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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What Chinese occupations people from developed countries would never do?
In China you can see people doing the most annoying, boring, repetitive and useless jobs ever. Of course they do it for a living. So take this question on a lighter level.
For example, I am fascinating by people whose job is to peel the pineapple all day and everyday in supermarkets. If it was me I would peel my wrists after a day.
11 years 34 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
1. Toilet cleaner. Yes we have sanitary cleaners back home. But no sanitary cleaner back home will clean a toilet with a puddle of urine, a turd missing the mark and its half on the floor and in the bowl.
2. Waiter. Another one that we have at home. But yet again the waiters back home would not stand for people who are yelling at them for a order, yelling at them cause it is a too hot, and then laugh with your buddies about how tough you where.
List really goes on.
I think one of the most demeaning jobs i've come across was in Liuzhou where it was popular to have a female employee stand outside a shop (clothes shops usually) and clap constantly to attract attention. Basically the work of a wind-up monkey but without the cymbals. Then again in London there are people who's job is to stand holding a sign for hours on end, making themselves nothing more than glorified sign-posts.
Sweeping with a home-made broom in the middle of the street and not batting an eye while surrounded by moving maniacs on wheels!!
Today, I bought a bottle of Jack Daniels. the attendant gave me the slip of paper for me to take to the cashier and pay.
I do so, and I notice that there are two girls there. One handled the money, filled out another form and gave me back my change. Her partner? All she did was stamp the paper the cashier gave her and what a show! She opens this box. Takes out the ONLY chop. Presses it into the ink and the paper, then puts it in the box. Closes the box and puts it away EVEN THOUGH THERE ARE MORE PEOPLE IN LINE! Seems like it would be easier to just hold on to the chop?
Wow.....
Work in a factory for 12 hours a day/ 6 days a week, under horrible working conditions for a measly monthly salary..
cooter:
Try 7 days a week in a lot of factories, and other places as well...
The guy who hangs out a 30th floor window who's only safety is a rope that he may or may not have to service/install air conditioning units.
Farming, Chinese style:
In the States most farmers have access to machinery which makes their job less difficult (farming, I dare say, is never easy). However, here in China, farming really IS back-breaking! When traveling by train, I have seen farmers up more than an hour before dawn diligently working their fields, and again, long after the sun has set. With absolutely NO machinery except the tractor-car they use for transporting their goods.
I truly have the highest respect for farmers here in China, they really do have a difficult life here.
I wouldn't work in a candy shop in China where you have to stand at the entrance and clap all day.
hiddenjelly:
That goes for more than just candy shops, I've seen them standing on chairs outside clothes stalls clapping!
all depends on salary... if I'll have western company CEO salary while cleaning toilets - I think it would compensate inconveniences (then I could even buy equipment by myself)
all I would not accept - jobs that risking my health and life more, than usually back home
GuilinRaf:
I got one better!
Get CEO salary and then pay some other guy to actually do the work for you. maybe offer him twice the rate he would get if he worked for someone else...
WhiteBear:
that would be not fair, we talking about what WE could or could not do ;)