The Fall of the Star
Chapter 19 Is Still Busy

Already started working on H+2 lebaran indeed seems very less humane. At least that's the assumption of office employees or PNS who have a fairly long leave allowance. Not so with factory employees or more often called workers. Yes, they are laborers who are employed based on working hours every day.

Even though government rules have been established regarding regional minimum wages in each region, there are only unruly businessmen who own capital and play tricks on the rules. For example, by not paying salaries for workers who are sick permits. Shouldn't by asking for sick permission and until sending a doctor's certificate to the company, then the right as a worker on that day is still the company's responsibility? But in fact not, the salary is still not paid, which means that if a worker is sick a few days a month, then the salary he receives must be far below UMR.

“It's finished yet? Don't let go, yeah! If it catches up at home, don't work!” The same touch was very common to be heard in Ayudia's ears.

“This is a very slow work you1 The paid is your energy! Quickly finish!” say some foremen to the workers.

From the first day of work even he heard a far more scorn that scratched the heart of anyone who heard it. But because from the beginning his goal was to focus on working to make money and help the family economy and his savings for college, then he thickened his face and ears to hear and live it all.

After all, indeed all foremen behave like that to every subordinate, indiscriminately. Whether new or old, if the performance is less deft or there is a mishandling, then the swearing will slide out so easily. For a long time he got used to it and did not bother about it.

Because when the hour of rest has arrived, then the cruel foremen will return to be normal humans who like to eat lunch with subordinates, sometimes distributing free food under the pretext of an apology for its rudeness. And also provide understanding that their attitude in working hours is the demands of work from superiors. That their roughness is in order for their daily production targets to be met.

“How is your part time work, Him? It's smooth, right? Now where?” ask Elvira on the phone at night.

“Currently, El. I moved to the printing house. Notably the salary is greater,” Ayudia replied while scrooling google about a CV printing in an area near the campus that became the settings of the booty where she attended college.

“Wah, very good. So already ngerepotin parents asking for extra monthly money, yes?” elvira asked, again amazed at the habits of her best friend in finding whatever he wanted.

“Yes thank God. Even I can save a little from my work. You usually we also get a bonus if our performance is good.” Ayudia was growing her boasting as if her job was the best in the world.

Everything he says is usually the exact opposite of what happens in the factory where he works for real. If you make a mistake that harms the production numbers, usually the workers are even threatened with a fine that is not small. Fortunately, Ayudia never made a fatal mistake.

Elvira who was very good at being grateful, it should have been a valuable lesson for Ayudia. But in fact not, Ayudia even always make Elvira as a benchmark for his misfortune in life. Because in his eyes, he always stared at what advantages Elvira had and unfortunately did not have also by him.

“You are only luckier than me, El,” grumbled Ayudia when they had ended the chat.

“Enak just said the work experience will be valuable. Valuable as a memory of inner wounds yes! He didn't know what kind of slurs our ears used to hear, huh! You wise ass!” he continued to nag himself.

And finally then he will spend the night imagining his savings are many and enough for the cost of college. Then he would stop working from the factory and go to college. After graduation, he will come back there and apply for a high position there. Then only then can he avenge all his heartache against the foremen who had met him and also the seniors who sometimes participated in suppressing him.

What an inappropriate goal becomes a positive thing that needs to be pursued. The motivation for revenge is certainly not something that the Supreme Owner of Life diridhoi, is not it? Again, Ayudia only piled up the greater the error in her own heart and life. Worse, when all his plans fail miserably, what he blames is nothing but fate and how unjust God is to him.

And mash like that his life at home. Fun to work from morning to evening, even at night if you have to be overtime. Then, go home and sleep without socializing for a while with neighbors or peers around his house.

He thinks he has his own thing that cannot be shared with them. According to him he is not se’class’ with all of them. He was a visionary who wanted to break the world in the future. In fact, in fact, he was just cultivating the path to failure at every step. Because all the choices he took were precisely the opposite path to the one called honesty.

In fact, the biggest loss he experienced was when his school teacher BK was looking for news about him. With the aim of giving him a scholarship opportunity from one of the universities for the new school year which will begin in the next few months, with Ayudia immediately closed his communication access. He said that he had gone to college without knowing that the news of the friend might be an opportunity for him to achieve the dream he had been chasing.

“Oh, already in college, yes?” The teacher of BK only received news from one of Ayudia's friends who was eaten by the booty from Ayudia herself.

“Thank God, he deserves to go to college. Unfortunately if you do not continue with such a brilliant brain,” comments the teacher BK was also happy with the news. Of course, the opportunity was then transferred to other students who did claim to still have no luck for college.

Indeed, when one chooses the wrong door by sheer lust, the good doors that open slowly become closed by themselves because of their error. It is a loss many times that those who are impatient in waiting for Allah's help blindly seek their passions in various ways, no matter their good or bad. But the end must be just a loss. Now Ayudia's lies are spreading like a reality that he indeed continued college.