Disturbing Local Trends

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Been noticing some disturbing trends in SG in the past week.

Newspapers talked quite a bit about service staff, and upgrading their skills, and customers shd appreciate them by being polite, etc rite? well they missed out the group of workers who need it most: Cleaners.

Cleaners have it rather bad in SG... most of us view their job as menial and dirty, so not only we don't appreciate, we sometimes even ignore their presence when they come to clean our tables at the hawker centre or sweep under our feet. And now even more than ever, we need to show more appreciation and give them more skills upgrading, with respect to the upgrading of their jobs as well.

Yup, now not only are they clearing up used plates, tissue paper and half eaten bones, now their job scope includes finding human bones like CSI as well! look at the 2 body parts murders... both investigations were first kicked started by our long suffering cleaners! 1 at kallang and 1 at orchard. clearly, their job has been upgraded to add in body discovery, to save the police effort in looking into a "missing persons" case. As such, they need skills upgrading in terms of counselling in post traumatic discovery syndrome as well as learning how to deal with such cases...

So next time an aunty cleans ur table or an uncle sweeps the floor around you, pls, thank them and emphatise with them... u never know what they might have to clean up next.

But i better not say too much... wait offend ppl. like wat i say... disturbing trendS. nowadays more and more bloggers getting hauled into court coz our their blogs... so before some irate cleaner stumbles on this entry and calls 999 on me... i apologise for any offense caused... and retract any damning statements.

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