Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 205 Relaxing Procurement Restrictions

Riding a bicycle, wearing formal clothes, and looking very young, Luo Cheng always attracts some envious eyes on his way to work.

With a watch, Luo Cheng usually wouldn't arrive at the factory too early unless there was something serious to do. This is actually a science. Luo Cheng is also the leader of a department now. If he arrives at the factory too early, it will actually put pressure on other members of the department.

A leader arrives at the factory early every day. How do you ask the employees below to arrive at the factory early every day? A leader who has no airs of leadership is not a good leader. Many people are not afraid of leaders who have airs of leadership. They just have routines and ways to deal with them. But if you don't play according to the routine, people will think that you are a difficult leader.

Wait for the leader to come and then report to the leader. This reflects the word "equal". Especially if someone goes to other units to do business and meets with a certain leader too early, many receptionists will tell you that the leader hasn't come yet, so wait.

Being stuck at work means that you are a good leader. You must have arranged things properly and are not impatient.

Luo Cheng came to the factory in time. After entering the office, everyone in the department greeted him warmly. This is not the flattering enthusiasm of the members of the department. Luo Cheng has just returned from the town. He is a leader who has returned from a business trip. Naturally, people in the department will take the initiative to say hello when they see him. Even when Luo Cheng was not the section chief before, he came back from a business trip. , so does everyone.

For example, when Zhou Lin returns from a few days of work and Luo Cheng sees the other party coming back, he will also say hello. This is a greeting between colleagues.

The Procurement Department still has eight people. Now, in addition to their own network, they are basically responsible for some additional procurement work. There is no leisure as before, but the work is more fulfilling. Just like Liu Liang, before the department made rectifications, he would just get some daily necessities. Now I am also responsible for labor protection supplies. This is a regular factory purchase, no connections are needed, and garment factories and the like have to sell it.

Zhou Lin, on the other hand, is annoyed to death by the director of the cafeteria. He is now responsible for purchasing ingredients, and Luo Cheng has established the network of ingredients purchasing. Zhou Lin is just running errands. But he was willing to run errands. He used to basically play a role in winter. In addition to getting some coal for some leaders, he would stay in the department and read newspapers all day long.

At urban grain stations, rice bran and soybean meal are now in short supply. It is easy to judge whether to use it to save people and feed them, or to feed pigs and chickens and ducks. Therefore, it is normal for many factories not to see meat in the canteen even once from the end of the year to now. There are fewer poultry and livestock to feed. Isn’t it reasonable to have no meat to eat?

Moreover, there are differences between factories. Factories such as textile factories that are more important to people's livelihood will give priority to factories that have meat. In Qingshui Yamen units, take the police station as an example, people are willing to go to the factory and join the security department rather than be a police officer. There are no decent benefits at all.

This welfare aspect also involves a current corporate policy. Enterprise units in this era have a term called retention fund, which is also called the small treasury in the unit.

It is said that all enterprises and factories are now owned by the state, but there is a huge difference in welfare between units with good profits and those with poor profits. Take housing as an example. Some factories have welfare housing in their units, but some units do not. Logically speaking, the factories are all owned by the state, so there should be no difference. Why are the benefits and benefits different?

The corporate policy of this era is that profits will be turned over to the finance quarterly, but this will be based on industry conditions. Factories can keep between 3% and 8% of profits as retention money. Think of factories with extremely low profits for people's livelihood, such as a match factory. The match factory may sell goods for 100 yuan, but the profit is not much. Such a factory will have a high retention rate.

As for the machinery factory, even though it seems that it deals with steel, it actually relies on technology. In this era, a machine can be sold for tens of thousands, and imported machinery and equipment are even more impressive. Just because the accuracy is more accurate, the same type of machine may be sold for hundreds of thousands or millions.

Therefore, the capital retention rate of the machinery factory is not high, only 5%. The lower ones are cars and the like, but one or two cars can be sold for tens of thousands these days, and the profit from selling one may be more than the annual profit of a small unit. Vehicles are also in short supply in China. They can be sold as soon as they are built. If they are not available for purchase, they cannot be sold.

Not long after Luo Cheng arrived in the office, Director Sun sent someone to call Luo Cheng. If the superiors take the initiative to shout, it means that they have something to explain, and it is not you who should report it. So when Luo Cheng heard the notice, he immediately put down the enamel cup in his hand and went directly to the second floor.

"Director Sun, are you looking for me?"

"Yes, I'm just waiting for you to come back from town. Let's go to the factory director's office as we discussed last time."

"What did we talk about last time? What was it?"

"Didn't you say last time that you could get more food if you didn't need to go through public accounts? I reported this to the factory director, and the factory director said that if you come back, we'll talk about it together."

After hearing Director Sun's words, Luo Cheng came back to his senses. If it weren't for his resources to support it, the machinery factory might be like other factories. The dishes in the canteen might be radish, cabbage and the like.

Luo Cheng finally managed to get pheasants. In the future, pheasants would be raised in all seasons. But before April, Luo Cheng would not dare to bring a lot of pheasants to the machinery factory. Anyway, if the amount is small, Luo Cheng can still sign directly in the finance department to get the money, but in most cases the commune still has to send someone to handle it.

The most recent time was when the commune in Luo Cheng's town sent a cart of spring bamboo shoots, and Luo Cheng's father-in-law, Accountant Zhao, came to take care of the accounts.

The director of the canteen has frequently reported the situation to Director Sun recently. Workers complained that the food in the canteen was not good. But it’s hard to make a meal without rice. It’s not that the cafeteria doesn’t want to prepare something delicious for the workers to eat, but it’s because it doesn’t.

Director Sun had discussed this matter with Luo Cheng last time and hoped that he could think of another way to solve the problem of insufficient food in the canteen. Luo Cheng also complained last time. The machinery factory's procurement was originally suppressed by the local purchasing station, so he spoke out last time. If the factory had always been fair to business, all he could guarantee was that the factory would be able to provide ingredients for banquets. The factory wanted to give workers meat once a month, but Luo Chengdu couldn't guarantee that.

But Luo Cheng said that he has some channels in many black markets in the counties and towns below. If he can give money directly without asking where he came from, he can restore the canteen to the situation of the previous year.

Everyone’s rations have been reduced this year, and the prices of food items on the black market have increased. It is extremely rare for Luo Cheng to be able to get some chickens, ducks and meat from the poultry and livestock factory now, but the amount he gets is only enough to entertain some people who come to visit the factory or discuss technology. What's the point of giving a meal of meat to nearly a thousand workers in the factory, when the average person can't even eat one tael?

Director Sun is now telling Luo Cheng what they discussed last time and taking him to the factory director's office this time, which means that Luo Cheng's idea is most likely approved. However, the factory director hopes to hear from Luo Chenglai that this is fair and he can roughly get something out of it.

Luo Cheng didn't have much contact with the director of the machinery factory. When he first joined the factory, he didn't try to establish relationships. In addition, he was just an ordinary buyer at that time and had nothing to report to the director.

And when he was about to become section chief, it was the factory director who took the initiative to call him for a talk. However, Luo Cheng didn't have any lofty dreams and felt that it wouldn't be good if he became familiar with the factory director, for example, if he became the section chief. Many ordinary clerks stopped coming to him to ask for tea leaves to make tea.

Those who can come to Luo Cheng to ask for tea are basically department heads. Luo Cheng likes to go to the workshop recently, and he has become familiar with some front-line workshop production directors. Those workshop directors also come to ask for some tea.

But after two more meetings with the factory director, he was actually a shameless guy. When Luo Cheng was not in the department, half of the tea he left in the department was taken away by the factory director, saying that he was using it to entertain people. . Although there are not many tea leaves in the department, people these days drink tea in small pieces. Half of the tea left by the factory director is enough for the people in the purchasing department to drink for a week.

The factory director's office is also on the second floor, at the end of the corridor, so the two of them quickly arrived at the factory director's office.

"Director Chen, Section Chief Xiao Luo, I arrested him."

"Director Sun, what you said is, how can you say arrest, you have to say please. The food and drinks in our factory now depend on Chief Xiao Luo."

Luo Cheng knew that he had been teased again. In front of the director and the factory director, he could just call him Xiao Luo, not section chief.

"Hello, Director Chen."

"Sit down, don't be restrained. You brought your cigarettes, so take two." "I'll take two too, if you have any."

Seeing Director Chen's shameless look and Director Sun also echoing his words, Luo Cheng remembered a joke he learned in the future era. That is, 'There is a saying that I don't know whether I should say or not, it's like a fool sells a pen.'

But he complained in his heart, so he took out an iron cigarette case from his pocket and gave two cigarettes to each of the factory director and director. The box is the special cigarette case of this era, but the cigarettes are the products of the future era. The first time I smoked Huazi for Director Sun, he was reluctant to smoke it, so the cigarettes were specially provided. This cigarette holder feels different.

The first time he gave it to the factory director Hua Zi, he could tell at a glance that Luo Cheng was not a human being. No, it was Luo Cheng's cigarette box that didn't match the cigarettes.

Factory Director Chen also had the opportunity to smoke Huazi. Huazi special products are divided into local and military regions. The type of cigarette package Luo Cheng took out was labeled "local". But the cigarettes were definitely not from the local area, so Director Chen guessed that Luo Cheng was mixing them up and putting special cigarettes from the military region into local cigarette boxes.

It's so damn low-key, you know, comparable places in the military region are more rare now.

Luo Cheng didn't know that Director Chen had long realized that there was something wrong with the cigarettes. If a military region boss and a local boss came and Luo Cheng took out this cigarette, I'm afraid the bosses on both sides would be silent. When will there be a new style in China? Hua Zi.

As soon as the cigarette was released, the more shameless side appeared. Director Sun and Director Chen put the cigarette away in perfect agreement and started smoking Ashima cigarettes. It’s hard to smoke Huazi in Luo Chengdu. We can’t let the factory director and director smoke Ashima. You, a little section chief, can smoke Huazi on the side.

Luo Cheng had no choice but to ask Director Sun for a cheap cigarette, and the three of them smoked together and started talking.

"Xiao Luo, you said that procurement is not fair, how much can you get? The factory canteen has not prepared meat dishes for the workers for almost two months. You also know the nature of our factory. We often have to receive people, and the receptionists always have to prepare some. It's meat. This employee sees us receiving food many times a month, and every time there is meat. If this continues, there will be problems."

"I don't know about other places, but many towns down there in Ngee'an County used to be owned by hunters, and there were a lot of poachers. I know a lot of people in the black market, and the prices are not too expensive. I came back from down here this time, I harvested a lot of pheasants and birds. There was also a wild goose, which was quite fat. If I harvested it specifically, from the current point of view, it will be no problem to provide everyone with one meal of meat a month."

"The wild goose, Xiao Luo, thank you. I asked you to bring me a wild goose last time, and you actually got it. I'll give you these ten yuan. Don't be too little. If it's not enough, you can ask again."

"Director Chen, this~~ is wrong. When did I say I would take care of the wild geese for you?"

The matter was well discussed, but Luo Cheng was suddenly confused by Director Chen and looked at the Big Black Ten in his hand. When did he promise to get a wild goose for Director Chen? He didn't even know that Heizi and the others would get a wild goose when he went to town this time. And he doesn't usually come to Director Chen's place for a stroll, so there is no such thing as this.

These wild geese are also called wild geese in rural areas. The adult geese weigh about ten pounds. The price is not as high as that of pork. The main reason is that the meat is pure meat, and a dozen pounds of wild geese are hairy and visceral. Just like the chickens in the market, a chicken weighing a few kilograms only costs one or two yuan, but you must have a ticket.

Luo Cheng felt that in front of Director Sun and Director Chen, he would help them count the money even if he was sold. You are really thick-skinned, and you can still ask for things like this.

The money was inexplicably collected in his hand, and it was just a wild goose. If Luo Cheng wanted to eat it, it would be the same to kill a domestic goose and bring it to this era.

"Director Sun, wait a minute, what do you mean by giving me money again?"

"I'll give you five yuan. You can give it to me."

"If there is a snake, please come here. Director Sun, you know that my wife is pregnant and cannot eat snakes."

"What a good thing, help me kill it."

"no problem."

As for Director Sun, Luo Ben originally planned to sell him some wild animals, but he didn't consider Director Chen's side. He doesn't want to make progress, mainly because he can't make progress in the near future. Luo Cheng is also connected with Director Sun in terms of work. When he comes up with something, he really doesn't need to consider Director Chen.

But looking at the situation today, it was Factory Director Chen who took the initiative to show his kindness. Some people who really wanted to curry favor with him had no way of giving gifts. If there is anything in the future, it seems that Director Chen will have to be brought with him.

This point is a digression. Luo Cheng has already made it known. As long as the source of the food is not taken into consideration, he promises to eat meat only once a month.

The three of them continued chatting for a while. Director Chen asked Luo Cheng and Director Sun to meet in the office first, and then he went out and asked someone to notify the chief of the finance department to come over.

In about ten minutes, the chief of the finance department also came over. The chief of the finance department was now familiar with Luo Cheng, and his level was now the same as Luo Cheng's. It's also because of the scale of the factory that if you can't move up the position of section chief, you won't be able to move up the level.

In fact, the matter of Luo Cheng going to the black market to buy things was quite easy to deal with. As long as it was not given to employees for free, the account would be smooth.

If each employee is given half a catty of meat during the Chinese New Year, it does not count as money. Even if the machine factory pays for the meat, there must be a source of meat. You can't say you spent hundreds of dollars on meat, but you don't have any receipts or proof. Without proof, it is regarded as false accounting.

But if the things Luo Cheng purchased were not for welfare but were supplied to the canteen, there was still room for maneuver, and that would be that they would not be recorded in the account. Employees also have to spend money to buy meals and vegetables in the canteen, but meat dishes in the canteen do not require meat tickets.

As soon as the factory director greeted the financial officer, the matter was basically settled. It's a bit of an illegal operation, but as long as you are not greedy and don't take advantage of it, you can be investigated. For such a thing, the factory director can only criticize it at most.

Hearing that the factory director had communicated well with the finance department, Luo Cheng planned to bring a whole wild boar to the factory in a few days. However, what he was treating was a wild boar raised in the future. It looked similar to a wild boar, but the wildness was gone. The meat quality was actually not as good as a real wild boar.

Real wild boar meat is not very tasty for people who don’t know how to cook it. Wild boars are not like domestic pigs. Boars are castrated and their meat is not flavourful. Real wild boar meat, meaty, spicy, even a little sour.

Raised wild boars are actually more delicious than domestic pork, at least under the skill of ordinary people. Wild boar meat is not cooked by some professional chefs, and the meat is actually rougher.

Of course, the factory director couldn't just ask Luo Cheng to relax the purchase restrictions and he would immediately get a wild boar. It just so happened that he was going to buy tomatoes in the future, so he wanted to give the factory some tomatoes first. Then get a batch of tomatoes and some eggs. Scrambled eggs with tomatoes are also a good dish.

As for the current dishes in the factory, well, there are only a few dishes every day. But it is still better than what many people eat at home. At least the chef in the cafeteria uses oil to stir-fry the dishes. And many people’s vegetarian dishes at home are boiled.

(End of this chapter)