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If you're looking for clues to life's curious work-related conundrums, you may find the answers in Steve Coomber and Marc Woods' new book Where do all the paperclips go?
Extract taken from from Where do all the paperclips go?...and 127 other business and career conundrums by Steve Coomber and Marc Woods. Published by Capstone Publishing Ltd.
You know what it feels like to be undervalued and underpaid, but is there someone, somewhere, worse off than you? The answer is almost definitely yes. Unless, that is, you are a tanzanite miner.
These miners stand on a ladder all day passing bags of loose rock from the miner below them to the miner above. They are not fed, and there are no breaks.
Sometimes, rival mining firms will dynamite a section and blow through into a competitor's mineshaft. When a natural disaster strikes (in one incident more than 100 were killed by flooding), many believe the local superstition that it is a ritual sacrifice and signifies a coming period of boom.
The people who undertake this type of work do so as a last, desperate option to escape poverty. So what do they get paid? Answer: in some cases, absolutely nothing. The mine owners expect the miners to steal, so they don't pay them. But the chances of getting a gem as it passes you on its journey towards the sky, mixed within bags of rock? Very slim indeed.
Extract taken from from Where do all the paperclips go?...and 127 other business and career conundrums by Steve Coomber and Marc Woods. Published by Capstone Publishing Ltd.
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