r/CuratedTumblr • u/Justthisdudeyaknow Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear • 1d ago

Infodumping Unskilled does not mean un needed.

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u/Realistic-Life-3084 1d ago

The problem here is that while the job is needed for unskilled labor, the specific person doing it is often more replaceable than a CEO. A high salary is an incentive for a person with a specific set of skills that were difficult/time consuming to acquire to stay with their company. Since it's not difficult to train new people to work in a warehouse, most companies will not bother to provide a high incentive for you to stay there. That's the definition of unskilled labor. 

You can say all you like that that's not how it should be, but business doesn't run on how things "should be" it runs on what works. 

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u/chadthundertalk 22h ago

 Since it's not difficult to train new people to work in a warehouse, most companies will not bother to provide a high incentive for you to stay there.

See, people think that until a warehouse is staffed entirely by temps or new hires that don't know what the fuck they're doing and make costly mistakes that experienced workers generally don't.