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Thankless Tasks

Why take on a role where lots of people hate you for doing it? Dotun Adebayo talks to referees, a debt collector, a power company worker and death row lawyers.

Why take on a role where lots of people hate you for doing it? Dotun Adebayo talks to people whose daily life can include verbal and even physical abuse. They include an 18 year old referee in Manchester who has been head-butted and spat upon. He hears about electricity workers in Lagos in Nigeria who are regularly beaten up as they disconnect disgruntled customers. And the plus side of doing a thankless job from a debt collector in Jamaica and death row lawyers in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.

(Photo: Man at top of pole fixing electric cables. Credit: Umar Shehu Elleman, 大象传媒 journalist)

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Mon 29 May 2017 04:32GMT

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  • Mon 22 May 2017 12:32GMT
  • Mon 22 May 2017 21:06GMT
  • Tue 23 May 2017 01:32GMT
  • Mon 29 May 2017 04:32GMT

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