relatives. This saying is absolutely true.
After celebrating his mother's birthday, Lao Tan stayed at home for another two days. When Fourteen was about to leave, his son had not had enough fun and was reluctant to leave. The old lady was reluctant to leave her grandson, so she had no choice but to keep her son. The fifth brother-in-law agreed
I sent it back before the Chinese New Year, and also went to the provincial capital to see Lao Tan's new building.
His son didn't follow him back, so Lao Tan didn't go back to the provincial capital and went directly back to Ganqika.
Every restaurant is very busy during the Spring Festival, and it is also the time when most employees leave their jobs. This is also one of the reasons for the high employee turnover rate in the catering industry.
During the Chinese New Year, small restaurants have a holiday, and all mid-range and above restaurants are open. They have been busy since the twenties of the twelfth lunar month. Most of them are company dinners, get-togethers, and annual meetings that have been postponed to this time.
Needless to say, I am thirty. Every family is very popular and the New Year’s Eve dinner has been fully booked. I am busy from 11 noon to 8 pm, and I can’t even eat lunch.
From the first day of the Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we are also busy, with no rest.
During the Spring Festival, the turnover is almost double that of normal times, which is the most profitable time for restaurants.
The Spring Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. As the song goes, people who have money or not can go home to celebrate the New Year. People have a deep-rooted desire to go home to celebrate the New Year. It is a day for families to reunite. Children who work outside miss home and their parents. Especially
Children born in the first year are so homesick that they shed tears. At this time, even if they are given double wages, they still have to go home to celebrate the New Year.
There is no holiday in the hotel, no resignation, just don’t work in the head office. You can just leave without any salary and go home to celebrate the New Year. During the Spring Festival every year, there are not a few people who just go home without salary and celebrate the New Year. The total number nationwide exceeds one million.
At this time of year, restaurants will have staff shortages. Normally, a hundred employees will be left with about 70 employees by New Year's Eve, and some even have less than half of them left.
The Spring Festival is the most profitable time, and it is also the most troublesome time for bosses and managers. At this time, you can see the capabilities of managers and how well the boss treats employees, and you can also see what a hotel's corporate culture is like.
If there is less employee turnover, the corporate culture will be good, the boss will be benevolent, and the managerial staff will be highly capable. Otherwise, it will be worse.
People in Guandong are now beginning to face a wave of job losses before the Spring Festival.
The front desk is better. Zhang Li, Li Shuang, and Zhou Xiaomei have experience. They give some old employees holidays in advance and tell them to go home and have a look and come back before the 20th of the twelfth lunar month. Some employees' holidays are placed after the tenth of the first lunar month and they cannot go home for the New Year.
, you can go back and spend the Lantern Festival with your family. The remaining ones who came out in the first year, and those who have to go home to celebrate the New Year, have a holiday on the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, and will return after the third day of the lunar month.
In this way, all employees are taken care of and no one has resigned.
The kitchen was a bit messy. Except for the stove master, who didn't ask to go home for the New Year, the younger brothers all wanted to go home. At this time, Wang Gang began to feel that his relatives and apprentices were in trouble. Almost all of them were asking for leave from him, and they all wanted to talk to him through
Thanks to the close relationship and master-disciple relationship, we can be accommodating and go home to celebrate the New Year.
And he still had to go to Zhou Xiaomei's house, not only to celebrate the New Year, but also to meet his future father-in-law and mother-in-law, so he had to go.
No one said anything about him and Zhou Xiaomei going home for the New Year. It is human nature and can be understood.
It's just that there is no holiday during the Spring Festival, but everyone sticks to their posts. The head chef goes to his father-in-law's house to celebrate the New Year. What should the employees do?
During the Chinese New Year, the chef is away, so we have to arrange the work in advance, which is a bit difficult.
Zhou Xiaomei saw Wang Gang's difficulty and told him that if he couldn't go, he should wait until after the New Year. It meant a lot to them whether they could go back to celebrate the New Year without seeing their parents. They were both older people, and their families were more concerned about their marriage. As long as they got married, they
Alone is better than anything else.
Wang Gang also felt that it would not be good to stay away from the hotel during the Chinese New Year, so the two of them agreed not to go back during the Chinese New Year, but to wait until the tenth day before going to Zhou Xiaomei's house.
This is also the helplessness of hotel workers. They have no choice but to choose this industry. The catering industry is like this. It gets busier as the New Year approaches. Others have holidays and their whole families go to restaurants to have New Year’s Eve dinner. I have to stick to it.
At the post, prepare good meals and services, solidify the smile on your face into a look that people like, and the tears of homesickness can only fall quietly after turning around.
According to incomplete statistics, every Spring Festival, 10 million people work at restaurants to deliver delicious New Year’s Eve dinners and hot dumplings to thousands of households, but they can only kowtow to their parents in the direction of their hometowns to pay New Year greetings.
It’s not easy for caterers, just understand them.
Long live understanding.
Zhang Li came out of Mr. Xu's office with a stiff expression on her face, obviously angry.
She was discussing overtime work during the Spring Festival with Mr. Xu. According to national regulations, the three days of New Year's Eve, the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the second day of the Lunar New Year are statutory holidays, and one day's work will be paid for three days. Of course, this refers to national enterprises and institutions
, there are also some well-known large enterprises, and private individuals such as hotels and hair salons, but currently few can achieve all of them.
Although it is not possible, the Spring Festival is no different from ordinary holidays, but it is a Chinese New Year. If you don’t pay three days’ wages, two days is still acceptable. Almost all restaurants open during the Spring Festival will pay two days’ wages. This employee also accepted it and had no objection.
Is there anyone who pays three times the salary as stipulated by the state? Yes, but very few.
Last year, people in Guandong only gave employees double wages on the 30th day, but not on the first or second day of the new year. At that time, Zhang Li had only been here for a month and felt it was unreasonable, but she did not talk to Mr. Xu. This year she was afraid that it would be the same as last year.
Talk to Mr. Xu in advance. What she means is that employees will be given double wages on the 30th, first and second grade of junior high school, not just those on the 31st.
But Mr. Xu did not agree.
She argued with Mr. Xu for a long time, and finally Mr. Xu gave in and promised that all employees who work on the 30th would be paid three times the salary, and the first and second grades would be normal. This made her look down on Mr. Xu's stinginess and thought he took money too seriously.
Yes, not like a big boss.
Maybe this is the only way to save money. Otherwise, why would he be the boss and open such a big hotel? She thought to herself as she walked downstairs, thinking that she didn't have money. If she had money, she would never be like him, no.
A man.
Zhou Xiaomei saw that Zhang Li was unhappy and asked: "What's wrong, Sister Zhang?"
Zhang Li talked about overtime work with Mr. Xu.
"Why are you so angry? It's not wrong. Now you know why employees don't want to stay and work overtime." Zhou Xiaomei said.
"No one is willing to work without money. It would be great to go home for the Chinese New Year. My parents will serve me well and eat well. I can stay there as long as I want. I can still find work when I go out. Every family has a higher salary than ours," Zhang Li posted.
Complain.
Zhou Xiaomei smiled and said nothing.
"You and Wang Gang have decided not to go back?" Zhang Li asked.
"I'm not going back. I won't leave until the tenth day of the lunar month. Sister Zhang, I'll be here for the New Year. You can go home and celebrate the New Year." Zhou Xiaomei said.
Zhang Li thought for a while and said: "How can I still have a family? I am a stepmother when I go back. There are four people living in the family. I am an outsider. I can't stand or sit. I might as well live here with everyone. I can still live there."
Be lively."
Zhou Xiaomei said nothing.
Zhang Li said: "If you don't go back, it's better to ask Sister Shuang to go back. She will also take care of the child."
Zhou Xiaomei hummed, and then asked: "Sister Shuang, has your husband come back?"
Zhang Li said: "I don't know. I didn't listen to what she said. It should be that she didn't come back. She didn't say anything when she came back."
"Her husband is really like, why are you running away? He doesn't want his wife and children anymore, so he can go out and hide and quiet his mind. Last time I heard Sister Shuang say that she would give her money every month. Seeing Sister Shuang do that, I don't hate her husband anymore."
"What do you hate? One day for a couple, a hundred days of kindness, a hundred days for a couple, like the depth of the ocean, do you know?"
After Zhang Li finished speaking, she patted Zhou Xiaomei, then turned and walked away. She saw Wang Gang coming over.
Wang Gang looked unhappy and cursed.
"What are you mumbling about? Who messed with you?" Zhou Xiaomei asked with a smile.
"I don't know what to say about these bastards. They all want to go home to celebrate the New Year." Wang Gang said angrily.
"Who told you not to get vaccinated in advance?" Zhou Xiaomei said.
Wang Gang said: "Why should I get vaccinated? I didn't even go to my father-in-law's house, and I still tolerated these bastards. They scolded me so angry that I stopped saying anything. No one should go home to celebrate the New Year, and I won't give them even a day off!"
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Seeing Wang Gang's anger, Zhou Xiaomei smiled and said to him: "You are not as good as my brother-in-law. He is never angry and always smiles. You, you can't calm down, come here and learn from me."
, take a deep breath, inhale——"
Wang Gang did not follow the inhalation and was attracted by a scene - when Zhou Xiaomei inhaled, her chest was raised high, and the mountains were undulating and magnificent.
"Where are you looking!" Zhou Xiaomei said angrily, "Look again and I'll dig out your eyes!"
Wang Gang looked away with a guilty conscience and whispered: "I won't even look at my own things."
Zhou Xiaomei blushed a little and warned: "Wang Gang, I am now starting to consider whether I should take you back on the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, or if I go home to celebrate the New Year, you don't have to go."
Wang Gang immediately said: "Can you dig out one eye? Keep one so that I can take care of you for the rest of your life."
Zhou Xiaomei's heart felt warm - such love words felt comfortable and a little touching.