The Fall of the Star
Chapter 15 Being a Low-Level Employee

Whether this is karma or what, but Ayudia began to feel that what she had once despised was now always approaching. He used to insult Nindy who deliberately planned to graduate High School directly working in the supermarket just as a salesperson or cashier. Recognizing it as a lowly occupation, even though all professions are equally noble in the eyes of God as long as it is done on an honest path and hopes to find halal sustenance for the sake of the family.

In fact, now it's much worse than Nindy. Nindy's work is at least still in the supermarkets are wah and bona fide, not like it is in the production building of a factory that although the international scale, but the level of comfort of the production employees has not been so prioritized.

Nindy all day can stay with a neat dress and appearance okay in front of buyers, while Ayudia must be a straw of glue, also a fragment of shoe material that sometimes even smells stuck in the clothes all day. Not to mention the work hours that sometimes feel unnatural.

Factory employees do not have the right to refuse overtime hours that could be imposed at any time. If there are many orders, for example, or delivery deadlines ahead, then Ayudia may have to work overtime from seven in the morning until she can only go home at eight in the evening!

“Today we will be overtime until eight, yes!” shouted the foreman who was a bully woman in her forties. He was pacing along a row of production employees who were busy doing their respective tasks.

No one dared to answer or refuse, because if you refuse or skip, then get ready to get a letter of reprimand from the boss and certainly scolding along the way of memory from the foreman who seemed to act as an employer. Though they are fellow employees despite different positions.

“Ayo, fast! One hour new time’ get this, anyway? Look at how much your target is! You are slow!” Similar jolts and snares were already daily food in the manufacturing plant of such a production section. There employees are required to work hard like robots without fatigue. Every hour the results of each will be calculated and deposited and then recorded until there is a handle for the foreman to check and blaspheme anyone employees who he considers weak and slow the performance of the entire production team.

At first Ayudia felt shocked and hurt half-dead had ever been said, but then all day she heard was the same sentence until finally her ears and heart were immune. Like the foreman is paid to do that, pressing employees to produce results that are in accordance with the company's target.

With such conditions, Ayudia increasingly rarely able to communicate with Elvira and other friends of the victim of his boasting. After work he was very tired and no longer in the mood to hallucinate maintaining an imaginative image that he was a university student in Bandung there.

Moreover, every time he left and went home to work he must always be wary of not wanting to cross paths or be seen by friends during his High School that he was just a lowly factory employee. In fact, it is also not a shameful thing other than the assumption of Ayudia itself. No one ever insulted the employee profession other than himself. And ironically, he is now living the profession because of economic problems.

“Pity once you, He. Actually there can not relax work, tired, yes, son?” Ms. Nani often lamented the fate of her daughter.

But in front of her mother and father, Ayudia was always trying hard. He may have had the heart to lie to Elvira and many other friends, but to his father and mother, he never had the heart to see them hard or suffer. If you can, it will be replaced as much as possible. One of the things he could do was work at the time.

“True, Dia?” tanya Bu Nani looks a little sparkling her eyes.

“Iya, Mom. So initially Ayudia was in the regular production section, but then the boss may see Ayudia diploma or how, finally Ayudia often asked for help to the office to work on production reports, and then the boss may see the Ayudia diploma, so do not do the production, just record the results, Bu.”

Yes, there are indeed some lucky employees who are in the job desk like that, but of course not Ayudia the person. The chosen ones are usually beautiful, proportioned body and good at dressing up. Accuracy and intelligence alone are not enough to get a good position. Good looking is a must!, perhaps a fitting sentence for the situation Ayudia observed in her place of work. That's the real world! That is also why Ayudia is much more comfortable immersed in her own world of hallucinations.

“Alhamdulillah, Son. I am so proud of you. Thank goodness your work is not as hard as they say. If you hear the neighbor's story, pity see you if you experience it too. He said his foremen were also evil once his words were often rude to employees,” said Bu Nani could not help the happy tone of his voice.

“Ayudia didn't experience it, Mom. I am calm,” said Ayudia half to comfort and calm the heart of the mother, half to fulfill her own sense of prestige.

Mr. Anwar who got news from his wife was also happy. At least Ayudia wasn't as miserable as expected. Her daughter now gives Pak Anwar and Bu Nani a monthly amount of money from her salary. That made them so moved, even though they initially insisted on refusing because they wanted Ayudia to keep it for herself. Maybe later when it has been collected a lot can be for tuition fees.

“It's okay, Sir, Mom. Please accept. It's just a form of devotion to Him, yes. For savings He has set aside himself, kok.” What a noble attitude of their daughter, so considered Pak Anwar and Bu Nani while not having the power to hold haru.

What Ayudia forgets is that it is possible that Bu Nani told that to other neighbors who are also fellow employees at the Ayudia factory. If it happens, then immediately the lie will be exposed. But she thought that the neighbors who worked there were very busy mothers, rarely going out of the house, after the factory they would dwell in the house with their children and husbands. Most only occasionally out for shopping for home and kitchen needs only. Her mother would definitely not have the chance to discuss Ayudia's booty, he thought.

As for his mother's intention to talk about Ayudia, it was to boast of her daughter who could now work well established in the factory with a job unlike other production employees. Then he was proud that now Ayudia could greatly support the economic needs of their families. Indeed, their family's financial condition then improved over time after Ayudia worked and earned herself.