mortal train conductor

Chapter 315 Conforming to the Law of the Market
In recent years, the operating situation of dining cars on normal-speed passenger trains has become more difficult than in the past, and losses have occurred from time to time.The cost of raw materials and labor is increasing year by year, and the large number of high-speed railways and EMUs in my country have led to the loss of dining cars of ordinary-speed passenger trains from time to time.

At present, the operation of dining cars on ordinary speed trains mostly adopts the form of overall team contracting. The dining car staff here are mainly regular workers, with an average age, low education level, and low work efficiency. Faced with the current loss of ordinary speed trains , The enthusiasm of the chefs and waiters in the dining car was hit, and they all asked to be transferred to train staff.

The food processing process of the dining car of ordinary speed trains is relatively complicated, and generally requires 4 to 7 staff members. In recent years, wages have increased at a high rate. Low-efficiency jobs, the two are increasingly out of proportion.

Compared with the fast food boxes provided by high-speed rail and EMU trains, it is even more incomparable. The catering staff of high-speed rail and EMU can complete all the work with 2 to 3 people, and most of the personnel are dispatched laborers. Salaries, etc. relatively low expenditure.

In addition, the prices of agricultural and sideline products such as meat, poultry, eggs, flour, and edible oil have risen in recent years, but the price of dining cars cannot be arbitrarily increased, resulting in higher costs and lower profits.

Liu Qun and his team's dining car has been operating relatively well, but it has also been greatly affected in the past one or two years.

First of all, after several times of train speed increase, the running time of trains has become shorter and shorter, which has led to the reduction of most passengers' demand for dining cars, and Liu Qun's K18 train has bullet trains and high-speed trains from the starting station to the final station. , Most passengers will choose high-speed rail and bullet trains for long-distance travel when conditions permit, while short-distance passengers will basically not eat in dining cars.

This has led to the transfer of high-end passenger flow and part of the original civil aviation passenger flow to high-speed rail and bullet trains. Ordinary trains are dominated by migrant workers, students, and short-distance traffic. Although the dining car staff tried their best to improve the food standard and service quality in various ways, the operating situation of the dining car was struggling and sluggish due to the decrease in passenger flow year by year and the change in the composition of passenger flow.

The passenger section where Liu Qun works has also been trying every means to improve the operating capacity of the dining car of ordinary speed trains, but the cruel reality is in front of us, and it cannot be reversed by manpower.

The dining car has been reformed several times. At the beginning, the dining car was entrusted to outsourced enterprises to operate, mainly operating self-produced lunch boxes and some fast food products.

In this way, the formal chefs, foremen, and captains of the dining car are replaced by labor dispatch workers. First, the wage cost is reduced.But even so, the efficiency of the dining car is still difficult to improve. It seems that people are used to eating boxed lunches when they take high-speed trains, while on ordinary speed trains, passengers don’t seem to be very cold about boxed lunches.

The speed of the train has been increased several times, and it has basically reached the level of arriving at night, which makes passengers less likely to go to the dining car to buy boxed meals.

After several researches by the leaders of the group company, the dining car of the K18 train is about to be dropped, and the dining car is ready to be put into operation.

In fact, the train staff has a lot of affection for the dining car. Food is the most important thing for the people. It is a place where the train staff eats. In the past two years, the group company and the section have given a lot of subsidies to the crew for meals. The dining car is not like the crew in the past. Meals are based on the principle of fullness - big fish, big meat, big meat, but a nutritious crew meal system with a combination of meat and vegetables and balanced nutrition has been formed.

Liu Qun can think about it. He still encourages everyone with the old saying. If we can change the environment, then we will try to work hard to change the environment. If the environment cannot be changed at all, then we will get down. , lowered his noble head and adapted to the environment.

In fact, the dining car is of great significance to the train conductor. Because of the low dining chairs and seats, the dining car has a particularly wide view.Generally, if there are any difficult problems, key passengers will go to the dining car to solve them, and the same is true for the police. In public security cases, petty theft suspects will be taken to the dining car for interrogation.

Now that there is no dining car, all the staff feel very awkward.

Passenger has just arrived soft-sleeper compartment directly from hard-seat compartment, so just cause the end door that soft-sleeper compartment is connected with hard-seat compartment to lock and become an important work.

When there was a dining car, there was a dining car as a buffer, and the dining car often took chefs, dining car directors, marshals, train conductors and other personnel to conduct detailed inquiries and registrations for passengers passing through the dining car from hard seats to sleeping berths.

Now there is no dining car, and the place where the staff sit is a small soft sleeper crew room, which can seat up to two people.This has just led to the increase of the workload of the train staff in the soft sleeper compartment, and it is necessary to check and register the passengers arriving in the sleeper compartment through here one by one.

There is an unwritten rule in the passenger section, that is, it is forbidden to mix men and women in the crew room, and it is forbidden for passengers to enter the cabin and sit with the conductor.

The crew room on a passenger train is a relatively closed small space, although it has transparent glass, it is clear at a glance from the outside.But in a small space, men and women sit together, after a long time, it is inevitable that some other ideas will arise.

There is a saying in psychology that when a man and a woman sit in a relatively small space, there will inevitably be physical contact. Over time, a good impression will develop between the man and the woman.This is why men and women go to coffee houses, movie theater boxes and other relatively small places when they are in love, because it is easy to develop feelings.

After the dining car is gone, Liu Qun will generally not ride in the cabin of the soft sleeper, because if he rides in the cabin, the female conductor of the soft sleeper can only stand outside the door of the cabin, or sit crowded with Liu Qun In the flight attendant's cabin, there was barely room for two people.

As a middle-aged man with "41 flowers", Liu Qun is actually very attractive.

The conductor of the soft sleeper car is a 28-year-old female college student who graduated from a bachelor's degree. She has been in the train for two years and has excellent qualities in all aspects.

Liu Qun attaches great importance to the defense of men and women in the work unit, and he will never allow scandals to appear in his image.In this regard, he even went too far.

For example, when some young female conductors asked him for advice on business, he would politely decline and hand over the task to the conductor Zhang Lan.And Liu Qun can only teach some gay men, for example, Wang Mengmeng and Li Mang were all taught by Liu Qun.

As for female colleagues, Liu Qun has a defense that is almost like fire prevention and theft prevention.

Liu Qun reads a lot of books. He knows that some girls now like mature men like Uncle.The point is that after the young girl and the uncle have emotional entanglements, it will be an unbearable disaster for both the uncle and the young girl.

(End of this chapter)