Summer vacation experience/shoe factory

It's hot summer again, and I'm lying in an air-conditioned room, taking a nap. The cicada outside the window was singing at the top of my lungs, and I suddenly began to remember what I was doing the summer before I lost my job.

When I was a child, during the summer vacation, I thought of going to my grandmother's house to eat watermelon. Later, my family began to raise sheep. I have been raising sheep for several years. Later, my parents in junior high school went out to work, so I went to play with them during the summer vacation. When they go to work, I watch TV and sleep in a rental house.

After junior high school, I did three summer jobs, once in a shoe factory in Shishi, Quanzhou. Twice, Fuqing, Fuzhou, where my parents work, a restaurant and a hardware and electronics factory.

That was in the shoe factory in 2009, the summer vacation of my sophomore year. At that time, we hardly made up lessons in the summer vacation, so we had a holiday. At that time, my uncle opened a marinade shop in Shishi, Quanzhou, and invited my brother and my cousin to play together in the summer vacation.

Uncle has a fixed storefront and a food stall storefront. This location is next to a very lively shoe city, and the business is not bad. We are a group of children in the food stall, helping to carry plates and collect tables.

One night, his old customer came to have supper and asked his uncle, "You children are so busy." Do you want to invite someone to work in my shoe factory for a summer vacation? The work is simple and takes a long time. "

Cousins are familiar with the business in the store and want to stay in the store to help. My brother is a boy, and the food stalls often have to move wine. He can move things. If he wants to go, I will go. After my uncle asked my advice and called my parents for permission, I took a summer job.

The shoe factory is the kind of small family workshop that makes OEM shoes. The boss is from Jiangxi, the two brothers are partners, and the employees are familiar with themselves. They used to have a handyman who went back to his hometown to accompany his children during the summer vacation. Other jobs were separated, but there was still a small process that was not smooth, so the boss asked me to be a temporary worker.

Here, I witnessed how a pair of shoes was born. Because it is a foundry, the preliminary work has been done by the brand company, as long as the specified process is completed here. First, according to the layout, cut out the corresponding version from the big cloth. This is the most primitive vamp, which is generally done by very skilled workers.

Shoemakers mark the corresponding accessories, such as rivets, shoelace holes, car tongues and other decorations, according to the line marks by drawing the positions of accessories on the vamp. After the completion, it will be checked and accepted by the quality inspector. After it is qualified, it will be put into a special oven and fixed with a shoe mold.

After molding, tasting will check the finished product again. If there is no problem, go to the next process and fit the sole. After the sole is attached, the whole pair of shoes will be polished for the last time. After the re-inspection, the shoes will be fitted with shoe supports and delivered in a shoe box.

My job is very simple. Erase the silver pen line of the beginning accessories. I was given a small stool, then a box of pens, and I followed the quality control workers. There was no problem when they checked, so I wiped the marked silver wire clean.

Although it seems simple, repetitive work is actually a special test. One is that a pair of shoes sometimes have a lot of marks, maybe seven or eight, and sometimes they miss a place when they are rubbed. If the quality inspection finds a large number of unqualified products, I will rework them all myself. I was asked once a few days ago. Just once, for several hours, and then I dare not be careless again.

The other is that the eraser pen will run out of water soon, but they bought it according to the amount of handyman before. I've only been there for half a month, and I've already used up the amount of others for a month. As a result, the boss's wife is full of distrust of my work. She sat next to me several times and stared at me to make sure I really didn't need water, so she lost. Later, it was confirmed that the leather of the new order had better water absorption than before, so the eraser pen soon ran out of water, and the proprietress let me go. )

At one time, I was particularly disgusted with my boss's behavior and called my mother to complain. My mother took this opportunity to educate me: "if there is no money to earn, the boss should control the cost, and that's what work is like." If you don't study hard, you may continue to shine shoes in the future! "

The boss said it was a long time, which was really long for me to work for the first time. Go to work at eight in the morning, have lunch at noon 12 to 1, have dinner at 5: 30 to 6: 00 in the evening, and basically work overtime at night to 1 1. However, in that area, working hours are normal, and my uncle's halogen stalls are basically open after 2 am.

I don't remember how many days I worked. In short, the summer vacation is finally over. On August 25th, my uncle told me that I would go to work on the 26th, and after I paid my salary on the 27th, I would buy clothes myself. Then on the 28th, we will go back and get ready for school.

Finally wait until the day when the salary is settled. That day, I slept soundly in the afternoon Before the salary settlement, I went to the workshop to say goodbye to everyone. Those workers who make shoes are all younger brothers in their twenties. They often chat with me. Sometimes I feel particularly sleepy if I don't get enough sleep. They also contributed snacks to refresh me. Now they are still my friends on QQ.

A pair of shoes is 2 cents, and we settled 1880 yuan. The finance department asked me to confirm my signature. Finally, he gave me 2000 yuan, saying that the boss told me to make it up for me and praised me for my hard work. After receiving the first bucket of gold in my life, I was reluctant to spend it at all. I only spent a few dollars to treat my cousins to a popsicle, haha.

As my first job in life, it really made me realize how difficult it is to make money. Not only for a long time, but also sitting in the workshop with oven every day, so hot that I almost get heatstroke. I miss school very much. The electric fan above me creaked, and the teacher stood on the podium and explained the knowledge endlessly.

If you don't suffer from reading, you have to suffer from life.