Unskilled does not mean un needed.

[u/Justthisdudeyaknow]

[u/Satisfaction-Motor]

IMO the framing of “unskilled labor” and “anyone could pick this up” leads to the pushing out of experienced employees. If “anyone” can pick it up, long-term employees are not valued and are often pushed out so that newer & cheaper people can be hired (I.e. high-turnover models of employment). It’s also an explicit cultural attitude that people shouldn’t stay at these jobs for a long time, which contributes to this.

The person who’s been working fast food for 5 years will be much faster, knowledgeable, and more efficient than someone who’s been working for 1 year. Sure, someone could learn the job in a week— but being good at it takes much longer.

But I’m heavily biased, because when I quit my last job they had to replace me with 6 people ✌🏻 Despite constantly insisting that my job was a “one person job” and insisting that I needed to be faster than I already was. They very quickly figured out that’s not possible after I left.