The factory director understood everyone's unease and reassured them, "The factory director doesn't need to know how to operate a sewing machine. All right, don't worry, cooperate properly with Comrade Xiao Xia's arrangements and do a good job this time. Let's see whether Comrade Xiao Xia can sell the clothes in the warehouse! If she can sell them, you'll be able to get your wages sooner, and it will also prove that she has the ability to manage the factory. Then you won't have to worry about being laid off."
Why had the Garment Factory gone bankrupt?
Because the clothes it produced couldn't be sold! If the things you produced couldn't be sold, wouldn't the factory go under?
If Jiang Xia could sell the clothes, that would prove she had some ability, and the factory would have a glimmer of hope.
One of the factory's salesmen immediately said, "The factory director is right. Let's see what she's got that can sell so many clothes from the warehouse!"
In the past, the factory had sold clothes by the truckload, sending them directly to various government offices or Supply and Marketing Cooperatives. Now they were setting up a street stall and selling them one piece at a time. Who knew how long it would take to sell them all?
He wasn't optimistic about Jiang Xia's approach.
Only a few hundred people passed along this street each day.
Selling by the factory gate, they'd be lucky to sell a thousand pieces!
Perhaps because they had no expectations of Jiang Xia, everyone quickly lost patience.
"Weren't we supposed to sell clothes? We've already carried them out, so why haven't they come out yet? People are already coming over to ask about the prices."
"I don't understand why she had everyone change clothes! Aren't we