HO CHI MINH CITY – Near the Tet holiday, seeing that many of his employees were about to return to their hometown in the midst of the Covid-19 outbreak, Mr. Truyen advised them to stay and promised to take care of the Tet holiday properly.
In the last days of the year, the company of architect Pham Thanh Truyen in District 10 is still working, but the director allows everyone to take a break, together to go to the market to buy leaves, sticky rice, green beans … about the cake package. distillation.
They are all hometown employees in epidemic provinces such as Gia Lai, Hai Phong, Hanoi and people in the provinces that have not yet experienced the outbreak but still decide to celebrate the Saigon New Year.
“Many employees have families in the middle of the translation, so I advise you to stay in Saigon for a year of Tet. The company will take care of everything and ‘make sure the New Year has meat’,” said Mr. Truyen laughs.
Tran Thanh Tung, 30 years old, from Kien An, Hai Phong, has been working at the company for 6 years. This is the first time that Tet is away from home. Although his hometown is not an epidemic and he can still return, the neighboring regions such as Hai Duong and Quang Ninh are hot spots of Covid-19 outbreak, so the risk of infection can still occur. At the end of January, while trying to buy tickets to his hometown, the translation broke out, the boy postponed the ticketing plan. While watching the news, I was nervous about not going home when Tet was approaching.
“I suddenly thought about having to stay in Saigon. Then I remembered the scenery in the countryside, the people coming back from the countryside, the people going to the streets to shop, the atmosphere was very bustling,” said the young man. Everybody must try to go home.
Like Tung, a 23-year-old girl named Dieu Thanh has just graduated from school and has worked at the company for less than a year, so she hopes Tet to return to her hometown because she has not been home to visit her parents for the whole year.
The Thanh was located in Cheo Reo ward, town of Ayun Pa, where the first cases of Covid-19 infection of Gia Lai occurred. As soon as the family area was blocked off, the parents called their daughter to advise their children not to return. The girl is concerned about the health of her parents in the countryside, and worries that the rows of Tet flowers have bloomed again and cannot be sold. Moreover, the thought of having Tet alone in Saigon made the girl confused.
Do not know whether to decide whether to go home or stay, Tung, Thanh and more than 10 other employees whose hometown are epidemic localities received a notification from the director Truyen.
From the day of establishment, Mr. Truyen has built a working environment – resting within the company with all the dining areas, gym, recording studio, singing and also housing for employees. .
“The staff accommodation is just over a hundred meters from the company, but before now, many of you still choose to stay. If Tet is sad, just move here. Everyone has fun and eat together,” said the architect. 50 years old said.
More than a month ago, Mr. Truyen had decorated the campus in front of the company like a flower line. Join everyone in ao dai to take pictures and film the music video where the singer is the director and the actors are the staff.
“Food is not worried. The company has a car available, can take people to places that are allowed to travel, take pictures. After Tet, if the translation is well controlled, I will rearrange work for everyone. share to go home to visit home “, Mr. Truyen said
In previous years, this architect’s Tet was a foreign trip. But for employees in the company, he understands the mentality that young people want to be with their family, so he wants to make everyone happy.
He confided to the staff: “Let’s try to see Saigon New Year as a new experience. Just think happily that you are traveling abroad for example. The company takes care of everyone, then what to do. scared”.
So both Thanh and Tung and many other employees were no longer worried about anything, they decided to stay.
Now, Tung is eager to experience his first Tet away from home in a big city. Where he often hears that Tet is empty, there are no traffic jams. Although the North-born boy cannot eat the spring rolls like in his hometown, he is very much looking forward to enjoying the duck meat stew of the human resources director.
As for Thanh, the young girl feels secure when she does not celebrate Tet alone in her room. She will cut banh chung with everyone, eat pickled palanquin roots, drink tea … The phone calls to Thanh’s house are also more stable, telling her parents: “If the flower beds cannot be sold, let them ‘make’ Tet. Always, the yard will be very bright. Parents are assured, all translation will come back. “
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