The Stepmother’s Counterattack: Raising a Child in a Bygone Era

It was almost nine o’clock in the evening when Pei Wenping finally got off work and went home. She ate the meal and soup that Shen Mingzhu had specially left for her, her face full of satisfaction and happiness.

"The food at home always smells better; the cafeteria dishes at the factory are getting worse by the day."

"Didn’t they just get a new chef this year?"

Pei Wenping gave her a look and said, "Talking about this always feels like complaining, but the current taste and quality of the cafeteria, compared to when you managed it, is far from comparable."

"The previous collective meals have been changed to a meal subsidy. Not to mention breakfast, but for lunch and dinner, each meal averages sixty cents per person. You can barely get a meat and a vegetable dish at the regular counter. It sounds okay, but if you see it, you’d know the vegetables are utterly devoid of any oil, and the meat isn’t anything good either."

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"If you want to eat well, you have to pay extra to eat at a single stove, and the minimum extra cost per meal is one yuan and eighty cents. Those of us in management can afford it, but ordinary workers only earn five to six yuan a day. Asking them to pay an extra yuan for a meal, isn’t that demanding too much from them?"

"Frankly, the cafeteria restructuring has indeed reduced costs and increased efficiency for the factory, but it has also built up quite a bit of resentment among the employees. Every change has its pros and cons."

After listening to Pei Wenping’s complaints, Shen Mingzhu objectively analyzed, "This isn’t entirely due to the cafeteria’s restructuring. The cafeteria subcontractors bear a large part of the blame."

Pei Wenping said, "We shouldn’t have outsourced the cafeteria in the first place."

Shen Mingzhu realistically stated, "Outsourcing the cafeteria also has its benefits. The subcontractors have their advantages in procurement and operation, and the factory can reduce its operational pressure. It’s a win-win for both parties."