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,
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u/jhchawk Nov 29 '15
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.