Seven years ago, when I was a cashier at Wal-Mart!

"Everyone says that your coat is warm, but only you know the wind you have blown."

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From July 20 1 1 year to February 201year, I worked as a cashier at Wal-Mart for half a year. My friends thought I was going to experience life, but I just didn't have the face to admit that I was desperate.

I have worked in Beijing for more than a year and have changed four jobs. Only one of them did a good job in proofreading books, but when he finally left his job, my boss deducted my salary, which made me feel that the society was dark and people were not old. The other three jobs, the first one was fired because people tried it for two months and disliked me as a rookie. The other two jobs were scolded by the leaders every day, which scared me to resign myself.

At that time, I was really desperate for the future and my whole life. I have a third-rate college diploma, no work experience and no skills. I'm not good at communication. After working for a year, my personality is getting more and more timid. I'm afraid to enter the office to communicate with people. I'm completely confused.

The only good thing is that I had a boyfriend then. Although he has nothing, his salary is less than two thousand, but fortunately he has a heart willing to support me. Don't ask me how to raise 2000 yuan. Boys and girls of our time didn't consider so much reality at all. His sentence "I support you" was enough to make me shed tears of inferiority in the dust at that time and want to be together for a lifetime.

Until now, I still feel that the "I support you" spoken by a poor boy with nothing is not worthless, perhaps naive and thoughtless, but the sincerity of loving you without reservation is not false. The love of "I have ten pieces, and I will give you ten pieces" is worth moving and even awe whenever I feel it.

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Carrying a huge box, I took the 13 hour train from Beijing to Changchun. It was past six in the morning when I arrived, and my boyfriend was waiting at the exit.

I remember renting a house and buying simple daily necessities. My boyfriend had only 300 yuan left in his pocket, and later he lent 200 yuan to a friend who borrowed money, but he didn't pay it back.

My boyfriend's salary was paid to me, and I was idle for a month. My daily task is to buy food, cook and deliver meals, and then wait for him to go home together after work at my boyfriend's unit. I was happy but uneasy, and finally decided to find a job.

But I don't want to go back to the office. Those days when I was run by my colleagues and scolded by my leaders became my nightmare. There is a Wal-Mart near the house I just rented. When I saw the recruitment information while shopping, I went to the interview on impulse, and there was almost no threshold for such an interview.

Salary 1000, five insurances and one gold. The working system is 40 hours every Saturday, eight hours every two days and six hours every four days.

My first feeling about this job is: tired.

When I visited the supermarket as a customer before, I didn't think the cashier was so busy, but standing in this position, I found that the cashier at Wal-Mart was almost never idle. My arm kept moving things in the cash register, bagging, tapping on the keyboard and checking out the bill. At that time, there was no scanner in hand. In addition to oversized items, I also manually enter the item number, and other heavyweight items such as rice flour oil have to go through the cashier to carry, not to mention 8 items.

So later I always say to my friends around me, "Please smile at the cashier and say thank you. They are using their lives to stand up for this class. "

Most of my colleagues are Changchun natives over 30 years old, with more women than men and low academic qualifications.

At first, I didn't understand. If women have no education, skills and strength, but also do this kind of cashier work with less income and hard work, what about men?

It was not until 15 went to work in a flower shop that I suddenly realized that a tallyman who got up early every day and worked for an average of 15 or 6 hours could only get a salary of 5,000 yuan in a first-tier city.

Others think that I am experiencing life, because I actually have a choice. If I accept my willfulness, arrogance and naivety, I can still find a job with higher income, more leisure and dignity with my diploma, but they have no education and skills. If they have no business sense and are not good at words, they can only bear hardships and stand hard work.

Wal-Mart is a foreign company after all. Strictly speaking, no overtime for 40 hours a week. Even if it works overtime occasionally, it will definitely pay enough overtime. There are also five insurances and one gold. The salary is not high, but even if they change jobs, the salary will not be much higher after working for a long time. Comparatively speaking, the treatment of Wal-Mart is already excellent. They really have no choice but to choose this job.

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Here, for the first time, face the "greed" of human nature.

Everyone openly took away the gifts attached to the goods and witnessed the collusion between the cashier and the salesperson. The salesman hits the goods at a low price that is seriously lower than the actual value, and the cashier is responsible for closing his eyes and releasing them. Some people even bribed me with low-priced rice after I refused to release it.

It is also the first time to think about the contradiction between people's moral consciousness and actual behavior. If we discuss "stealing" with them, they will certainly criticize this behavior from a moral high point, but when they use their position to "take away" things that don't belong to them, maybe they don't realize that this is actually "stealing", and even people who don't do this may be labeled as "stupid, hypocritical and rigid" by them.

I have met some savage customers, and the one I remember most is a black man. Near the Chinese New Year, there is a long queue of seven or eight meters at every checkout counter, and almost every customer pushes more than one shopping cart. We have tried our best to speed up the cashier, but the queue is still very slow.

Later, when the black people got impatient, they stood at the back of the line and called names. I don't remember what they scolded. All I know is that a group of students in front couldn't stand it and scolded him. When it was the black man's turn, he kept swearing, and my temper broke out. I paid the next customer directly and ignored him completely.

Later, I was scolded and cried by the leader ... At that time, I was very wronged and felt tired and sour, still fighting at work. The result was scolded by the men in black, and even by the leaders. There is no reason to cry (this paragraph was written by me burying my face in my face, and you would never think that the warm sun when I was young was so stupid, so timid and so melodramatic).

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I remember many wonderful things, too.

Once a foreigner couldn't find what he wanted, and other cashiers couldn't understand English. I volunteered, even gesticulated and guessed, and finally figured out his meaning, helped him get what he wanted and settled the bill, thinking that the foreigner had left, and I was still immersed in the joy of helping others. As a result, he turned around and put two ice creams in his hand on my counter. After saying thank you several times in a row, I really left, and my joy was ten times and one hundred times.

I met a boy. At that time, campus network was still popular. Once I logged into the campus, I found someone adding my friend. The message said that I helped him check out at the checkout counter of Wal-Mart. He caught a glimpse of my name on the badge, and then he found me across the campus ... Later, it seemed that we had dinner together, and then the boy left Changchun and went back to his hometown with little contact.

I still have a clear picture in my mind. At 10: 30 in the evening, I came out of the employee passage of Wal-Mart. My boyfriend stood shivering with cold under the dim street lamp. The background is a long road, covered with thick golden snow and illuminated by street lamps. He took my hand and put it in his cotton-padded jacket pocket. I danced and walked home with him.

There is also a kind of happiness, called having free cakes to eat. On the night shift, when the bulk cargo is collected and cleaned, someone pushes a car full of cakes, bread, cooked food, and occasionally fruit that will expire the next day. As a dessert controller, I always choose my favorite cakes until I am full. Probably because I was young and didn't gain weight, I kept it at more than 80 kilograms. Unlike now, I will gain two kilograms if I eat a little.

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The only time I can't go home for Chinese New Year is to contribute to Wal-Mart.

I have to go to work on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. I promised my boyfriend to spend the New Year together in Changchun, and I will go back to my hometown after the New Year. But my mother called and said that I must bring my boyfriend home for them to meet, because it's too far from home, and they don't know what kind of people I'm in contact with.

In my heart, I don't want to make such a request to my boyfriend. After all, I can't just care about myself. He also has missing relatives. But when he saw me unhappy after work, he asked the reason and agreed happily without saying anything. "Never mind, I'll go home with you."

It's been more than four years since we were separated, and I have forgotten the thorns that we quarreled before, but I still remember the love given by the other party clearly. Every time I think about it, I feel warm and warm in my chest. Perhaps this is the meaning of love, not only this moment warms you, but also countless moments in the future.

My first salary in the name of "thirteen salaries" was paid by Wal-Mart. I clearly remember that I paid 2760 yuan at that time. Even though it wasn't an exciting year-end bonus at that time, I was still very happy, because I earned more than my boyfriend that month and could support my family.

I resigned shortly after the new year. At that time, it was also an impulse, because my boyfriend was going to get together with several high school classmates, others had family members to take care of, and only I had to work until midnight, so I complained to my boyfriend that I didn't want to go to work, but he urged me directly: "Then resign."

Now that I think about it, I think this boy is really ignorant. He is half responsible for my willfulness. He indulges himself more than himself. He supports all my unreliable decisions and never helps me analyze the cause and effect, regardless of the consequences. The posture is: anyway, I said that raising you means raising you. If I am poor, you will suffer from me, but you can do whatever you want, and you will never be wronged.

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In fact, I was satisfied with this job from beginning to end. Although my body is a little hard, my heart has always been very relaxed.

Because there are morning and evening classes, the time is relatively free, and there is enough time to stay at home and read books.

Earn money by working, don't compromise, please make some lively friends.

Don't take on too much responsibility. If you have any questions, call the supervisor.

As long as you are serious and responsible, ready to smile and be quick, this day will be perfect.

I won't feel inferior because I can't do my job well, and I don't have to be afraid of being scolded by my leaders. Although I didn't earn the first pot of gold in my life, I at least found a little confidence that I was scared away in the workplace. Everyone wants to make money, but they don't know how to start, how to choose and have no direction. Find the 782nd Division of Yishan Jiuqie No.2 Road to show you the experience. I met many strangers' friendliness, gratitude and smiles, and also faced many difficulties, frowns and complaints. I gradually stripped myself of my innocence in the ivory tower and got closer to the truth of life.

Although those days were poor, hard and naive, and I couldn't even see the future, it was still a very happy period in my life.

Although I was afraid to mention this job to my parents at that time, I felt very sorry that they had provided me with education for so many years. I even dared not hold my head high and tell others "working as a cashier at Wal-Mart" when others asked me what I did, not because the job itself was degrading, but because I had studied for so many years and only got a cashier.

But times have changed. I am glad that I took so many detours, fell so many times and made so many mistakes when I first entered the society. Otherwise, how can I meet myself today and find the way I want to go?

I am not perfect now, but my heart is more stable than before and my future is clear. I finally found what I like and really want to do, published a collection of personal essays, and my income increased a lot. It was not easy to stumble along the way, but what I can remember later is not hard work, but gratitude. Thanks to those setbacks, hesitation and confusion, I have achieved this sobriety, restraint and courage.

Thank you for all the opportunities in your previous life, and thank you for sticking to the old days.