Rebirth of the 80s

Chapter 153 [No.165] Laid-off merger and re-employment

"Exit?" Xie Wenjun asked in surprise, "Why did you drop out?"

Zheng Gang said sadly: "I...I want to come out to work and go to my aunt's factory. They are recruiting apprentices in their factory, and the salary seems to be pretty good."

Xie Wenjun shook his head: "Is this what your father meant?"

"No," Zheng Gang resolutely said, "My father and my mother both want me to continue studying, but... But I think I am an adult, and I should help my family to bear the burden of life. If you don’t go to college, it’s better to come out to work and make money earlier.”

Xie Wenjun heard from Qiaoqiao before that his father Lin Xuecong and Zheng Gang’s father Zheng Laosan had some problems in the business cooperation, and they owed a huge debt. After repaying the huge debt, the business will be ruined. Qiaoqiao Qiao’s family still has his mother, and the hospital where his mother works is good, so there will be no major problems in life, but Zheng Gang’s family is different. His father and mother used to be employees of the machine tool factory, and it was Qiaoqiao’s father. Lin Xuecong voluntarily applied to buy out his seniority and come out to cooperate in business. Now the business has failed, the couple have no income, and their life is naturally lost.

Xie Wenjun heard Qiaoqiao mention it lightly at the beginning, thinking that the matter would not be so serious, and doing business would always make a profit and a loss, but now listening to what Zheng Gang said, it shows that the current situation of his family is quite bad, otherwise it would be too bad. It's not like letting go of a good job and not being able to learn, but wanting to be an apprentice in a small factory.

Xie Wenjun thought to himself that Zheng Gang would take the initiative to come to him every now and then to hang out when he was on vacation. No wonder he didn’t contact him for the whole vacation this time. It was because he was busy with something, and Zheng Gang might have something to do with his family. Bored for a whole vacation.

Two students, one is not well-educated because of poor family background, even the fifth student now comes to Linxi No. It is the end of the [-]th century, how can children in cities drop out of school because of poverty, not to mention that Zheng Gang is still his best friend, Xie Wenjun will never let these things happen in his eyes It happens under the sun, no matter how poor you are, you can't have poor education.

Xie Wenjun patted Zheng Gang on the shoulder: "What's the situation at home now?"

Zheng Gang said in a deep voice: "My parents set up a breakfast stand in front of the house, and they can barely maintain their life. I was helping them during the holidays, so I didn't have time to come to you."

Xie Wenjun nodded: "Since you have set up a breakfast stall, why don't you want to continue to study, no matter what you want to do, wait until you graduate."

"It's not that I don't want to go to school," Zheng Gang said with a wry smile, "I also want to go to college, but I can't earn the tuition for college even if I spend ten years on it. Since I can't go to college, I still have high school. Is it necessary?"

Zheng Gang's previous living standard was pretty good among the students at the same school. Parents were generally satisfied with what they wanted to buy, and they also had a lot of pocket money. After being with him for a long time, he also developed a bad habit of spending money lavishly. Xie Wenjun thought that maybe due to the sudden big change in his life, he couldn't accept it for a while, so his thoughts became a little extreme, so he said: "You can't think like this, no matter whether your family has the ability to support you in college, this high school should You still have to finish your studies, and you can’t drop out of school just because you think you can’t afford to go to college. Let’s not talk about anything else, there are not a few people in our class whose families are not well-off, and their families may not be able to provide for them. Thinking of them going to university, if everyone thinks like you, then they all don't need to go to school, and they all go out to be factory apprentices?"

"It's not the same," Zheng Gang shook his head. "Although their family's economic conditions are not good, they are different from mine. I have talked with Zhou Feng and Zhao Zhigao. Their family conditions are very poor, but I heard they They said that if they go to college, relatives and friends will help sponsor, and I... well, it’s hard to say.”

"It's hard to explain," Xie Wenjun said with a smile, "Why do you talk like an old man now? Others have relatives and friends to help, don't you? I remember that your uncles, uncles, aunts, and uncles were all very kind to you. Yes, I often give you pocket money."

When Zheng Gang mentioned this, he looked even more depressed: "I don't know if God is playing tricks on our Zheng family. Since my parents' business has been ruined, the work units of my five brothers and sisters on my father's side have all been ruined." , of the seven brothers and sisters on my mother's side, only one aunt still needs to go to work, that is, they need to recruit apprentices in their factory, and all the others go home to eat themselves. Do you know what's going on, laid off, laid off Ah, I don’t know what the world is like now, people who have worked in the factory for decades will let you go home with a word, which makes people live.”

Zheng Gang was indignant when he talked about being laid off. In his heart, he felt that laying off workers was a serious policy mistake, just like the Communist Party back then.

In fact, layoffs in state-owned enterprises, reduction of staff and efficiency increase, not to mention Zheng Gang, even many sensible people who have lived most of their lives think that it is a mistake, a huge mistake, standing on the standpoint of the laid-off workers themselves, Of course he thinks it is wrong for a state-owned enterprise to treat an old worker who has worked hard for decades for the country's construction in this way, but from the standpoint of the whole country, in order for society to develop, it is necessary to establish a socialist market economic system in which the survival of the fittest is new. mechanism, it has to do so.

In the memory of Xie Wenjun's previous life, 1997 was a real "laid-off year" among many workers. In this year, countless workers returned home from their jobs and lost their income. Deepening the reform of state-owned enterprises, The slogan of regulating bankruptcy and encouraging mergers is getting higher and higher. At the same time, a new social problem has been added to solve the problems of life and reemployment of laid-off workers.

The overall private economy of Linxi City started relatively late, and ranks relatively low compared to the whole country, so it relies heavily on the state-owned economic system. State-owned enterprises account for a considerable proportion of the GDP of Linxi City, so this wave of layoffs has a considerable impact on Linxi. It's a big deal, once the layoffs came out, tens of thousands of state-owned enterprise workers in Linxi City had no choice but to go home, so it was normal for most of Zheng Gang's relatives to become laid-off workers.

Zheng Gang's family is actually a microcosm of thousands of families in Linxi City. Since there are so many laid-off workers in Zheng Gang's family, it won't take long for tens of thousands of unemployed troops to flood the entire Linxi City. Coupled with the impact of the Asian financial turmoil, the series of linked negative social effects will become more and more serious. Xie Wenjun wondered why the butterfly effect could not eliminate these very bad things.

As the leader of the private economy in Linxi City, Xie Wenjun feels that he has an invisible social responsibility on his shoulders. Not only himself, Xie Wenjun feels that all private enterprises should take the social problem of reemployment of laid-off workers as their own problem. In this way, we can contribute more effectively to speeding up the reform of the socialist market economic system, and at the same time create a better investment environment for private enterprises.

But this is just Xie Wenjun's wishful thinking, but even if it is wishful thinking, Xie Wenjun is willing to be a leader and help the government solve some laid-off workers and re-employ them. Only if he takes the lead first, more people will devote themselves to it .

Now that I have this kind of thinking, there is a matter that needs Xie Wenjun's help to solve. Xie Wenjun put his arm around Zheng Gang's shoulders and comforted him: "This study must not be interrupted, keep going, and I will let my dad and Uncle Zheng come back later. Let’s talk, they are old friends, they are easy to talk to, there is no obstacle you can’t get over, you don’t have to worry about Uncle Zheng’s affairs, just go to school.”

Zheng Gang sighed: "Xiaojun, I know what you want to do, but you know my dad has a bad temper, he won't accept favors from others."

"What nonsense favor," Xie Wenjun scolded with a smile, "you are so vulgar, vulgar, why do you still have such vulgar ideas after being with me for so long? Is your parents' business for so many years all due to luck? Don’t you have any skills? If you have the skills to earn food with your own hands and head, who owes whom? What kind of favor is this, you pig.”

Zheng Gang smiled: "You are always right, but my dad won't think so."

"Who says no, your dad is a guy, even though he has a hot temper, and he doesn't have as many fancy ideas as you, besides..." Xie Wenjun smiled, "If he wants to get into the corner like you, then I... Scold him, scold him, hehe."

"You? It's up to you?" Zheng Gang punched Xie Wenjun, and said with a smile, "Don't be kicked to death by my dad, haha, don't forget, he has practiced Wing Chun since he was a child."

"You are the only one who asks your dad to kick me. Your dad doesn't even have time to appreciate a talent like me. How could I kick him to death?" Xie Wenjun smiled, "Let's go back to school, remember it for me, go to school hard. If you think about dropping out of school, you can wait for me, and without your father taking action, I will kick you half to death first."

Back at school, Xie Wenjun called his father Xie Qingqiang, told him about the affairs of Zheng Laosan's family in detail, asked his father to talk to him, and laid off Zheng Laosan and his family together. All the relatives and friends of my family came to the water plant to help. Anyway, there has always been a huge shortage of personnel in the water plant, and there are countless rough and fine tasks. The recruitment activities of the personnel department have never stopped. By the way, let the personnel department of Linxishan Spring Water Factory try to put the laid-off workers of state-owned enterprises as the first place in the recruitment process. As long as the applicants have the same qualifications and abilities, the laid-off workers will have priority.

Doing so can only play a drop in the bucket for the reemployment of laid-off workers in Linxi City. Thousands of laid-off workers cannot be accommodated by just one water plant. The factory is almost the same. Although Xie Wenjun has no responsibility, no obligation, and no ability to do such a thing, he still has to do his best to help the government solve part of this social problem. More enterprises are needed to absorb this part of laid-off workers.

Xie Wenjun has thought about this issue. Isn’t the current government vigorously promoting the regulation of bankruptcy, encouraging mergers, and vigorously promoting the merger of inferior enterprises by superior enterprises? The biggest problem of many state-owned enterprises and private enterprises that have gone bankrupt lies in management. Among these enterprises that have gone bankrupt due to management problems, there are many small enterprises that can develop in depth, have excellent assets, and can be revived as long as they are endowed with advanced management experience. Enterprises, such enterprises should not be for nothing for a person like Xie Wenjun who has more than ten years of leading experience.

Merging these small enterprises can not only strengthen their own strength, but also solve the problem of reemployment of some laid-off workers. Why not do it? From the perspective of Linxishan Spring Water Plant, there are several of them at random The small beverage factory and canning factory that Zhang Xiicai was about to close met the requirements. Xie Wenjun thought to his father to try to start with these small businesses.

Xie Wenjun also told Xie Qingqiang that he wanted to build a few bridges for the fifth student's hometown. Xie Qingqiang, the head of Linxi Spring, who has always been the leader of the private enterprises in Linxi City as a great philanthropist, immediately felt that this should be done, and asked Done well, so I told Xie Wenjun that the part of the tax that the Linxi Municipal Government specially reduced and exempted this time in order to encourage the Linxishan Spring Water Plant to make persistent efforts and create new high profits and taxes will be donated to the local government in Wusheng's hometown as bridge repair funds past.

When Xie Wenjun told the fifth student the news, the fifth student was very grateful and felt that Xie Wenjun's father was the reborn parent of the people in their hometown. It is such a desire to own a road or a bridge of their own. This simple and insignificant thing in the city is a major event linked to life in their eyes. Xie Wenjun thought that building a bridge It doesn't matter if there are no corpses to make up the road, this kind of thing should be done more in the future.

Xie Wenjun can help solve Zheng Gang’s family affairs, Xie Wenjun is also able to solve the bridge repair for the fifth student’s hometown, and the fifth student’s survival problem in Linxi has to be solved by old man Zhou. For such smaller matters, Xie Wenjun Of course he has the ability to solve it, but Xie Wenjun can't manage all the poor students who are paired with each other. Besides, the school does the paired assistance, so the school has to do it properly, otherwise it won't be a problem. In order to sell dog meat as sheep's tricks, but did not do practical things after gaining fame.

In the afternoon, Xie Wenjun blatantly skipped class. He wanted to have a good talk with old man Zhou about pairing up to help these students survive. Abide by your own "rules", run away from school if you can, and skip class if you can, and don't waste any such opportunities.

Xie Wenjun has always been a frequent visitor to the principal's office. As long as he comes, Mr. Zhou's head will hurt, because most of the time it is Xie Wenjun, the problem student who comes to create problems for himself. Coming during class time, it means that Xie Wenjun Wanting to create a bigger problem, old man Zhou unconsciously took the cooling oil from the drawer and put it on the table for emergency use.

"What... are you here for? Don't you have to go to class?" Old man Zhou asked knowingly. Of course Xie Wenjun came to cause trouble for him.

Xie Wenjun cheerfully pulled up a chair and sat across from old man Zhou: "It's nothing serious, I still have to go to class, so I'll make a long story short, uh... why don't you care about those students who are helping each other, throw them in the class Is it over? Today, the fifth student in our class fainted because he didn't have lunch...you don't care about it."

Since old man Zhou wanted to pay attention to the survival of poor students, he had to exaggerate, the more outrageous the exaggeration, the more miserable the better.

"Ah? There is such a thing." The student's fainting is not a trivial matter, which shows that there are certain problems in the school's management. Old man Zhou asked concerned, "Then...then how is the classmate now?"

"There was no one in the infirmary at noon, so I had to take him to the hospital for a check-up. He was just malnourished. I treated him to a big meal, and now he is in good spirits." Xie Wenjun smiled, "Take him to a meal." It's fine for me to eat twice, but I can't invite him to dinner every once in a while, what if he faints again one day, don't you care?"

Xie Wenjun's attitude today is as firm as when he threatened old man Zhou to go to the Education Bureau to sue Meifeng. Don't try to fool him if he doesn't come up with a solution. To understand it simply, in addition to the academic performance must be top-notch, the family conditions should not be too bad, or the child suddenly came to Linxi, a relatively high-consumption place, from the mountains, what should I do if the family can't afford it, but now it has appeared The matter of the students fainting from starvation, old man Zhou is really big as a head. Didn't their family provide living expenses? Then how can the children leave their homes and live in Linxi?

"The parents of these students said that they can bear part of the living expenses of the students coming to Linxi. We agreed to the students coming, and the school will also subsidize part of them for them. But now the money is still... I don't know where it comes from. , but there is always a way," old man Zhou shook his head helplessly, "the student in your class who is helping each other is hungry, could it be that he deliberately skipped lunch to save money? of."

Xie Wenjun was secretly amused. It’s okay for old man Zhou to be the principal of the school. It’s absolutely impossible for him to manage the company. He thought about how the problem would be so routine, so he said lightly: “If I change, I’m the parent of a student, and I can let the children come to the university. If I go to school in the city, even if I am poor and have no money, I will say that I can afford the living expenses of my children.”

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