Liu Haha, 28, is an employee of a human resources company in Shenzhen, where she works for dozens of factories, large and small.
Since April 21, she has been on the short ** platform to update the daily life with the workers, recording the absurd or shaky moments in the lives of the factory brothers and sisters.
She found that in Shenzhen, a first-tier city known for its opportunities and entrepreneurship, in addition to dreams and wealth, blood and passion, there is also the confusion and powerlessness of workers floating on the assembly line.
In the process of contact with the factory brothers and sisters, sometimes she will feel angry and angry, and sometimes she will sympathize and feel distressed from her heart.
Fewer of them choose a regular job, and more choose to become a person who is ready to "run away with a bucket" at any time.
They compress their lives to the extreme, and all their net worth and daily necessities can be easily filled in one bucket.
along with their lives.
"Great gods of all walks of life"."Are you burglars in your dormitory?”
Pushing open the door and seeing melon seed skins, snack bags, used paper towels and a few cans of beer surrounded by garbage, Liu Haha couldn't help but ask: "Why are you absent from work?"”
My sister is out of love, and we want to accompany my sister. "What's the matter with you?".Do you pay your salary?The four girls in the dormitory, you and I replied nonchalantly, "Sisters are bigger than the sky." ”
This is a complaint about worker absenteeism. As an employee of a human resources company, the employee's unexcused absenteeism is the most headache for Liu Haha, and he has received countless complaints.
Whenever she angrily walked into the staff dormitory and asked the reason for absenteeism, the reason often made her feel incredible:
I'm too tired from work;Stretched and hung (abused by the person in charge of an assembly line);Roommates don't like to be clean, which affects rest;Falling out of love is in a bad mood;I can't borrow money and don't want to go to work......
In their eyes, going to work is the least important thing, and the priority is after mood, state, and friendship.
What's more, because he did not have a 48-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate, he had a conflict with the security guard, and impulsively, urinated on the security guard. Because of this incident, after the factory brother was fined by the factory, his emotions came up, and he simply continued to absent from work. 
Sisters fell out of love, and roommates were absent from work.
Migrant workers have poured into Shenzhen from all over the world, and some of them have been working for several years and are familiar with the rules of social survivalThere are also some "novices" who have just entered the society, and when faced with the choices thrown by life, they still retain a trace of naivety and fantasy.
Before coming to Shenzhen to work in the factory, Shi originally planned to go to Myanmar to make money.
An old friend who "mixes well" in Myanmar sent him an invitation, "It's easy to make money here, do you want to come and follow me?" Out of trust in acquaintances and a desire to make a quick buck, the stone did not refuse.
An old friend paid 30,000 yuan in advance to help the stone be smuggled into Myanmar. After arriving in Myanmar, he enthusiastically took Stone to visit the company, and Stone found that in a small space, everyone only needs to hold their mobile phones and keep busy.
The old friend did not hide it, and frankly admitted that he was engaged in telecom fraud in Myanmar. If the stone is willing to do it, stay together and make easy money;If you don't want to, you can leave after paying 30,000 yuan.
The stone did not hesitate and turned away. When he returned to China, he went to the relevant departments to surrender through formal channels and was fined another 4,000 yuan. After several twists and turns, he finally had no choice but to come to Shenzhen to work. Recalling these experiences to Liu Haha, Shi Shi didn't seem to care, "Those people in Myanmar specialize in deceiving foreigners. He was glad that he was lucky, at least his friends did not seize his ID card and restrict his personal freedom.
Workers are caught sleeping during working hours, some are hungry for money, and some are hungry for love.
A young factory brother asked Liu Haha to borrow 400 yuan on the grounds that he wanted to buy a bag for his new girlfriend.
Liu Haha felt strange, why he had to borrow money again just after his salary. The boy told her that he and his girlfriend met from the Internet, and the girl sent him a few **s, and the two established a relationship.
Half a month ago, his girlfriend said that his family was sick and asked him to borrow money, and he transferred all of his monthly salary to her.
The boy is very sure of the love between the two, but Liu Haha thinks that the boy has been deceived.
She made a bet with the boy and asked him to tell his girlfriend that he would pay his salary to buy the bag next month, and now that he has no money, can he borrow 200 yuan to eat first, so as to test the other party's reaction.
Unexpectedly, the online dating partner received this message and immediately blocked the boy.
Liu Haha took him to the police to file a case, and the boy on the way asked her if the money could be recoveredIf he can't chase it back, then don't call the police, he feels so troublesome.
There are many factory brothers who have been deceived in online dating, and Liu Haha is no longer strange.
In the factory, young boys like to watch live broadcasts to pass the time when they are resting. From time to time, they will give some gifts to the female anchors, and some small anchors will soon notice them, chat with WeChat privately, and ask them for warmth.
Brother, brother, these boys can easily fall, especially the kind of young people who have just come out of society. Liu Haha said.
The co-worker helps the brother chase the girl he likes.
Young hormones are floating in the air, and one of the most popular questions asked by many workers when they enter the factory is, "Are there many sisters", they look forward to finding a factory girl to fall in love after entering the factory, and life is at least a little hopeful.
Instead of being hit every day after work, you can only lie in bed to make up for sleep, or swear words, and look for a sense of existence and accomplishment in the game after game.
Despite being in the bustling city of Shenzhen, life in the factory is boring.
Staying in the dorm, what awaits them is games and live streams. Walking out of the factory area, they are greeted by a night market that will appear in the town. Shaxian snacks, Mixue Ice City, barbecue stalls, spicy hot ......Seasonal clothes, shoes, and daily necessities that can be bought for 100 yuan.
Instant noodles, melon seeds, spicy strips, beer, and cigarettes have become the standard of their daily entertainment life.
Life is like being enveloped in a giant barrel, and they don't feel connected to this cosmopolitan city. 02Running away with a bucketIn 2018, Japan's NHK TV station filmed a documentary "Sanhe Talent Market - Young People with 1,500 Yen a Day in China".
In the documentary, the young people working on the assembly line in Shenzhen eat 5 yuan a bowl of "hanging wall noodles", drink 2 yuan a bottle of "hanging wall water", and smoke 5 cents a red double happiness cigarette. When you don't have the money to live in a bed of 15 yuan a night, you simply "take the sky as the cover and the earth as the seat".
The word "hanging on the wall" in their mouths means a state of being penniless and having nothing to do.
They are keen to do day-to-day work, "working for one day and playing for three days". I really have no money, and I don't want to work, so I sell my ID card in exchange for 100 yuan and live a minimum life.
These young people, who are active near the Sanhe talent market in Shenzhen, are nicknamed "Sanhe gods" by netizens. Now, with the reorganization of urban villages, the Sanhe talent market has been relocated, and the surrounding cheap hotels and Internet cafes have been closed.
But the "Three Harmony Gods" did not die. 
Screenshot of the documentary "Sanhe Talent Market", Zhang Ming is one of them. Every day, Liu Haha can see him coming to the job search store and charging his mobile phone in the store by asking for the reason for the recruitment information.
In the past three months, he has never changed his clothes, playing with his mobile phone in the recruitment hall during the day, sleeping on the side of the road at night, and going to restaurants when he is hungry to pick up other people's leftover meals.
Liu Haha was curious, why did he live like this. The other party calmly gave a reason: "I'm too tired and don't want to go to work." ”
There are not a few great gods like Zhang Ming. They can't stay in a factory for long, and in order to change places at any time, they compress their lives to the extreme, and all their clothes and daily necessities can be easily packed in a bucket.
This kind of person usually only works as a temporary worker, because he does not have to pay social security and provident fund, and the salary will be higher, and he can get paid at least 7 hours of work.
And once they feel too tired and bitter, or get their wages, they will "run away with a bucket" at any time, change factories, or even change cities.
Very few people can work in a factory for a year, and they usually work for a few days or weeks and then leave. Liu Haha said.
There are countless reasons for young people to "run away with a bucket".
Some people working in a clean room will say that they are wearing a "space suit" and feel that the environment is boring and uncomfortableThere are also some assembly lines that are too fast, they call them "airplane pulling" and "rocket lines", which are so fast that they can't be busy at all;There are also people who can't stand the unpalatable meals and elongated deliberate difficulties in the cafeteria. 
Of course, there are also many part-time workers who carry luggage, and some people simply don't want to do it. To do so, they can give up their livelihoods, their families and all social connections.
When Liu Haha saw Wu Yang, he was sleeping under a bridge hole. There was a mattress under him, a thin blanket on his body, and a pair of feet were exposed, not caring about mosquito bites.
Originally, Wu Yang worked in a factory with his girlfriend, and he disliked that the salary of 5,000 a month was too low, and felt that it was pointless to continue to work. So he left his girlfriend and ran away from the factory by himself.
When his girlfriend took Liu Haha to find him, no matter how much persuasion he took, Wu Yang always lay on the mat and was indifferent. He said that he would definitely find a job with a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan, and asked his girlfriend: "Why don't you work hard and run out during work hours?"”
If you don't work now, how will you get married in the future, did I feed the dog for four years of my youth. His girlfriend questioned him.
Hearing this, Wu Yang was completely impatient, "If you want to live with me, just bring a mat and come over, and you don't have to pay rent here." ”
This incident was remade by Liu Haha as **, and at the end, the girl decided to part ways with Wu Yang.
But in fact, this girl was very unhappy, and then she also left the factory, and she told us that where her boyfriend was, she was there. Liu Haha said helplessly. 
Screenshot of the documentary "Sanhe Talent Market" Liu Haha often feels helpless and angry at these people. I deal with different factory brothers and sisters every day, and persuade them to work hard like children. If you encounter a very hot temper, you will also be verbally abused.
She despised the crude behavior of these people, and she also had an irrepressible sense of superiority in her heart, but more often, she understood these "incurable" young people.
Some of them are lazy and depraved, and to a certain extent dependent on the protection of their families. Every month, the family will give some pocket money to the children who are working far away, which supports them to live without working hard.
The more important reason is that young people have already seen the future in their predecessors:
A few more hours of screwing, dozens of dollars more income, life will not change;There is no technical content in the work, and there is no sense of accomplishment, even if you have been in the assembly line station for ten years, you will not be promoted and raised;After reaching the age of 45, none of the factories will accept them.
The loss of hope is the foundation of the fall. Liu Haha still can't forget the lonely uncle. On the day of the meeting, it was the uncle's 45th birthday, and this lost middle-aged man, on his birthday, squatted on the side of the road and cried bitterly.
He told Liu Haha that he had asked many factories whether he could continue to work, but they were all refused. Most of the recruitment requirements say 18-45 years old. Even with all his strength, he lost his qualification to work. Life is hopeless.
Seeing no hope and a future, the younger generation of migrant workers simply give up their efforts. They don't want their youth to be confined to the assembly line, but they can't find a better way out.
The word "plan" sounds too far away to them. Over time, it is like an abandoned car, which can no longer be started. 
Screenshot 03 of the documentary "Sanhe Talent Market".Memories about FoxconnThere are many young people in the factory, and there are also some struggling figures.
"Running away with a bucket" and "playing for three days for one day" are not within Xiao Chen's consideration. When he entered the factory, Xiao Chen had just turned 16 years old, which is the minimum age limit for some factories.
A few years ago, Xiao Chen's father was in a car accident and suffered from inconvenient legs and feet, and lost his ability to work. The mother left the family early, and since then, the father and son have been dependent on each other.
Every month, Xiao Chen has to give his father at home two or three thousand yuan. Worried that his father would spend money indiscriminately, he would divide it into several times and hit the neighbor's card, 300 yuan at a time, and then the neighbor would transfer it to his father.
A few years ago, as early as the age of 14, Xiao Chen entered the society and secretly did some black jobs that did not look at age. When Liu Haha sighed that his life was not easy, Xiao Chen smiled and said, "*What about perfection again?."”
Li Ping, who was in the 80s of the assembly line, is also Xi to such a life. During his more than 10 years as a part-time worker, he traveled from factory to factory in different cities.
Ten years ago, Li Ping came to the city of Shenzhen alone. After spending 800 yuan in intermediary fees, he was able to enter Foxconn.
The days in the early days of entering the factory were dim and numb. Due to his lack of education, Li Ping could only be swept to the assembly line and was divided into the ranks of the most uncompetitive people.
As soon as the assembly line opened, thousands of parts poured in, and the average shift had to make more than 10,000 batches of products, and twenty or thirty pieces per minute, without any pause.
Li Ping recalled that that year, among the workers in the same period, dozens of people jumped off the building one after another, including husbands and wives, and young people who had just entered the factory. "Too much pressure, too little money, too much social consumption. ”
Their assembly line life stopped with a bang as they fell.
Li Ping decided to resign. This boring and non-stop job, he really can't do it anymore. Just as he was leaving, a leader retained him, and Li Ping called him a "nobleman". The "nobleman" transferred him to another department, and the new department was full of college and graduate students, working freely and lightly. 
Liu Haha interviews a migrant worker on the side of the road.
After that, Li Ping continued to work at Foxconn for several years, but his salary never increased much. He decided to try his luck while he was still young and went back to society.
But he didn't expect that he didn't have enough academic qualifications and ability to support it, and the subsequent work and stumbles were not as good as when he was at Foxconn.
Oppression and revolt happen every day.
He was bullied by old employees, encountered black intermediaries, and it was common for his salary to be deducted by the factory, and sometimes, three or four hundred were deducted from his water and electricity bills every month. He has been in some small factories, and the meal time is only half an hour, and he needs to wash the dishes by himself after eating, and then he rushes back to the workshop to check in.
In the interval between running again and again, Li Ping had a trace of remorse, if he chose to work at Foxconn at that time, he might not have any worries in this life, at least there would be five insurances and one housing fund every month.
He often thinks that with a degree, he can be less angry in society. But when he was a child, his family was too poor to support him in school.
The family is very poor when they enter the factory, and who wants to enter the factory if they are not poor. Li Ping had no choice. 
Job search site. In the recruitment hall, Liu Haha looked at the migrant workers who came and went, hurried and tired, and realized that their frustration was not temporary, and could last for two generations.
A 16-year-old girl went to work in a factory with her mother. The girl wore a long white dress tied with a ponytail and spoke softly. Liu Haha asked her why she wanted to enter the factory, and the girl whispered that she didn't want to study.
Liu Haha thought at first that the girl didn't like school because of her poor grades in Xi. Unexpectedly, the girl muttered that her Xi grades were okay, and she didn't feel hard to study, but she didn't want to go to school.
The mother, who was sitting on the side, said with an unnatural smile on her face, "Tell her to go, she doesn't want to go." ”
How many children do you have at home?”
Three. "The girl is the second in the family, and her brother and sister are still in school. She guessed that the girl might be too sensible, and in order to reduce the burden on the family, she insisted on going out to work with her mother.
Faced with this introverted mother and daughter, it is inconvenient for Liu Haha to interfere too much in their lives and decisions.
The girl is entering the factory for the first time, and she hopes that when the girl actually enters the factory, she will change her mind and return to school. 04Happiness to be able to eat instant noodlesAlmost everyone who works in a factory has the experience of being deceived.
When Liu Haha met Huang Mao, he was sitting on his suitcase and playing with his mobile phone.
At the entrance of the electronics factory, there are job seekers dragging luggage and intermediaries from all walks of life everywhere, lively and noisy. Only the yellow hair, a look of indifference.
With curiosity, Liu Haha went to inquire about the boy's situation.
Huang Mao spoke with a thick Henan accent and told his experience.
He just turned 16 this year, dropped out of junior high school before graduating, and played games at home for two years. With good game skills, you can earn more than 10,000 yuan every month. But later the platform was taken off the shelves, and he could only earn about 4 to 5 thousand.
He wanted to come out and find a job with a salary of at least 5,000 yuan. An intermediary who recruited ** added him to WeChat and enthusiastically introduced him to a high-paying job: coming to Shenzhen to enter the factory to do packaging, with a monthly guaranteed salary of 8,500 yuan, including food and accommodation.
Huang Mao and his two companions felt that the job was good, and the group of three came all the way from Henan to Shenzhen.
Tired migrant workers.
On the first day, they found out that they had been scammed by an intermediary. The intermediary changed his mouth and arranged for them to go to the electronics factory to make screws, and the salary became 20 yuan an hour, and they still needed to press two months' wages, and they could only receive the first month's salary in the third month.
Huang Mao quit, asked for his ID card back, and prepared to find a construction site "properly" first.
Later, he and his uncle went to the construction site to move bricks. "The real world, ruthlessly shattered the imagination of several boys.
Most of the young people who work in factories have similar life trajectories: they are all left-behind children born in rural areas or small county towns, and they dropped out of school to work in the city when they were teenagers.
In the absence of family and education to rely on, how can these young people choose the life they want?
No one can give an answer.
The reality is that factories are never short of labor. Every year, millions of young migrant workers flock to Shenzhen.
The sad experience of a girl's part-time job Xiao Ai and two classmates fled to a new factory.
When Liu Haha went to visit them, three post-00s girls were huddled in the dormitory, eating instant noodles together.
They are all students of a vocational school who are about to graduate, and the school originally arranged for them to have a factory in Dongguan.
The management of this factory is very strict, Xiao Ai stands expressionlessly in front of the conveyor belt of the assembly line every day, repeating an action thousands of times, one station is a day, from 8 o'clock in the morning to 8 o'clock in the evening. It was difficult for her to develop any other feelings other than boredom.
During work, she can't speak, her mobile phone must be handed in, if she needs to go to the toilet halfway, she must strictly abide by the rules of "three minutes to urinate and five minutes to poop", and the assistant (the assistant of the person in charge of an assembly line) will follow, and when the time comes, if it hasn't come out, "the assistant will start scolding the street." ”
The companion is a thin girl, in order to have a little free respite, she chooses to drive a huge injection molding machine in two shifts.
Screenshot of the documentary "Kill Matt, I Love You" Before entering the factory for Xi, the school and the factory promised them food and shelter, and after entering the factory, everything became a phantom.
9 yuan for 1 hour's salary, 10 hours of work a day, 6 days off and 1 day. After deducting food, accommodation, water and electricity, and insurance, they worked for a month, and in the end they only had 1,500 yuan.
9 yuan for 1 hour, you are willing to do it?Liu Haha asked.
There's no way, if you don't do it, the school won't give you a graduation certificate, and the student sign is at this price, and it's like this every year. ”
The students reported the situation to the school teachers. The teacher warned them "bitterly", "It's good to have money for you, you are students, why do you ask so much." ”
A graduation certificate is enough to deter these children who have not completely stepped out of school.
However, strict management and overload of labor continue to eat away at the patience of the students. At the risk of not getting their diplomas, some of the more daring students began to run away one after another. Xiao Ai and her family fled from Dongguan to Shenzhen, and they have not dared to tell their families about their experiences in the past few months.
After learning about the girls' situation, before leaving, Liu Haha told them that they could go to the factory canteen to have a look, and don't always eat instant noodles, which is not good for your health.
Xiao Ai responded: "Some people feel unfortunate to eat instant noodles, and some people feel very happy to eat instant noodles." ”