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Mar 24 2010 6 Comments

Japanese workers working #25

Conscientiously waving their red sticks about at the side of the road in a bid to ward people away from already well cordoned off construction sites, Tokyo’s enormous army of suitably attired safety facilitators are arguably as common a sight in the city as convenience stores and coffee shops, although whilst often just as uncalled for, they are at least considerably less characterless.

Tokyo red stick waver

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  1. Grant says

    3/25/2010 at 1:06 am

    I wish we were issued lightsabers at work.

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  2. Tornadoes28 says

    3/25/2010 at 11:02 am

    I wonder how much they get paid?

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    • Lee says

      3/26/2010 at 12:53 pm

      That’s something I’ve always wondered too.

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    • Antlink says

      9/2/2010 at 7:46 pm

      Not a lot, Its easy work with long hours and low pay.

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  3. JLPT says

    3/26/2010 at 9:55 pm

    You also see them at car parks directing cars into pretty much empty car parks. The funniest thing to see is the ones who really take their job seriously.

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  4. Ben says

    6/22/2011 at 12:59 pm

    You are right about the car park guys. Home Centre in Nerima has less than 40 car parks & 2 guys running around doing everything except park the cars.

    The ones who are are really really serious at traffic crossings make me laugh though and they act like without them no one would know when to cross. Sometimes though they are a bit over the top and dumb down people even more not having to rely on their own common sense.

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