Aoxin Clothing's "Household Head": Dedication in the Details
In most people's minds, the boss of a clothing company should always be sitting in an office with floor-to-ceiling windows, signing documents, holding meetings, and pointing the way forward with a pen between their fingers. But at Aoxin Clothing, the boss that employees see every day, Ms. Su, always carries an air of down-to-earth industriousness — her high heels have stepped on the concrete floors of clients' factories and the piles of fabric in the workshop, and the cuffs of her sleeves are always faintly stained with cotton lint.
At 7:30 in the morning, as soon as the company's glass door is unlocked, Ms. Su's figure already appears at the reception desk. She is carrying two bulging sample bags, and there is still the moisture of morning dew on her forehead:
"These are the new fabric samples mentioned by the Xiaoshan client when I visited them yesterday. Ask Brother Hong from the purchasing department to check the composition in the morning." After speaking, she heads straight to the office. Before the attendance sheet on the desk has a chance to be updated, her name has already been marked as "arrived" in advance by the security guard. Before turning on her computer, she always takes a detour to the workshop. At this time, the sewing workers have just tied their aprons, and she reaches out to touch the neckline of the children's clothes that were rushed to be made last night: "Is the elasticity of this batch of ribbed cotton sufficient? Has it deformed after washing? Ask the quality inspection team to check more pieces." No one knows better than Xiao Zhou from the business department about Ms. Su's dedication to running business.
Last month, when negotiating a foreign trade order in Ningbo, the client temporarily requested to see the water-wash test reports for three types of fabrics. Without hesitation, Ms. Su took the samples and went straight to the testing center. When she arrived at the client's company with the reports, it happened to be their lunch break. She sat on a bench in the lobby holding the sample bags, eating bread while revising the contract details. When the client noticed the smell of disinfectant from the testing center on her cuffs, they sighed: "I've met many bosses, but you're the first one who personally carries samples to run tests." The order signed that day was 30% more than expected. The veteran workers in the workshop always say that Ms. Su's eyes are sharper than quality inspection instruments.
At 3 o'clock every afternoon, she never fails to make her rounds in the workshop. When she reaches the cutting area, she will squat down to pick up the scraps of fabric on the ground and check the fabric density against the light:
"The yarn count of this batch of linen is a bit loose. Ask the supplier to increase it by two counts for the next shipment." Passing by the overlock machine workstation, she reaches out to hold the being sewn: "Adjust the stitch length here to be denser. The client makes outdoor workwear, and it needs to be durable." Her notebook is filled with dense details: "Master Zhang's sewing machine needs a new needle" "The position of the hangtags in the final packaging should be uniformly shifted left by two centimeters", and the handwriting is mixed with occasional ink stains and fabric fibers.
When night falls, the light in Ms. Sus office is always the last to be turned off. At 6 o'clock in the evening, the workshop gradually quiets down, but she is still checking the day's shipment list with the production supervisor. Her
fingertips glide over the quality inspection card of each piece of clothing, and suddenly stop at a shirt: "The stitching on the placket of this one is a bit crooked. Although it doesn't affect wearing, the client wants high-quality products, so we need to rework it." After all the workers have left work, she will finally check the power switches in the workshop. Passing by the pantry and seeing the cleaning lady wiping the table, she always smiles and hands over a newly bought hand cream: "You touch disinfectant every day; your hands need care.; The security uncle says that when he locks the door at 9 o'clock every night, he always sees Ms. Su coming out of the elevator carrying sample bags, and the crisp sound of her high heels in the empty corridor is like a full stop to the days busyness.
Employees privately always say that Ms. Su is not like a boss, but more like the head of a household. She remembers every worker's birthday and hands out cake coupons at morning meetings; when she knows that a salesperson's
child is ill, she quietly changes their business trip to a local client; even when the filter of the water dispenser in the workshop needs to be replaced, she supervises the logistics to get it done. Someone advises her not to work so hard, but she always shakes her head with a smile: ;Clothes are worn on people; every stitch and thread must be taken seriously. The reason Aoxin has come this far is not because I sit in the office and think about it, but because of the orders we've run for and the quality we've kept an eye on. Those early morning sample bags, the smell of cotton lint in the workshop, and the late-night lights all come together to form the most solid confidence in the hearts of Aoxin people — it turns out that the best leadership is never about giving orders from a high position, but about living a lively life with everyone and putting dedication into every detail.
