My partner has been having a hell of a time trying to find a job lately, and her dad gave her a big speech about how she has no marketable skills despite being pretty consistently employed her whole life up to this point.
They just grab one of their time tested post-hoc justifications for why people deserve no work or shit wages from the bowl and carry on without engaging their one brain cell
All work requires a degree of skill and time, people just don’t respect that at all, have to know what you’re doing even at the most deceptively simple ‘unskilled job’ how to hold a shovel so you don’t get hurt or use the OS of a register. It still takes like 6 months for a supposed ‘unskilled laborer’ to become fully efficient at their position, it may not be the years of a skilled tradesman or similar, but thats something to consider that so few do.
Anyway, is just daily/weekly life in retail or anything public when something goes mildly wrong (even if just in their heads) to an asshole customer. ‘This is why I went to college’, sweet summer child, if you only knew, or parents warning their kids to go to college so they don’t end up like me (LOL). This is a system where you can do everything ‘right’, have whatever paper qualifications and still end up in a ‘low-skilled’ job, moreso the more minorities you are. Anyway, more minorities you are and less people believe you, a situation I will always find myself in personally.
Anyway, I don’t feel too bad when I hear the phrase since I shadowed a doctor getting told that quite a bit by boomers as part as an internship I had to do, its more about being a classist supremacist asshole than anything else.
In my grad school biological research ethics class the professor said you shouldn’t get authorship on a paper for “just moving test tubes around” and I wanted to strangle this man in front of the class. Motherfucker if the people moving those test tubes don’t show up your precious research doesn’t exist. Are you gonna move the test tubes? No? Then shut the fuck up!
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