• Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      17 hours ago

      Everytime unskilled work is mentioned, someone feels the need to comment that ackchually all work requires skill.

      Unskilled work means you don’t need prior experience or specific education to apply. You will be trained on the job.

      • faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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        That’s not true though. I am a skilled machine operator, and I was hired with zero experience and trained on the job because there just aren’t enough trained operators locally available in my industry.

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        9 hours ago

        Ah … It might mean that, but for many rich bosses it means “a job that pays less” and that’s all.

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        Unskilled work means you don’t need prior experience or specific education to apply.

        It means whatever the employers want it to mean. But anyone who has worked anywhere for a significant length of time knows the value experience brings in a role.

        Whether you’re packing boxes or picking fruit or doing brain surgery, the speed and accuracy of your work is predicated on experience. Not something you get through a crash course or a certificate. You have to do the work to learn the work in every field.

        That’s what makes “unskilled” labor a myth.

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        So installing HVAC systems is unskilled work? I didn’t have any prior experience or education when I got a job doing that.

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        17 hours ago

        And framing labor this way totally disregars the time commitment. Which should be a thriving wage for any hob that requires 40hrs/week

    • letsgo@lemm.ee
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      Well, there’s Amazon packing, where they recently sent me three cards in an A3 by 4" box. Ain’t no way you could call that “skilled”.