A graduate student's "lurking" in the factory

A graduate student's "lurking" in the factory

One afternoon, the car galloped on the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway. Zhao Xinhua looked out of the window, and the signboard of the factory was constantly thrown back. He knows that he is getting closer and closer to Shenzhen, the "factory of the world".

The prospective master of a university of technology in the north decided to find another way: to work as a worker all the way south.

The car caught fire at Shajing Station. Xinhua Zhao got off the bus, exercised her sedentary muscles and bones, took a deep breath and walked to this strange city with a light suitcase.

The streets are full of young people, wearing the same style of tooling and colorful badges on their chests. Loud music came from the mobile phone shop in the street.

"Henan people, Sichuan people" is full.

The most direct reason for leaving the factory is that he just finished reading a book called Korean Workers. In South Korea in the 1970s, a large number of students went deep into the industrial field, experienced workers' life and engaged in the lowest-level labor practice, trying to help workers solve some problems. Super-batch students are called "hidden workers"

Zhao Xinhua feels awake. Growing up in rural Sichuan, he was "lucky" to be admitted to the university, but many of his childhood playmates worked in the front line in the south. There are occasional parties on holidays, and he will say, "What about the factory? Such as "is the treatment good? "Everyone is concerned about the current situation of friends, only to find that there is always a gap in communication.

He decided to go to that "completely different world" and leave some records with his mobile phone lens and pen. So he came to Shajing Town, located in Baoan District, Shenzhen.

The local village has set up a joint-stock Taiwan-funded company, and it is the way for local people to make money to build factories and rent them to enterprises. You can see job advertisements everywhere in the street. An advertisement of "8 temporary female workers and 2 temporary male workers" entered Zhao Xinhua's mobile phone camera. This enterprise promised to "pay off all wages within 15 days", and also "indicated in brackets" in the advertisement: Sichuan and Henan nationality is full and recruitment is not allowed for the time being.

It took him three days to find a job. At first, I was restrained. Every time I walk to the factory door, I don't have the courage to walk in. On the first day, he went to seven or eight industrial zones and constantly met some young people who were also looking for jobs. Some came to Shenzhen for the first time, some quit their jobs in a hurry to find a new home, some were dissatisfied with their current jobs and looked for a way out at noon.

If you are tired, have a rest by the side of the road. "Just stop and go, keep saying goodbye to people you just met, turn the corner and meet new partners."

In the afternoon, in a toy factory, the security guard asked him, "Do you want to give you three months' salary, including food and shelter?" Zhao Xinhua asked: "The conditions are so bad, is anyone willing to come?" The security guard replied, "I hired two male workers this afternoon. I really have no money to eat and I have to do everything. "

Most of the job advertisements on the street are posted by the job introduction center, and you need to pay the introduction fee. A kind-hearted security guard also specially warned Zhao Xinhua that most of the attractive advertisements on the street were deceptive.

It was dark, and Zhao Xinhua strolled to an industrial zone in Huangpu Village. He went to the guard room and asked if the security guard was hiring. After the phone call, the security guard said, "Come to work tomorrow."

It happened that a worker next to him resigned. Zhao Xinhua inquired about the factory: the factory has about 300 people, working 12 hours a day, working in two shifts, taking two to four days off every month, with a salary of 15 days, working overtime for 6 yuan/hour, excluding food, accommodation and accommodation.

Play legend and watch Teletubbies.

On the first day of work, Zhao Xinhua was arranged to study with a worker. When chatting, he learned that this idle and listless worker was from Puyang, Henan. "He can doze off standing at work, but he will leave it alone when he grows a beard, and it will be dirty when he fills out a form."

After they met, Zhao Xinhua asked, "Why are you so sleepy?" The other party went back to Moss to play games all night.

Legend is an online game deeply loved by male workers here. They often linger in the wizarding world during their family fun, killing and escalating.

Later, the "legendary" Fan proudly broke the 50,000-meter steel wire. According to Zhao Xinhua's estimation, the value of this 50,000-meter wire is more than RMB 1000, which is equivalent to a worker's salary for more than one year. Before Zhao Xinhua left the factory, the company did not punish the worker, but according to the provisions of the Shenzhen Wage Regulations, the maximum compensation for the losses caused to the factory was 20% of the salary.

There is a Hunan man chewing betel nuts on the production line next door. He is a senior worker in the factory. He has been working for three months and submitted an application for becoming a full member. He liked to curse loudly when he was alive.

But his voice is always drowned out by the roar of the machine. The type of work on the second floor must work under strong machine noise. The workers have no earplugs. Zhao Xinhua once helped on the second floor for two days. Half an hour later, he was flustered and had a headache. He can only find some toilet paper to plug his ears.

However, with the cover of the machine sound, Zhao Xinhua can sing "We Workers Have Power" when he is bored.

Workers work 12 hours a day, with two shifts: day shift and night shift. The day shift is from 7: 30 am to 7: 30 pm, with half an hour for lunch and half an hour for dinner. There is no canteen in the factory, and a large number of workers are told to eat "battle meals" in the small restaurant at the gate of the industrial zone at noon every day. The waiter pushes the dining car around and helps himself to whatever he wants. Every meal is 4-5 yuan. After dinner, the workers will sit at the gate of the factory and smoke a cigarette. When half an hour arrives, they must go back.

There are 8 people in each dormitory, which is about the same size as the student dormitory, but not as crowded as the university dormitory-each worker's luggage can hold almost one suitcase, so the space is naturally large.

At 7 o'clock in the evening, the workers who finished their work returned to the hut. Someone washed away the strange smell left by the silicon powder and went out to date his girlfriend beautifully. Some workers' monthly salary is 1500 yuan, which is almost13. Others will play billiards in groups of three or five or "chop people" online, leaving Zhao Xinhua to write down what he saw and felt in a small notebook.

Sometimes, Zhao Xinhua will catch up with a tall and thin security guard when he works at night shift. It seems that he is in his thirties and forties. He will study code newspaper in the hotel during the day and is an old lottery player. Once upon a time, it was rumored that the winning numbers of six lottery tickets would be announced in the cartoon Teletubbies, and he followed them crazily every day.

Want to technically scrap this machine

On the fifth day of work, the security guard took a bunch of desks and asked Zhao Xinhua to sign them.

The content of the service commitment letter is probably "I volunteer, I accept, I agree, I don't pursue the company, I don't sue, and so on". And it's in the "overtime application" Japanese families are in difficulties and are willing to apply for overtime work outside of all normal and legal jobs from now until the date of resignation. This application is purely personal, and they promise that "they will never make any complaint to XX Company because of overtime hours and remuneration, and hope the superior leaders will approve it." In addition, the factory also asked him to sign an application not to buy social insurance because of my family's difficulties.

After signing the words and pressing the red handprint, Zhao Xinhua has a feeling of "selling himself". He asked to keep the labor contract, and the security guard said the company didn't stamp it. "It's no use stamping."

Zhao Xinhua later discovered that many factories in Shenzhen have these applications and terms, which is a means for factories to evade labor laws.

When he first entered the workshop, Zhao Xinhua, an engineering student, was really excited to touch the machine. But within two days, he began to ponder "how to technically disable these machines."

One stop is 12 hour, except when smoking at the factory gate at noon. "If the leader finds out, he will be prosecuted. I heard that in the three-story workshop, the number and time of workers going to the toilet every day are limited. " Back at school, Zhao Xinhua still used the local word "Diao" to refer to "swearing".

The "inspiration" of scrapped machines comes from a partner of Zhao Xinhua. The college student wrote a detail in his factory report: when the workers stir the automatic sensor with a small brush, the production line will be paralyzed, and the process of waiting for the maintenance personnel to restore the equipment is the time for the workers to catch their breath.

But the machines in this factory don't have such "excellent performance". Not only that, Zhao Xinhua even expects the equipment to work normally all the time: because if the machine is disconnected, it means opening the horizontal furnace and rewiring. The heat wave of 350 degrees Celsius will hit at the moment when the furnace cover is opened. "I feel like my beard has faded at once." If the flame splashes down, put out the fire quickly. The first time he used a fire extinguisher in the workshop, he sprayed himself with dry powder.

In his spare time, Zhao Xinhua will still ponder what links in the production line can be automated and innovated. At this time, "the body is wearing tooling, but the brain is running at high speed, as a senior technical talent in engineering."

On the Practice of Labor Law

"By deliberately creating contradictions with the factory within a certain limit, such as refusing to work overtime, demanding improved working conditions, or resigning for wages, communicate with workers on the topic of some difficulties and contradictions." This is the practical content of "experiencing factory life" that Zhao Xinhua pondered before entering the factory.

However, when he decided to resign after working for half a month, he felt discouraged. Resignation was naturally stumped by the team leader and manager, but what made him more sad was the reaction of the workers.

The news of Zhao Xinhua's resignation spread in the workshop, and the workers advised him to "forget it".

To sum up the workers' views, there is a kind of "contentment is always a pleasure"-"You work hard and the conditions in this factory are not bad. Isn't it so much for a person to look at two or three lines? " There is a theory of "depth of rivers and lakes"-a worker wants to resign and the factory won't let him take out his luggage. He can only come in and wear two clothes at a time There are also people who beg for wages and break their legs.

Zhao Xinhua moved out of the labor law and was robbed by workers. In the end, his "one-man battle" ended in "partial victory". He should get a salary of 1000 yuan, but because he was absent from work for three days, he got a salary of 836 yuan, excluding spending money in 220 yuan, handling false certificates in 40 yuan, transportation and Internet access in 50 yuan, and round-trip air tickets in 500 yuan.

On the day of receiving salary, Zhao Xinhua went to the workshop for a turn. Haven't said a few words, was the team leader out. The team leader said: "There are cameras everywhere in the workshop. The factory director saw that I was caught. "

In the last few days in Shenzhen, Zhao Xinhua distributed legal publicity pages to workers in the street and came across Hunan workers chewing betel nuts. The latter calmly took the publicity page of application law handed over by Zhao Xinhua and murmured, "I already had it."

Soon, in the street full of workers, Zhao Xinhua couldn't tell which figure was him. ;