Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

In a workshop of the steel rolling mill, the annual performance evaluation work is in full swing.

Yi Zhonghai is very confident about this matter.

As the only eighth-level fitter in the workshop, he is required to do a lot of delicate work and is selected as one of the workshop's best workers every year.

Regardless of whether the workshop director was sincere or just trying to please him, he would give him the only spot in the workshop.

"Master Yi...Master Zhou...Master Wang...and Master Li...please come to my office later." Early this morning, the workshop director called a dozen people in the workshop.

If you are careful enough, you will find that all those named are fitters above level 6 in the workshop.

As soon as these people left, the workshop became lively.

The performance appraisal work is already known to everyone. When the director asked them to go to the office, he must want to select outstanding workers from among them.

"Master Qin... this year's outstanding workshop master must be your master again?" a young man said to Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu was also very excited.

If Yi Zhonghai became a senior worker in the factory, his status in the workshop would definitely get better and better, and as his apprentice, his status would also rise with him.

Although Yi Zhonghai didn't want to accept me as his apprentice, I had become his disciple in front of all the workers in the workshop, so I had to swallow the bitter fruit no matter how reluctant I was.

In the workshop, you can still do a lot of things with the hat of Yi Zhonghai's apprentice on your head.

Just when Qin Huairu was dreaming that Yi Zhonghai would be awarded an award and she could show off in the workshop as Yi Zhonghai's apprentice, another experienced third-level fitter suddenly spoke up.

"Not always……"

"I heard that this year's advanced worker selection requires not only a high level of technical skills, but also a great contribution to the workshop and the number of apprentices trained by the fitter."

"Although Master Yi was always an advanced worker in our workshop, he only has one apprentice, Master Qin, and Master Qin has not yet been promoted to a full-time employee..."

"Although Master Zhang is only a seventh-level fitter, he has five apprentices, and the most capable apprentice has already become a fifth-level fitter..."

"I think that this year's advanced worker in the workshop is most likely Mr. Zhang!"

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While everyone in the workshop was arguing heatedly about who would be the advanced one, the scene in the director's office was quite different.

"Dear masters... According to the latest factory regulations, this year's advanced workshop title will no longer be given to whoever has the highest level of work..."

"Taking all factors into consideration, you dozen workers are all eligible to participate in the evaluation!"

"Let's conduct an internal vote first..."

"Three places will be determined, and then a secret ballot will be held throughout the workshop to select the final advanced worker."

Yi Zhonghai frowned immediately and said with a hint of worry: "Director..."

"Wouldn't it be too much trouble to do this?"

"Why don't we just have a dozen of us settle on the workshop first!"

The director glared at Yi Zhonghai and replied, "Workshop 1 is not my workshop alone, nor is it a workshop for more than a dozen of us, and certainly not your Master Yi's workshop..."

“It is a workshop for all of us worker comrades.”

"Even if I am the workshop director and you are the senior fitters in the workshop, you cannot deprive the workers of their right to vote!"

"The only thing we can do is to help you select three advanced candidates for the workshop, and then let you make the final decision!" Yi Zhonghai was shocked by the director's accusation and quickly explained: "Director..."

"You misunderstood..."

“No matter how bold I am, I would not dare to deprive my fellow workers of their right to vote… I just think it would be too troublesome to do so… I have absolutely no other intention.”

After Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, a worried expression appeared on his face.

If more than ten senior fitters around you vote, the chance of you being selected is more than 80%.

After all, the locksmith skills of the people around me are lower than mine. Even if I am not their master, they will come to me for advice every time they encounter a bottleneck in their work.

If they offend me, I will definitely not tell them when they come to me for help with questions about locksmithing in the future.

Under normal circumstances, they would vote for themselves in order to improve their locksmithing skills.

But if all the workers in a workshop participate in the voting, there will be a lot of variables.

Yi Zhonghai relied on his status as an eighth-level fitter and was usually arrogant in the workshop. He never took those low-level fitters seriously and did many things that offended people.

If they vote anonymously, these people don’t care whether they are level 8 fitters in the factory or not. As long as they have something against them, they will definitely vote for someone else.

It would be so embarrassing if I lost the title of advanced worker in the workshop due to anonymous voting this year.

Moreover, after becoming a workshop advanced worker, you can also talk to the factory leaders and deepen your impression in their minds. If you encounter any problems in the factory in the future, you can use the factory leaders to support you.

If I lose the title of workshop advanced worker, I will just be a simple eighth-level fitter without any other influence in the factory, and my status and reputation will definitely be affected.

Moreover, in the past year, since Deputy Director Li proposed the policy of giving rewards to apprentices, the enthusiasm of several senior fitters in the factory to take apprentices has suddenly become particularly high. Moreover, every master sincerely wants his apprentice to learn well and pass the exam to become a better level fitter, so the subsidies he receives are increasing.

As a result, in less than a year, the steel mill not only had one more level eight fitter, but also three level seven fitters and five level six fitters, resulting in the scarcity of level eight fitters in the steel mill being far less than before.

As an eighth-level fitter in a steel rolling mill, Yi Zhonghai's status in the factory has been greatly affected as the number of senior fitters in the factory has increased.

If he loses the honor of being the advanced worker in the workshop, his status in the factory will surely become lower and lower.

This is definitely not the result that Yi Zhonghai wants to see.

But the director insisted that the entire workshop vote together, and there was nothing he could do.

The director knew very well what Yi Zhonghai was thinking.

To be honest, he was also very dissatisfied with Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai, relying on the fact that he was the only eighth-level fitter in the workshop and the treasure of the steel rolling mill, embarrassed himself more than once.

But the factory needs him and the entire workshop cannot do without him, so no matter how unhappy he is, he has to put on a smile.

It's different now.

Although he is still the only level eight fitter in the workshop, the number of level seven fitters has increased from two to three, and another level seven fitter has reached the level of level eight fitter and is only one exam away from becoming a level eight fitter.

Yi Zhonghai is no longer the only eighth-level fitter in the workshop, and the director no longer has to look to Yi Zhonghai for everything as before.

In this case, the director doesn't mind letting Yi Zhonghai embarrass himself in front of all the workers in the workshop and teach him a lesson, so that he knows that he, not Yi Zhonghai, is the boss of the workshop.

In the future, when you do things, you must first recognize your own identity...

(End of this chapter)