Today, there are more than 6,000 people in the pencil industry in Qingyuan County, and a considerable number of them neither work in factories nor sell outside. They are concentrated in studios large and small, specializing in pencil packaging. Pure women can be called the "girl army" of Qingyuan pencils.
In a studio in Qingyuan County, more than twenty packer workers are busy, all of them sisters who live nearby.
Lin Aizi: "49 years old, Lin Aizi. ”
Wu Linju: "Wu Linju, 48 years old. ”
Wu Li: "Wu Li, 39 years old. ”
Liu Yufen: "Liu Yufen, 35 years old this year. ”
Of course, the 90-year-old Wu Da'e is an exception.
Wu Da'e: "Come and play." ”
Ye Xiufen, head of the pencil packaging studio: "They are all packaging, pulling the finished product to me, and we do the last process." I'm an elite, and these teams are very supportive of me. ”
Ye Xiufen's "girl army", the largest scale, has more than 40 people, and can deliver more than 1 million packaged pencils in a single day, which is indeed called elite.
The leader of the elite is naturally also highly skilled, but this skill is mainly reflected in management. The most striking thing in the studio, besides the mountains of pencils and boxes, is the wall covered with pay slips.
The amount of dust, you can see the new and old of the list. Since 2016, Ye Xiufen has publicly posted the sisters' salary income.
Ye Xiufen: "(Where is the highest) Oh, more than eight thousand, her name is Ying Yan, and Wu Linju." Published here for everyone to see, the same product different wages, inspire all employees, save a lot of things, how much money each employee does every day, they will keep an account, at the end of the month they write it down, and I am exactly the same. ”
Wu Linju, the packaging record holder, received more than 8600 yuan a month at the highest level.
Wu Linju: "(How many strokes were made that month) I don't know, I forgot." ”
According to the order volume, the highest daily packaging volume of Wu Linju in that month was about 50,000 or 60,000 sticks.
Wu Linju: "What's the secret, this thing is faster, there is no secret." ”
To say that there is no secret is the humility of the strong. Pencil packaging, but not casually stuffed can be done.
Take this hollow design packaging box, the manufacturer requires that the logo of the pen body must all face outward, one is not right, the whole box will be re-checked, so the skill of twisting and turning on the hand should be particularly exquisite. Speaking of these colored lead, there are 120 colors at most, the eyes can not be flowered, the packaging speed is fast, and the test is hand-eye coordination. The recent order has only 36 colors at most, which has made reporters dizzy.
Ye Xiufen: "Gem green, dark green, valley green, green gray, yellow, lemon yellow, white, light pink, sunset red, rose red, red orange, this dark orange (this is about to catch the color number of lipstick) haha, yes." ”
Ye Xiufen was originally a state-owned enterprise employee, laid off around 2008, just in time for Qingyuan's pencil manufacturing industry to flourish, so she pulled up the sisters she knew and started a packaging business. Since 2010, hongxing stationery, one of the largest local pencil companies, has been specially packaged, and the team has become bigger and bigger.
Ye Xiufen: "That used to be very rushed, every time the list was small, since cooperating with Hongxing, I have made a big list." I took the initiative to find Hongxing, looking for Ye Zong (how do you talk to him) After I was laid off, I felt that it was more convenient and free to make this thing, and I could bring children. ”
Liu Yufen: "Here are basically baoma, we basically can't do heavy work, it's a little more convenient here." ”
Wu Li: "Children go to school next to each other, it's a little more convenient here." ”
Hu Yumei: "Let's go home and burn when we cook, and let's pick up the children when we pick up the children." ”
The men in the sisters' families basically work in Qingyuan's factory, so they have to take on more responsibility for taking care of children. Pencil packaging, this kind of flexible coming and going, piece counting money is naturally very popular. Qingyuan's local pencil enterprises have also taken the initiative to move product packaging to the county in the form of studios, which not only reduces costs, but also facilitates employment. You may have questions, can this kind of workshop-like studio guarantee quality? This brings us to another girl scout, the manufacturer's quality monitor. Every morning, Wu Meixia, a quality inspector, will inspect the various studios and bring the "Work Instructions" ordered for the day.
Quality inspector Wu Meixia: "Will tell you how to install, a total of 6 colors of each, light color is fixed." Sending samples to each employee, (at the same time) to her, is to divide the samples and prevent employees from making mistakes, such as the package. ”
Each box of pencils is assigned to someone, and once there is a problem, the person's related packaging must be rechecked and reworked. If Ye Xiufen is with the Girl Scout Army, then Wu Meixia plays the Overseer, but she herself does not think so.
Quality Inspector Wu Meixia: "Every employee on the scene is a small inspector. ”
In Qingyuan County, there are about a hundred similar packaging studios, large and small. The 7 billion pencils produced by Qingyuan every year, which account for one-third of the country's output, are wrapped into beautiful boxes through the hands of sisters, or exported or sold domestically, so that Qingyuan pencils have gone to all over the world.
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