• EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 months ago

      Aircraft engineers and mechanics used to be considered unskilled labor until the 1950s. They were only “reclassified” during the Cold War because there weren’t enough people going into the profession to keep up with the demand.

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        3 months ago

        OK, so what skill is needed to put Box A into Box B where Box B is three times the size of Box A?

        What does the training involve?

        Are there really people out there who can’t do that (excluding reasons like physical disability)?

        • Dragon Rider (drag)@lemmy.nz
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          3 months ago

          Drag doesn’t know what the legal and organisational standards are on the amount of packing material to cushion fragile items, or what kinds of tape need to be used.

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          3 months ago

          Drag doesn’t know how to make a big mac. Drag doesn’t know the procedure for packing an Amazon box. Drag doesn’t know how to turn on the stove or where the find the tape. And drag sure couldn’t do it as fast as the pros, even with instruction.

      • StopJoiningWars@discuss.online
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        3 months ago

        You can rank anything, and piling boxes such that they don’t fall over and kill someone is more dangerous with more expertise than cooking McDonald’s burgers for 2min then doing it again.

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        3 months ago

        You should visit my local mcd then, you’d change your opinion of unskilled not existing. Patty has to go between the buns? Nah. Forgot the cheese? Just throw it on cold and go. Order has to be remotely correct? Nah, custom orders get ignored. Fries have to have more rigidity than a 94 year old’s boner? Nah, in fact here is some extra grease just seeping into everything from the fry box. Drink machine broken, everyone gets sprite, no refunds. We ran out of patties 4h before closing, are undercooked chicken nuggets okay?

        Like I get mcd locations are usually franchised but holy fuck, when I pay $12 for a big mac meal and it looks and tastes like a vegetarian 4 year old built it, we have issues. A decade ago it cost $6 and was at least kind of decent food… Now it’s just ass all-around.