"Temporary general workers" flocked to Shenzhen during the busiest employment season, and one factory stayed for three months
Author: Huang Qiong
Zhang Xiaoying said that her simplest wish in 2021 is to have a class and get a salary.
In the eight-person dormitory, four bunk beds are distributed in the four corners of the room. Zhang Xiaoying chose the lower bunk bed in the inner side.
Putting the luggage aside, Zhang Xiaoying quickly wiped the bed boards, bed frames, and cabinets with a semi-wet towel. After the moisture was dry, the mats, quilts, and pillows were quickly placed; for bathing and laundry. There were soap, brushes and clothes hangers in a plastic bucket, and they were placed under the bed board; the two change clothes I brought were folded and placed in the small closet by the bed.
In this small locker, in addition to clothes, there is also a small pot with electricity.
This is almost all Zhang Xiaoying's belongings.
With a mat, this bed will be Zhang Xiaoying's "home" for the next three months.
Before the Spring Festival of the Year of the Ox, Zhang Xiaoying found a factory to enter after the Spring Festival, worked on the factory assembly line, and became a "temporary ordinary worker."
During this peak period of employment, Zhang Xiaoying can save 5,000 to 7,000 yuan a month if he does a good job.
Every year after the Spring Festival, it is the peak season for recruiting workers in various factories, and workers from all over the country who want to enter factories are also dispatched at this time.
On the morning of February 23, a reporter from China Business News saw in the talent market at Longhua Bus Station in Longhua District, Shenzhen, that rows of HR companies’ shops were prominently placed with recruitment boards, and recruitment advertisements were densely posted on them. From time to time on the streets and squares, there are "workers" who come to apply for jobs with their luggage.
A recruiting agent on the scene told a reporter from China Business News that they are currently recruiting temporary general workers, and their wages range from 19 to 35 yuan per hour.
As China's largest immigrant city and the earliest destination for migrant workers, Shenzhen's industrial scale cannot be underestimated.
In 2019, Shenzhen’s tertiary industry accounted for 0.1:39.0:60.9, and the secondary industry still accounted for 39%, which is the highest among first-tier cities.
Jia Xingdong, director of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Industry and Information Technology, recently revealed in the media that Shenzhen is expected to achieve a growth of 2% in the added value of industries above designated size in 2020, and the total output value of industries above designated size is 3.7 trillion yuan, ranking first among large and medium-sized cities in the country for two consecutive years.
Thousands of migrant workers contribute inexhaustible impetus to the economic development of Shenzhen.
Change jobs after the most valuable three months
February 17th is the sixth day of the lunar calendar. The agent who introduced Zhang Xiaoying into the factory drove a van and came to Zhang Xiaoying's village to pick up people.
According to the intermediary, the construction period for this entry into the factory starts on February 18 and ends on May 17, a total of three months.
After three months, the factory will adjust the wages of temporary workers once, and employees can choose to stay.
According to Zhang Xiaoying’s experience, as soon as three months arrive, he will have to clean up and leave, because the factory’s busiest time has passed and the wages for temporary workers will generally drop. At this time, you will have to find other relatively high wages. factory.
He frequently enters the factory and leaves the factory, so Zhang Xiaoying is often ridiculed by some neighbors who have never gone out to work in his hometown: “I don’t have perseverance”, “go home after a few days of work”, “the money earned is not enough for the fare”... These words are made through jokes. Or secretly discussing the way, it can always be passed around in some places where people gather.
Zhang Xiaoying said that she had explained it, but no one understood it.
When interviewing Zhang Xiaoying, a reporter from China Business News asked, why not enter the factory as a formal worker?
Zhang Xiaoying said that many factories do not recruit formal workers, and intermediaries also recommend temporary workers. Generally, temporary workers are more expensive, and they can earn more than 1,000 yuan per month for the same tasks as regular workers.
After a 12-hour drive on a bus contracted by a recruitment agency, Zhang Xiaoying traveled from a small inland county to an electronic technology factory in Shajing, Bao'an District, Shenzhen, where she became an assembler of computer parts.
According to Zhang Xiaoying, her position is in Changbai class: 8 am to 12 noon, 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm, working 10 hours a day, the rate is 21 yuan/hour, a week One day off, I can earn about 5500 yuan a month.
They are covered by the factory and take care of their own meals. They provide a monthly subsidy of 400 yuan.
Mr. Chen, the person in charge of a recruitment agency, told China Business News that most factories now recruit workers, especially temporary workers, by cooperating with recruitment companies.
Last year’s epidemic disrupted the pace of production and labor at the time, so those who went out to work in the New Year of the Ox seemed to be more active than in previous years.
Mr. Chen said that this year, as usual, the recruitment started from the sixth day (February 17). At present, more than 2,000 people have been recruited into the factory in less than a week.
On February 22, almost 400 people were recruited.
During the conversation with Mr. Chen, the reporter found that Mr. Chen’s company generally does not personally recruit outsiders, but cooperates with some “foremen” who recruit outsiders, then gather and interview at the place designated by Mr. Chen, and finally enter again. plant.
Some of these "foremen" recruit people directly in Shenzhen's major recruitment markets, some go to other cities for centralized recruitment, and some will publish recruitment information online.
Through various channels, "foremen" can recruit many workers.
It is understood that Mr. Chen's dividends to these "foremen" are generally 800 to 1,200 yuan per worker.
Mr. Chen also reminded that in the recruitment market, there are still some “fake” companies that have not obtained qualifications hiring people everywhere.
The factory recruitment information and corresponding wages that workers get through these companies lack reliable protection to a certain extent.
At the same time, Zhao Lin, who also came to work in Shenzhen, has not received his salary for two months.
In order to pay high wages, Zhao Lin came to work at an electronics factory in Shenzhen at the end of last year. He did not return to his hometown during the Spring Festival. However, after more than two months, the recruitment agency who paid him salary according to the contract did not pay him as scheduled.
As a fellow villager, Zhang Xiaoying reminded Zhao Lin many times to ask for wages from the intermediary, but the intermediaries all said that the wages were still being calculated and asked him to wait.
Zhao Lin got to know the "foreman" through a friend's introduction and then entered the factory through an intermediary.
For the first two visits to the factory, Zhao Lin received his salary as scheduled, but the most recent time he did not get his salary, so Zhao Lin wanted to ask this "foreman" to help, but this "foreman" could no longer be contacted. .
Factory meals are "more expensive", and small stoves become the norm
Staying in a factory for two to three months has become Zhang Xiaoying's norm in recent years.
During the recruitment agency, they said that they can do 300 hours a month, but only after entering the factory found out that 260 hours is not bad.
On February 21, Zhang Xiaoying and the workers in the bunk opposite her had no work to do. The other roommates were working overtime. They did not leave the dormitory for a whole day. They cooked noodles in the dormitory at noon and evening.
For Zhang Xiaoying, doing something is king.
Zhang Xiaoying has been in many factories in Shenzhen.
According to Zhang Xiaoying, as far as food is concerned, the factory that produces air fryer is most satisfying. It costs four or five yuan for a meat dish and two yuan for a vegetarian dish. The rice is free and tastes good. You can choose all kinds of dishes. .
At that time, Zhang Xiaoying and another roommate had a meal with another roommate. Two people served three dishes, one meat and two vegetables, and the meal was split equally between the two. Each meal cost about four yuan.
After get off work in the afternoon, Zhang Xiaoying usually eats two breads in the dormitory, or drinks some porridge before going to the evening shift.
Until the end of the night shift, she and her roommate began to cook a pot of noodles, add some oil, salt and light soy sauce, and sometimes buy some cabbage or eggs in the surrounding supermarkets, and mix them with the chili sauce brought at home. It's dinner.
Such a meal, spread flat, is only two or three yuan.
Zhang Xiaoying told CBN reporters that the factory also has supper at night, but a bowl of noodles costs four yuan and there is no meat. It is better to cook it yourself.
Since the factory does not allow employees to use high-power electrical appliances in the dormitory, she and her roommate hurriedly washed the electric cooker and put it in a small locker after cooking the noodles.
The Shenzhen factory that I entered this time stipulated that employees have to rely on a meal ticket to eat, a meal ticket costs 9 yuan, one meat and two vegetables.
In Zhang Xiaoying's view, the factory's regulations are simply "deadly expensive."
At the same time, Zhang Xiaoying also discovered that there were eight electric cookers in the dormitory for eight people. It turned out that everyone had brought one.
Liangpi, instant noodles, dried noodles, etc. will become their best companions for three months.
Zhang Xiaoying said with a smile, once in a factory ate Liangpi for 90 days.
On February 21, a reporter from China Business News visited a factory near Shajing, Baoan District, Shenzhen.
Next to a factory, there are many fast food restaurants.
At dinner time, there were people standing in front of the windows where each meal was served. "One meat and two vegetarians were 8 yuan", "Two meats and one vegetarian were 9 yuan", "10 yuan and a pepper fried pork rice topped"... Some prices are even lower Factory canteen.
Zhang Xiaoying sighed, the Shenzhen factory is just too expensive to eat, and the surrounding prices are higher.
She said that when she entered a factory in Shaoguan last year, a bowl of fried rice noodles with eggs was only 4 yuan, a cage of 9 Xiaolongbao was only 3 yuan, and there was free porridge.
Although they usually eat frugally in the factory, Zhang Xiaoying and his roommates will pick one day when everyone is resting and go to the small restaurant nearby to improve their food.
"At that time, everyone would drink another bottle of beer and it would be enough," Zhang Xiaoying said.
During this working time, Zhang Xiaoying met many workers. They formed a WeChat group. Every day, workers chat in the group, talking about the situation of their factory, and also forwarded some relatively reliable recruitment notices.
“It’s a kind of psychological comfort to exchange information with workers when you’re away from home. Because of frequent factory jumps, we also pay attention to recruitment information in real time. Everyone wants to enter a good factory.” Zhang Xiaoying said.
Zhang Xiaoying told China Business News that in the first three months of this year, he will strive to save 15,000 yuan, and there will be more than six months away in the second half of the year. If the wages and working hours are guaranteed, it will not be a big problem to save 50,000 yuan this year if it goes well. .
(At the request of the interviewee, Zhang Xiaoying, Zhao Lin and Mr. Chen are all pseudonyms)