At the invitation of today's headline question column, answer the question of "SARS and this new crown virus period, what stories that reflect the goodness of human nature around you", so I recalled the story of SARS that happened to me in the past, and called it "The Human Story of Men's Wear in SARS".
The SARS virus at that time was less harmful than the current new crown virus, so in Jinjiang and Shishi, we did not wear masks when we traveled, nor did we control the party, which is the background of the story I tell below. However, at that time, the whole country was also united in the fight against SARS.
During the SARS period, I remember that shortly after the Spring Festival (2002-2003), our company resumed work. As a more influential brand in the national garment industry (Rimula men's wear) company, when SARS was prevalent, product sales and production were also seriously affected as brand companies in various walks of life, and the business of the stores in various provinces and cities across the country withered away and the operation was dismal; due to the decline in sales volume, almost zero, all product production lines were almost stopped, workshop workers had nothing to do, and the team leader was worried, because the work salary was in the form of piece wages, and the team leader's salary was the basic salary plus commission system. The wage of the worker is calculated as much as the amount is calculated, that is, according to the product of the unit price of each piece of clothing made by the worker and the output of the work, there is no guaranteed wage; the wage of the team leader is 5% of the total output value of the workers in the whole group.
During the SARS period, as the director of Rimula men's wear, I faced the national sales situation and the company's production situation, and my heart was under great pressure and fidgeted every day. Suddenly one day my assistant Zhuang Chunyan, she is the technical backbone of production quality. That day she came to the factory director's office and whispered to me: Director, I will tell you a secret. I looked at her wonderingly: so mysterious, what's the matter? She said: Now more than a dozen assembly line team leaders are in Shishi Lao wang, ready to jump to small enterprises. When I heard it, I was shocked, this is terrible news!
Before I talk about how I deal with it later, let's explain a plot related to it. After the Spring Festival began, the boss lady Hong Jingjing, the deputy general manager of Jinba Men's Wear at that time, and my boss. Her husband, Hong Zhongxin (we affectionately call him Ah Zhong), was the general manager of Rimula Men's Wear at the time. The chairman, Mr. Hong, was their father, who was seventy years old at the time, and would not be introduced here. The production mode of Rimula men's clothing at that time was two types, one was the whole workshop production mode, and the other was the assembly line workshop production mode. Deputy General Manager Hong discussed with me a salary commission plan for the leader of the assembly line operation team and the group inspection, and according to her intention, the salary reform of the assembly line operation should be carried out, because last year, the assembly line work team leaders easily got higher wages and should be adjusted appropriately. The basic salary in the original wage commission rule was abolished and replaced by a pure commission wage system.
I strongly opposed this new salary plan for the assembly line team leader, but Vice President Hong was always my boss, and I couldn't change her decision. She asked me to go down to preach and implement, and I could only seek perfection. However, for the sake of safety, the production department manager, the workshop director and the assembly line work team leader were called to hold a meeting to solicit opinions on the wage reform plan. At that time, although it was the SARS period, our small coastal cities did not seem to feel the dangerous dynamics, and the company did not work as tense as during the epidemic period, and it was required to wear masks, disinfect frequently, wash hands frequently, and not gather at work.
The assembly line operation group wage reform opinion forum was very intense, more than two dozen assembly line work team leaders expressed their opinions one by one, and everyone's opinions were summarized to be that the new wage plan did not take into account the special situation of SARS, the factory was almost in a state of shutdown, the general agents throughout the country did not place orders, the raw line was not singled out, the workers had nothing to do, the production output tended to zero, and the team leader's commission was also zero. There are old people in the family, there are few people under the family, the basic salary is abolished, how to live the basic life?
I instructed the administrative secretary to make a record of the meeting, and recorded all the opinions of the group leaders, directors, and managers attending the meeting, and recorded a dozen pages of sticky notes. When I went to the office of Deputy General Manager Hong to report, Vice President Hong did not look at the "Record of Solicitation of Opinions" that I handed her, so he threw more than a dozen pages of paper at my desk and said: Director of the factory, what the hell are you doing? I want you to execute, but you give me advice! I couldn't cry and laugh, so I could only patiently persuade Deputy General Manager Hong: Vice President, you should also see what the group leaders say, know thyself and know each other, and then make plans! Vice President Hong said: Don't look, I know what they think. Seeing Vice President Hong's attitude, I was also angry, and I said: Vice President, the situation is very serious now, and the group leader is very emotional. Their opinions you do not read, I look for your husband Hong zong report to go!
I was about to go to the general manager's office and report to Mr. Hong, my assistant Zhuang Chunyan came, and when I heard her say that more than a dozen team leaders of the assembly line operation had gone to Shishi and were ready to jump ship, I knew that the situation was urgent and could not be delayed! Therefore, he gave up going to report to Mr. Hong, and immediately asked Guo Jinzai, the manager of the administrative department, to drive a small minibus used by the company for recruitment, and went to Shishi to intercept the group leader and return to the company.
From Jinjiang Yinglin Jiusan Road (the former Jinba Men's Wear Headquarters Address, now the headquarters moved to Shanghai) to Shishi 87 Road half an hour away. Pushing open the door of the old Wang family, I saw more than a dozen assembly line workers around a large table drinking beer. As soon as they saw me, they knew my intentions, and one of the group leaders said: "Director, we know what you are here to do." Come, you make a bowl with each of us, and we will go back with you. Looking at the dozen or so people, the dozen rice bowls with beer in front of them, I was stunned. But seeing their expectant eyes, I drummed up and let people pour wine, and one by one they dried up with them. Even if I drank a lot, a dozen bowls of beer came down, and I was dizzy.
Riding on the wine, I advised the group leaders on the car back to The Rimula men's clothing: Go back to the company, you are waiting for my news in the dormitory. I will ask Mr. Hong to discuss your salary, and I will give you a satisfactory result. If I can't solve this problem, I'll go with you.
Hong Zong did not go out during the extraordinary period. At that time, our general manager was in charge of the operation of the general agent throughout the country, and in normal times, it was almost between the provinces when the plane came up. The general manager of Rimula Men's Wear is the main outside, the deputy general manager (the only one at the time) his wife is inside, and I cooperate with his wife and other housekeeping management. When I met Mr. Hong in the general manager's office, I handed mr. Hong a dozen pages of consultation records and said: Mr. Hong, report you a bad news! Mr. Hong lifted the desk from his desk, glanced at the record paper, and asked in surprise: What news? I said: More than a dozen group leaders are discussing job hopping in Shishi! He was shocked and asked me: Ah, is there such a thing? I said: Indeed, I have circled them back, and they have all returned to the dormitory to wait for my news!
After Mr. Hong listened to my report on his wife, Vice President Hong, who insisted on going his own way, the causes and consequences of implementing the group leader's salary reform, and the reaction of the assembly line operation team leader, he picked up the opinion solicitation record and looked at it carefully. Mr. Hong said to me with a heavy and cautious look: Director Huang, is this good or not, you have left me and my wife alone, and separately summoned people to discuss and revise the plan, and change it according to everyone's opinions. I'll leave it to me to see and decide.
This salary system has long been known to everyone, and I announce the cancellation on behalf of Mr. Hong. Now that you are revising on this basis, I propose the newly revised system, and while you are satisfied, help me worry about the face of the vice president and not let her be embarrassed - I said at the discussion meeting I convened for the manager of the production department, the manager of the quality control department, the director of the assembly workshop, and several representatives of the assembly line team leader.
After several hours of discussion, from seven o'clock in the evening to two o'clock in the middle of the night after dinner, the draft salary system signed and approved by the group leader was finally determined. The stone in my heart finally landed, because the assembly line work team leader was stable, the assembly line work team workers were stable, and the future production capacity was stable. I took the plan to the general manager's office, and Mr. Hong and his wife, Mr. Hong, were already waiting in the office. Both General Manager Hong and Vice President Hong read the plan and did not express their opinions. I said to Mr. Hong: Everyone has no opinion, but some team leaders say that it is 50 yuan less per month than last year's system. Mr. Hong said: Since this is the case, let's add 100 yuan per month. My heart finally relaxed, and I secretly admired: Ah Zhong is worthy of being the boss, has a pattern, and can be bigger.
The discussion ended here, it was already two and a half o'clock in the second half of the night, Mr. Hong entertained everyone to eat supper, I personally declined not to go, because I had to go to Fuzhou early in the morning, with 20 pieces of new jackets the first batch of production products for testing. Each batch of products comes out, it must be tested for conformity, and after getting the first-class product certificate, it will be sent to stores across the country for sale.
At the company's order meeting after the end of SARS, the number of orders placed by the general agents in various provinces across the country reached several hundred million, which has exceeded the order volume in the normal period. At that time, I was secretly glad that I stopped the leader of the assembly line operation team from jumping ship in time, and I also felt that Hong Zong's decision was correct and decisive.
The SARS story about Rimula menswear ended here. I do not want to take this opportunity to set up a monument for myself, but I want to reflect the SARS at that time, how much impact it had on the production and sales of national brand enterprises; and the resumption of work during the epidemic should learn lessons, but also want to answer your question, when the SARS disaster came, the story I personally experienced, it can also be regarded as a story that reflects the goodness of my human nature, because at the beginning of man, nature is good.