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I did retirement home training and used to think it was a sweet job. Then I got in the business and underestimated how demoralizing it was as they give you the easy elders in training while the others make you, or at least me, really think of the fact the job just amounts to an unkarmic freebie.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Are there still places that legally mandate car refueling operators? That seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Yes. And it’s really dumb.

Not just in the states either. They do it in Mexico and some of the operators use their job to rip off tourists. You have to make sure they reset the meter before they start pumping your gas.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Mexico, Peru, and New Jersey, USA are 3 places I know still do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oregon does, or did if they stopped.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you've never seen the disaster some morons have caused at pumps...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I’ve read this response online and have seen online videos, but never met anyone who actually saw any such disaster. I’m not convinced this is at all common

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Not necessarily common, but probably common enough.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Looking at you NJ, you ridiculous grift if a state.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

There are undoubtedly people beginning to say the same thing about supermarket checkout attendants now. That doesn't seem like a good thing to me.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

that seemed like a job that literally only existed to give some people a job

That is exactly what it's for, and it prevents a lot of worse problems just by existing. It significantly reduces crime rates by allowing people who otherwise couldn't earn income, and provides a way for ex-cons to successfully reintegrate into society and not relapse, as well as providing low/no skill labor. It gives some a sense of purpose - retirees who physically can't do any other work for example and need something to do.

It is literally there to give people jobs and its a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Let’s whip out the spoons and replace our excavators!

If you want convicts to have jobs, fix how society views them so that they’re not pariahs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Right, this is much more important. We don’t need to require unnecessary jobs for ex-cons to find work, we need to do a better job of reintegrating them into society after they’ve done 5heir time

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

This is why I'm in favor of mandating everyone use horse-drawn carriages. Can't let those carmen be out of work, spreading hooliganism

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

People downvoting you are very self-centered, they don't understand the importance of a job for lots of people. Until we have UBI, jobs like these will always be necessary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That money would be better spent sending them to school to learn something useful.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You missed the low/no skill part, didn't you? There is a need for those.

Or are you the kind of scum that believes we all need to "earn" a living. As if every being isn't entitled to exist unless in servitude to the economy. Fuck right off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are necessary jobs that are low skill.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Are there enough to satisfy your ghoulish need to make sure everyone is working?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

... So you send them to school to learn a skill?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Or to mop the floor. There’s a low skill job that is actually necessary

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The rest of the world proves there's no need for people to pump your gas for you. Just about anyone can do that themselves. My point was that if this is the only way these people can be employed then we should instead take the money would they'd be paid for this and pay them to go to school instead so they can acquire the skills the need to get other jobs, whatever those jobs may be. Having them stand by a pump to put gas in people's cars is just a waste of everyone's time and resources. If this is somehow the only job they are capable of doing even with training available then just pay them to stay home. If there aren't enough low skill jobs to go around this is a better solution then making up busy work for people to do.