From gCaptain:
Suez Canal Authority: Meme’d Digger Operator Will Get His Overtime Pay
The Suez Canal Authority is responding to online reports that the real star of the Ever Given’s salvage, the guy with the digger, has not been paid for his efforts.
We’ve seen this story in a few places now. But from what we can tell it was first reported by Business Insider that the 28-year-old operator of the little excavator that could worked 21-hour days to free the stuck ship and, as of April 8, he had still not been paid his overtime!
Surprisingly, the Insider article actually says the man, identified as Abdullah Abdel-Gawad, didn’t actually like the memes (ok, now I feel bad), but the publicity actually made him work extra-hard because of the added the pressure they brought to dig the ship free.
“The thing is, I was terrified that the ship might list too far to one side or the other,” he told Insider. “Because if it fell onto its side on me, then it’s goodbye me, and goodbye excavator.”....
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Managed to dig out good part of the bulbous thingy. It's still stuck. #Evergiven #SuezCanal #Suez pic.twitter.com/zbeD59LA6V
— Guy With The Digger At Suez Canal (@SuezDiggerGuy) March 25, 2021
