Chapter 218 Holiday
August 13, 21 years.
It's another sunny and nice day.
Lai Xiaoni, who had left Yangon long ago, was traveling alone in Taunggyi at this time.
At the riverside dock, various mechanical cranes are loading and unloading goods and containers. Not far away is the Ruiniang Town Dam.
After the expansion, Taunggyi City has become a large city with a population of 1.37 million, surrounded by eight satellite cities.
At first, she thought Hongsawadi was more developed than Yangon, but what she saw and heard along the way opened Lai Xiaoni's eyes and changed her previous stereotypes.
The port is only about 2.3 kilometers away from the dam, and the city of Ruiniang Town is built on a relatively high platform, with a drop of about 80 to 90 meters from the port area. Even if a dam bursts, the safety of the residential area is beyond doubt.
The tables on the riverside of the riverside tea restaurant offer a sweeping view of the dam, pumped storage reservoir and port.
Lai Xiaoni, who lived in Lingnan Province for a period of time, is quite adaptable to the climate in Taunggyi.
"Lady, your refreshments." The middle-aged waitress smiled and handed her rice rolls, Cantonese-style steamed dumplings, and radish cake.
Lai Xiaoni picked up the teacup and asked, "Big sister, are you Chinese too?"
"Haha... yes, my son and I immigrated here. My daughter is studying at Donggyi Medical College, so I was transferred here to work." Li Suqin replied with a smile.
"Are you used to living here?"
Li Suqin smiled and replied, "Very good. There are quite a few Chinese people in Dongzhi. Please enjoy your time. If you need anything, you can call me."
After saying that, she pushed the food cart to serve another table.
Lai Xiaoni took a sip of oolong tea and said, "Transfer? Is it like the transfer in college?"
At the next table, a young woman wearing a traditional hairpin and with a big belly was talking to another young man who seemed to be her husband.
When the pregnant woman heard Lai Xiaoni's Mandarin, she turned around and said with a smile, "Transfer means transferring family members from other places to positions that are convenient for family reunion due to family or work reasons. It is usually more suitable for housewives."
"I see, sister is also Chinese? My name is Lai Xiaoni, and I came to Taunggyi for tourism."
"You can just call me Xinxin. This is my husband Mao Heshui." Fang Xinxin introduced with a smile.
Mao Heshui nodded somewhat embarrassedly. Although he could speak Mandarin, he still didn't like talking to strange women, especially when his wife was around.
"Sister Xinxin is also an employee of Qingye, right?"
"I work as an airport receptionist at Aoba Airlines, and my husband works as a forklift driver at the airport." Fang Xinxin answered while gently stroking her belly.
Looking back on the experiences of the past year and a half, Fang Xinxin had an illusion that she was in another world.
With the help of her cousin Fang Xinwu, she came to Hongsawadi for AIDS treatment and stayed there for more than a month.
After more than a month of getting along, and with Mao Heshui's attentive care, her depressed mood had improved a little.
But all good things must come to an end.
Fang Xinxin returned to her hometown in China. Because of her previous illness, she had already become notorious in her hometown. She didn't want to embarrass her parents, so she finally chose to go to Guangzhou to work.
However, it has been difficult to find a job in Guangzhou in the past two years. She has been in Guangzhou for more than three months but has not found a suitable job.
In the end, it was Mao Heshui, who had been in contact with her online, who introduced her to Hongsavadi to work as a receptionist at the airport.
Fang Xinxin, who felt that she could not hold her head up in her hometown, seemed to want to change her place and start over, so she came to Dongzhi.
At that time, Mao Heshui was no longer working for Fang Xinwu, but found a job as a forklift driver at the airport.
After a few interactions, Fang Xinxin and Mao Heshui became together.
When she recalled this experience, she couldn't help but smile foolishly, thinking that she was too trusting of others. Fortunately, Mao Heshui was an okay person.
After eating a steamed dumpling, Lai Xiaoni curiously asked, "Will being pregnant make my work inconvenient?"
"No! The company doesn't mind. Pregnancy usually gives you 18 months of maternity leave, and the basic salary and five insurances and one housing fund are paid as usual."
"so good?"
Fang Xinxin smiled and shook her head: "This is a mandatory rule of the company. You have to take a leave even if you want to. In addition, there are various subsidies during the maternity leave, including milk powder, diapers, prenatal checkups, delivery, baby care, etc., all of which are 50% off. If Xiaoni can find a job in the three major groups, then you don't have to worry too much about these problems in the future."
"I'm a finance major, and the only way I can find a job here is in a bank, which seems difficult." Lai Xiaoni spread her hands in pretended helplessness.
Fang Xinxin also saw that the other party was not interested in this, so she changed the subject: "Xiao Ni, are you traveling here alone?"
“Well, my dad works in Yangon.”
"You are so bold. Foreigners usually don't go deep into Shan and Kachin states. They used to be chaotic areas."
Lai Xiaoni asked curiously, "Was it really so chaotic here before? I read some of the introductions online and it's a little hard to believe."
"My husband and my cousin have been working here for several years, so we know the situation here better. Shan State was really chaotic before, but the three major groups and the government have made great efforts in recent years to improve the public security here."
Lai Xiaoni glanced at Li Suqin who was busy serving the dishes and asked: "Are there many Chinese immigrants here?"
“Indeed, there are quite a few. Many of them are family members of technical personnel. For example, Aunt Li, the waitress who was chatting with you just now, has a son who works in an aircraft factory and a daughter who studies at Taunggyi Medical College. She was worried about her daughter, so she applied for a transfer to Taunggyi.” Fang Xinxin said as she handed the cream sandwich she disliked to her husband.
"Is this kind of transfer easy to apply for?" Lai Xiaoni felt that Qingye Group was quite humane.
Fang Xinxin smiled and nodded: "For non-technical positions and management positions, as long as the reasons are reasonable, the company will generally help solve them. For waitress positions like Aunt Li, it is easy to transfer."
After hearing this explanation, Lai Xiaoni felt much better about Qingye Group.
Her parents had to live apart for a long time because of work reasons. If her parents' generation had not been more tolerant and less impetuous than the younger generation, this long-term separation would have caused problems long ago.
Obviously, Qingye Group has seen this problem, so it is trying every means to improve the problem of long-term separation between couples.
The improvement plan is reasonable job adjustment.
Normally, if both husband and wife are employees of Aoba Group, the one with a lower position and income will accommodate the other and transfer his or her position to the group.
According to the internal data of Aoba Group, in the case of a couple working together, it is usually the woman who accommodates the man.
This is also related to the dominant position of men in terms of income and positions.
According to internal data, in many families where both husband and wife are employees, the wife's income is often less than 50% of the man's.
Especially when a female employee becomes pregnant within one or two years of marriage, the period of pregnancy will not be counted in her length of service, which will affect the promotion of the employee's grade.
Of course, many female employees don’t really care about length of service and level.
After all, in the eyes of many female employees, if the company agrees to allow female employees to take advantage of maternity leave, this is a huge benefit.
If some female employees could only have two children due to caesarean section or physical condition, they actually wouldn't mind having more children.
After all, each maternity leave is 18 months, and the company pays basic salary and maternity leave allowance. Even the lowest-level employees receive a basic salary of 500 yuan per month.
