Most “unskilled labor” is heavily skill dependant. You wouldn’t want a chef, builder or painter who didn’t know what they were doing. And for production: machinists, mechanics and foremen make or break profit with their skills.

So what’s a better name for these jobs?

Edit: I have been told that plumbers don’t qualify as unskilled, and as such they have been exchanged for painter.

  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    10 days ago

    I was a waiter in and out for a year. It’s tiring and you can end up exhausted.

    But the needed skills were very simple.

    Maybe it depends on the type of waiter? I served on the bar and only drinks, which was fairly easy. And of course I didn’t own the place or anything. We also didn’t serve any special cocktails or weird drinks. I didn’t think that a special skill was needed to do what I did.