• DharkStare@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does packing boxes really count as skilled labor? I would have assumed it would be unskilled labor just like the burger flipper.

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      1 year ago

      As a former warehouse worker and shipping clerk, it is 100% unskilled labor. We would sometimes hire temp workers for really busy periods, and it would take about 30 minutes to train them.

      • LowlifNPC@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Listen bud. Labor is labor. All of it takes some skill. You still had to “train” or teach a skill to the one performing the labor.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, and as someone who works in QA for a carrier repacking some of those boxes I can tell. Shippers really don’t seem to care that their packages don’t even make it to the shipping phase, let alone through our damn building.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the big lie the right wants you to believe; there’s no such thing as unskilled labor. You have to learn every job you start. Flipping burgers, packing boxes, cleaning, washing dishes, etc all have a learning curve. There is no job you can walk in off the street and start doing without previous knowledge.