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Built good Client Relationship is most important job.

[โ€“] fiat_lux@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • Waste pickers in the clothing canyons of Ghana, or any other landfill/wasteland

  • Volunteer caregivers for people with disabilities, especially in places where there are limited or no social safety nets

  • Street vendors like the children hawking goods in Yemen or Samoa or Zimbabwe...

  • Cleaners, such as the Sewer divers in places like India where there is no protective equipment provided

  • Food services workers.

  • "Domestic" services workers like childcare, housekeeping, etc. I include victims of forced marriages here.

  • All other exploited, outsourced, trafficked, and/or forced labour, such as the cobalt miners in Congo, or the clothing sweatshop workers in Bangladesh, or the Phillipines call centre workers, or the hazelnut pickers in Turkey, or construction labourers in Qatar, or the chaingangs in the US.

Our supply chains for everything are filled with slavery. 49.6 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, of which 27.6 million were in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriage. That's an estimated increase of 10 million people from 2016 to 2021.

[โ€“] malamignasanmig@group.lt 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thanks for this very exhaustive list. this is the first time ive heard of sewer divers - with no PPE - sounds terrible.

[โ€“] fiat_lux@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sudharak Olwe has spent a lot of time documenting the lives of "conservancy workers" in Mumbai. His entire body of work is worth a look, Content warning: Image 12 is extremely NSFL with the body of a human child, but there are also dead and dying animals in images 4 and 11 but here is one collection. The photo I see most frequently is the one of a worker neck-deep in a drain

Terrible is certainly a good word to describe it.

[โ€“] 8000mark@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Klick on those links with caution, especially the collection is most definitely NSFL.

[โ€“] lemmyseikai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Step parent. While not entirely thankless (depending on the kids involved) it's tremendously underappreciated.

So much expectation that you do things for kids that aren't yours.

Don't get me wrong - it can still be rewarding in many ways, and my stepkids and I love each other like blood. We have a fantastic relationship.

But it gets under my skin every time I think about how little their own father has done for them, and I've had to pick up the (financial) burden, yet that prick will be the one who gets to walk my stepdaughter down the aisle.

[โ€“] Surp@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IT in so many ways in so many industries.

  • "Everything's working, so what are we paying you for?"
  • "Everything's broken, so what are we paying you for?"
[โ€“] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Call center representative

[โ€“] PatFussy@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

Walmart greeters. They always say 'thank you' to you, but have you ever thought to thank them? I dont think so.

[โ€“] const_void@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

Jizz mopper