I am currently working in a machining factory, guided by a master who is about 20 or 30 years old, presumably from Guangxi, older than me. Most of the workers in the workshop are middle-aged.
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I don’t know why. I used to work in a big company, very driven, felt like I was learning new knowledge every day, gradually becoming proletarianized, but when I moved to a new environment, I felt numb, not interested in what was around me, and I wasted time learning Marxism-Leninism.
Wasting time learning Marxism-Leninism mainly shows up during reading groups, where I often sneak out to read something else, or just stay in the background without taking notes. I would go chat with AI. Play yandere-style games.
Second, I don’t organize study of Marxism-Leninism. I haven’t done that for a long time, I feel my mind is getting emptier, and I don’t know why.
Sometimes at night I stay up very late, until around 11 p.m., causing me to wake up late in the morning; today I even took a day off and spent the whole day indulging in pleasure in the dormitory.
I actually work as a milling operator, but the job is to put the material in, then operate the machine briefly to process it, and take it out, because I just started, I only operate one machine.
To be honest, sometimes because the upstream changes tools, I have no material on my side, and I’m very anxious and bored. Everyone is busy, but I’m very bored, and even feel sleepy when I’m idle.
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Incredible luck, Qian Rengling, your situation is too dangerous. What is the situation with your new environment now?
“[quote="钱仁0, post:2, topic:2662"]\nI myself sometimes stay up very late at night, playing until 11 o’clock, which makes it hard to wake up in the morning. Today I even took a day off and spent the whole day indulging in debauchery in the dorm.\n\n[/quote]\n\nWhat has Qian Ren Zero been indulging in so wildly lately? Wouldn’t this make labor reform meaningless if you’re indulging like this?”
Serious pollution incident.
The situation is this: I was fine, there there “in comfort” fiddling with the calibrating machine. My job was simply to put things on and take them off. Or change the mold.
But I don’t know how a machine tool suddenly turned around and came to our factory; the capitalists don’t want the machines to idle, actually they don’t want us to idle, and then they simply had me use it without installing an exhaust hood. Of course, the job remained to put things on and take them off, then package.
I finally felt what hot oil, oil mist, and a slippery floor feel like. This is not the same type of thing as being “washed” by iron filings!
Our lathes are only carved out gears, but hot oil is sprayed in them, causing the entire lathe to be full of hot oil mist. This oil mist makes it hard to open my eyes and chokes my throat. I don’t know if it’s because I’m already sick, but my throat is already problematic.
But the capitalists don’t give us masks or anything; many workers’ gloves are bought by themselves. I initially asked the supervisor for gloves, then ended up relying on scavenging to get slightly better gloves to stash for my own use. Some workers’ blue rubber gloves have even hardening! I borrowed some and they turned hard and rigid!
The capitalists even started to “mysteriously” deduct ten percent of workers’ wages, i.e., for permanent workers, no matter how much they work in the first month, the wage was 5000, now it’s only 4500. Everyone is like this!
Some lathe workers’ N95 masks already visibly show oil contamination.
When I opened the door to this machine, the oil mist rushed in. I initially thought: “Just endure it; blowing it out with a air gun would also hurt others.” But later I had no choice but to blow it out with an air gun; otherwise people can’t come in! We had no choice but to blow it out, leaving half the workshop foggy. Veteran workers advised me to buy a mask, but I didn’t, because the oil mist diameter is too small and a mask can’t cover it.
Passing by, a master who was doing sheet metal work wearing a mask sighed, too, about how oily it is here; everyone complains: “The oil mist is too strong!” But what can I do?
But the capitalists and their running dogs don’t care. “I’ve pulled over the exhaust equipment already!” They only care about how much I did today. They can go outside any time to the trees or under a shed to smoke and watch short videos.
Today, an old worker who has worked here for eight years came here to learn mold changing from me. He’s worked here eight years; I heard he earned a bachelor’s degree but because his field is too niche, he couldn’t get into the factory. I feel sorry for him, though there is a fast-moving era, you can’t catch up.
He can tell at a glance what kind of person our factory manager is; in fact, he wants us to become “jack of all trades,” able to run any machine tool and do any job; when this lathe has no one, let others do it! Oh, so his so-called “make me a skilled worker” is like this. In the factory, the more you know, the more you do; the more you do, the more tired you become.
Following a master to learn how to operate the machine tool, you need to buy him a drink; although I know this is “human relationship,” comrades, how should we deal with this?
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Capitalists would love you to learn all the technologies, so they can use it to oppress workers. If a technical worker goes on strike, capital can replace them at any time.
As for social savvy and such, many of these are workplace unwritten rules. If you want to keep working, you must blend in. Through daily observation, communication, and understanding the ideological stance of your coworkers, you can decide when to introduce them to Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, and gradually reform their thinking. Only then can you truly break the unwritten rules, have coworkers genuinely help you become familiar with the factory, have coworkers help each other, and faster master production techniques. Establish puro revolutionary friendship.
I don’t know if I understand it correctly, but I think this stance in this statement is problematic. If that master doesn’t work, someone else will. If he really gets on the fast train of the times, he would end up like my parents, a capitalist.
The stance is certainly problematic: in a capitalist society, pursuing personal wealth, “do less work and take more money,” and exploiting others, is effectively following the capitalist path. Money would make him feel regretful; in fact, he himself harbors the wrong ideas.
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I just told him a few words of “regret” at the time.
“How did you end up here then? Back in our undergraduate days that program was basically a top-tier first-tier program today.”
“My major was design. Now that university has also become a top-tier program, but my major no longer exists and has become fine arts.”
“Oh, design is pretty good.”
“But those designers (hired) are all (foreign) high-end talents.”
“Sigh, that’s talent wasted.”