When I Am Reborn in 2026, I Am Doing Daily Settlement in the Warehouse

Era background: In 2026, in a logistics hub city in southwest China, intelligent warehousing and human handling coexist, and daily work is the last refuge for the bottom labor force. Technological iterations are accelerating the elimination of middle-aged programmers. Social implicit age discrimination has spread to the manual labor market outside the Internet. Even porter positions have begun to introduce AI scheduling systems. Protagonist setting: Xiao Ming, 38 years old, is a former senior back-end engineer of "Starlink Technology". Due to the optimization of the company's structural adjustment, he failed to find a job for three months after losing his job. He suffered from mild anxiety and insomnia. He was unable to recover for one month and was forced to work part-time in a warehouse. Rational, rigorous, and accustomed to using code logic to analyze the world, there is still a struggle between decency and dignity in his heart. Family background: His wife A Fang is a housewife and has a 10-year-old son Xiaoyu who is in the fourth grade of primary school. My hometown is in a remote rural area in the southwest. My parents are old but healthy. They make a living by farming and their income is meager. Xiao Ming's brother is divorced, and his two children are raised by his parents. The family has a heavy burden. Xiao Ming is the only financial supporter of the family. Core conflict: the feeling of torn apart by mental workers falling into the manual labor class; the double crushing of mid-life crisis and family economic pressure; re-examining self-worth and social positioning in repetitive labor. Key people: Lao Chen: Warehouse daily closing foreman, 50 years old. He was a laid-off worker in a state-owned factory. He is good at calculating working hours and dealing with supervisors. Although he looks indifferent on the surface, he secretly takes care of the newcomers and is Xiao Ming's "guide". He sends money every month to support the two children left behind by his brother, shouldering the heavy promise of "an elder brother is like a father". Manager Li: Manager of Logistics Park Area B, 35 years old,