Master Wu from Anhui Province, who joined the supply and marketing cooperative in 1986, told me his real experience and feelings about working in the supply and marketing cooperative: he was once infinitely motivated, and finally stopped working without pay, and had no choice but to make a living for himself. Share it with readers.
< H1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, ignorance and excitement</h1>
My family has many children, there are 6 brothers and sisters, the burden on the family is heavier, and I have always thought that I can share the worries of the family as soon as possible. One day in December 1986, my father came to my high school school, shouted me out of the classroom, followed along, said that the unit recruited workers, won a place for me, is an iron rice bowl, I became a supply and marketing cooperative employee with a fixed job in excitement and ignorance, just went in to do apprenticeship, the salary is 29.5 yuan, plus the duty fee, book and newspaper fees, food subsidies, ah, can get 48.5 yuan a month, at that time quite satisfied.
Supply and marketing cooperatives generally have several stores, such as Rishi (reading miscellaneous) cabinet group, department store container group, knitting cabinet group, fertilizer phosphate fertilizer cabinet group (is the national monopoly), production material cabinet group. Generally, daily necessities are knitted in a store department, the means of production are used as a store department alone (pesticides, agricultural tools, etc.), and the fertilizer and phosphate fertilizer are used as a cabinet group or store department, and there are several warehouses.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, actively learn business</h1>
After I joined the company, I studied very seriously, sold goods, took stock, made reports, played abacus very well, and the leaders and masters of the unit especially liked me. At that time, the traffic was not very developed, occasionally to buy goods to go to the place where there is a bus to walk more than a dozen miles of mountain roads, when there are more purchases of tractors to pull back, when the goods are less, you can only shoulder to shoulder, more than a dozen miles of mountain roads, more than an hour to arrive, although the road is arduous, but the heart is full, also very motivated, but also full of hope.
Three years later, the regularization, the salary adjusted to 55 yuan a month, plus other subsidies a month salary is 89.5 a month, although dozens of dollars, at that time can be regarded as a good income, after the regularization of April 1990, the work was transferred to another branch, because the leader of the center supply and marketing cooperatives know that my business ability is good, arrange more important positions, fertilizer cabinet group collection invoicing work.
At that time, the fertilizer urea was supplied by the national plan, relative to the market, the price was relatively low, to first send to the farmers to plan fertilizer urea tickets, and then the peasant family then used the fertilizer ticket plus cash to supply and marketing cooperatives to buy, at that time remember that urea was 80 pounds a bag, the price was 23.64 yuan. The unplanned fertilizer is sold privately for about 48 yuan a bag. Because the fertilizer ticket is calculated according to the peasant family field and population, so the ticket issued by each household is more than ten pounds and tens of pounds, and when it comes to buying, it should be converted into how much money per kilogram, how much is a dozen pounds or dozens of pounds, which was calculated with an abacus at that time.
Just arrived at the first day of the new unit, the unit leaders are behind me to watch me collect money and invoice, because of the centralized supply, the queue of many people to buy, the sea of people, I am a little nervous but not surprised, skilled operation, a few cents a few pieces of calculation, a day's operating income reached more than nine thousand yuan. Now look at this data is not much, at that time it was a big data and money, to find change are a few cents, very troublesome. So at the end of the day, I summarized the report, and the income was not bad at all. The leaders all gave a thumbs up. Say, fantastic.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, participate in the supply and marketing cooperatives of flood prevention and rescue</h1>
In 1991, there was a big flood in Anhui, my unit location was also flooded, the water had a depth above the knee on the ground of the store department, before the water came, the unit newly purchased farmers' rapeseed had more than 40,000 catties, if it was soaked, it would be troublesome, the loss was huge, we four young, quickly packed the rapeseed on the car, bare shoulders dry for a day, the face, the whole body is gray, can only see the eyes blinking, and after the transportation, we sat paralyzed on the ground for half a day can not move.
Later, the rain became heavier and heavier, the water level became higher and higher, there were still dozens of tons of highly toxic pesticides in the store department, and there was no rest, so we moved the pesticides box by box to the counter of the store department and put them up. At that time, there were no cars that dared to come and transport things, for fear of being blocked by the flood and unable to go. The people in the township government on the streets were urging the peasants to retreat, and that scene, seen in the movie, was like fleeing the wilderness, the old, the small, pulling the cattle, driving the cattle, carrying the pot, carrying the baggage, and now I think about it.
In the middle of the night, the flood came up, the unit's house is a brick-concrete structure, don't worry too much, we slept on the raft tied up with wood, with plastic sheets on it to block the rain, the street next door and in the distance kept coming from the sound of the residents' houses collapsing, one after another, just like the small cannon fight, night without stopping, sleepless. It was dawn, and as the flood was almost to the point of calf belly, the house of a resident next door had collapsed and smashed into the outer wall of our warehouse, and the wall had cracked a wide gap, almost two fingers wide. I can't see it, there are still a lot of goods in that warehouse that have not been transported out in time, although they are not afraid of blisters, if the house collapses, it will be completely destroyed, I shouted a few young colleagues, let's grab the goods out, a few colleagues did not hesitate to work together, the water is still rising, the cracks in the wall are getting bigger and bigger, the leaders and old colleagues of the unit forcibly want to stop us young people, do not let us go to the risk, but we still call a heart of blood, also called the newborn calves not afraid of tigers, or resolutely transport all the goods to the yard. At that time, we were really a hot-blooded era. In the front line of that flood fight, several of our young people were commended. After staying in the flood for more than two months, sticking to our posts and guarding the property of the unit on duty, if the flood does not go down, we will not go home.
<h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > four, can not stay in the supply and marketing cooperatives</h1>
The days passed day by day, I got married in 92 years, my daughter was born in 93 years, the economy became more and more nervous, the efficiency of the unit was getting worse and worse, and the monthly income was only about 120 yuan, which was really not enough for the family. Although the leaders and organizations of the unit intended to promote me to the management team and study accounting, I had no way to stay, the income was too low, and the salary could not be guaranteed to be paid monthly. At the end of 1993, I had to apply for a job without pay, handed over my daughter who was waiting to be fed to her parents in her sixties, and went to Wenzhou, where the people who worked in my hometown came back and said that the money was easy to earn, so I had the courage to leave the supply and marketing cooperative to make a living.
Editor's note: The reform of supply and marketing cooperatives stems from the transformation of the planned economy into a market economic system, from planned management of means of subsistence and means of production to relying on the spontaneous adjustment of the market. However, in the process of transition, the resettlement and re-employment of workers is a huge pain, so that the former workers of supply and marketing cooperatives have to work everywhere and do small business. A few of them succeeded, but many more worked through hardship. Remember!