RE: Row Fisherman Row ⛵️ Appreciate the Unappreciated || #APART - A Picture & A Reggae Tune
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Nice one!
Gotta respect the workers for sure. It is interesting we call garbage collectors, “garbage man”. I no longer do that as I had a friend here in Japan that was a garbage collecter and he asked me, “what do you call a garbage collector in English?” So I said “garbage man”. He was not happy and started telling me that in Japan they just call them city workers, without any label. And this spreads out to “higher up” jobs too, ask any Japanese that earns a salary what they do and 99% of the time they will say, “I’m a salary man/woman.
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I understand where your friend is coming from, as some people use the term with an insulting tone, but I have mixed feelings towards overcomplicating normal descriptive job names by replacing them with ambiguous names just to be politically correct these days. If I ask someone what he does and he says "city worker" or "salary man", I still don't really know what he does and my question is left unanswered, possible leaving the whole conversation with a less personal feel.
When I just started out, I used to work as a servicedesk/it support employee . Being embarrassed, I started saying I worked in IT. But I noticed I had to explain anyway that it was servicedesk, when people asked more questions, so I just started owning it and said servicedesk.
But George explains this better.