Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 297
"Labor agency?" Dong Qiangqiang has heard of this kind of thing in China, and it is actually a kind of labor export. "It shouldn't be cheap, right?"

Wang Shunan nodded: "Actually, it's nothing to pay high fees, as long as I can earn back later, I will admit it. The problem is that we found out after it came that it was not what they said at all."

"Cheated?" Dong Qiangqiang couldn't help asking, he had also heard some bad rumors about labor agencies, and he had encountered such people himself.

"The intermediary did introduce German hospitals to us as agreed in the contract. The first private hospital we went to let us work as nurses and cleaners, with 2000 marks per month before tax."

"It's a lot of money, and it's almost a few thousand per month in RMB." Dong Qiangqiang has just come out of China and knows a little about the salary of young people. "Even undergraduate graduates from big cities in China may not be able to Got your number?"

"But the agency promised us [-] marks per year," Wang Shunan said with a wry smile. "If you look at the monthly figures, I do earn a lot. But this figure is only before tax. If you take out the monthly rent , living expenses, insurance premiums and other expenses, and then send some to the family, and there will be no money in hand.”

"Capitalist money is definitely not easy to earn." Dong Qiangqiang felt that the topic was gradually getting heavy, and tried to make the atmosphere of the chat more relaxed.

"It's really like this. It's not only me, but also a few of our fellow countrymen who came together. We all rent a house with poor conditions. There is no air-conditioning in summer and no heating in winter. The windows in the room are big and leaking air. They are all tight. Do you know? I haven’t used skin care products since I came to Germany, just to save some money and share the worries of my family.”

"Does that mean that after a few years of hard work, there will be a chance for a salary increase?"

"I thought so at first, but after working for a while, I got to know some Germans in the hospital. They are all native Germans, not the kind of skilled immigrants who came here later, but they also come here every month. I don’t earn more than us. There is a German aunt who is about to retire and has been working for almost 30 years, and she only earns 3000 marks a month. We're much happier."

"Didn't you know this before you came?"

"We came from a small place, and there may be only one or two such intermediaries in the city. Everyone said the same thing: Germany is a paradise for migrant workers. You can easily earn several 10 yuan a year, and how many years have you worked?" There is still a chance to become a German citizen, and now I know that all this is just a beautiful dream. You can listen to it, but you can’t take it seriously.”

"Then what the intermediary who brought you here told lies?" Dong Qiangqiang sympathized.

"That's not true." Wang Shunan thought for a while, "In terms of labor load, the intermediary really talked about it and didn't fool us. The work is really, really tiring. Like the first hospital I worked in when I first came Let me be responsible for cleaning different places in the hospital, such as washing dishes, sweeping and mopping the floor and cleaning windows, cleaning up the trash cans in the wards and corridors, cleaning the bathroom and flushing the toilet. These are commonplace. I do it every time. Fast and good, I thought I would have a chance to be promoted by the Germans, but later I realized how ridiculous and naive this idea was.”

Dong Qiangqiang thought of the pile of plates he had piled up like a hill yesterday, and sighed in his heart that it was indeed harder for girls to do this.

"I used to think that cleaning work is very hard and tiring, but later I realized that compared with nursing work, cleaning work is definitely easier." Wang Shunan's eyes were tranced and melancholy when recalling, "I still remember that after I went to Germany, I nursed The first elderly person I had was an 80-year-old grandmother. When I took care of her, her memory declined so badly that she couldn't remember anyone at all. I helped her bathe, change diapers, and go to the toilet. She couldn't speak and could only be helpless looking at you, and sometimes she wants to express her gratitude by tapping your finger with her bony finger. You know what I think about most at that time?"

Dong Qiangqiang shook his head.

"When I was young, I thought it was a happy thing to live to be 80 years old. But after working as a nurse, I realized that after a certain age, life is a process of fighting against various diseases and aging. The quality of life is very low. For a long time, it is a kind of torture."

Wang Shunan stopped to recall, and sipped two spoonfuls of soup.Dong Qiangqiang just looked at her quietly, neither asking questions nor comforting her.For the first time, he felt that in front of people with rich life experience, many comforting chicken soup words seemed very empty.

"Later, we discussed with the hospital several times about the salary, but nothing came to fruition. In the end, everyone left the hospital one after another, looking for other suitable places to continue working. But this is Germany after all, and there is very little that can be improved by changing a hospital. , not to mention the ever-increasing cost of living, and the pressure to delay visas, etc.”

Wang Shunan drank a few more mouthfuls of soup.

"Take care of the elderly who can't take care of themselves. If you meet someone who can't speak, it is actually a kind of happiness. I am most afraid of encountering the kind of elderly who are tall and heavy and weigh more than [-] (kg). I will scold you with very vicious words. You know? At that time, I often thought that being able to understand a foreign language was actually a kind of torture.”

As he spoke, two streams of tears flowed down from the corners of Wang Shunan's eyes silently, like two streams.

Dong Qiangqiang kindly handed her a tissue.Wang Shunan embarrassedly took the tissue and wiped the corners of her eyes lightly.

"You only need to work as a volunteer for a week, but I was working 6 days a day and taking a day off. But that day I didn't even want to eat, I just wanted to sleep, because during those six days, I would work from dawn to dusk every day. , go wherever you need like a firefighter, sometimes stand for a day, sometimes kneel for a day, and sometimes run dozens of times upstairs and downstairs, just to help the patient find what he lost. Like Masrila this morning In bed this kind of crap, I can meet more than a dozen a day at most. God knows how I survived at that time."

"What about your fellow countrymen? How are they doing?"

"Some of them are not as good as me, but whether they are good or not, they all left at the beginning of the year, and many of them even paid the hospital money because they did not complete the labor contract signed with the hospital."

"Then why don't you go?"

"I was lucky. When I was working in the hospital, I met Barbara by chance. She is the dean of Greencastle. She saw that I had a job in my eyes, was diligent, and knew how to take care of the elderly. She asked me if I would like to take care of the elderly. I didn’t want to work in Greencastle. At that time, I really wanted to leave the hospital, so I jumped here. The income here is more than that of the hospital, and it’s not as tiring as the hospital. I want to try again. If I didn’t earn any money, I had no choice but to go back.” Wang Shunan’s face was filled with resignation, “My family told me about my relatives, and the man said he would wait for me for two years at most.”

"So yesterday you advised me not to call the police because you were afraid of harming Greencastle and Barbara?" Dong Qiangqiang asked, tilting his head.

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