Chapter 72 Night Shift
When it comes to the department setup and personnel arrangements of Chongwenmen Hotel, it is more state-owned.
It also better reflects the superiority of the system back then.
First of all, from a general perspective, there are almost no temporary workers in the unit.
Even loaders, cleaners, dishwashers, floor sweepers, and toilet cleaners are all officially established employees.
The key point is that no matter how hard or tiring the job is, it can become neither hard nor tiring.
Nothing else, the secret is just having more people.
Who can complain about being tired if three people share the work that can be done by one person?
Secondly, there are differences between our state-owned hotels and hotels in Western capitalist countries in terms of job titles.
Although it is also divided into departments such as front office, guest room department, catering department, engineering department, finance department and administrative department.
Each department also has managers.
But it’s different when you subdivide it further.
There are no supervisors or foremen in state-owned hotels.
The grassroots cadres who can benchmark against supervisors and foremen are team leaders and deputy team leaders.
For example, the political work team and logistics team that Ningwei Civil Affairs Office went to for entry procedures are all under the administration department.
The same goes for the front office department, which is divided into the reception group and the operation group, which can also be referred to as the first group and the second group.
The functions of the reception team are mainly responsible for leading the daily layout of the conference room, cooperating with the inspection work of the competent department, and recording messages, letters, and newspaper delivery.
The functions of the operation team are to handle passenger check-in and check-out procedures, telephone reservation business and train ticket purchasing business.
If you don’t count the person in charge and the cashier assigned by the finance department.
If all the grassroots employees were added together, there would be seventeen people.
In addition, the organization of these two groups is not so rigid. Except for the team leader and deputy team leader, the grassroots employees can be replaced with each other.
You can imagine how easy it will be for this class to have so many people.
In fact, except for the night shift, which is arranged for two people to be on duty.
No matter the morning shift or the middle shift, each shift in the front office can have at least five people lined up.
At the busiest time that day, there were almost twelve people sharing the work, and the workload was minimal.
So for people in the front office, most of the time there is nothing to do.
Whether chatting, reading newspapers, magazines, eating snacks, or even hanging out in other departments.
As long as you don’t go too far, you can do whatever you want.
Including Ning Weimin, there are only three men in the entire front office, and those two have been "welded" to the night shift position for almost a long time.
So it goes without saying that Ning Weimin must have the job of turning on the water every morning.
In addition, as a newcomer, he has to take over some chores that others find trivial.
For example, go to the warehouse to get some office supplies and receipts.
Or dealing with people at the post office, delivering newspapers to the leadership office and distributing letters to various departments every day.
It's a bit like the errands done by the old man in the mail room.
But even so, he still had a lot of free time, and Ning Weimin fully realized his original intention of coming here - to live a comfortable life.
It’s just that things in the world will not be so perfect after all, and there are some distortions between reality and imagination.
There are some minor worries that Ning Weimin did not expect, namely gender differences.
As the saying goes, three women perform a drama.
Every day, four big plays are performed around him, and the "Twelve Golden Hairpins" are gathered together. Think about how lively it must be.
As for these big girls and young wives, everyone regarded him as the target of ridicule, and even "driving" from time to time.
He really treats him as a little brother who doesn't understand anything.
But the problem is that he actually knows everything, so what does it feel like?
It’s not okay to just ignore me, it’s not okay to make someone blush when you start talking, it’s not okay to really tease someone out of your mind.
The blessing of staying in a beauty's nest is not so easy to bear.
Fortunately, after more than half a month of hard work, a colleague who worked the night shift had a fever and was given an intravenous drip.
Ning Weimin was transferred to the night shift in advance and began to partner with another male colleague. This time he was liberated and completely pure.
He really didn’t expect that the job he was most unwilling to take would now turn into an opportunity to save him from misery.
And to be honest, only when you work night shift can you know the benefits of night shift.
Because no one would ask to stay in a hotel at night these days, and the latest train from Beijing Railway Station is at ten o'clock.
So even for the morning shift and middle shift workers, the workload of the night shift in the front office is pitiful.
People working the night shift do not even need to provide morning wake-up calls, they are just for responding to occasional emergencies.
For example, if a customer is seriously ill and needs to call an ambulance.
For example, if there is water leakage or power outage in the room, the engineering department must be notified to allocate rooms to the guests in a timely manner.
Another example is cooperating with the public security department in their inspections and arrests.
Or if there is a fire, cooperate with the political work team and firefighters in evacuation work.
Other than that, the most I can do is answer outside calls and record messages for guests or leaders of the unit.
Then you can pass the long and boring night by reading books, reading newspapers, chatting, or even playing cards with employees from other departments, or sleeping on the table or lying on a chair. .
In addition, the unit also takes care of midnight snacks and breakfast, and the night shift subsidy is 50 cents a day.
It’s a wonderful job where you can make money while eating and drinking enough while sleeping.
I'm afraid there is no job in the entire capital that is more worry-free than doing this.
Staying up late is harmful to the body, of course.
But young people, who would be afraid of exploding until midnight?
Besides, sleeping on the table is still sleeping. It’s just going to be a little later and not so comfortable.
Compared with the reward, this flaw is nothing.
That is to say, working in the dark and inconvenient transportation is not very convenient for lesbians.
Only men can share this blessing.
Ning Weimin even felt that if he became familiar with his new partner.
It’s not a problem if he occasionally leaves his job and sneaks out to visit the ghost market.
The only thing that made him a little worried was that he had promoted a girl's position, which would probably disappoint another male colleague and then make him resentful.
But as he worked the night shift on his first day, even this worry dissipated.
Because as the leader of the reception team, I introduced him to his new work partner.
The young man named Zhang Shihui, who was a few years older than him, not only expressed his heartfelt welcome with a friendly smile.
Even after the team leader left, he was enthusiastic and expressed his gratitude to him as a savior.
"Brother, thank you so much. You came and saved me completely."
"Oh, don't be so polite. If you want to scare me away, you will have to watch the night shift alone."
"Haha, I'm not kidding, you will understand as soon as I say it. You support it. She was originally my partner. We met while working the night shift. But the bad thing was that from then on, she was worried about me working the night shift with someone else and insisted on staying with me. I went to the hospital with you. Now that we are working together, my partner can rest assured, and I will be able to see the light of day again. Shouldn't I thank you?" >
Ning Weimin finally understood. Behind the co-authorship was a romance about the night shift, and the sadness of being a wanderer all year round.
"I should, I am grateful that I have accumulated so much merit. Then you can't just say thank you, you have to give me a banner that says 'helping others'."
As soon as these words were said, the two people talking were amused by each other.
Zhang Shihui took the initiative to hand over a cigarette, but his mouth was still empty.
"Hey, buddy, the pennant is just a pennant, but you have to let me embroider it slowly. As for now, let's do something affordable. Come on, risk one..."
Ning Weimin thanked him and took it, but he didn't dare to order it just like that.
"Brother, can I smoke here?"
Zhang Shihui didn't hesitate to do that, and directly struck a match and handed it to Ning Weimin.
"It's okay, this is not the day shift? Just be careful and pin it down..."
As he puffed out the mist, he had already stood up from his seat and greeted him carelessly.
"Wait, I'll get an ashtray. By the way, I still have a cup here. Where's your cup? You clean it first, and we'll both make a cup later, and then we can continue chatting... …”
(End of this chapter)