Especially for *nick
*nick, this is for you: let's just say I have no words to say: for you to interpret and for us to know?! ;)
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7 comments:
nick, better check out the two guys in orange smiling at the top right of the pic
OUTRAGEOUS!!
I must investigate. Just look at them!
They are just sitting their on our property taking their early morning crap.
You know, crouching on the heels, and out comes the bottle or jug of water!
It’s Disgusting!
AFTER ALL I HAVE DONE FOR THEM.
Bring them over from their coconut trees in Cochipapurimanppattanvilasaltal and Trivalussirandraundremunpalamm and give them nice bright clothes and a multiple bunkbed and one whole piece of bread per day and an entire toilet for them and their 350 colleagues – and then they are just having a blast on our building site!!
Look at them – you might think they are enjoying a break sitting around and lolling their heads.
OH NO. Subversive they are!! They literally sit there and smile and shit on me and my profits!!
When they should be working for their money, like I do.
Blogging or not.
nick, man, your comment is so appalling to the human race.
don't you know these guys are digging some hole and they've been doing that the whole day? Can't you see why they're kneeling in that position? My goodness, one should have more sympathy for these guys. Their company probably doesn't even know where Moromodogluvanavasam is to be able to purchase them a ticket home.
Me, I was simply walking on by when I took this pic. I enjoyed sweating, to say I've done my job and made these guys momentarily happy: after all, a moment with me is pure luxury: these guys dug their hole and ate it too.
Oh yah, after that I got into my luxury car and went back home.
LOL you know what...from looking at these dudes I wasn't quite sure WHAT they were doing...and when I turned the corner in my luxury car, there was scaffolding up on the Maktoum bridge, and some guy was trying to throw rope up to the guy on top of the scaffolding.
Nick, you're obviously missing out.
Hmmm no safety helmet.
You are not the only one who doesn't know what they are doing. They don't themselves. These guys are helpers. Their purpose in life is to hold things.
Are you required to hold things in your job? Other than a Starbucks Latte?
Buj is right, no safety helmet, nor protective footwear or hi-vi vest.
Too expensive for them. These things cost money. Who's going to think about OUR profit margin if I don't?
I have a hard hat when I go to site, goes without saying.
With my name on it, snazzy yellow. Spoils my coiffed hair, though.
No, nick, my job is similar to yours in that I bark the orders and others "hold the latte" ;)
In terms of safety on sites such as these (does the place in the pic get classified as a construction site, or roadworks?) would it be "good" practice for these guys to wear helmets? Are they required as per "int'l guidelines?"
On your point about profit margins, I've met some dudes whose companies advise on safety aspects on construction sites. If it's a matter of profit, why are these companies consulted in the first place when it must cost an arm and a leg to do so in the first place?
I wasn't exactly serious, y'know.
Compliance with Health & safety regulations is a legal requirement is most countries. Even here, actually, but the regulations are not very onerous here, and enforcement is lax, to say the least.
Consultants are a necessary pain in the arse. I was one myself. Health and Safety is a big issue and we should all maintain the standards as required by the law. It's in our own, and society's interest, to safeguard lives.
e.g. you know that contractors are liable to pay blood money if a guy dies on site and it is found to have been the contractor's responsibility. It's called vicarious responsibility for one's employees.
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