There is such a group in today's society: they live at the bottom, catch up with the tide of layoffs when they are young, buy out their seniority, make a living on their own, fail to start a business and lose all their family funds, are forced to work, and people catch up with the tide of unemployment in middle age, because they are old, no one wants them at all, they are permanently unemployed, they rely on odd jobs and picking up garbage to maintain a basic life, and they also squeeze money out of their teeth to pay social security every month, and hope day and night that they can live until they retire at the age of 60 and let themselves live a good life.
Their children have studied hard for more than ten years and finally been admitted to university, but the current college students are no longer the college students they were back then.
They are urban laid-off workers, how many families have been separated after they have been laid off, and how many families are worried about three meals a day? Although I am not a factory worker, the laid-off workers around me are heartbroken to watch. Laid-off workers are a generation that has been sacrificed, and how many people are not struggling to survive after being laid off? How many people do not live in great pain?
I have a friend who was a laid-off worker back then, he was born in 70, he was carefree when he was a child, and he didn't like to study, his parents were workers, his family conditions were good, he didn't graduate from primary school and was not admitted to a key junior high school, and he couldn't study, he went to a labor school after graduating from junior high school, and he studied for three years, and after graduation in 1988, he went directly to work in the factory.
He worked in the production line, working 8 hours a day, and sometimes worked overtime, counting overtime to earn more than 100 yuan a month, which was a high salary at that time. With this salary, he can go to the restaurant, engage in objects, watch movies, buy gifts for objects, and have no pressure at all in his life, and his life is very comfortable.
The object of his engagement was his colleague, the girl was the same age as him, the two fell in love, got married in 1994, and gave birth to a son in 1996.
From the time they went to work to the birth of their son, their wages rose every year, and by 1996, the salary of each of them was more than 800, and the life of a family of three was very happy and happy.
If time goes on like this, he will be a proper winner in life, but life will not be smooth sailing.
With more and more workers, it has reached more than 10,000 people, the efficiency of the factory is declining day by day, and it is already difficult to feed so many workers.
In 1997, the factory was about to be restructured, and the tide of state-owned enterprise reform came. I heard that the boss from Hong Kong bought the factory, and most of the workers had to buy out their seniority and be laid off, and each person would be compensated 1,000 yuan per year for seniority. Both of my friends have worked for 9 years, and each of them was compensated 9,000 yuan, and both of them were laid off.
If the 9,000 yuan was used for living expenses, he could live for at least 8 years, and the necessities of life were still very cheap at that time, but at that time, going to the sea to make a lot of money in business had been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and his friend wanted to make a lot of money in business, so that his wife and children could live a rich life, so he started the idea of doing business.
After many inspections of the market, he decided to buy and sell men's suits from Guangzhou. He thought that suits were expensive and profitable, so he bought 100 suits at a time and set up stalls to sell. The purchase price of each suit is 100 yuan, he sells it for 300, and the lowest price is 200 if there is a counteroffer. When he inspected the market before, men's suits generally sold more than 500 sets, he thought that selling 300 would be snatched up, but he didn't expect people to buy it, because men's money is the most difficult to make, men rarely spend money on themselves, it is not easy to make money and is reluctant to spend, their own money is spent on their wives and children, and then there is a set of clothes for 300 yuan is a bit expensive, at that time the commercial house was only 500 yuan a square, beyond the consumption level of most people, and one point, if it is a rich person to buy a suit, he must go to the brand store to buy a big brand, They won't buy a set of clothes that cost tens of thousands of dollars and 300 yuan.
As a result, only 100 suits were sold.
Four or five sets, this time I lost 9,000 yuan in laid-off compensation, and then sold it for a month, and no one bought it.
This time, the net loss of investment and business was 9,000 yuan, and there were more than 90 sets of men's suits, and they lost so much money at one time, and the young couple fought.
A few of our good friends each bought him two suits, although we are not short of suits, he charges 100 yuan per set, even if he helps him, let him lose less money, so he sold 10 more sets, took back 1000 yuan, and the rest of the suits are completely lost.
He is not a business material, but he is not dead, summed up the lessons of his failure, and believes that he should not do men's business, men's money is the worst to make, children's money is the best to earn, and he sells children's toys.
He purchased from the Baoding Baigou Small Commodities Wholesale Market, selling children's toys, all kinds of small remote control cars, electric sports cars, assembled toys, all kinds of dolls for girls to play with, as well as yo-yos and many other toys that children like, he doubled *** This time he rented a stall in the supermarket, with a monthly rent of 1,000 yuan, and the booth fee was paid half a year, 6,000 yuan. This time, he invested a total of more than 12,000 yuan, and it was not enough to put the laid-off compensation of the two families, and he used more than 3,000 deposits, and now the family has lost all his money.
It's okay to just open, and you can earn more than 200 yuan a day, but there are more and more people selling children's toys, most of whom are laid-off workers, and the homogenization is serious, which leads to fierce competition. In less than a year, his supermarket sold more than a dozen children's toys, up from three when it first opened. In order to sell more, these merchants scrambled to reduce prices, and their profit margins fell from 100% when they opened to less than 10%.
For example, in the past, a remote-controlled car sold for 100 yuan and could earn 50 yuan, but now the same car can only earn 5 yuan when sold for one!
Not only is the profit margin low, but the sales volume is also less, so many merchants divide the market, the sales cliff **, remove the booth fee, basically do not make money, and work in vain for a month! It's better to find a class.
He sold children's toys for a year, sold them at a loss, and quit.
During this period, the family's expenses were a bit large, the son's milk powder, rice noodles, diapers, strollers, children's clothing money, plus the child's medical expenses, the economic pressure was increasing, and the child had a cold and spent hundreds of yuan. His wife couldn't go out to work at home with the children, and he didn't make any money, and he lost a lot of money, so the two quarreled more, and there was a rift in their relationship.
Under the hammer of society, he wanted to find a job to work, but he couldn't find a job in the system at all, so he could only go to a small private workshop to work, but he only earned 200 yuan a month, working for more than ten hours a day, and 200 yuan couldn't even buy a stroller, and he bought a good child stroller for his son for more than 500 yuan!
is used to a salary of more than 800 yuan, and he can no longer look down on a job of 200 yuan, so he wants to find a job with less money and more good environment, but this kind of job needs connections, and ordinary people who have no connections can find it?
Later, he applied for a pharmaceutical salesman, selling cold medicine and raw materials for making cold medicine, mainly artificial bezoar and buffalo horn concentrated powder, and needed to go to other Chinese medicine factories and pharmacies to sell, a contract from the signing of the sale to the recovery of the payment is all the same salesman is responsible, the recovery of the payment has a commission of 5%, can not recover the payment deduction of 5%, the base is the subject of the contract, the basic salary of 200 yuan, travel expenses are included in the commission, and you can not earn money to pay for yourself.
Friends are not good at eloquence, he just wants to challenge himself, and he also wants to exercise himself, he dreams of signing a big order of 100,000 yuan, earning 5,000 yuan by himself, and letting his wife and children live a better life.
His first contract was signed with a traditional Chinese medicine factory in Chengde City, and he sold 10,000 yuan of goods, first She account, at that time it was all She account, and the triangular debt was serious, and after the second contract was sent, he could give the money for the first contract, which was already good!
In the second month, he signed a contract of 20,000 yuan, and the goods were sent out, which was really good, and the Chinese medicine factory settled the first money, so that he earned a commission of 500 yuan, and there was 300 yuan left after the travel expenses, and he was very happy.
In the third month, he sent out 20,000 yuan of goods, but the second money did not come, he personally went to the Chinese medicine factory, only to know that the sales of the Chinese medicine factory were held by other companies, and they did not settle in time, and they did not give money for a month, and their own salesmen also ran out to ask for accounts, so that he would wait for a few days and give him 20,000 yuan as soon as the money was recovered. My friend had no choice but to wait in Chengde, and at the same time, there were many people who came to the Chinese medicine factory to ask for accounts, and they all stayed and waited, so he didn't dare to go back.
This is half a month, he only brought 500 yuan, 20 yuan a day in a hotel, and when he started eating, he could go to a restaurant to order a fish-flavored shredded pork for 8 yuan or a roasted eggplant for 12 yuan, drink a bottle of beer, and eat a bowl of rice.
This second sum of money was raised by another 1,000 yuan, but it was too hard, and it was the same as a grandson to ask for money, and there was no dignity at all.
Another month passed, and the third payment did not come, but fortunately, he did not continue to supply.
The time is not short, there is no news of the payment, the factory asked him to ask for money again, he went to the Chinese medicine factory again, this time the director of the Chinese medicine factory directly said, the enterprise is not good, the money owed to them outside can not be recovered, they owe the money to the first merchant can not be given, the company is about to go out of business, can not give money, now there is still some medicine, no medicine can be used to offset the account, no matter how late, there will be nothing.
My friend saw that other ** merchants were also using drugs to offset the account, so he contacted the factory, and the factory allowed the drug to offset the account, but the achievement was gone, and finally the friend pulled a car of medicine back, not bad, the Chinese medicine factory sent a car to send him back.
After working for a few months, I didn't make any money selling medicines, so my friend quit.
In the past two years, more and more workers have been laid off, and more and more people from rural areas have moved to the cities.
Friends have sold vegetables, sold cold food and cold drinks, did not make money, and later spent 500 yuan to buy a manpower tricycle, pulling people and goods, ten kilometers to pull a talent five yuan, pull a car of goods twenty yuan, earn a hard money a day, a day can earn seventy or eighty yuan, but the city management to find out to detain the car, each deduction of the car fine 200 yuan, pay the fine can get the car back. He was detained twice a year by the chengguan and fined 400 yuan!
In a blink of an eye, my son went to kindergarten, my friend picked up and dropped off the child, and after sending the child, I went to pull the work, and then picked it up at the point, picked up the child to cook, and then went out to pull a few jobs after dinner. His wife also got a job as a restaurant waitress for 400 yuan a month, which was in 1999.
In 2005, people who pedal on human-powered tricycles to pull work are all over the street, and now the 10-kilometer person has dropped from five yuan to three yuan, the price of pulling a cart of goods has dropped from 20 yuan to 10 yuan, and the income of friends a day has dropped from seventy or eighty yuan to twenty or thirty yuan!
Once he took a job, 500 pounds of freight to a place 8 kilometers away, said 20 yuan, and then the owner asked a person who looked like a farmer looking for a job, the person was over 40 years old, and directly quoted 10 yuan **, and the job was snatched away by the person. Farmers work hard to farm and can't earn a few hundred yuan a year, and going to the city to do hard work is no harder than farming, and earning 10 yuan for a job is far more than earning more than farming in the countryside, so people can do it for 10 yuan and do it for 5 yuan! People in the city work harder than people in the countryside, and they are always willing to bow down, which is also the reason why people in the city can't roll up the rural people.
In 2008, I earned more than 500 yuan a month by using a tricycle, at this time private labor-intensive enterprises began to increase, wages slowly rose, friends stopped stepping on tricycles, entered a factory, worked 10 hours a day, rested 1 day a week, and earned 1,000 yuan.
Since being laid off in 97, although it is difficult for the two of them, but the social security of employees has always insisted on buying, when they were just laid off, the social security was only more than 1,300 yuan a year, and in 2008 it was more than 5,000, and it has more than quadrupled in 11 years, and the pressure on social security is increasing.
In 2010, my friend's father died of a cerebral infarction, and in 2015, his mother died of liver cancer, and there was no one to support him.
Although there is no one to compensate for him, his salary has also risen from 1,000 yuan to 3,000 yuan over the years, and his wife's salary has risen from 400 yuan to 2,000 yuan.
In 2015, his son was admitted to a bachelor's third, majoring in computer science, with a tuition fee of 15,000 yuan a year, plus living expenses, 30,000 yuan a year, which made the pressure even greater for the couple.
In order to provide for his son's college, he worked part-time as a night security guard in the factory, earning an extra 1,000 yuan a month.
When the son is older and reaches the age of the partner, the couple discussed that they wanted to save money for their son to buy a house and marry a wife, but in the face of high housing prices, they couldn't afford to buy a house at all, so they could only imagine that one day the house price would plummet, and they would buy a house and get on the car.
In 2019, my son graduated from college, and there was no suitable job to look for, so he was ready to take the civil service exam, signed up for a public examination class, spent 30,000 yuan, but he was not admitted, and the second year he took the exam, but he still didn't get in, so he found a decoration company to do the design, but the salary was only 3,200 yuan, and there were no five insurances and one housing fund.
Since the epidemic, the economy has been sluggish, and first the restaurant where his wife worked closed down, but fortunately, his wife retired after a short time, with a pension of more than 2,000 yuan and 32 years of service.
In May 2023, the small private factory where he worked also closed down, and he lost both jobs and no income.
After he lost his job, he found a lot of factories, but the factory thought that he was old and had no skills, so he didn't want him, and he went to the labor dispatch company to find a job as a security guard, and the security guards didn't want to be over 50 years old, and finally found a job sweeping the streets, with a salary of 1,800 yuan, which was obviously not enough to live.
In 2023, the social security of employees will rise to 10,006, and he still has more than 400 yuan left in his hand after paying social security. Due to the long-term overdraft of his health, he can no longer work two jobs, and can only pick up rags and sell them in his spare time, with a monthly income of 200 yuan.
In October 2023, the decoration company where his son works also collapsed, and his son is also unemployed, unable to find a job, and can only be employed flexibly, his son is now working as a substitute driver, and his income is also unstable, with an average of 3,000 yuan per month.
He persuaded his son to also pay social security for employees, but his son resolutely refused to pay, saying that the pressure is so great now, it is not certain whether he can live until retirement in the future, and he will definitely be at least 65 years old when he retires, and the uncertainty is too great.
The only thing that bothered him was that his son never had a girlfriend, and I guess their family was so poor that no girl wanted to marry into their family and suffer. I also often persuade him that my son does not have a girlfriend is also filial piety to your old couple, if he finds a girlfriend to marry, you will be burdened with at least 1 million debts, and then you will really have no way to live. Slowly, he was also relieved, feeling that his son's path let him go by himself, born in a poor family is also the wrong child, I don't know how much hardship I have to endure in the future, and I don't have much pressure if I don't get married.
The spiritual pillar that supports him to live is retirement, and there are more than 6 years to go, and he looks forward to retirement every day, always thinking that these 6 years will be too good, even if he loses his 6-year life.
He is now sick, with three highs and cervical spondylosis, renal insufficiency, I hope he will not be unemployed again, and he will survive until retirement.
The only consolation is that although the husband and wife have been stumbling along the way, their relationship has not completely broken down, and his wife has not filed for divorce so far.
My friend is the epitome of the 60 million laid-off workers of state-owned enterprises, and I believe that there are many laid-off workers who are more difficult and miserable than him.
In order to support the reform, the workers of the enterprises were laid off to fend for themselves, sacrificing their own interests for the reform of state-owned enterprises, and making tremendous contributions.
Laid-off, this word is really invented! Being laid off means that there is still the possibility of going to work, not unemployment, which means getting off the bus and getting on the bus again.
Laid-off is a product of the times, no matter what the reason, the hard work of laid-off workers and their families has made China glorious today, but today they still have many people who have not yet retired, living in poverty, hoping to give them help and care, and hope that the people of the whole country will move towards common prosperity.