85 – One Mind Service
“…I repeat, but I can’t do it alone. It’s too dangerous. If you think so, don’t overdo it.
Also… Drinking alcohol or engaging in violence is strictly prohibited on site. If I get caught, I will leave immediately regardless of the reason.”
There was no particular content in the safety training.
It’s okay to take a break from work if the day is too hot or too cold.
And don’t try to lift too heavy a thing by yourself, and don’t drink alcohol. Don’t do dangerous things without safety gear. What things like that
Artificial respiration, how to do emergency rescue from behind when choking on food, etc… All of these are things I saw when I worked at a distribution center.
The man who taught me safety education had no one but the people in the class now, but he tried very hard to teach me this and that.
First of all, I am young. And the fact that he is paying attention to his classes.
Well… That seems to have left a deep impression on him.
“And this is a gift given to those who have received safety training! It will definitely come in handy in the field!”
After the safety training, I received a small gift.
“…May I try to open it right here?”
“Oh, of course! If you want to open it now, open it!”
They tell you to tear it off, but tearing it off is another courtesy. When I opened the wrapping paper, there was a neck warmer inside.
There is definitely a lot of dust at construction sites, so if you wear this, less dust will get into your mouth.
It was a trivial gift, but I still felt that the person working at the site gave me the necessary items.
“Wow! Thank you!”
“Sure. I have work to do so I’ll go! The training is over with this. We can put it right into the field.”
The teacher who teaches safety education left the classroom first. During her education, she was given a white helmet with my name on the front.
‘Kang Yoo-seon’
This is a name tag that tells you who you are in first grade in elementary school.
Surely- I felt embarrassed because I felt that way. In fact, since other people also work wearing helmets like this, I felt less reluctance to wear them.
I was given hard hats, and I also wrote barcodes for check-in and leave work. I also received safety training, so I think I can put it into work right away.
Just in case I didn’t know, I looked at the place where Mr.
I went down the stairs and went to where Mr. Sangmu works.
“…Uh…Yes, Yoo Seon..? Are you here? Well educated”
“..Yes!”
“For now, it’s 9 o’clock, so let’s eat and start again. Come on.”
I thought I would get to work right away, but several people, including Mr. Sangmu, started climbing the stairs.
After leaving the site and entering a nearby restaurant, there were many people working at the construction site. I didn’t know what to do, so I followed the manager behind me.
“First of all, you have to come up at 9 o’clock and have a bite to eat. Then you go back to work.”
“…Yes”
He was the managing director who immediately told me what I was curious about.
The lady working at the restaurant cooked her ramen, put it in her bowl, shared it with me and Mr. Sangmu, and then sat down and ate it in her chair.
I was hungry because I didn’t eat anything this morning, but eating ramen made me feel energized… I ate roughly, waited for the manager to finish the meal, cleaned up the dishes, and walked to the apartment site.
When I went to the place where I worked earlier, there were some kind of pipes neatly piled up, some like wide planks that came up to my stomach, and some brooms. There is also a shovel. Well, by the way, I couldn’t figure out what the heck I was doing here.
“Do you smoke?”
“No”
“Then sit down and rest over there. I’ll smoke a cigarette and then go to work.”
A manager who smokes cigarettes near an ashtray, fearing that if he carelessly burns cigarettes on site, there will be a fire. After lightly smoking a cigarette, I walked back this way.
“For now, today we’re going to tidy up here. See where we’ve gathered the shovel over there?”
“…Are you talking about that?”
I could see that someone had collected scrap metal, dust, and strange parts with a shovel in the middle of the wide empty lot.
“From now on, we’re going to clean up the wire, pompin, and… Cement residue. We’re going to get rid of that stuff. We’ll take three or four sacks like this, put the bent wire here, and put the pompin here.
What a pompin says, here you see it, a triangular flat thing. Is this Pompin? Put this in a separate sack instead of the sack with the wire in it. After roughly removing the wire and pompin, you can see something like this cement, right? Is it easy to just sweep this on a sack and throw it away?”
“…Yes”
“Okay. Okay. Let’s do it then.”
As soon as I finished speaking, Mr. Sangmu took me and started from the corner over there to sort out the wire and the pompin in the garbage pit.
There was no great difficulty in working because the manager explained well.
If you have collected all the wires and pompins in the sacks you brought, bring a new sacks, and again- once you have picked up all the pompins and wires, go to another site and do the same thing.
“…I’ll take a break and do it!”
“-Yes!”
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I don’t think I’ve done it in a while- I sit down to rest, and while they smoke a cigarette, I catch my breath- I pick up the scrap metal again and put it in the bag.
“…Now let’s go to lunch!”
Lunch.
I went to the restaurant where I had ramen before and this time I ate. Tonkatsu, rice, and beef radish soup. Kimchi and some small side dishes. After eating roughly, I went back to the field.
“I’m off until 1:00. I’m still resting until then, okay?”
“Yes”
He took a sack and rested it on his hip.
I was told to work again because I was just taking a break. It seemed like they were cleaning here all day.
Still, I was dizzy in the morning, but now seeing that it’s tidy- I felt good.
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“Yes, this is Sangmu Kim. Ah. We’ve done the cleaning! … The entrance…? The entrance..? Divide people into front and back doors, ah, go around and pick up some trash…? Okay. !… Everyone please gather!”
“..Yes!”
Are you going to do something different this time? What to do..? As everyone gathered, Mr. Sangmu spoke.
“They say that there will be regular inspections in a little while, but someone from the head office who is extremely high will come and inspect it.
So, after eating the afternoon tea, I’m going to divide the people in half, one group will start at the back door and go around the site clockwise to clean, and the other group will clean the front door!”
“…Well, nothing special! I’ll just eat this and go clean up right there!”
“-Yes I do!”
A man brought a lot of things in a black envelope.
When I opened it, there were Choco Pies and a lot of drinks, so I took one and ate it. When I was in the military, I didn’t eat Choco Pie, but eating it here had a slightly different taste.
“Then I’ll take him around the front door! Brothers, please go around the back door!”
“-Yes I get it!”
I took a few garbage bags in one hand and followed the manager to pick up cigarette butts, plastic bags, and pieces of Styrofoam that had fallen from the apartment site, and put them in the bag I brought with me. Because I put it so carelessly…
“Let’s go home now, this… Put it in the trash over there! Good job today!”
“…Yes- thank you for your hard work!”
I brush off all the dust from my clothes, stamp my leave with the fingerprint recognition machine at the front door, and on my way home in the van I rode in this morning.
“-Hey, you worked hard today! Get paid, everyone!”
“Wow-“
All of them are older than me, but when it was time to get paid, I smiled like a child.
“…Yoo Seon-ah, you bought gloves and leggings with my own money today. You know you get a little less? And you have to pay for the car.”
“Okay”
“…Yes, ah! I asked the warden today, and tomorrow, as well, you just have to come by the same time as this member! Then we’ll go!”
I rode a van and arrived at the Han Ah-reum manpower station earlier. As soon as we got out of the car, the men scattered and went to different places.
I also returned home, put all the dusty clothes in the washing machine and washed them – then took a clean shower and dried my hair while I heard a beep sound and Yoojung came back from work.
“…Ugh…”
I think making coffee is difficult. Yoo-jung with a tired expression. I didn’t even think about washing or changing clothes, I just… I was lying on the floor, resting.
“How was it? Today’s work..? It was hard..? I made coffee all day today – I feel like dying… My arms hurt, my legs hurt… Do the people in this neighborhood get a disease that kills them if they don’t drink coffee? Look!”
“Really..? Today was easier than I thought. It was worth it!”
“…I’m glad they said it was worth it. … Yu Seon-ah, give me some shoulder massage..!”
No go.
When I watched dramas or stuff like that, I thought it was something like carrying heavy bricks, but it was easier than I thought.
Today, I only picked up trash all day, and in terms of labor intensity, it was similar to cleaning the school backyard in middle school.
“…Ugh… I’m going to knead it- I think I’m going to live now..! So, Yoo Seon-ah, are you going to do it tomorrow too?”
“Compared to carrying boxes all the time at the distribution center, this is a complete paradise? The work is not hard, you work during the day- you pay more”
“I’m glad things went well!”