Sanitation workers cannot take a break earlier because of the special nature of their work.
Environmental sanitation work is not only intense, the working environment is harsh, but the working hours are also very long. Li Erjun, a 64-year-old sanitation worker, has been working for more than ten years. He wakes up at around 2 o'clock every morning, cleans the road he is responsible for before 6 o'clock, and takes shifts with his coworkers after 12 noon. Leave early and come back late. "We are on the road all year round, and we insist on working for about 16 hours every day." This is the work routine of the 495 employees of the Weidong District Environmental Sanitation Bureau in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. In addition, sanitation workers work all year round, and holidays are often their busiest days. "On New Year's Eve, when everyone is having New Year's Eve dinner at home, we have to eat quickly. They have almost set off the firecrackers, so we have to work at 12:30 and can work until 4 or 5 in the middle of the night. "Sister Li Xiumei, who has been engaged in sanitation work for thirteen years, said.
On the one hand, the mission of sanitation workers is to keep the city clean and tidy. This means that they must work from dawn to dusk, clean the city before the people wake up, and clean up the city again after the people in the city go home. Therefore, sanitation workers not only have no choice but to go to bed earlier, they also have no choice but to get up later. This is the special nature of being a sanitation worker.
On the other hand, sanitation workers are of course very hardworking. To solve this problem, it is of course impossible to let the sanitation workers take a break earlier. Either we can increase the manpower, or we can give more subsidies to the sanitation workers. Relatively speaking, the latter may be more important.
In short, the nature of sanitation workers is very special. They cannot rest when the whole city is awake. They can only start cleaning when the whole city is asleep. This is destined to be the most difficult job in urban life. people.