Speed is a good thing or bad?

Guangdong, China
December 23, 2019 9:41pm CST
Last night, I was bothered and overwhelmed by the noise coming out from the roadworks! Who could tell me why they had to work overnight!! Exactly they did. I couldn't sleep until 3 am this morning. Then after 4 hours, I had to get up and go to work. So tired seriously. It suddenly hit me that "China speed" was praised by some reports and other countries. When we are benefit from the juicy results brought by the fast speed, we must forget how others or we suffer the noise, the inconvenience it may cause before. Then, I start to think over, do we have to sacrifice people's rest and their comfortable days to accept these rapid juicy results sooner? The builders I don't think they would like to work overnight. They would rather take a sound rest and then get back to work earlier. The neighbors around the roadworks will get crazy when outside full of noises. For example, me. I have thought to try to call to report this noise pollution. But, then I think that will they really stop after receiving the complains, or they will start to do overnight in other days. Then it means I need to suffer more days. I know that it will be much more convenient when the roadworks finished. Thus they decrease their working days, and increase the working hours per day. I don't know whether fast speed is a good thing or bad, but I don't think that we need to sacrifice our time for rest to speed up.
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@msdivkar (23359)
• India
24 Dec 19
You are right, builders would prefer day to day work because then they will not have to pay special incentives to their workers, need not shell out extra cash to provide adequate lighting and other arrangements for night work. They are forced to do this by authorities involved by giving them unreasonable time limit.
@msdivkar (23359)
• India
24 Dec 19
@Behindtheguitarbar But natural, when you give stringent completion time you have got to work extra hours.
• Guangdong, China
24 Dec 19
@msdivkar of course it is.
• Guangdong, China
24 Dec 19
that's quite true. I thought that they were forced to do extra hours.
@Starmaiden (9311)
• Canada
24 Dec 19
I live close to the highway but traffic at night is minimal. I used to live by the train yards and every train that arrived or left would blow its loud whistle. Same with the cruise ships. I only thank goodness I don't live close to the airport.
• Guangdong, China
24 Dec 19
oh, no. That' difficult to bear! Just one night, I nearly get crazy about it. You know how it feels, it just sounds like some one drill a well next to you. Aha, so annoying!
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• Canada
24 Dec 19
@Behindtheguitarbar I got used to it after a while but I had to sleep with ear plugs in.
• Guangdong, China
24 Dec 19
@Starmaiden last night I tried ear plugs, useless.
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@jaboUK (64355)
• United Kingdom
24 Dec 19
That must be horrible for you, but at least it won't be permanent.
• Guangdong, China
25 Dec 19
yes, quite horrible. If it is permanent existing, I probably have a nervous breakdown
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