sbdcsierra Chapter 1579 Daily life
Chapter 1579 Daily life
Chapter 1579 Daily life
Lin Guangyuan arrived early the day after making the call, before the finance department had even started work.
Fortunately, the factory operates on a 24-hour shift system, so there are people working all day. He went straight to the dormitory building.
He not only arrived in person, but also brought with him the list of the next batch of veterans to be sent over.
Ye Yaodong was still sleeping in the house when he heard the knocking and the voice calling for his uncle. He knew it was Lin Guangyuan and immediately woke up and went to open the door.
"Why are you up so early?" he said, rubbing his sleepy eyes.
"I came over right after my morning exercise. It's almost 8 o'clock. Why are you still sleeping?"
"Is it 8 o'clock already? 8 o'clock is still early. The factory doesn't change shifts until 8 o'clock."
I didn't get back to sleep until 1 a.m. last night. 8 p.m. is very early, okay? I didn't even get 8 hours of sleep.
Lin Guangyuan handed him a list, which, like last time, included personal resumes, family backgrounds, whether the military service was conducted normally, and the reasons for discharge, all written in detail.
Ye Yaodong took the document and glanced at it, and he immediately understood that they were all people who desperately needed this job.
"They're quite efficient; they got everything done in just over 10 days."
"Of course we need to be efficient. This work is so difficult, everyone is struggling, and there aren't enough to go around. When the political commissar gave me the list yesterday, he even said tactfully that it would be better if more could be provided."
"That depends on the factory's profitability catching up, more business, and smooth expansion. With a large business volume, the need for manpower will naturally increase. Soon, we'll apply for another batch at the end of the year, which will probably require at least a hundred people."
“Awesome. When I get back, I’ll tell the political commissar that, and I’ll also subtly ask him to say a few words to the local government, to make sure they pay close attention to your processing plant. It’ll be good for everyone.”
"You don't need to tell me, you definitely know what I'm talking about. In order to let me accept more people, they will definitely take care of me."
"okay……"
"Come in and sit down for a while. It's not time for work yet, and everyone is still in bed."
"They're all so lazy. We got up at 5 a.m."
Ye Yaodong chuckled, "Then it seems I still have to learn from the military, where they wake people up at 5 a.m. to go to work?"
"Hehe, oh? Why are you sleeping alone? Didn't you say your three younger cousins were coming up?"
“The younger one went to sleep with her cousin, and the other two moved to the same room as Ajiang and your two younger brothers a couple of days ago, saying they wanted to share a room with them.”
"All six of them are together? They're going to argue for ages."
"There's no way to argue. Chenghu and Yangyang have started working at the factory now, so they should be up by now. The other four have to go to the dock to load goods around sunset and won't be back until the early hours of the morning, so they've perfectly avoided it."
"That's alright, I'll go take a look."
Ye Yaodong waved his hand, telling him to do as he pleased.
The list has been sent over. I'll have Lin Guangyuan go back and confirm it later, and have someone come over within a week.
Anyway, the dormitories are all ready-made, and there are vacant rooms.
He now lives here most of the time, which makes it convenient for him to manage the factory. His mother, sister, and children are all here, and he only goes to the main base occasionally.
The workers still lived there as usual. Without him, it might actually be better. The building was simply used as a dormitory, and it was closer to the dock.
The two Lin brothers were delighted to see Lin Guangyuan arrive so early in the morning, and they sat down and started chatting.
After finishing breakfast, Ye Yaodong went to the finance office to check on Lin Dongxue and asked her what was going on. He learned that she didn't know Lin Guangyuan was coming and that they were still in the dormitory.
He also granted Lin Dongxue a half-day leave, telling her to temporarily hand over the important work to another girl and deal with it in the afternoon instead of rushing to do so, and to go find the brothers first.
Lin Dongxue happily finished explaining and then hurriedly ran away.
Ye Yaodong also handed the information that Lin Guangyuan had just given him to Supervisor Yan. The people on the list would be coming to report one after another, and he was to handle the arrangements.
He now delegates these small matters to others; he doesn't want to get involved. If he can hand them over, he will, to save himself some trouble. He has too many things to do, and he needs to lighten his burden a bit.
Next, he still needs to keep an eye on the goods back home. He's only made two trips so far, and the route isn't stable yet, so he needs to keep a close eye on it. He also needs to personally contact potential clients.
In today's underdeveloped communication and transportation systems, relying solely on a landline, he can only make calls himself. Otherwise, if someone else were contacting him, no one would know who the other party is, and they wouldn't be willing to cooperate.
Now he has to personally make phone calls to maintain relationships and secure orders. When necessary, he also has to go back to deliver goods once or twice, and then treat people to meals to maintain relationships.
The government is now supporting individual businesses, and it's just getting started, so business is exceptionally easy. He doesn't have much to offer than others, and he doesn't know much either. Besides his silver tongue, he's just benefiting from the policy and catching the right wave.
Then, with the things buried in his family's land as a safety net, and knowing about the development of the previous generation, he was bolder than the average person in everything he did, and naturally, he was more likely to succeed.
However, relationships definitely require frequent contact and give-and-take to maintain in the long term.
Once everything is on track, he can hand over the trivial and big-and-small matters of the factory and fishing boats, but he still needs to maintain the relationships himself, as these are long-term relationships.
He has already handed in all the documents he was supposed to, but his daily schedule is still usually packed.
Every morning, I reconcile accounts with the finance department to find out the total revenue from the previous day's sales.
Then it's time to check the orders that need to be delivered today, handle some trivial matters at the factory, make decisions as needed, and sign off on things that require signatures.
In the afternoon, I went out and went from house to house to collect payments.
Sometimes, if I don't go out every day, I'll go to the dock to pick up the fresh seafood boats and arrange the goods to be delivered that evening.
He rarely delivered goods himself anymore, as he had developed a slightly more mature process over the years.
The delivery driver was either his nephew or A-Qing's nephew, and the delivery slips were all documented, with the quantity and price of the goods clearly recorded.
Deliver goods, collect payment, sign and submit to finance, and verify receipt of payment.
The process is very clear. Whether he is there or not makes little difference to the delivery. Everyone can do the job just as well without him, and there is no difference in what they are doing.
Actually, the delivery person was someone he trusted, and his father would occasionally go over to oversee things, so that the young people wouldn't be looked down upon.
With a fixed schedule for delivery, he was able to free up his time to do other things, such as collecting payments, or spending his evenings maintaining relationships with customers, treating them to meals, karaoke, and massages.
The young men could only watch him live a carefree life, unable to follow him even if they wanted to, because they had to arrange deliveries every day due to the high volume of business.
With his frequent and dedicated customer support, the sales volume of fish products increased dramatically, and not only fish products, but the factory's sales also skyrocketed.
They were already working 24-hour shifts, and now they were struggling to keep up with the demand and couldn't deliver the goods. He had to be careful with the orders he accepted and try to postpone the dates as much as possible.
In this situation, he naturally kept calling the machinery factory, asking them to arrange things for him as quickly as possible.
But he also knew that he could only urge them, and it was very difficult to get them to comply.
Half of the money he earned in the past six months was spent on a trip to Shanghai recently. It was used to order machinery, pay the final payment for fishing boats, and reserve two new thousand-ton fishing boats for fresh catch.
I estimate that most of the money I earn this year will be spent on this, as well as on expanding the processing plant.
This counts as an investment; it won't disappear anyway, it's all become fixed assets.
He was busy in an orderly manner, and Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang were also used to going to work, but Ye Xiaoxi was the one who was having the most fun.
All I had to do every day was eat, sleep, play when I woke up, and eat again when I got tired of playing. I was carefree every day and could even be taken out to play occasionally.
But after a while, she couldn't stand it anymore. Staying for a short time was still novel, but after a while, she wanted to go home.
She couldn't run away from here, nor could she drive around the workshop. The weather was hot, there weren't many things to do, and she didn't have a bunch of friends. She couldn't do this or that. After only a month, she didn't want to stay anymore.
Furthermore, she herself didn't want to stay, and she even encouraged Pei Yu to go home with her, and dragged Pei Yu to find Ye Yaodong, saying that she wanted to go home.
"When you came, you even packed a sweater and cotton shoes, but you haven't even put them on yet, and you're already going back?"
Ye Xiaoxi pouted, "No way, Mom already brought out the sweater and cotton shoes, but she wouldn't let me bring them."
Why do you suddenly want to go home?
"There's nothing to play here, and not many friends. It's so boring. I can only play with my sister and cousin. I don't want to play with my cousin at all. He's so silly."
"A typhoon is coming soon, so we can't go back now. You'll have to wait a little longer."
Ye Xiaoxi's eyes lit up. "Ah, is there a typhoon? That's great! Typhoons are so much fun and so refreshing."
Pei Yu was also happy, "When a typhoon hits, we can be blown away by the wind. Typhoon days are so cool, unlike now."
"Then Dad, let's wait until the typhoon is over before we go back."
Ye Yaodong nodded. It would be fine to send her back sooner. Since she didn't want to stay, he would send her back to A Qing to keep an eye on. Anyway, she could run around at home without anyone watching her, so it was safe.
The two boys were left to their own devices, whether they wanted to go back together or stay until closer to the start of the school term.
I've already made four trips back home, and now it's quite convenient to go home. About once a week, our own boat delivers goods back to me.
This is much more convenient than taking a cargo ship before. If the workers have any urgent matters, they can get back faster, and it's free; they'll be delivered directly to the town right at their doorstep.
After the two little girls left happily, he went to the factory to ask the Ye brothers, Ye Chenghu and Ye Chengyang, about it.
The next ferry back was originally scheduled for three days later, around August 10th, but it was recently hit by the tail end of a small typhoon, and the waves are a bit big, so it may be postponed by a day or two.
The two brothers immediately shook their heads upon hearing this.
"I do not want……"
"I don't want it either..."
Ye Chenghu said excitedly, "It's still early. There are still 20 days until school starts. What's the rush? I still have to work here."
"Yes, we can go home a few days before school starts."
"My sister wants to go back, are you sure you don't want to go back?"
"Let her go back to her. We don't want to go back. We can still earn another half month's salary."
Ye Chengyang nodded in agreement.
They received a large sum of wages on the last day of last month along with the factory workers. They were so excited that they had already made up their minds to work until the very last day, or at least work as long as possible if they couldn't make it to the last day.
My monthly salary is a full 80 yuan! If I work for another half month, I'll still have 40 yuan left!
For them, this salary was incredible.
If it weren't for their father's obvious disapproval and potential beating, they would have preferred to drop out of school and start working in a factory to earn money.
"Alright then, we'll send your sister back first. You two can stay here for now, and we'll send you back when school starts soon."
The two nodded repeatedly.
"Wait a minute, have you done your homework?"
Both of them tensed up, and Ye Chengyang, feeling guilty, didn't dare to speak.
Ye Chenghu said confidently, "We do a little bit every day after get off work, and we've already done a lot. It'll be over soon."
"I hope so. Before we go back, I'll check your assignments. If they're not finished, your wages will be deducted."
"what……"
P.S.: I'm too sleepy, I'll catch up during the day tomorrow. I've been staying up all night and I'm exhausted. I also got my period today.