After work, it's back to rented rooms and stories about workers' lives
After many hours of working at the factory, a part of the workers returned to their rented rooms and almost closed all activities during the day.
After working a shift at an electronic component manufacturing company in Thang Long Industrial Park (Hanoi), Mr. Phan Duc Khai (27 years old, from Tan Minh commune, Nam Dinh province), often returns to his rented room in the evening. The work at the company lasts for many hours, making his time for entertainment activities less.
After work at the end of the day, I am quite tired. If I don't work overtime, I have a little time to sit and talk to my roommates; if I come home late, I just want to eat, shower and go to bed," Mr. Khai shared.
Mr. Khai's rented room has a TV, but he doesn't turn it on every day. After dinner, the phone becomes the most convenient means of entertainment. Mr. Khai lies in the room, surfing the internet to watch news, videos or chat with friends.
Mr. Khai shared that before, he often went out with some colleagues to drink water or play sports after work. However, the difference in overtime and working hours makes such meetings increasingly rare.
If you want to go out, you also have time. Sometimes brothers make appointments, but one person works overtime, and the other has to go home to take care of family matters, so in the end they can't go," Mr. Khai said.
Mr. Khai is currently renting a room with a friend in Bau village (Thien Loc commune, Hanoi). The rented room is about 12m2 wide, a group of 3 people shared the rent, electricity and water costs about 700,000 VND/person/month. Although cramped, Mr. Khai has no intention of moving out because the rented room is very close to the company where he works.
What Mr. Khai wants most is to have a playground near the boarding house, and to be equipped with some basic exercise equipment like in the park. "Only then, after work, we can take advantage of exercising for about 1 hour and then go home to worry about eating and resting," Mr. Khai said.
Mr. Pham Minh Thanh - a worker at a plastic company currently rents a room in a 2-story row of rented rooms in Bau village. Each room is about 11m2 wide, Mr. Thanh said "very cramped and stuffy".
“The room is already cramped, outside the hallway, everyone is parking their cars and drying clothes, some rooms even bring mini gas stoves to the yard to cook. After work, the smell of food and gasoline rushes up, making me very tired. Many times I want to open the room door for ventilation but I have to close it tightly to reduce grease and noise,” Mr. Thanh said.
The 26-year-old young man is renting out with a male colleague working in the same company. According to Mr. Thanh, to save time and limit the odor in the cramped room, he and his friends eat shifts at the company, the rest of the meals are proactively eaten outside; on days when he is embarrassed, he returns to the room to eat instant noodles and then goes to bed early.
“We don't have the concept of weekend entertainment or going for coffee, watching movies. The biggest joy is having special occasions such as National Day holiday, April 30th holiday, people in the boarding area who don't go home contribute money to buy common party items,” Mr. Thanh said.
Sharing with reporters, Mr. Thanh said that his biggest dream is to increase his income to have money to rent a cooler accommodation. For him, accommodation greatly affects health and the ability to regenerate labor.
The male worker also wants to save money to buy a large-screen TV, occasionally watching football matches with Vietnamese teams participating...
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