Today is our last night at Osaka before flying back to Singapore. My girl was doing the last shopping at a drugstore for some snacks, and I as usual, ended up find a staircase to sit as I can’t find any chairs nearby.
Then I spotted this worker by her machine-like, echoing voice.
She was repeating the promotion phrase in Chinese language like “Please come visit our store for 85% discount if you purchase more than…”, “We’ve got huge variation of products…”, and so on, while waving the advertisement board at the crowd manually.
For the whole period I was sitting at the staircase, non-stop. Guess she and her coworkers will have to do this all day long.
This is probably the most meaningless job I’ve ever witnessed in first world country. Totally replaceable by a machine and her workforce would be producing more value elsewhere instead of just shouting the same phrases over and over. May be the store owner thought this is a effective way of attracting the traffic. Anyway, the owner need someone to get the job done and the girls need a job. Supply and demand right?
I felt bad for existence of such teribble job.
今天最后一天在大阪,入夜前我们杀入药妆店买最后一波要带回去的日本零食。女人去购物,而我就一如既往的坐在楼梯上刷手机(因为没椅子)。
这时候一个机械般的声音反复重播着关于这店铺的广告,比如什么“快来光顾大优惠八折”之类的。我以为是播放器,却原来是一个女员工用自己的声音,加上对着楼下的行人手动反复摇摆着广告牌。
整整半个小时,可以说我坐在那里多久她就这样干了多久。貌似这就是她的工作内容,也习以为常了。
心里说实话是很悲凉的,这应该是我在发达国家遇到过最毫无意义的工作了吧。重复性,机械化的工作却还要一个活生生的人来进行,是我的话真的接收不到。背后的故事没人知道,可能雇主需要人干活,这员工也需要一份工作?各取所需吧。
反正坐在楼上的这半个小时,我心里是悲凉的。
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