Crazy Random Idea

This is a random post based on what I have observed around. Haha.

Everytime I go eat out, shop, or visit any public toilet, I will always see old uncles and aunties doing dirty jobs such as cleaning toilets, washing dishes or mopping the floor. It is heart-wrecking seeing them doing such dirty jobs at an old age when they are supposed to be enjoying life after all the hardship they went through when they are younger. If not old uncles or aunties, they would be those who came from outskirts. When I was working as a waitress-cashier in a restaurant, I realized those doing those lowly dirty jobs such as cleaner and dishwasher are those who are illiterate and came from outskirts. These elderly and unfortunate ones serve customers at a very low pay of RM500 per month, and they were not being shown some gratitude from customers younger than them.

It saddens me seeing them suffering like this when they could have lived a better life.

Meanwhile, those "highly-educated" young people who were customers were often being rude to the waitresses and often complained about petty things. Yes, it is customers' rights, but even simple thing such as "plates not beautiful" or "fork too small" also blame workers meh? Grow up. You are using your parents' money. You have no right to be haughty and make workers' lives difficult. There is one time when I encountered a customer deliberately broke a glass simply because she was angry. You break glass, who clean up in the end? It was us. What gives you the right to act as a spoilt brat and us to clean up your mess? Waitresses are paid to serve, not to be your slaves. Please respect them as well.

How come I am able to type out such statements? Don't I wish to be treated like royalty in restaurants? Well, I worked before, as a waitress, a promoter and a salesgirl, so I know how it feels. Truly pity those who work as a job that serves others.

This somehow gave me a crazy idea and if it was to be implemented, I guess millions would have to thank me for that!!!

It goes like this. High school leavers, especially in urban areas should be made mandatory to work in service field, such as cleaner, waitress, dishwasher, pizza boy/girl and if they score really excellent results, a cashier and a salesgirl in a retail field. They should be made mandatory to work in any of those dirty jobs as one of the requirements to enter university.
Question: You must be crazy!!! They should be focusing on studies and having fun at such a tender age. Why do such dirty jobs?

Reply: Simple. They live an extremely comfortable life and do not know what it takes to suffer. They do not know empathy, hence disrespect those workers doing dirty jobs that are referred to as "low-class". So why not let each and every one of them have a dose of it so that they learn to respect those workers?

Question: If they all occupy the workplace, then what about those uncles and aunties who need the job?

Reply: They deserve to be supervisors and trainers, since they are experienced. Their pay can be increased, whereas those students their pay need not be high. This is to let them know money is hard to earn. That way, they will not spend extravagantly.

Comment: Isn't it a bit too far-fetched to make them do dirty jobs just to teach them a lesson?

Reply: It's not a punishment or some sort of thing. Instead, I call it a process of growing up. Sweat tastes sweet after a long day of hard work. Well, imagine doing an eight-hour waitress job for RM30. At the end of the day, when they receive the pay, they would have this unexplainable satisfaction in themselves. Hence, they would know how to spend that "hard-earned money" wisely. The feeling of earning and spending your own hard-earned money is much more satisfying than just receiving money from parents by doing nothing. Then, someday when they turn into successful professionals, they can actually say that they had suffered during younger days when they worked as cleaners, waitresses or dishwashers. They were not spoilt brats who never do hard work but instead just study and ended up as professionals.

Another thing. I bet the work quality would increase because the work is done by youngsters instead of the elderly. Imagine an old woman with back pain and failing eyesight mopping an entire floor in a shopping mall. Then came a young 18-year-old girl taking over the old woman's job to mop the floor. Who can mop the floor faster and cleaner?

The old people can actually earn more money for themselves and do not need to do heavy job. Now isn't that helping them? =)

Question: What about those illiterate ones mentioned earlier?

Answer: They are given full time job with slightly higher pay and workers' bonus. Like that lah.

Hahahahahahahaahahaha.

I run out of words.