“Unskilled” simply means “you are expected to figure out how this works in less than a day” instead of “no worries, we teach you over 3 years how to use excel and a copy machine”.
When I sorted bills for my university, I got paid really well cause while I was only part-time, the job itself is not deemed “unskilled”. Despite me literally just sorting stuff by numbers. Look at a number, put it between other numbers. All day every day. I even was allowed to have as much coffee and tea as I liked from the office kitchen for free.
When I worked for Subway for a month, I had to learn within 2 hours:
exactly where and how to cut the bread to make both sides equal
what sauce to recommend with what topping
how much topping to scoop per half
what all the breads, toppings and stuff are called and being able to rattle them down on command
how to use three different vegetable cutters
how to use their oven (that thing has like 9 buttons that all do different shit and none of the buttons got ANY symbol or word on it, all are just black)
what the day’s special was for every day
what the price for stuff was without looking at the sign or being at the cash register
when to change the gloves (all the time, for every little shit)
I also had to go to a 2 hour food sanitary training before hand to give me a certificate so I was even allowed to work at Subways.
The fact that I got paid much better for doing stuff that some simple AI could do in triple the time is obnoxious. The fact that people think that if my full-time job would be “working in an university office” would be prestigious while a full-time job as a sandwich maker is “uneducated” is disgusting.
