Yesterday I spotted this guy out of my office window. These guys are building a sunroom out off the balcony. The guys are just standing around, shirtless, making a sun room, right? No harm there!
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The extra bit of the story is that the floor they are working on, is 17 floors up off the ground, perching on a 12 inch wide ledge with ZERO safety equipment.
This fellow clearly has huge knackers, he stops work, and has a crafty smoke whilst perching on the ledge, looking at death in the eye!
obviously the PRC will need to enact some sort of OHS laws, or at least enforce them! Imagine this in the west, the bosses will be sued penniless.
It is a rather nice apartment though.
I’m scared ****less, I don’t like heights at all. Maybe it’s attributed to my father stopping on a suspension bridge during a typhoon in Okinawa (I was a Navy brat). Yeah, China definitely needs some type of OSHA laws (I used to do Human Resources).
He stopped for a smoke to remember the time he built a sunroom on the 30th floor and how the view was slightly different this time around.
If the customer started to demand the contractors use safety gear then I’m sure they would…… yeah right.
Ashley, how much per square metre do those places go for? Don’t look too bad.
I got mine early, 8k per sq m.
After living here for just over two weeks, I hate high rise living and am planning to escape ASAP to something like a PROPER house up in the hills.
lol, want to move after 2 weeks…. not a good sign. Prices seem similar to mid range here (Guangzhou). A proper house would be nice, just make sure there is no security gate for parking attendants and fees…
a parking spot cost me 60,000rmb here, two cars = 120,000rmb.
I should have rented.
Villas are nice, but nearly 2million RMB, add on decoration for a 200m villa you’re looking at 2.5 million RMB.
Villas here are a rip off too and the quality is not that good. Even the newer places start falling apart after a few years.
6 wan for a car park… ouch, plus management fees too…
I believe there ARE OHAS laws in China, but nobody would give a damn. lol
Sure they do. They have tighter laws than they do State-side.
I couldn’t make sense of it until I heard of them refered to as “aspirational laws”.
My question is, When to they aspire to enforce them?
I get tired of people tell me they have this law and that law. I get tired of people telling me that kids in the States shouldn’t work in McDonalds when they are only 16 yo. “We have child labor laws” they say. Yeah, right. Go tell that to all the kids both I and they see working.
I am sure they will aspire to enforce the laws when they work out a credible way to make a profit from it… Enforcement costs money and the government doesn’t have enough (coughing wildly) so that department has to be self sufficient before it can exist.
OMG I hope the Chinese government enforce that law more, this is total madness. Very very risky indeed.
Not China related…and on another topic.
I have found it hard, from Southern China, to get on this forum. Today is the first time in over a week that I could get on.
Could be your ISP Slade. I am in Guangzhou and have no problems getting here.
Ive been having trouble too, but I can only get 1mb DSL in this apartment. I was very much accustomed to the 10mb cable I used to have
I’d bum a fag from him if he weren’t on the 17th floor. He deserves mad props!
Lucky it was not windy that day! Crazy!
Let’s say it this way - would you like to pay twice more for the same made-in-china goods tomorrow?
If not, let’s keep everything as is.