Worst job ever in Japan

Today is our last night at Osaka before flying back to Singapore. My girl was doing the last shopping at a drugstore for some snacks, and I as usual, ended up find a staircase to sit as I can't find any chairs nearby.

Then I spotted this worker by her machine-like, echoing voice.

She was repeating the promotion phrase in Chinese language like "Please come visit our store for 85% discount if you purchase more than...", "We've got huge variation of products...", and so on, while waving the advertisement board at the crowd manually.

For the whole period I was sitting at the staircase, non-stop. Guess she and her coworkers will have to do this all day long.

This is probably the most meaningless job I've ever witnessed in first world country. Totally replaceable by a machine and her workforce would be producing more value elsewhere instead of just shouting the same phrases over and over. May be the store owner thought this is a effective way of attracting the traffic. Anyway, the owner need someone to get the job done and the girls need a job. Supply and demand right?

I felt bad for existence of such teribble job.

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今天最后一天在大阪，入夜前我们杀入药妆店买最后一波要带回去的日本零食。女人去购物，而我就一如既往的坐在楼梯上刷手机(因为没椅子)。

这时候一个机械般的声音反复重播着关于这店铺的广告，比如什么“快来光顾大优惠八折”之类的。我以为是播放器，却原来是一个女员工用自己的声音，加上对着楼下的行人手动反复摇摆着广告牌。

整整半个小时，可以说我坐在那里多久她就这样干了多久。貌似这就是她的工作内容，也习以为常了。

心里说实话是很悲凉的，这应该是我在发达国家遇到过最毫无意义的工作了吧。重复性，机械化的工作却还要一个活生生的人来进行，是我的话真的接收不到。背后的故事没人知道，可能雇主需要人干活，这员工也需要一份工作？各取所需吧。

反正坐在楼上的这半个小时，我心里是悲凉的。

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