Conversation with two rural migrant workers

February 22nd, 2011   Filed under English entries, Opinion, Work

I was working at the hotel room when the house keeper knocked my door. I opened the door and found two house keepers, one elder women at her 40s who seems like a veteran and a men at his early 20s who seems quite young. I let them in and when they are cleaning my room I had a short conversation with them.

Who are they and their situation in the city

The lady comes from Sichuan province and has been at Shenzhen for over 10 years. She is the house keeper of my floor. From her looking I can tell that she has been working here for several years. Her husband is also in the city working at property management company. They have a child at hometown but they didn’t go back to hometown for five years.

The young man is a part-time worker. He comes from Henan province and just came to this city early this year to join his wife who probably working at a factory. He told me that he didn’t go back to hometown during this Chinese New Year. This is his firm time not at home with the his family during CNY. He feels said for that. He is paid by working hours at price of 9RMB/hour.

Why they leave their hometown

I asked them why they come to Shenzhen instead of staying at hometown growing corps.The young man told me that because there are not much to do in the field. So there are excessive labor in the rural area.

On the other hand, the elder lady told me another more important reason. It’s because they can hardly make money through farming. The only situation that farming can bring some decent income is in the “good years”. Good years means that there’s no flood, no drought and no plant disease. In this good years, they don’t have to invest much on irrigation or pesticide and can still harvest. However, “good year” is a kind of rarity in recent years. They have to invest much on irrigation, pesticide and chemical fertilizer. These extra investments make it hard to earn some money by selling grains. So she had rent out his several acres of land to others at a price of 300RMB/year.

Their future choice

I finally asked a question about their future. Do you plan to stay in the city? How?

The young man told me that he is considering going to a factory as soon as possible because he now earns too little. He heard that Foxconn could pay about 2000RMB/month (1500 base salary + overtime working compensation) for new workers. However, he feels that in these high inflation years and in such a high price city, 2000RMB is too little. Sometimes, he considering go back to hometown city. But there offers even lower salary. He is obliviously in a delima.

On the contrary, the women has made up her mind to stay in the city. She believes there’s no hope in the rural area. She and her husband would try their best to dwell at Shenzhen what ever efforts it may take. In fact, they have brought a house in the suburb area of the city. This house solved the biggest Hukou issue. She told me that they are going to bring their son to the city next year.

Tags: , , ,


Delayed at Changchun Airport

January 29th, 2011   Filed under Photography, Work

Fortunetely I don’t have much work to do tonight nor do I have a transfer flight to catch.

I found the probability of delay of China Eastern Airline are quite high. However, it managed to top the punctuality rank of domestic airlines. Do you know why the rank is so different from consumer experience? Because the measurement of whether a flight is punctual is by the time of the cabinet door closure instead of taking off. This clever company achieves high punctuality by close the cabinet door timely but would keep passengers waiting inboard for long time before taking off. When I asked the working stuff of the status of my flight. She told me that the plane closed cabinet door at 15:00 but was still in Shanghai waiting to take off. It’s already 17:30 when I asked the question. You can calculate how long the passengers had been waiting inboard.

Punctuality Rank of China Domestic Airlines 2010
  1. China Eastern Airline        79.0%
  2. Xiamen Airline                     78.6%
  3. Shandong Airline                76.8%
  4. China Southern Airline     76.8%
  5. Shanghai Airline                  75.2%
  6. China Airline                         73.8%
  7. Hainan Airline                      73.1%
  8. Shenzhen Airline                 71.3%
  9. Sichuan Airline                     68.6%
Source: CAAC

Changchun Airport

Tags: , , , ,


最近苦啊

December 2nd, 2008   Filed under Work

手里一个烂报告要自己修改+翻译，折磨了我两个多星期。真想冲上去对我们的vender说“你们做的东西也他妈太烂了吧？！”

下次，如果vender还提交这么烂的报告，一概打回去。连最基本的做图都不会还做什么报告！

Tags: ,


从坚持到突破

November 28th, 2008   Filed under Work

今天第三次上卡内基培训。卡内基的教学方式很落后，基本属于填鸭式和传销式，没有挑战老师的机会，只能接受。但也并不是一无是处，比如这个培训课是个能锻炼发言和演讲能力的好地方，另外也能有些有意义的思考。

今天讲了两个topic，设立热忱的目标&认识自己的成就。这里谈谈自己的想法。

设立热忱的目标
我为自己设立的目标是“每周至少和母亲进行一次比较深入的沟通，让她老人家感受到我对她的关心”。以前跟母亲打电话都很潦草，往往一两分钟就匆匆结束，话题也往往是简单的询问下最近干么吃饭没有之类的，而不能和母亲进行深入的交流。我想今后电话时，能够把自己的近况讲给母亲听听（我想她是想知道的，而我以前很少讲），同时也认真地去倾听母亲的一些想法。我想，通过这种做法，尽管远隔千里，但老妈应该能感觉到儿子对她的关心，和她对儿子的重要性。

认识自己的成就
上节课的课后作业是准备一个90秒的演讲，分享你自己的成就。我想来想去也没想出自己有什么成就，后来实在没办法就说了自己坚持Blog5年的事情。现在回头想想这确实是个小成就，而且其中一年为了锻炼英语我还将持用英文写了一年。人往往容易忽视自己的成就，但是细心想去你也许真的能发现一些自己本不以为然的东西，在别人眼中实在是个不小的成就。所以我对我成就的总结是善于坚持。

坚持很重要，但是坚持有胆小保守之嫌，敢于突破的精神是不是也应当被提上日程呢？我真的认为自己是要勇于尝试志强不敢做的事情，说不定有更大的回报。

Tags: ,


明天开始参加戴尔.卡内基培训

November 13th, 2008   Filed under Work

公司安排了戴尔卡内基培训(Dale Carnegie Training)，内容是有效沟通与人际关系，一共12次。所以从明天起至少3个月的时间里，每周五晚上的6:30到22:00，我将被关在飞州国际的一间屋子里，进行传销一样疯狂的举动了，也许是对着听众狂吼，也许是在台上表演。那地儿离前东家不远，有空可以跟以前的同事吃个饭了——唯一问题是人家有没有空。

昨天先和卡内基班的老师见了一面，是一个30岁左右的台湾女性，她的助理看上去就20岁，但名片上的抬头都很来劲，一个是资深经理，一个是培训经理。但根据我昨天接触来看，这两个老师的能力一般，希望这是我一个错误的判断，否则这么多的时间和精力就白搭进去了。

培训的名称叫《有效沟通与人际关系》，对我来说确实是亟需的。因为我发现，自己虽然对每个人都很nice，但是聊起天来却很难发现共同话题，不能深入下去，因此沟通仅停留于寒暄和一些无关痛痒的事，无法建立更稳固的关系。因此在一张有十来个条目的目标确认表格上，我勾选了以下三项作为参加此培训的目标。

1. 学会建立和维护人际关系
2. 拓展视野
3. 增强自信

接下来的日子里，我会跟大家分享我的学习心得的，等着瞧吧。

Tags: , , , , , , ,


最近疏于耕作

August 28th, 2008   Filed under Blog on blog, Work

如果你发现我一段时间辍笔不耕，那说明我这颗单线程的CPU在应付别的事情，在忙于别的事情的时候就无心BLOG了。最近在应付的是新公司，新的环境，新的同事以及新的挑战，这两天感觉可以缓口气了。

上了个全年的大项目，每周都要去一次遥远的上海远郊跟客户开会，而且要一大早就出发，真是难受啊。其中有一次我们被堵在高速公路上，一行人为了赶时间只得下车步行2千米出了高速公路收费口，然后招手搭顺风车向客户老窝赶去，实在是狼狈阿。

最近在重新读三国演义，公车上用手机读，回家了接着看特意买的纸制书籍。原来读三国是囫囵吞枣，连情节都基本忘光，这回想仔细读一读，身为国人，这本书应当好好读。

明早又要去见客户，8:30的会议意味着我6:30就要从家里出发了，俄地神那！

Tags: , , , , ,


Next Page »
Subscribe

This Blog

Hi, I'm Chern. This is my personal blog. I'm currently working for a business consulting firm in Shanghai. I don't quite love my work though and is always seeking a way to escape. But I don't know wher to escape. Pity!

I'm not a coder nor a designer, however, I believe the quote "Code is poem" and weight algorithm and UI the same importance. I like Googel services and hope one day that Google can provide all the services I need. more abt. me...

Recent Comments

Twitter @chn_ping

  • 真是一部精彩纷呈的大戏 17 hrs ago
  • 其实是在昆明演戏@rtmeme @ccav77 @mranti @DJ in reply to rtmeme 17 hrs ago
  • 5KM/40min, sit-up 20+10, push-up 20+20 #减肥 1 day ago
  • 酒店房间里竟然有"鸭子"！ http://t.co/jELnnS1b 1 day ago
  • 我每年都对新年中的“新”字抱有幻想，总想着新年有什么改变生活的大事件发生。可上班第一天发现一切照旧，一样的项目，一样不可理喻的老板，一样的同事，总之一切都一样。所谓年，只不过是人们在日历上圈出来的一天用以喝酒吃肉串门扯蛋。 1 week ago
  • More updates...

Posting tweet...


My Douban