Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
by matthewdgreen on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:45AM
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McDonald’s very deliberately structured its workforce to be lower-skill and replaceable, even though it would be less expensive for them to hire skilled employees like short-order cooks. They did this very deliberately in order to make the company more resistant to labor organization efforts. When people say that McDonald’s jobs are low-status and replaceable, they’re reflecting the correct perception that these jobs were engineered to be low-status and replaceable. No amount of admonishing people is going to make humans admire a profession (the profession, not the people) that was designed this way.
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Re:Dollar Stores Became Magnets for Crime and Killing
by zozbot234 on Friday July 02, 2021 @07:52AM
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IOW, they went out of their way to create more jobs than they otherwise would. Job deskilling is good for the most marginalized workers, even when those with valuable skills would oppose it.