Risky Job

I just returned from conducting 2 days of classes in Zhuhai. From the balcony of my hotel room this morning, I saw these two gentlemen (in the photo) lowering themselves from the roof (6 floors up) of the hotel building to clean the windows.

They did so with no harness, no safety belt, no special footwear nor clothing. And there wasn’t anybody else around on the roof nor on the ground watching over them.

They sure made it look like a piece of cake.

At the moment, I thought of the physical risks that they have to take each day and wondered about the risks white collar workers take. The risks that white collar folks face are emotional and psychological.

I mean, you will hardly get injured physically in the office pushing the pen and pounding the keyboard yet what actually hurts more is the ego and the “face” if something doesn’t go well.

For these two workers, their lives are at stake if something goes wrong.