Light Up. Lift Up

If you can't lift yourself up, try lifting others. Be the cheers! WOW!

Beware of lifting heavy stuff. Did you know that one of the tests given to would be workers at BC Ferry is "how to lift up something heavy." How to do it. The examiner wants to see how you can lift a heavy bucket without telling you how. The examiner will just give you the command to lift the heavy bucket on your own. After you lift the bucket up (or a box) they will tell you whether you pass or not.

Why that kind of test? That's weird!

Truth is most of the accident happenings in the workforce is lifting objects, lifting heavy stuff and lifting a patient in the hospitals and most doctors, nurses and caregivers are injured because of lifting up the loads.

Golfers also had injury lifting golf balls from the ground or they get injured when they made the wrong swing or wrong turn to hit the golf ball with their club. Most injuries are: fractures, dislocated joints, shoulder and hip injury, backaches and neck pains, including carpal tunnel syndrome. Athletes and military soldiers and personnel injured themselves too, having broken bones, concussions and some of them lead to unspeakable like death.

A negligent tenant left his couch and recliner, including the bed and mattress and move out of the apartment. The tenant was actually served with eviction notice. The manager of the apartment called my husband to help him load the heavy stuff on his utility trailer to dump those old furniture. I  asked why not that guy dump those old rotten furniture to the dumpsite because he is the one in charged of his own tenants. Well, turned out the manager doesn't own a utility trailer because he owns a Ford Mustang and besides those furniture are really heavy. It's a backbreaking work for them.

My husband brought the old rotten junk at the yard loaded on his utility trailer attached to his 4X4 Dodge Ram truck. He can't dump them (old furniture) because it was snowing. OMG! My husband paid for the dumping of such loads to the dump area I don't know if the other manager help unload those heavy furniture. Would you believe that? WTH!!!!! Is my husband being bullied? Yeah, first thought my husband is being bullied. My husband is also a townhouse and apartment manager so I first thought he is being bullied on lifting those heavy stuff. For God sake! Then found out later that the guy helped him unload those old furniture to the dumpsite. Matresses! How many mattress and old beds, old furniture and garbage from tenants that my husband loaded in the utility trailers before? So many! How many times my husband is a victim of loading and unloading what's left behind by evicted tenants? My husband frequently been a patient at chiropractor's clinic for pain and backaches. Those irresponsible tenants don't know how heavy those furniture are and they are heavier than a bucket full of water.  Ok then. My God I am so high blood. My high blood pressure is going up like crazy.

My sister had a leg injury and had the operation done on her leg last Monday at the hospital. The injury on her legs are incredibly unbelievable. Diagnosis: osteo-arthritis. I first thought she was just suffering on that one right leg but when she told me that once she recuperated from that one leg operation then her left leg is next for surgery. Oh my God! I felt like vomiting and I felt dizzy when I heard  what she said. Why is she suffering from this kind of ailment? Is she being bullied at work? Is she lifting up heavy stuff at work? Hard work can sometimes a heavy burden especially if your work is to lift up heavy stuff when you are not a weightlifter for the Olympics.

Canada is the country with workers complaining of work-related injury, not that they want to or destined to do such heavy work for minimum wage but because it's the way it is. I think minimum wage should rise up from $12/hour to $17/hour  especially if the worker has to lift up heavy loads.
Nobody is built like man of steel on planet Earth. Nobody is Superman or Supergirl because they are based on myth and fantasy. So let us be real and true to ourselves that minimum wage should increase base on the kind of work assigned to each worker.