CNA | Don't Make Us Invisible | S01E01 - What I Really Have To Do

In this first episode, we meet some of Singapore's "invisible" workers who keep the country going - from a bus driver who has to memorise numerous routes, procedures and protocols, to a construction worker struggling with home sickness.
About the show: You see them every day. The bus driver on your commute to work, the cleaner in your office, the construction workers labouring away. But do you really see them?
Many of these crucial individuals are more often than not, the most invisible in our society. In this 5-part series, we spend time with them in and outside of work, to reveal what's life like behind the veil of social invisibility.
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[@UnknownFilipino]

Saravana is genuinely the nicest manager I have ever seen, other managers would just pretend they care inf ront of gthe customer and once they leave they wouldn't care less. Saravana deserves a raise.

[@isabelleyeo6891]

Mr Yasin is 77 and still active and working hard...plus he can speak Chinese too...he's truly admirable :O

[@kafkacommercialstudios4124]

Lol the fact that you think a Malay man is only admirable if he can speak Chinese shows what a racist you are.

[@kemalasaridina1898]

That gas station worker actually looks like he's in his 50s. I was so surprised when he said he's 77 with that straight posture 😳

[@GierlangBhaktiPutra]

The pakcik is still working at 77. It making me ashamed for sighing every time I go to work. Should be thankful that I'm still young and have descent job.

[@msi7188]

Mrs Fatimah and Mr Saravanan look very young for their ages. 💯

[@vincent81975]

When are you going to feature the extremly invisible security guard and tell the truth of how mistreated they are ☹💔

[@kichaa13]

This is interesting but your narration and cinematography is so old school I first thought it was from the 90s.

[@alvinleong173]

The real economy is made up of working class and middle class... they're the bulk working and consuming driving the economy not millionaires and billionaires.

[@burtonl7239]

LOL. That's a completely ignorant statement that sounds like it's written by someone with a wealth inferiority complex. The real economy is made up of... surprise, surprise, EVERYONE. Including millionaires and billionaires.

[@Juan-nz1gu]

@@burtonl7239 ya agree He seems like he's jealous of others success

[@pinkapple6530]

I'm a millionaire and I work my ass off. Just that I work smarter not harder.

[@MissAshten]

This is weird to watch for an American. We all pump our own gas unless we're from Jersey or Oregon. I have never taken as much precautions as he does. Very rarely in Washington State do we have issues

[@OwenG]

Did you guys loading two of the same video 🙄 OwenG lab rat ❤️🇯🇲

[@JustMe-12345]

I was not aware that in some countries your petrol is put into your car by someone. In both switzerland and france (idk about how it is in other places) you do it by yourself.

[@Min-e5]

It helps to make the lines go faster because the driver can already be in car and left once its filled. Some places even help you pay so you just have to sit in the car from start to finish. I find this very helpful espesially when I'm sick or heavily pregnant.

[@kbengson9163]

They use to have that service here in the US but most all stations stopped it around the early 80's. I think one or two company's started offering the "self-serve" pumps and found out people did not mind so much to pump their own gas, it saved the gas station $, since it cut out an hourly worker, and self-serve pumps made full service pumps \ lanes a thing of the past.

[@geoklanlee9201]

@@Min-e5d

[@wendybrierley5412]

Yes, excellent service for many many years. I am not driving now but I hated going for petrol - good job I only did low mileage. I am in the West. My sister is in SG. I like the bus driver and the restaurant manager. They tried their very best to help customers esp the manager. And he worked so hard clearing tables too!!

[@everhirstseyt2667]

My favourite old fatty pastamania. Nowadays the portion sizes and quality there is like how ah?

[@tanwebster8641]

How can you fall from the boom lift, he is attached to the safety belt.He can fully paid for a house in his home town if he complete his 4 years contract.A dream job for foreign migrant worker.

[@police9111]

Being a cleaner in healthcare environment is much tedious compare to cleaner in warehouse and production environment.

[@bowlampar]

Great, you lost your wallet, so it is other people fault....

[@otoxyl2794]

ncie

[@leochong4533]

Is the health n safety being honest taken that seriously or being put on a show? Is really hard to believe. I only believe is secret cctv that will review more n excellent customer.

[@tanwebster8641]

This restaurant manager job is so easy,We only see the busy period but most of the time is relaxing .

[@roslanbinahmadahmad8294]

When the restaurant manager said sporeans are demanding,he should watch kitchen nightmares.hw pole paid with their hard earned monies to have a good fresh quality meal and svcs.

[@6168lucky]

Undercover bosses This tv show will be very very impossible in Singapore. Why? Too show off bosses in Singapore are. If bosses concentrate more on these workers. They will know these are the people who are making things right and profit for the company. Not the management

[@jianfabentsai2438]

I refer to KZbin by CNA insider " CNA | Don't Make Us Invisible | S01E01 - What I Really Have To Do" - On Fatimah the hospital cleaner that have to clean out bio waste from the lab, to reduce the legal, reputational and financial liabilities to the hospital since this video was aired to public and to naturally protect properties and human lives, the cheapest way would be to revamp a "jacket material" waterproof long sleeve uniform (hospital got aircon and is cool), for cleaners and medical staff (ever wonder by doctors and lab scientists wear long sleeve white coats?) so the cleaner Fatimah have some form of personal protection as she lift the biowaste bag from the bin. Tuck the long sleeves into the yellow gloves. There will be times where some of the bio waste may spill onto her naked forearm resulting in infections on Fatimah. As the cleaner travels around the hospital, the viruses may brush against building structures or onto other human assets and patients. After disposal of the biowaste, the cleaner should remove her long sleeve jacket, apply anti-virus spray from air pressure bottle (like hair spray) with gloves on, hose sleeves down with water and wipe dry with paper towels. Ideally, future hospitals would have the laboratory assistants use small biowaste bins, once bins are full, the bags are tied up by professionally trained lab assistants where they drop the military grade tear resistant bag down a chute in the wall, directly into the big biowaste bin at ground level below, loaded onto a vehicle to be incinerated. For those high tech lab buildings, they have their own incinerator below the buildings, where the system is mostly automated, the biowaste bags dropped into the wall chute goes directly into the building's incinerator. Though one ought to manage the toxic fumes from the incineration of biowaste wisely. Please feedback to management.

[@burtonl7239]

LOL. Matter of perspective. Even if you are well to do and pay more taxes, how come when you walk into a mall, no one knows your name? There you go. You too are an "invisible" worker.