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How a Captain Was Forged

   How difficult is it for the cleaning supervisors and team leaders at Evergrande Mingdu? It can be summarized in nine words: hoarse voice, exhausted legs, and physically and mentally drained. While this may seem exaggerated or alarmist, it's the reality.

  First, hoarse voices. Evergrande Mingdu has a large number of cleaners, currently over a hundred, and this number will increase once all four phases are completed. Managing over a hundred employees is no easy task. Due to the generally low employee quality and other factors, simply being strict isn't enough; a combination of firmness and leniency is necessary. However, leniency is often used, sometimes even resorting to coaxing. Different approaches are needed for different people, and this is the only way to get them to work. That's the only way; that's the working environment. Secondly, roll call, headcount checks, and task assignments all require attention. For example, if the number of people isn't enough, roll call often needs to be repeated.

  Third, exhausted legs. The large size of the Evergrande Mingdu complex and the wide cleaning area are evident to all the cleaners. As a team leader, one must be meticulous in every aspect. With so many positions, a team leader is exhausted just from patrolling (inspecting) after a day's work. If leaders discover problems and need to handle them on-site, or if employees report issues and need to handle them on-site, plus inspections from higher-ups, only Team Leader Zhu knows the true extent of the strain! Last year, Team Leader Zhu suffered from foot pain due to overwork and had to stay home for several days to recover.

  Thirdly, it's physically and mentally exhausting. A team leader must be both a commander and a fighter. Being a good commander is mentally exhausting, and being a good fighter is physically exhausting. If one is only physically or mentally exhausted, one can probably bear it, but if one is both physically and mentally exhausted, it becomes extremely difficult, as human energy is ultimately limited. Currently, Hengda Mingdu has four "mores": more inspections, more tasks, more rules, and more punishments. Not only veteran employees deeply understand this, but new employees are also feeling it. In terms of management, one must deal with inspections from superiors, handle various problems, worry about payroll, as well as scheduling rest days, ensuring attendance, assigning tasks, and so on—one worry after another. That's not all; a train runs fast because of its locomotive. In her daily work, Team Leader Zhu also works alongside her employees, doing everything herself. Climbing high to clean glass platforms, going down into the water to scrub pools, using machines to grind floors, removing dog poop—she does everything the male employees won't do, and she does it both well and quickly. Team Leader Zhu's work ability is admired not only by her employees but also recognized by her superiors!

  The following photos of Team Leader Zhu at work are the best proof.

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