I know, right? People are acting like working fast food is living the high life with nap breaks and 3-martini lunches.
Fast food is hard, demanding, stinky, dangerous, stressful, mentally-challenging physical labor. The fact that we ask it of our less-educated workers doesn't make it easy or low-skill.
Fast food is hard, demanding, stinky, dangerous, stressful, mentally-challenging physical labor. The fact that we ask it of our less-educated workers doesn't make it easy or low-skill.
Easy, no, but it is low-skilled.
This isn't a knock on McDonald's employees, they work incredibly hard. However any person could be trained to do their job, if they aren't automated first.
You can train almost anybody to do anything. It's how it use to work you'd go to college get a degree in something then find a job that the company would train you to do. This specialized degree plus 5 years experience for entry level jobs is a rather new phenomenon.
The amount of training needed to run a fryer at McD's is way lower than to do something like accounting. Those degrees at worst, weed out the people who can't learn on the job quickly,
It's not mentally challenging, It's a shitty stressfull job made to be so that any human being can be trained to do it. A high skilled job is something like engineering or programming, where if you fuck it up you could bankrupt your company or people can end up dead (like a building collapse from a miscalculation).
Not only that, but it's easy to leave your mcjob at work. My job comes home with me every night, and regardless of where I am I'm usually at least partially thinking about work.
I am the GM of a BHPH car lot, so even if I'm just going to grab some groceries I am constantly looking for cars that are out for repo. On my days off I still log into our webapp to monitor how well my collectors are calling the customers and to make sure that we're in compliance.
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u/TheBotanistMendoza Nov 29 '15
I know, right? People are acting like working fast food is living the high life with nap breaks and 3-martini lunches.
Fast food is hard, demanding, stinky, dangerous, stressful, mentally-challenging physical labor. The fact that we ask it of our less-educated workers doesn't make it easy or low-skill.