I've worked numerous minimum wage jobs, and I've worked in salaried positions. I know for a fact the colleagues I had in "low skilled" positions could do office work. I'm rarely as certain that some salaried colleagues I've known would last more than a week in a minimum wage job.
It takes considerable skill to deal with asshole customers on a daily basis. It takes considerable skill to navigate work environments with mediocre HR policies. It takes considerable skill to juggle minimum wage labor when it's not even enough to live on most of the time.
And by the way: all this labor is needed to keep this country afloat. Many people who haven't worked minimum wage jobs forget that their standard of living would cease to exist without the millions and millions of low wage workers propping up the American economy.
It is profoundly arrogant to look at cashiers and messengers and janitors and employees at Dunkin Donuts and assume you could so easily do their jobs day after day, month after month, year after year, thanklessly, for earnings you sure as hell would never accept as adequate.
If you think these so-called "low skills" positions are so easy and so frivolous, then you should do them.
Quit your salaried job, and show the rest of us how it's done with your apparent abundance of skills.
Quit your salaried job, and show the rest of us how it's done with your apparent abundance of skills.
And shit, while we're at it, go work in the fields that provide food for you and your family, in a job that the vast majority of Americans would never do, and then try to claim undocumented workers aren't essential to our existence as a half-way functioning nation.
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