A KFC female employee from Yuyao, Zhejiang, with job code 013, is celebrating 30 years with the company this year.
Not 30 months, and not 3 years—rather, 10,931 days. The system shows that her length of service exceeds that of 99% of employees. KFC entered China in 1987, and she has worked there for nearly 30 years—almost growing up alongside the company’s development in China.
Now over fifty years old, she is still working on the front line.
She has witnessed the company’s entire era of change—from handwritten menus and cash register operations, to order scanning and digital operations. While others have changed jobs many times, she has stayed with the job she started with.
Our generation has always been taught to job-hop, get promoted, and earn higher pay, constantly looking for a better stage. But few people tell us this: doing a regular job seriously, and living a stable life—what is it not a proof of one’s own ability to work at a foreign company for 30 years with full contributions to five social insurance and one housing fund?
There’s no legendary comeback in 30 years, no fairy-tale of sudden wealth. Life is only about 30,000 days, and this sister has spent more than 10,000 of them at KFC.
Not everyone’s life needs to be earth-shattering. Being able to live your small daily life clearly and happily—that, too, is a kind of success.
Not 30 months, and not 3 years—rather, 10,931 days. The system shows that her length of service exceeds that of 99% of employees. KFC entered China in 1987, and she has worked there for nearly 30 years—almost growing up alongside the company’s development in China.
Now over fifty years old, she is still working on the front line.
She has witnessed the company’s entire era of change—from handwritten menus and cash register operations, to order scanning and digital operations. While others have changed jobs many times, she has stayed with the job she started with.
Our generation has always been taught to job-hop, get promoted, and earn higher pay, constantly looking for a better stage. But few people tell us this: doing a regular job seriously, and living a stable life—what is it not a proof of one’s own ability to work at a foreign company for 30 years with full contributions to five social insurance and one housing fund?
There’s no legendary comeback in 30 years, no fairy-tale of sudden wealth. Life is only about 30,000 days, and this sister has spent more than 10,000 of them at KFC.
Not everyone’s life needs to be earth-shattering. Being able to live your small daily life clearly and happily—that, too, is a kind of success.
