After a conversation with the factory manager, the people from the employment agency released Li Lei and the other six.
Soon someone took Li Lei and others into the factory workshop to arrange work.
Li Lei never imagined that after finally completing four years of technical secondary school, he would become an assembly line worker, doing the most boring and unskilled job.
The factory was a toy factory, and Li Lei was placed on the assembly line, using smelly glue to glue small plastic toy parts together.
After the first day of work, Li Lei felt that he couldn't stand it! After smelling the smell of this glue, he wanted to eat big fat meat, but the food here was almost like feeding pigs.
, there was no oil or water at all, and even the dinner was still rancid.
In the evening, several classmates also discussed it for a while. Everyone felt that this job was really not done by humans, and they all wanted to go home.
Indeed, for them, this kind of life is completely different from what they imagined before they left campus. This is not how people live, and even if they work twelve hours a day, they don't have much money.
Someone inquired and heard that wage deductions are very serious in this factory. If you work for a month, you can get more than 300 yuan, which is considered very good.
Although three hundred yuan does not seem to be a lot in this era, it is really not much. If it is in the mainland, it is average, but in this coastal city, it is really at the bottom.
The most important thing is that this kind of work is so boring. Although it doesn't seem tiring just sitting there and doing repetitive actions, in fact it is not easy at the end of the day. If things go on like this, it will definitely become more difficult.
Those who suffer from occupational diseases, especially glue, are poisonous and will definitely be harmful if inhaled into the body.
Li Lei also wanted to go home. He didn't want to work here any longer. Could it be that he was going to live like this for the rest of his life? It was difficult to even go out in this dark factory.
Now this factory seems to have become a terrible prison, trying to kill young people like them who once dreamed of making a difference.
In order to work here, they also paid hundreds of yuan in employment agency fees to the employment agency. Of course, this was collected and paid by the school, but they didn't expect this kind of work.
Two classmates decided that night that they would quit working tomorrow and would rather go back to farming than do this stupid job.
Li Lei also thought for most of the night, he couldn't go back. What would others think if he went back like this? Could it be that he would just farm at home, face the loess and back to the sky like his parents, and be a farmer all his life?
My parents will be furious. They worked so hard to raise me and support themselves in school. Just four years of technical secondary school cost them more than 10,000 yuan. This is what they finally saved after years of hard work.
money.
Li Lei knew that his parents didn't have much money left. Maybe the family's savings were less than 10,000 yuan.
If I just go back like this, I will waste more than a thousand yuan in vain. This won't work!
I have to persist for a while longer, at least to earn back all the travel and agency fees.
Perhaps, you can see if you can find another job here, such as a job related to your major.
Having made up his mind, Li Lei never thought about anything else and held on to it for a few more months with the mentality of taking things as they come.
The next day, the two classmates left the factory and went back by car.
Li Lei hopes to get rid of the simple and boring work that involves occupational hazards every day, but he can't yet.
For gluing a small plastic toy, assembly line workers like Li Lei can get a penny, but only if it passes the quality inspection.
If it is unqualified, one penny will be deducted for each item.
Under normal circumstances, a skilled person can complete more than a thousand tasks in a twelve-hour work day. In this way, he can earn three hundred to five hundred yuan a month.
In fact, this income is very low in coastal areas. Generally, those with some skills can earn two to three thousand yuan a month, or even higher, and some can earn six to seven thousand yuan, such as welders.
Jobs like working on the assembly line in a toy factory are indeed not very suitable for technical secondary school graduates like Li Lei. After all, the country has made great efforts to cultivate professional talents, but they come to do jobs that even illiterate people can do. Isn't this a waste?
But young people like Li Lei were not born at the right time. If they had graduated a few years earlier, then the work assigned by the state would be assigned by the state. Maybe the jobs assigned by the state would not necessarily be very good, but at least they would be state-owned enterprises.
It is an iron rice bowl in the eyes of others.
A month passed, and out of the six students who came, only Li Lei was left.
Now Li Lei feels even more sad, but he can't just walk away yet.
Smelling the pungent smell of glue and eating vegetables fried with rotten vegetable leaves every day, Li Lei lost a lot of weight in a month, but he still persevered.
Gradually becoming familiar with this place, Li Lei began to look for new job opportunities in newspapers.
But it’s not that easy to find a job, especially for a technical secondary school graduate majoring in inorganic non-metallic materials. His major is too narrow.
And he had no work experience at all. After three months, Li Lei submitted more than a dozen resumes, all of which were related to majors, such as ceramics factories and glass products factories, but every resume was like a stone in the sea, with no response at all.
of.
Li Lei was also a little discouraged. Why is this happening? He often asked himself at night: Do he really want to stay here and continue to work?
With a meager income, suffering from poisonous glue, and eating meals that taste like pig food, this is not the job he wants.
Li Lei didn't dare to tell his parents about this. He could only describe this place as very beautiful and let his parents not worry. Li Lei would send two hundred yuan back every month, and he would have more than a hundred yuan left to buy some daily life.
Supplies.
Suzhou is a beautiful place, but there are many unknown things in this paradise on earth, and many people have to bow to their fate in order to survive.
Just when Li Lei was about to despair, he finally received a reply.
Li Lei was still at work that day when the BP machine around his waist suddenly vibrated.
Li Lei was shocked. Someone was calling him! This was definitely not from his parents. Could it be that he had sent out his resume and received a response?
You are not allowed to look at the BP machine while working. If the team leader finds out, you will be fined.
Li Lei quickly made an excuse to go to the toilet because he had a stomachache. He quickly ran into the toilet. In the smelly pit, Li Lei took out the BP machine and took a look!
Sure enough, the number he called was from Suzhou.
It's not easy. Li Lei was so excited that his hands shook and the BP machine almost fell into the manure pit.
This was an opportunity. Li Lei began to long for it, maybe he would be able to leave here soon.