• GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    476·
    11 months ago

    Unskilled means you don’t need prior skills before being hired. That’s all.

    It doesn’t mean someone doesn’t become proficient, or even great at the job while they have it.

    • _stranger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      66·
      11 months ago

      As a person with a fucked up back, a strong back is a skill. Don’t tell me ditch diggers and porters don’t have skills.

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        95·
        11 months ago

        You can teach a ditch digger the skills to dig a ditch the day you hire them. Hence they are an unskilled hire.

        A strong back is an ability.

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          21·
          11 months ago

          So what you’re saying is it takes a day to reach someone the skills to be a ditch digger?

          So it’s skilled labor?

          They’re unskilled when they get hired, skilled after a day of training. Might not be a lot of skill required, but that’s still not 0

          • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
            21·
            11 months ago

            The definition relates to the day of hire. The seeking of new employees. Not the state of those employees after x amount of time working.

            Some of the boxes here are too simplistic.

            Being a mason, a brick layer, is skilled. But to hire a new person to the crew is unskilled. All they do is carry things, and clean up.

            Experienced masons take years to develop, and sometimes include professional certification and education. That’s skilled labor.