‘No one should have to do such risky manual labour.’ Anand Mahindra has a message for this wage worker’s employer …

When it comes to recognising talent and promoting it, the Mahindra & Mahindra boss is always at front, leading the movement, at least on Twitter. Anand Mahindra often takes to his official social media account to share interesting news with his 8.4 million followers. On Monday, the businessman yet again used the power of the Internet when he shared a short clip of a wage worker balancing a pile of bricks on his head.

The video, which Mahindra came across on messaging app Signal, has over 77k views and 6.2K likes so far on Twitter. The clip shows a young man covered in dirt piling up bricks on his head before manually shifting it to the drop point.

While sharing the post, Mahindra pointed out that no one should do such risky work, however one cannot help but admire the man's skills in turning drudgery into an art. "No one should have to do such risky manual labour. But you have to admire this man for turning his drudgery into an art form," the 66-year-old wrote alongside the video.


Seeking Twitter's help in finding out the source location of the video, the billionaire further asked if the man's employer can provide automation. Mahindra also urged the employer to recognise the man's unique skills. "Can his employers provide automation & also recognise his higher order skills?" he wrote.


The video which was shared earlier today on the microblogging site has now gone viral, kickstarting a conversation about the mysterious man. "One thing is sure sir, he must be from Bihar or eastern UP from which I belong," a man replied to Mahindra.


While many Twitter users pointed out that automation might lead to layoffs and the man, who might not be skilled to do anything else, may lose his only source of income.




Several people in the comment thread of the video informed Mahindra that this was a common practice in India where manual labourers did such risky, hard-work every day due to growing competition for jobs and the automation boom.





The Mahindra Group chairman isn't new to starting such conversations on his Twitter. Recently, he was in the news after he declared that he'll be giving an XUV to Olympian Neeraj Chopra for making history by bagging the first gold medal at the Games.

The request to get Chopra a premium machine, XUV 700, had come from a Twitter user after the company's boss cheered for the athlete on the microblogging site. Mahindra quickly replied to the man with a "yes" and put the work in motion.


Quite an inspiring way to start the week, we say!