Reporters Undercover Work In Dongguan: People Who Leave The Factory Every Day Are More Than Those Who Enter The Factory.

At dawn, a long line of young people came to work outside the factory.

The production line in the factory always emphasizes everything to efficiency, and everything to speed.

Many factory dormitories do not have power plugs. Workers charge their cell phones to centralized charging rooms.

89.4% of the new generation of migrant workers basically do not farm work, 37.9% of the new generation of migrant workers have never worked experience, no starvation, no cold, endurance and hardship spirit far less than their parents.

In rush time, all factories are "black in general". When workers order less, they worry about death. They are afraid of being fired. Orders are exhausted for more than 10 hours a day.

Don't ask these brothers whether they work hard or not. At the end of August every year, you go to the bus stop to see, parents send children home, children cry on the bus, parents cry underground, and you will understand all this.

They are such a group of people: born in the countryside, but not in grain; educated, but not enough in cities; non town accounts, but they are shopping in town every day, catching up with stars, using apple phones, even though they are Shanzhai. Their urgent task is to make money desperately, but the ultimate goal is no longer the same as their parents.

They entered the city at the age of seventeen and eight, and pursued desperately in the city, hoping to open up a new world in a strange land. They insisted that Castle Peak do not relax and move on. They call the new generation migrant workers with a proper noun.

In mid July, the reporter applied for employment as an ordinary peasant worker in Dongguan, Guangdong, and entered a family successfully. garment factory And a family Toys The factory, working with workers and living together for a week, has a glimpse of their existence, confusion and uncertain future.

The first day: finding nearly 90% of the new workers will not do farm work.

Dongguan, one of the places where Chinese migrant workers gather, there are numerous factories. Every year, many migrant workers rush from all over the country to this tiny place. In July 11, 2011, I embark from Guangzhou to Dongguan. {page_break}

"A large number of male and female general practitioners", slogans on the streets of Dongguan are a powerful stimulant for young people who have just come to apply for jobs. The first plant I applied for was a well-known electronics factory in Humen town. When we arrived at the factory area at 8 a.m., the queuing job seekers had gone around. When chatting with other job seekers, people who can apply for jobs in such a large factory are mostly directed by the townsman or unable to go on in other small factories. The first time they arrive in Dongguan, "rarely see what factory will enter such a factory."

The successful person told me that even if you look for work with fellow townsmen or friends, do not stand together. "If more than three townsfolk see a job together and one hundred percent are refused," he said, the young people nowadays are fond of making trouble and love gangs. The factory will try every means to prevent this from happening. The two acquaintances will go to the same factory and arrange in different dormitories, different production lines, and reduce communication between them. Until 9:30, the day was filled, and I was told by dozens of people in front of me that they would come again in the second day. A successful young man told me that he came to the queue at 3 in the morning. "Don't worry. He won't leave much more than he does every day," he said.

Then I came to a famous town in Changan. Talent market The staff shouted to the "top 500 in the world" on the recruitment advertisement, "this knows what's going on, the top 500 in the world is incredible!" a lot of job seekers came together, and the Staff promised to pay 220 yuan into the famous factory and distribute it to the "most relaxed post". But what he emphasized again and again was that he did not return money.

There are more people leaving the factory every day than people in the factory. This is not an exaggeration. When I was working, I lived in the lower berth, and the owner of the upper shop changed two places a week. The boring and oppressive work of entering the factory makes many young people who just want to play regret it. According to the Research Report of the National Federation of labor unions on the new generation of migrant workers, 89.4% of the new generation of migrant workers are basically not farm workers, and 37.9% of the new generation of migrant workers have never worked experience, "no starvation, no cold, endurance and hardship". This is quite similar to the same age workers in cities.

The second day: those who do not work overtime are treated by absenteeism.

I worked in Dongguan for the first time in a garment factory. On the wall of the factory, there was a huge advertisement for recruitment. When I went in to try my luck, I found that the recruitment of the factory became a form of employment because of the shortage of workers. My arms were tattooed, my fingers were not broken, my words were sharp, I was examined, and at the same time meeting these three conditions, I entered the office unexpectedly and unexpectedly. 10. The monthly salary is 920 yuan plus bonus points. Get up at 6:45 in the morning, wash your face and brush your teeth, eat breakfast to the factory just 7:30, and swipe your card into the workshop with your work card. While waiting for the leader to assign tasks, he talked to a big sister in Hunan. She said to herself, "so young do Labu, see you can do it for a few days".

The leader of the group was a more than 30 year old Sichuan native who took me to a tailor's bed for raw materials. He asked me to join the two teenage children who had just entered the factory to sort and bind the cloth of different colors according to the requirements of the list. From 8 to 11:30, it has been finishing cloth according to the documents. One morning, the feet are a bit sour, but at least not so terrible as the elder sister said. I was lucky enough to find a good job.

Dining in the dining hall is free. Before eating hall, he was fully prepared for his heart, but he was still disappointed when he looked at the water in the dining room master's rice bowl and boiled the wax gourd, bean sprouts and eggplant. During the meal, I looked at the workers on the side from time to time, wondering how they could eat. At 1:30 in the afternoon, the leader led me to drag a machine to the workshop. In the afternoon, the job was to untie the unopened cloth in the shop, carry the machine, open the cloth through the machine, and sort it up according to the color, so as to prepare the tailoring.

A bundle of cloth 30 Jin Jin, my shoulders are not strong, can only put on the machine by hand, when carrying seventh bundles, has already been sweating. A dozen bundles of cloth came down, and I was too tired to speak. During the break, a summer worker's fellow worker told everyone about his college life. His talk has many ostentatious ingredients. When he heard that the scholarship for next semester was 5000 yuan, the mouth of a workman was obviously much larger. "There is no need for work and $5000?"

"It's useless to say so much. If you go back to the college entrance exam once, you will still fail to do so." Another worker responded. After a short break, the new task came again. A bundle of cloth needs to be resized one inch to one inch. Two people are required to hold the corner of the cloth one by one, and run forward with all their might. Hands can not be pinched too tightly or too loose, but they must run faster. "You can imagine a dog behind you," the group leader said. After running, you need to return to the original road, gently smoothing the cloth with your hands.

In the next 5 hours, I ran like this. The ceiling fan in the workshop does not seem to exist at all, and sweat on it falls down like rain. Because I am a green hand, I often make mistakes. At the beginning, the group leader still stared at him, but later I saw that I had made too many mistakes. He had no time to take care of himself. He left a sentence when he left. "Wages are mainly based on commission, and the Commission is based on performance." Once the mistake is made, the whole group needs to be reworked, and the workmen's wages will be affected. A worker finally spoke. "Give you two days. If you don't do well, change it."

According to the factory regulations, overtime from 7:30 to 10 or 11 at night and overtime payment of 5 yuan / hour. Overtime is not processed by absenteeism. I didn't eat any food after work in the afternoon, so I went straight back to the dormitory to sleep. The first working day did not last. I escaped the first overtime.

The third day: losing money, not losing something, working part-time is not complete.

The factory dormitory room is not locked for 24 hours. Before entering the dormitory, the management repeatedly stressed that the property itself looked good, "even the townsman can not trust, know the person knows the noodles not to know the heart", the dormitory provides each person a iron cabinet, buys the lock by oneself, takes care of oneself, "anyway I remind you, again loses the thing to have nothing to do with the factory." A worker in the same dormitory usually does not have more than 50 yuan in cash. He runs to ATM to line up for money. Sometimes, at 1 o'clock in the morning, many teams in front of the ATM can still get on the road. Bank cards and ID cards are the two most important items. The workman installed them in his little pocket in front of his underwear, though he forgot to take them out for several times, but he still insisted on using this way.

After leaving work in the evening of July 13th, I am going to buy lunch outside the factory. Tired of a day, people are already exhausted, and the spirit begins to daze. I asked for the most expensive fast food, my pocket: empty! I immediately breathed quickly, blood rushed to my head, ID cards, credit cards and 1000 yuan of cash were all in my wallet.

After sweeping the fast food shop, I found that I did not fall to the ground, but I quickly returned, but I expected nothing. The scope of expansion has not yet been harvested after finding a circle. Losing things in factories is nothing to do with factories. I had to dial 110 to call the police. The person who answered the phone said that such a thing should be reported to the nearest police station. Call the police station again, the other party said that the identity card is missing, do not need to report loss. I always insisted on reporting, and he promised to send someone to come to know the situation.

After seeing me, two people dressed in "security" clothes pointed to a bridge nearby and asked, "is it lost on the side of the bridge or on the other side of the bridge?" "on the other side of the bridge, after I hit 110, he asked me to contact your police station.

"On the other side of the bridge, it's not our jurisdiction. You should call the police again there." after that, the two men left, leaving me dumbfounded. At this point, I had to go back to work in the factory until late shift. The workmates told me, "no job lost, it is incomplete work, lose something, rarely report to the police, anyway, no use."

The fourth day: the factory can not afford to pay for a month's work.

After two days of work, I am a bit fed up, and I am not satisfied with the fact that I am unwilling to work overtime. The two sides quickly agreed. I quit my job and did not have a penny of wages. Before leaving, the director said, "there are more people than you are short, and some young people only do it for a long time". Looking for second jobs, I aimed at a large toy factory, standard assembly line operation and Uchi Kiyo's "85 after". This factory is very popular, so we must get up early and get ready to enter the factory. At 5 o'clock in the morning, I went outside the factory, but I didn't expect there were nearly a hundred people queuing up. It is said that a few days ago, more than 100 people resigned, so the number of people recruited on that day was quite large. Monthly salary base salary 1100 yuan + piece deduct a percentage. {page_break}

The work of the toy factory is relatively simple and easy, but the psychological pressure has not lightened for a few days. I was assigned to the last step of the doll production line -- the products assembled in the first 11 processes were loaded into the packing box according to the standard, where there was a clear and detailed stipulation about where to paste the tape and where to fold. I and two other people who operated the same process were assigned different numbers of boxes. Once there was an error, the team leader could find the responsible person according to the number.

In addition to the team leader, there are also technical workers on the production line and patrol. They are on the same level with the team leader, and inspect and supervise the production quality of several groups. The workers love and hate these technical workers. When they first entered the factory, their skills came from the technical workers. But after a short period of study, these technical workers changed from teachers to supervisors.

The pressure of workers and technicians to bombard workers is devastated. When I was working, I thought of what a girl who survived the fall of Foxconn told me. In 2010, when I interviewed Foxconn workers in a continuous jumping building event in Shenzhen, the poor and lucky 17 year old girl said, "from top to bottom, we keep emphasizing to us that everything is efficient and everything is in line with speed." She told me that there were old employees on the same growth line and new employees like her. But the demand for output is neither new nor old, but the old employees are familiar with the road. As long as the speed is slow, the leaders in charge will rush ahead and sometimes swear.

Workers who have changed many factories say that all factories are "black in general" when they rush to work. When workers order less, they worry about death. They are afraid of being fired. Orders are exhausted for more than 10 hours a day. Although it is sitting, but the goods continue to flow down from the upper reaches of the production line, I am a novice, always have to maintain high tension, and soon back pain. I changed into a comfortable position, curled up on the chair, and my work did not stop. But in less than a minute, the administrator pointed out to me and said loudly, "sit well, sit right!" saw me as a new man. He added, "there is no good state, how can we get efficiency and efficiency, and a month's wages can't afford you to pay the money."

The profit model of manufacturing enterprises has hysterical crazy pursuit of efficiency, and workers do a certain process. In order to improve efficiency, he will be fixed in this process until he leaves the factory. When asked, "how much does it cost to sell such a doll", the workers shake their heads without exception. Their work is like a blind man. Some people work for several years without even knowing what the final product looks like, let alone the value of their products.

The fifth day: Entertainment wins money, I invite you to be crooked.

In the evening, the factory was surrounded by loud and loud skating music. There were two tall Internet cafes, and large and small barbecues stalls. The characteristics of the big stalls were in sharp contrast to the silence of the day. Internet cafes, singing K and ice skating are the three major entertainment projects for many new generation of migrant workers. Most factories are open 24 hours a day, so the same 24 hours of Internet cafes are most popular. Chatting about QQ and playing online games are most popular. Many Internet cafes have also realized "differentiated operation". Some computers have strengthened their configuration, especially for online games. The charges are also high. Some computers are equipped with low charges and low prices for girls to chat with.

A worker said that when working, people would also establish chat groups, and workers in the same factory could communicate with each other. But then gradually lost interest, a few months to change a job, at this time, the former group of people have not yet recognized. These are all healthy entertainment. Among the workmates is a debt burdened young man. From this year's Spring Festival to now, he has lost 4 months' salary of nearly 10000 yuan, and he still owes 4 thousand yuan debt. There is a small number of gambling people in the factory. After class begins, there is no rest day. The worker said that work was really boring, but as long as he thought of gambling at night, he felt motivated and felt that life was interesting.

In contrast, another kind of entertainment is more exciting: buy the underground six & amp; colourful, open three times a week, and get 40 times the profit in buying. "I won't ask you to win the money." this is the most popular commitment of workmates. It is a nearby Entertainment City, which can skate, sing, and expensive press service. A workman from the production line said that his dream of working during his job was to go to the toilet once a week. After entertainment, returning to the dormitory is another kind of life. A dormitory of 8 people, belonging to different production lines, or even different departments, can not get together at work time. When I leave work, others are catching up with night shifts and eating out. There were many workmen who had been in the factory for several months, and other people in the dorm still did not know. At the end of the day, they shouted, "come back". The relationship between them is just like a locked door, normal and distant.

Sixth days: night 30% new workers 5 days spend wages

The workers in the toy factory are younger than me, and all of them are "after 85". After a few days' work, I became familiar with one or two of them. They also had several workmates and a factory director next door. A young man from Luohe, Henan, said that he had been in Dongguan for five years, but he was tired of it, but there was no better way to go back. He did not know what he could do. When it comes to "Dreams", workers will be a bit disdainful, having dreams of eating, drinking and dreaming. For them, a way out is more practical than a dream.

Factory director surnamed Feng, Hunan Hengyang people, from 2005 to now has been working in all kinds of factories in Humen, from the general manager made the director, wages also rose from hundreds of yuan a month to the current 5000 yuan. In the eyes of many young people, Feng managed the management from the most grass-roots workers, although he was still a wage earner, but he was already a "successful representative". A few cups of beer fell down, and Feng factory patted me on the shoulder and said, do not ask these brothers to work hard, but not bitter. "At the end of August every year, you go to the bus stop to see, parents send children home, children cry in the car, parents cry underground, and you will understand all this."

In addition to being tired and boring, working life is more helpless for many people, just like Feng Chang. Feng said with a sigh, "before we are a group leader and a director, we all have to fight our brains. But nowadays, young people seldom compete for such jobs." As a leader, he has more than a few hundred dollars in salary, but he has to shoulder more responsibilities. The attraction for young people is almost zero.

"Sometimes they asked me to sing, and I was embarrassed to go," Feng said. He once made a survey. Within five days after the payroll, the young people with 1/3 in the factory will spend all their money and then ask him to advance their wages next month. When the journalist worked, the reporter asked a total of 56 "post-90s" workers for advice on whether or not to send wages to work. Only 5 young people said they would send back to their families if they needed it. The other 51 said they would not ask for money, because wages were not enough for themselves.

The seventh day: the resignation of the "two generations of agriculture" life in cities as a reference.

The new generation of migrant workers is far from a word of "migrant workers". Compared with their parents, they grew up to worry about their clothing and food, lack of hard-working character, advocate individuality and publicize, and pursue personal enjoyment and social dignity. The "peasant generation" refers to the hometown, while the "two generation of agriculture" refers to the city.

The new generation of migrant workers have a strong sense of identity towards the city, but the reality is often more brutal.

In July 17th, I decided to conclude my work experience in Dongguan and quit my job to return to Guangzhou.