Fry cooks

I'm confused, does he actually think a box packer is skilled labor or is this just a whoosh from the girl.

All labor is skilled labor.

Guys desperate to put himself above another, with the delusion of throwing shit in a box being skilled labor, instead of standing in solidarity with the mcdonalds worker and demanding more for both of them

TIL packing boxes is skilled labor

I think (choose to believe) the original tweet is satire.

Since when is packing boxes a skilled labor?

I rather a dude handling my food get paid better than someone touching cardboard.

No balls ony food is preferred over no balls on my Amazon packages.

This is the American way though isn't it? Push downward instead of moving upward. If flipping burgers is easier than packing boxes, and makes you the same money, why not quit at Amazon and start flipping burgers at McDonald's?

Packing boxes is not skilled labor.

Who wants to tell him?

Seems a lot of the comments are focused on debating the word ‘skill’ applied to each job while another capitalist gets off free while infighting amongst people who should be supporting each other in a shit world that capitalism built and benefits off of.

Enshitification is where there’s a CEO somewhere that fucks everyone over and remains untouched.

That person really should be the focus of hate here.

I’ve never worked in fast food but I’ve been to them and I’ve watched the workers. You can’t tell me packing boxes at Amazon is skilled labor and that shit isn’t.

It's not "skilled" labor.

You need zero skills to work at Amazon.

That being said, you will learn things if you stay long enough.

Skilled labor is like a trade or where you need a specific education. I'm not even sure you need a HS diploma to work at Amazon.

Source: me, working in an Amazon FC

But yes the point of her reply is also very apt. Class solidarity friends. If you're single making <55k or whatever the median income in your area is, there's not a whole hella lotta difference regardless.

But I'll also say this. There's a lot of mfers that do MUCH less work at desk jobs, and in fact are entirely redundant and unnecessary, compared to a fry cook or Amazon tier1 employes.

Also, I'm not entirely sure that putting an item that a machine gives you into a box that the machine tells you to put it in requires more skill than working at McDonald's.

I'm so over the use of "checks notes" for emphasis. for every entertaining way of making commentary there are thousands of boring copies.

Fry cook or box packer. He upset he picked a harder job?

I like how everyone is upset with the "skilled work" part. But nobody did the calculation, that with Bezos pay and 16 dollars per hour, you could hire 562500 Workers. Which I think is crazy

Lol at calling packing boxes skilled labour

That is way easier than working at McDonald’s

Brother how you gonna diss on spongebob like this?

The more I see something like this, the less I understand how it is USSR that fell apart first.

Way to get played by the big man. Making you fight amongst yourselves.

If it cost less to use machines to pack those boxes, you know they would be using machines and not people.

It’s really helps the system when our capitalist overlords give us someone to look down on though. People who get sucked in by the propaganda will fight when some is trying to take that from them.

Working class fighting among each other and Rich enjoy the benefits.

"Skilled work", please.

If the skill set you offer is in demand and the pool of people is too small to meet demand you make a lot of money for that skill set. If the skill set you offer doesn't require much, something that anyone can easily pickup, and the pool of people to pick from is over saturated -- you get paid less for that skill set.

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X/Twitter post by a redacted user with a profile picture of a man wearing a Santa Claus hat reading "I make $16hr packing boxes at the Amazon distribution center. I'll be damned if the niggas that's flipping burgers make as much money as me doing skilled labor."

A response by a redacted user with a red-haired woman as their profile picture reads "Bezos makes $150,000/minute and pays you $16/hr but you're mad at checks notes McDonald's fry cooks?"

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Skilled labour != Valueable labour

I have a ton of useless skills.

I'd put my money on that response being an As A Black Man sock puppet.