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In 2020, migrant workers quickly became a hot word sweeping the Internet. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, we found a group of "post-95" migrant workers,

In 2020, migrant workers quickly became a hot word sweeping the Internet. At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, we found a group of "post-95" migrant workers, trying to find some answers about the life, work and future of the younger generation of migrant workers from them.

Among them, there are 19-year-old "Chinese garden gods" who go out to work and travel in many places and work part-time on the basis of "daily knot"; Some rural girls fought bravely with the intermediary for the high return fee, and even missed visiting their sick mothers; There are also young people in Sichuan who dropped out of junior high school and traveled all over China to work, but they were disappointed with life because of endless mechanical labor; There is also an assembly line worker, whose dream was shattered after entering Foxconn for the original intention of finding a girlfriend.

While "involution" is sweeping the workplace and campus, what kind of struggles and dilemmas have these young groups, who are outside the mainstream, experienced in this process, from having great expectations for work and life to getting lost in mechanical work on the assembly line?

The following is a true story about them:

I am what others call "China Garden God". I feel inferior, but I am very happy. Xiaowu was born in Baiyin, Gansu, at the age of 2 1. /kloc-came out to work in Gansu at the age of 0/9, and did countless jobs in three years.

My first job was in Hefei, Anhui Province, working on the assembly line of a power plant. Overtime in that factory is endless. In less than two weeks, I couldn't stand "ruthless exploitation" and left my job with a salary of more than 2,000 yuan.

The second job is still in Hefei. At that time, a small company recruited people, and when I went in, I found something was wrong. I felt that the company was engaged in pyramid schemes and ran out that day.

During my stay in Hefei, the city gave me the impression that it was earthy and very earthy, as if it were an old man without the vitality of young people. So I decided to leave Hefei and come to Guangdong.

In order to make money, I take jobs whenever I have them, and most of them are assembly-line jobs. 360 lines, I have been involved in almost a dozen, and I have worked in garment factories, watch factories and furniture factories in Dongguan, Shenzhen and Zhongshan.

When I was working in Zhongshan, I made a good friend, Brother Biao. Brother Biao is a Miao, his hometown is in Guizhou, and he came out from his hometown to make money. He and I are in a similar situation.

One day, he told me that I would take you to a good place. I asked where to go, and he said he would know when he went. In this way, I came to Kunshan with my curiosity and brother Biao.

When I first came to Kunshan, I felt the same as Dongguan and Shenzhen, and there was no so-called "fun" by Biao Ge. Brother Biao said that you have never been to China Garden.

In this way, I went to Kunshan Chinese Garden with Brother Biao last year. It was really interesting to find Kunshan when we arrived. Before standardization, this place was a happy paradise for me.

When I first arrived in Kunshan, my friends and I added up to almost 4,000 yuan. We decided to play for a few days before looking for a job.

During that time, we played games in Internet cafes day and night, ate and drank Lazar in Internet cafes, and didn't see much sunshine outside for about seven or eight days. Internet cafes are crowded with young people like us.

We are not worried about what the future will be like. The word ideal is just a simple word for us. We live in the present, play in the present and enjoy the present. This life is carefree.

Here, if you are hungry, you will eat instant noodles. If you are sleepy, you will fall down on the public chair by the roadside. If you want to play, go to the internet cafe for a few days. If you have no money, go to the factory and tie it for a few days.

Playing like this for a week will result in more fatigue than working. I want to go to the hotel and get a room to sleep. Brother Biao said that the hotel was too expensive, so we went to a nearby neighborhood and rented a daily rental house. A big sign at the door reads: "Daily rent, one day in 25 yuan", which is simply outrageous.

I didn't know it was cheap until I went in. This house has three bedrooms and a living room, divided into six spaces, each with bunk beds.

My friends and I slept here for four days, watching the landlord keep bringing new people in and out. I don't know how many people changed beds in my bed.

When we have had enough fun and sleep, we will make a daily knot. There are a lot of slipknot jobs in China Garden every day. We choose the factory with the most money to do this, and we can earn about 300 to 400 pounds a day.

Once we went to a pharmaceutical factory to do human trials of drugs, and one day in 500 yuan.

Before injecting drugs, we signed a similar responsibility letter with the factory. I don't know if this so-called experiment is formal-as long as we have money, nothing else matters anyway. Fortunately, it didn't have any problems in the end.

Although life is not so moist, at least it is still free. This is what Brother Biao said-the fun of this place.

Sometimes, looking at those people who work at the factory gate in the morning and evening, I think they are too tired to live, and I don't envy them at all.

Until one time, brother Biao and I went to the skating rink to play, where I met a girl named Xiaowen, and I decided to chase her.

I was so bad that I wanted to get Xiaowen first. After all, I haven't had that kind of thing with girls, and I really want to try. I'm going to talk to Xiaowen about all the processes between boyfriend and girlfriend, and then break up, so that we can get together and leave.

After chatting for more than a month, Xiaowen finally agreed to be my girlfriend. I changed my mind the moment Xiaowen brought me bread and cookies made by herself as a girlfriend.

I think in this world, besides my parents, there is even a stranger who loves me, and it was at that moment that my inferiority was triggered.

I am what others call the "God of China Gardens". I am at the bottom of society-I have no house, no car and no stable job, and I smell hopeless.

It was also at that moment that I decided to stop paralyzing myself and hanging on the wall, and find a stable job and do it well.

At that moment, I also understood those people wearing helmets and riding battery cars who were busy commuting at the factory gate.

I can't go to see my 22-year-old mother Xiaoyan, who is in Luoyang, Henan. My family lives in the countryside on the outskirts of the county. Few people in our village can go to college, so they go out to work after finishing high school at most. Like everyone else, when I was 19 years old, I went to work in Wujiang, Suzhou, and took on the heavy responsibility of supporting my family.

In three years, I went back to my hometown once-I worked overtime on holidays and got three times my salary.

I'm usually frugal. I rented an old farmhouse, but it was cheaper. I am reluctant to buy skin care products. I only have a can of cream less than 10 yuan. I'll wipe it after I wash my face.

I will call my mother all the money I earn from my work. She is in poor health and always needs money to see a doctor and buy medicine. It is not uncommon for me to live frugally like this. At least some of my good friends are as poor as me.

I have a fellow villager in Xinxiang, Henan. I call her Sister Tingting. She is over 30 years old and still unmarried.

She has always wanted to buy a house and take root in this city. She has been saving money while working for several years, and seldom sees her buy new clothes and shoes. However, Tingting's sister can never keep up with the rising rate of house prices, so her dream has not yet come true.

In order to earn more money, I will resign from my present factory during the factory recruitment season, and then go to an intermediary to find a job with high return fee.

The so-called high rebate is to sign a labor dispatch contract with the employment agency and send it to the factory in the name of dispatch. After finishing the work, the factory will give the intermediary a sum of money, and the intermediary will call us after deducting the service fee.

In this way, the factory can recruit a large number of employees quickly in the recruitment season, and for me, it can make more money.

In this way, I once worked in a food and beverage factory for three months and got more than 7000 yuan. Plus three months' salary, my income is twice that of working in a factory.

However, there are many black intermediaries in Suzhou. After working for full hours, you either can't get the rebate, or he will deduct the rebate for various reasons and finally get the money, which is far from what we talked about before joining the company.

Most employees have not signed legal employment contracts with employment agencies, but both parties have made verbal commitments. In this labor relationship, workers are at a disadvantage. Therefore, once such a thing happens, you can only admit that you are unlucky.

Last year, my little sister introduced me to an employment agency, which was recruiting a large number of employees for a paint factory. The agent said that after two months, you can get a refund 1 10,000.

This figure is the highest in all the refund work I have ever done. I quit my job without hesitation and went to this paint factory.

Because I was at the peak of the order, I basically didn't have much rest for two months. The whole person was like a walking corpse-I woke up and went on working. I can't sleep when I am tired, and I can't rest until the leader speaks.

This factory produces all kinds of waterborne industrial paints, waterborne colored tile paints and PS plastic paints. I have never heard of them, but it doesn't affect my work here.

I am only responsible for a small link in my production line, and other operations have nothing to do with me. Working in a factory, everyone is like a screw, just nail it in your responsible position.

This leads to a high turnover rate of factory staff, and it is difficult to retain people, which leads to "high rebate" just to retain people.

On the 47th day after working in the paint factory, my mother's illness got worse, but I still have 13 days to get the refund, and I can't bear to give up the money.

In those two weeks, it seemed like a year. When I work on the production line, I always worry about getting a phone call from my hometown telling me that my mother is gone.

Because we can't take our cell phones with us at work. As soon as I had a rest, I rushed to the lounge to check my mobile phone messages.

When I come home from work every day, I take off my work clothes covered with paint, which smells pungent. Before I had time to wash my face and take a bath, I couldn't wait to call home and ask about my mother's illness.

Dad always thinks that my work is not stable enough and honorable enough. Every time I call home, he always advises me to go home. My mother's illness gave him another reason to let me go back to my hometown.

However, my attitude is clear. I need a job and money. I don't covet the speed and fashion of the city, but for me, it is the best place to earn money to support my family.

Two weeks later, the agent told me that the paint factory didn't settle the service fee with them-they wanted to drag my money.

I had to call the police and tell them that I urgently needed the money to go home and treat my mother. When the police left, the agent knew that I had bought a ticket to go home the next day and began to delay with me.

That night, I once again felt that life was too difficult, especially for uneducated and fragile girls like us. It seems that everyone has the right to bully us.

The agent saw me crying hysterically and didn't want to get into trouble. He deducted 2000 yuan from me and remitted 8000 yuan to me. I can't pester the intermediary with this 2000 yuan. I must take the money home to see my mother as soon as possible.

After returning home, I settled the medical expenses with the hospital, and my mother's condition improved. She will be discharged from hospital in a few days.

Life seems to be getting kinder.

Working halfway across China, my vision for the future was gradually erased. Xiaolong, 22, from Sichuan, graduated from junior high school, so I stopped studying.

I have been wandering around my hometown, wasting my time. The biggest city I have been to is the county seat of my hometown, until one day, my father told me that you should learn to earn money to support yourself, otherwise, how can you fill your stomach when your parents are old and dead?

Therefore, after 20 19, with the recommendation of my father, I followed my fellow villagers to Kunshan.

In order to save money, we took a shabby green leather train, bought a hard seat ticket and changed trains halfway.

The train was so slow that I slept almost all the way. I woke up several times and opened my eyes. The train is still running, and I feel that there are several worlds between my hometown and Kunshan.

The train finally entered Kunshan. This station is short and old, and it doesn't look like the necessary facilities of a big city at all, which makes me wonder if this city is as developed as the legend.

The fellow villager called a black car. The driver said Kunshan was fine. He had nothing when he came, and now he has bought two houses.

"There are factories and jobs everywhere, and there is no money at all. It depends on whether you have the ability to make money. "

I think I must work hard, buy a house and a car here, and bring my parents to live in this city.

We live in a town in the south of Kunshan, and the rent is 1650 yuan per month. There are many factories here, and the streets are full of foreign accents, most of which are local restaurants. Every night, people who speak various dialects sit in various small restaurants to chat and eat.

There is also a relatively high-end shopping center in the town. Every weekend, cinemas, KFC and supermarkets are crowded with people. There is not much money in my bank card. I can't imagine where these people get the money to go to the movies and eat fried chicken.

When I came here, my sense of decadence in my hometown suddenly dissipated. I want to work hard to make money.

My hometown introduced me to their electronics factory.

On the first day of work, the company personnel gave our new employees a centralized training. It was a training room about the size of two middle school classes, full of young people in their twenties like me, with far more men than women.

Personnel gave us a day's training, mainly about the company's development history, work discipline, salary distribution and so on. I hope we can stay and develop for a long time.

"Bullshit, cheat ghosts", I heard a man scold behind his back.

Employees working in factories are particularly mobile, especially in large enterprises. Next month, colleagues on the same production line may be brand-new faces.

For the factory personnel department, maintaining employee stability is one of the important work contents. Many enterprises will cooperate with employment agencies or human resources companies to maintain the continuous flow of personnel.

The factories are all dust-free, and the personnel asked us to transfer 100 yuan to buy her dust-proof clothes, saying that she would be reimbursed after she left her job.

I was dubious and finally paid 100 yuan. However, five or six young people at the scene refused this request and were driven away by personnel.

Those who paid the money were divided into five departments and ten groups. I was assigned to the fourth assembly line, and the person in charge was a production line leader named Li, who sent us a job.

After working for a month, although I am familiar with the production line, the product qualification rate can not meet the requirements of line length, and I am scolded by him almost every day.

I even started to be afraid to go to work. For me, going to work there is like going to the grave. The complicated product structure is very difficult for me who just entered the factory, so the product qualification rate has not been up.

The line leader forced me to work overtime unconditionally on the grounds that I couldn't complete my performance, so I couldn't get overtime pay. But my basic salary is only 3 thousand yuan, but I have to work here from 8: 30 am to 0: 30 pm.

The qualification rate of my products has gone up, and the line leader specially arranged for me to work at night shift, and I was not allowed to work at day shift.

Because I always wear dust-proof clothes, one day, my skin developed a large red rash, which was very itchy. I asked the captain for leave and wanted to go to the hospital. The captain asked me to finish my work first.

At that time, I thought, I was sick, and the line leader wanted me to continue working. What is the difference between me and a machine?

In fact, it is because some time ago, I have been working overtime, my head is groggy and my mood is low, and my "hatred" for the length of the line has already taken root.

In a rage, I ran to the personnel department and offered to leave.

Later, I looked for a job for a few days, but none of them suited me. There is less and less money in the pocket. Because I share the house with my fellow villagers, we can rent the house as a whole. If I have no money to pay the rent, it is estimated that my fellow villagers will not tolerate me.

The longing on the green leather train and the inspiring words of the black car driver were erased at this moment.

It is not easy to find a girlfriend in Foxconn. Many middle-aged women work in factories with their sons. Xiao Xin is 22 years old. Foxconn is a general worker in Taiyuan. This is my fourth month at Foxconn.

I went out to work after I graduated from vocational school. Two years ago, I traveled all over the country. I worked as a waiter in KTV, and also delivered takeout for a while, changing several cities in the middle. I didn't have any plans and purposes, and I didn't save any money.

This year, I feel too old. I can't just fool around and want to go back to my hometown to develop. My hometown is in Lvliang, where there are no job opportunities. Young people go to Taiyuan, the provincial capital.

People who work in Taiyuan usually go to construction sites or serve as apprentices. I couldn't stand the pain and didn't get the right salary for the time being, so I joined Foxconn in Taiyuan and became a general worker. Foxconn is a factory that provides accommodation and stable wages, and the money earned is easier to save.

There are generally several ways to enter Foxconn, which can be introduced by internal employees, or you can go to the factory to recruit yourself. More people come in through labor agencies.

General engineering education is mostly junior high school and vocational high school, and junior college and undergraduate are basically cadres.

My basic salary is 2 100 yuan, the normal working hours in a day are 8 hours, and the overtime hours are 2 hours. Work six days a week and rest on Sunday.

Foxconn's overtime pay is 0.5 times the salary of 65438+, twice the salary on Sundays and three times the salary on legal holidays.

Generally speaking, working hours and overtime hours are relatively fixed, and overtime wages can also be settled normally. However, in the peak season of production, it is ok to rest for half a month.

Figure | Workshop environment

At Foxconn, everyone expects to work overtime, because there is no money to earn without working overtime.

If it is in the off-season of production and there is little overtime, many people will "take the bucket and leave" before long.

The reason why it is called "carrying a bucket and leaving people" is because the property of migrant workers is small. When they leave their jobs, they will put all kinds of daily necessities in a plastic bucket, and then they can leave with it. Also known as "bucket escape".

The off-season and peak season of production are basically determined by the order quantity received by the factory. Generally speaking, Foxconn began to enter the peak order period in May, stabilized after the Apple conference, and slowly turned into the off-season.

Accommodation is provided in the park. We live in a dormitory for eight people and have a staff canteen for meals. Accommodation is deducted from the salary every month, including meals in 400 yuan and accommodation 1 10 yuan.

But I prefer to live in the park. After all, the environment and living facilities here are much better than outside. There are restaurants, cinemas, basketball courts, badminton courts and other venues in the park.

But I seldom go to these venues, and most of my workmates and I still play games for our daily entertainment.

There is a colleague in our dormitory in 1999, and his the glory of the king has been ranked as the king of one hundred stars. He often tells us that he wants to be a professional e-sports player most, and always says that he will work for some time to participate in the professional e-sports trial.

Working at Foxconn may be similar to school life. I haven't been to college, but I heard that college is also a dormitory collective life. In our dormitory, there are people from all corners of the country, Shanxi Province has the largest number, and there are some people from neighboring provinces.

Part of the reason why I came into the factory was that I heard that it was easy to talk about people here. I thought I could talk about my girlfriend's marriage as soon as I came in, but I found that this was not the case.

The ratio of male to female in the factory is 7:3, and most young girls look down on the male workers in the factory. Among the general workers recruited now, many female employees are women in their thirties and forties, and even many women take their sons to work in factories.

Nowadays, girls have seen a lot of the world and will not be easily fooled by the working class. I tried to chase some girls, but I didn't succeed. According to my observation, all the girls in the factory are willing to find those handsome little leaders to fall in love with. All the easy things in the factory and a man looking for two girlfriends are old.

At present, Foxconn's personnel are highly mobile. Most people can only work for three or four months, save enough money and leave. There are even many people who come back to work in the peak season of orders and resign in the off-season.

Foxconn is not a job suitable for long-term work. It is ok to save some money, but you can't learn anything. Someone in my hometown has opened a snack bar, and selling spicy duck neck is quite profitable. When I save enough money, I also want to try to open my own shop.