> "Stretched thin" means there are few of you. I think in context you can assume OP means the people are being overworked because they are perceived as replace

> "Stretched thin" means there are few of you. I think in context you can assume OP means the people are being overworked because they are perceived as replaceable. > I just don't understand your point here. I would imagine that what you do is in fact skilled labor. OP likely does do skilled labor, but the employer has evolved to efficiently exploit it, by which I mean deprive these workers of adequate compensation. Part of that has been classing the labor as "unskilled."