Re:Guaranteed Minimum What?
by lovich on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:06PM
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I don't know what entry level jobs you worked at. Every single entry level job I worked at just taught you how to sign off paper work saying you did procedure A when you hadn't done it months, how palling around with the managers got you whatever shift you wanted, and how to turn a 2 minute trip into the back room into a 30 minutes break. There were some lessons in petty theft as well if you were interested in that. You had to go at least 3 levels of management up to actually find someone who cared about the results of the work, and who wasn't just pulling a paycheck.
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I'm going to add more to this cause the idea of entry level jobs teaching skills you need to work at other jobs isn't sitting right with me.
As a rule, the only skill entry level jobs teach anymore that apply to future jobs is how to eat shit and keep going. Every single habit you would learn would need to be unlearned to be valuable in skilled labor. You need to be independent and able to think of novel solutions to provide value at higher skilled jobs. Entry level jobs will grind you up and fire you under some made up offense so you can't even get unemployment. You succeed by being as close to a robot as possible.
Re:Guaranteed Minimum What?
by unityByFreedom on Saturday May 13, 2017 @05:25AM
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> As a rule, the only skill entry level jobs teach anymore that apply to future jobs is how to eat shit and keep going
Eh, I've had this experience at well-salaried jobs too. It's a job thing, not a minimum wage thing.