Hardworking people always have a way out, as long as they choose the right direction. It’s not that young people in this class refuse to endure hardship, but just don’t want to be a screw forever.
Foshan is a strong manufacturing city. I have lived here for more than 20 years. I have witnessed how countless small workshops have become large factories, and how they have become a nationally eye-catching brand. I have also witnessed how many large factories are declining. Gradually fail to keep up with the pace of the times.
Successful entrepreneurs can advertise casually, and failed entrepreneurs are sad. The reasons revolve around those few reasons, such as difficult loans, high rents, failed transformation, and a labor shortage that can never be avoided.
I remember that as early as more than a decade ago, when Weibo had not yet appeared, the Internet called out the social issue of “labor shortage”. Unexpectedly, more than ten years have passed. The current Internet is still screaming “employment shortage”. The content has not changed. It means that the young people in this session can’t do it. They can’t endure hardship if they don’t feel steadfast. They don’t want to enter the factory. To people.
If the “labor shortage” in the past was due to the mismatch between job requirements and the skill level of employees, and the difficulty of hiring due to remote geographic location and industry information barriers, then the current “labor shortage” is due to the active abandonment of young people. The factory.
In a normal factory, five insurances and one housing fund are complete. They work 8 hours a day, have double breaks each week, and are on time off on statutory holidays. They pay enough overtime for overtime. Not to mention how high the salary is, it can at least reach the industry standard.
If people cannot be recruited under these conditions, there is no problem in complaining about the “labor shortage.”
But in reality, what are the conditions for factories that call “labor shortage”? I will not cite too many examples from other regions, but still take some industries in Foshan as examples:
Workers must work more than 12 hours a day, have two days off each month (only two days off), and the salary level is between 2000-3500 yuan, there is no five insurances and one housing fund, and no overtime pay… If food and housing are included, the salary will be reduced. a little.
Such poor conditions have led to low entry rates, high turnover rates, and insufficient means to make ends meet. This is not called a labor shortage, but should be called a “positive choice” for workers.
This kind of “positive choice” appears in many small factories. They complain about labor shortages while at the same time they refuse to offer high-level conditions to attract young people. They are in a dilemma.
What is the reason that they do not think that “low wages” are an important factor in recruitment difficulties? Because in the past ten years, most small private workshops have not really experienced the difficulty of recruiting workers.
During the peak bonus period, as long as the recruitment notice is posted at the entrance of the factory, even if the monthly salary is less than two thousand, even if there is no overtime pay, there are three shifts. As long as the food and housing are included, there will be a lot of young men and women rushing to do it, like grocery shopping. People are generally picky.
I was very impressed by this scene. There was a long queue, with a registrar sitting at the front, to see if the name and age matched the ID card, and then one by one, Bala left.
During this period, recruitment was also divided into men and women, and female workers had to be given priority because they were more careful and less error-prone, and they were more obedient and would not fight or make trouble.
Most of the jobs for male workers are for warehouse management and transportation. If you want to be a general worker, you need to bring one or two girls into the factory at the same time.
In order to avoid group strikes, the factory will conduct a geographical screening in the recruitment process to prevent workers from a certain workshop or a certain assembly line from coming from the same place and becoming acquainted with each other. Now Fumukang and other major electronic factories are also implementing this. Item diversion strategy.
There is also an unwritten rule-the form of salary payment will be adjusted as the construction period is weak.
In the off-season, the output is calculated based on the piece rate, and the output is controlled from the source. Even if the worker’s enthusiasm is high, he will not have a chance to do a few more pieces; the peak season is calculated at a fixed salary, and the daily workload is set. salary.
In the era when the consumption level is not high, this is a big rule for small workshop owners to ensure that they have enough income.
Faced with such harsh conditions, most young people with low academic qualifications and limited social experience can only choose to accept them. After all, they don’t have strong professional skills, they don’t have enough experience and confidence to negotiate terms with their bosses, and they don’t even know how to properly defend their rights when their interests are harmed.
They don’t have to choose, they don’t go, naturally others are willing to go. The first generation of Neijuan King was born in this kind of factory, working three shifts from morning to night, and even drinking the water toilet has to look at the face of the supervisor and silently endure it. At any rate, I can save some money so that I won’t lose face in front of my relatives when I go home for the New Year. There is always hope for life.
Time is like boiling a frog in warm water, unknowingly it changes many things, such as prices, and people’s hearts.
The owner of the factory looks at the young faces that are forever unfamiliar in the workshop, and then checks the payroll that has been re-adjusted this month. It is difficult to clarify the cause and effect.
These people only know that this year’s profit is not as high as last year. To a large extent, it is because the wages have been increased for the workers and the costs have risen. Therefore, they must find a way to use up this part of their wages and desperately squeeze them.
But within a few years, I felt something was wrong again. It was obvious that the wages were rising a little bit, but the number of workers entering the factory was getting fewer and fewer, and the annual profit was getting thinner and thinner.
What’s amazing is that many factory owners have no idea about improving production lines and upgrading product quality, but they have a soft spot for routine workers and know nothing about them.
If the traditional method fails to recruit people, switch to another method.
First of all, the recruitment post is beautifully done. It is necessary to hire a high salary, with a basic salary of 3,000 to 30,000 yuan, with a commission bonus, and a good job with promotion opportunities.
Speaking of promotion, I can’t help but interject, if a boss says he’s very optimistic about you and wants you to be a corporate legal person, don’t hesitate to run away, you will lose a huge amount of debt to you, this rule applies to all professionals .
No matter how attractive the recruitment promise is, as long as people can be brought into the factory, the follow-up will be easy to handle. It is not difficult to find any reason to deduct 800 thousand. After all, the workers have already paid for the labor, and the uncle is the one who owes wages. .
Another common situation is the six-month trial period, which is also a huge pit.
If the recruitment post does not work, cooperate with an agency to send a group of temporary workers to use. Temporary workers themselves do not have a long duration. The intermediary will negotiate with the factory in advance about hourly wages and guaranteed working hours. Where do these temporary workers come from?
Most of the students who come here in the name of internship are usually concentrated in the winter and summer vacations. The college and the intermediary are together, negotiated cooperation in advance, and then face the students in the name of “graduation internship” or “distribution of employment” to send to the factory. cheap labor.
The energetic little Mengxin is naturally faster to use than the old fried dough sticks. Even if the workload is heavy, few people dare to quit midway at the risk of losing their diploma.
I was taught a lesson in the sweatshop before I really stepped into the society, and I realized the sinister heart of the people.
In the end, the intermediary will take a commission based on the head, and directly take away half a month’s salary. It may be that a student’s daily salary is 80 yuan, but the real hand is only 30 yuan.
The weird thing is that the factory would rather give the intermediary shares and commissions than use this part of the money to increase workers’ salaries.
Over the past few decades, China’s manufacturing industry has made many achievements, and it is indeed inseparable from private manufacturing forces. But to be honest, many factory owners themselves do not know how to operate, and only take advantage of the dividends of the times to do it.
The production equipment has obviously been replaced for several generations, and the thinking is still stuck in the past. In their eyes, the labor cost is the last thing to consider. It has been cheap for ten years. Many entrepreneurs and bosses I have contacted counted one.
Their increasingly blessed belly gradually settled into the status quo with the vigorous development of their assets.
Rigid thinking is okay, but now the education level of young people has been significantly improved. They who should have entered the factory with buckets generally have higher expectations for their careers, and do not want to stay in a boring assembly line and do it for a lifetime. The factory brother and sister.
The popularity of the Internet has provided them with more possibilities in life.
They are unwilling to be leeks with poor information and have begun to actively search for effective information to find a way out. The Internet industries with low vocational skills such as takeaway, online car-hailing, agent driving, and sales and customer service have brought them more possibilities.
Of course, the delivery staff trapped in the system is another sad story.
In fact, with the current level of labor in our country, there is still a demographic dividend, which is far from the wasteland. As long as the salary is in place, some people are willing to carry it. Like the Chinese who went to work in Chinatowns in Europe and America, no one is more noble than anyone else.
For workers, money is always the first source of motivation.
Don’t talk about ingenuity, or draw some empty cakes, just talk about the treatment, and the rest are empty.
In the year of graduation, I entered a self-media company through internal push and served as the chief writer of a large-scale technology. The name of the chief writer sounds tall, but in fact, the original content of this account is almost all inclusive, and I output it at high intensity every day.
However, the comparative salary is pitifully low. The probation period is 4000, and the social security is paid 3,600. Finally, the monthly salary is 5,000, and there are more than 4,000 left after the social security is paid. For the convenience of going to work, I rented an apartment not far from the company with a monthly rent of 4000.
Even if the salary is a little bit higher, I can grit my teeth. There is really no way I can do it. I quit my job shortly after I became a regular employee and concentrated on writing my own articles.
To this day, the basic salary of ordinary workers is still extremely low.
Take some factories in Guangzhou’s Baiyun District as an example. The price is generally around 2500 yuan. Even if you have a full budget, you will be able to get 5k for the whole month.
Compared with being unable to recruit people, the problem with many factories now is that they cannot retain people.
Some time ago, a friend went to the electronics factory to do research. What surprised him was that the same group of workers entered the factory, and only one-third of them were left in less than half a month. Five stayed and continued to do it.
To be honest, those who can persist in the factory/site are cruel people.
Sadly, they have been working hard for a whole year, and their wages will not necessarily increase, and their workload will increase significantly. By the end of the year, they will face wage deductions and delays, because they are afraid that workers will not return after they return to their hometown during the Spring Festival.
If it is not for the extreme lack of money, I really do not recommend young people to enter the factory.
It doesn’t make any sense to be an assembly line, and there is no improvement in vocational skills. I repeat long-term mechanical work every day, and I feel exhausted physically and mentally.
Staying in this kind of position for a few years, you will find yourself gradually out of touch with society, except for an injury and the skin you bought in games, there is nothing to take away.
It is really necessary to carry buckets into the factory to save money, the first choice is a large factory, which is relatively formal, but don’t stay in the assembly line for too long.
In addition, learn to be a skilled worker and enhance their bargaining power. Skilled workers who have the foundation of a career earn much higher than many CBD white-collar workers. My home is made of mahogany. The monthly salary of a carpenter is more than 10,000, and the monthly salary of a skilled engraver can go to 20,000.
If you master the technology, you will not starve to death anywhere.
At present, all walks of life in society are highly segmented, and competition is fierce, but there is no shortage of opportunities.
If you have scarce value or master some information channels, you only need to meet the specific needs of a part of the population. Especially when you take this scarce value and amplify the radiation through the Internet, the benefits will be higher.
If you think you don’t have this kind of scarce talent, but you can endure hardships and are very hardworking, there is no need to follow the trend and plunge into that bunch of hot industries.
All kinds of industries that pay attention to hard technology are also very popular and easy to get ahead, such as various types of work dealing with machinery, forklifts, machine tools, tower cranes and excavators; such as those with high service requirements, chefs, hairdressers, auto repair, beauty, gardening, etc. Wait……
When your field of vision is not limited, and when you get rid of the realm of superior eyes and inferior hands, you realize that there are many choices in the future, and the more you focus on hard-working careers, the less you value diplomas and brainpower. What you need is repeated practice and willingness. It’s just hard work, and the salary is not low.
Hardworking people always have a way out, as long as they choose the right direction.
The most desperate thing about the factory is that general workers do not see any hope for promotion, and will always serve as a highly substitute tool, rather than a creative person.
It’s not that young people in this class refuse to endure hardship, but just don’t want to be a screw forever.
