Working Class People in the Heat
 

I read where people refuse to work these days.

Let's all step back and give a big thanks for all those people who make
a living in this scorching heat that service us all. :thumbup:

Delivery people
AC service people
Lawn care
Road workers
Roofers
Baggage handlers at the airports
Line men
Repair men of all kind.

If you see one, please offer them a bottle of cold water. :BigApplause:

Well said!

Ditto.

Yep, I am very grateful to all those folks who work outside in the summer to offer much needed services - a HUGE Thank You!!

Let's not forget the golf ambassadors and pickle ball monitors that maintain the water coolers.

Don't forget Waste Management "Sanitation" guys, picking up our trash...

Some job could be moved from the day to the night.

Sure. You can put up with that noise when you're sleeping, and pay double-time for the privilege. They get paid extra for working at night.

They start very early in the morning, I'm just glad they don't get to our house til the afternoon. I can do the last minute kitty-litter scoop-out after my first cup of coffee and hubby reads the morning's paper, before I have to get the trash out to the curb. No worries about the birds ripping the trash open during the night.

The guys who come to our neighborhood are awesome. I was taking a walk one day and waved to them - I continued my walk, turned to another street, and they came from the other direction - I waved at them again. I turned again, they came up behind me several minutes later and the guy on the back waved to me - we kept running into each other for around 40 minutes, and by the last time, we were just chuckling at each other.

I hand out Gatorade to many including the trash people.

Agreed OP. I hear roofers are spared the midday heat, but generally, outdoor work in Florida's summer is a feat. :bigbow:

rustyp....there is no such thing as pickleball monitors. They are recreation center employees, whose job it is to regularly check the outside courts ( pools included), and the nearest village pools as well as monitor the inside lobby desk, and rooms to be set up for activities. I know this because I was an RA ( recreation assistant).

I was really surprised to learn recently that UPS trucks have no air conditioning and only fans. I would think that in some places it must be terribly hot. After their recent contract negotiations they will begin to purchase new trucks with AC next year.


UPS drivers on track to get air-conditioned trucks for the first time

It's not really that hot here when you lived in Arizona for awhile. Most outside work starts at 5am and stops at noon in Arizona during the summer.
So anytime I start to complain about the heat I think of Arizona and their above 100 degree weather and don't tell me it's a dry heat because a oven has dry heat also.

They are in and out so often ac won't do much good.

I always offer bottled water to workers at my home. Amazing how often they take me up on the offer.