• @EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1710 hours 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.

    • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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      2210 hours ago

      Flipping burgers and packing boxes are both skilled labour. There’s no such thing as unskilled labour.

      • @StopJoiningWars
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        16 hours 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.

      • andrew_bidlaw
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        610 hours ago

        One can imagine just walking in blind and getting an order to do X of something right now without any guidance.

        • Dragon "Rider"(drag)
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          9 hours 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 to find the tape. And drag sure couldn’t do it as fast as the pros, even with instruction.

          • andrew_bidlaw
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            49 hours ago

            Drag is here to take your orders and ruin them in 3-5 business days.

      • @letsgo@lemm.ee
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        06 hours 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)
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          05 hours 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.