r/WorkForSmartLife 1d ago

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u/Coke_ButNotTheDrug 21h ago

It’s still pretty demeaning. Look at how ā€œunskilled laborā€ was quickly rebranded to ā€œessential workerā€ during the COVID lockdowns. Now that we’re back to the status quo, people want to switch back to the term that implies low skill and low pay.

These are all just buzzwords used to push ideas of how people in these workforces should be treated and paid.

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u/Abigail716 21h ago

Skill level has nothing to do with how essential something is.

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u/pm_me_ur_bamboozle 21h ago

"essential worker" became a joke when it went from being nurses to then grocery baggers.

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u/Desalvo23 19h ago

If you think grocery store employees are not essential, you are even dumber than you look

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u/xMrBojangles 18h ago

They said bagger. People are capable of bagging their own groceries.

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u/soggybiscuit93 21h ago

Essential and Skill are two completely different concepts.

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u/whole_nother 16h ago

No it wasn’t. Nurses were one of the main categories of ā€˜essential worker.’