• _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.