That year, you came to a strange city from your hometown and formed a family with your newly married husband, so you gave up the self-employed business that you had been running in your hometown for many years.
In this brand-new environment, you still have the momentum you once had in your hometown, and the idea of working hard has been growing in your heart. After living at home for several months, you and your husband took a fancy to a store, took it from the former tenant with a transfer fee of 1 10,000 yuan, and spent more than 30,000 yuan to decorate and run a bubble tea beverage shop. However, due to poor management or wrong location, the monthly operating income is not enough to pay the rent, so we have to close down. Your first venture in this city failed and you lost tens of thousands of yuan. It was a big blow to you. You were silent for a long time.
Two years later, your husband's friend's wife works in a private enterprise, knowing that you have nothing to do at home, she pays special attention to the employment situation of the enterprise for you. About three months later, an employee just retired. When she mentioned this to you, you agreed without saying anything. You need to work to earn money to support your family. She seized the opportunity to say hello to the personnel department, and you became a warehouse keeper in the factory and went to work normally.
Is a factory that produces feed for chickens, ducks, fish and shrimp. The factory is large in scale and busy in business. What you do is deal with the finished product. The freshly baked feed was still steaming, so it was packaged, and then the driver used a forklift to pull it into the warehouse for packaging.
That mountain of sacks full of feed is more than two meters high and hundreds of square meters. Your job is mainly to order, that is, how much inventory you have when you take over, how much you buy during your work, how much you ship, and how much you have before you leave work, and record them one by one and then enter them into the computer. You need to order two hours before work and two hours before work. After that, you have to clean up the warehouse.
The working environment is bad. The noise is very loud, and the coming and going forklifts and big trucks keep roaring. The dust is heavy. When the throttle is increased, the smoke emitted by the vehicle is intertwined with the dust raised by the feed scattered on the ground, which makes the warehouse foggy. The smell is unpleasant, and the smells of various feeds are mixed together and constantly emitted in the air. Every time you come back from work, your husband smells you from a distance! For the sake of this family, although there were some complaints, you persisted. You think you can retire at the age of 50! What others can do, you can do it!
Three shifts, the regulation of your factory is to go to work on Monday! That is, after six days of work, take a day off and then change shifts. Morning shift is of course the best! From 8: 00 a.m. to 4: 00 p.m., the middle shift is also good, from 4: 00 p.m. to 12: 00 p.m. The hardest thing is the night shift, from 0: 00 midnight to 8: 00 the next morning. In order to facilitate your work, your husband spent two months' salary to buy you a motorcycle.
So, when everyone else is asleep in the dead of night, you drive your motorcycle and go straight to the factory rain or shine. Robbery often happens on this road, but you are lucky and have never met it.
Sometimes when my husband comes home from work overtime at night, you two meet unexpectedly at the gate of the community. You honked your horn to signal your husband, and your husband waved to you, and then they passed by. The next morning, when you came home from work, your husband had gone to work.
During the peak season, private enterprises will work overtime day and night. Although there is overtime pay, it is common to work for three or four weeks in a row, which makes people very tired, but no matter how hard and tired you are, you are never late.
In this way, you worked in that private enterprise for two years and two months. The reason for leaving your job is that your husband was sent to work in a city thousands of miles away for more than two years. In order to avoid the pain of separation, your husband asked you to resign. You must quit this job. When you leave, you are still attached. You are reluctant to part with this stable income and like-minded workers.
After more than two years, I found some jobs in my husband's public market because I wanted to support his so-called career. You used to be a supermarket assistant, a guest house cleaner, and all of them were temporary workers. These jobs don't have to stay up late, but they are complicated and take a long time.
Two years later, your husband returned to a city from other provinces after his official assignment, and you came back with him. At this time, it is impossible for you to go to work in the previous private enterprise. While you were hesitating, you happened to be pregnant. 32 years old, you are an elderly pregnant woman. To be on the safe side, your husband told you to have a safe child. From pregnancy to taking care of children, you have been a housewife for more than three years and put all your thoughts and energy into your family.
When the child was two years old, your husband moved to his present city for work reasons. Life in big cities is very stressful. Looking at the rising house prices, you two are anxious. You two gritted your teeth and bought the house. Half of the down payment is borrowed. Since you borrowed it, you have to pay it back. As the repayment date approaches, you see that the bank draws a large amount of house loan from your husband's salary account every month. You are under great pressure and fidgety.
Therefore, you went to the labor market behind your husband's back without full consideration. There were dozens of companies that came to recruit that day, and you also prepared dozens of resumes, all of which were thrown out. But when I called you, only two companies were interested in hiring you. Both companies are state-owned enterprises. A job of producing musical instruments and piecework. The basic salary is low and there is no need to work night shift, but the factory is far from home. Another company produces drinks without piecework, with a higher basic salary, less than 10 km from home, but it has to work at night. You chose the second one. Although the second one has to work the night shift, what you value more is the treatment. Thinking of a husband living in poverty and a moonlight family, you resolutely signed a contract with the second one.
It was the peak season. After the factory signs a contract with you, you are required to work in the unit immediately. You said yes on the spot without saying anything.
Your workshop is a filling workshop, and your first job is to operate the cartoning machine. Here's the workflow. You must prepare the cartons in advance. When a bottle full of drinks passes by, the machine will pack it automatically.
Although it is semi-automatic, it still needs manual operation. You have to put bundles of cartons on the machine, spread them out, and then turn on the button to let the machine lift them. Releasing a liter requires not only physical strength, but also certain skills. Sometimes it's not in place or the machine is broken, so we have to deal with it. As a novice, it is too difficult for you to deal with this fault. It took your master three years to find the doorway. And the machine is imported from abroad, all in English letters. You must follow your teacher carefully.
The factory pays attention to efficiency. As long as the machine is started, it will continue to produce, day and night, weekends and holidays. Follow the machine around as soon as you get to work. You are tied to the machine and have no time to think about anything else. When eating, several colleagues in a line take turns to eat, and they have to finish it in ten minutes. The workshop is a distance from the dining hall, and it takes more than ten minutes to go back and forth, leaving less than ten minutes to cook for you. Every day, you are like a wound motor, running constantly. There is a lot of noise in the workshop. You should plug your ears with earplugs.
It's also a three-shift shift. Your shift in the feed factory is relatively easy, mainly for ordering. There are two or three hours between two orders, so you can take time to rest. The second class is very hard. Time is tight and the task is heavy, which makes people want to stop. The point is, you are not young, and your health is not as good as before after giving birth.
Since you took this course, you have completely changed. Every day after work, like a deflated ball, I hang my head and follow the crowd to the factory car. Then you will doze off in a daze and catch up on sleep in the car. When I got home, I was also listless. Your family lives on the sixth floor, on the escalator. Every time I go downstairs and look up, I feel unattainable. Then, step by step. When you walked to the door, you were already sweating and panting. You are so tired!
Especially when I got home from the night shift, it was already nine o'clock in the morning. It's almost ten o'clock to take a shower. I've just been lying for two hours, and it's lunch time again. You have to get up and have a rest after lunch, but this is often not a good rest. Generally, I can only sleep until after 5 o'clock and naturally wake up. Because at this time, the children will wake you up when they come home from kindergarten. Even if you don't get up, you can't sleep in bed. At seven o'clock in the evening, you came to the canteen groggy, picked up your rice bowl and began to eat.
After dinner, the family sat there watching TV. Because I have to work the night shift at night, I usually go back to bed. Actually, you can't sleep at all. At night 10, when others are washing and getting ready to rest, you should get up, get dressed and catch the bus.
After you worked in the beverage factory for more than a year, a major decision in the factory made your journey to work even longer. Your factory moved to the suburbs 60 kilometers away. At this point, some of your colleagues resigned, and they didn't want to toss about, and you never showed any intention to resign.
Although there are still factories and buses to the new address, the route of factories and buses has changed, and it is no longer 400 meters away from your home as before. The nearest station where the factory car stops is your home 10 km. In order to catch the factory bus, you must take the bus to the station forty minutes in advance every day, and then take the factory bus to the factory. In this way, you spend more than three hours on the road every day.
It takes 1 hour for the factory car to arrive at the factory. There are many colleagues in the car. This is an opportunity for colleagues to communicate and interact. But you said that almost no one was talking in the car, let alone talking and laughing, and most colleagues were sleeping and closing their eyes. Three shifts make everyone lose their vitality and vitality.
If you work in the mid-range, it's zero after work, which is closer to returning to the city. There are no buses at this time. Either take a taxi or live in the dormitory. You are heartbroken about money and choose to stay overnight.
The three shifts in your factory are four shifts, that is, two days in the white shift, two days in the middle shift and two days in the night shift. Once every two days, it makes people dizzy. Between two-day classes, you stay in the dormitory for two nights. The children have to be looked after by the elderly these two days, and you can't take care of them.
Not only that, the three shifts that make people feel at a loss have completely broken your life rules. In the second year of working in a beverage factory, your endocrine disorder; Your hair is getting less and less. Every time I comb my hair, I always comb it a lot. Every time I wash my hair, I always wash a lot, and my hair is quietly falling off. Your face is rapidly declining, freckled and yellow; Your temper is getting worse and worse. You often get angry for no reason, often have wars with your husband, and your children are scared by your scolding. Your body's resistance is getting worse. You used to take medicine for two or three days when you had a cold and cough, but now you have a cold and cough for more than a month.
After the second night shift, I have to rest and sleep all day, and I have to rest the next day to recover. Because, on the third day, you have to work the day shift. Besides, your rest time is not necessarily the weekend. This is the strange phenomenon that you and your family can't spend the weekend at the same time.
It's been more than three years, and the days of being with my family are numbered. Especially during the Spring Festival holiday, I can't leave this city, and my desire to go back to my hometown has become a luxury. Because you can only rest for five days at most. The so-called annual leave is also difficult to take, because there is a radish in the workshop. If you ask for leave, no one can fill your post.
What kind of life is this?
As time goes by, you feel the pain brought by this course. Especially every time I work the night shift, I have a lot on my mind. I thought of spending a long night in a noisy workshop, and I had to start working. How can we be happy? You go through fire and water, and you don't hesitate!
Every night shift, your husband always accompanies you downstairs and takes you to the bus stop. Less than 400 meters, you seem to have walked four kilometers, and your steps are difficult. Your painful expression and vacant eyes deeply infected your husband, and his mood became bad. You've been complaining all the way. Your husband sometimes can't help arguing with you on the road, which makes you feel even heavier when you rush to the factory.
Looking at the back of you quietly leaving on the bus, your husband is very distressed. He is silently blaming himself. Isn't it because you are incompetent or something that your wife is in this situation? From then on, he secretly made up his mind not to let you suffer this again! I have to let you live a normal life.
In fact, your husband didn't want you to go to the normal class at first, mainly because you two had just arrived in this city and were strangers. Plus, you just bought a house and spent a lot of money, so you didn't stop working in the beverage factory.
The overwhelming health secrets in WeChat are filled with your husband's mobile phone from time to time. Seeing similar articles, my husband quietly collects these articles every time and dares not forward them to you. Because these articles all emphasize: life should be regular, go to bed early and get up early, and you can't stay up late. It pains your husband to think that you have to stay up two nights a week on average. Especially when I read the last words of Yu Juan, a young female teacher of Fudan University, your husband was on pins and needles, and his heart ached.
After careful consideration, your husband finally made an important decision to find you a job that doesn't have to work at night. He thought about it and understood that people's health can't be bought with money. Without health, there is nothing.
Looking for a job, he has been working hard, working hard! But he didn't tell you. He's working in secret. Finally, a year later, there is good news!
One day in August, you were sweating profusely in the workshop and received a phone call from a company informing you to go for an interview the next day. You flatter me!
After that, you have a green light for interview, written examination and physical examination! The new unit has opened its arms to you and welcomes you.
You didn't even get a chance to meet your colleagues who fought side by side on the day you left the beverage factory, because when you went there that day, they were all at home in a hurry to sleep and worked the night shift the night before.
When you finished the formalities, walked out of the factory gate and prepared to set foot on the factory car, you suddenly stopped and looked back at the factory that had struggled for three years and one month. A sense of relief comes to mind, and you say to yourself, "Farewell, cold machine! Farewell, I can't stand three shifts! "
But at the same time, you have another feeling, and that is the feeling of sadness. The thought of fighting with you 1000 more than a day and night workers can no longer live in harmony, you can't help crying.
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