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It's not 1919. Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. That's how you burn our workers. You can

It's not 1919. Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. That's how you burn our workers. You can only get away with that in industries where they'd burn out regardless for some other reason. Modern factory jobs are no worse than the other jobs of about the same skill requirements and pay.

all2 8y ago
> Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. Do you not know anyone that works in a factory? Spend some time in the South, or in the Midwest. You'll find people who do the same thing day-in and day-out. Those jobs still exist.
- dsfyu404ed 8y ago
  I've worked those kind of jobs. You rotate from station to station for each shift/time slot. It's really no worse than working in an institutional kitchen for the same length of time (and the pay is typically better). I get that people in ivory towers will decry it all as horrible but the fact of the matter is that none of those jobs are any better or worse than the other once you account for people's variable preferences. I'd personally rather do outdoor labor of some sort but some people prefer the air conditioned factory floor.
  - scruple 8y ago
    That isn't my experience at all in a glass plant in the midwest. If you were a run of the mill laborer on the floor, you had a station and you worked your 8/12/16 hour shift right there the entire time. I stood at the end of a long cooling belt inspecting glass for QA defects, piece by miserable piece until I was able to clock out. edit/ Also, throwing boxes for delivery companies or warehouses, you'll be standing at the end of your belt filling up trucks for the entire duration of your 8/12/16 hour shift.
Loughla 8y ago
>Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. That's just not true. Come to flyover country. There are many, many jobs that are 'stick metal piece in here remove stamped metal piece there' sorts of work.
TecoAndJix 8y ago
About a decade ago, i worked in a factory that produced eggs for things like McMuffins. For 8 hours a night I would make stacks of 10 or so of these paddies coming down a conveyor belt and place them in a cardboard box. After several stacks the box would be full and you pushed it down a roller to go get sealed and shipped. This is ALL i did. I stacked paddies in a box and then pushed the box. I had some really elaborate day-dreaming scenarios that maintained my sanity. Lots of the people working there had 10+ years with the company doing similar mindless tasks - they are still around!
smileysteve 8y ago
Sadly, I know a lot of college educated people who describe their white collar jobs as finding a related document, scanning it, and entering the data into the right place in a spreadsheet.
- arcticbull 8y ago
  If that is indeed accurate, a lot of their jobs will be automated too. Few roles are truly 'safe' but the ones I'd write a script to solve are definitely less so.

all2 8y ago

> Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. Do you not know anyone that works in a factory? Spend some time in the South, or in the Midwest. You'll find people who do the same thing day-in and day-out. Those jobs still exist.

dsfyu404ed 8y ago
I've worked those kind of jobs. You rotate from station to station for each shift/time slot. It's really no worse than working in an institutional kitchen for the same length of time (and the pay is typically better). I get that people in ivory towers will decry it all as horrible but the fact of the matter is that none of those jobs are any better or worse than the other once you account for people's variable preferences. I'd personally rather do outdoor labor of some sort but some people prefer the air conditioned factory floor.
- scruple 8y ago
  That isn't my experience at all in a glass plant in the midwest. If you were a run of the mill laborer on the floor, you had a station and you worked your 8/12/16 hour shift right there the entire time. I stood at the end of a long cooling belt inspecting glass for QA defects, piece by miserable piece until I was able to clock out. edit/ Also, throwing boxes for delivery companies or warehouses, you'll be standing at the end of your belt filling up trucks for the entire duration of your 8/12/16 hour shift.

Loughla 8y ago

>Nobody is making their employees do the same repetitive labor in the same setting day in and day out. That's just not true. Come to flyover country. There are many, many jobs that are 'stick metal piece in here remove stamped metal piece there' sorts of work.

TecoAndJix 8y ago

About a decade ago, i worked in a factory that produced eggs for things like McMuffins. For 8 hours a night I would make stacks of 10 or so of these paddies coming down a conveyor belt and place them in a cardboard box. After several stacks the box would be full and you pushed it down a roller to go get sealed and shipped. This is ALL i did. I stacked paddies in a box and then pushed the box. I had some really elaborate day-dreaming scenarios that maintained my sanity. Lots of the people working there had 10+ years with the company doing similar mindless tasks - they are still around!

smileysteve 8y ago

Sadly, I know a lot of college educated people who describe their white collar jobs as finding a related document, scanning it, and entering the data into the right place in a spreadsheet.

arcticbull 8y ago
If that is indeed accurate, a lot of their jobs will be automated too. Few roles are truly 'safe' but the ones I'd write a script to solve are definitely less so.