The World of Labour? It Sucks
April 07, 2014"Hours are long. Wages are pitiful. But sweatshops are the symptom, not the cause, of shocking global poverty. Workers go there voluntarily, which means—hard as it is to believe—that whatever their alternatives are, they are worse. They stay there, too; turnover rates of multinational-owned factories are low, because conditions and pay, while bad, are better than those in factories run by local firms."Tim Harford, The Undercover Economist
Referring to that quote, I consider all of you might find a cue to what I am going to talk. Yes, it is. I don't want to disguise it, but yes, this post is something that you could call as one of my deprivation.
Entering the work field is not as easy as it seems; you graduate from school, get degree, find a job and directly earn your own money, blah blah blah. I'm sorry to say this but I don't mean to disrupt or ruin everyone's expectation. This one is a mere fact that you'd finally end up with.
Entering the work field is not as easy as it seems; you graduate from school, get degree, find a job and directly earn your own money, blah blah blah. I'm sorry to say this but I don't mean to disrupt or ruin everyone's expectation. This one is a mere fact that you'd finally end up with.
I've experienced so many things in that sphere, the world of service and hospitality. Or I'd rather say that it has been part of my life; I learn and build my dream from that beginning.
Yet, sometimes reality might bring you nothing but disappointment.
Yet, sometimes reality might bring you nothing but disappointment.
Recently for almost a year I decided to take a risk to enter the hospitality industry for one of the world famous sweatshop. From the outer appearance, you would see me and other people work in this field, be super nice and friendly with the greatest and pleasant smile as best as we could.
We serve people, accommodate them with a very good care, show our best effort to make them satisfied of our treatment.
Honestly, at first, you might find it difficult to really do it genuinely. It would seem awkward and weird, but as the time takes part you feel that this is would be one of your passion, your future carrier; the one that really suits you. And it is. Until it came to me that I am nothing but ordinary human being who could feel fed up and sick of those torturing times that I have to face every single day.
We serve people, accommodate them with a very good care, show our best effort to make them satisfied of our treatment.
Honestly, at first, you might find it difficult to really do it genuinely. It would seem awkward and weird, but as the time takes part you feel that this is would be one of your passion, your future carrier; the one that really suits you. And it is. Until it came to me that I am nothing but ordinary human being who could feel fed up and sick of those torturing times that I have to face every single day.
Working at sweatshop implies paradoxical condition where it is very poor to have bad condition and result on bad payment. It demands your great effort to be as perfect as you could but the payment just make things more miserable. The paradox is that even though it really tortures you, it is something that you need the most and there is nothing you can do except go through it no matter hard it will be.
At the end, it really makes me sick of it when everything that I've fought for, results on underestimation and becomes something meaningless. It hurts your mentally and physically even when you earn very little money afterall.
Somehow when you just can stand it, there are bad times which make you feel like falling into pieces day by day. However, the great thing that I can learn from it is just the way to survive. This world of labor expects and demands you to stand still even when you've become nothing but broken piece of crap.
Somehow when you just can stand it, there are bad times which make you feel like falling into pieces day by day. However, the great thing that I can learn from it is just the way to survive. This world of labor expects and demands you to stand still even when you've become nothing but broken piece of crap.
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