Beat me to it, that's like saying my washing dishes and talking to old people for a living is skilled labor

Technically neither are since they don't require a recognised qualification to be eligible to apply.

No, that's why temping agencies easily fill warehouse positions

All labour is skilled labor. Unskilled labour was created by capitalists as a flimsy justification for paying people unlivable wages. ANY labour deserves a livable wage. Needing a second job is an injustice.

Now that being said, packing boxes for Amazon is 100% unskilled labour. A machine spits out the box template sheet with creases where the cardboard sheet should be folded to turn it into a box within seconds. Another machine prints the receipt that goes inside, and Another machine spits out an appropriate amount of packing to make sure the product stays in place inside the box. Another machine spits out a calculated amount of tape. Another machine spits out the info sticker that needs to be stuck on the outside. Does this need a lot of skill or training? I don't think so, no.

That's the big lie the right wants you to believe; there's no such thing as unskilled labor. You have to learn every job you start. Flipping burgers, packing boxes, cleaning, washing dishes, etc all have a learning curve. There is no job you can walk in off the street and start doing without previous knowledge.

As a former warehouse worker and shipping clerk, it is 100% unskilled labor. We would sometimes hire temp workers for really busy periods, and it would take about 30 minutes to train them.

I don't think it's too unusual for people to think of their own jobs as super important and complicated and everything else is just simple shit in comparison. Watching someone do something they are trained at (because they do it day-in-day-out) often looks simple ... until the moment you try it yourself and realize the amount of concentration you suddenly need and the many questions that pop up for details you didn't even notice before.

It's a form of short-sightedness and/or lack of experience. But not uncommon.

It's either joke or astroturf attempt to divide.

Yeah, why the heck would packing boxes be more skilled than cooking? I view them pretty comparable in my mind. Though cooking is one where if you do it wrong, people can get sick or die.

And with all due respect to Amazon employees, I've seen firsthand the packaging Amazon does. They love to use hilariously oversized boxes for a single item and also love to ship multiple items I bought in separate boxes despite them being shipped and arriving at the same time. They're not exactly master packagers.

All these people deserve to make more money.

AND, at the same time

Packing boxes is not skilled labor. It's not like that shit requires two years of trade school.

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Eat the rich, you say?

This whole living wage thing is starting to sound communist. Maybe instead we'd better skip the fuss and just give everyone the food, shelter, clothing, and base amenities needed to survive as a fundamental human right, and not worry about payment. That'll show those fucking lefties all obsessed with minimum wage increases!

one small step for man, one giant leap for ~~mankind~~ lemmies .. or what they like to call themselves